Short posts
Incredible 3D scan of San Francisco from Sutro Tower. Sounds weird but just click. –> Sutro Tower in 3D
For those in need of good news, Anton Thomas’s Wild World is now available in PUZZLE FORM. Immediate buy. –> Anton Thomas: Wild World 1500-Piece Jigsaw Puzzle
How the turn tables –> OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us
Cool visualization of git commits –> ORCA - Valuable Contributions
Just signed up for NICAR25, in Minneapolis. See you there, I hope? –> NICAR 2025 - Investigative Reporters & Editors
Nice tool for getting geo data out of ESRI servers. Wish I knew about this a week ago! –> GitHub - openaddresses/pyesridump: Scrapes an ESRI MapServer REST endpoint to spit out more generally-usable geodata.
Really helpful reporting on Chicago teacher contract bargaining –> What Are The Key Sticking Points In Chicago’s Teacher Contract Talks?
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/