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I got curious about the Equal Earth map projection that was recently voted on at the UN so I had GPT-6 Astra (medium) in ChatGPT Work build me this animated transition between Mercator and Equal Earth using D3.
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The Pelican comparison grid for Astra is pretty interesting - 4th September 2026
OpenAI's rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis - 4th September 2026
Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics - 2nd September 2026
This is a beat by Simon Willison, posted on 7th September 2026 .
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