Textual Paint — MS Paint clone in the terminal, made with Textual and Python (via) #

The World’s Last Internet Cafes — Rest of World visits some of the last remaining cafes in Uganda, Nepal, Nigeria, Mexico, Argentina, and Hong Kong #

A brief tour of South Pole Station through signage — brr.fyi continues their wonderful documentation of "routine, mundane activities and infrastructure in extraordinary contexts"  #

Redditors prank AI-powered news mill with “Glorbo” in World of Warcraft — "Time is a flat circle, and so is self-referential AI-generated content." #

Nikolas Bentel makes wallets that look like Mac/Windows folders — my brain won't accept these are physical objects (via) #

identiFIVE — incredibly annoying daily puzzle, try to find the only five-letter word in a 9x9 grid of letters (via) #

Geoguessr expert Rainbolt shows how he geolocates a photo in minutes — he uses Overpass Turbo to search OpenStreetMap data; related: Bellingcat's powerful OSM Search Tool #

Human Shader — over 1,500 people have manually calculated RGB values to collectively make a shader with human brain power #

Reddit brought back r/Place and it’s going as well as expected — as of this moment, a good chunk of the pixel art canvas is devoted to messages urging the CEO to fuck himself #

Quiznos brings the Spongmonkeys back — resurrecting an unhinged 2003 meme from b3ta is the least confusing thing about this campaign #

The Pudding’s analysis of hit songwriters by gender over the last 64 years — only three top 5 hits in the last decade were written entirely by women, and one of those was Kate Bush #

TechCrunch writer tries to buy a post on TechCrunch from Fiverr SEO scammers — doctored screenshots, Telegram impersonation, and organized crime #

Hacker legend Kevin Mitnick, dead at 59 — Free Kevin (via) #

Aaron A. Reed on the short life of 1980s type-in computer game books — the book acts as a guide to the adventure game, which you have to tediously type by hand #

How School Board Meetings Became Flashpoints for Anger and Chaos Across the Country — ProPublica analyzed 60 incidents that led to arrests or charges as part of their ongoing Chaos at the School Board series #

Applying high voltage to kids’ toys — there's a second part with Psyduck, Thomas the Tank Engine, and friends (via) #

Meta’s Threads Could Make—or Break—the Fediverse — it's still unknown what Threads' ActivityPub implementation will look like, which will determine its impact #

Otamatone cover of Evanescence’s “Bring Me To Life” — from the harmonies to the Gudetama rap verse, this is just perfect (via) #

Vole.wtf’s Big Ben — a new game from Matt Round with a unique word puzzle for every second of the day #

ooooooooo.ooo — searchable frontend to the Flashpoint preservation project, archiving 145,000 Flash games playable with the Ruffle emulator (via) #

Storehouse-A — from 2021 but new to me, a Nethack/Rogue-inspired virtual exhibition of interactive visual poetry #

West of House, a Zork-inspired cross-stitch — made with glow-in-the-dark thread, you can buy the pattern on Gumroad #

Chip Player JS — open-source chiptune player with over 200k songs in a variety of tracker/console formats, turn on the visualizer and hit shuffle #

Viola the Bird — puppet a bird playing an ML-synthesized cello, the latest musical experiment from David Li, creator of Blob Opera (via) #

Playing Wordle from the Firefox address bar — using search suggestions from OpenSearch (via) #

Adam Pickets Everything — Jacobin talks to Adam Conover about his activism on the picket line and social media during the writers' strike (via) #

Zoo asks guests to stop showing gorillas their device screens — last year, a teenage gorilla in a Chicago zoo "became so engrossed in cellphones he started ignoring his peers" (via) #

The Romance Scammer on My Sofa — Carlos Barragán goes to Nigeria to find the Yahoo boy who duped his mother (via) #

Searching for a Search Engine — like Garrett, I've been playing with Kagi recently and impressed with the results (via) #

Fudge — like an inverse Tetris, where you remove single blocks to let the correct bricks fall down (via) #

Johnny Cash sings “Barbie Girl” — another in a series of There I Ruined It's cursed experiments with AI voice cloning #

Hank Green has some good news — Johnson & Johnson will allow generic versions of its life-saving TB drug in lower-income countries, and Hank's cancer is responding well to treatment #

Anil Dash on the radicalization of tech tycoons — VCs and big tech CEOs are living together in a reactionary bubble, insulated from people who might call them out (via) #

Legal Lullabies — it takes over 50 minutes to read the Instagram Terms of Use out loud, an extremely effective sleep aid (via) #

The Blob Toy — fun physics sandbox from the creator of Life Universe (via) #

Super Aja 64 — my new jam is MIDI versions of Steely Dan's Aja, but with every instrument replaced by the Mario 64 soundfont #

Understanding SVG Paths — elegant and useful interactive explainer from Nanda Syahrasyad #

How to Blow Up a Timeline — Eugene Wei on how Twitter lost its vitality as a social network #

The Free Movie — MSCHF made a site to "crowd pirate" a hand-drawn frame-by-frame recreation of The Bee Movie #

Rest of World talks to outsourced workers forced to adopt generative AI to stay competitive — they commissioned work made with and without AI from freelancers in Nigeria, Mexico, China, and the Philippines #

Animation vs. Math — there's an annotated version if, like me, you need an explainer #

Windows Defender — elegantly designed free browser game, like Vampire Survivors but a group of windows defending a desktop (via) #

Tiny Awards finalists announced, public voting open until July 20 — I helped narrow down the 300+ nominees to 16 charming websites representing the "small, playful and heartfelt web" #

Supreme Court’s ruling on online harassment outrages victims, advocates — Taylor Lorenz reports on how "giving First Amendment protection to online abuse will make a growing problem worse" #

Jelani Cobb on the End of Affirmative Action — though affirmative action for white college applicants still exists, in the form of legacy admits, children of donors, and other VIPs #

Same-sex marriage website request at center of just-decided Supreme Court discrimination case was fabricated — Melissa Gira Grant talked to the man listed in the filings; he's straight, married to a woman, and designs his own websites (via) #

The Verge on who killed Google Reader, and what might have been — I knew much of this history, but not how horribly Google execs treated the Reader team #

Reddit is forcing protesting moderators to reopen private subreddits — I'm sure all those unpaid volunteers will take the news well #

After 15 years, pulsar timing yields evidence of cosmic gravitational wave background — Hank Green posted a quick high-level overview of the five papers on TikTok #

How retro computer fans revived the NABU, an obscure ’80s Canadian PC and network service — one man finally sold his horde of 2,200 machines for dirt cheap on eBay, held in storage for 33 years, inspiring a preservation effort #