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October 5, 2022
— impressive output, but I’m increasingly skeptical that Google will ever release any of this work #
October 4, 2022
— David Friedman looks at novel juggling routines #
October 3, 2022
— deep dive into its transition from benevolent dictatorship to open-source consensus #
September 30, 2022
— Ed Yong is taking a six-month sabbatical because of burnout from pandemic reporting #
— scroll up to read this animated comic about two trees talking to each other via FlowingData #
— after a decade of “street shark” hoaxes, the AP confirmed this one was real #
— text-to-audio model, love the nonsensical speech #
— the “six seasons and a movie” prophecy will be fulfilled #
September 29, 2022
— another text-to-video model announced today that can handle long videos with multiple prompts, check out the two-minute example #
— it’s unbelievable how fast this area is moving #
— 48K OS for the NES featuring “two core applications, the word processor, and the settings” via arstechnica.com #
— a recreation of Gakken’s Toy Record Maker, make your own lo-fi 5″ vinyl records #
— predicted by virtually everyone since it launched, it’ll close in mid-January #
— like Google’s Imagen, I expect an open-source model to come out before this is public #
September 28, 2022
— online for over 30 years, the community has created over 20,000 detailed rooms with 12 million lines of code #
— she digs into one of her albums for each of the nine episodes #
— like Matt, I’d also love to understand why Twitter and Reddit are an exception to Apple’s anti-porn policies #
— 9,691,764 days since last Apocalyptic Volcanic Eruption (VEI 8) #
— Dan Olson wrote a 25,000 word book in 25 days to fully understand how one ghostwritten audiobook grift worked #
September 26, 2022
— James Earl Jones signed over rights to Darth Vader’s voice, replaced by AI from a Ukrainian startup #
— impressive open-source web frontend for 20+ emulated game systems and support for custom feeds #
September 22, 2022
— surprisingly good GPT-3 powered summaries of long YouTube videos #
— Russell Brandom on the “Bootleg Ratio,” the ratio of original to freebooted content #
— this will be life-changing for many podcasters, journalists, and anyone else who needs transcription #
September 21, 2022
— runs at 0.1 fps using MCHPRS, which runs redstone 10-20,000x faster via Garbage Day #
— the social mapping app has 40 million monthly active users globally #
— finally played through this Instagram series-turned-videogame and it’s brilliant #
September 19, 2022
— 13 years since the last game, and the return of series creators Ron Gilbert and Dave Grossman #
— “the state no longer has confidence in the integrity of the conviction” #
— huge bummer, Input was always doing something interesting via @jesslucaswrites #
— Max Woolf doing the important work #
September 16, 2022
— the raid on the Remoteli bot was hilarious, demonstrating its potential for exploits #
September 15, 2022
— compete with others to get from one article to another in the shortest time using only article links #
September 14, 2022
— Holly Herndon and Mat Dryden are working on tools to help artists opt in or out of AI training data #
— charming New Yorker profile of the series’ legacy, barely touching on its recent litigation and takedowns via @textfiles #
September 12, 2022
— after 25 screenshot rotations, the original image is smaller than an atom #
— artist Dries Depoorter used AI on video from public webcams to figure out when geotagged Instagram photos were taken via @golan #
— it was set to debut today but was delayed to late September because of the Queen’s death #
— her 900-page book explores her two years working at the Alberta oil sands, “the world’s most destructive oil operation“ #
September 8, 2022
— now using CLIP embeddings for search, click any image to explore similar styles #
September 6, 2022
September 5, 2022
— never be bored again while waiting for huge files to copy via r/programming #
August 31, 2022
— part of The Verge’s Homeland series on two decades of American life under the DHS via @TaylorLorenz #
— the investigation was top-notch, but seeing the two scammers rat on each other is pure gold via @CraigSilverman #
— updated for 2022, a very good chart made in Excel/Powerpoint #
August 30, 2022
— TikTok is now fully half of new memes tracked on the site #
— curious to see where it goes next under its new CEO, Tony Stubblebine via Platformer #
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