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September 25, 2023
— 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 #
— his first proper album, ten original guitar instrumentals inspired by Django Reinhardt, The Beatles and Chet Atkins via holovaty.com #
— several former employees in the 2005 documentary involved reflect on it in the Hacker News discussion via @anildash #
— even the AI experts hired by 404 Media can’t tell which, if any, are real #
— the surreal interactive food physics toy with reactive music is out now for PC/Mac and PS4/PS5 #
September 8, 2023
— weirdly addictive idle game where you absorb the powers of the enemies you kill #
— blame it on cheap artificial vanillin, which became the default flavor for ice cream across the U.S. via Nick Heer #
— another reason to love Kagi is their effort to promote blogs and other smaller independent websites #
— the cursed thumbs up/down icons are a nice touch #
September 6, 2023
— Casey Kolderup made a single-user bookmark sharing app with ActivityPub support that’s easily hosted on Glitch #
— Audacity ported to the browser #
— Miyazaki’s first film in ten years, and reportedly his last, will be out on December 8 in the U.S. #
September 5, 2023
— make beats with drum sounds found in phonemes from audio clips of public-domain historical speeches via @beefoo #
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