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November 14, 2019
— according to Pornhub, their reversal will affect the livelihoods of over 100k people #
— a competitive industry appears in the middle of nowhere via @mvzelenks #
— I understand none of this math, but it’s nice to know we’ll have fresh baked bread and cookies in the Matrix via @ddiakopoulos #
— a tireless advocate for the comics medium, everyone I know in comics is mourning #
November 13, 2019
— in June, ICANN removed price caps for .org domains #
— incredibly charming, and surprisingly insightful, to see it through a child’s eyes via @hayleyfiasco #
— Dan Sinker’s newsletter rounds up the daily impeachment news #
— scissor switches, a real Esc key, and old arrow keys; the least important news today, but I’m still happy about it #
November 12, 2019
— love this simple effect #
— MSCHF created a fake Seamless restaurant to secretly funnel corporate perks to political candidates who oppose big corporations #
November 11, 2019
— I missed the news of his passing last year; his mental illness inspired fascinating work, along with a history of racist, homophobic paranoia #
— two years in development, a surreal animated short inspired by side-scrolling platformers via twitter.com #
November 8, 2019
— just announced and slow right now, but read about how it works while you wait via @ada_rob #
— more info here, including video via twitter.com #
— it’s shorthand for power, money, and privilege via @TaylorLorenz #
— a third-party named Syniverse was responsible for firing off 168,149 messages, 265 days late via @Jonesieman #
— while some are trying to ban it, TikTok is giving some Pakistani users an audience and new source of income via Web Curios #
— from Neal Agarwal’s excellent Neal.fun, a reliable source of joyful internet via Kottke #
— original animation from Worthikids #
— post-apocalyptic animated short by the very talented Beryl Allee #
— any “best of” list that starts with Demi Adejuyigbe is a winner #
— pure nightmare fodder, but especially the pepperoni pizza made of lips via @jonathanfly #
November 7, 2019
— dead simple tool to train a machine learning model entirely in the browser #
— upsetting texts from ex-partners, dead friends, and family members #
— Hugging Face’s Transformers library had me generating text with GPT-2 on my laptop in about five minutes #
November 6, 2019
— reminder that the crime of “jaywalking” was invented by automakers #
— “Pasterns and fetlocks appear abnormal, suggest radiographs before purchase.” #
— download it for Excel 2019/Office 365 #
November 5, 2019
— incredibly minimalist file-based blog service, actively developed in public via Chris Glass #
— inject unauthorized voice commands into Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple voice assistants with lasers! via @kwiens #
November 4, 2019
— cowardly behavior from the paper, withering under a firestorm of criticism fueled by bad-faith actors #
— it’s been a very good decade for games #
November 1, 2019
— the chicken wing gimmick is silly but effective, Sean Evans is a remarkable interviewer, and I love every episode #
— lax verification enables large-scale hosts to exploit their platform #
— the first reviews for Hideo Kojima’s new game are dropping, and it looks both audacious and agonizing #
