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July 14, 2020
— 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 #
June 30, 2020
— don’t miss the John Hughes tribute at the end #
— like Another Round, the show’s hosts/creators are now trying to get the rights to their work by going public #
June 29, 2020
— also: YouTube banned Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer, and more, while Twitch temporarily banned Trump #
June 25, 2020
— companies are pulling ads over their failure to moderate misinformation and hateful content #
— more than just a platform, Facebook’s algorithms actively amplify and recruit through recommendations #
— Belgian artist Barbara Iweins photographed and categorized all 10,352 objects in her house via It's Nice That #
— jumping on the NoCode bandwagon, along with tools like Webflow, Bubble, Zapier, and Airtable #
— starting in March, Apple declared “fortune-telling” and “dating” were oversaturated, spammy categories #
— Gary Whitta’s late-night talk show recorded in Animal Crossing is getting some big names #
— impressive NYT data visualization of the spread of Covid-19 in the U.S. #
— learning from Lady Antebellum’s mistake, the Chicks cleared the new name with an existing band first #
— the 1989 ride was based on the 1946 film Song of the South, known for its racist stereotypes and glorified plantation setting #
June 24, 2020
— the illusion of fairness vs. telling hard truths via Nick Heer #
— useful hack by the always-brilliant Nicole He via @nicolehe #
— Jackson was NASA’s first Black female engineer, portrayed by Janelle Monáe in the film adaptation of the book #
— add invisible text to deliberate get caught in spam filters via us18.campaign-archive.com #
— MSCHF and MrBeast’s real-time contest to see who can keep their finger on their phone the longest with a prize up to $25k #
— a categorized collection of this president’s lowlights, 759 and counting #
— lazy cops using flawed facial recognition targeted a Black man in Michigan for a crime he didn’t commit #
June 23, 2020
— nobody’s really in the mood for a wacky show about the NYPD right now #
— don’t miss the full-motion video demos at the bottom of the page #
