As you might have noticed, this acct is no longer active. Twitter has shut off API access to the app I've used since 2008 to post links here. Until a change in ownership (or in the owner's stability & political views), there will be no more kottke[dot]org content posted here.

ChatGPT Made Me Cry and Other Adventures in AI Land. "I keep using the word 'we' here because coding with ChatGPT – and this is where it starts to feel weird in an uncanny valley sort of way – feels like a genuine creative collaboration." kottke.org/23/03/chatgpt-mad…

Finally, the Kottke AMA! All day today, I'll be answering reader-submitted questions on a new website that I built specifically for the AMA. Check it out! kottke.org/23/03/kottke-ask-…

An absolutely gobsmacking image of the Sun shot in the "hydrogen-alpha band of the visible spectrum", which reveals an unbelievable amount of texture & features, including a solar tornado that's 14 Earths tall. kottke.org/23/03/the-sun-in-…

In case you missed it somehow, kottke[dot]org turned 25 years old this week. Thank you so much for all the lovely comments; it really means a lot. kottke.org/23/03/kottke-is-2…

Unbelievably, kottke[dot]org turns 25 years old today – the site predates Google! "That's more than half of my life, spanning four decades and ~40,000 posts, almost cartoonishly long for a medium optimized for impermanence." Thx for reading! kottke.org/23/03/kottke-is-2…

Kottke[dot]org turns 25 this week and if you find value in what I do here, please consider supporting the site by purchasing a membership today. And thank you to past & current members for supporting the site – I appreciate you! kottke.org/23/03/kottke-25-i…

I was recently on John Gruber's The Talk Show podcast! Our time together was pretty limited, but we still managed to talk about the history of blogging, my recent sabbatical, Stellar, the 25th anniversary of the site, and more. Give it a listen! kottke.org/23/03/kottke-25-t…

The Ukrainian postal service has released a stamp featuring artwork by Banksy to mark the first anniversary of the full-scale Russian invasion. It also says "FCK PTN" on it in Ukrainian. kottke.org/23/02/new-ukraini…

In the next couple of weeks, I'm going to be doing an AMA (Ask Me Anything) and I'm collecting questions for it today. So if there's anything you'd like to know about me, the site, or the world, ask away! kottke.org/23/02/ask-me-anyt…

Last call for Kottke Hypertext Tees. If you want one of these fabulous shirts, you've got another ~24 hours to order one before they're gone. If you've ordered already, thank you! They've proven surprisingly popular. kottke.org/23/02/last-call-f…

In 1955, the Ford Motor Company hired poet Marianne Moore to name their revolutionary new car. She suggested names like "Utopian Turtletop" and "The Intelligent Whale". Ford ended up going with their own name: The Edsel. kottke.org/23/02/ford-motor-…

Well, I was not expecting Tetris to be the next video game to be turned into an edgy drama (an 80s Cold War techno-thriller, no less), but here we are. The trailer looks....good? kottke.org/23/02/theyre-maki…

New analysis of Leonardo da Vinci's papers show that he did some remarkably prescient work on gravity, demonstrating that it's a form of acceleration and estimating the gravitational constant to 97% accuracy. kottke.org/23/02/leonardo-da…