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January 31, 2021
— correction: there was a pilot that aired, but four seasons weren’t made via MetaFilter #
— Zeynep Tufekci looks back at what we knew and didn’t yet know in January 2020 #
— absurdly detailed miniature house, don’t miss the needlepoint rugs #
— during the reporting process, the same woman started defaming the writer, her husband, and editor #
January 30, 2021
— hypnotic puzzle game made from NASA imagery, best played full-screen #
January 28, 2021
— a collection of open source VR-enabled shader worlds via @JureTriglav #
January 27, 2021
— assisted by Jim Browning, who made his own video on finding the guy #
January 26, 2021
— interesting look at 30-year-old data recovery #
January 25, 2021
— Signal’s exploding in popularity after WhatsApp’s fumble, but very vulnerable to abuse #
— starting to address an obvious gap in their reporting tools #
— one trader turned $53k into more than $11 million, while short-sellers lost $1.6 billion in a day #
January 22, 2021
— r/WallStreetBets pushed the stock to an all-time high, making it the most actively-traded U.S. company for a time #
— this series blew up pretty quickly #
— they seem determined to repeat the mistakes made by social platforms before them via Caitlin Dewey #
January 21, 2021
— they resolved it by installing an older pirated version via MetaFilter #
— record, edit, and playback layers of 3D captured video in augmented reality via @thorikawa #
— Facebook pushed political groups to Trump voters most often, 25% of the top 100 recommended groups #
— Chrome removed FTP support just this week #
— puppet a virtual character with your webcam, supports P2P calling and uploading your own model via @anildash #
January 20, 2021
— highlights from Gab and Telegram; Ron Watkins called it quits too #
— the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history finished writing it the night of the attack on Congress #
— a historic moment in a period of multiple national crises, marking an end to the worst presidency in American history #
January 19, 2021
— compete with others to convince an AI you’re the best artist #
— lovely landing page for Bruno Simon’s new course, who made one of my favorite homepages ever #
January 18, 2021
— add !objectionbot to any Reddit comment chain, the results may be NSFW via @danhon #
— Bill quit releasing new music and videos in March 2019, but he’s finally back #
January 17, 2021
— ProPublica’s interactive timeline of over 500 POV videos, with highlights and a breakdown of how/why they made it #
January 15, 2021
— Ryan Broderick on the rapid descent from Minions memes to QAnon for one 1.6M follower Facebook page #
— they’re looking for volunteers to help transcribe the source code #
— mostly an archival project preserving the hundreds of fan-created faces #
— gripping on-the-ground reporting from a war correspondent that previously covered Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan #
January 14, 2021
— a clear disparity that grows when comparing peaceful protests via @loisbeckett #
— 3D printed enclosures that are like Computer Space meets the original iMac #
— 66% of the House GOP tried to overturn election results with no evidence and no accountability #
January 13, 2021
— now that it’s public domain, Brian Feldman rounded up some Gatsby remixes #
— for the 200th episode, Hrishikesh talks to the legendary singer-songwriter about duetting with his 22-year-old self #
January 12, 2021
— Jennifer Daniel writes about how the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee used zero-width joiners to ship new emoji for 2021 #
— another delightful example of the creativity enabled by TikTok’s duet feature #
— you can play with more variations in their OpenAI’s announcement post from last week #
— inspired by Simone Giertz’s teeth wall via MetaFilter #
— Archive Team grabbed 56 terabytes of public data from Parler in its last day online, including EXIF metadata #
— NYT’s visual investigation into the insurrection at the Capitol via Kottke #
January 8, 2021
— they rejected the app and will remove it from the App Store if they can’t comply #
January 5, 2021
— reflecting on working with one of his heroes on “Phantoms” and “Police Myself” #
— after ten months, Alec Robbins wrapped his absurdist NSFW meta-comic about his very real wife, Betty Boop via Garbage Day #
— finally, a neural network that can create illustrations of Pikachu wearing a Christmas sweater and drinking a latte #
