Life on the Internet
— charmingly naive 13-part TV series from 1996, captures footage of sites that predate the Internet Archive (via) #
Physically simulating an entire car engine for realistic audio
— it needs to run at 80,000 FPS to remain stable #
The Kubrick Times
— using GPT-3 and DALL-E 2 to make full articles for the future NYT headlines written in 1965 by Kubrick's team for 2001: A Space Odyssey #
Map of most notable people around the world
— using metadata from Wikipedia and Wikidata, including article length, views, and external links (via) #
Amazon’s third-party seller piracy problem
— Amazon gets paid either way, so they're unlikely to fix it #
The Apple Store Time Machine
— interactive macOS app with four meticulous reconstructions of Apple Stores on their opening days #
Molly White on victim-blaming in the crypto crash
— related: her excerpts from letters to the judges of the Celsius Network and Voyager Digital bankruptcy cases (via) #
Stray, tilt-shifted
— I finished the cat game this weekend and it was a pure joy, highly recommended #
Infinite Mac adds virtual networking
— you can now play games remotely with Mihai Parparita's full-featured in-browser classic 68K Mac #
Joni Mitchell performs first full set in over 20 years
— she spent years recovering from a 2015 brain aneurysm, relearning guitar by watching videos of herself playing #
Absurd AI-generated food photography with DALL-E 2
— Max Woolf serves up Rubik's Cube PB&Js and five-dimensional burgers #
The Secret History Of The Internet’s Funniest Buzzer-Beater
— Brian Feldman goes deep into a '90s viral video and tracks down everyone involved (via) #
Scratch, MIT Media Lab’s visual coding platform for kids, is blowing up
— it doubled in popularity in the last two years #
The Verge on how indie writers are using AI tools like Sudowrite and Jasper
— love the interactive article design #
Everyone Everywhere Needs Waymond Wang
— Pop Culture Detective on Everything Everywhere All At Once's subversive portrayal of masculinity #
Lego makes Atari 2600 set for Atari’s 50th anniversary
— from the fold-out 1980s living room to the game cartridge dioramas, this was laser-targeted to me #
RIP Sockington
— at his peak, Jason Scott's adorable cat had over 1.5M Twitter followers and was in the top 100 most-followed accounts #
Anil Dash talks about his violent assault at a California coffee shop
— "Our institutions have no capability for responding to crisis with compassion." #
Doom running inside Doom II
— Doom for DOS exploit lets you run Doom and Heretic as animated textures (via) #
Replicating the styles of well-known portrait photographers with DALL-E 2
— this is going to end up in court some day soon and it's going to be wild #
Matt Levine breaks down Twitter’s Elon Musk lawsuit
— Twitter's now in the bizarre position of trying to force Musk to buy a company he's trying to destroy #
How the YouTube Creator Economy Works
— a good companion to Hank Green on the issues with the TikTok Creator Fund vs. YouTube revenue sharing #
Spotify buys Heardle daily music game
— they already switched from SoundCloud to Spotify in several countries #
After 10 years, Ev Williams steps down from CEO role at Medium
— he'll remain chairman, Tony Stubblebine is taking over #
Ed Yong on BA.5
— what we know and don't yet know about transmissibility, immune evasion, and long-term effects from the latest surge #
Pokemon-inspired cellular automaton battle
— more interesting and beautiful experiments in the replies #
Ravel
— Everest Pipkin's simple no-code tool for making unfolding stories like Soft Corruptor without logic #
NYT profiles competitive GeoGuessr players
— don't miss @georainbolt's intense Google Maps mastery (via) #
Midjourney temporarily opens for beta access
— a surreal text-to-image model run entirely in Discord channels #
James Webb Space Telescope delivers deepest infrared image of universe yet
— thousands of galaxies in one image, more images coming tomorrow morning #
Lyrical Garfield
— Twitter bot that detects Garfield dialogue and replaces it with song lyrics (via) #
The Uber Files, massive exposé from 124,000 leaked internal documents
— a lobbyist turned whistleblower reveals how they exploited drivers, pressured politicians, and used covert tech to thwart government raids #
The Atlantic launches digital archive
— 165 years of journalism from 1857 to today, with features on 25 writers that shaped the publication #