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September 30, 2024
— an Android phone hidden in the Mission is set to Shazam all audio 24/7 and post the roughly 120 songs/day it can identify #
— feature package on new ways religious believers are using new technology, from Muslim VR simulators to Buddhist monks on TikTok #
September 27, 2024
— Nick Heer on the ever-increasing user-hostile demand for your attention from the biggest social platforms #
— Linus Åkesson just casually being amazing again #
— a technically-playable (but just barely) hack using iOS Shortcuts to download remote screenshots compiled into videos #
September 17, 2024
— most “blue zones,” concentrated areas of supercentenarians, can be attributed to pension fraud or bad record-keeping #
— a search engine using OCRed text from map imagery across Brooklyn, expanding to all of NYC soon via Naive Weekly #
September 10, 2024
— you’ll just have to trust me on this one; recommended for desktop browsers via MetaFilter #
September 9, 2024
— very sad to hear this but I’m grateful for their effort, and loved having them at XOXO to talk about their weird and special community #
September 8, 2024
— the low-stakes internet mystery to identify the only unknown celebrity on a shower curtain pattern is solved after four years #
September 6, 2024
— Guy Dupont made a “Keep Honking! I’m Listening to…” bumper sticker-sized LCD display that updates in real-time #
September 5, 2024
— the course of medication that cures Hepatitis C costs $84,000 at $1,000/pill, but can be produced for only $700 or $0.83/pill #
— the ruling is “a knife in the back of libraries,” claiming that authors won’t write new books if libraries lend digital books for free #
September 4, 2024
— the appeals court ruled that, despite being a nonprofit and no evidence of market harm, its implementation of Controlled Digital Lending isn’t fair use #
— open-source music visualizer that synchronizes MIDI to bouncing balls in a modified game of Pong via The Verge #
September 2, 2024
— the SEC notified them last week that NFTs on the struggling platform are unregistered securities #
— 1994 replica of a printed circuit board handmade on an upright wooden loom via MetaFilter #
— free monospaced pixel font with a very nice website to promote it #
