cohost
— intriguing new microblogging service with flexible formatting; see Everest Pipkin's Twine-esque editor #
Jia Tolentino on the death of Roe
— "we are entering an era not just of unsafe abortions but of the widespread criminalization of pregnancy" #
Where to Send Your Money (That Isn’t Planned Parenthood)
— you can make a big impact giving to local abortion funds and other support groups #
Liberal justices deliver blistering joint dissent on Roe
— "From the very moment of fertilization, a woman has no rights to speak of." #
Supreme Court overturns Roe v Wade, ending federal right to abortion
— catastrophic decision from the Conservative majority, abortion is now banned in 13 states with more to follow #
Platformer Toolkit
— interactive essay to experiment with adjusting game feel in a simple side scroller #
Human Record Player
— the only way to listen to Weezer's new single is to spin around in a circle with your phone #
Inside the $100K+ forgery scandal that’s roiling PC game collecting
— don't miss the long exposé detailing all the evidence #
The Bleak Spectacle of the Amber Heard-Johnny Depp Trial
— Michael Hobbes debunks the conspiracy theory at the center of the "largest explosion of online misogyny since Gamergate" #
50 Years of Text Games is now on Kickstarter
— Aaron A. Reed is turning my favorite newsletter of 2021 into a book, with "feelies" and new material in deluxe editions #
Partita Prelude for 8-Bit Ensemble
— Linus Akesson performs Bach live on three Commodore 64s and a 1541 disk drive #
Vox explainer on the AI text-to-image revolution
— with a bonus video talking to artists about what AI art means for human artists #
Bertrand Fan installs a payphone in his house
— from 1990s credit card fraud to phone line simulators #
Tracking what happens after TikTok songs go viral
— Vox's Estelle Caswell and The Pudding did a seven-month data investigation into how TikTok is shaping the music industry #
MarkovJunior
— this probabilistic programming language is impenetrable to me, but the generated results are amazing (via) #
Yotam Mann teases his AI music studio
— stem splitting, chord detection, instrument conversion, tempo stretching in a browser-based editor #
The Inside Outtakes
— Bo Burnham dropped an hour-long compilation of material cut from his Netflix special released one year ago today #
Sliderland
— minimalist coding playground to make animations with 64 HTML sliders, don't miss the music video (via) #
A City In A Bottle
— Frank Force's tiny city and raycasting system in a tweet, with more info about how it works #
Searching 32 million academic papers for obscene acronyms hidden in the titles
— Rob Manuel doing critical research #
Marble Madness II prototype ROM finally leaks online
— a later version without the "Marble Man" branding or trackball support, but fully playable in the next MAME release #
SponsorBlock
— crowdsourced browser add-on removes YouTube sponsor reads, "like and subscribe" reminders, intros, outros, and other filler (via) #
How to Make Automatic Supercuts
— Sam Lavigne updated his Videogrep tool to use Vosk, a powerful speech recognition toolkit #
Alan Resnick’s DALL·E 2 variant test
— starting with the prompt "a bad photo" and requesting variations of each image #
Reply All calls it quits
— co-creator Alex Goldman and co-host Emmanuel Dzotsi announced their departures in a leaked internal memo #
Making sense of VRChat, the “metaverse” people actually like
— People Make Games digs into the chaotic and expressive alternative to Facebook's bland corporate vision #
The woman who created Wabbit for the Atari 2600 has been found
— Van Mai designed and coded the first-known console game with a human female protagonist in 1982 #
Fly with Birds
— Tom Scott on a French man who flies a microlight aircraft with flocks of birds, sometimes to help protected species to migrate #
Different Strokes
— a collaborative art gallery where visitors are encouraged to improve the art, try the Hall of Fame and "See Original" on any painting (via) #
Molly White on creating digital scarcity for artists without a blockchain
— NFTs without cryptocurrency are possible, but can a platform exist without speculative investors propping it up (via) #
Music from Nancy
— experimental performance piece from 1979 based on Nancy comics, with an illustrated score (via) #
Google shows prototype AR glasses with real-time language translation
— massive potential, but the privacy implications are profound #
Today In Tabs on TerraUSD’s unstable stablecoin
— this was entertaining to watch yesterday until I saw a suicide hotline topping their subreddit #
NYT analyzes Tucker Carlson’s conspiratorial and insular language over time
— using transcripts from all 1,150 episodes, spreading paranoid conspiracies of white replacement and victimhood #