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December 31, 2023
— browser add-on for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari to block websites and entire domains in Google, Bing, and other search engines via jwz #
— with decentralization and fragmented platforms, Anil Dash is optimistic for a revival of the personal, human web #
December 27, 2023
— the suit goes beyond copyright claims to accuse Bing of damaging their brand with hallucinated citations #
— like the Bloomberg Jealousy List, their staff picks the best global tech stories they wish they’d written this year #
December 23, 2023
— estimating the number of YouTube videos and other metadata from random sampling of video IDs #
December 22, 2023
— Erin Kissane breaks down the benefits, risks, and risk mitigations of Threads joining the fediverse #
December 21, 2023
— Hamish McKenzie’s letter makes it clear they’re not only committed to platforming bigotry, but funding and profiting from it #
December 20, 2023
— love how they frame each comparison with human scale in the middle, with you in between a single DNA strand and the Sun via Good Internet #
— what does this mean for Common Crawl, the source that the LAION datasets were derived from? #
December 19, 2023
— replaces ridiculous thumbnails with an image from the video, open-source and available for Firefox #
— NYT investigation into a Chinese human trafficking operation powering “pig butchering” confidence scams via @kevincollier #
— after 95 years of copyright, the earliest version of Mickey Mouse will enter the public domain on January 1 while remaining trademarked #
— 404 Media’s Jason Koebler digs into yet another flood of generative AI chum content and the people trying to track it #
December 15, 2023
— if it’s too easy, try it on expert via b3ta #
— fascinating inside baseball breaking down the CPMs and conflicting incentive structures for each short-form video platform #
— Decoder Ring’s podcast version of this story is also great via b3ta #
— probably for the best since they’ve allowed it to become a major source of newsgroup spam #
December 14, 2023
— Glenn Fleishman interviewed the original team, among others, for this beautifully-designed history of the Web 2.0 app via @glennf #
December 12, 2023
— a preserved collection of thousands of funny, weird, and notable tweets, some deleted and reconstructed from screenshots #
— a special series from The Verge with contributions from Sarah Jeong, Zoe Schiffer, Nilay Patel, and an archive of thousands of Good Tweets #
December 11, 2023
— Alan Becker’s interstellar follow-up to Animation vs. Math #
— the latest meme art stunt from Sunday Nobody #
— “How could so many people feel so thoroughly unrepresented by an industry that purports to give voice to the voiceless?” #
— The Pudding’s picks for the best visual and data-driven stories of the year #
— meditative video about a simple technique for spotlighting motion in video from Posy via pad26.aweb.page #
— one of the greatest and weirdest holiday TV specials ever, made by a cast and crew of oddball geniuses #
December 7, 2023
— “a cooperative online walker-talker” from the creators of Untitled Goose Game #
— the classic physics puzzler is getting a sequel 15 years after the original via The Verge #
— his annual post is always an interesting and entertaining collection of facts and discoveries via MetaFilter #
— relies on people seeing persistent afterimages/tracers, try increasing YouTube playback speed to 2x to see them via Medium #
December 6, 2023
— they claim their most powerful model beats GPT-4 in most benchmarks, but it won’t be available until next year #
— a wholesome Twitter thread these days feels like a glimmer of light from a dying star #
December 5, 2023
— despite leaking early on X/Twitter, it broke YouTube records for most views in 24 hours for a non-music video #
— an open-source tool for growing 3D procedural plants in the browser with nodes #
— Hbomberguy’s excellent four-hour exposé on video essayists passing off others’ work as their own #
November 30, 2023
— tldraw’s latest experiment generates images as you draw on a canvas in real-time #
— a collection of 4,210 classic 88×31 buttons, a standard started by the Netscape Now! campaign in 1996 via Michael Eades #
November 29, 2023
— they plan to resume publishing right away #
November 27, 2023
— test your prompt injection skills in this ridiculous project from BRAIN, the internet weirdos behind GEN-Z-SPAN #
November 24, 2023
— control two games of Breakout at once using a popup browser window #
— Louie Zong made a soundtrack for a fictional TV special in the style of early ’70s Vince Guaraldi #
November 22, 2023
— free browser-based tool to convert SVG to a raytraced scene via @pissang1 #
— with little fanfare, Andrew Plotkin uploaded a trove of newly-discovered source code for various 1980s computers to GitHub #
— make a deal with the devil in this clever game that won this year’s Interactive Fiction Comp #
November 20, 2023
— Karen Hao and Charlie Warzel’s deeply-reported piece about the events leading up to this weekend’s drama; paywall-free link #
November 17, 2023
— the game’s free on Steam right now for PC/Mac with new maps, restored content, and… Too Much Coffee Man!? #
— kudos to Matt Mullenweg for talking openly about these changes, and continuing to maintain it while avoiding layoffs #
— Garbage Day’s Ryan Broderick digs into what seems to be a moral panic inflamed by the media #
— Linus Åkesson created each instrument, wrote all the software, and plays every part #
