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Best track of the Meteor M2 4 satellite from my balcony yet.

🔖 Bookmarked: Beginners guide to weather satellite reception https://blog.metislair.com/docs/Radio/Beginners%20guide%20to%20weather%20satellite%20reception.html While you have certainly seen imagery gathered by satellites before, did you know that you can…

Old government gazettes on the Internet Archive recorded cuts the Indian censor board made to films.

🔖 Bookmarked: Analyzing AI slop designs with basic heuristics https://www.adriankrebs.ch/blog/design-slop/ I am pro AI for code, anti-AI for most visual, reader-facing things.

Thoughts on what it means for me to engage in data storytelling, in lowercase Read more →

The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation released a new tool for LLM-assisted querying of their survey data.

I looked at 1893 Ordnance Survey Maps to map how the characters in The Red-Headed League move through London

I cross-referenced The Red-Headed League with Victorian maps and railway timetables to track Holmes's movements through London.

🔖 Bookmarked: A4 Paper Stories https://susam.net/a4-paper-stories.html These numbers are etched in my memory like the multiplication table of 1.1.

On December 31, 2025, gig workers from Swiggy, Zepto, and Blinkit organized a nationwide strike.

I wanted my charts to look like they were stitched into cloth, so I built a reproducible pipeline using ImageMagick and R to make it happen.

Rhea and I decided that 2024 needed to be the year of data-driven derogations, so I built a system to track every Wordle, Connection, and Crossword we played.

I think it is absolutely incredible that I can import vector labels of place names from the 19th century into QGIS.

🔖 Bookmarked: Anirudh's stories from Meghalaya https://whereisanirudh.info/blog/some-stories-from-meghalaya/ One failed plan after another, even though I had no plan.

Earlier this year, Vivek and I gave a talk at IndiaFoss about our practice at Diagram Chasing.

I searched for signs of AI-generated text in Indian government documents and found plenty: "As of my last knowledge update" disclaimers in reports, copy-pasted chatbot responses ending with "Let me know if you need any modifications", and websites with st…

Here’s what I am looking forward to at this year’s BLR Lit Fest: Day Date Time Venue Event Speakers Sat 06 Dec 10:00 am Watchtower Keynote: Being Banu, Being ಬಂಡಾಯ (Baṇḍāya) Banu Mushtaq with Prateeti Punja Ballal Sat 06 Dec 10:45 am Watchtower The Outsid…

🔄 Reposted: https://bsky.app/profile/brendelbored.bsky.social/post/3m74zdcwkus2t I’ve sometimes fallen into the trap of thinking that complementing a creative person for their work is less sophisticated or desired than discussion or debate about it but ve…

Surprise surprise, Fall of Civilizations is my top podcast this year.

Last week for no particular reason, I took a 200 kilometer journey around Bangalore using only BMTC buses.

Bajrangi Bhaijaan feels distant in 2025, its Youtube journalist Chand Nawab feels closer.

Which map looks more inviting?

Praise be to the BMTC, for I am roaming the city more.

🔄 Reposted: https://unpublishablepapers.substack.com/p/where-do-the-children-play Over the past few decades, childhood mobility in the West has dropped precipitously.

🔄 Reposted: https://www.visionscarto.net/cartographier-les-mouvements-migratoires Based on an analysis of the history and current state of migration flow mapping, drawn from very diverse sources – scientific, artistic, activist – and from different geogra…

V shared a YouTube livestream of a BDA meeting on our group.

🔖 Bookmarked: Fonts for a progressive future. https://wehtt.am/fonts/ Back in 2013, I was making graphics for a project run mostly by volunteers.

🔖 Bookmarked: Zohran Mamdani's visual campaign https://xcancel.com/adityafinal_psd/status/1986326607481741401 Zohran’s visual campaign is so cool.

🔄 Reposted: https://werd.io/theres-no-such-thing-as-neutral-technology/ News often treats technology as something that happens to it, like an asteroid — but software is a creative work, just as journalism is.

Dosas outside have been reduced to once a week at Gayathri Coffee Kendra.