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October 2, 2023
— charming inside story of making the movie from the cast and crew #
— inside story of a wildly mismanaged dialup ISP in the late ’90s , the billing process alone made me scream via Hacker News #
— Todd in the Shadows made a perfect supercut, over 30 minutes long! via @peterme #
September 30, 2023
— Dan Olson’s new video essay is a 2.5-hour epic about the apocalyptic doomsday cult of GameStop short sellers #
September 28, 2023
— love this channel pointlessly “restoring” used objects, from old pencils and dollar bills to crumpled paper and Coke cans #
— definitely worried about the future of the singular indie music platform, a lifeline for many artists #
September 27, 2023
— amazingly, they’ve managed to make a subscription streaming video business that’s independent and sustainable via MetaFilter #
— The Pudding visualizes social isolation in a sample from the American Time Use Survey #
September 26, 2023
— raises, new limits on AI-generated content, transparency around streaming data, and a whole lot more #
— from the creators of Incredible Doom, a new serialized comic about proto-blogging teens #
September 25, 2023
— these are embarrassingly low-quality, we’re moments away from someone automating this with AI avatars flatly voicing them via Nick Heer #
— unlike TikTokers using OSINT techniques to identify people with consent, all this takes is a $30 Pimeyes account and no ethics #
— if NYT’s Connections game is too easy for you, try all of Lex Friedman’s devious puzzles instead #
— I’m seeding The Fanimatrix, so if you download it, you might get part of it from me #
September 24, 2023
— continuing their series of delightfully cursed AI remixes #
September 23, 2023
— some of the most popular streamers are freeloading off other creators’ videos with little original commentary for views and cash via MetaFilter #
September 22, 2023
— James and Karla Murray have been photoblogging over on Blogspot for ten years this December #
— Heidi McDonald writes about Peepshow creator Joe Matt, who died suddenly this week from a heart attack at his writing desk #
September 21, 2023
— finally, full-text searching posts from accounts who opt into indexing #
— interesting look at all the ways scalpers win at presale lotteries, from specialized web browsers to black market verified accounts #
September 20, 2023
— a strategic effort to erode the safety and integrity of online platforms, with employees bearing the brunt of the consequences #
— The Emularity project became a ridiculous success, making vast collections of software and systems instantly available to millions in the browser #
— an excerpt from Kashmir Hill’s new book investigating the invasive history of Clearview AI via @kashhill #
— Alexis Madrigal traces the history of an apple tree #
— integrated into ChatGPT, it can handle more complex prompts and will decline generating images in a living artist’s style #
September 19, 2023
— finally, a movie about the universal experience of having Nicolas Cage randomly appear in your dreams #
— “be truthful, not neutral” via @dangillmor #
— like Kottke says, a unique animation style to match the unusual narrative #
— essential reading for anyone interested in journalism #
— fascinating look at the devops infrastructure supporting A Little Game Called Mario, a Godot platformer anyone can contribute to #
September 17, 2023
— Max Read sifts through the Wayback Machine to go back to 2011 with the launch of iMessage in iOS 5 #
— escape is impossible when you’re caught in The Net via @waldoj #
— worth it just for all the high-res fictional brand images made for Wes Anderson films and Barbie #
September 16, 2023
— shortened links to Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, and Substack wait an additional 2.5 seconds before redirecting via The Verge #
— using the same technique as the Stable Diffusion QR codes, guiding ControlNet with black-and-white patterns can lead to amazing results #
— first of a two-part feature with never-before-seen sketches and photos from the artists’ personal archives #
— hypnotic montage of CG artistry with music by Disasterpeace, if you want more, the full video with all 2,880 entries is over 3.5 hours long via Web Curios #
September 15, 2023
— Pac-Man reinvented as a dungeon crawler with quests, crafting, mining, and of course, hats via b3ta #
— short poems composed mostly of creative domain names via Web Curios #
— the shadow library’s operators are entirely anonymous so they’re suing 50 John Does, “persons of unknown identity” #
— Max Bittker made a CLIP-based image browser, similar to same.energy via Web Curios #
— I love Matt Round’s dev threads where he shows what goes into making all these ridiculous projects for Vole.wtf #
September 13, 2023
— Russell Samora continues his Data Clocks series for The Pudding #
— average daily posts and comments for most major subreddits dropped 50-90% compared to a year ago #
— an excerpt from Extremely Online, Lorenz’s upcoming book on the history of social media and internet fame #
September 12, 2023
— a new remix by Neil Cicierega, only slightly stranger than the original ads #
— Mark Slutsky talks to a woman mentioned in a 2012 YouTube comment by a long-forgotten admirer quoted in his Sad YouTube project #
— completely unhinged behavior, definitely the kind of person who should run a bank via Nelson Minar #
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