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May 13, 2024
— they’re really tripling down on acting like a human, these live video demos are clearly inspired by Spike Jonze’s “Her” #
— The New Yorker is geoblocking this fascinating article in the UK, presumably because its impact on the retrial could violate their contempt of court law #
— painstakingly redrawing emoji sets he found on electronic organizers and pocket computers that predate SoftBank’s emoji set by at least a decade #
May 10, 2024
— how the massive collaborative Rube Goldberg machine was designed and built in three weeks #
May 9, 2024
— “a primer to help explain what patriarchy actually is, what it isn’t, and how it ends up harming everyone, including men” #
— don’t miss the Hackerverse demo, visualizing 2D embeddings as an island of posts #
May 8, 2024
— a browser game with lots of underpants, made with WebGPU so try it in Chrome, Edge, or Safari Technology Preview via @mrdoob #
— amazed nobody there realized how a tech behemoth crushing creative tools with a giant hydraulic press would be received #
— a shocking and tragic loss, Shellac’s first album in a decade was due out next week #
May 6, 2024
— an issue for seven years, seems like Niantic should be storing a snapshot of map data to discourage editors via Caitlin Dewey #
May 2, 2024
— Molleindustria’s interactive reconstruction of Alexander Rodchenko’s Workers’ Club from the 1925 World Expo in Paris #
— a growing plague of AI bots posting nonsense for an audience of humans, other bots, and hacked human-bot hybrid accounts via @jasonkoebler #
— first music video made with OpenAI’s Sora, embracing its surreal artifacts, broken physics, and dream-like creepiness #
— Molly White on the yearning for the “good old days” of the web #
April 30, 2024
— responsive music rendering for the web; see also: Soundslice’s world-class responsive sheet music and guitar tab viewer via @ashur #
April 29, 2024
— a DOOM-inspired demo without JavaScript made with the CSS scroll-timeline property, supported only in Chrome for now via @cobra_winfrey #
— his 2012 book on simulating natural systems now uses p5.js, available free online or as a printed edition via FlowingData #
— Nimona creator ND Stevenson uses Instagram Stories as a canvas #
— nice attention to detail with the box art, manuals, labels, and only using films from the 1970s via Kottke #
— turns out it’s from a 1986 adult film; now we just have to find Celebrity Number Six #
April 26, 2024
— I’m late-stage Gen X and passed easily, so they may need to tune it a bit #
— “a loving homage to level 1-1 of Super Mario Bros with art done entirely by typewriter characters” via @thomasfuchs #
April 25, 2024
— a 3-2 vote predictably split on party lines #
April 24, 2024
— a mini-game included in arcc, the delightfully weird 1970s-inspired multiuser computer network #
— Ed Zitron is reading the internal emails released in the Google antitrust case #
April 23, 2024
— beautifully chill mixes for focused work with an excellent interface via Kottke #
— the Senate advanced the measure today to force ByteDance to sell TikTok within the next nine months or face a national ban #
— everyone’s favorite satirical startup culture sketch comedy troupe launched a Windows 98-inspired homepage via Hacker News #
— the findings and animated results of The Pudding’s experiment asking anonymous people to trace a line in order, flipbook-style #
— videos like these are the only documentation of some early websites that predate the Internet Archive’s large-scale web crawls with Alexa #
April 22, 2024
— Steve Mould digs into a strange phenomenon when igniting lighter fluid in a thin trough via Tom Scott #
— no big deal, they just patched code to work around a corrupted 46-year-old memory chip 15 billion miles away #
— sounds like Buttondown may be federating too #
April 19, 2024
— an impressive WebGL/Three.js space adventure game/demo from Little Workshop via @cabel #
— explore the latent space of Are.na images together with others via @maxbittker #
— Olia Lialina highlights examples from the Geocities archives of the web before platformization via Web Curios #
— Waldo Jaquith made a clever, sometimes poetic, new Mastodon bot that finds sentences in Google Books #
— do not tell me why the thing I like is bad #
— Rest of World is tracking AI-generated election misinformation in this year’s global elections via Garbage Day #
— one of the many Twitter clones to pop up in the wake of the Elon acquisition calls it quits via Garbage Day #
April 17, 2024
— love the work of this collage artist who primarily works with paper and scissors via @autumn #
— free with support for the NES, SNES, N64, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, and Nintendo DS #
— antitrust enforcement, open standards, public funding, and collective governance via Today in Tabs #
— they sell access to scraped user messages and activity to anyone with cryptocurrency #
— Maggie Appleton tries to understand what makes a good opening for non-fiction writing #
— beautiful Verge feature on the invisible seafaring industry that maintains internet cables at the bottom of the ocean via Garbage Day #
— a thoughtfully nuanced take that weighs their limited benefits against the outsized human cost #
— “weird media gremlin” #
April 16, 2024
— Rookie’s founder made a 75-page zine about her relationship with Taylor Swift and her music, blurring the lines between fiction and reality #
April 15, 2024
— Benj Edwards goes spelunking in CD-ROM clip art collections, and you can too now that DISCMASTER is back online #
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