Utopia Clicker — Darius Kazemi made a clicker game #

The end of the Googleverse — Ryan Broderick interviewed me and a bunch of others about the decline of Google's usefulness for The Verge #

Web Scraping for Me, But Not for Thee — on the hypocrisy of big tech liberally scraping the web for AI, while legally blocking scraping from their own platforms #

Rewriting wipEout from leaked source — the PSX classic now runs at about 3,000 fps in the browser on my aging laptop #

Nikita Diakur’s avatar learns to backflip — bizarre and delightful short film about overcoming a fear with machine learning (via) #

Internet Archive’s Manuals Showcase — Jason Scott curated a selection of unusual manuals from their library of nearly three million (via) #

Threads launches on the web — not at feature parity with the mobile app, but a good start #

Inside the AI Porn Marketplace Where Everything and Everyone Is for Sale — 404 Media investigates the people and platforms profiting off AI generative porn, including non-consensual depictions of specific women #

404 Media launches — four of my favorite Motherboard journalists started a new indie media company and it's already great, I subscribed instantly #

Thank Goodness You’re Here! — teaser trailer for the latest Panic-published game, which looks extremely silly and good #

South Pole Electrical Infrastructure — the anonymous writer behind Brr.fyi shares how power generation and distribution works at South Pole Station #

Internet Archive will remove publishers’ commercially-available titles from online lending program — print-only and out-of-print books will remain available, but this is still a huge loss #

Good Tape — free secure audio transcription, up to three 90-minute recordings per month or pay for more features #

a clock where the time is in a song title — The Pudding's Russell Samora made a clock that plays 8,968 songs from Spotify based on your local time #

Two grad students unravel a widely believed math conjecture — clear explanation of Apollonian circle packing and disproving the local-global conjecture (via) #

Little Rat — Chrome extension that monitors and optionally blocks other extensions' network calls #

TextFX — Google Labs collaborated with Lupe Fiasco on a series of LLM-based tools for exploring text and language (via) #

The unusual success of the harpejji, a hybrid guitar/piano/harp invented in 2007 — you have to hear this thing in action to appreciate it, try searching YouTube for harpejji songs (via) #

This London cookbook store tests recipes by cooking for customers — the French chef/owner makes three-course set lunches from recipes found in the books they sell #

Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule — Ronan Farrow reports on the U.S. government's unpredictable and dangerous reliance on Musk and his companies #

Clone-a Lisa — paint a terrible forgery of the Mona Lisa in 60 seconds; my high score is 75% #

Record labels hit Internet Archive with new $400M lawsuit for preserving 78 rpm records — absolute garbage lawsuit, every recording was pre-1978 from deceased artists digitized from the original 78s (via) #

Gary Brolsma recreates Numa Numa, 19 years later — once a Numa Numa kid, now a Numa Numa man #

The Most Iconic Hip-Hop Sample of Every Year from 1973-2023 — Tracklib breaks down sample sources from the last 50 years #

the uncolouring book — the color's provided, you draw in the lines (via) #

always return your shopping carts — I appreciate Jack Carden's commitment to the bit #

Polygon’s video essay on the history and future of VTubers — XTina GG did a great deep-dive on the culture of streamers using virtual avatars, interviewing six of them #

How to donate and help support Maui communities — a list of resources and fundraisers #

How climate change made Hawaii more vulnerable to wildfires — rising temperatures, declining rainfall, a changing landscape, and increased likelihood of large storms #

Wildfire decimates Lahaina, once the capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom — some historical and cultural context on what was lost #

Billionaires gifted Clarence Thomas at least 38 vacations, 26 private jet flights, box seats, and more — ProPublica continues their investigation into undisclosed gifts to Supreme Court justices #

CNET deletes thousands of old articles to try to game Google search rankings — nuking their history with questionable results, while moving towards AI-generated articles #

The Nib made all 15 issues free for PDF download this month — you can donate to keep the archives alive or buy print copies before it closes this summer #

AI Boyfriend — the latest from nerd sketch comedy duo KRAZAM #

LCD, Please — for its 10th anniversary, Lukas and Keiko Pope demade "Papers, Please" as a Game & Watch-style LCD game #

Feuds amplified on social media may be fueling homicides among young Americans — ProPublica digs into a possible factor in rising homicides, beyond the obvious proliferation of guns (via) #

Tom Scott on the Swiss town that banned all private cars — a small wealthy resort that outsources its parking to a nearby town, but still, living the dream #

Cabel Sasser on “Turn-On,” a hyperactive 1969 sketch comedy show unseen for 54 years — "the first computerized TV show" from the creator of Laugh-In was cancelled after the first episode, decades ahead of its time #

Mayerle’s Lithographed International Test Chart — reprints of these stunning 1907 multilingual eye charts are for sale at 20x200 #

Myst demake for the Atari 2600 — the same creator also made a complete version of Myst for the Apple II #

Kagi Search Stats — the top domains their users block and promote in search results; they really hate Pinterest! (via) #

Adam Savage tours the prop house that makes Hollywood’s printed products — The Earl Hayes Press has printed fake newspapers, magazines, product labels, and more for films and TV shows since 1918 (via) #

New Word Order — addictive little web game to try to put words/phrases in the order they first appeared (via) #

The Life and Death of an Internet Onion — "a perennial website about the possibility of love online" only accessible for five weeks, the shelf life of an onion (via) #

Casey Newton on how the Kids Online Safety Act puts us all at risk — "Lawmakers are quickly advancing an anti-sex, anti-speech agenda in which every adult user of the internet could soon find themself entangled." #

Paul Reubens Never Got the Critical Reappraisal He Deserved — if Pee-Wee's Playhouse came out today, it'd be maligned by conservatives for its playful diversity and queerness #

It’s So Over/We’re So Back — Max Read on the bullwhip effect applied to sentiment on social media, wildly swinging with every new update about the room-temp superconductor #

AI Concerts remixes songs with deepfake AI cartoon voices — every one of these is gold, from Squidward covering Creep to Gary the Snail covering Landslide #

Catching up on the weird world of LLMs — Simon Willison gave an approachable and interesting talk that covers "the last few years of LLM developments in 35 minutes" #

Infinite Mac adds CD-ROM Library, external discs, and custom instances — just start any version and click the tab at the bottom of the screen #