There's been about a 10-point increase in support for attacking Iran since Feb 23, according to YouGov. That's driven entirely by Republicans rallying around Trump
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There's been about a 10-point increase in support for attacking Iran since Feb 23, according to YouGov. That's driven entirely by Republicans rallying around Trump
Second reason is that I wanted to fully control the player UI, autoplay, the scrub bar, overlays etc. With standard players like YouTube you’re limited in that regard.
I wanted to be able to adjust the video crop last-minute (without re-rendering), so I didn’t want to bake the timestamps into the frames. And I had just built a custom video player for a separate project - with support for HTML subtitles - so this was a nice use case.
And when I say "I", I mean: me with a little help from AI agents.
Don't really know what ownership means these days, as it feels like someone else is doing the hard work. So thanks to all the open-source contributors whose code made it into the LLM training data, I guess 💚
I made an animated map of ship movements in the Straights of Hormuz using data from marinetraffic.com.
Ship track frames rendered using #ggplot, base map created using #gdal, video editing using #ffmpeg, video player written in #svelte.
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The White House has helped MAGA influencers escape the Middle East on a private jet while more than a million ordinary Americans are still trapped with no way out.
Of course, solid showing of the "you must never truncate your y-axis" fraction in the comment section of our article 😄
Screenshot of the ZEIT homepage on Monday, March 2. It features a line chart showing the surge of intraday crude oil price following the attacks on Iran.
Screenshot of the ZEIT homepage on Monday, March 2. It features a line chart showing the surge of intraday crude oil price following the attacks on Iran.
📈 SveltePlot is on the DIE ZEIT homepage again! www.zeit.de/index
I’ve drawn a newspaper, and it’s called ‘The Daily News’ and the headline says “ For Fuck’s Sake, What Now?!’ and there’s an article below it with a picture of a guy in a big red tie and shit hair. Actually a pretty good drawing of a newspaper to be honest, really happy with it. Its got an imperceptible beige to it and I even did some nice shadows and everything. Nailed it.
Today's episode in the series of beautiful maps
Ah, ja das ist genau das Video was ich gern in dem Artikel gehabt hätte. Schade dass es nicht verlinkt war. Aber das schaffen wir bestimmt auch noch 😅
A graph of the timeline of Trump’s second term trade war
The President responded to yesterday’s SCOTUS ruling that his IEEPA tariffs were illegal with new 10% tariffs based Section 122, yet that still left a net ~3 percentage point reduction in average tariff rates. Tariffs on imports from countries like Brazil or Vietnam were reduced significantly.
NEW from me:
Yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling was the largest pushback on Trump’s trade war
Even though Trump imposed a new 10% tariff, it resulted in a 3% reduction in overall tariff rates, a large restriction in his tariff powers, and possibly >$150B in refunds🧵
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Für alle, denen es geht, wie mir: Hier hab ich dieses Video von AFP gefunden. Wird leider schon bei Merz' erstem Unterbrechungsversuch abgeschnitten. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_Vq...
Sowohl SPIEGEL als auch ZEIT berichten über den Merkel-Besuch beim CDU-Parteitag. Dass Merz der Applaus zu lange gedauert hätte. Was ich als Leser jetzt vor allem sehen will: den Applaus in seiner vollen Länge. #Video ist leider noch nicht angekommen im deutschen Journalismus.
Talk submissions for posit::conf(2026) close this Friday! So you’ve still got a few days to tell your awesome story 😀 pos.it/conf-talk-2026
Why AI Writing Is So Generic, Boring, and Dangerous: Semantic Ablation. “The AI identifies high-entropy clusters — the precise points where unique insights…reside — and systematically replaces them with the most probable, generic token sequences.” [theregister.com]
After nearly 90 years, the Gallup Organization will no longer track presidential approval ratings.
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
Da würde ich so pauschal jetzt erstmal ein großes Fragezeichen ranmachen. Das TV-Formate im ÖRR auch privatwirtschaftlich produziert werden ist doch nichts Neues und an sich doch auch überhaupt kein Problem. Ob man die einzelnen Produktionen mag oder nicht, ist natürlich eine andere Sache.
@driven-by-data.net's SveltePlot is such a fun data visualization library. I was able to prototype this basketball shot app in an afternoon.
Some context… Bezos is killing the Post by choice, not by necessity…
You’re welcome 🙂
SveltePlot is such a gem. Especially as a person who is not that into data viz. It makes it so easy to! Thank you @driven-by-data.net 👏👏
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🌶️ take from @kevinak.se in this weeks Svelte Radio episode. What do you think? Are we all 🍞?
You can ignore science, but science will never ignore you.
Measles incidence in the United States.
Die großartige @mariettaslomka.bsky.social, die seit 25 Jahren das „heute-journal“ moderiert, in der SZ über kritische Fragen an Politiker·innen:
I've put the full episode up in video form which is even better because it includes visuals of charts we talk about.
It's a handy explainer for people curious about the whole idea of data viz and potentially wanting to get started with it themselves.
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