Filmot — search captions from 528 million YouTube videos and 45 million channels #

Inside the $100K+ forgery scandal that’s roiling PC game collecting — don't miss the long exposé detailing all the evidence #

Strong Bad meets DALL-E 2 — animating and voicing the output from Janelle Shane's AI prompts  #

The Bleak Spectacle of the Amber Heard-Johnny Depp Trial — Michael Hobbes debunks the conspiracy theory at the center of the "largest explosion of online misogyny since Gamergate" #

50 Years of Text Games is now on Kickstarter — Aaron A. Reed is turning my favorite newsletter of 2021 into a book, with "feelies" and new material in deluxe editions #

Partita Prelude for 8-Bit Ensemble — Linus Akesson performs Bach live on three Commodore 64s and a 1541 disk drive #

DJ Cummerbund mashes up Lizzo and Linkin Park — this goes the extra mile (via) #

Like like — "a tool for wandering through Twitter" (via) #

Vox explainer on the AI text-to-image revolution — with a bonus video talking to artists about what AI art means for human artists #

Janelle Shane uses DALL-E 2 to mess up corporate logos — it's a perfect Sbubby meme generator #

Bertrand Fan installs a payphone in his house — from 1990s credit card fraud to phone line simulators #

Make WordArt — if you're stuck, maybe Clippy can help #

Tracking what happens after TikTok songs go viral — Vox's Estelle Caswell and The Pudding did a seven-month data investigation into how TikTok is shaping the music industry #

MarkovJunior — this probabilistic programming language is impenetrable to me, but the generated results are amazing (via) #

Yotam Mann teases his AI music studio — stem splitting, chord detection, instrument conversion, tempo stretching in a browser-based editor #

robotsdraw — Joshua Schachter's very funny plotter videos are a hit #

The Inside Outtakes — Bo Burnham dropped an hour-long compilation of material cut from his Netflix special released one year ago today #

Sliderland — minimalist coding playground to make animations with 64 HTML sliders, don't miss the music video (via) #

A City In A Bottle — Frank Force's tiny city and raycasting system in a tweet, with more info about how it works #

Who Owns 4chan? — since 2015, the Japanese toy firm Good Smile has been its silent partner #

This Image Does Not Exist — try to guess if an image was generated by a human or machine #

Searching 32 million academic papers for obscene acronyms hidden in the titles — Rob Manuel doing critical research #

Marble Madness II prototype ROM finally leaks online — a later version without the "Marble Man" branding or trackball support, but fully playable in the next MAME release #

SponsorBlock — crowdsourced browser add-on removes YouTube sponsor reads, "like and subscribe" reminders, intros, outros, and other filler (via) #

Imagen — Google Research announced an impressive DALL·E 2 rival #

Adversarial Minesweeper — harder than Hatetris #

How to Make Automatic Supercuts — Sam Lavigne updated his Videogrep tool to use Vosk, a powerful speech recognition toolkit #

Alan Resnick’s DALL·E 2 variant test — starting with the prompt "a bad photo" and requesting variations of each image #

Reply All calls it quits — co-creator Alex Goldman and co-host Emmanuel Dzotsi announced their departures in a leaked internal memo #

Making sense of VRChat, the “metaverse” people actually like — People Make Games digs into the chaotic and expressive alternative to Facebook's bland corporate vision #

The woman who created Wabbit for the Atari 2600 has been found — Van Mai designed and coded the first-known console game with a human female protagonist in 1982 #

Fly with Birds — Tom Scott on a French man who flies a microlight aircraft with flocks of birds, sometimes to help protected species to migrate #

Different Strokes — a collaborative art gallery where visitors are encouraged to improve the art, try the Hall of Fame and "See Original" on any painting (via) #

Molly White on creating digital scarcity for artists without a blockchain — NFTs without cryptocurrency are possible, but can a platform exist without speculative investors propping it up (via) #

First picture of the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy — mmm, forbidden donut #

Twitch Plays Bees — make drone/noise music with a hive of bees live on Twitch (via) #

Music from Nancy — experimental performance piece from 1979 based on Nancy comics, with an illustrated score (via) #

Google shows prototype AR glasses with real-time language translation — massive potential, but the privacy implications are profound #

Today In Tabs on TerraUSD’s unstable stablecoin — this was entertaining to watch yesterday until I saw a suicide hotline topping their subreddit #

NYT analyzes Tucker Carlson’s conspiratorial and insular language over time — using transcripts from all 1,150 episodes, spreading paranoid conspiracies of white replacement and victimhood #

Aaron A. Reed on business management games from the 1950s — early computerized text games for executives #

if the world doesn’t end — Bill Wurtz at his best #

Wordle! pivots to Wordle clone after sale to mobile publisher — a disappointing end to the totally different iOS game with a coincidentally-same name #

Visualizing one million U.S. covid-19 deaths — a grim milestone, undercounting the actual death toll (via) #

Apple discontinues the iPod after 20 years — Apple posted a fond farewell on their site #

Dracula Daily takes over Tumblr — the serialized Dracula is sent as a real-time newsletter based on the dates in the 1897 novel, spawning a new fandom #

Mother Jones feature on the destructive force of private equity on American businesses — this is the same strategy Elon Musk is using to saddle Twitter with billions in new debt #

Em Lazer-Walker on running virtual events — interesting thoughts informed by her experience building Roguelike Celebration's brilliant MUD-like social space #

Ironic Sans makes the case for adding “keming” to the dictionary — he coined the term in 2008 and has tracked its adoption ever since #

The YouTubers are not okay — Daniel Howell's feature-length video on why he quit YouTube is very good #