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StreetComplete

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 09:06:56 GMT

Help improve OpenStreetMap with StreetComplete! This app finds missing map data in your vicinity and displays it on a map as quests. Solve each quest by visiting the location on-site and answering a simple question to update the map.

OSM2World

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 09:04:12 GMT

Create 3D models from OpenStreetMap data

I've gone back and forth between "we're so cooked" and "we're so back"...

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 14:48:33 GMT

There will emerge a market for code written by humans. This has to happen: I can't prove it, but I can feel it. Despite vast improvements in the generative models, AI-generated art and music are still slop. AI-generated prose has gotten sloppier with phenomena like the much-mocked "Claudese". It's so obviously devoid of a human mind behind it that Zoomers and Alphennials are starting to use "that's so AI" as an insult. Despite the leaps-and-bounds improvements of recent models, I have to believe that AI code is slop too; the major difference between code and these other expressive forms is that we are far more tolerant of slop code: for the most part we just care if the damn thing works.

Effective altruism is this century’s biggest idea

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:56:03 GMT

It is right to revere reason. But moral philosophers from Aristotle to Rawls knew that if an argument leads to intolerable places, it must have a hidden faulty step. EAs’ instinct, though, is to enjoy counterintuitive conclusions, even if they seem perverse.

SKF advert review – let’s hope this dull AI Greta Garbo is not the future | The Guardian

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 08:49:49 GMT

The AI Greta Garbo is a bizarre soignée figure, a Stepford robo-star, a Hallmark-greeting-card parody of the icy hauteur, distraite sensuality and deadpan comedy that Garbo projected in life. The AI Garbo is like the classiest ever presenter of a TV shopping channel, purring her way through a dull and humourless script that seeks to create a brand synergy between the frictionless ball-bearings manufactured by SKF and what the company imagines to be Garbo’s own all-important smoothness.

2026 in LLMs (so far)

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:54:02 GMT

On Friday I gave the closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose. I tied together the key trends from the past year into a chronological exploration of everything that happened in 2026. The video is on YouTube; here are my annotated slides and notes to accompany the talk.

Don’t let AI kill the author

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:38:10 GMT

What Even Is An OS Now? — A Final Ward

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 11:11:01 GMT

We’re building a phone that isn’t designed to run fixed-function applications. I doubt anyone will ever get up on a stage and show off a AAA mobile game (that nobody plays) on it. It’s not for TikTok and short-form video, though I guess you can ask it for that. You can ask it for whatever: it’ll build apps for you, on the phone, whenever you want.

Uncle Sam thinks your time is worth nothing

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 11:46:42 GMT

The quiet grief of adult friendship

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 09:57:30 GMT

Why I Changed My Mind About AI Risk - by Francis Fukuyama

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:43:58 GMT

The primary science fiction scenario for out-of-control AIs involves machines developing their own malevolent intentions. This has provoked a host of discussions as to whether an AI could develop consciousness or have something like human intentionality. These speculations are misplaced, however: an AI does not need either consciousness or autonomous intentionality to become dangerous. It can be directed by a human to achieve one goal and develop intentions to achieve the subordinate goals necessary to carry out the human directive it was given.

Good Taste is Not What’s Oppressing Us in 2026

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:51:31 GMT

Poptimism has become the perfect example of Gramscian hegemony™—where late-stage capitalism has so commandeered the human value system that well-meaning liberals believe their full-throated defense of art-for-money's-sake is somehow chipping away at the class structure.

Cultural-political mic-drop.

Caitlin Moran: social media went from utopia to hellhole in a decade – if you want to feel hopeful again, get offline

Sun, 20 Sep 2026 21:24:57 GMT

Stop listening to emergency podcasts; stop doomscrolling; go for a walk and talk to people; buy your local newspaper – and, finally, stop believing that we are living “through one of the most difficult, anxious and chaotic times in human history”.

MacWhisper

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 22:15:18 GMT

PJ Harvey: Dry Album Review | Pitchfork

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 11:18:16 GMT

If PJ Harvey had her way, she would have made her public debut on Slint’s Spiderland. At age 20 or so, she answered the Kentucky five-piece’s call for a female backing vocalist, but never heard back. In one way, you can imagine it: both subtly violent acts from their respective south, with the accents to prove it. But even at the turn of the 1990s, the idea of Polly Jean Harvey bringing up the rear is hard to fathom—her Westcountry leer would have unleashed the devil incarnate into Slint’s whispered intimations of evil.

The Making of SURFER ROSA by Pixies — Life of the Record

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 11:13:02 GMT

The Making of SPIDERLAND by Slint — Life of the Record

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 10:31:13 GMT

The bastards coming to ruin your business

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:11:31 GMT

What an absolute frontier operator.

We are all Product Engineers now | Seldo.com

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:48:08 GMT

The cost of writing code collapsed, and the cost of reviewing, fixing and operating it is following, and I'm assuming it gets there. What's left of making software is finding out what people actually want, defining it precisely, and making it pleasant to use. That cost is per piece of software and doesn't transfer, so as the amount of software goes to infinity, which it will because there's no ceiling on demand, that cost becomes the whole job.

Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:08:21 GMT

A world that keeps removing the unlikely also removes the things that could have become the next likely. Ecologists have known this for a long time already and even priced it: they call it the insurance value of biodiversity, the standing reserve of rare species that cost energy and contribute nothing, until the climate shifts and one of them turns out to be what survives. A monoculture is efficient right up until the weather changes.