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May 11, 2023
— 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 #
April 17, 2023
— hiding their identity is a good idea, makes it harder for labels to serve the subpoena #
April 14, 2023
— the first U.S. state to pass legislation banning TikTok on all personal devices #
— like Hacker Typer, but for Doogie Howser’s journal entries; don’t miss the settings via b3ta #
— “When you’re a private centralized company and you don’t deal with hateful content on your site, you’re the Nazi bar.” #
April 13, 2023
— fine-tuning LLaMa’s privacy-friendly uncensored model on messages stored in iMessage’s SQLite db via Simon Willison #
— his first interview not in character #
April 10, 2023
— from April 1964 to April 2013, only one issue of Mad was published without new material from the comics legend #
— John Oliver’s web-only episode about the seedy underbelly of Chuck E. Cheese via MetaFilter #
— satirical or not, it’s staged content optimized to annoy people into engaging with it to game the algorithm #
— related: classified military documents have repeatedly leaked on the War Thunder forums #
— Google, Meta, and Amazon are focused on chasing trends to appease Wall Street, while letting their core products wither #
April 8, 2023
— the earliest known is an anti-war message in a text editor for the PDP-6, hidden in 1968 but only discovered in 2021 #
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