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October 12, 2021
— conspiratorially obsessive discourse over mundane subjects going viral, a fender bender or a girl surprising her boyfriend #
— exploiting lax security for a senior prank, followed by a debrief with IT to fix the issues they discovered #
— the chat tool can invert power structures by letting employees speak candidly and organize internally #
October 11, 2021
— until ordered to stop in a federal court, Rutherford County locked up children in almost half of cases, compared to the state average of 5% #
— flashbacks to the Lonely Island; Rebecca Alter profiled the online comedy trio for Vulture in July #
— “You can’t do a carbon offset for bigotry” #
— Sarah Marshall will continue the podcast with special guests via @yourewrongabout #
— they merged with ResidualVM, adding support for Grim Fandango, The Longest Journey, Escape from Monkey Island, and Myst 3 Exile #
— Neal Agarwal made a Chrome plugin for MSCHF that deep fries every page #
October 8, 2021
— just launched, Kino Lorber made hundreds of cult movies available for free on the web, iOS, Roku, AppleTV, etc #
— play Doom with text commands on Twitter via b3ta #
— Clive Thompson made a little utility to look at literary styles by stripping out everything except punctuation via MetaFilter #
October 7, 2021
— a delightful game about procrastination with a unique narrator, enabled by an equally unique authoring tool #
— searching for the not-so-stablecoin’s reserves inexplicably leads to a Mighty Ducks child actor and the co-creator of Inspector Gadget #
October 6, 2021
— Noelle Stevenson’s new comic Substack is off to a good start #
— the first posthumous episode, made with the help of the Lennon estate using unreleased interviews and demos #
— 90% of their revenue came from a contract with AT&T-owned TV platforms, including DirecTV #
— source code repos, creator payouts, encrypted passwords, mobile/console/desktop apps, and internal/unreleased tools #
October 5, 2021
— a wild ride about an author who gave a kidney, another author who drew inspiration from it, and the ensuing legal drama #
— this doesn’t paint a pretty picture of leadership under Ryan Carson, the online coding school’s founder/CEO #
— not sure what’s preventing them from amending their original snarky takedowns, but it’s a nice thought exercise #
— is it even a podcast if I can’t listen to it in my podcast player? i guess a lot can change in two years #
October 4, 2021
— interesting to see the immediate impact on other social networks #
— removed BGP routes locked out FB employees from offices, internal tools, and their own VPN, plus every site that uses FB auth #
— “Facebook has set up a system of incentives that is pulling people apart” #
— “Video Games and More” was like Twitch on TV, with kids calling in to talk to a 12-year-old gamer instead of spamming chat via Cal Henderson #
— “being nostalgic for being in the early-2010s being nostalgic for the 90s” #
— WaPo investigation based on 12M leaked documents reveal how the global elite shield their riches in international tax havens, including in the U.S. #
October 1, 2021
— absurd commitment to the gag; less than $25k left to hit $1 million raised #
— embarrassed to admit I wrote every post like this when I was a Cool Teen in the BBS era via b3ta #
September 29, 2021
— a grim but useful addition #
September 28, 2021
— a delightful short point-and-click adventure; hints available in the Metafilter thread via MetaFilter #
September 27, 2021
— bought by the same company who acquired Genius two weeks ago #
— “a weapon against the open web, against self-actualization, and against democracy” #
— PTA’s latest is a coming-of-age story set in 1970s San Fernando Valley with impeccable attention to detail #
— Frank Force’s tiny lightweight 2D game engine with WebGL rendering and impressive performance #
— “I don’t want to bleed out empathy, a virtue I cherish. But I’m angry.” #
— one of my favorite people on TikTok #
— love seeing SmugMug’s commitment to the Flickr Commons project in the form of a new nonprofit #
— how a desperate need for control over our lives transforms into self-sabotage via @annehelen #
— I’ve experienced this conflict myself, as a conversational overlapper working with a turn-taker #
— a “growing resource of emotional and practical guidance for creative people” with over 1,100 interviews, essays, and guides via @brandonstosuy #
September 22, 2021
— with the shift to online apps, educators report students are increasingly confused by the idea of a local filesystem with nested files and folders #
September 21, 2021
— Demi Adejuyigbe’s sixth and final September 21 video raised over $180k for three charities in an hour #
September 20, 2021
— if you’re running iOS 15, install this Safari extension to automatically redirect AMP links #
September 17, 2021
— interactive tiny moments from classic games, using an emulator save state and a limited slice of the ROM via Belong.io #
— reported from leaked documents, WSJ’s damning series on Facebook’s failure to act on internal reports of social harm #
September 16, 2021
— 50 Years of Text Games on a pioneering Doom-inspired audio game for the visually impaired #
September 14, 2021
— he’s doing Steamboat Willie next; CW: flashing images #
