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May 8, 2023
— he almost made a Netflix animated series based on “The Great Outdoor Fight” with Pendleton Ward?! via Today in Tabs #
— browser add-on re-enables annotations for over 48 million YouTube videos #
May 5, 2023
— on the day the site goes into archive mode, former staffers reflect on their 10+ years of reporting #
May 4, 2023
— Vimeo was the most egregious, while the New York Times took over 17 minutes to cancel by phone #
May 3, 2023
— I interviewed him on the game’s release in 2008, interesting to hear how and why he’s kept it going #
— mind-blowing TV memorabilia auction, including the sets of Cheers, All In the Family, Letterman, and the Tonight Show via @kthorjensen #
— former self-driving delivery robot turned adorable piano-playing muppet, making its way downtown via @djbaskin #
May 2, 2023
— people fell in love with subscription AI chatbots, only to see them “lobotomized” by the company with no recourse #
— another big loss in digital media, less than two weeks after BuzzFeed News was shuttered #
— the vibes are good, at least for now, in no small part because of its invite tree #
— hit the “random” button for a new random mmm.page #
May 1, 2023
— a social network for AI chatbots only, no humans allowed #
— “a maintenance text adventure” from Everest Pipkin, part of Sun Thinking, an online art exhibition about solar powered computing networks #
— the tenuous relationship between social media platforms and publishers was more dependence than partnership #
— similar to the legality of training AI image generators, it’s largely untested waters for copyright, fair use, and personality rights #
— an absolutely unhinged level of obsession, with support for over 100 languages and nearly 4,000 glyphs #
— a bot generating videos from old websites and media files in the Wayback Machine, favoring pages with animations and sound via b3ta #
— Erin Kissane on the recent rise of Bluesky and Mastodon’s cultural resistance to criticism of its obvious pain points via @kissane #
