EXP TV — launched in 2020, a 24/7 "endless stream of obscure media and video ephemera" a la Everything Is Terrible! #

Anita Sarkeesian closing Feminist Frequency after 15 years — a powerful force in raising awareness of systemic sexism and harassment in the games industry #

Paul Reubens dies at 70 after private bout of cancer — Pee Wee Herman brought so much joy into the world #

NYT profiles Keita Takahashi, 20 years after Katamari Damacy — everything he's made since then is great too, I especially loved Crankin's Time Travel Adventure for Playdate (via) #

Mastodon is easy and fun except when it isn’t — Erin Kissane surveyed people on Bluesky who bounced off Mastodon and her write-up is excellent #

CrowdView — search engine that exclusively searches discussion forums (via) #

Wordward Draw — very clever letter-substitution puzzle game from Daniel Linssen (via) #

Arcade collector rescues a roadside Discs of Tron — imagine keeping a pristine arcade game in your garage for decades and then just dumping it with the weekly garbage (via) #

The little search engine that couldn’t — The Verge profiles Neeva, a well-funded startup that tried and failed to take on Google (via) #

Large language models, explained with a minimum of math and jargon — excellent plain-language primer on how transformer-based LLMs like ChatGPT work #

You Are Atlas — "If no one is on this page, the sky will fall." (via) #

snes.party — play SNES games with instant online multiplayer in the browser; also: nes.party #

Arc browser for Mac now available publicly — I have friends that swear by it, but I found it too hard to get used to #

Notes on Everything — David OReilly breaks down what went into making his universe simulation #

Sinéad O’Connor dead at 56  #

I’m a Luddite (and So Can You!) — the misunderstood history of the Luddite movement and what they can teach us about resisting an automated future (via) #

Attenzione, Pickpocket! — the NYT profiles the woman going viral on TikTok for outing pickpockets on the streets of Venice #

Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web — Apple shipped attestation in Safari last year, but Chromium-based browsers are ~70% of the internet usage #

Gwern’s Internet Search Tips — advanced tips and tricks for searching hard to reach archives #

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 #