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) #

Drayk It — make an AI Drake write and perform a song about blogs, Scooby Doo, or anything else (via) #

Measuring the cultural weirdness of Avatar — analyzing Avatar fanfic, memes, and lyric mentions to gauge whether it's a cultural outlier relative to other blockbusters #

Macroeconomic Changes Have Made It Impossible for Me to Want to Pay You — "The fact is, if I wanted to pay you, I could. I could even give you raises. But once again, that is not the economic reality we face." #

jwz on Mozilla’s 25th anniversary — Jamie reconstructed some early Mozilla websites not captured by Wayback (via) #

Tapbots releases Ivory, a polished Mastodon app for iOS — if you can't swallow the subscription fee, Ice Cubes is free and open-source #

Wonders of Street View — explore weird and wonderful things on Google Street View #

Inside the world of retail shoplifting — professional fences profit from desperation and addiction, outsourcing theft to boosters for pennies on the dollar (via) #

TET — a short free game about cooking Vietnamese food from Swiss-Vietnamese illustrator Charlotte Broccard #

Summer Afternoon — charming short multiplayer WebGL experiment, try to find the five secrets (via) #

Copy Dennis — a fed-up web designer publicly shames the people who cloned his distinctive portfolio site (via) #

U.S. airline accidentally exposes TSA No Fly List on unsecured server — the discoverer blogged about how she used Shodan to find the exposed server, AWS credentials, and S3 buckets #

Inside CNET’s AI-powered SEO money machine — the private equity firm who bought it in 2020 is racing to the bottom with automated content farming #

After 16 years, Twitterrific is discontinued — killed by an unannounced and undocumented policy change from a company no developer should ever trust again #

1923 cartoon predicts AI art generators in 2023 — "Cartoon Dynamo (Pat. 2023)" #

The many ingenious ways people in prison use forbidden cell phones — connecting with others, side hustles, exposing inhumane conditions, and taking Harvard's free online comp sci classes (via) #

Comparing ChatGPT to Claude, Anthropic’s new AI chatbot assistant — I love that both models are just as confused about what happened on Lost's later seasons as I am #

Hampster Invaders — Matt Round fused the Hampster Dance with Space Invaders, with the Cuban Boys' remix used by permission #

Waxy.org is now on Mastodon — all links and posts are now automatically posted, just follow @[email protected] #

Getty Images suing Stable Diffusion for scraping their images — separate from the class action lawsuit led by three artists announced a few days ago #

Inside the “extremely hardcore” first 90 days of Twitter under Elon Musk — outstanding reporting covering a truly terrible acquisition; love the "Elon net worth-o-meter" #