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August 31, 2020
— an incredibly chill 30-minute compilation by Jez Burrows #
— every one is absurdly over-the-top, incredibly fun to watch via @ScottRhodie #
— The Verge launched a project documenting how people use technology to document police brutality and racism #
— most people think accounts with names like @Andy2884336 are bots, but it’s been the default Twitter onboarding for years #
August 28, 2020
— the website for the craft supply chain lets visitors talk to one other, and chaos ensues via @qDot #
— so much exciting work in spatial virtual spaces right now #
— ALW’s TikTok is pretty great #
August 27, 2020
— his Twitter bot shows the top-performing link posts on U.S. Facebook pages daily #
— the game features simulations of real-time weather patterns globally #
— “a meaningful percentage of Americans live in an alternate reality powered by a completely separate universe of news and information” via getrevue.co #
— Cheesecake Factory, Amazon, McDonald’s, Target, and many more are hiding employee infections #
— they view Black people as less than human, a deadly threat even without a weapon #
— before the shooting, police were filmed offering bottled water to the white militia members and thanking them #
— OneZero published Cory Doctorow’s new book in full, print and ebook editions coming soon via Cory Doctorow #
— 28 ex-prisoners detail the horrors of China’s detention camps #
— they used blanked-out spots on Baidu maps to detect camps, and commissioned new satellite imagery of the censored places #
— Kat Fukui writes about the coordinated harassment she received on GitHub from 4chan anons working in tech via Belong.io #
August 26, 2020
— that explanation smells funny #
— the music helps pass the time #
— most companies are acclimating to a world without physical conferences, event sponsorship, and business travel #
— surprising nobody, the 17-year-old shooter idolized police and was front row at a Trump rally in January via @andymcmillan #
— CNN and NYT are reporting the CDC was pressured by the Trump administration #
— don’t miss the reveal at the end #
— rather than fix underlying issues with late mail sorting, he just forced trucks to deliver less mail via @themail #
— in his excellent newsletter, Marcin Wichary wrote about the acquisition and his final interview with Peter Tytell #
— TJ Hughes just announced his delightful upcoming food videogame will be published by Panic, and got a new trailer and website #
August 25, 2020
— part one of a series of editorials on “the damage this president has caused and the danger he would pose in a second term” via mailchi.mp #
— extended quarantine affects each of us differently via @eprosenthal #
— the first edition of The Mail newsletter is an impassioned love letter to the USPS #
— “The Fraternal Order of Police has told us candidly what they are—that they are not a union, but a fraternity. A brotherhood. We ought to believe them.” via @eveewing #
— magical text transforms with two.js via @maxbittker #
— Tamika Palmer talks to Ta-Nehisi Coates via @samitsarkar #
— over 20,000 articles and 200,000 edits via @simonw #
— guest edited by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair’s special issue on racism and police violence in America, and the uprising against it #
August 23, 2020
— “the brain is a very bad computer, consciousness is a very bad idea” #
— normal food truck stuff from Worthikids #
— like Goodfellas, but with 10-year-olds #
August 22, 2020
— thousands of obscure niche channels, including conspiracy and far-right content #
— without any evidence of wrongdoing, it’s a gross abuse of power that would seriously impact countless young creators #
— the 31-minute Half-Life: Alyx run is fun to watch as he crawls, runs, and jumps around to clip through walls #
August 21, 2020
— his self-reflection and nuanced understanding of his beat is why Casey’s one of my favorite journalists, period #
— “This week, for the first time in more than two months, all our major COVID-19 metrics improved at the same time.” #
— Ars Technica’s Esther Schindler looks back at the value and influence of local computer clubs via @textfiles #
August 20, 2020
— Defunctland’s full-length documentary about Halyx, Disney’s forgotten 1980s Star Wars-inspired space-rock band via MetaFilter #
— the Melbourne obelisk stemmed from a typo in OpenStreetMap specifying a building with 212 stories instead of two #
— Blue Delliquanti’s brilliant queer post-singularity comic about robots, family, and love #
August 19, 2020
— finally asked directly about the conspiracy, he blithely equated the “radical left” to a Satanic cult of pedophiles and cannibals #
— this channel started out making sharp knives from strange ingredients, and now devolved into the quieter Japanese cousin to HowToBasic via @Randwiches #
