Worth your time
Links from around the web that I thought were worth the click. Also available as RSS.
- 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