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May 17, 2021
— “I won’t tell you my account number” (clearly types in account number and “0000” PIN on keyboard) via @JonErlichman #
— learn more about Andrew Sillers’ Living GIFs, including Doom on AO3 #
May 14, 2021
— go get some delightful indie games with 100% of revenue going to their creators #
— solid explainer on the political dynamics behind Israel, Hamas, and the Palestinian Authority #
— you can read the full report #
— “They will rubber stamp more evictions, all the while using the tool of law to provide a veneer of integrity.” #
May 13, 2021
— related: Zeynep Tufekci on the long delay in accepting spread by aerosol transmission #
— over 250,000 rooms and 1,600 concurrent players, all running on a 386 and played via postal mail #
— don’t miss his interview with an online sex worker about their lessons learned: cash up-front and never use Paypal #
May 12, 2021
— processing game imagery using a network trained on cityscapes #
— I wonder when media sites will start doing this to prevent ad blockers via Belong.io #
— Charlie Warzel on memeified finance and politics as protest #
— friendly drag-and-drop quirky website builder via kickscondor.com #
— Laine Nooney on the history of computer-induced pain and the ways people tried to manage it #
— raises complex questions around authenticity and identity online #
May 7, 2021
— teen hackers in communist Czechoslovakia made and swapped illegal protest text games on bootleg cassettes #
— as always, an incredible year of indie games to seek out and play #
— StumbleUpon reborn, it immediately paid off for me with this laser bagpipe via Garbage Day #
May 6, 2021
— a tiny desk I never expected to see #
— Simone de Rochefort dives into the site’s history, current drama, and future #
— I never knew until today that it started as an offshoot of internet shock site Ogrish #
— 18 out of 22 million comments were fake, 7.7 million from a single 19-year-old college student #
May 4, 2021
— a stunt, but a good one via @sdw #
May 3, 2021
— incredible reporting from Casey Newton on the disastrous all-hands meeting that led to a third of the company quitting #
— the new company will be just called “Yahoo,” finally dropping the exclamation point #
May 1, 2021
— after a nine-month hiatus, Matt Muir’s link-laden newsletter is back and at its own domain #
— fictional Wikipedia entry about the first executable image of a human brain via Web Curios #
— Worthikids uses Blender to flawlessly mimic the feel of stop-motion animation #
