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March 31, 2021
— I love this supportive little ghost #
March 30, 2021
— Space Jam mashed up with Hamilton shouldn’t work this well, but it does #
— a social network for imaginary friends like Gloop, Dracula CEO, and Tears for Fears #
— “Tested on Netscape 1.1 through 4 on a Mac SE/30” via Kottke #
— fun to see her creative process and missteps along the way #
March 29, 2021
— the flipside of his Chipophone project, turning an organ into an 8-bit synthesizer via Kottke #
March 26, 2021
— they found the source of the avatar, bafflingly set as the default webcam software for some Dell computers in the late 2000s #
— visualize your Google Search history as poetry or a wall of questions via Caitlin Dewey #
March 25, 2021
— “nude” and “natural” mostly describe light skin tones, while darker shades are named after objects #
March 24, 2021
— Casey Newton talks to 14 and current Medium employees about their unionization attempt, editorial layoffs, and eternal pivot #
— generate one of these daily for 5,000 days and sell a token with some metadata pointing to a collage for $69M #
March 23, 2021
— during the pandemic, the courts were tasked with balancing transparency, accessibility, and privacy via Platformer #
— Taylor Lorenz digs into what happened to the gonzo journalism YouTube series and how its creator was fired #
March 22, 2021
— “I will briefly summarize the plot of Back to the Future II for you” is a sure-fire winner #
— across thousands of incidents in nine major cities, police escalated conflicts with an aggressive militarized response #
— a book series about internet subcultures, first one by Ana Valens on Tumblr porn is out now via theatlantic.com #
— the most balanced explanation I’ve seen of the potential value of NFTs, Ethereum’s “eye-watering energy use,” and sustainable alternatives #
March 19, 2021
— regional balkanization, paywalls and walled gardens, and the potential end of Section 230 via Caitlin Dewey #
— the black market of playlist payola and stream bots via Caitlin Dewey #
— disable all cookies, try to get a sub-30 second time #
— a short text adventure you play in your file browser via Hacker News #
— jaw-dropping Pokemon-lite videogame in an OpenType font, with a postmortem and tutorial for making your own font game via Hacker News #
March 18, 2021
— English-only for now, but just tested and this works surprisingly well for clearly-spoken speech #
— don’t miss the video of it in action #
— hand-stitched CMYK embroidered swatchbook laboriously made with 219,647 stitches #
— I continue to believe cryptoart is one of the most pointless and wasteful trends in modern history #
— “lions pretend to be really cool and awesome and stuff, but really, they’re just assholes like most cats” via @bookymargoof #
March 17, 2021
— from “yellow peril” to “model minority” to the “Chinese virus” #
— “If we’re not challenging and educating our kids about racism, we leave them at risk of perpetuating it” #
— also: Vox covered the policing debate among members of Asian-American communities #
— many go unreported because of language/cultural barriers and lack of trust in law enforcement #
— free one-hour interactive training, I signed up for next month via Kottke #
— from policy reform and legal defense funds to LGBTQ and gender-based orgs #
— new report from Stop AAPI Hate, a reporting center for anti-Asian hate incidents, which escalated during the pandemic #
March 16, 2021
— an entertaining and informative survey of immunizations in TV and film #
— welcome to the world of meme chess, popularized by grandmaster/livestreamer Hikaru Nakamura #
March 15, 2021
— extremely disturbing, and yet another argument for never using SMS for auth #
— add echo, choppiness, noise, crying babies, and more to your microphone audio to get out of terrible meetings #
— change settings in the Start menu #
March 14, 2021
— winner of the second Incremental Game Jam #
March 12, 2021
— one from its original founder, and a reboot created by two former team members via Caitlin Dewey #
— playful demo of creative integrations for web video #
— a browser-based clone of Kenney’s brilliant KenShape for Windows/Linux via b3ta #
— parallelized to run a thousand iterations on Google Colab in 40 seconds #
— art, photos, and words from U.S. teens on a year of pandemic, protest, and social isolation #
March 11, 2021
— Terry Cavanagh’s Flash-based kitty MMO now fully works embedded in a tweet on desktop #
— followup from the NYT on the fallout from Reply All’s reporting on Bon Appetit via Today in Tabs #
— despite their obvious waste and uselessness, NFTs will persist as long as crypto-whales keep dropping life-changing sums on artists #
— Tig Notaro, Issa Rae, Jenny Holzer, Aaron Sorkin, Phoebe Bridgers, and many more #
