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• Journalism matters, look at this impact. And if you haven’t read the Abused by the Badge series, please do. --> https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2024/12/12/justice-department-school-police-child-sex-abuse-guidelines/
• Hall of Famer indeed --> https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/12/10/thomas-boswell-baseball-hall-of-fame/
• “These represent the first ever models trained exclusively on open data, meaning data that are either non-copyrighted or are published under a permissible license.” --> They Said It Couldn’t Be Done
• Honestly this design is so smart though. Left hand picks chord type + extension, right had picks note, dial switches voicings. Really great ideas in here. --> Tame Impala's Kevin Parker Announces New Instrument
• This looks big for the news nerds --> Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset for the geospatial community
• “The future shape of workers’ rights in the United States may depend on who wins a legal debate about whether the NLRB can be insulated from direct political interference” --> https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/11/21/musk-trump-nlrb-amazon-spacex/
• Really good reporting here --> Anyone Can Buy Data Tracking US Soldiers and Spies to Nuclear Vaults and Brothels in Germany
• Cooking on some improvements to my little tool jump-start: A shortcut to your favorite code. It’s basically a directory of code you like, with a prebuilt web interface for exploring and downloading it. I’ve got a CLI and a neovim plugin starting to work, which I’m super excited about. Now I can search for starters by text or code. --> @storybook/cli - Storybook
• Chicago winters, aint what they used to be --> https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2024/snow-forecast-trends-climate-change/
• Well this looks extremely useful --> Introducing a new delivery system for data journalism
• Just published a page to watch as results roll in tonight. Will show shifts from 2020 in different demographics. And hopefully a nice-looking map up top. --> How counties are shifting in the 2024 presidential election
• Will have to try this next time I need to convert an interactive map for print --> GitHub - watergis/maplibre-gl-export: This module adds control which can export PDF and images. It was forked from mapbox-gl-export.
• For Jeff Bezos and his businesses, Washington has become more important
• What an analysis --> Wait, NFL players eat how many Uncrustables?
• I love everything about this --> Batting by the Numbers
• See your name in satellite imagery, what a fun idea --> Your Name in Landsat 🛰️
• The secret inside One Million Checkboxes
• Made a lil precinct-level election results map for this one --> In red district Walz once held, a stark urban-rural divide over his record
• ! --> Brazil’s men flock to plastic surgery for the perfect abs and six-pack - Washington Post
• Honestly tempting. But no support for the mini? :( --> Clicks Keyboard for iPhone
• Nice one --> When A.I.’s Output Is a Threat to A.I. Itself
• “Meta … described a cat-and-mouse game where well-funded scammers constantly shifted their tactics to evade detection” --> How ‘Deepfake Elon Musk’ Became the Internet’s Biggest Scammer
• Helpful tracker of lawsuits (+ their statuses) against AI companies --> Master List of lawsuits v. AI, ChatGPT, OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, Midjourney & other AI cos.
• The design is so good --> EP–1320 medieval - teenage engineering
• Wonder if more deals like this is the future of the web --> Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal
• Nice --> We Counted 22,252 Cars to See How Much Congestion Pricing Might Have Made in One Morning
• Really nice visuals on this one --> Where millions of immigrants in the U.S. came from and now live
• Fifty years ago, the average American household spent more on clothing than health care --> See how your spending habits differ from previous generations
• I’m in --> A Link Blog in the Year 2024
• Started playing Balatro last night, and yep it really is as good as people say --> Balatro
• Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers
• Generative AI Is Totally Shameless. I Want to Be It | WIRED
• Getting fancy with Maplibre again --> Are home prices dropping? Search by zip code to see values in your area
• I think there’s some potential here --> Hallucination-Free RAG: Making LLMs Safe for Healthcare
• Draw a shape to find the closest unicode character --> Draw the Unicode character you want!
• “MapSCII is a Braille & ASCII world map renderer for your console” --> telnet mapscii.me
• How many times have I heard this sound and never thought about it. Very cool to see it written out in music notation. And then recreated? Super cool. --> THX theme in SuperCollider | schollz
• Woof --> Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies
• Wow --> Inside the miracle of modern chip manufacturing
• Important story, lovely presentation --> How Do People of Middle Eastern and North African Descent Identify?
• Love --> FAA Aviation Maps
• Of course this is a thing --> Competitive speed puzzling is reshaping a relaxing pastime
• I get it … --> We Need Your Email Address
• A search engine for rss --> feedle: Search and Discover Quality RSS Feeds from Thousands of Blogs and Podcasts
• Did not see this coming --> The slippery truth about staying warm on a frigid NFL field
• The Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I. Use of Copyrighted Work
• the access required to write this story is incredible --> Inside the Supreme Court’s Dismantling of Roe
• Update on threads interoperability --> reb00ted | Meta/Threads Interoperating in the Fediverse Data Dialogue Meeting yesterday
• Wild charts --> Why Are So Many American Pedestrians Dying at Night? - The New York Times
• Lovely essay and agree w the conclusion: “Hacking is forever” --> A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft | The New Yorker
• For sure --> How Newsrooms Should be Talking About AI
• I really need to try web components soon --> Web Components Will Outlive Your JavaScript Framework | jakelazaroff.com
• Emily Badger’s stories are always interesting --> Cities Foster Serendipity. But Can They Do It When Workers Are at Home?
• enjoyed this thought-provoking commentary about interoperability. will have to pick this book up --> CYBER: Cory Doctorow on Why the Internet Broke and How to Fix It
• Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible - Nieman Reports
• Energy makes time | everything changes
• terrible news --> Shohei Ohtani, MLB’s two-way star, won’t pitch again this season after UCL tear
• “Nearly all U.S. air traffic control facilities are understaffed” --> Airline Close Calls Happen Far More Often Than Previously Known
• A search engine for forums --> CrowdView
• Look up your teams --> How far does it take to hit a home run? Depends on the MLB stadium.
• Google Tests A.I. Tool That Is Able to Write News Articles
• yep --> Amazing Commercial Featuring the French National Football Team
• A ChatGPT That Recognizes Faces? OpenAI Worries World Isn’t Ready.
• Exclusive: AP strikes news-sharing and tech deal with OpenAI
• whoaaaaaa --> Webb Celebrates First Year of Science With New Image
• The New York Times to Disband Its Sports Department
• Mark Your Calendars: ‘Barbenheimer’ Is Coming
• Beautiful textured datavis --> Wimbledon is the only grass court Grand Slam
• What’s the best font? See how you and others perceive different types
• Justice Samuel Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation With GOP Billionaire Who Later Had Cases Before the Court
• How to Prepare for the Deluge of Generative AI on Social Media
• So good --> Outback Steakhouse was born in America. But nowhere loves it like Brazil.
• Pixar Used AI to Stoke the Flames in 'Elemental' | WIRED
• Really smart analysis --> Generative AI Takes Stereotypes and Bias From Bad to Worse
• You gotta see these --> Redditor creates working anime QR codes using Stable Diffusion | Ars Technica
• The Case for and Against Ed Sheeran | The New Yorker
• Are you in the American middle class? Use our income calculator.
• This is interesting, I’ve got complicated feelings on this one --> Arc’s new Boosts feature lets you change the way any website looks
• My latest graphic, with a fun look back at old (read: a few years ago) generative AI --> How AI like ChatGPT and Dall-E got frighteningly good so quickly
• A majority of Americans have heard of ChatGPT, but few have tried it themselves
• Google’s Photo App Still Can’t Find Gorillas. And Neither Can Apple’s.
• An e-ink blackberry-esque device? May have to pick one of these up --> Beepberry by SQFMI x Beeper | Beepberry
• Impressive digging --> How to Raise $89 Million in Small Donations, and Make It Disappear
• Wild visualization of earthquake debris --> The toxic dust from Turkey’s earthquakes
• Wendy’s is automating its drive-through service using an AI chatbot powered by natural-language software developed by Google and trained to understand the myriad ways customers order off the menu.
• So proud especially of Caroline --> Read The Washington Post’s 2023 Pulitzer Prize winners
• Don’t miss the timeline at the end --> Google We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI
• On the complicated relationship between news and tech sites --> How Buzzfeed News Went Bust
• Amnesty Uses Warped, AI-Generated Images to Portray Police Brutality in Colombia
• Just lovely --> How was it made? Donatello's marble carving technique | V&A
• I like that the scrolly text doesn’t obstruct the visuals on desktop, nicely done --> Living in the shadow of a dangerous shrinking glacier
• Love this idea --> Where in the USA is this?
• New from me --> See the websites that make AI bots like ChatGPT sound so smart - Washington Post
• Leaker of U.S. secret documents worked on military base, friend says
• NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-affiliated media' : NPR
• Clarence Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From GOP Donor — ProPublica
• Really interesting and fresh approach at mapping the war --> How Russia’s Offensive in Eastern Ukraine Ran Aground
• Happy Opening Day! --> An NBA Paint guide to the 2023 MLB season
• What does an AR-15 do to a human body? A visual examination of the deadly damage.
• New phone background --> The Sun, In All Its Glory
• Well this did not take long --> AI Art Generator – Adobe Firefly
• Yeah yeah chatgpt-4 and all, but having these capabilities in Google Docs soon feels like it’ll be a huge leap ahead for regular people --> Google announces AI features in Gmail, Docs, and more to rival Microsoft
• Catholic group spent millions on app data that tracked gay priests
• Super useful site if you ever have to work with campaign finance and don’t know what all the terms mean --> MONEYINPOLITICS.wtf
• By far my favorite album of 2022 --> In These Times | Makaya McCraven | International Anthem
• The HIPAA seal was meaningless --> BetterHelp shared customer data while promising it was private, says FTC - The Verge