Skip to content
August 26, 2020
— most companies are acclimating to a world without physical conferences, event sponsorship, and business travel #
— surprising nobody, the 17-year-old shooter idolized police and was front row at a Trump rally in January via @andymcmillan #
— CNN and NYT are reporting the CDC was pressured by the Trump administration #
— don’t miss the reveal at the end #
— rather than fix underlying issues with late mail sorting, he just forced trucks to deliver less mail via @themail #
— in his excellent newsletter, Marcin Wichary wrote about the acquisition and his final interview with Peter Tytell #
— TJ Hughes just announced his delightful upcoming food videogame will be published by Panic, and got a new trailer and website #
August 25, 2020
— part one of a series of editorials on “the damage this president has caused and the danger he would pose in a second term” via mailchi.mp #
— extended quarantine affects each of us differently via @eprosenthal #
— the first edition of The Mail newsletter is an impassioned love letter to the USPS #
— “The Fraternal Order of Police has told us candidly what they are—that they are not a union, but a fraternity. A brotherhood. We ought to believe them.” via @eveewing #
— magical text transforms with two.js via @maxbittker #
— Tamika Palmer talks to Ta-Nehisi Coates via @samitsarkar #
— over 20,000 articles and 200,000 edits via @simonw #
— guest edited by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair’s special issue on racism and police violence in America, and the uprising against it #
August 23, 2020
— “the brain is a very bad computer, consciousness is a very bad idea” #
— normal food truck stuff from Worthikids #
— like Goodfellas, but with 10-year-olds #
August 22, 2020
— thousands of obscure niche channels, including conspiracy and far-right content #
— without any evidence of wrongdoing, it’s a gross abuse of power that would seriously impact countless young creators #
— the 31-minute Half-Life: Alyx run is fun to watch as he crawls, runs, and jumps around to clip through walls #
August 21, 2020
— his self-reflection and nuanced understanding of his beat is why Casey’s one of my favorite journalists, period #
— “This week, for the first time in more than two months, all our major COVID-19 metrics improved at the same time.” #
— Ars Technica’s Esther Schindler looks back at the value and influence of local computer clubs via @textfiles #
August 20, 2020
— Defunctland’s full-length documentary about Halyx, Disney’s forgotten 1980s Star Wars-inspired space-rock band via MetaFilter #
— the Melbourne obelisk stemmed from a typo in OpenStreetMap specifying a building with 212 stories instead of two #
— Blue Delliquanti’s brilliant queer post-singularity comic about robots, family, and love #
August 19, 2020
— finally asked directly about the conspiracy, he blithely equated the “radical left” to a Satanic cult of pedophiles and cannibals #
— this channel started out making sharp knives from strange ingredients, and now devolved into the quieter Japanese cousin to HowToBasic via @Randwiches #
— 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 #
