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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

Twitch streaming every episode of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood — to celebrate Fred Rogers’ 90th birthday and the 50th anniversary of the show

XOXO returns in 2018 — we’re back after a year off, kicking things off with four talented artists livestreaming an XOXO mural all day today

Kottke.org turns 20 — “kottke.org isn’t so much a thing I’m making but a process I’m going through”

Charlie Warzel on Bitcoin mining towns and local backlash — cryptocurrency prospectors setting up shop in Montana, Washington, and Wyoming for cheap electricity

Inside the booming black market for Spotify playlists — the new payola

The Broccoli Tree: A Parable — “If we hoard and hide what we love, we can still lose it; only then, we’re alone in the loss.”

Heather Havrilesky interviews Daniel Mallory Ortberg on coming out as trans and his new book — Ortberg continues to be an internet treasure; the book’s out today

Only Slightly Exaggerated — Oregon’s tourism board commissioned a Miyazaki-inspired animation blending magical creatures with real-life Oregon locations

National Geographic confronts its racist history — related: New York Times adding obituaries for prominent women it originally ignored

Inside Cuba’s El paquete semanal, a weekly 1TB dump of copyrighted media — absent of broadband, industrious pirates are charging for coordinated Sneakernet file transfers, including YouTube videos and magazines with ads

The Rubik’s Contraption — building a robot to solve a Rubik’s Cube in 0.38 seconds

Steamed Hams Inc. — inspired by Steamed Hams But It’s All Star

Hypercard Zine — an upcoming zine of new Hypercard stacks

The Verge on the history of Know Your Meme — not mentioned: Rocketboom founder Andrew Baron’s arrest for stealing from Syrian refugees

You Think You Know Me is now available — my wife’s delightful Kickstarter-funded card game is out, so I made a website for it

Jeremy Keith on forced SSL, AMP, and abuse of power — Google and Mozilla are trying to improve the web, but making new barriers to entry

Vi Hart’s Peace for Triple Piano — “a spherical video in a mathematically triplified space with symmetry in space-time”; how it was made

One Hour One Life — Jason Rohrer’s new game merges Passage and Sleep Is Death into something completely new

Future Fonts — get access to fonts in development at a deep discount; like Steam Early Access for type designers

Battleship Solitaire — like Picross meets Battleship

You Got This! — a free 20-page zine about making web apps with Node.js

Buzzfeed profiles the Florida teens working to stop mass shootings — this is amazing (via)

Every art reference in BoJack Horseman — I want that Hockney print

Add “View Image” back to Google Images — sorry, copyright maximalists, I can’t live without it

Crying in Public — an emotional map of NYC (via)

Niemen Lab interviews Jason Kottke about blogging in a post-blogging world — interesting to hear how membership made writing viable for him again

Kotaku interviews the women of Atari — a nuanced look at the company’s past from those who were there

Salon asks ad-blockers to opt into crypocurrency mining instead — like Les said, better to exploit my CPU than my brain, I guess