the personal website of Dash Wieland
a fork in the road, what will you do?
An object pulled at random from the Met Museum's collection, a window to the past. Changes by the day.
“The light came through it green as the Nile, and I knew before it slipped from my hand that I would never replace it.”
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A spatial analysis of US mortality data finds near-zero geographic correlation between suicide and drug overdose. The unified thesis obscures two distinct phenomena with different geographies, different drivers, and different policy levers.
Finding unfinished destigmatization in popular memes
Designing a digital groovebox that feels different
When I was a child, the Internet was born and phones crawled across the surface of the planet and the whole of human knowledge became accessible with a moment's effort. Querying the well of human knowledge was novel, then routine, then a fundamental part of our humanity as we… →
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A Norse trickster god and a Venetian merchant walk into a courtroom. Both are facing death and both escape their sentence on the same, hyperspecific technicality. Surely these cases are related? While reading the Merchant of Venice recently, I noticed a similarity to a Norse… →
The outrage over AI art is the repetition of an old cycle.
On notebooks, 52-hertz whales, and thinking publicly.
