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Jon — a surprisingly touching Garfield fancomic about the life of Jon Arbuckle

Matt Haughey interviewed me on Hobby Horse about interactive fiction — Matt’s new podcast about our personal obsessions

XOXO 2018 — our launch lineup is up and surveys open until next Friday, come on in

Cameron Esposito’s “Rape Jokes” — her brilliant one-hour standup special about sexual assault, stream free or purchase to support RAINN

Shinrashinge’s monster battle daydream — astounding paper animation filmed in one shot an iPhone; see more

TANK — a short film doubling as a visual love letter to vector arcade games; how it was made

New Yorker on Alexandra Bell’s Counternarratives project — re-editing subtle and not-so-subtle racism on the front page of the NYT

Recursive Recipes — make eggs benedict from scratch in under 13 years!

Tom 7 reverse-emulates the NES — running an NES emulator on a Raspberry Pi encased in an NES cartridge, plugged into an unmodified NES (via)

Favstar to shutter next month because of Twitter API changes — the streaming API closure is delayed for now, but there’s still a lot of uncertainty

Marcin Wichary’s Segmented Type playground — you can draw with it too, read the Twitter thread for more (via)

Shudu Gram, the virtual black supermodel created by a white man — see also: Lil Miquela, the virtual Brazilian-American model created by an AI startup

Chrome’s autoplay changes broke countless web games and art projects — I contributed dozens of links to projects broken by the update, many featured by Chrome

ResistanceHole — ClickHole’s response to ClickHole’s PatriotHole

The United States of Japan — post-industrial Japanese social trends may be a glimpse at America’s future

Robin Sloan on uncertainty and cooperation in a multiplayer universe — lovely fusion of Fortnite and the Three-Body Problem

Sarah Jeong on the legality of cheating in videogames — Epic Games is suing game players for using freely-available Fortnite cheats

Lobe — incredibly impressive visual tool for building deep learning models

Francine, an oil painting in pure CSS — source on GitHub, along with two more astounding illustrations by Diana Smith

Buzzfeed on Instagram engagement trading — paying people with real accounts in order to automate networks of artificial likes

Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer — an emotion picture

An Emmy for Megan — for your consideration (via)

Laura Hudson on the internet’s “incel” community — misogynistic, racist, and violent

10 Mississippi by Karina Popp — stop-motion photography game about one woman’s daily routine

Palantir Knows Everything About You — Businessweek profile on Peter Thiel’s dystopian data-mining operation

NVidia’s image inpainting with neural networks — next-level content-aware fills

Mimi Choi’s makeup artistry — intensely disturbing makeup illusions

SmugMug buys Flickr — they want to keep it going, but hard to imagine the archives staying online indefinitely

Ready Player One is the roadmap to digital dystopia — the utopian belief that technology would make all voices equal instead of amplifying existing social inequality

SkyKnit — Janelle Shane trained a neural network to generate knitting patterns, and Ravelry knitters made them

Sexual harassment was rampant at Coachella — the writer herself was groped 22 times

The new Nancy comics are pretty great — for the first time in its 85 year history, it’s drawn by a woman, a pseudonymous webcomics artist

Multiplayer Minesweeper — you probably need the distraction right now

Joe Veix on YouTube Face — exaggerated facial expressions in thumbnails is “clickbait, attaining human form”

Leap Motion open-sources low-cost AR headset design — the hand-tracking experiments by Keiichi Matsuda are incredible

Jelly Mario — world 1-2 is unnerving

FontCode — embedding hidden information in text documents by slightly modifying glyphs

Minit, an adventure game played 60 seconds at a time — can’t recommend highly enough; out now for PC/Mac, Xbox, PS4

Cloudflare announces 1.1.1.1, free privacy-conscious DNS — instantly switched

xkcd’s right-click — turn on dark web mode

Firefox announces Facebook Container Extension — quarantines your Facebook identity in a container inaccessible to third parties

Sketch Machine — fun little looping animation tool by Casey Reas (via)

ViperCard — open-source recreation of HyperCard; you can run emulated stacks on the IA too

The Internet Archive’s Handheld History Collection — handheld electronic games emulated by MAME, now in Javascript

Constellations — weird little peg string game; try it as a musical toy

Pro Publica/Mother Jones exposé on age discrimination at IBM — they systematically and illegally targeted older workers for layoffs

March For Our Lives — 838 events happening worldwide on Saturday, hope to see you there

Behind the scenes of Spike Jonze’s “Welcome Home” Apple commercial — one of the best ads I’ve ever seen (via)

1% of subreddits start 74% of conflicts — analyzing Reddit raids in 1.8 billion comments in 36,000 subreddits across 40 months

GQ feature on the solitary success of Stardew Valley — nearly five years of obsessive, solo development fortunately found an audience