Garbage Day on Reddit manipulating GameStop stock
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r/WallStreetBets pushed the stock to an all-time high, making it the most actively-traded U.S. company for a time
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The moderation war is coming to Spotify, Substack, and Clubhouse
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they seem determined to repeat the mistakes made by social platforms before them
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Adobe’s Flash kill switch shuts down Chinese railway
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they resolved it by installing an older pirated version
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Facebook continued to push users to join partisan political groups after saying they stopped
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Facebook pushed political groups to Trump voters most often, 25% of the top 100 recommended groups
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Kalidoface
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puppet a virtual character with your webcam, supports P2P calling and uploading your own model
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Inside QAnon’s virtual inauguration watch party
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highlights from Gab and Telegram; Ron Watkins called it quits too
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Amanda Gorman reads “The Hill We Climb”
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the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history finished writing it the night of the attack on Congress
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Biden sworn in, Harris becomes first woman and woman of color to serve as VP
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a historic moment in a period of multiple national crises, marking an end to the worst presidency in American history
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Three.js Journey
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lovely landing page for Bruno Simon's new course, who made one of my favorite homepages ever
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Bot that turns Reddit arguments into Ace Attorney scenes
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add !objectionbot to any Reddit comment chain, the results may be NSFW
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Bill Wurtz’s “here comes the sun”
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Bill quit releasing new music and videos in March 2019, but he's finally back
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What Parler Saw During the Attack on the Capitol
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ProPublica's interactive timeline of over 500 POV videos, with highlights and a breakdown of how/why they made it
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The Radicalization Of Giggle Palooza
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Ryan Broderick on the rapid descent from Minions memes to QAnon for one 1.6M follower Facebook page
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Panic re-releases Audion for modern macOS
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mostly an archival project preserving the hundreds of fan-created faces
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Among the Insurrections
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gripping on-the-ground reporting from a war correspondent that previously covered Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan
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U.S. police three times more likely to use force against left-wing than right-wing protestors
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a clear disparity that grows when comparing peaceful protests
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Modern Retro Computer Terminals
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3D printed enclosures that are like Computer Space meets the original iMac
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Most House Republicans did what the rioters wanted
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66% of the House GOP tried to overturn election results with no evidence and no accountability
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Song Exploder interviews Yusuf/Cat Stevens on recreating “Father and Son” 50 years later
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for the 200th episode, Hrishikesh talks to the legendary singer-songwriter about duetting with his 22-year-old self
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The Emoji That Nearly Weren’t
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Jennifer Daniel writes about how the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee used zero-width joiners to ship new emoji for 2021
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Janelle Shane digs into the drawings of DALL-E
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you can play with more variations in their OpenAI's announcement post from last week
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VOC-25, a vocal synth made with 25 sets of plastic teeth
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inspired by Simone Giertz's teeth wall
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Mining Parler metadata to pinpoint Capitol crimes
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Archive Team grabbed 56 terabytes of public data from Parler in its last day online, including EXIF metadata
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How a Presidential Rally Turned Into a Capitol Rampage
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NYT's visual investigation into the insurrection at the Capitol
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Apple gives Parler 24 hours to remove incitements to violence and detail moderation plan
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they rejected the app and will remove it from the App Store if they can't comply
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Open Mike Eagle pays tribute to MF DOOM
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reflecting on working with one of his heroes on "Phantoms" and "Police Myself"
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The end of Mr. Boop
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after ten months, Alec Robbins wrapped his absurdist NSFW meta-comic about his very real wife, Betty Boop
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OpenAI’s DALL·E generates images from text
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finally, a neural network that can create illustrations of Pikachu wearing a Christmas sweater and drinking a latte
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Simulating the PIN cracking scene in Terminator 2
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if you have a spare Atari Portfolio hanging around, please send it to Bert
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Emily Pothast on Bean Dad and Gen X irony
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Roderick posted an apology this morning, which is a start
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50 Years of Text Games
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each week this year, Aaron A. Reed will profile a text-based computer game from 1971-2021
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Today In Tabs returns
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after five years away, Rusty Foster revives his excellent media newsletter on Substack
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Caitlin Dewey’s top 25 internet culture reads of 2020
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great list from one of my favorite linkbloggers
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