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February 19, 2021
February 18, 2021
— they removed a staggering 1.3 billion fake accounts in the last quarter of 2020 #
— my new project got its first press; see also: Wired interview #
February 17, 2021
— I can’t believe I’m siding with Facebook on any issue, but forcing platforms to pay publishers for links to their sites is just stupid #
— the Test Kitchen series inspired The Nod co-host Eric Eddings to call them out for hypocrisy; see PJ Vogt’s statement #
— nuanced take from Liz Spiers about Slate Star Codex, tech journalism, and negativity bias via Today in Tabs #
February 16, 2021
— reminds me of the original version of Byte, before it pivoted into Vine 2.0 #
February 12, 2021
— the influencers are unionizing #
February 11, 2021
— trailers for 460 independent games accepted into this year’s Independent Games Festival via @grapefrukt #
— a video-based location guessing game #
— Jesselyn Cook talks to nine children of QAnon believers from age 19 to 46 in seven states #
— web devs are building aggregators to collect useful information from dozens of sites #
— someone used Teamviewer to remotely access a water treatment system and tried to poison it, but failed #
February 10, 2021
— replacing private npm/PyPI/RubyGem dependencies with malicious public ones using the same name #
— inspired by Emily Yoon’s story about a Korean ZIP utility #
— clever grid-based puzzle platformer with chess pieces via b3ta #
— for people missing offices, try the “Unenthusiastic Colleagues Who Can’t Remember Your Name” version via b3ta #
— a minimalist visual search engine built on deep learning via @clizzin #
— 20% of all requests were for one photo, starting when India banned TikTok via @lmatsakis #
— a web-based tool allowing a group of people to draw shapes with GPS, inspired by a conversation with Yo-Yo Ma via creativeapplications.net #
— I’m not nostalgic for offices, I just miss a change of scenery for working and spending time with people outside my house via Nick Heer #
— he’ll likely be acquitted in his second impeachment, but at least we won’t have to see his fascistic tweets anymore #
— Epic’s upcoming browser-based, cloud-streamed tool to craft highly-realistic 3D human faces, backed by Unreal Engine via The Verge #
February 9, 2021
— he later plays a Beatles song, an even safer bet to trigger automated content blocking #
— a micro-community expressing messages of grief, loss, and support; CW: suicide #
— I helped with editing/production on Ami’s new 350-card trivia game that just launched on Kickstarter #
February 8, 2021
— incredible analysis from The Pudding of the characteristics of live vs. studio recordings #
— experts warn the Democrats’ proposed Section 230 reform bill could have major side effects and devastate the internet #
February 7, 2021
— masks that look like you’re wearing masks wrong, but you’re actually wearing it right #
February 5, 2021
— reconstructed from the original source samples, smooth as silk via @bnet #
— I’m a fan of weird internet and artists getting paid, but it all seems kind of silly and unsustainable #
— the powerful first part of a four-part series from Sruthi Pinnamaneni #
— “People can’t get real information… They restored the internet but not the television.” #
— even more on her TikTok #
— “not everyone understands your commentary and will share your jokes as fact” #
February 3, 2021
— The Intercept obtained millions of leaked police files detailing the oppressive surveillance of the Uyghur people #
— a short comic of a true story; watch the quartet perform “Audrey” live in this 1954 short by photographer Gjon Mili #
February 2, 2021
— collaboratively written by 1,500 editors via The Verge #
— breaking: the new CEO’s favorite band is Dave Matthews Band #
— Times examination of how lies about election fraud spread in the 77 days between election and inauguration via Nelson Minar #
— this work should be the responsibility of federal public health agencies, and they’re finally meeting the challenge via Kottke #
— drive a procedurally-generated train in an 8-bit PICO-8 world via @Matt_Muir #
— John Herrman on WallStreetBets and The_Donald; “a potent mixture of nihilism, obfuscating humor and a clear common goal” via Platformer #
— listen to a random forest via news.avclub.com #
— ASMR for the AFOL set #
February 1, 2021
— originally running on Quibi, a delightful series compiled here as a YouTube bootleg #
— an internal report from August found 70% of top civic groups too toxic to recommend #
— organized collection of graphic design-related items available in the Internet Archive via @textfiles #
