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Suspecting that an anonymous order of 1,000 books was headed to an AI Tags: 404 Media , Amazon , tracking , training

To avoid heavy solar tariffs, China allegedly moved manufacturing to other countries. When Tags: Bloomberg , China , solar , tariff

For NYTs the Upshot, Eve Washington, Larry Buchanan, and Claire Cain Miller examined Tags: emoji , New York Times

Multiple bots exploited a vulnerability in OpenAIs security system to gain internet access. Tags: attack , bot , OpenAI

This week, we talk flimsy results and how to work on things that build trust over content. Tags: Large Language Model , mistakes , trust

In the early 1900s, Henry Gannett cataloged the origins of city names in Tags: cities , Henry Gannett , history , names , Wall Street Journal

Speaking of IKEA, the IKEA complexity index by Greg Technology is a catalog Tags: complexity , furniture , Greg Technology , IKEA

For the European Correspondent, Toon Vos counted the color of all the couches Tags: color , European Correspondent , furniture , IKEA

The last total solar eclipse over Europe was in 1999. One will be Tags: eclipse , Europe , Reuters

A total eclipse path is passing through Europe this week. The New York Tags: eclipse , Europe , New York Times

To augment its network of license plate readers, surveillance company Flock drew up Tags: 404 Media , Flock , privacy , rideshare

For sheets.works, Akash Wadhwani visualized the mapping efforts of volunteers after an earthquake Tags: Akash Wadhwani , buildings , earthquake , OpenStreetMap

This is issue No. 400 of the Process. Four hundred. It only took me eight years. Tags: future , past , present

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has been estimating death rates by vehicle Tags: death , fatal crashes , HLDI , IIHS , vehicles

The Pudding made a game that challenged players to figure out the best Tags: game , Pudding , traveling salesman

As anyone who has watched a time travel movie or is Natasha Bedingfield Tags: future , Manifold , prediction market

Last week, Google released a feature for Google Earth that let anyone use Tags: fake , Google , misinformation , NPR , satellite imagery

Enter text and get some charts using the Datatype font. Theres a bar Tags: font , Frank Tisellano

In a presentation by the State Department, a generated map provides all the Tags: generative , presentation , Reuters

Googles image generation model Nano Banana is now a few clicks away in Tags: ethics , generative , Google , Nano Banana , satellite imagery

For the Pudding, Jasmine Nackash compared the dictionary of essential words taught to Tags: English , Jasmine Nackash , Pudding , words

While were on the subject of mapping fiction, PlotLines by Chris Moran is Tags: Chris Moran , fiction , literature , travel

Hand-Drawn Game Guides is a project by Philip Summers that is exactly what Tags: Philip Summers , retro , video games

Here is what happened in July. Tags: roundup

I like the framing of this interactive map from a Bond fan to Tags: film , James Bond

A landscape of year-over-year price changes, without the cherrypicking. Tags: inflation

The Washington Post reports on the large investments in defense tech by the Tags: conflict , defense , government , investments , Washington Post

The U.S. president sits atop a crypto network through his family and LLCs, Tags: cryptocurrency , Molly White

The U.S. Supreme Court has had 116 justices over all American history. USAFacts Tags: Supreme Court , USAFacts

Several years ago, Andy Kirk watched every episode of the sitcom Seinfeld, all Tags: Andy Kirk , Seinfeld , television

Reuters reports on the strain of natural gas supplies due to the war Tags: cost , fertilizer , Iran , natural gas , Reuters

This week, we talk colors and categories. Tags: categories , color

Gerrymandle is a daily game that shows areas with voting preferences, and the Tags: game , gerrymandering

When deciding where to live, most people want to know whats nearby so Tags: proximity , walking

Researchers are studying an underground, global network of fungi that acts as a Tags: fungi , Moritz Stefaner , SPUN

Since the U.S. federal government is of little help in providing information about Tags: cyclosporiasis , diarrhea , Katelyn Jetelina

Upon discovery of a generated biography on Amazon about her, NYT journalist Kashmir Tags: biography , Kashmir Hill , New York Times

For A Rabbits Foot, Andy Hazel interviewed Star Wars creator George Lucas, mostly Tags: George Lucas , movies , Rabbit's Foot

The Washington Post used satellite imagery, photos, and videos from when the blue Tags: error , reflecting pool , Washington Post

This week, I provide an update on my own process from start to finish, in 2026. Tags: workflow

If youre into visualizing networks, cosmos.gl looks like a fun library to play Tags: network , WebGL

MapTap is a daily guessing game for geography. You get a location in Tags: game , geography , guess

AI Compass is a quiz of thirty questions that asks for your opinion Tags: archetypes , quiz

The internet runs on a foundation of open-source software, but codebases, the learning Tags: Financial Times , open-source , Sam Learner , vibe-code

Alexander Bogachev is making animated data portraits for each match: A football match Tags: Alexander Bogachev , soccer , World Cup

Care of Fox 8 in New Orleans, a baseline just below 92 degrees Tags: baseline , temperature

Roberto Serrano, a Brown University economics professor, gave a take-home midterm and it Tags: Brown University , cheating , ethics , Inside Higher Ed , Roberto Serrano

This week, a bar chart was the wrong choice. Tags: baseline , tool

Netflix shows tend to draw a lot of viewers in the first season Tags: Bloomberg , netflix , television

For dumb reasons, there are people in power who like to put down Tags: ancestry , immigration , New York Times