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July 31, 2020
— they abandoned it because of bad models, concerns over bad publicity, and disinterest in helping Democrat-run states #
— Twitter added a big update to their postmortem, explaining how their employees were spear phished by phone #
— an alternate ending to Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree #
— Bloomberg was first to report ByteDance will be ordered to divest its ownership #
July 30, 2020
— photogrammetry for journalistic storytelling via @timoni #
July 29, 2020
— an attempt to counter suspicion around Chinese government control #
— they’re slowly turning into Blogspot #
July 28, 2020
— federal judges requiring people, many charged only with minor offenses, to give up their Constitutional rights #
— hearings this week may determine the future of antitrust regulation #
— personal stories of what it’s like to lose loved ones to the QAnon cult #
— employee owned and operated, should be an interesting experiment #
— experimental Facebook app is very reminiscent of Byte’s original design via @jasontoff #
— a tabletop mixed-media short covering incidents of police violence against Black Americans over six decades #
— Jenny Nicholson gives the brony phenomenon the documentary it deserves #
— an Electron app running Mac OS 8 emulating a 1991 Macintosh Quadra 900 #
July 27, 2020
— not every MSCHF drop is a winner, but they have a remarkably high hit rate #
— historic mail volume, a reliance on overtime instead of new hires, and a Trump donor as new Postmaster General #
— using the VM Computers mod letting you boot a Windows PC inside the game via Kottke #
— “the most violent and racist in all law enforcement” #
— “303 officers still working at the NYPD have had five or more substantiated allegations against them” #
— tracking the most popular links from other link-heavy newsletters #
— great article that talks to several Black activists who have been at the protests since the beginning #
— internal source code and development repositories from over a dozen classic SNES and N64 games #
— the family and subject of an accidental meme, born from a 2007 Flickr photo, looks back #
— MSCHF’s new drop is an Amazon Echo speaker blocker #
July 24, 2020
— a doomed graphical innovation for BBSes in the early ’90s, released just before the web made every BBS feel obsolete #
— a visual essay and remembrance from a bunch of Flash game creators via @jgamesch #
— Zach Gage and Jack Schlesinger’s new iOS app takes the tedium out of Sudoku and teaches you advanced strategy while you play #
— several more in the Twitter thread #
— Observable continues to be an incredible tool for live coding and visualization #
— the instant cult classic is 10 years old next month #
July 23, 2020
— BuzzFeed News investigation on employee dissent inside Facebook based on dozens of internal documents #
July 22, 2020
— Everest Pipkin watched 1 million three-second videos from an MIT dataset for a project and wrote about how it affected them via @nicolehe #
— perfectly healthy and normal #
July 21, 2020
— better late than never? #
— don’t miss the original ProPublica investigation #
July 19, 2020
— William Carlos Williams meets RPG Maker via b3ta #
July 17, 2020
— despite objections from city/state leaders, the DHS is escalating force in what looks like a trial run for other cities #
July 16, 2020
— the AI will never say “I don’t know,” so just ask it nonsense questions #
— two surfer dudes try to hand out free masks in Orange County, and it doesn’t go well #
— 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 #
