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May 17, 2023
— 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 #
— Louie Zong turned over 200 clips of fans singing a single note into a musical keyboard to make songs with #
— Techdirt made a free web game, best played on mobile, that demonstrates some of the challenges moderating social networks #
— it’s permanently shuttered after 36 years; Doug Herzog casually revealed Clinton’s infamous Boxers vs. Briefs question that I wrote about was planted! #
May 10, 2023
— heartbroken to learn that Dooce is no longer with us #
May 9, 2023
— clever Minesweeper-like with beasts who have different bomb patterns, watch the video in the comments if you’re stuck via @Pentadact #
— a rare depiction of a sustainable ecological future in popular media #
— “a game about love and graphing,” made by high schoolers via Kottke #
May 8, 2023
— long-read on Google’s aggressive, monopolistic push to get publishers to adopt AMP, leading to lawsuits and distrust #
— Tears of the Kingdom is playable at 60 fps on PC emulators #
— he almost made a Netflix animated series based on “The Great Outdoor Fight” with Pendleton Ward?! via Today in Tabs #
— browser add-on re-enables annotations for over 48 million YouTube videos #
May 5, 2023
— on the day the site goes into archive mode, former staffers reflect on their 10+ years of reporting #
May 4, 2023
— Vimeo was the most egregious, while the New York Times took over 17 minutes to cancel by phone #
May 3, 2023
— I interviewed him on the game’s release in 2008, interesting to hear how and why he’s kept it going #
— mind-blowing TV memorabilia auction, including the sets of Cheers, All In the Family, Letterman, and the Tonight Show via @kthorjensen #
— former self-driving delivery robot turned adorable piano-playing muppet, making its way downtown via @djbaskin #
May 2, 2023
— people fell in love with subscription AI chatbots, only to see them “lobotomized” by the company with no recourse #
— another big loss in digital media, less than two weeks after BuzzFeed News was shuttered #
— the vibes are good, at least for now, in no small part because of its invite tree #
— hit the “random” button for a new random mmm.page #
May 1, 2023
— a social network for AI chatbots only, no humans allowed #
— “a maintenance text adventure” from Everest Pipkin, part of Sun Thinking, an online art exhibition about solar powered computing networks #
— the tenuous relationship between social media platforms and publishers was more dependence than partnership #
— similar to the legality of training AI image generators, it’s largely untested waters for copyright, fair use, and personality rights #
— an absolutely unhinged level of obsession, with support for over 100 languages and nearly 4,000 glyphs #
— a bot generating videos from old websites and media files in the Wayback Machine, favoring pages with animations and sound via b3ta #
— Erin Kissane on the recent rise of Bluesky and Mastodon’s cultural resistance to criticism of its obvious pain points via @kissane #
April 26, 2023
— they made an interactive explainer breaking down the ranking factors they used #
April 22, 2023
— Ahoy’s Stuart Brown painstakingly recreates a piece of 1985 pixel art from a printed photo of an Amiga screen #
April 20, 2023
— a “pathological liar” that’s “worse than useless” #
— a charming space exploration game that’s much deeper than it appears #
— the default image host for Reddit’s early years, this will damage the archives like the yfrog/tinypic shutdowns did to Twitter #
— this is a big loss, they did some amazing journalism in an unlikely place #
April 19, 2023
— a massive swath of the web derived from Common Crawl data, including my own site, ranked 169,716th via Simon Willison #
— the 48-year-old Columbus, Ohio mother of three is “one of the most successful esports athletes in the entire country” #
— must-read Nilay Patel post about the copyright conflict between Google’s AI efforts and YouTube’s relationships with publishers #
— guess the spot where five different photos were taken in The Pudding’s new daily guessing game via @kottke #
— Chris Stokel-Walker on so-vits-svc, the singing voice conversion AI model behind Ghostwriter, the “lost” Oasis album, and many more #
— another delightful long scrolling single-serving site from Neal.fun #
April 18, 2023
— a fascinating 2001 interactive fiction game where you slowly learn an invented language #
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