🧐 https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/global-software-stocks-hit-by-anthropic-wake-up-call-ai-disruption-2026-02-04/

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🧐 https://www.reuters.com/data/yen-crisis-tracker-2026-02-03/

Good stuff. The Model Context Protocol server for AI interactions with Datawrapper is working with OpenAI's new Codex desktop application. Andrew Briz plugged it in and then added installation instructions to our README. https://github.com/palewire/datawrapper-mcp

📚 I'm pleased to release my syllabus and course materials for "Coding the News," the class I'm leading this semester for the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.

🔊 https://youtu.be/NUjhr7Zv5uI?si=8X3p6ZmNh0EhFDzE

📥 INBOX: Mark Schoofs will join Reuters this spring as international investigations editor, based in Mexico City

🗞️ My database of news homepage is featured in today's NiemanLab investigation into publishers opting out of the archive.org library. https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news-publishers-limit-internet-archive-access-due-to-ai-scraping-concerns/

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🧐 https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fed-fomc-january-meeting-live-interest-rate-decision-powell-statement-2026-01-28/

🧵 If you’ve worked in a technical role in news for long enough, you likely remember when the “show your work” spirit was everywhere. Newsroom nerds shared code on GitHub, swapped tips on social media and unfurled long blogs guiding others on how to get things done.

🧐 https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-immigration-approval-drops-record-low-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2026-01-26/

🧐 https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/americans-hunker-down-help-each-other-under-blizzard-brutal-cold-2026-01-26/

Muscatine, Muscatine County, Iowa. https://www.loc.gov/item/sanborn02763_004/

🧐 https://www.reuters.com/world/india/gold-silver-platinum-extend-recordsetting-rally-2026-01-23/

🎨 Here's my pitch for the new master's degree in data at the School of Visual Arts. There's still time to climb on board! Our first class lifts off from Manhattan this fall. https://sva.edu/academics/graduate/mps-data-visualization-and-communication

🧐 https://www.reuters.com/world/davos-live-trump-make-speech-davos-tensions-with-europe-grow-over-greenland-2026-01-21/

🧐 https://www.reuters.com/business/sp-nasdaq-futures-slide-one-month-lows-greenland-concerns-2026-01-20/

🤓 Swing by the IRE event at CUNY this weekend and I'll teach you how to easily automate data collection by scheduling web scrapers with GitHub Actions. Sign up: https://ire.users.membersuite.com/events/bba604a0-0078-ca9a-8a33-0b4909b691cd/details […] [Original post on mastodon.palewi.re]

🔩 I've upgraded my template for open-source Python projects to run type checks with Astral's speedy new tool, `ty` https://github.com/palewire/python-open-source-template It's ready to sprint past `mypy`, just like `uv` lapped `pipenv`. Read all about it https://astral.sh/blog/ty

🧐 https://www.reuters.com/world/republicans-split-trumps-aggressive-immigration-crackdown-reutersipsos-poll-2026-01-15/

🧑‍🍳 https://gourmetmagazine.net/

🧐 https://www.reuters.com/business/investors-anxious-over-make-or-break-fight-fed-2026-01-12/

✨ Thanks to the strange miracle of AI assistants, I watched my blog upgrade itself to Django 6 and Python 3.12 this morning while I sipped my coffee. I'm not over how weird this feels. https://palewi.re/

🧐 https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-factory-headcount-falling-despite-trumps-promised-manufacturing-boom-2026-01-09/

🌩️ In response to my Freedom of Information Act request, the U.S. Air Force has released the official emblems of its 557th Weather Wing in remixable vector file formats. You can find them all here: https://github.com/palewire/557th-weather-wing-emblems Weather for victory!

Hundreds of sparrows titter in the wind behind the Festhalle Barn Today in Amana, IA 🌡️ High 53°F 🌧️ Light rain 🌅 7:35 a.m. sunrise

🧐 https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/only-33-americans-approve-us-strike-venezuela-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2026-01-05/

🌎 Today, I'm happy to release "First Basemap," a free tutorial that shares one of our most valuable recent innovations at Reuters. https://palewi.re/docs/first-basemap/

L.A. City Hall under construction https://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/89675

🔁 Happy Public Domain Day to all who celebrate. Books from the year 1930 are now free to remix. https://blog.archive.org/2026/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2026/ That includes Freud's "Civilization and Its Discontents." Thus I give you […] [Original post on mastodon.palewi.re]

🧐 https://www.reuters.com/world/china/global-markets-performance-pix-graphics-2025-12-23/

🧐 https://www.reuters.com/world/india/gold-hits-records-indians-opt-bars-coins-over-jewellery-2025-12-31/

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The MetroCard's sendoff from the bakery at Zabar's. Today in NYC 🌡️ High 29°F ❄️ 4.3" of snow in Central Park 🍾 5 days until New Year's Day and end of subway swipes

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🧐 https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-economic-growth-likely-remained-strong-third-quarter-2025-12-23/

A new number rises above Times Square Today in NYC 🌡️ High 39°F ⛅ Partly cloudy 🍾 9 days until 2026

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🧐 https://www.reuters.com/world/china/futures-edge-higher-tech-rebound-nike-slumps-china-pain-2025-12-19/

🧐 https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republicans-risk-moderates-us-house-majority-with-no-healthcare-extension-2025-12-19/

🧐 https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/bank-japan-set-raise-interest-rates-30-year-high-2025-12-18/

🧐 https://www.reuters.com/business/us-annual-consumer-prices-increase-less-than-expected-november-2025-12-18/

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