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July 14, 2023
— 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 #
— incredible craftsmanship and attention to detail #
June 15, 2023
— Mia Sato on how Google’s failure to punish SEO tactics, instead promoting their low-quality garbage, has made the web immeasurably worse #
June 13, 2023
— feels like the YouTube version of The Ellen Show’s charitable giveaways, totaling $450M over 19 years, all backed by sponsors #
June 12, 2023
— Becca Schuh writes about her experience being a writer in the food service industry #
— new deranged mashup album from the creator of Slamilton: A Basketball Musical #
June 11, 2023
— watch as over 7,200 subreddits go dark in real-time to protest the API changes #
June 9, 2023
— help him out by donating missing issues, using the scans for research/analysis, and sharing the results #
— “help us to grab the AI by the Jackson Pollocks and expand classic works of art to show how it should be done” via b3ta #
— I’m a judge for this showcase of the small, playful, heartfelt web; nominations are open until June 14 #
— it sounds like Apple created Ted Chiang’s Predictor for the Vision Pro #
June 8, 2023
— amazing showcase of upcoming indie games, personal highlights include Viewfinder, Summerhill, and Simpler Times #
— Melissa Gira Grant on how extremist influencers invented an anti-LGBTQ moral panic turned terror campaign #
— what happens when fresh food runs out for the season at a South Pole research station #
— a surprising 5-4 ruling reaffirming the Voting Rights Act for disenfranchised Black voters in Alabama via MetaFilter #
— a growing list of over 3,100 subreddits is going dark on June 12 to protest the API changes via Nick Heer #
June 7, 2023
— place all the mines in a Minesweeper game; this one’s a brain melter, click the question mark for help via MetaFilter #
June 6, 2023
— hard to believe these all scan, but they do #
June 5, 2023
— musicians are increasingly being sued over vibe infringement #
— co-founder David Mikkelson drove it off a cliff with a series of terrible managerial and ethical decisions #
— a big bet on the fidelity of their passthrough cameras, trying to normalize wearing ski goggles around others with a front-facing display #
June 2, 2023
— idle games are my kryptonite and this one is no exception via MetaFilter #
— but not the saxophone via MetaFilter #
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