Doom running inside Doom II — Doom for DOS exploit lets you run Doom and Heretic as animated textures (via) #

Replicating the styles of well-known portrait photographers with DALL-E 2 — this is going to end up in court some day soon and it's going to be wild #

DALL-E 2 Prompt Book — good inspiration fodder for playing around with text-to-image AI models #

Matt Levine breaks down Twitter’s Elon Musk lawsuit — Twitter's now in the bizarre position of trying to force Musk to buy a company he's trying to destroy #

How the YouTube Creator Economy Works — a good companion to Hank Green on the issues with the TikTok Creator Fund vs. YouTube revenue sharing #

Twitter sues Elon Musk — the full complaint is an enjoyable read #

Mind Flayer — interactive Three.js experiment inspired by Stranger Things (via) #

Spotify buys Heardle daily music game — they already switched from SoundCloud to Spotify in several countries #

After 10 years, Ev Williams steps down from CEO role at Medium — he'll remain chairman, Tony Stubblebine is taking over #

Ed Yong on BA.5 — what we know and don't yet know about transmissibility, immune evasion, and long-term effects from the latest surge #

NASA releases first James Webb Space Telescope images — they should have sent a poet #

Pokemon-inspired cellular automaton battle — more interesting and beautiful experiments in the replies #

Ravel — Everest Pipkin's simple no-code tool for making unfolding stories like Soft Corruptor without logic #

Anime ramen shaders — breakdown of rendering a savory bowl of ramen with Unity and Blender #

NYT profiles competitive GeoGuessr players — don't miss @georainbolt's intense Google Maps mastery (via) #

Midjourney temporarily opens for beta access — a surreal text-to-image model run entirely in Discord channels #

James Webb Space Telescope delivers deepest infrared image of universe yet — thousands of galaxies in one image, more images coming tomorrow morning #

Using GPT-3 to explain how code works — Simon Willison uses GPT-3 to help understand complex code #

Eat the Rich Popsicles — MSCHF pop-up ice cream trucks in NYC and LA #

Lyrical Garfield — Twitter bot that detects Garfield dialogue and replaces it with song lyrics (via) #

The Uber Files, massive exposé from 124,000 leaked internal documents — a lobbyist turned whistleblower reveals how they exploited drivers, pressured politicians, and used covert tech to thwart government raids #

The Atlantic launches digital archive — 165 years of journalism from 1857 to today, with features on 25 writers that shaped the publication #

LAION-5B — massive dataset of 5.85 billion image-text pairs for developing open text-to-image models like DALL-E #

prompt.press — AI generated artwork inspired by current events (via) #

Klifur — charming puzzle climbing game reminiscent of Bennett Foddy's GIRP (via) #

After losing his taste and smell to covid, Hank Green tries foods he hates — pickles, black licorice, blue cheese, anchovies, and lots of olives #

FCC orders carriers to stop delivering auto warranty robocalls — one group of scammers is responsible for more than 8 billion calls since 2018 #

Elon Musk officially tries to bail on Twitter deal — Twitter has every right to sue him into the ground #

Absurd Trolley Problems — see how you compare to 750k others in Neal Agarwal's series of increasingly-absurd ethical dilemmas #

Netflix Doesn’t Want to Hear It Anymore — Zoe Schiffer digs into Netflix's internal cultural shift away from open feedback #

Ryan Broderick on schizoposting and the Highland Park shooter — related: Odette Yousef on nihilistic online subcultures that embrace mass shooter aesthetics #

How Primitive Building Videos Are Staged — the success of Primitive Technology spawned dozens of over-the-top knockoffs based in SE Asia; related: footage of abandoned sites and Coconuts' 2019 exposé #

The modifiers vs. the keepers — another charming Marcin Wichary post about an obscure footnote in keyboard history #

How a fake job offer led to Axie Infinity’s $540M crypto heist — multiple rounds of phony interviews helped convince a senior engineer to open a malware PDF with the fake compensation package (via) #

Vulture profiles Nathan Fielder — the master of uncomfortable comedy (via) #

Making a virtual retro PC in Godot that plays Sierra games — related: Robin Ward's deep-dive into Sierra graphics and attempts to upscale them #

Book Exploder — Song Exploder expands to literature on August 3 with host Susan Orlean interviewing authors about their work #

The Terror of Everything Everywhere All At Once — Thomas Flight ties the film to hypermodernity, Bo Burnham's Inside, and the feeling of being extremely online #

Last Call BBS — the final game from indie legends Zachtronics is out now #

An oral history of Contact on its 25th anniversary — in development hell for 20 years, it's sort of amazing it was ever made #

cohost — intriguing new microblogging service with flexible formatting; see Everest Pipkin's Twine-esque editor #

Max Read on wrong number text scams — surreal variations of "pig-butchering" confidence scams #

The Looker — very funny parody of The Witness, free for Windows (via) #

Jia Tolentino on the death of Roe — "we are entering an era not just of unsafe abortions but of the widespread criminalization of pregnancy" #

Where to Send Your Money (That Isn’t Planned Parenthood) — you can make a big impact giving to local abortion funds and other support groups #

Donate to an Abortion Fund Right Now  #

Liberal justices deliver blistering joint dissent on Roe — "From the very moment of fertilization, a woman has no rights to speak of." #

Supreme Court overturns Roe v Wade, ending federal right to abortion — catastrophic decision from the Conservative majority, abortion is now banned in 13 states with more to follow #

Platformer Toolkit — interactive essay to experiment with adjusting game feel in a simple side scroller #

Human Record Player — the only way to listen to Weezer's new single is to spin around in a circle with your phone #