Grands Canons d’Alain Biet — hypnotic animation of hand-painted everyday objects #

Cloud Nine: A Game of Wonderful Things — Ami's new game is funding on Kickstarter, completely charming, and really close to hitting the goal #

Dark Side of the Moon turns 50 today — an irreverent look back at the album's legacy from The Ringer #

Parker Molloy on the 4chan campaign tied to Scott Adams’ racist rant — embracing ambiguity can be an effective tactic for spreading propaganda with plausible deniability #

tldraw — instantly syncing collaborative whiteboard/drawing app with no logins #

Godot 4 released — over three years in the making, the list of improvements to the free 2D/3D game engine is intense #

OpenAI adds ChatGPT and Whisper APIs — the ChatGPT API is 10x cheaper than their existing GPT-3.5 models, and Whisper's audio transcription/translation costs $0.36/hour #

The cursed universes of Dana Sibera — Marcin Wichary rounds up some of @nanoraptor's parallel-world computer and keyboard renderings (via) #

Recreating ANSI Art from a screenshot — loading the image into a canvas and iterating through every background color, foreground color, and character to find the right combo #

The Case for Shunning — "Speak bravely. Own what you say. Prepare to be understood." (via) #

A 24/7 Twitch stream of AI-generated deepfake celebrities is even weirder than it seems — it's made by volunteer members of a crypto-shilling singularity cult in a German commune, run by a streamer accused of emotional abuse #

The Courtyard — Cabel Sasser shines a light on a neighborhood artist's quiet handiwork #

The Confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the Hacker Who Saved the Internet — Wired interviews the security researcher who, at age 22, found and activated a kill switch in the WannaCry ransomware attack before being arrested by the FBI (via) #

On the internet, nobody knows you’re a human — the rise of machine-generated content is also increasing suspicion that human creators are actually AI #

After a decade tracking politicians’ deleted tweets, Politwoops is no more — "the platform has disabled the function we used to track deletions and the new method that Twitter says should identify them appears to be broken" #

Reactions to the Face Age filter on TikTok — related: The Atlantic on why adults over 40 typically feel 20% younger than they really are #

Everything Everywhere All at Once props auctioned for charity — hot dog hands (and gloves), Auditor of the Month trophy, Raccacoonie, Waymond's chapstick, and much more #

Scribble Diffusion turns scribbles into detailed images — made with ControlNet, a powerful new technique for controlling diffusion models #

The Morioka Experience — Craig Mod returns to the mid-sized Japanese city after his nomination led to the NYT placing it #2 on their 52 Places to Go list #

The mystery of the cancelled Twin Peaks NES game, solved 30 years later — I've wondered about this for years, amazing that they were looking to Maniac Mansion for inspiration #

Infinite AI Steamed Hams — I just watched a version where Skinner replaced his burned Nova-style salmon with Barbados cherries for "Dr. Chalmers" (via) #

Bases Loaded — satisfyingly chunky free browser game, reach level 20 to win (via) #

What is ChatGPT doing and how does it work? — long, accessible explanation from Stephen Wolfram #

JPEG, an image-only newsletter — via Naive Weekly, another great newsletter described as a "portal to the quiet, odd, and poetic web" (via) #

Wood Wide Web — walking simulator where you plant words and tend to tiny homes, each representing joyful places on the indie web #

The Nintendo-fication of Jazz — Adam Neely on "why video game music is the future of jazz music," including the live VGM jazz scene #

James Vincent introduces the AI Mirror Test, humans convinced AI chatbots are sentient — a good read before digging into Kevin Roose's two-hour conversation with Bing/Sydney, before it was muzzled #

General Zod Chaos Generator — endless GIF nonsense for your Friday enjoyment (via) #

Infinite LEGO Domino Ring — hypnotic construction that endlessly knocks over and stands up 90,000 dominos per hour (via) #

It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible — The Onion satirizes a damaging trend, exemplified by the NYT's ongoing transphobic coverage #

Squares in Squares — trying to optimally pack squares into a square leads to some surprisingly deranged results (via) #

Bing’s ChatGPT-powered AI casually threatens early users — someone at Microsoft forgot to add Asimov's Three Laws to the prompt #

Colin Meloy asked ChatGPT to write a Decemberists song, and then recorded it — "For the record, this is a remarkably mediocre song. I wouldn’t say it’s a terrible song, though it really flirts with terribleness." #

Double Fine PsychOdyssey — new documentary series follows seven years of Psychonauts 2 development, 6,000 hours of footage edited down to 32 episodes #

Andrew Plotkin’s treasury of Zork maps — the one by cart00nlion is just beautiful #

Shift Happens live on Kickstarter — years in the making, Marcin Wichary's exhaustively-researched book about keyboards hit the goal in under two hours #

AI-generated Seinfeld banned from Twitch after transphobic standup — less than a month after AI VTuber Neuro-Sama was banned for two weeks for denying the Holocaust #

touchHLE — new open-source project to emulate early iOS apps, starting with App Store launch title Super Monkey Ball from 2008 #

Mastodon Flock, find your Twitter friends on Mastodon — even better than Movetodon before Twitter revoked its API access (via) #

Katie Notopoulos interviews bot creators about the Twitter API closure — the people behind @ca_dmv_bot, @oliviataters, @MakeItAQuote, @BigTechAlert, @_restaurant_bot, and more #

CatGPT — an AI chatbot that won't confidently lie to you #

DONKS — new animation from Felix Colgrave, "an exploration of ocean plastic, avatars and adaptive bottom feeders" (via) #

Twitter announces the end of free access to its APIs in one week — this will kill every free bot, tool, and service built on its API, including my own Belong.io aggregator #

Platformer exclusive on Artifact, the personalized news feed from Instagram’s cofounders — unfortunately it's only news articles from big publishers, so resembles a less personal version of Google News' For You #

Nothing, Forever, an endless livestreamed AI-generated episode of Seinfeld — Motherboard interviewed the creator #

Ars Technica’s overview on the state of generative AI — a readable high-level primer on the foundational models that made recent breakthroughs possible #

broider — Max Bittker made a tool for making 9-patch quilt-like borders in CSS using inline data URIs (via) #

Using Kid Pix to Recreate Caravaggio’s “Judith Beheading Holofornes” — Cat Graffam's followup to recreating "Saturn Devouring His Son" in Mario Paint #

MusicLM — new AI model from Google Research generates music from text prompts, like "accordion death metal" (via) #

Chronophoto, guess the year photos were taken — my best score is 3,164 4,009 (via) #