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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 #
May 23, 2023
— finding the identity of the programmer behind “The Story of Mel,” a classic piece of hacker lore that just turned 40 via MetaFilter #
— C-SPAN meets TikTok sludge content, “it’s giving democracy” #
May 22, 2023
— “generate a secure password from the lyrics of America’s greatest singer-songwriter” via @mattround #
— after ten years and multiple near-death experiences, the award-winning comics publisher is closing in August #
May 19, 2023
— built on top of data from Have I Been Pwned?, I haven’t heard of many of the companies that leaked my info #
— it goes about as well as you’d expect #
— his thoughts about his favorable prognosis and how the treatment he starts today may affect his life and work #
May 18, 2023
— each of the five plaintiffs talk about their experiences in the complaint #
— Kagan’s dissent is worth reading, arguing the opinion will “stifle creativity of every sort” #
May 17, 2023
— the unconstitutional and dangerous law goes into effect on January 1, though it’s likely to be challenged #
— the new social bookmarking app founded by Paul Ford and Rich Ziade is now in public beta, sign up for the waitlist to make your own stacks via @ftrain #
— design and share little interactive voxel rooms in your browser #
— Jaime Brooks contextualizes deepfaked vocals to the history of virtual pop stars, Vocaloid software, and minstrelsy via MetaFilter #
— a useful set of guidelines for technology journalists #
— related: badidea.zip links to a ZIP file called badidea.zip containing a QR code that points to badidea.zip #
May 16, 2023
— a Google spokesperson said they won’t be removing accounts with YouTube videos “at this time.” #
— “Love for this movie showed me a community of people like me.” #
May 15, 2023
— an immersive mystery with Night Vale vibes, I recommend starting with Violet’s Instagram or the town’s announcements #
— launched last November, a massive open-source search engine for shadow libraries like Sci-Hub, Libgen, and Z-Library, with a takedown-resistant architecture #
— the pilot program developed with U.S. Digital Service will begin in January, if Intuit’s lobbying doesn’t kill it first #
May 11, 2023
— another brilliant Amy Goodchild post; don’t miss her attempts to recreate Sol LeWitt’s wall drawings with Midjourney and ChatGPT #
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