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OK, I'm officially hustling to get our studio space rented. We're just not using it anymore, and it needs a new tenant. It's beautiful, cheap, incredibly easy to get to and is available through 2029. Spread the word, please! https://lnkd.in/gT3PBdaB #studioforrent #officeforrent #availablespace #rentalproperty

I got to spend some time with my New York people last week taking a tour of Acquired! a show featuring, among other things, Stamen's work in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian. So grateful for all of it. https://lnkd.in/gRta_BFb

Where AirBnBs are fully booked next week: https://lnkd.in/gwCK_BzK

Proud of this new Stamen work! A close and detailed look at economic disparity in the United States for the Economic Innovation Group. Helping clients tell stories with their mission-critical data. Kelsey Taylor goes deep into the choices designers make when it's time to tell the truth about what's real in our society. https://lnkd.in/gxAJjFJi

This is very good.

Hey! We're part of an upcoming show at the Cooper Hewitt / Smithsonian in NYC: "Acquired!". If you'll be in or around NYC mid-April & want a tour of the exhibit, hit me up. https://lnkd.in/gryW8Azm

Floored that my colleague and friend Alan McConchie has been with Stamen for ten amazing years, leading our mapping efforts and many important projects over that time. He wrote a summary of his first decade at Stamen that just about broke me with its elegance, candor and radical support of his team. Check it out! https://lnkd.in/g8UatFx6

Exciting news! Stamen and Earth Genome, with support from the State Department, have released a new project exploring how climate change will impact food aid to Africa. The project emphasizes the importance of incorporating native crops and listening to local communities rather than relying on large agricultural conglomerates and maize. Using data visualization and machine learning, this project sheds light on the crucial role of agriculture in Africa and the need for sustainable solutions. Check it out! #FoodSecurity #ClimateChange #Agriculture #DataVisualization #MachineLearning #Sustainability #Africa ------------- So! Interesting. This ^^ is what you get when you click LinkedIn's "rewrite with AI" on the text below. My original version looked more like this (and clicking on "rewrite with AI" removed it from my post): ------------- Food, agriculture, Africa, machine learning, climate change, what's not to love?! I'm super proud of this new Stamen project with Earth Genome, mapping how food aid to Africa will need to change under different climate change scenarios. TLDR: more indigenous crops & listening to the people that live and grow there; less multinational conglomerates pushing maize where it shouldn't be grown. ------------- I'm very interested, on multiple levels, on having AIs "rewrite" or "summarize" or "enhance" or "improve" text that I and others write about work we're doing (and many other things). But I'm also concerned about the flattening of affect, the homogenization of speech, the removal of the idiosyncracies that make language fun and unique, local idioms, and so on. My first take is that while the AI-"improved" text is clear, has nice hashtags, is well-formatted, and gets the gist correct, it's also cold, corporate, safe...I want to keep exploring this. In the meantime, check out a new Stamen project about Africa & agriculture, and if you're interested in how AI is changing how we talk and write (and design?!) let's talk.

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