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Defiant nuns flee care home for their abandoned convent in the Alps....

Defiant nuns flee care home for their abandoned convent in the Alps. “‘Before I die in that old people’s home, I would rather go to a meadow and enter eternity that way,’ said Sister Bernadette.” (Someone get a screenplay going on this…)

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kottke.org
15 Sep 13:12 • Jason Kottke

Karen Attiah: “The Washington Post Fired Me”

Former Washington Post opinion columnist Karen Attiah this morning on Bluesky: “I’ve been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.” Until the Post’s relatively recent shift towards the right, Attiah had been a pivotal figure at the paper:...

Simon Willison's Weblog
14 Sep 20:42

Models can prompt now

Here's an interesting example of models incrementally improving over time: I am finding that today's leading models are competent at writing prompts for themselves and each other. A year ago I was quite skeptical of the pattern where models are used to help build prompts. Pr...

Global News Podcast
13 Sep 12:52

The Happy Pod: Escaping death on a glacier

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A man who survived alone on a glacier for six days after a near death fall says it's made him appreciate what really matters. Alec Luhn slipped during a solo hike after deciding to mend his broken shoe with tape, rather than turn back. He says his only regret would have been...

Simon Willison's Weblog
12 Sep 23:33

gpt-5 and gpt-5-mini rate limit updates

gpt-5 and gpt-5-mini rate limit updates OpenAI have increased the rate limits for their two main GPT-5 models. These look significant: gpt-5 Tier 1: 30K → 500K TPM (1.5M batch) Tier 2: 450K → 1M (3M batch) Tier 3: 800K → 2M Tier 4: 2M → 4M gpt-5-mini Tier 1: 200K → 500K (5...

Simon Willison's Weblog
12 Sep 22:27

Quoting Matt Webb

The trick with Claude Code is to give it large, but not too large, extremely well defined problems.

(If the problems are too large then you are now vibe coding… which (a) frequently goes wrong, and (b) is a one-way street: once vibes enter your app, you end up with tangled, write-only code which functions perfectly but can no longer be edited by humans. Great for prototyping, bad for foundations.)

— Matt Webb, What I think about when I think about Claude Code

Tags: matt-webb, claude, ai, claude-code, llms, vibe-coding, coding-agents, ai-assisted-programming, generative-ai

xkcd.com
12 Sep 20:39

Mantle Model

Mantle plumes explain Hawaii, Yellowstone, Iceland, the East African Rift, the Adirondack uplift, the Permian extinction, the decline of Rome, the DB Cooper hijacking, and the balrog in Moria. Those little hills of sand in your yard are caused by antle plumes.

kottke.org
12 Sep 20:00 • Jason Kottke

Radical Neighbouring. “The food from this place has been offered as a...

Radical Neighbouring. “The food from this place has been offered as a gift to the neighbours and strangers who find their way here. Welcome to the farm where nothing is for sale.”

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kottke.org
12 Sep 19:21 • Jason Kottke

How to Navigate a City Without Street Addresses

Direcciones is a short documentary about how giving directions works in Costa Rica, where “a centralized system for street addresses does not exist”. Instead, people use landmarks as reference points when giving directions. Here’s a postal worker talking about how some sen...

kottke.org
12 Sep 18:36 • Jason Kottke

How Albert Einstein Used His Fame to Denounce American Racism. “As a...

How Albert Einstein Used His Fame to Denounce American Racism. “As a target of anti-Semitism…the Jewish scientist was well aware of the harm that discrimination inflicts, and sought to use his platform to speak out against the mistreatment of others.”

kottke.org
12 Sep 18:06 • Jason Kottke

David Friedman on how he created a fun little game called Doomscroll....

David Friedman on how he created a fun little game called Doomscroll. “I’m not a coder, but I enjoy how vibe coding lets me turn an idea into something real. So naturally, I turned to vibe coding for this. It didn’t work.”

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kottke.org
12 Sep 16:54 • Jason Kottke

The Hive Architect: Saving Britain’s Wild Bees

The Hive Architect is a short documentary about honey bee conservationist Matt Somerville and the log hives he builds to house wild bees. There is a widely held theory that our British honey bee couldn’t exist without being domesticated by beekeepers. However, for bee co...

kottke.org
12 Sep 16:24 • Jason Kottke

A collection of newspaper front pages from around the world. (See also...

A collection of newspaper front pages from around the world. (See also cable news chyrons.)

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12 Sep 14:45 • Molly White

Issue 92 – The scam of all scams

The Trumps “debank” major customers from their “anti-debanking” cryptocurrency venture, and a CFTC nominee says the Winklevosses are blackballing him

kottke.org
12 Sep 14:36 • Jason Kottke

This YouTube channel has a bunch of 40-60 minute DJ mixes of...

This YouTube channel has a bunch of 40-60 minute DJ mixes of jazz vinyl. The videos have names like “Jazz Kissa”, “Velvet Night”, “Elegant Morning”, and “Breezy Noon”.

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Radiolab
12 Sep 14:00 • WNYC Studios

Los Frikis

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How a group of 80’s Cuban misfits found rock-and-roll and created a revolution within a revolution, going into exile without ever leaving home. Reporter Luis Trelles brings us the story of punk rock’s arrival in Cuba and a small band of outsiders who sentenced themselv...

kottke.org
12 Sep 13:24 • Jason Kottke

Enjoyed these thoughts from food critics about what they’d like to see...

Enjoyed these thoughts from food critics about what they’d like to see more of (“simple foods broken down and made perfect”) and less of (“caviar, truffles, Wagyu and uni in the wrong places”) in restaurants.

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Daniel Pietzsch
12 Sep 12:45

Next week saturday 20.09.2025, you can see me live with Forkalyst @ Spilles in Düsseldorf.

Simon Willison's Weblog
12 Sep 09:06

London Transport Museum Depot Open Days

London Transport Museum Depot Open Days I just found out about this (thanks, ChatGPT) and I'm heart-broken to learn that I'm in London a week too early! If you are in London next week (Thursday 18th through Sunday 21st 2025) you should definitely know about it: The Museum D...

Simon Willison's Weblog
12 Sep 07:42

Comparing the memory implementations of Claude and ChatGPT

Claude Memory: A Different Philosophy Shlok Khemani has been doing excellent work reverse-engineering LLM systems and documenting his discoveries. Last week he wrote about ChatGPT memory. This week it's Claude. Claude's memory system has two fundamental characteristics. Fir...