First “time crystal” built using Google’s quantum computer
— the paper’s completely incomprehensible to me, but it all sounds suitably sci-fi #RP-FX, the Reese’s Puffs drum machine
— printed on the back of cereal boxes, make beats with cereal and an AR web app #World Record Domino Robot
— I love how Mark Rober and friends perform remarkable feats of engineering for delightfully silly ends #Highlights from Annapurna Interactive’s game showcase
— so many great games, I’m most excited for the Outer Wilds expansion, Stray, and Storyteller #How furries are making VR actually worth visiting
— Coopertom is continually doing something great in VRChat #Discord adds threads
— badly needed, but Slack’s implementation feels far more frictionless and natural #Natsukashii, a nostalgic tile drawing tool
— made for the TIC-80 fantasy computer; F6 to disable the CRT effect, K to corrupt via @Polyducks #VICE talks to the Parkland shooting survivor whose QAnon dad thinks it was a hoax
— another family torn apart by the conspiracy cult #Sun, Sand, and Spaghetti
— the Dominican tradition of empaguetadas, which I first learned about from Desus & Mero #Space Invaders meets Kubernetes
— elaborate satirical project to emulate an 8088 microprocessor with cloud microservices at 1/2000ths its original speed #Designing 2D graphics in the Japanese videogame industry
— deep dive into the tools used by Japanese game artists in the ’80s and ’90s #Zeynep Tufekci on the U.S. dysfunction hindering response to the delta variant
— not just politicization and anti-vaccine sentiment, but slow FDA approval and confused CDC guidance #Connoisseur CAPTCHA
— try to guess the difference between art priced under $25 and over $4,000 on eBay via b3ta #Researchers show malware can be hidden in neural network models
— undetectable by current systems, the network continues to function normally with up to half of neurons affected #Brewster Kahle on the Internet Archive turning 25
— “We may not have achieved Universal Access to All Knowledge yet, but we still can.” #The inevitable weaponization of app data is here
— a Substack newsletter outed a priest using location data tying him to Grindr and gay bars, leading to his resignation via Nelson Minar #Serial swatter who caused death of QWK packet creator gets five years in prison
— Jason Scott gives more context about Mark Herring’s contributions to BBS history #Metafilter goes deep on Bo Burnham’s Inside
— intensely-annotated post about every aspect of the “one-man/one-room pandemic comedy masterpiece” #DeepMind releasing structures for almost every sequenced protein
— “today we’re sharing high-quality predictions for the shape of every single protein in the human body” #Sonic Half-Remembered
— musician tries to recreate the Sonic the Hedgehog soundtrack from memory 30 years later via Web Curios #WSJ investigation into the TikTok algorithm
— good demo of how it can send you down extremely specific rabbit holes #Coconut Kitty and the complexities of sex workers editing themselves to look underage
— critics allege Diana Deets is “pedobaiting,” she says it’s for privacy and a form of performance art #Old Vidme embeds turn into porn after domain sale
— waiting for dead video sites like Viddler, LiveLeak, and blip.tv to meet the same fate #Twitch streamers make millions promoting shady crypto gambling
— lucrative sponsorship deals from crypto casinos let them quietly play with free house money #Ars Technica previews Playdate
— Engadget, The Verge, and Eurogamer also previewed the little handheld, with preorders opening next Thursday #Zendaya Is Chani
You ever have an idea that you can’t get out of your head, so you have to do it? Happens to me all the time.
So I recut the new Dune trailer with a new soundtrack. Apologies to everyone involved.