Google Maps has changed Lake Ontario to Lake America. Apple Maps is still labeling it correctly.
In the culture of my people, books are sacred. It is considered disrespectful to step on a book or even put one on the floor. I can’t comprehend shredding one book, let alone millions. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/a...
Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models
Company hired Google's book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize "all the books in the world."
arstechnica.com
One of the many non-obvious things I learned from @brewster.kahle.org was that when libraries are burned, they are burned by governments
Ben Werdmuller@werd.io · 2mo ago"After losing their jobs at NOAA, Rebecca Lindsey, her sister and another colleague teamed up to rebuild a pivotal resource the Trump administration took offline."
Rode a MUNI with the wonderful old Sunset livery today. It was wildly off-schedule, so possibly using 1975 versions of both paint and timetable.
Riding the Coast Starlight down the California coast is super pretty, but I’m surprised at how many retired vets loudly talk about assassinating the governor, for the whole train to hear
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mpump — browser groovebox where grooves live in links
Make a groove. Send a link. Open, change, and resend. A browser instrument for shaping and sharing electronic music. No install. No account.
mpump.live
These Apple at 50 interviews with execs from back in the day are great! It’s also the first time I’ve heard anyone from Apple publicly talk about the Fingerworks acquisition and how it was the basis for multitouch on iPhone. Still waiting for Fingerworks TouchStream 2.0! youtu.be/eCSNJgI2LFI?...
Startup founders DO NOT want to hear that what they are building today will be replaced by a Claude Code plugin tomorrow
After a period of near-zero enforcement of traffic laws and increasing pedestrian deaths, San Francisco now has speed cameras apple.news/A-qnDc1BxSlu...
I got a two-color thermal label printer. The labels visually pop way more than black and white stickers
Here is an Internet Archive skill for Claude Code: github.com/rajbot/inter... Install it and then you can prompt Claude to: "Search Internet Archive for vintage computer manuals" and then "Download the first five of them"
I propose a new metric called Photoslop, which measures how closely an AI coding tool can one-shot Photoshop in a single prompt.
I love the pattern of compiling rust libraries and cli tools to webassembly and hosting them on a static webpage so people can easily try them out. I needed a MPEG-TS to MP4 converter library, and now you can try it here: www.bitstream.io/ts-to-mp4/
Bluesky videos don't unfurl in Slack, so I added video importing to my bluesky-helper slack app. It now both unrolls threads and imports videos into Slack for you: github.com/rajbot/blues...
I made* a Bluesky-to-Slack thread unroller: Instructions for installing it in your own Slack + aws lambda account are here: github.com/rajbot/blues... *vibecoded with Claude Code
Our NYE tradition: making donations to @aclu.org, @archive.org, @eff.org, @msf.ca, @ppfa.org, @raicestexas.bsky.social, @splcenter.org, the SF Food Bank, and @walksf.org A few more of those bsky handles resolve now compared to last year. Also, this year we are adding @propublica.org to the list!
The Suzanne Jackson retrospective at SF MOMA is wonderful. Be sure to check it out!
Holidays are a good time to check what scam App Store subscriptions your parents got suckered into. The latest one is this scam OfferUp subscription my mom has. Does she use it? No. Does she know she is subscribed to it? No. Does she get billed $20 every month by OfferUp? Yes. Total scam.
