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Everyone is confused by OpenAI’s product names — GPT 4o and o1 — but I’m also amused that Anthropic’s upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet is still called 3.5, not 3.6. Why even have version numbers? 🤪 Also very interesting Rabbit-esque “computer use” feature.

In this membership-drive mini-series, Tommy Silk, a licensed New York sightseeing guide, @LandmarksofNY on Instagram, and the author of Hidden Landmarks of New York: A Tour of the City's Most Overlooked Buildings (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2024), joins us to talk about some of the lesser-known historically significant buildings of NYC. Today, we hear about some of private homes all around the city, landmarked for their significance or the accomplishments of people who lived there.

=>EVENT:  Join Tommy Silk in conversation with Jack Coyne at Grace Church Wednesday, 10/23 at 6:30pm.  Reservations requested.

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Jonathan Alter, MSNBC analyst, author of the Substack newsletter Old Goats, and the book American Reckoning: Inside Trump’s Trial―and My Own  (BenBella Books, 2024), reflects on the felony trial of Donald Trump as one of the few journalists in the courtroom and as a presidential historian.

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Bob Sassone writes via email:

• You said on your blog that you can't imagine moving from WordPress because "there isn't anything else out there that's offering something new for the writers." What about Ghost?

My response:

• Sorry it wasn't clear -- but as far as I know, Ghost isn't built on WordPress. It's a completely different product.
• My writing tool runs on WordPress. So you can use it with your existing wordpress.com sites.
• And the codebase I've built will support lots of editors built using WordPress as the backend.

A place to ask questions.

Bob's site is bobsassone.com.

Yesterday I posted a bit about the "million-plus Americans who died from Covid during Trump's tenure." It wasn't worded carefully enough, I should've had a lawyer review it. Yes, a lot of them died during Biden's tenure too. But I don't think of it that way. I think of the bi...

Thanks Aaron Ross Powell for the blog post about Micro.blog! On cross-posting:

But the magic, and the reason Micro.blog and services like it are the way the social web ought to work, comes in what it calls “Sources.” These are other platforms, including many social media platforms, Micro.blog can automatically syndicate everything you write to. And for many of them, it can pull back in replies so you can have a conversation without leaving the Micro.blog interface.

New York City's mandatory composting program, which is already operational in Brooklyn and Queens, is expanding to Manhattan, Staten Island and the Bronx. Hilary Howard, New York Times reporter covering how the New York City region is adapting to climate change and ...

In honor of WNYC's centennial, Brian quizzes listeners on topics covered in the centennial series "100 Years of 100 Things." Today's quiz focuses on Republican presidential candidates.

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Jessica Grose, opinion writer at The New York Times and the author of Screaming on The Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood (Mariner Books, 2022), offers analysis of young men's relationship with feminism, and how that is related to their voting patterns.

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Yesterday I posted a bit about the "million-plus Americans who died from Covid during Trump's tenure." It wasn't worded carefully enough, I should've had a lawyer review it. Yes, a lot of them died during Biden's tenure too. But I don't think of it that way. I think of the b...

Warning: this episode contains descriptions of a mental health crisis and violence. This Election Day, recreational marijuana could become legal across more than half of the United States. But as more Americans consume more potent forms of the drug more often, a Times invest...

The other day, Donald Trump playacted as a worker at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania. But he ran into trouble, evading a question about whether he would support a minimum wage hike, producing scalding headlines. Which gets at a larger scam: Trump enjoys public approval on the economy, even though his agenda for working people is borderline nonexistent, whereas Harris has a detailed economic agenda for working and middle class people alike. We talked to HuffPost senior reporter Jonathan Cohn, author of a good new piece on the McDonald’s saga, who explains how this stunt captures the fraudulence of Trump’s economic plans—and the authenticity of Harris’s middle class biography. Listen to this episode here.

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SERIES 3 EPISODE 54: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: Ignore, for the moment, the horserace numbers in the national and even swing state polls and consider two "interior numbers." Emerson says those 20% or so of voters who hadn't decided for who...

Something very significant is happening in Texas with reviewing death row inmate Robert Roberson’s trial. He was supposed to be executed last week. Abbot and Paxton are of course useless, but the legislature is trying to make it right. This article in the Texas Tribune is a good place to start.

Fancy editor now autocompletes internal links to other emails you've written.

Early voting started today! We went to our location but the line was insanely long. Gonna try again tomorrow. Hopefully a good sign for turnout. 🇺🇸

Hamas’s leader Yahya Sinwar was killed by Israeli forces last week. The Israeli government had been searching for Sinwar ever since he helped orchestrate the deadly Oct. 7 terror attacks last year. While some celebrated Sinwar’s death – and see this moment as a potential cat...

I have a killer business idea. I’m just going to take one penny from every bank account in the world. I’m not going to ask; you can’t say no. It really won’t affect you. You probably won’t even notice, and even if you do, again, it will not affect you. What’s a penny? Nothing. It […]

I’m using iOS App Intents for the first time as a developer. My gut feeling when this was all introduced was that it was way too limited to create an extensible, universal Siri that works in lots of contexts. I still believe that. Some cool things are possible, though.

In honor of WNYC's centennial, Brian quizzes listeners on topics covered in the centennial series "100 Years of 100 Things." Today's quiz focuses on Democratic presidential candidates.

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