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April 27, 2021
— the company banned societal/political discussions at work, to the surprise and dismay of its employees #
— reproducing the Angelfire look with SVG’s noise, color cycling, and blending features #
April 26, 2021
— charming Raspberry Pi project to send and receive Telegram messages to grandma #
— the show will remain free, with Roman Mars and his team developing new shows for Stitcher #
April 25, 2021
— Kaitlin Tiffany interviewed me, Jason Scott, Maciej Ceglowski, and others about Yahoo’s casual destruction of internet history #
— Aaron Krolik and Kashmir Hill dig into the relationship between gripe sites and reputation-management services #
April 24, 2021
— these pack an emotional punch #
— who owns the rights to a link to a photo of a print of a screenshot of a photo #
April 23, 2021
— like Tetris meets Snake via b3ta #
— two GPT-3 bots try to find a time to meet up via Web Curios #
— 77% efficacy over 12 months compared to current vaccines that only prevent 29% of severe cases #
— in the past, human moderators have suppressed videos based on attractiveness and political content #
April 22, 2021
— iOS app to make extremely long cats with augmented reality #
— completely new to me, a pioneering work of interactive fiction on the WELL that predates games like Her Story by 30 years #
— last year, I wrote about why I love these and their long history online #
April 21, 2021
— “the average social media manager has very little power over any of the decisions but all of the consequences” via twitter.com #
— I expect these monetization tools will be a hit for Dan Bongino, Ben Shapiro, and their other biggest pages #
— offshore tax evasion, cryptocurrency, and other methods allow the richest 1% to hide 20% of their income #
— like backdoor speakeasies, they only appear if you’re in certain countries or on a VPN #
— they’re nearly one-third of all new cases worldwide, with nearly 300k yesterday #
April 20, 2021
— not justice, but a rare moment of accountability after a year of protests #
— they sold a device to monitor and repair the notoriously finicky hardware and ended up in court #
— amazing TouchDesigner mod to play archival or custom Jeopardy! games with friends over Zoom, get it before it’s C&Ded #
April 19, 2021
— pretty useful when it’s not completely hallucinating answers #
April 17, 2021
— Pippin Barr’s collection of “hello world” anti-games in 14 engines #
April 16, 2021
— generate photorealistic imagery from Minecraft worlds #
— a global zoomable video of 37 years of satellite imagery #
April 15, 2021
— VICE interviewed virtually everyone involved with Vanessa Carlton’s 2002 hit, including Terry Crews #
April 14, 2021
— creepy authoritarian surveillance just got more dystopian #
— did Apple require this change or is this Discord’s attempt to get their 12+ rating back? #
— every homepage should have a theme song #
— the only thing better than Brian David Gilbert is four Brian David Gilberts #
April 13, 2021
— the risk is so absurdly small, it seems inevitable that many more people die as a result of halting distribution via FlowingData #
— the first issue of his new Galaxy Brain newsletter on the attention economy #
— “paying for the right to do wrong” via jwz #
— yet another racist killing of an unarmed black man, 15 miles from where George Floyd was killed #
April 12, 2021
— Michael Reeves is like the edgelord version of Simone Giertz via MetaFilter #
— it originated as a commentary on NFTs, but evolved beyond the creator’s expectations via @lazerwalker #
— they prioritized enforcement for rich countries and their adversaries, while internal reports about abuse elsewhere languished for months #
April 11, 2021
— big scoops in here including Daniel Lavery’s deal, Charlie Warzel leaving the NYT, the Sidechannel Discord, and a Gawker revival?! #
— a simple question from Joanne McNeil sent me on a rabbit hole through Usenet, listservs, and the Internet Archive #
— every link is clickable, lose yourself in cursed computer lore #
— “I was in a position to keep a flame burning, to keep a torch lit.” #
April 9, 2021
— watch the behind-the-scenes video to see the rolling walkways in more detail via @cabel #
— “Black Lives Matter” and “Black power” were blocked, but “white lives matter” and “white power” were allowed #
April 8, 2021
— this entire story is a sad sandwich #
— for over a decade, My Brother, My Brother and Me turned its silliest questions into comedy gold #
April 7, 2021
— Republicans are working overtime to make sure fewer people can vote to regain control via Nelson Minar #
