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February 25, 2023
— Cabel Sasser shines a light on a neighborhood artist’s quiet handiwork #
February 24, 2023
— Wired interviews the security researcher who, at age 22, found and activated a kill switch in the WannaCry ransomware attack before being arrested by the FBI via @jenni #
— the rise of machine-generated content is also increasing suspicion that human creators are actually AI #
— “the platform has disabled the function we used to track deletions and the new method that Twitter says should identify them appears to be broken” #
— related: The Atlantic on why adults over 40 typically feel 20% younger than they really are #
February 22, 2023
— made with ControlNet, a powerful new technique for controlling diffusion models #
February 21, 2023
— Craig Mod returns to the mid-sized Japanese city after his nomination led to the NYT placing it #2 on their 52 Places to Go list #
— I’ve wondered about this for years, amazing that they were looking to Maniac Mansion for inspiration #
February 20, 2023
— I just watched a version where Skinner replaced his burned Nova-style salmon with Barbados cherries for “Dr. Chalmers” via @thatbilloakley #
— satisfyingly chunky free browser game, reach level 20 to win via MetaFilter #
— long, accessible explanation from Stephen Wolfram #
— via Naive Weekly, another great newsletter described as a “portal to the quiet, odd, and poetic web” via @kristoffer #
— walking simulator where you plant words and tend to tiny homes, each representing joyful places on the indie web #
February 18, 2023
— Adam Neely on “why video game music is the future of jazz music,” including the live VGM jazz scene #
February 17, 2023
— a good read before digging into Kevin Roose’s two-hour conversation with Bing/Sydney, before it was muzzled #
— endless GIF nonsense for your Friday enjoyment via b3ta #
— hypnotic construction that endlessly knocks over and stands up 90,000 dominos per hour via b3ta #
— The Onion satirizes a damaging trend, exemplified by the NYT’s ongoing transphobic coverage #
February 16, 2023
— trying to optimally pack squares into a square leads to some surprisingly deranged results via Nelson Minar #
February 15, 2023
— someone at Microsoft forgot to add Asimov’s Three Laws to the prompt #
February 11, 2023
— “For the record, this is a remarkably mediocre song. I wouldn’t say it’s a terrible song, though it really flirts with terribleness.” #
February 10, 2023
— new documentary series follows seven years of Psychonauts 2 development, 6,000 hours of footage edited down to 32 episodes #
February 7, 2023
— the one by cart00nlion is just beautiful #
— years in the making, Marcin Wichary’s exhaustively-researched book about keyboards hit the goal in under two hours #
February 6, 2023
— less than a month after AI VTuber Neuro-Sama was banned for two weeks for denying the Holocaust #
February 5, 2023
— new open-source project to emulate early iOS apps, starting with App Store launch title Super Monkey Ball from 2008 #
February 3, 2023
— even better than Movetodon before Twitter revoked its API access via @nelson #
February 2, 2023
— the people behind @ca_dmv_bot, @oliviataters, @MakeItAQuote, @BigTechAlert, @_restaurant_bot, and more #
— an AI chatbot that won’t confidently lie to you #
— new animation from Felix Colgrave, “an exploration of ocean plastic, avatars and adaptive bottom feeders” via Belong.io #
— this will kill every free bot, tool, and service built on its API, including my own Belong.io aggregator #
January 31, 2023
— unfortunately it’s only news articles from big publishers, so resembles a less personal version of Google News’ For You #
January 30, 2023
— a readable high-level primer on the foundational models that made recent breakthroughs possible #
— Max Bittker made a tool for making 9-patch quilt-like borders in CSS using inline data URIs via @mattround #
January 27, 2023
— new AI model from Google Research generates music from text prompts, like “accordion death metal” via Web Curios #
— my best score is 3,164 4,009 via Web Curios #
— make an AI Drake write and perform a song about blogs, Scooby Doo, or anything else via Web Curios #
— analyzing Avatar fanfic, memes, and lyric mentions to gauge whether it’s a cultural outlier relative to other blockbusters #
January 24, 2023
— “The fact is, if I wanted to pay you, I could. I could even give you raises. But once again, that is not the economic reality we face.” #
— Jamie reconstructed some early Mozilla websites not captured by Wayback via Nelson Minar #
— if you can’t swallow the subscription fee, Ice Cubes is free and open-source #
January 23, 2023
— explore weird and wonderful things on Google Street View #
— professional fences profit from desperation and addiction, outsourcing theft to boosters for pennies on the dollar via Belong.io #
January 21, 2023
— a short free game about cooking Vietnamese food from Swiss-Vietnamese illustrator Charlotte Broccard #
January 20, 2023
— charming short multiplayer WebGL experiment, try to find the five secrets via Web Curios #
— a fed-up web designer publicly shames the people who cloned his distinctive portfolio site via Web Curios #
— the discoverer blogged about how she used Shodan to find the exposed server, AWS credentials, and S3 buckets #
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