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Short posts and links from around the web that I thought were worth the click. Also available as RSS.
- 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