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November 30, 2020
— outstanding audio investigation by Adrianne Jeffries into Amazon review scammers, why they used seeds, and why it ended so quickly #
November 27, 2020
— clicker games are my Kryptonite, transparently manipulative but I still succumb #
— in the process, he rebuilt Line Rider using modern web standards to fix its bugs, which became the official version #
— people who lost their sense of smell and haven’t realized it yet #
— nearly all the company’s Black employees left a year and a half ago, before their “no politics” stance last month led to another exodus #
— all the interactive easter eggs will now be preserved thanks to Flash emulation via @textfiles #
November 25, 2020
— touching music video with papercraft recreations of games from Pong to Gris via Colossal #
— makes a great holiday gift, along with Trogdor!! The Board Game #
— over a decade later, this short Flash game now emulated with Ruffle is still perfect #
— unused art, assets, and deleted scenes found spelunking through the source #
— the service automatically opts you into sharing your bandwidth with randos #
— using the rock type, color, and shape, texture of the canyon floor, and flight paths #
— chill collaborative gameplay, for now #
— stunning work from artist Tracey Snelling #
— a good time to watch Tom Scott’s visit to Arecibo from 2017 #
— why now? they’ve posted thousands of videos filled with harmful disinformation for years #
— David Friedman mines the C-SPAN archives for cultural references in government hearings #
— if it happens, it’ll be one of the top 10 largest tech acquisitions ever #
— lowlights from the sequel #
November 24, 2020
— send an email and watch it printed and burned in a live stream #
— Paolo Pedercini talks about his game design work in the context of Flash’s life, death, and surprising afterlife #
— incredibly disturbing face masks of your own face, now available for $30 via @djbaskin #
— despite employee protests, they won’t add measures that lower engagement or disproportionately impact right-wing outlets #
November 23, 2020
— stunning surrealist datamoshing videos #
— good job firing your most enthusiastic staff member #
— 64k bootloader stored in 6 minutes and 10 seconds of audio on a 10″ record #
— uniquely-generated copyright-free beats made with SuperCollider #
— most indies are cobbling together their income from multiple sources and platforms #
— thousands of Billie Eilish covers on YouTube aligned to the quarter-beats of the original with machine learning #
November 20, 2020
— a company running hospitals and healthcare services in China made a bizarre pivot into influencer content houses #
— their hands-off approach to community moderation smacks of Twitter and Reddit circa 2010 #
— a magical story of childhood schoolmates reunited through music #
— modifying the source for an unreleased game for the Sega Genesis add-on to get it running on modern VR hardware #
— autoplaying recommendations created unexpected hits out of algorithmically-similar songs #
— Criminal digs into the 33-year-old unsolved mystery of pirate television #
— Chrome/Firefox add-on spotlights Google’s web search results instead of their own info boxes #
— USA Today’s crossword editor is pushing for more modern and inclusive puzzle design #
November 19, 2020
— Jonah Peretti cofounded the Huffington Post, but they’ve always been separate companies #
— anticipating Flash’s EOL next month with a growing archive emulated with Ruffle #
— they seem to think they no longer need to pay royalties on acquired works via Cory Doctorow #
— if you’ve opted out of monetization or don’t yet qualify for the partner program, you’re out of luck #
— very competitive with Patreon, with lower fees and more flexibility with your own domain and branding #
— my interest in ephemeral tweets is already fleeting via @garbageday #
— “If we do not have the capacity to distinguish what’s true from what’s false, then by definition the marketplace of ideas doesn’t work.” #
— nonprofit streaming over-the-air broadcast TV, currently fighting for its life in court with the EFF’s help via @ironicsans #
— so much of science is astonishing, but rarely taught in a way that conveys it via @textfiles #
— browser-based real-time video rotoscoping with machine learning via @runwayml #
— for years, the requirement for news sites to use AMP to appear in top stories was a flagrant example of their monopoly power #
