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July 16, 2020
— there was a housing crisis before the pandemic, and now it’s a coming apocalypse #
— the YU was the home for the early years of XOXO, and this is incredible news #
July 15, 2020
— a Bitcoin scammer apparently got access to internal Twitter tools #
— she attended a predominantly white school that shifted to remote learning during the pandemic #
— the Washington Post found eight people blinded by police munitions nationally in a single day #
— like so much of GPT-3’s output, this hurts my brain #
July 14, 2020
— it’s a very fun take on the time loop rom-com, I recommend it #
— Mikai McDermott’s Instagram account lets influencers anonymously share what they make #
July 13, 2020
— using a GPS to turn distance to money #
— weirdly hypnotic, reminiscent of Line Rider music videos #
— part of The Atlantic’s Shadowland project about conspiracy thinking in America #
— describe a layout and the AI generates (mostly) working code in whatever format you like #
July 10, 2020
— excellent LucasArts remasters with commentary from the devs #
— free iOS AR app to do playful body-tracking transformations via It's Nice That #
July 9, 2020
— people are speedrunning getting banned from their official Discord #
— TikTok teens are already retaliating #
— free music sampler for the MacBook Touch Bar #
July 8, 2020
— clever upcoming Mac app to make video presentations more interesting #
— “we want to present bad ideas without losing our readers or our jobs” #
July 6, 2020
— new federal data shows Black and Latino people disproportionately affected nationally #
— New York Magazine feature on the streaming platform, with plenty of cringe from Whitman and Katzenberg #
July 3, 2020
— an interactive novella played on your phone using thousands of tiny videos #
— render anything as HTML checkboxes via Web Curios #
— as Joe Berkowitz wrote, her show is “a bit like Between Two Ferns, if it had a racism fixation and the intensity of a Scientology audit” #
— the New York Times announced the style change on Tuesday #
— a curated list from Simone via b3ta #
— in the examples, human-written text is bold, everything else was written by the AI #
— free browser to make responsive web app development easier #
— in response to the leak, Srinivasan started offering Bitcoin bounties for memes mocking Taylor and other journalists #
— easily the best visualization tool I’ve found to track the epidemic globally or down to the county level #
— this is absolutely mind-blowing #
— The New Yorker’s Anna Wiener digs into Reef, a parking lot company that raised $900M from SoftBank #
— the remaining four players got $20,000 each, while several others are claiming foul #
— “It was made for a different America, and today, it’s easy to wonder whether that America ever existed at all.” #
— between 15 to 26 million Americans participated in protests #