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July 14, 2021
— Uyghur poet Tahir H. Izgil shares the story of escaping China with his family #
— he used Facebook’s own analytics tool to show, day after day, how right-wing pages dominate engagement #
— Leigh Alexander is prompting GPT-J-6B to generate creepy stories with images by BigSleep #
— Garbage Day on the automated systems and financial incentives perpetuating an endless cycle of outrage #
July 13, 2021
— browser vendors and ad-tech engineers face off in a bitter geeky battle over new privacy standards #
— face-aligning and averaging Noah Kalina’s last 7,777 daily photos into a 130-second video #
— he does great breakdowns of each video on his channel #
— possibly because it’s storing source data in Celsius and rounding, though this is fixed in iOS 15 #
— short free browser game that won last year’s GMTK Jam via newsletter.gamediscover.co #
— social dialects emerge from shared digital spaces #
July 12, 2021
— like if PES worked solely with fiber via Web Curios #
— bypassing system-level security by running on a separate machine entirely #
— lovely short sci-fi story game made in Bitsy via @paarsec #
— arduous behind-the-scenes process post on how he automated the layout for his upcoming book #
— MSCHF is selling miniature replicas of overfunded hardware flops #
July 4, 2021
— astounding demo running entirely on a Commodore floppy drive with the Commodore 64 unplugged #
July 3, 2021
— Ronan Farrow and Jia Tolentino investigate for the New Yorker #
July 2, 2021
— Sarah Miller pens a painful postscript to her 2019 article on Miami real estate and climate change via MetaFilter #
— internal code generation, identity theft, and funds laundered through crypto #
— adding phrases like “Unreal Engine,” “Trending on Artstation,” and “award-winning” can generate better results #
July 1, 2021
— Luka Grafera’s incredibly detailed illustrated map, with giclée prints for sale #
— this would totally be a lawsuit if it happened now #
— Space Invaders was a smash hit in 1979, but finding these photos still surprised me #
— another example of police trying to abuse automated copyright takedowns to avoid public accountability #
June 29, 2021
— short stories about the things that bring us joy and the science behind them via MetaFilter #
— from @images_ai, which uses VQGAN+CLIP #
— Jan Diehm shares a story in The Pudding about hearing yourself represented with same-gender lyrics for the first time #
— from these charts, I learned that it’s really hot outside #
— powered by OpenAI, an evolution of AI code autocomplete tools like Tabnine and Codota #
June 25, 2021
— how have I never seen this 10-year-old web game or its sequel until today? #
— amusing story of one temperamental guy who cornered the market on Atari new-old stock via Caitlin Dewey #
— livestreamed “robot film” generated from YouTube’s least-viewed recently-uploaded videos #
— written and animated by Louie Zong, voiced by Griffin McElroy #
June 24, 2021
— for 13 years, her father’s controlled her life, including work, finances, and even forced birth control #
— when you’re done watching that, go find the Baby Geniuses fight scene on YouTube #
— after 25 years, Apple Daily shuttered after 500 police raided its HQ, froze its assets, and arrested its founder and directors #
— popular industrial channels aren’t factory workers documenting their labor, but largely cheap marketing for their employers #
— accounts designed to help working Americans save for retirement are being abused as tax loopholes for the ultra-rich #
June 23, 2021
— hours after courts approved his extradition to the U.S. for criminal tax evasion #
June 21, 2021
— the NYT spoke to 25 artists and writers about its influence; Joni released an EP of Blue outtakes/demos today #
June 18, 2021
— 2,400 CG artists were challenged to render a base animation, here’s the top 100 in a single video via @meandmybadself #
— Jimmy Maher digs through the vault of hard-to-emulate Apple CD-ROM multimedia #
June 17, 2021
— lovely web-based art game exploring an animated landscape and generating poetry via @mattdesl #
— try to hit the black ball, a new-to-me web game from 2016 via MetaFilter #
— search results can cause lasting damage even if charges were dropped via MetaFilter #
June 15, 2021
— interviews with nearly 200 current and former employees reveal high turnover, inadvertent firings, and racial inequities #
June 14, 2021
— Adult Swim put the first full episode online #
— like Where’s Waldo with emoji via Web Curios #
June 11, 2021
— brilliant interactive documentary about facial recognition algorithms trained on Flickr’s CC-licensed corpus #
