JayisGames closes after 13 years
— sad to see it go, absolutely essential for everyone who loved casual/Flash games #
I Want Your Email Address
— "Welcome to the middle of this post. Now, can I please have your email address?" #
Fullest House
— recurrent neural network generating a new Full House script every day; how it works #
The Revelations of Lady Murderface
— Backchannel on the whistleblower who outed low pay at Yelp, which led to raises after her firing #
A poem about Silicon Valley, assembled from Quora questions about Silicon Valley
— "Why has crowdfunding not worked for me? Is it worth pre-ordering a Tesla Model 3?" #
I Dropped My Phone The Screen Cracked
— examples of web audio synthesis made with the library of the same name (via) #
Fusion interviews the new owner of 8chan
— totally missed this move last September, and that he took control over 2ch too #
Rex Sorgatz revisits his tiny, remote hometown
— technology changed it, but in unexpected ways (via) #
I Have No Idea What This Startup Does and Nobody Will Tell Me
— tell me we're not in a bubble again #
NYMag on Social Autopsy, an anti-harassment startup gone wrong
— it's easier to fall for conspiracy theories than understand the complexity of online harassment #
Jen Lewis photoshopped Kanye and an artist reportedly made $100k off it
— perfect encapsulation of how attribution works on the internet in 2016 (via) #
The Verge on the history of content moderation on major social networks
— challenging and expensive at scale, with traumatic impact on moderators #
The Guardian's deep dive into harassment and abuse in their comments
— analyzing 70M comments, women and minority authors were targeted disproportionately #
Gender and age breakdown of dialogue from 2,000 films
— clever methodology maps character names in screenplays to IMDB actors #
Scan of Alan George's Treasure Hunt
— from the 1940s, quite possibly the first choose-your-own-adventure/game book (via) #
Koyannistocksi
— "Koyannisqatsi reconstructed shot-by-shot with modern, watermarked stock footage" #
Neven Mrgan on the costs of Cuprimine
— a drug he needs to survive now costs $44,000/month in the U.S., $36 in Australia without insurance #
L.A. Times profiles Anita Sarkeesian's new project
— one day left to fund the Ordinary Women series, which is about to hit its goal #
Medium adds new tools for publishers
— new designs, revenue options and archive importing preserving timestamps and links #
HTC Vive's "mixed reality" release trailer
— the best demonstration of what good VR feels like without actually experiencing it #
World-record blindfolded run of Super Mario Bros.
— capturing the flag at 8-3 in the nick of time, and the final win against Bowser, are both incredible #