Alito’s Plan to Repeal the 20th Century
— the draft opinion opens the door to a rollback of federally-assured civil rights #
Travel distance for people seeking abortions if Roe v Wade falls
— interactive map showing the impact in states ready to ban abortion, along with source data #
The Supreme Court Leaks All the Time
— the original Roe v Wade ruling was leaked too, published in Time hours before it was announced #
God Damn America
— "a brief and incomplete list of the people and institutions that can go fuck themselves this morning" (via) #
My Heart Will Go On (but it’s Smash Mouth’s “All Star”)
— "One of the most cursed things I've ever made. I'm so sorry." #
Angelheaded Hipsters Burning for the Ancient Heavenly Connection
— Emily Gorcenski's "requiem for the Twitter that could have been" #
The Pudding needs help debunking a flawed study on age and randomness
— peer-reviewed does not mean reproducible #
the html review
— "an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web" with contributions from Everest Pipkin, Nick Montfort, May-Li Khoe, and more #
The Qubit Game
— Google teamed up with the designer of A Dark Room and Gridland to make a quantum computing-themed clicker game (via) #
Are You The Asshole?
— pose scenarios to three AI models trained exclusively on YTA, NTA, and hybrid answers from Reddit #
Underunderstood tries to find the MTV dial position sticker
— amazing deep-dive into the history of FM radio delivered over cable TV lines in the '80s for early stereo audio #
The 8-year process behind Playdate’s glorious crank
— astounding how close Teenage Engineering's original concept is to the final product #
Painting a Landscape with Math
— another incredible Inigo Quilez video breaking down a Shadertoy animation #
Panic! On the Editorial Page
— Michael Hobbes breaks down a terrible NYT editorial on cancel culture #
A rare interview with Phil Fish on Fez’s 10th birthday
— it's just nice to know he's still out there, hope he's doing well #
Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter in hostile takeover bid
— his cringe TED interview this morning shows he has zero understanding of how content moderation works at scale #
Bitch Media to close in June
— incredible run of over 25 years of independently-published feminist media #
Who’s In Your Wallet?
— The Pudding's visualization of prominent figures on bank notes around the world #
Tiny Elden Ring
— the latest in Flurdeh's series of tilt-shifted game worlds, like Tiny Cyberpunk, Tiny Red Dead, and Tiny Bioshock (via) #
Summon Demons
— stunning 1-bit dithered animations from Russian artist Uno Moralez, mildly NSFW (via) #
Harder Drive
— Tom7 turns the internet, Tetris, and fancy covid tests into hilariously inefficient hard drives #
The complete r/Place 2022 timelapse
— or you can view the complete canvas as an interactive timelapse #
Senate confirms Ketanji Brown Jackson as first Black woman on Supreme Court
— Harris presided as Jackson was confirmed, but no Black women had a vote #
Home Sweet Homepage
— a charming comic about growing up online from BubbleSort Zines creator Amy Wibowo #
Is Crypto Re-Creating the 2008 Financial Crisis?
— Charlie Warzel interviews Hilary J. Allen about her essay on shadow banking, decentralized finance, and regulation #
Twitter changed how embeds work for deleted tweets, causing blank spaces on websites
— blockquote text would previous display for deleted tweets; this impacts every blog or news site that ever embedded a Trump tweet #
Marcel The Shell With Shoes On trailer
— Dean Fleischer-Camp and Jenny Slate's 2010 web shorts were adapted to a full-length film and it looks charming #
MIT scans the brain of a carpet cleaner who speaks 24 languages
— hyperpolyglots seem to have smaller, more efficient language areas in the brain (via) #
Unreal Engine 5 released
— the release notes are overwhelming, with The Matrix Awakens city demo available as a free sample project #
OpenAI’s DALL·E 2
— generates AI art from text at 4x the previous resolution with more accuracy; see the paper for more examples #
Parker Molloy’s experiments with Midjourney, a new AI art generator
— I've also been playing with the beta and the results are astounding #
Comparing what TikTok shows to Russian vs. Ukrainian users
— starting with new TikTok accounts using IP addresses located 50 miles apart, the difference is stark #
Elon Musk buys 9% of Twitter stock as he pressures company on “free speech”
— his Twitter poll last month now sounds ominous #
Footage of 11-year-old Prince found in archival film of 1970 Minneapolis teachers’ strike
— discovered by accident, immediately recognizable #
Taylor Lorenz on the popularity of Reddit’s Place revival
— five years later, it's seen 6x more users participating driven by communities on Twitch and Discord #
Ron Gilbert and Dave Grossman making a new Monkey Island game
— coming this year, it will canonically follow Secret of Monkey Island 2 as Ron explained in his 2013 post #
On Seeing Both
— another thoughtful Hank Green rumination, a good companion to his "Is it All Hopeless?" video from a couple weeks back #
xkcd’s Instructions
— a 9-hour-long TTS audio transcription of a LOGO program that draws… something, but good luck converting it back to syntactically-correct code #
The Past and Future of Flag Emoji
— Jennifer Daniel explains why the Unicode Technical Committee is no longer accepting flag emoji proposals (via) #