Ahmad Barclay

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October 16, 1968

the tech industry is about to invent books

My latest: Explore a room of thousands of people who are wrestling with what comes after it all. pudding.cool/2026/10/life...

UK Meteorological Office bringing 3d data visualisation #datavis to the next level #datascience well done :D

This video was filmed in Palestine. My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this.

So excited to have finally seen the Guggenheim!

My list of data-related resources had a bit of a re-fresh recently! They're now all in the one site. You can still browse by topic or see them all at once! 📊 Link: nrennie.rbind.io/resources/ #RStats #DataViz #StatsEd

The RNLI has said the abuse of volunteers in Portsmouth has forced it to close the lifeboat station there and stop operating since September 10. Nearby stations have been providing cover to the area instead. One of the UK's largest coastal cities without a lifeboat because of the far-right.

Byline Times has identified seven Reform councillors who are listed as members of the masked anti-migrant groups bylinetimes.com/2026/09/16/t...

New: Macklemore will donate entire $1M of his earnings from Ed Sheeran's tour to six orgs helping Palestinians — and invites Robert Kraft to match him. Says he wants to center Palestinians being killed + journalists & aid workers who keep going. "Their risk is of a far different order than mine."

Woah.

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SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

“Everyone has a strong incentive to lie about how much AI is delivering for their companies”: Cory @doctorow.pluralistic.net on why the people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Two people tried to enter a screening of The Odyssey without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse. 😂😂😂

Is there a market on Kalshi where I can bet on the British Museum refusing to return the #BayeuxTapestry?

The report demonstrates how 2025 was the warmest year in the UK series from 1884, with the last four years in the top five warmest. The number of days over 30C has quadrupled for Greater London for the most recent decade compared to 1961-1990. 🧵2/

Took a break to build BinFax for the people of Clacton binfax.netlify.app

London Data Week #LDW starts today with an interesting and packed programme of free events (but book in advance): londondataweek.org/ldw26-events/ I will be giving a talk on Friday about revealing voting biases with 📊 following the recent local elections. londondataweek.org/ldw26-events...

What if we made data tables where the numbers were sized according to the size of the number! No?!? #BadDataViz

such a cool chart. The UK just has no highly-productive mid-sized cities... look at the gap in the middle of the orange bubbles

Today we published an explainer looking at ONS numbers on British migrants; what we know and what we don't know. www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...

A ceasefire was declared in Lebanon on April 16. The data tells a different story. @fadahjassem.bsky.social and I analysed figures from @acleddata.bsky.social, UNHCR, and Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health, and here are some of the numbers🧵 #datajournalism #datavisualization #dataviz

Ooh. Stats explained using the art of witchcraft...

Israeli soldiers are detonating entire villages in South Lebanon while taking selfies. Ancient mosques, churches, cemeteries, schools, hospitals - all being obliterated by the genocidal regime www.instagram.com/reel/DWrg5xi...

Fantastic piece this on neuroscience, brain development and what this tells us about AI in educational settings:

⏳ Deadline extended! Submissions for Visualising Climate 2026 are now open until 14 May (00:00 CET). We welcome talks, workshops & papers. Science, art & data storytelling meet. Come see the data. Imagine new ways forward. #VisualisingClimate2026 #DataViz Join us in Bologna visualisingclimate.com

People are good sometimes. I’m a disabled writer and editor who can’t offer preorders but everyone is coming together to make sure that I have my needs met while I put together this anthology. Just 10% to go now. www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...

#Day19: Evolution Tried a chart about the evolution of charts! Centuries of trying to understand the world through data and graphics visualised. Data: www.datavis.ca/milestones/ by @datavisfriendly.bsky.social #30DayChartChallenge #dataviz @infobeautiful.bsky.social @datavizsociety.bsky.social