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August 8, 2023
— for its 10th anniversary, Lukas and Keiko Pope demade “Papers, Please” as a Game & Watch-style LCD game #
— ProPublica digs into a possible factor in rising homicides, beyond the obvious proliferation of guns via @AlecMacGillis #
August 7, 2023
— a small wealthy resort that outsources its parking to a nearby town, but still, living the dream #
— “the first computerized TV show” from the creator of Laugh-In was cancelled after the first episode, decades ahead of its time #
— reprints of these stunning 1907 multilingual eye charts are for sale at 20×200 #
— the same creator also made a complete version of Myst for the Apple II #
— the top domains their users block and promote in search results; they really hate Pinterest! via Hacker News #
— The Earl Hayes Press has printed fake newspapers, magazines, product labels, and more for films and TV shows since 1918 via pad26.aweb.page #
— addictive little web game to try to put words/phrases in the order they first appeared via pad26.aweb.page #
— “a perennial website about the possibility of love online” only accessible for five weeks, the shelf life of an onion via Naive Weekly #
August 4, 2023
— “Lawmakers are quickly advancing an anti-sex, anti-speech agenda in which every adult user of the internet could soon find themself entangled.” #
— if Pee-Wee’s Playhouse came out today, it’d be maligned by conservatives for its playful diversity and queerness #
— Max Read on the bullwhip effect applied to sentiment on social media, wildly swinging with every new update about the room-temp superconductor #
August 3, 2023
— Simon Willison gave an approachable and interesting talk that covers “the last few years of LLM developments in 35 minutes” #
August 2, 2023
— just start any version and click the tab at the bottom of the screen #
— launched in 2020, a 24/7 “endless stream of obscure media and video ephemera” a la Everything Is Terrible! #
— a powerful force in raising awareness of systemic sexism and harassment in the games industry #
July 31, 2023
— Pee Wee Herman brought so much joy into the world #
July 29, 2023
— everything he’s made since then is great too, I especially loved Crankin’s Time Travel Adventure for Playdate via @lauraehall #
— Erin Kissane surveyed people on Bluesky who bounced off Mastodon and her write-up is excellent #
July 28, 2023
— search engine that exclusively searches discussion forums via b3ta #
— very clever letter-substitution puzzle game from Daniel Linssen via b3ta #
— imagine keeping a pristine arcade game in your garage for decades and then just dumping it with the weekly garbage via Kottke #
July 27, 2023
— The Verge profiles Neeva, a well-funded startup that tried and failed to take on Google via Nelson Minar #
— excellent plain-language primer on how transformer-based LLMs like ChatGPT work #
— “If no one is on this page, the sky will fall.” via @genmon #
— play SNES games with instant online multiplayer in the browser; also: nes.party #
July 26, 2023
— I have friends that swear by it, but I found it too hard to get used to #
— David OReilly breaks down what went into making his universe simulation #
— the misunderstood history of the Luddite movement and what they can teach us about resisting an automated future via MetaFilter #
— the NYT profiles the woman going viral on TikTok for outing pickpockets on the streets of Venice #
July 25, 2023
— Apple shipped attestation in Safari last year, but Chromium-based browsers are ~70% of the internet usage #
— advanced tips and tricks for searching hard to reach archives #
— MS Paint clone in the terminal, made with Textual and Python via Simon Willison #
— Rest of World visits some of the last remaining cafes in Uganda, Nepal, Nigeria, Mexico, Argentina, and Hong Kong #
July 23, 2023
— brr.fyi continues their wonderful documentation of “routine, mundane activities and infrastructure in extraordinary contexts” #
July 21, 2023
— “Time is a flat circle, and so is self-referential AI-generated content.” #
— my brain won’t accept these are physical objects via mossandfog.com #
— incredibly annoying daily puzzle, try to find the only five-letter word in a 9×9 grid of letters via b3ta #
— he uses Overpass Turbo to search OpenStreetMap data; related: Bellingcat’s powerful OSM Search Tool #
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 #
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