Andy Proehl

product designer / design director / map maker - Love #dataviz, #maps, the outdoors, and my wife (not in that order). Ex @meltwater @yahoo @sony @motorola

[Andy Proehl @amproehl]

Early products tend to have a technical focus. But technologies mature and can become commodified. This is where design becomes the key differentiator. from my latest post on @Medium - https://t.co/L9AJcGzCxE #design #technology

[Nell @_nellofficial]

Every generation inherits a new medium.

Ours is taking shape.

Introducing Nell.

Built in San Francisco. Backed by Danny Rimer and
@IndexVentures, alongside @antonosika, @gokulr, @rauchg, Jason Citron, @joshm, @lennysan, @mati, @Max, @saradu, @soleio, @Thom_Wolf, and several others.

More soon.

[Elai @elaifresh]

Lmao would anyone even notice this in SF?

I want to hear more about wireflow honestly…

[Andy Proehl @amproehl]

@alex_prompter This is also the best argument for a significant tax on AI companies that is returned to society as a dividend for our knowledge contributions.

[Oleksandr Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Andy Proehl @amproehl]

@status_is_down Yes

[think4yourself🇺🇸🤨🤔💙 @Caroltreasure]

@krassenstein @rjcrock2003 🤣also obama had 10-15 core expert negotiators - plus a support staff of 200 expert: diplomats
nuclear physicists
sanctions economists
intelligence analysts
Experts on Iran
a working group from UK, France, Russia, China +
Germany working jointly with the EU.
trump sent:

[Andy Proehl @amproehl]

Cool data visualization and logic for animating between DataViz types.

[Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social @datavisFriendly]

Interesting analysis of part-whole relationships

[The Halfway Post @HalfwayPost]

BREAKING: For the first time a journalist has reportedly told Donald Trump on a phone call, “Every single claim you have made about this war has been proven a lie within hours, and I will not be publishing anything you’ve told me today.”

[Andy Proehl @amproehl]

@googlemaps Working fine today. Thanks

[Andy Proehl @amproehl]

@googlemaps is behaving strangely in the last 12 hours. Pinch & Zoom is anchoring on the center of the left edge of the screen rather than centered on where your fingers are. Seems like a bug.

[Soleio @soleio]

“Design smells” is entering the lexicon

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

War in Iraq: $2.1 trillion
War in Afghanistan: $2.3 trillion
Projected cost of the war in Iran: $1 trillion

Somehow, there is always money for war, but never enough money for housing, education or the needs of working people. We must and will change our national priorities.

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

What does long-term thinking look like in practice? Introducing Long Now Labs, a collaborative space to test, prototype, and build long-term tools.

Lab Series 001 is a collaboration with the Protocol Institute to investigate three aspects of civilizational durability that are being radically reshaped by frontier technologies.

-> Lab 001.1: Book of Time - An open call to submit a concept for a new way of marking, experiencing, or making sense of time.
-> Lab 001.2: Epistemic Cycles - Seeking an individual or team to investigate historical patterns of technological disruption that broke down society's ability to discern truth.
-> Lab 001.3: Interspecies Protocols - Exploring the protocols needed to support interspecies ecologies.

If you are a designer, researcher, writer, or technologist interested in the deep future, we want to hear from you. Submissions are now open.

Learn more about Labs and how to apply: https://t.co/meZmRDc8t2

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Chief Justice John Roberts hit with SURPRISE DISBARMENT complaint over undisclosed $20M conflict of interest.

John Roberts has spent two decades attempting to position himself as the Supreme Court's institutional conscience — the careful steward protecting the Court's legitimacy.

Now, a bombshell investigation reveals he may have been protecting something else entirely: his household's $20 million in income from the very law firms arguing cases before him — and an independent journalist named Christopher Armitage is filing a disbarment proceeding against the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court because of it.

The facts are not in dispute. Roberts's wife Jane earned $10,323,842.70 in documented commissions over seven years at a legal recruiting firm — placing senior lawyers at firms that then argued hundreds of cases before her husband's court. For sixteen consecutive years, Roberts mislabeled this commission income as "salary" on his mandatory federal disclosure forms. He omitted his wife's equity stake in her employer for three consecutive years, later attributing it to "inadvertence." He never recused himself from a single one of the 500-plus cases argued by firms paying his household.

Richard Painter — chief White House ethics lawyer under George W. Bush, the man who prepared Roberts for his confirmation hearings — said Roberts "fudged the details, misleadingly describing his wife's earnings as salary." A legal ethics professor retained by a whistleblower concluded the false characterization is "incorrect as a matter of law."

Federal statute is unambiguous. Title 5 makes willful false disclosure a civil violation — $50,000 per count. Title 18 makes knowing false statements to the federal government a felony — five years per count. Title 28 mandates recusal when a spouse has a financial interest in firms before the court. Roberts appears to have violated all three, repeatedly, across two decades.

In response, Roberts designed the Court's first ethics code himself — and engineered it to have no enforcement mechanism, no complaint process, and no sanctions authority. The Brennan Center called it "designed to fail." He declined a Senate Judiciary Committee invitation to testify, citing separation of powers.

Now, Armitage has filed the disbarment complaint and is inviting every American to do the same. The DC Bar accepts public complaints. The address is 515 Fifth Street NW, Building A, Room 117, Washington DC 20001. The relevant rule is DC Rule of Professional Conduct 8.4(c). The relevant statutes are 28 U.S.C. § 455, 5 U.S.C. § 13106, and 18 U.S.C. § 1001.

Clarence Thomas took luxury vacations. Samuel Alito took private flights. John Roberts took law firm money through his wife's commission checks and called it salary for sixteen years.

The system they built assumes nobody is paying attention, but not only is Christopher Armitage paying attention, but the rest of us are too.

Please like and share this post if you believe the Chief Justice of the United States needs to be above reproach!

[Andy Proehl @amproehl]

Love this statement. It’s a tiny part of the process but framed really well…

“For the last decade, designers painted pictures…. We screenshotted production and traced over it like cavemen drawing on walls.”

[Shane Levine @theShaneLevine]

https://t.co/8ReQudo6lJ

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

WHERE IS ABC?

WHERE IS CBS?

If this were Biden every one of those outlets would have 24/7 breaking news coverage.

[Andy Proehl @amproehl]

@avstorm Great to see analog craft thriving in an otherwise digital domain!

[Andreas Storm @avstorm]

The handcrafted magic behind Apple's MacBook Neo introduction

[Andy Proehl @amproehl]

@jsngr I gave my brothers an iPod Shuffle loaded with a playlist of our favorite songs and bands from our teenage years. I loved the idea of a physical playlist. With the exception of the DIY cover art, It was almost like a mixtape