A Short Hike 99 — chill multiplayer mod for April 1 #

Infinite Mac, an instant-booting Quadra in your browser — system7.app and macos8.app instantly emulate Mac hardware full of software, with drag-and-drop file import/export and persistent storage #

Lumon Industries Macrodata Refiner — all of you innies better get cracking if we're going to meet our quarterly quota #

Amazon workers vote to unionize Staten Island warehouse — the first Amazon union in the U.S. #

Comic Helvetic — I genuinely love this free Comic Sans/Helvetica hybrid (via) #

Building Pong inside a single sprite on the Commodore 64 — on the C64, sprites were 24x21 pixel objects that can be moved over a background (via) #

Mike Masnick on how moderating content supports the principles of free speech — a free-for-all of spam, harassment, abuse, and hate drives away people, resulting in fewer forums for speech #

Hackers are faking emergency data requests to access sensitive customer data — compromised police email addresses were used to collect info from Discord, Apple, Instagram, Snap, and Google, among others (via) #

Facebook paid GOP firm to malign TikTok — another Taylor Lorenz scoop, Targeted Victory pushed the unfounded "Slap a Teacher TikTok challenge" rumor to local news #

Funomena shutting down after report on emotionally abusive founder — a shocking and sad end to the indie studio behind Wattam and Luna #

Photorealistic 3D renders of classic TV game show sets — David Friedman on one photographer's impressive hobby, shared only in a TV history Facebook group #

The Sound of Love — stories of love and heartbreak found in the comments of songs uploaded to YouTube (via) #

Russians are racing to download Wikipedia before it’s banned — the 29 GB torrent was downloaded 106k times in the first half of March, a 4,000% increase since January (via) #

Anti-war Russians find a lifeline on Clubhouse, which Russia hasn’t blocked yet — "any time there is a wall, information finds little places to seep through" (via) #

Drug discovery AI suggests 40,000 new possible biochemical weapons in six hours — machine-learning for finding new medicines can easily be flipped into bad actor mode (via) #

Lessons From 19 Years in the Metaverse — Charlie Warzel interviews Wagner James Au about what we can learn from Second Life #

The 2,731-Person Project to Build New York City in Minecraft — builders are collaborating to recreate NYC one neighborhood at a time (via) #

People Make Games investigates three indie studio founders accused of emotional abuse — well-reported piece about Ken Wong (Mountains), Steve Gaynor (Fullbright), and Robin Hunicke (Funomena) #

This City Does Not Exist — machine-hallucinated satellite imagery (via) #

What happened to Torah learning software TropeTrainer after the death of its creator — S.I. Rosenbaum's remarkable story of faith, passion, and software obsolescence after death (via) #

Yarn Spinner — a friendly web-based tool for writing branching game dialogue (via) #

Nilay Patel interviews Automattic’s Matt Mullenweg — wide-ranging chat about Tumblr, Wordpress, the financial securitization of everything, and keeping the web weird #

Vimeo ordering creators to suddenly pay thousands of dollars or they’ll delete their videos — particularly painful for creators on Patreon where it's the default video integration #

Rocketman Bob Maddox rides his “Beast” jet engine go-kart — "that was about half-throttle" (via) #

Marino Totino’s incredible miniature video store — behind-the-scenes videos on Instagram, with more photos on her homepage #

Drop a playable Mario from Super Mario 64 into any Blender project — people are posting fun examples on Twitter (via) #

Shader Park — creative interactive 2D/3D shaders using a P5.js style library #

Amateur open-source researchers went viral unpacking the war in Ukraine — some of the OSINT happening on Twitter is incredible (via) #

The Gender Bias Inside GPT-3 — some particularly damning examples reflecting the biases of the internet that trained it (via) #

Connor Ratliff finally interviews Tom Hanks for the Dead Eyes podcast — 30 episodes and two years later, a fascinating conversation about how and why a director makes a casting decision #

New Spline beta adds real-time collaborative 3D editing — plus new sculpting tools, export options, template library, and a more #

fly around — lovely new bill wurtz song, his second in the last month #

DeepMind’s new AI model helps decipher, date, and locate ancient inscriptions — if you happen to know ancient Greek, you can try DeepMind's interactive Ithaca demo #

Pockit, a tiny powerful modular computer — very impressive demo, more details at pockit.ai (via) #

Atari acquires MobyGames for $1.5 million — despite their promises, this bodes very poorly for the 23-year-old database's future given Atari's track record #

Brandon Stanton’s Empire of Empathy — fascinating profile of the Humans of New York creator and his philanthropic efforts (via) #

The Many Escapes of Justin Sun — The Verge's new exposé on the Tron/Poloniex/BitTorrent crypto-mogul's history of sketchy financial dealings #

Kyle Orland’s taxonomy of game difficulty — Elden Ring won't hold your hand, but its challenges can be overcome with further exploration and grinding #

Smithsonian to return Benin bronzes to Nigeria — more museums are returning looted cultural objects to where they once belonged (via) #

Talking to the creators of Gender Pay Gap Twitter bot — they cleverly used open UK salary data to call out companies tweeting about International Women's Day #

One man’s journey from Portland to Ukraine’s frontlines — Sergio Olmos documents the final moments of a father leaving his daughters to rescue his mother in Kiev and fight for his country #

Chowhound closing after 25 years online — definitely concerned about other CNET Media Group properties like GameFAQs and Gamespot #

Itch.io Bundle for Ukraine — the massive collection of 1,000 indie videogames, tabletop RPGs, books, and assets raised over $1.5M so far #

The Verge on the Bitsy community — like Twine, the approachable lo-fi game toolkit has opened up game development to new voices #

Adam Neely casts doubt on the plagiarism claims against Dua Lipa’s Levitating — every time I see one of these infringement lawsuits, I get suspicious; she was hit with a second lawsuit yesterday #

The Verge on Hundred Rabbits’ Uxn, a virtual ecosystem for experimental tools and games — I love their design philosophy, we invited them to talk about it at XOXO 2019 #

How Peter Thiel backed an “anti-woke” film festival that ended in tragedy — "a subculture based on transgressing bourgeois norms in 2021 faces a trap: It can look indistinguishable from Trumpism" #

feral.earth — links that can only be clicked under certain ecological/weather conditions measured near the server (via) #

Where does the tone come from in an electric guitar? — don't miss the final test, thoroughly debunking the idea that the body and neck impact tone #

Russia blocks its last independent television channel — New Yorker's Masha Gessen on the final days of TV Rain; its journalists have fled the country #