Scott Murray @scott@vis.social

I’m formulating a plan for inclusion efforts on vis.social, with the goal of making this a more diverse (and therefore more valuable and sustainable) social space.

But… I don't know what I'm doing! Please review and comment to me here, or in the doc:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rRyzZBccr1vxx684YjcN5cSWq0W8DA4a9v-cXC5vyPw/edit?usp=sharing

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Props to the Pudding for being brilliant as always: https://pudding.cool/2019/04/text-prediction/

Listening to become more human. Such an important conversation (to listen to): https://listenerspodcast.uoregon.edu/2018/08/09/8-celeste-headlee-listening-to-become-more-human/

👓 👀 😮 https://medium.com/@davidhgoldberg/putting-virtual-glasses-on-a-real-face-warby-parkers-virtual-try-on-placement-algorithm-beb1e81c1d62

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https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/22/18276923/microsoft-clippy-microsoft-teams-stickers-removal

So many spam accounts, so little time. May have to lock down new registrations for a while and clean house.

Amazing narrative video illustration of wealth inequality and a clear explanation of a “wealth tax”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTwPHuE_HrU

OMG @sophiewarnes you are awesome for sharing this: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/azjti7/leonardo_dicaprio_refuses_to_date_a_woman_over_25/

Everyone, go sign up for Sophie's email newsletter, Fair Warning. It's great.

@Typographigirl What a great username. Welcome!

Of course the brilliant @lisacrost was behind this: https://blog.datawrapper.de/weeklychart-pichart/

Hi, folks! Apparently we are up to ~4,000 users here on vis.social. Exciting!

I haven't been super active here (busy with lots of projects), but if you are getting something out of it, please consider a donation: https://vis.social/about/more

I just upgraded our hosting plan to ~USD$45 per month to handle all your toots. So, yeah, there's no such thing as a free toot. 🍍

…and by "best" I mean it was the least shady in terms of privacy practices. It certainly was not the simplest to install.

Recommendation for best ad blocker for Safari and/or Chrome on Mac? (Last I looked into this, uBlock Origin was best, but now it's no longer supported in Safari.)