Data can be beautiful. I just found a similar but maybe clearer example from 2016 with a nice write-up about it.

Teaser from that article:

I think the common term for these is “cartogram”.

For me, it’s helpful to remember what the underlying reality is.

Skewed for population and colored on a red-blue scale to reflect vote mix.

When those votes are counted, the resulting electoral votes align to those votes, which results in maps like what you showed. When strategists tune their messages to target demographics they can divide (e.g., rural vs. urban), they’re playing a game of inches and shades on this map of purple goo, and that’s still the reality behind the ultimate electoral vote, even if it doesn’t feel like it.

Keep voting, everyone!

edits: So much autocorrect.

I think everywhere you’ve posted this has been relevant to those particular threads. I appreciate you carrying that torch.

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This referred to CUNY a few times. I thought that, City University of New York, was a different institution, and I got the impression the article was referring to Columbia University as CUNY. Maybe I missed something?

Hot take? This should have been a major version update.

https://semver.org/

That was a fun ride!

I never came back after the protests. I don’t understand the people who said “why should I care if I don’t use 3rd party apps”. After seeing reddit’s true colors on full display, I didn’t want anything more to do with that company.

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"Hey, with all the advances in chip technology, I bet radios are cheap now!

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“Oh.”

Ah, I should have said “from a domain you own or one of their own”.

The use case I’m talking about, which is the use of arbitrary domains, not Proton-provided ones and not domains you own and control.

I see that Simple Login provides aliases from its own domains, but not a way to use an arbitrary domain.

Proton’s address support overview mentions organizational addresses, but clarifies in the same doc that this is referring to a business plan where that whole organization will be using Proton.

Proton’s switching guide discusses forwarding, and it only instructs the user to tell their contacts about the new Proton address, which defeats the purpose of forwarding addresses.

Here is further discussion about the missing functionality.

Meanwhile, Google lets you use up to 99 of your own email addresses from whatever domains they are.

It only requires you to demonstrate you control the address.

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22370?hl=en

Proton, on the other hand, only supports you owning the whole domain, as their only verification is through DNS TXT records.

I do like Proton, and I needed something like it for a forwarding problem with Gmail.

But it actually lacks one bell/whistle that Gmail offers. Both services work to receive mail for forwarding addresses, but, on Gmail, you can also send from your forwarded addresses. Proton will only send from a domain you own. So if you get mail forwarded from my.name@alumni.myuniversity.edu or treasurer@myclub.org, you won’t be able to reply or send from those addresses on Proton. Judging by how long people have been asking for that ability, I doubt Proton intends to ever provide that.