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Jakarta teenager Wahyu Wicaksono found a way to make some money from his love of running. He became a “Strava jockey”, clocking up running achievements for others on the popular exercise tracking app for a fee. Wahyu charges $0.6 per km to run at “Pace 4” (1km in four minutes) and half of it at “Pace 8” (1km in eight minutes). CNA

• People: Twitter whitelisted few users for slurs. Walkable cities. JohnDeere layoffs. D&D for alt texts. Paris2024 shallow pools mean fewer records? A 1926 creativity framework. Atom-thick gold sheets. Strava jockeys.

• Planet: Octopus farming gets banned. Stamen’s Null island (and its geoJson).

• Tech: Accessible deleted github repos. Immigrants in America, though only 14% of the population, are responsible for 36% of innovation. Digital primordial soup. Ham culture. In the beginning was the command line (N.Steph). Self-optimizing, autonomous factory.

• Random: Jaws legos =) DIY ship-identifying satellite code.

• AI: Claude to review papers.

In the Roman Empire, it took 40 years of labor to make a tonne of copper. Now it only takes 21 days.