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(\nVia <mark>Simon Willison</mark>\n)\n\nAn oral history of Contact\non New York Magazine's Vulture, which … ","reading_minutes":2},{"id":"a457e249-f250-4945-8b75-4438dc3a86f9","slug":"s09e13-mist-everywhere","subject":"s09e13: Mist, everywhere","title":"Mist, everywhere","publish_date":"2021-04-02T20:17:25.009047+00:00","year":2021,"month":4,"season":9,"episode":13,"episode_label":"s09e13","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s09e13-mist-everywhere/","is_premium":0,"word_count":1853,"context":" … Dates and Old News\n\nA couple days ago, Jacobian asked for\nways to deal with old, outdated blog posts\n, <mark>Simon Willison</mark> answered that\nhe’d make sure the … ","reading_minutes":9},{"id":"2115bdd9-5f82-4837-bc59-8ac3eba0e711","slug":"s07e27-tattletales-or-ok-google-what-do-you-have","subject":"s07e27: Tattletales, or, OK Google, what do you have on me?","title":"Tattletales, or, OK Google, what do you have on me?","publish_date":"2019-12-18T00:51:08.725000+00:00","year":2019,"month":12,"season":7,"episode":27,"episode_label":"s07e27","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s07e27-tattletales-or-ok-google-what-do-you-have/","is_premium":0,"word_count":3671,"context":" … There’s another thought that it prompts which I think is <mark>Simon Willison</mark>-bait,\nmore recently of Datasettte\n, which is: what are the\ngood visual tools\nfor interrogating … ","reading_minutes":18}]}