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October 13, 2020
— this new technique for inpainting video is unreal #
October 12, 2020
— 16 years after founding and two years after Zuckerberg explicitly said it was allowed #
October 11, 2020
— an apropos cover for what would’ve been John’s 80th birthday #
— after the first big wave hit major cities, Republican-led counties/states now dominate weekly case counts despite lower density #
— NYT investigation reveals over 200 companies, special interests, and foreign governments that paid him for favors and access #
— this illustrated comic essay is very sweet #
October 8, 2020
— stunning monochrome pixel art animation #
— my favorite part about this is that it’s a 10.5 minute loop with lyrics all about Pepsi #
October 6, 2020
— web-based NES/SNES/Sega/GB emulator allowing up to 8 remote players to share a single controller with zero latency via @batslyadams #
— will still allow individual posts, but this is a stunning and long-overdue step to combating dangerous misinformation #
— the costs and potential risks of producing Mystery Show-style investigations are high, limiting who can take them on via @adrianhon #
— a guide to cute-ifying your computer from BubbleSort Zines‘s sailorhg #
— streaming keypoints from your facial expressions and movement, generating a detailed deepfake of your own face locally #
— Noblemania interviews bit players from TV/film/music videos, forming oral histories from untold perspectives #
— TikTok makes this kind of improvisational collaboration so easy #
October 5, 2020
— Caitlin Dewey’s very good newsletter you should consider subscribing to #
— journalists left newspapers to launch their own subscriber-funded newsletters via Caitlin Dewey #
— people struggling to survive the pandemic are finding support and advice on Reddit via Caitlin Dewey #
— without adequate support or reliable internet, many kids are just falling through the cracks via Caitlin Dewey #
— a son remembers his mother’s love of cartooning and illustration, in thread form via b3ta #
— match pairs of images that Twitter users described as having the same energy via b3ta #
October 1, 2020
— Tijmen Schep’s interactive documentary of facial recognition algorithms for tracking and surveillance via MetaFilter #
— the YouTube algorithm largely ignores short-form video, making it challenging to find an audience there #
— The Hood Internet is back to releasing their weekly mega-mashups, over 60 songs from the same year in 3.5 minutes #
— stunningly animated short by Giant Ant via youtube.com #
— short animation with audio sourced from a real missed connections ad on Craigslist via youtube.com #
— Japan’s successful response stopped super-spreading events with ventilation, backwards tracing, and cluster-busting #
