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July 25, 2017
— Nicky Case’s interactive explainer on how trust or distrust evolves in groups #
July 12, 2017
— Lucy Bellwood confronts her personal demons; back her project to make it a book and plushie #
July 6, 2017
— SB Nation’s experimental mashup of football sportswriting and speculative sci-fi #
July 5, 2017
— Pippin Barr’s work simulator for a post-AI era #
June 30, 2017
— new disclosures about prominent VCs like Chris Sacca and Dave McClure #
— bespoke neural networks for image recognition running locally on mobile #
— brilliant use of the Wikipedia API, try examining or taking objects via @hollygramazio #
June 22, 2017
— David Lewandowski’s followup to going to the store and late for meeting via MetaFilter #
June 21, 2017
— good riddance, though I doubt this changes much at Uber #
June 16, 2017
— delighted to see a word I coined here in 2008 become the central metaphor in a song by an artist I love #
June 15, 2017
— Britta took over the newly-acquired @delicious Twitter account and official blog, and it’s awesome #
— “yeah, the iPhone ruined more than a few marriages” #
— over a personal pronoun with cultural connotations #
— melancholic joy at the intersection of weird Twitter and M.I.T. #
— projection mapping experiments with motion tracking #
June 13, 2017
— this should be an option in all social software #
— built on top of Perspective, a project from Instrument and Google’s Jigsaw incubator #
— the Mario universe meets David OReilly’s Everything #
— after suing Gawker, he’s going after Techdirt for reporting on his easily-debunked claims #
— an oral history of The Toast #
June 12, 2017
— analyzing 100k tweets to understand how people use the gun emoji via r/parakeet #
— an infinite timeline of random images with fake likes and comments #
— valid words as hex colors via Belong.io #
June 11, 2017
— making LOGO Turtles in Anyland, a creative social space in VR #
— Josh Clark on design principles for addressing flaws in machine learning #
— take a picture to make music with a computer; source is here via bigmedium.com #
June 9, 2017
— four cartoonists on life without the Affordable Care Act #
June 8, 2017
— first biweekly chapter documenting the artist’s project to build a computer #
— machine-generated uncanny valley faces upressed into 4k images #
— stunning interactive visualization of Archive Team’s 650GB GeoCities backup #
— we live in a weird future via Boing Boing #
June 7, 2017
— most new printers are exposing you #
— ready for a nap anywhere, anytime #
— the fifth book will be out on June 29 #
— men talking over women in science, captured on video #
— 360º photogrammetry study of abandoned malls; see also: Dan Bell’s Dead Malls series via @golan #
— the rise of Trump inspiring waves of sexist, racist rhetoric in school #
— as a festival organizer, reading these is pure schadenfyre #
June 5, 2017
— Maciej Ceglowski on how five American tech companies built a toolkit for authoritarian movements #
— experimental browser distributed openly in a peer-to-peer mesh with revisions and forking #
— Twitter bot turns every Trump tweet into the correct Presidential statement format #
June 3, 2017
— an “infinity poem” composed of 62,000 internet-connected cameras #
June 2, 2017
— Marc ten Bosch’s mindbending 4th-dimensional physics toybox for iOS and Vive #
— Christina Xu on human interaction and trust in China’s online-to-offline platforms #
— craft a series of apologies, and decide whether they’re sincere via Indie Games+ #
— visualizing gender balance on the NYT Best Seller list over time #
— mixed reality nostalgia from Niu via blog.attractmo.de #
