It's worth reading both Nuzzi's & Lizza's recent writing, not because of its subjects, but because it effectively conveys the invisible, essential work of great editors. As someone who is _not_ a professional writer, but writes in public a lot, it is incredibly validating to see these ROUGH drafts.

Here's a fun OSM task you can do: add the location of Flock cameras. One mapper in our neighborhood has been on a roll: www.openstreetmap.org/node/1333152...

I gave a talk about Overture's GERS (an open, free, maintained ID system for geo data) at CARTO's Spatial Data Science Conference. It's so much easier to demonstrate the benefits of GERS now that there's a community growing up around it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8YZ...

Fantastic example of using Overture Maps' GERS identifier, from Carto and @mike.teczno.com carto.com/blog/gersify...

💯 theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

This probably the wrong person to let your video generator run wild with, and perhaps the likeness best equipped to take legal action. www.theguardian.com/film/2015/ma...

% of US men under 30 who say legal sports betting is a *bad thing* for society 22% in 2022 47% in 2025 No other demographic group has seen a bigger increase.

@bransonreese.bsky.social A friend of mine is a high school teacher and he recently sent me this text: "Just got shamed by a student for saying 'the Deftones' instead of 'Deftones'. I will never recover."

Mark your calendars! In this #podcast, @jed.co and @dbreunig.bsky.social will use Drew's blog post – "Why LLM advancements have slowed: The low-hanging fruit has been eaten – as a starting point for their conversation. Read the post here: www.dbreunig.com/2024/12/05/w...

🆕 #CNG2025 session video The live webinar has ended, but the conversation continues! In this talk, @dbreunig.bsky.social explains why our definitions of location are fragmented and how we can standardize "place" like we did time ▶️ youtu.be/stiYfBB0KC8

When a new use case arrives (chat, deep research, browsers), AI companies school like fish towards it. Blue oceans turn red in a year or so. What can we learn from this pattern? www.dbreunig.com/2025/09/13/t...

This is too funny: what3words pivots to AI: what3words.com/products/pro

Surprise?

GOAT. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Chatbots may be incompatible with ads as we know them. What options are there? www.dbreunig.com/2025/09/02/c...

My monthly newsletter, wrapping up August's writing, just went out. Unintentionally, this is very much a Labor Day issue, with a few articles about AI's impact on work and workers: buttondown.com/dbreunig/arc...

KPop Demon Hunters’ success is a strong argument against the other two headlines.

Re-upping this post from January, for reasons... www.dbreunig.com/2025/01/01/c...

I'll be talking about why we have yet to standardize "place", why it matters, and what we can learn from our history of standardizing time. Join us!

From "Lechuguilla Cave: Discoveries in a Hidden Splendor"

And the speed at which we forget these events is insane.

Can’t wait for every parent of young kids to have the same Spotify wrap up this year

AI job titles are a confusing mess. Here's an attempt to structure them a bit, if only for my own sake. www.dbreunig.com/2025/08/21/a...

Honestly surprised the “crypto mayor” deals in cash. Isn’t this one of the core use cases?

Remember when AGI maximalists ousted Sam Altman because he launched an App Store?

An important detail regarding the viral Woz comment going around: Woz gave away a large chunk of his Apple stock to early employees who had not been granted shares by Jobs & the board. It’s estimated 40-80 employees participated in the “Woz Plan.”

How will product management keep up with AI-accelerated coding?https://www.dbreunig.com/2025/08/08/how-ai-coding-changes-product.html

Bluesky will not be complete until you can disable reposts from specific people.

The only thing Dems should be talking about is corruption. - $7B for UFC from Paramount? - 15% kickback from Nvidia to sell in China? - Crypto in 401ks? - The budget is corruption too! - Epstein? Just people buying different rules.

Perfect.

Re-upping this, apropos of nothing. www.dbreunig.com/2024/12/05/w...

'Morning conversation', linocut by Olesya Dzhurayeva, contemporary Ukrainian printmaker #WomensArt

A lesson from the GPT-5 rollout: AI unquestionably speeds up dev cycles, but our tools for understanding customer use and desires aren’t similarly accelerated.

Initial thoughts on GPT-OSS 1. Inference continues to get faster. 2. Another argument for small models in agents. 3. A big regulatory card played. 4. Great, but with some trade-offs All in all, could probably handle 90% of my chatbot questions, locally. www.dbreunig.com/2025/08/05/i...

share of americans who prefer congressional districts to be drawn to advantage the dems: 9% advantage the gop: 11% not give an advantage to either: 67% (thank you, fellow americans) not sure: 13% -yougov

It's on OpenRouter and its FAST. This MoE design – Qwen3-30b-a3b is similar – is game changing for local models. Really incredible.

I wrote about FLUX.1-Krea, an "opinionated model" that aims to avoid the overly-shiny "AI Look". To my eyes, it succeeds. And it does so by making aesthetic choices, rather than pursuing a fuzzy average. We're sure to see more opinionated models. www.dbreunig.com/2025/08/04/t...

It's hilarious that OpenAI has to tell the ChatGPT model FIVE times to not say anything after an image is returned.

Anyone doing web dev (or something web dev adjacent) and still unsure about AI-assisted coding…read this: blog.puzzmo.com/posts/2025/0...

Lots of chatter about "the bitter lesson" recently, "that general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective." It's a good rule of thumb, but... 1. It's dependent on our ability to express tasks as data 2. Compute is always a constraint www.dbreunig.com/2025/08/01/d...

This is an absolutely wild trend for a movie dumped on streaming:

My last dive into how Moonshot’s Kimi K2, discussing: why qualitative tasks haven't advanced as fast as math and science, how rough categorization can sort squishy subjects, and how Kimi K2 used this technique to excel at writing. www.dbreunig.com/2025/07/31/h...

Inviting people onto a show is an editorial decision, and we shouldn't pretend otherwise.

Russian roulette, but you’re clicking play on an AirPod and finding out if your podcast app has been forced out of memory.

The team behind Kimi 2 built one of the best tool-using models by synthesizing thousands of tools, agents, users, and task – then imagined how they all might be used. www.dbreunig.com/2025/07/30/h...

This will be gamed within hours.