Daniel Knowles
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Daniel Knowles
@dlknowles.bsky.social
Midwest correspondent at The Economist, in Chicago. Before that, in London, Mumbai, Nairobi and DC.

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I could! If I wanted to mess with my own record. (I would never do that. I will however admit to deleting some of the occasional embarrassing song I've listened to way too often in a short space of time)
February 3, 2026 at 1:41 AM
Ok just added a feature that if I put in an artist name it can look up albums and then scrobble all the tracks to Last.FM specifying a time played, so that I can also include stuff I play on Vinyl. It is absolutely insane how easy this was to make. Yes I do want to track every song I ever listen to
February 3, 2026 at 12:31 AM
I haven't written any code at all since I was 15 years old and messing around with Visual Basic to make silly (and rubbish) programmes
February 2, 2026 at 7:48 PM
That's the sort of thing it just seems ideal for yeah
February 2, 2026 at 7:47 PM
I guess I've long been a convert - and if anything this ought to boost my worries about the unexpected consequences, like making it vastly easier to automate a bunch of fraud. But this is the first thing I've used it for that feels kind of like magic, rather than just an iteration on a search engine
February 2, 2026 at 7:46 PM
That's what I am thinking. Analysing transport data too
February 2, 2026 at 7:44 PM
I probably ought to come up with some journalistic uses of this...
February 2, 2026 at 7:29 PM
yes! That's why he won I am sure
February 2, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Migration in the past few years has been more dramatically visible in rural America than in cities, I'd say. I know there is tension with that. But clear benefits too. In 2024 I went to a town in Nebraska where they had a new coffee shop, new restaurants and rising house prices because of migrants
February 2, 2026 at 4:12 PM