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August 12, 2020
— some of the many people laid off and looking for new opportunities #
— Amit Gupta and James Yu are making a creative writing assistant with GPT-3 #
— a three-inch cable ripped through 100 feet of the reflector dish #
— major cuts as their browser share declines and lucrative Google contract expires #
— “an addiction to easy answers combined with a wholesale cultural resistance to any kind of complexity” #
— next-gen Pong will melt your GPU #
August 10, 2020
— researchers found more than 1,000 words or phrases that incorrectly trigger Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Google devices #
— watch YouTube videos with under 500 views with others via arstechnica.com #
— animated by Native American artist Brent Learned for the first Native American band to achieve a top 5 Billboard single via MetaFilter #
— MSCHF’s latest drop is Masterclass class summaries in the style of WikiHow #
— swipe through popular videos on Twitter #
August 8, 2020
— 18-month-long Twitter thread follows the full development of an indie video game #
August 7, 2020
— reassigning or displacing 23 postal service executives via a memo buried on a Friday #
— happy friday, everyone via @garbageday #
— absurdist text-only fantasy baseball idle game with a thriving fan community #
— a kick in the teeth to indie theaters and filmmakers already suffering through a pandemic #
— ignore the clickbait headline #
— visualizing the complex tradeoffs in redistricting, a kludgy alternative to proportional representation #
August 6, 2020
— this will undoubtedly face legal challenges, and needs to die in court #
— three talented musicians find the rhythm in machine-generated speech #
— Derek Yu explains what guided his design choices for the sequel #
— five white male justices affirmed, with the sole female and Black person on the court dissenting #
— Facebook fired an engineer who complained internally #
— see also: the rollercoaster that takes 3,000 in-game years to ride #
— it was easier to rename MARCH1 and SEPT1 than wait for Microsoft to allow users to disable autoformatting via Kottke #
— even after weeks of negotiations, their new contracts would still pay less than their white counterparts #
— the creators of Steven Universe and She-Ra reflect on queer representation in animation #
— though unlikely to be enacted, the White House’s proposed “Clean Network” would be akin to a new Great Firewall #
August 5, 2020
— unlike TikTok, you can’t download videos, they’re capped at 15 seconds, and the feed’s buried in a tab #
— the author wrote only the title and intro for each post, the AI wrote the rest #
— expanding on his popular Twitter thread; related: Charlie Warzel interviewed him about it for the NYT #
— Eugene Wei on how algorithms can form interest graphs at unprecedented scale without following anyone #
— incredible guitarist and songwriter, she’s a great Instagram follow #
August 3, 2020
— Lawfare looks at the legality of the White House’s order for ByteDance to divest via Nelson Minar #
— Duncan Robson compiled all his face-aligned rotating movie posters into a single video #
— singing a song about parenting while parenting via MetaFilter #
— needless to say, TikTok creators and fans are freaking out #
— that feels about right #
— Ed Yong’s cover story for The Atlantic is a deep dive into the U.S.’s catastrophic pandemic response #
July 31, 2020
— animated music video about “two autonomous rental cars finding love on the way across state lines after a climate collapse” via Web Curios #
— Cousin Greg from HBO’s Succession made a pop-punk pandemic anthem #
— my favorite linktastic newsletter goes on break because Imperica, its publisher, shut down today #
— search engine for a community-submitted collection of public Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides via Web Curios #
— convert Google Meet into a Space Invaders knockoff with your coworkers as the aliens #
— first night of protesting in weeks that wasn’t met with a wildly disproportionate and violent police response #
— $9 gets you virtually everything Double Fine’s ever made or published #
