Microsoft adds Linux commandline to Windows 10
— whaaaa, official support for native bash and Ubuntu Linux binaries in Windows #
A day in the life of a young black male engineering student
— infuriating story of dealing with systemic racism while trying to cash a money order #
GMUNK's Sub.Division
— "a series of perceptual landscapes where graphic complexity emerges from the structure of simplistic three-dimensional forms" #
Seth Bling turns Super Mario World into Flappy Bird
— first-of-its-kind code injection, by hand, on an unmodded SNES console #
How to Make a Bot That Isn't Racist
— superb Sarah Jeong piece on bot ethics with four of my favorite bot creators #
Angola Internet users organizing on Facebook to pirate files on Wikipedia
— given free access to a tiny handful of site, they're making the most of it #
Smarter Every Day on 3D printing magnetic fields
— I fully expect these to be a mundane part of everyday life in a few years #
How Netflix uses computer vision to generate promo images
— detecting faces, bodies, and other focal points #
Making Day of the Tentacle Remastered
— it's out now for PC, Mac, and PS4; worth it for developer commentary alone #
Legalize It All
— starts with a shocking quote from Nixon's Watergate co-conspirator, making made headlines on its own #
San Andreas Streaming Deer Cam
— GTA V hacked to follow a single deer as it randomly roams the landscape #
Adventures in Narrated Reality
— experiments with using machine learning for writing prose, poetry, and other texts #
Cabel Sasser on Firewatch, one month later
— interesting postmortem from Panic's first foray into videogame publishing #
A poem made entirely from SXSW 2016 panel names
— "Lifehacks for Dads Who Do Fifty Percent: Big Data Will Choose the Next President." #
The covert 3D scan of Nefertiti bust appears to be a hoax
— I should have questioned this myself, but I assumed they did lots of post-processing cleanup (via) #
The Guardian on the global economic downturn for millenials
— "In the US, under-30s are now poorer than retired people" #
Data analysis uncovers crossword puzzle plagiarism scandal
— the data and source are available on Pwanson's site #
Wait But Why's Tim Urban procrastinates his TED talk about procrastination
— gripping reading for anyone with a fear of public speaking (via) #
Vox on the rise of American authoritarianism
— "Donald Trump could be just the first of many Trumps in American politics" #
Wintergatan's Marble Machine
— performative music instrument built from 2,000 marbles and 3,000 parts #
Vandelay Industries
— a Slack bot that searches every line from Seinfeld and posts an animated GIF #