2026-04-04 03:56:12
The first downlinked images were published by NASA. The best view of Earth’s night side.
2026-04-03 19:04:22
After demolishing the East Wing of the White House and rushing into construction of a ballroom, the administration was finally ordered to stop until the plans go through the necessary reviews. NYT’s the Upshot made notes on the ballroom design, which is more flashy than practical, such as a stairway to nowhere and fake windows.
I like the enhanced byline: “Junho Lee is a trained architect, Larry Buchanan studied fine arts, and Emily Badger has long written about urban planning.” Apparently NYT has been doing this for a few years.
Tags: architecture, ballroom, Upshot, White House
2026-04-02 21:30:45
For those who want to share small datasets in a more straightforward way, Ziptable by Evan Peck makes quick work of the task with a single link.
Ziptable lets you share a small CSV or JSON dataset by sending a single link. The person you send it to opens the link and immediately sees the data in their browser, ready to search, inspect, and download again. No attachments, no cloud storage workflow, and no account required.
Load a dataset. Ziptable compresses and encodes the data. You get a link without the data hitting up a server.
Tags: Evan Peck, small data, URL
2026-04-02 20:06:07
Hi everyone. This is issue No. 382 of the Process, where we build towards charts beyond defaults. I’m Nathan Yau. This week is about small things adding up to big things.
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2026-04-02 01:06:12
For the New York Times, Ruth Igielnik and Katherine Chui charted presidential approval ratings against gas prices in the United States. The two metrics used to correlate strongly, but it’s grown more noisy over the past decade. That might change back:
Polarization, he said, plays a large role in that change.
“Presidents have fairly unified support from their own party, and unified opposition from the other party, which means they have a higher floor and a lower ceiling,” he said, referring to approval ratings.
Still, the current gas spike could be different. The quick pace with which prices have jumped may be enough to upend that trend.
Gas prices in the U.S. have increased to over $4 per gallon. Here in California, some gas stations are charging over $7 per gallon. Maybe we’ll find out if there’s a threshold for gas prices that lowers the approval floor.
Tags: approval, economy, gas, New York Times, prices
2026-04-02 00:32:28
Artemis II launches today, scheduled for 6:24 pm EDT. Die Zeit mapped the journey to the moon and back (paywalled). Illustrated to scale and focused on the spacecraft while scrolling, it feels like the opening to space documentary. It just needs a soundtrack and an even-keeled astronaut to narrate the wonders of the universe.
Tags: Artemis II, moon, scale, space, Zeit
