Links Archives – Page 2 of 344

June 11, 2020

Jason Kottke’s links to resources on police abolition and defunding — accessible and useful collection

Anonymous Camera — free iOS app to anonymize, block, or blur auto-detected faces and bodies from video footage real-time

Janelle Shane plays with OpenAI’s upcoming API — the results are startlingly good, I joined the beta waitlist

June 9, 2020

Paramount cancels “Cops” in wake of protests — the longest-running U.S. reality show, it acted as a PR effort to reform the reputation of abusive police departments

the k-pop stans pick a side — from Brian Feldman's excellent internet culture-centric newsletter

13th — Ava DuVernay's Oscar-nominated documentary about racist policing and mass incarceration is streaming for free (via)

Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop — an anonymous confessional purportedly from a former California police officer

How Do We Change America? — "the quest to transform this country cannot be limited to challenging its brutal police alone"

How Apples Go Bad — the closer an apple is to rot, the more rot it spreads

Last Week Tonight on Police — the history of policing and white supremacy, the roadblocks to fixing it, and ways to move forward

June 6, 2020

Itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality — astounding collection of over 740 games for a minimum $5 donation, raising over $1M in 24 hours

June 5, 2020

Greg Doucette’s mega-thread of police violence videos from recent protests — over 300 recent examples of conflict escalation and unchecked brutality (via)

Defund12.org — simple way to email government officials to urge them to defund and reallocate police budgets

June 4, 2020

The 3.5% Rule — a study of hundreds of political protests found that "no government can withstand a challenge of 3.5% of its population" (via)

June 3, 2020

Police violence supercuts go viral — one video was viewed 49 million times from a single tweet

8 Can’t Wait — update: useful thread about why these proposed policies can be toothless, and the underlying data may be flawed

Black Lives Matter Support Bundle — get a bunch of great indie games with 100% of proceeds split between Black Lives Matter and the National Bail Fund Network (via)

June 1, 2020

Black Journalists and Covering the Storm That Never Passes — "we are reporting while dealing with our own life-long post-traumatic stress from repeatedly bearing witness to our dehumanization and murder" (via)

Publishers sue Internet Archive over Open Library — in the process, they'll try to dismantle controlled digital lending

Donation Match Party — account dedicated to retweeting donation match offers

Facebook employees stage virtual walkout to protest inaction on Trump posts — for the first time, employees are starting to go public on social media and to the press

Why So Many Police Are Handling the Protests Wrong — "Escalating force by police leads to more violence, not less."

Mapping Police Violence — "99% of killings by police from 2013-2019 have not resulted in officers being charged with a crime"

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May 31, 2020

Kinopio — like if Are.na and a modular synth had a baby (via)

Image Scrubber — a privacy-aware tool for anonymizing photographs taken at protests

Caught on camera, police explode in rage and violence across the US — "the most comprehensive live picture of police brutality ever"

May 28, 2020

The EFF on Trump’s unenforceable and unconstitutional Section 230 executive order — while the president had a tantrum and attacked a Twitter employee, the U.S. passed 100,000 deaths to COVID-19

May 27, 2020

Selfies by Claudius Gentinetta — digital self-portraits animated, mildly NSFW

How some countries brought their Covid-19 cases to nearly zero — New Zealand is a great example of what leadership looks like

Ocarina of Time Sudoku — blisteringly hard, congrats if you can make it past the third level

Facebook ignored own research showing algorithms divided users — they reportedly ignored it because changes would disproportionately affect conservatives and might hurt engagement

May 25, 2020

Wholesome Direct — starting tomorrow 10am PT/1pm ET, a streaming showcase of upcoming adorable indie games

A Feud in Wolf-Kink Erotica Raises a Deep Legal Question — fascinating story about a writer claiming ownership over tropes in erotic fandom

Jazz Keys — turn typing into solo piano jazz; click the note for other songs, including Bill Evans' Blue in Green (via)

May 22, 2020

Bertrand Fan on the Animal Crossing economy — Nintendo patched the dupe glitch, but an interesting glimpse into how time determines value in a virtual economy

Adult Swim revives Tuca & Bertie after contentious Netflix cancellation — Lisa Hanawalt's delightful animated series gets ten new episodes

NVIDIA recreated Pac-Man with AI — trained on 50,000 gameplay videos, it made a functional game with no underlying game engine

May 21, 2020

John Krasinski’s Some Good News sold to ViacomCBS in massive bidding war — I was wondering why it went on hiatus after only eight episodes, and now we know

Paul Ford is blogging again — at least until he bails on it in a month

May 20, 2020

Holding meetings in Red Dead Redemption 2 — a great place to socialize until an accidental button press causes you to strangle your coworkers (via)

MSCHF Magazine — handy tools to defraud Spotify, Uber, and pretty much any big corporation

May 19, 2020

Community cast reunites for table read — with special guest, Pedro Pascal from The Mandalorian and Narcos

ITP’s Spring 2020 Show — experimental 3D spatial audio/video art show in YORB 2.0, a project inspired by ITP's early '90s interactive public access TV show (via)

May 18, 2020

Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage — a restauranteur finds a way to capitalize on a delivery startup's underhanded business tactics

The Miracle Sudoku — I never thought I'd watch a 25-minute video of a guy playing Sudoku, but here we are (via)

May 17, 2020

Orb.farm — make a virtual ecosystem with its own self-contained food chain (via)

Inside Decentraland, the surreal Second Life for crypto true believers — an elaborate and desolate world, I didn't see a single person in there

May 15, 2020

Shelter In Place Gallery — a dollhouse-sized Boston art gallery exhibiting artwork at a 1:12 scale, or 1 inch to 1 foot

Anomalous Materials — Graham Dunning replaced every sound in Half-Life with samples from '90s rave tracks, letting him play it like an instrument (via)