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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 #
— DJ Hennessy Youngman drops another airhorn-laden nostalgia bomb #
June 1, 2023
— detailed analysis of rights that each justice has questioned #
— the cast of two dozen Fort Wayne teens raised almost $84,000 in two weeks to book their own venue with security #
— like The Clock of the Long Now, and it didn’t need $42 million from Jeff Bezos to build #
May 31, 2023
— along with banning NSFW content from the API, this will effectively kill every third-party Reddit client #
May 30, 2023
— The Verge made a short documentary about how the Apple Lisa was sabotaged, with remaining inventory secretly buried in a Utah landfill #
— an attempt to do digital media differently as a worker-owned co-op without outside investors, supported by readers, and writers own their IP #
May 28, 2023
— guess both the location and date of five photos for a combined score via Nick Heer #
— design the worst possible terms of service agreement via @geoffreylitt #
May 27, 2023
— imagine the client learning their lawyers are charging them to literally type “is this a real case” in ChatGPT #
— the project’s wrapping because Media Molecule announced the end of support for the game creation engine in September #
May 26, 2023
— sadly, the Westchester County house was demolished last week with “pretty much everything still inside” #
— so much to explore here, all rendered with a custom typeface for ASCII art #
— FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8 #
— “Please click each image containing a Yoko” #
— Linus Åkesson covered the classic Amiga tracker tune from 1993, with a stop-motion video controlled by the original MOD pattern data #
— a long growing list of classic high score screens and their known credits via b3ta #
— convince an increasingly annoying chatbot to reveal a secret password via b3ta #
— ridiculous finger-twisting multitouch game for mobile browsers via MetaFilter #
May 25, 2023
— the behavior appears to be learned but may be a fad, like the Puget Sound orcas who spent the summer of 1987 wearing dead salmon as hats #
— like a visual Stylish without touching CSS, with built-in sharing options #
— Vole.wtf’s new Tetris-esque daily game, clear the blocks to win every day #
— animated short made from over 1,000 historic engravings of objects #
— Naomi Kritzer’s short sci-fi story about a helpful AI, not unlike the one in Mrs. Davis via MetaFilter #
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