Map of most notable people around the world — using metadata from Wikipedia and Wikidata, including article length, views, and external links (via) #

Amazon’s third-party seller piracy problem — Amazon gets paid either way, so they're unlikely to fix it #

The Apple Store Time Machine — interactive macOS app with four meticulous reconstructions of Apple Stores on their opening days #

Molly White on victim-blaming in the crypto crash — related: her excerpts from letters to the judges of the Celsius Network and Voyager Digital bankruptcy cases (via) #

Stray, tilt-shifted — I finished the cat game this weekend and it was a pure joy, highly recommended #

Infinite Mac adds virtual networking — you can now play games remotely with Mihai Parparita's full-featured in-browser classic 68K Mac #

Joni Mitchell performs first full set in over 20 years — she spent years recovering from a 2015 brain aneurysm, relearning guitar by watching videos of herself playing #

Emoji Kitchen Browser — explore over 30,000 emoji mashups #

Absurd AI-generated food photography with DALL-E 2 — Max Woolf serves up Rubik's Cube PB&Js and five-dimensional burgers #

The Secret History Of The Internet’s Funniest Buzzer-Beater — Brian Feldman goes deep into a '90s viral video and tracks down everyone involved (via) #

MegaPortraits — real-time animated avatars made from a single portrait image #

Scratch, MIT Media Lab’s visual coding platform for kids, is blowing up — it doubled in popularity in the last two years #

The Verge on how indie writers are using AI tools like Sudowrite and Jasper — love the interactive article design #

Everyone Everywhere Needs Waymond Wang — Pop Culture Detective on Everything Everywhere All At Once's subversive portrayal of masculinity #

An Ode to Desus and Mero, Forever Kings of New York — the brand was strong #

Lego makes Atari 2600 set for Atari’s 50th anniversary — from the fold-out 1980s living room to the game cartridge dioramas, this was laser-targeted to me #

RIP Sockington — at his peak, Jason Scott's adorable cat had over 1.5M Twitter followers and was in the top 100 most-followed accounts #

Anil Dash talks about his violent assault at a California coffee shop — "Our institutions have no capability for responding to crisis with compassion." #

Artbreeder Collage — structured image generation with prompts and simple drawing tools (via) #

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 #