Amanda Shendruk

You may be paying Amazon's prices, even when you're not on Amazon. This blew my mind: If you sell products on Amazon, you CANNOT sell them cheaper elsewhere. So when Amazon raises its fees, products across the Internet get more expensive. www.not-ship.com/how-amazon-p...

I searched Amazon 10 times and logged the first 25 results. The best deal was in the top four only 3 times. Here's my own take on a study that found Amazon buries its best deals. In fact, if you buy anything in the first row, you'll almost always overpay. www.not-ship.com/amazon-searc...

Amazon is not your friend! We shop there because it's fast and, most importantly, cheap. Or so we think. But the odds that you're ever actually paying the lowest price — even just the lowest price on Amazon itself! — are slim. www.not-ship.com/amazon-searc...

In nearly every country, women worry about walking alone via @not-ship.com www.not-ship.com/safe-streets...

I love data viz, and Amanda Shendruk is the best in the business when it comes to unpacking complex, urgent topics in beautifully rendered forms. Do check out her publication @not-ship.com today: www.not-ship.com/safe-streets...

When I looked into the question of how we could make cities safer for women (and the LGBTQ+ community, and racial minorities and those with disabilities), I discovered good intentions and no data. So what's working? Who knows! www.not-ship.com/safe-streets...

One of the msot famous data visualizations of all time actually does a lot of things wrong. No axes, no labels, no text or numbers at all! But does that make it a bad chart? www.not-ship.com/warming-stri...

While everyone argues about AI apocalypse, there are real, actual harms AI has caused: A Waymo hit a kid. Scammers deepfaked a PM to steal $1M from an 86-year-old. Amazon's algorithm recommended poison to someone searching for how to end their life. More here: www.not-ship.com/stop-trustin...

An important reminder about a thing that should be evident, yet isn't. See also: the Fermi paradox. www.not-ship.com/stop-trustin... by @not-ship.com

Worth a read…

I really didn't want to add to the AI hype. But there's something the reporting is missing. That scary number? The ">10% chance we'll all perish" number? It's nonsense. It's just a bullshit hunch with a percentage sign. www.not-ship.com/stop-trustin...

If you love them, tell them they're wrong. My argument for why we need to get better at fact-checking those closest to us. www.not-ship.com/normalize-de...

I had a great conversation with Creator Spotlight about all things charty! www.creatorspotlight.com/podcast/s/tc...

The ethical duty to understand large numbers, from @ashendruk.com. My irrational hot take: We should say $1,400 million instead of $1.4 billion. www.not-ship.com/large-number...

Healthcare spending in the United States is substantially higher than in other advanced economies, yet life expectancy is considerably lower.

We are hiring and looking for a creator and developer of interactive news apps. German language required. Please share and dm me, if you have any questions. jobs.spiegelgruppe.de/Vacancies/13...

What's your favourite technique for trying to understand big numbers? I like turning them into time! In my newsletter this week I look at ways to wrap our heads around large values. What did I miss? www.not-ship.com/large-numbers/

An amazing quote from Lindsey Graham in this Atlantic story. It really captures an essential truth about politics that too few people ever really come to terms with. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Look at the black line in this chart. That's the kind of sheer plummet that says "something is really wrong here". I thought this was a Trump 2.0 specialty. I was wrong. In the last decade, academic freedoms deteriorated in 67% of countries. www.not-ship.com/uh-whats-goi...

For decades, Americans haven't been feeling too optimistic about their country. Now, on its big anniversary, I gave the US a 250-year performance review. How do you think it's doing? Meets expectations? Room for improvement? Full performance review here: lnkd.in/ePYdgmjy

I gave the US a 250-year performance review. The KPIs — life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness — are straight from 1776. I checked the data on all three. Tl;dr: A strong track record, but recent performance suggests significant room for improvement. Agree? www.not-ship.com/america-250-...

I especially love this diagram.

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

Things are really heating up in Europe. So, in today's Not-Ship the focus was heatwaves. I was floored by this: Heatwaves are clearly on the rise globally, but the "dirty thirties" were such an extreme outlier that you can't even see that rise on this chart of the US. www.not-ship.com/heatwaves/

I went down a 3-30-300 rabbit hole. It sounds like some kind of conspiracy, but it's a rule of thumb for figuring out if you live near enough nature. In writing the piece, I found out my neighbourhood fails. Does yours? www.not-ship.com/can-you-see-...

I wanted to find the most-recommended book of summer 2026. So, I gathered over 1000 recommendations from 49 different lists. Enjoy! www.not-ship.com/summer-books...

Need a holiday read? Why trust a random review online when you can trust — ALL THE REVIEWS. I gathered over 1000 summer book recommendations to find the titles that show up on the most lists. The top book was on almost 1 in 3 lists! www.not-ship.com/summer-books...

"AI systems consistently collapse toward generic outputs when operating without human intervention." Excellent data-driven look at the sameness we're being forced to gobble these days, by @ashendruk.com www.not-ship.com/nothing-new/

You know what? Apparently we can just end smoking. The UK is taking a pretty radical step with just that target. Here's the case for why a gradual smoking ban is a great idea, and why it can absolutely work in other countries! www.not-ship.com/huh-apparent...

Everything feels the same. And AI won't help. Over and over, researchers put AI image generators in a feedback loop. All starting with a different prompt. What did they do? They converged on the same 12 generic image themes. They called it "visual elevator music." www.not-ship.com/nothing-new/

What actually unites the right? Left vs right has traditionally been defined by economic policy. But today, Europe's far-right parties are far more closely aligned on social values (vertical axis). More data, charts and analysis here: www.not-ship.com/what-unites-...

When Burning Man ends, 150 people walk the playa in a forensic-style sweep. For weeks, everything they find is removed and logged. At the end, they're left with a remarkable accounting of what 70,000 people left behind: The MOOP Map. And I'm obsessed. www.not-ship.com/burning-man-...

Talk is cheap, especially when it's about the future. There's a new addition to the corporate greenwashing playbook: Futurewashing. Read all about it in this week's Not-Ship newsletter: www.not-ship.com/doublespeak-...

I want to re-introduce you to my newsletter, Not-Ship. Each week, I send data and visuals straight to your inbox — the kind that makes you understand our messy world just a little bit better. We could all use a little more data in our lives. www.not-ship.com/america-isnt...

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AI is changing the online privacy game. One of the most unnerving risks may not come from what we divulge to chatbots knowingly, but from the personal details they can determine that we NEVER EVEN TELL THEM. @helloeujin.bsky.social and I break it down for you. www.straitstimes.com/multimedia/g...

It's not just you: Democracy is STRUGGLING. The US has lost its status as a liberal democracy. And we may now be in a wave of autocratization. 🫣 www.not-ship.com/democracy-in...

Mental health care is scarce everywhere — but in poor countries, it barely exists. Depression, anxiety, and other mental health problems are common everywhere. They are not confined to any particular income level.

In 2 weeks I'm running a (now, rare) live online 'Masterclass in Data Visualisation' course. It is open to anyone and everyone! Across 3 days (4 hrs per day) you'll learn about all the ingredients that make up the modern-day sophisticated data viz craftsperson. visualisingdata.com/2026/01/new-...

A reminder that if you’re looking for dataviz content on Bluesky, there’s a lot here 👇📊

The ongoing closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a major shipping chokepoint, raises an uncomfortable question: Without global trade, could countries actually feed themselves? 📊 📉 🗺️ www.not-ship.com/self-suffici...

Here's a periodic reminder that I sell all kinds of interesting data art in my shop! Prints, clothing, some other strange little things. All proceeds go to paying my rent. www.jerthorp.me/category/all...

My February newsletter is now open to all visualisingdata.com/2026/03/the-...

I'm not usually one to "weigh in". But ... AI job predictions are nothing more than 'statistical theatre.' Hunches wrapped in percentages and charts imply that someone, somewhere, has measured something real about our future careers. But they haven't. www.not-ship.com/the-problem-...

You've seen that Anthropic chart going around? It reminded me how meaningless AI predictions are — yet how authoritative they seem. It's like "statistics theatre". I have opinions! www.not-ship.com/the-problem-...

We stopped calling it "women's work," but we never stopped making it women's work. Today, women across the world spend 17% of their time on these domestic, unpaid tasks. Men? About 7%. Just a little something to think about this International Women's Day. www.not-ship.com/hey-guys-you...