Neal.fun’s Password Game — these password requirements are getting ridiculous #

AI is killing the old web, and the new web struggles to be born — generative AI's capacity for consuming content and generating low-quality noise is forcing platforms to reconsider the open web #

Backstage Disneyland — Cabel Sasser scanned his entire collection of rarely-seen newsletters for Disneyland employees, 28 issues from 1962-1980 #

Goodnight Phone — an interactive comic by Gina Wynbrandt #

Inside the AI Factory — investigation into the distributed anonymous workforce getting paid to annotate training data and align AI models (via) #

Hank Green on your obligation to your former self — a beautiful reflection on the words he said on stage at XOXO nearly ten years ago #

My Father’s Death in 7 Gigabytes — Paul Ford archived all his father's writing and uploaded it to the Internet Archive in his memory #

Architectural Digest’s tour of the Barbie Dreamhouse set — incredible craftsmanship and attention to detail #

A storefront for robots — Mia Sato on how Google's failure to punish SEO tactics, instead promoting their low-quality garbage, has made the web immeasurably worse #

Max Read on MrBeast’s clickbait altruism — feels like the YouTube version of The Ellen Show's charitable giveaways, totaling $450M over 19 years, all backed by sponsors #

Bad Waitress — Becca Schuh writes about her experience being a writer in the food service industry #

Psynwav’s Musical Tangents — new deranged mashup album from the creator of Slamilton: A Basketball Musical #

Reddark — watch as over 7,200 subreddits go dark in real-time to protest the API changes #

Byline — new online magazine with a playful design from the creators of now-defunct hyperlocal NYC paper The Drunken Canal #

Jason Scott is scanning Computer Shopper — help him out by donating missing issues, using the scans for research/analysis, and sharing the results #

b3ta’s Expand Art image challenge — "help us to grab the AI by the Jackson Pollocks and expand classic works of art to show how it should be done" (via) #

Tiny Awards — I'm a judge for this showcase of the small, playful, heartfelt web; nominations are open until June 14 #

Computers that live two seconds in the future — it sounds like Apple created Ted Chiang's Predictor for the Vision Pro #

Day of the Devs Summer Game Fest 2023 — amazing showcase of upcoming indie games, personal highlights include Viewfinder, Summerhill, and Simpler Times #

The Origins of the Right’s War on Target — Melissa Gira Grant on how extremist influencers invented an anti-LGBTQ moral panic turned terror campaign #

The Last Egg — what happens when fresh food runs out for the season at a South Pole research station #

Supreme Court unexpectedly rejects racially gerrymandered maps — a surprising 5-4 ruling reaffirming the Voting Rights Act for disenfranchised Black voters in Alabama (via) #

Apollo for Reddit is shutting down — a growing list of over 3,100 subreddits is going dark on June 12 to protest the API changes (via) #

Mineplacer — place all the mines in a Minesweeper game; this one's a brain melter, click the question mark for help (via) #

Redditor creates working anime QR codes using Stable Diffusion — hard to believe these all scan, but they do #

New Yorker on the Ed Sheeran/Marvin Gaye “Let’s Get It On” copyright suit — musicians are increasingly being sued over vibe infringement #

Fast Company on the rise, fall, and rebirth of Snopes — co-founder David Mikkelson drove it off a cliff with a series of terrible managerial and ethical decisions #

Vision Pro is Apple’s new $3,499 AR headset — a big bet on the fidelity of their passthrough cameras, trying to normalize wearing ski goggles around others with a front-facing display #

Array Game — idle games are my kryptonite and this one is no exception (via) #

Careless Whisper’s lick on 100 instruments — but not the saxophone (via) #

CVS BANGERS 5: BANGRIM — DJ Hennessy Youngman drops another airhorn-laden nostalgia bomb #

ProPublica’s guide to rights the Supreme Court has established and could take away — detailed analysis of rights that each justice has questioned #

Defiant teens stage LGBTQ play independently after Indiana high school cancels it — the cast of two dozen Fort Wayne teens raised almost $84,000 in two weeks to book their own venue with security #

Making A Solar-Powered Billion-Year Lego Clock — like The Clock of the Long Now, and it didn't need $42 million from Jeff Bezos to build #

Reddit’s new API pricing would cost Apollo $20 million annually — along with banning NSFW content from the API, this will effectively kill every third-party Reddit client #

Lisa’s Final Act — The Verge made a short documentary about how the Apple Lisa was sabotaged, with remaining inventory secretly buried in a Utah landfill #

CJR profiles Defector, “the last good website” — an attempt to do digital media differently as a worker-owned co-op without outside investors, supported by readers, and writers own their IP #

TimeGuessr — guess both the location and date of five photos for a combined score (via) #

Terrible Terms and Conditions — design the worst possible terms of service agreement (via) #

Lawyer cites fake cases invented by ChatGPT, judge is not amused — imagine the client learning their lawyers are charging them to literally type "is this a real case" in ChatGPT #

Two fans spent over 7,000 hours recreating Disneyland from scratch in Dreams — the project's wrapping because Media Molecule announced the end of support for the game creation engine in September #

Exploring an abandoned home largely untouched since the 1960s — sadly, the Westchester County house was demolished last week with "pretty much everything still inside" #

Adel Faure’s text mode art — so much to explore here, all rendered with a custom typeface for ASCII art #

Windows XP activation algorithm cracked after 21 years — FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8 #

Captcha Is Asking Users to Identify Objects That Don’t Exist — "Please click each image containing a Yoko" #

Guitar Slinger Reconstructed — Linus Åkesson covered the classic Amiga tracker tune from 1993, with a stop-motion video controlled by the original MOD pattern data #

1980s arcade game designers hid their names in high score tables — a long growing list of classic high score screens and their known credits (via) #

Gandalf, a game of prompt injection — convince an increasingly annoying chatbot to reveal a secret password (via) #

Slide to Unlock — ridiculous finger-twisting multitouch game for mobile browsers (via) #

Why Has a Group of Orcas Suddenly Started Attacking Boats? — the behavior appears to be learned but may be a fad, like the Puget Sound orcas who spent the summer of 1987 wearing dead salmon as hats #