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November 1, 2023
— playing a battle royale as a pacifist turns into a parable about survival in a world that discourages solidarity and mutual aid #
October 30, 2023
— the stream is stuck in an endless glitchy loop #
— deeper than it appears with over 100 unlisted videos and multiple secret endings #
October 28, 2023
— a 2015 thesis on the history of ASCII art focused on its use in the Amiga warez and BBS scenes, translated and updated for 2023 via Good Internet #
— their autonomous murderbots are much more fun with a top hat, googly eyes, and British accent via Good Internet #
October 26, 2023
— fascinating post by Simon Willison with details about how ChatGPT was instructed to use DALL-E 3 #
— her side quest is building a castle from the stone she’s quarried, I just wonder what her neighbors think #
— Bellingcat’s tips for spotting misinformation and disinformation using real, recent examples #
— Mia Sato investigates whether the SEO-driven trend of naming your business “X Near Me” actually works #
October 25, 2023
— including the first spam email, first MP3, first livestream, and dozens of notable early websites with a working browser and Flash emulation #
October 24, 2023
— a GTA V mod that lets players leave floating persistent messages anywhere in the game world for others to find #
October 23, 2023
— a great overview for the technically-minded about a powerful tool for search, recommendations, and classification #
October 22, 2023
— obsessed with this chonky pool game from the creator of Holedown, out now for iOS/Android, Switch, and Windows #
— a charming personal website with each section introduced by four-panel comics via heydingus.net #
— the original review is worth reading, a thoughtful and nuanced take that makes the subway artist’s reaction even more bizarre #
— Zach Gage launched a puzzle game community with 500 invite codes released every day by, of course, solving a puzzle #
October 17, 2023
— two of my favorite internet weirdos joined forces to make musical madness #
— the followup to the equally-challenging Moderator Mayhem from Techdirt’s Mike Masnick #
— “my toxic trait is I can’t shake that naïve optimism of the early internet”; same here, Katie #
— Louie Zong is back with his annual Halloween ghost jam #
October 16, 2023
— Jasper’s spreadsheet collects over 200 examples from 1919 to today, ranked by accuracy and difficulty via @plentyofalcoves #
— Erin Kissane completed her four-part series about the role of Meta and Facebook in the Rohingya genocide #
— a near-complete archive of the Whole Earth Catalog and related publications from 1970 to 2002 via @longnow #
October 10, 2023
— a tiny JS library for making retro games and experiences inspired by the ZX Spectrum and QBasic #
October 9, 2023
— Mark Slutsky interviewed the visionary director in 2007 about Paprika, published here in full for the first time #
— Adam Neely’s fascinating breakdown of her musical influences, appeal to young audiences, and the modern state of jazz #
— open until Halloween, explore a spooky multiplayer world where a thousand ghosts have shared their pumpkin designs #
October 5, 2023
— yet another Zelle horror story, this time with scammers hacking contractors’ email accounts to solicit payments from their customers #
— browser add-on that reverses many of the most annoying changes under Musk, including yesterday’s removal of link titles #
October 2, 2023
— for the ninth year, Laura E. Hall’s popup daily newsletter of spooky stuff is posting every day of October #
— Cyriak made a new animation, his first in two years #
— 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 #
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