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January 21, 2020
— sourced from freelancers primarily in the Philippines for $1 or less per image #
January 20, 2020
— screens on screens on screens, directed and animated by Elenor Kopka #
— a collection of free single-purpose online tools for web developers #
— videos with short segments of copyrighted material are much more likely to fall under fair use #
— more like collaborative surrealist storytelling than classic interactive fiction #
— from the creator of the Chipophone, classical music played on a Commodore 64 with reverb to simulate church acoustics via MetaFilter #
January 18, 2020
— mapped his apartment in Sketchup and Blender, composed the proof of concept in Unity via @GregMadison #
— sadly, it closed suddenly in 2007 via MetaFilter #
— anything is possible in VR, the only limit is yourself #
— part of Open Sourced, Recode’s new journalism project on the hidden consequences of tech #
— quirky note-taking web app that takes the form of cities and islands via @ftrain #
— the Peter Thiel-funded startup scraped over three billion images via @kashhill #
January 17, 2020
— new-to-me podcast that investigates questions the internet hasn’t found answers to yet #
— looking at number of cuts, like ratios, and apology phrases, and the impact of growth via @taylorlorenz #
— more nonsense in the long NYT interview #
— no coding knowledge required, very portable with Markdown text, and supports custom domains #
— it’s clutter and designed to confuse, here’s how to remove it with a content blocker via Nelson Minar #
January 16, 2020
— personally, I’d prefer glasses to something I had to stick in my eye and disinfect nightly via @caseorganic #
— “democracy cannot function without a shared understanding of reality” #
— Irish artist Mary Safro makes ’90s retrotech-inspired products like these excellent enamel pins #
— unofficial collection of Apple-related images and video #
— Chrome/Firefox add-on to see who wrote text on Wikipedia entries #
— Spin had a different fate, purchased by a private equity company #
— a creative hack to deal with increased copyright claims, a flawed appeal process, and de-monetization issues #
— even on the easiest setting, a feat of physical endurance #
— one of many great resources for creative coding with machine learning from Max Woolf #
January 15, 2020
— he ties it back to Matt Webb’s Glancing from 2004 #
January 14, 2020
— using GANs to teach HAL 9000 how to lip-read via @jonathanfly #
— try keeping the tab open for while for a little easter egg #
— an open-source homage to the falling sand microgenre, more about how it was made #
January 13, 2020
— JS graphics to draw in a hand-drawn, sketchy style; see also: Chart.xkcd via @flowingdata #
— Noah Kalina took a photo of himself for the 7,263 days #
January 10, 2020
— scratches the surface of their work, much more on Aleia’s Instagram #
— the artist is an attorney by day, so I’m excited to see where this absurd copyright claim goes #
— don’t miss the 4099 case switch #
January 8, 2020
— Wait But Why on the roots of modern political polarization #
— experimental web app to generate random glitchy visuals via @sloppycombo #
— more details from Sam Reich, who is the new majority owner #
— website dedicated to horses in video games, with reviews and in-depth analysis via MetaFilter #
— feels very out of character for the progressive publication #
— I’m curious to see if they extend it to quote-retweets, another major source of harassment #
January 7, 2020
— weirdly, that article is the only mention of the newly-formed co-op I could find #
— a short film from Australian animator and director Darcy Prendergast #
— I found the same thing in my tests, worked disturbingly well #
— interesting to hear which games it still can’t master, particularly those with long-term planning; related: AlphaStar #
— the Blurred Lines decision was a disaster for musicians, redefining influence as infringement via @simoncarless #
— how “black PR” firms are using content farms, bots, and other shady techniques to spread lies for clients #
— I originally missed this December release of 2,000 pages of interviews, only released under FOIA after two years and three federal lawsuits #
