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July 20, 2023
— over 1,500 people have manually calculated RGB values to collectively make a shader with human brain power #
— as of this moment, a good chunk of the pixel art canvas is devoted to messages urging the CEO to fuck himself #
— resurrecting an unhinged 2003 meme from b3ta is the least confusing thing about this campaign #
— only three top 5 hits in the last decade were written entirely by women, and one of those was Kate Bush #
— doctored screenshots, Telegram impersonation, and organized crime #
July 19, 2023
— the book acts as a guide to the adventure game, which you have to tediously type by hand #
— ProPublica analyzed 60 incidents that led to arrests or charges as part of their ongoing Chaos at the School Board series #
— there’s a second part with Psyduck, Thomas the Tank Engine, and friends via MetaFilter #
— it’s still unknown what Threads’ ActivityPub implementation will look like, which will determine its impact #
— from the harmonies to the Gudetama rap verse, this is just perfect via MetaFilter #
— a new game from Matt Round with a unique word puzzle for every second of the day #
July 18, 2023
— searchable frontend to the Flashpoint preservation project, archiving 145,000 Flash games playable with the Ruffle emulator via MetaFilter #
— from 2021 but new to me, a Nethack/Rogue-inspired virtual exhibition of interactive visual poetry #
— made with glow-in-the-dark thread, you can buy the pattern on Gumroad #
— open-source chiptune player with over 200k songs in a variety of tracker/console formats, turn on the visualizer and hit shuffle #
— puppet a bird playing an ML-synthesized cello, the latest musical experiment from David Li, creator of Blob Opera via @matt_muir #
July 17, 2023
— using search suggestions from OpenSearch via joy.recurse.com #
— Jacobin talks to Adam Conover about his activism on the picket line and social media during the writers’ strike via Cory Doctorow #
— last year, a teenage gorilla in a Chicago zoo “became so engrossed in cellphones he started ignoring his peers” via Caitlin Dewey #
— Carlos Barragán goes to Nigeria to find the Yahoo boy who duped his mother via Caitlin Dewey #
— like Garrett, I’ve been playing with Kagi recently and impressed with the results via Chris Glass #
July 14, 2023
— like an inverse Tetris, where you remove single blocks to let the correct bricks fall down via b3ta #
— another in a series of There I Ruined It’s cursed experiments with AI voice cloning #
— Johnson & Johnson will allow generic versions of its life-saving TB drug in lower-income countries, and Hank’s cancer is responding well to treatment #
— VCs and big tech CEOs are living together in a reactionary bubble, insulated from people who might call them out via Paul Bausch #
— it takes over 50 minutes to read the Instagram Terms of Use out loud, an extremely effective sleep aid via Web Curios #
— fun physics sandbox from the creator of Life Universe via Web Curios #
July 13, 2023
— my new jam is MIDI versions of Steely Dan’s Aja, but with every instrument replaced by the Mario 64 soundfont #
— elegant and useful interactive explainer from Nanda Syahrasyad #
— Eugene Wei on how Twitter lost its vitality as a social network #
July 11, 2023
— MSCHF made a site to “crowd pirate” a hand-drawn frame-by-frame recreation of The Bee Movie #
— they commissioned work made with and without AI from freelancers in Nigeria, Mexico, China, and the Philippines #
July 9, 2023
— there’s an annotated version if, like me, you need an explainer #
— elegantly designed free browser game, like Vampire Survivors but a group of windows defending a desktop via Naive Weekly #
July 5, 2023
— I helped narrow down the 300+ nominees to 16 charming websites representing the “small, playful and heartfelt web” #
June 30, 2023
— Taylor Lorenz reports on how “giving First Amendment protection to online abuse will make a growing problem worse” #
— though affirmative action for white college applicants still exists, in the form of legacy admits, children of donors, and other VIPs #
— Melissa Gira Grant talked to the man listed in the filings; he’s straight, married to a woman, and designs his own websites via Nelson Minar #
— I knew much of this history, but not how horribly Google execs treated the Reader team #
June 28, 2023
— I’m sure all those unpaid volunteers will take the news well #
— Hank Green posted a quick high-level overview of the five papers on TikTok #
— one man finally sold his horde of 2,200 machines for dirt cheap on eBay, held in storage for 33 years, inspiring a preservation effort #
June 27, 2023
— these password requirements are getting ridiculous #
June 26, 2023
— generative AI’s capacity for consuming content and generating low-quality noise is forcing platforms to reconsider the open web #
— Cabel Sasser scanned his entire collection of rarely-seen newsletters for Disneyland employees, 28 issues from 1962-1980 #
June 22, 2023
— an interactive comic by Gina Wynbrandt #
June 20, 2023
— investigation into the distributed anonymous workforce getting paid to annotate training data and align AI models via Today in Tabs #
June 17, 2023
— a beautiful reflection on the words he said on stage at XOXO nearly ten years ago #
June 16, 2023
— Paul Ford archived all his father’s writing and uploaded it to the Internet Archive in his memory #
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