Short posts
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/
“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