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August 19, 2020
— Microsoft’s new flight sim uses Bing Maps, Azure AI, and real-time weather and air traffic to recreate the entire planet in astounding detail #
August 18, 2020
— free issues weekly on Substack with a paid subscription option to get a zine by mail #
— “a cozy management game about dying” out today #
— nothing about undoing the damage already done, as 20 states plan to sue USPS over service delays #
— with Bill Oakley, sure, but also experts on isometric exercise, Aurora Borealis, and burgers in upstate New York #
— conspiracy-minded influencers are repackaging QAnon on Instagram with inspiration aesthetics #
August 17, 2020
— “by some measures, the digital divide is growing even as the internet becomes more essential” #
— stock market charts as illustrated landscapes via FlowingData #
— if their postponed events are canceled in 2021, they’ll be facing bankruptcy #
— like his fridge, this Twitch stream goes to very unexpected places via @garbageday #
— an open library for computational embroidery with Processing via @golan #
— an upcoming indie game adaptation from interactive fiction legend Emily Short and the makers of Reigns via @emshort #
— Janelle Shane asked GPT-3 to write her “weird AI” blog posts #
August 14, 2020
— Democrats are far more likely to vote by mail in this election, and Trump will do anything to make sure they aren’t counted #
August 13, 2020
— the rebirth of birtherism with “295 edits and more than 19,000 words of debate in less than 24 hours” #
— Bijan Stephen’s video essay about time, memory, and games via @bijanstephen #
— karaoke with friends in VR or the browser, open-source and hosted on Glitch via @jennschiffer #
— outstanding quarantine-inspired shot-for-shot recreation of 2001: A Space Odyssey’s ending via Kottke #
August 12, 2020
— fool me once, etc etc #
— what doesn’t kill you… can still really fuck you up for the rest of your life #
— some of the many people laid off and looking for new opportunities #
— Amit Gupta and James Yu are making a creative writing assistant with GPT-3 #
— a three-inch cable ripped through 100 feet of the reflector dish #
— major cuts as their browser share declines and lucrative Google contract expires #
— “an addiction to easy answers combined with a wholesale cultural resistance to any kind of complexity” #
— next-gen Pong will melt your GPU #
August 10, 2020
— researchers found more than 1,000 words or phrases that incorrectly trigger Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Google devices #
— watch YouTube videos with under 500 views with others via arstechnica.com #
— animated by Native American artist Brent Learned for the first Native American band to achieve a top 5 Billboard single via MetaFilter #
— MSCHF’s latest drop is Masterclass class summaries in the style of WikiHow #
— swipe through popular videos on Twitter #
August 8, 2020
— 18-month-long Twitter thread follows the full development of an indie video game #
August 7, 2020
— reassigning or displacing 23 postal service executives via a memo buried on a Friday #
— happy friday, everyone via @garbageday #
— absurdist text-only fantasy baseball idle game with a thriving fan community #
— a kick in the teeth to indie theaters and filmmakers already suffering through a pandemic #
— ignore the clickbait headline #
— visualizing the complex tradeoffs in redistricting, a kludgy alternative to proportional representation #
August 6, 2020
— this will undoubtedly face legal challenges, and needs to die in court #
— three talented musicians find the rhythm in machine-generated speech #
— Derek Yu explains what guided his design choices for the sequel #
— five white male justices affirmed, with the sole female and Black person on the court dissenting #
— Facebook fired an engineer who complained internally #
— see also: the rollercoaster that takes 3,000 in-game years to ride #
— it was easier to rename MARCH1 and SEPT1 than wait for Microsoft to allow users to disable autoformatting via Kottke #
— even after weeks of negotiations, their new contracts would still pay less than their white counterparts #
