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My latest interactive explainer all about the technology behind record players is done! perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck...

The 10th entry in my "How The Heck" series is going to be all about touchscreens! In the meantime, you can check out the archive here: perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck

Ossoff: "Tech titans dig bunkers while warning us the AI they're creating risks human extinction. Meanwhile, our Congress debates youth sports and the president builds a ballroom ... I refuse to leave my girls a world as dark and dangerous and cruel as this one threatens to become"

happy #caturday friends

oh my god if the Nathan Fielder documentary about Elizabeth Holmes even slightly interests you, go see it

Aurora Borealis? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely within your kitchen?

love that Zach Lowe is writing, and love his reasons for writing

This one was satisfying. Spend today fiddling with force-directed layouts for my Hollywood graph. Each dot is an actor, connected to others via films they've been in together. Check it out: hollywood.six-degrees.app/explore

carly rae jepsen is my modern day pop GOAT

Having a lot of fun revisiting old posts and giving the ones that never had their own hero some love.

maybe i'm old fashion but the coolest thing about video games is being taken to new worlds that i hadn't thought up and experiencing something exciting that the artists behind the game want to show me

the "how the heck" series is up to 9 pieces now! i'm brainstorming ideas for the 10th, but in the meantime, you can check out the archive here: perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck

memeing as a coping mechanism

me after a pickup game to 11

a crispy Coke from this CVS could fix me

I can think of two things people will use this for and neither are good

The problem isn’t that they’re moving past it—it’s that they’re trying to rehabilitate it. Would be better for everyone if people who don’t want to engage with the facts just talked about the play on the field and left it at that.

Just asked Victor Wembanyama if he’d ever consider promoting a sports betting company. “Absolutely not. I will never do that. Honestly, I think it's very sad to see some players promote it. .. Everybody does whatever they want, but without me.”

yeah why would you be expected to do your job

The 9th entry of my "How The Heck?" series is out! 🔒 It's all about how locks work, from ancient Egyptians nailing the design to why the perfect lock doesn't exist. It was a fun rabbit hole to go down, and challenging to get the visuals right.

me 4 hours into a tech interview

no Mr. Robot in the NYT top 100 list??

recently watched The Leftovers for the first time and it shook me Carrie Coon's, Christopher Eccleston's, Justin Theroux's, and Ann Dowd's performances, Max Richter's score, its refusal to explain anything, and that ending!! very close to a perfect TV show

the Blake Mills + Pino Palladino records occupy a ton of real estate in my head

wouldn't trade my childhood for anything

hosting a powerpoint party on friday and i am excited

I would just honestly so much rather look at the crudest, most rudimentary finger-painting than any art a prompt would ever spit out

> make hating DEI and loving meritocracy the core part of your political identity > complain incessantly about second generation immigrants thriving in academic and other meritocratic systems > endlessly defend podcasters and fox news anchors holding the most important levers of societal power

rainy day riff

if I was worried about a 10-25% chance of my company causing human extinction, I personally wouldn't go to the salesforce conference later that week, but I might just be built different

update: i transcended 🔺

NEW PROJECT: 30 seasons of the WNBA: How women's basketball has grown - As the league celebrates its 30th season, a visual look at its growth on the court, as a business and as a global influence. www.espn.com/espn/feature...

gonna stop paying rent to remove my trade deficit with my landlord

is there a word for hating an aesthetic you'd probably have liked 5 years ago, entirely because it's now the visual signature of AI slop? (thinking of Claude-generated UX with the parchment canvas, serif fonts, and muted earthy colors)

IMO the absolute bare minimum of social media regulation should involve platforms telling you exactly how long you've been scrolling, e.g. "you are 96 videos into your feed" or, using the length of a CVS receipt as a proxy! this was the idea behind a thought experiment I made a few months ago

seeing angine de poitrine tomorrow and im beyond excited to throw up the triangle

prototyped some vizzes over the weekend for my next How The Heck piece, all about locks and keys!

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

‘The Disintegration Loops’ are music's loveliest death: defector.com/the-disinteg...

me considering a diet

getting a mix of data/viz content and political content is hilarious because half of it is like "okay we have to be really careful about how humans perceive the lengths of arcs in donut charts" and the other half is "the government decides data isn't real anymore"

this is one of my favorite genres of comments I get on my explainers

i wrote an essay 6 months ago about AI music and to this day 90% of my targeted ads are for suno fffffffff

Gonna combine my $2000 DOGE check with my $5000 tariff dividend and the $5000 vote check and buy a new house and new car with a 50 year mortgage and a 15 year car loan. The Golden Age, baby!