Revisiting Threes, 2048, and the endless chain of ripoffs — Kevin Nguyen interviewed the creators of both games, challenging the narrative of the victims of this story #

burds! — just a page of birds, that's it (via) #

The Backrooms (Found Footage) — very good first entry of a series of viral lo-fi horror short films (via) #

Radio station bricks Mazda infotainment systems by broadcasting image files with no extension — they're all permanently stuck on that station, too #

Astronomic Comics — Frank Force's gorgeous generative comic book sci-fi landscapes (via) #

Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy — available as a free PDF download, you don't even have to torrent it #

Straight 2 Spam — generate a block of spammy invisible text for emails you want to bury, inspired by Nathan For You's party planner (via) #

MAME turns 25 — a monumental effort of game preservation, still churning out releases every month (via) #

Iconographic Encylopædia — stunning new online version of J. G. Heck’s 1851 encyclopedia, with over 13,000 illustrations from 500 steel plates (via) #

Brutalita — edit and download a custom mono font using layers of grid-based line drawings (via) #

Lost for Words — Ami's fourth game just went live on Kickstarter, this one co-designed with our son! #

The giant chainmail box that stops a house dissolving — Tom Scott highlights a creative conservation effort of historic architecture #

PaperPaul’s pop-up meme cards — a compilation of GIFs turned papercraft #

Is “Cancel Culture” Really a Threat To America? — Michael Hobbes (Maintenance Phase/You're Wrong About) made a video about our national moral panic #

The Internet Is Just Investment Banking Now — Ian Bogost on the securitization of everything; see also: Kaitlyn Tiffany on Web3 backlash and Amanda Mull on celebrity NFTs (via) #

That’s How It Works When You’re a Woman on the Internet — visceral essay from writer Aubrey Hirsch about hate and harassment she's experienced online (via) #

Janelle Shane’s AI-generated Valentine’s cards — "Crush hearts with your lovely forehead, Valentine!" #

Casio CA-100 Simulator — Stef Animal's "fan-fiction" tribute to the 1990 keyboard, try the demo button for an example (via) #

Matt Round used GPT-3 to generate romantic poetry as if written by 8-bit computers — and cheezy pickup lines later in the thread #

GPT-NeoX-20B — the free 20-billion parameter model powering goose.ai, a drop-in OpenAI replacement at a fraction of the cost (via) #

New Yorker cartoons so dated that they’re just people doing normal things — some genuinely funny comics in the replies #

Dialing Up — TôBach made a song entirely out of dialup modem sounds #

Etienne Jacob’s Self-Description — four charts that describe themselves, inspired by xkcd's comic of the same name #

The Seinfeld Theme Mixed With A Hit Song From Every Year Seinfeld Was On TV — @Seinfeld2000 and Hood Internet team up (via) #

WebVM — virtual Linux environment compiled to WebAssembly and running in the browser (via) #

Kaitlin Tiffany on the history and cultural impact of Tumblr — their CEO quietly left last month, Matt Mullenweg will be running it for a while #

New York Times buys Wordle — Microsoft buys Activision Blizzard, Sony buys Bungie, and now the biggest game acquisition news of all #

Garbage Day on Joe Rogan and Spotify — they want to convince you it's a moderation problem, but they paid $100M to exclusively publish him #

Apartment — free game for PC/Mac that's like Unpacking in reverse, set in the pandemic #

Nicole He modded her and her fiancé into Skyrim — is this the metaverse #

Disney movie scenes recreated in Animal Crossing — Blathers as the owl from CInderella is inspired casting #

Dinner Party — intensely weird Twitch streams of 3D characters having surreal GPT-3 conversations (via) #

GD Colon’s Thirty Dollar Website — silly music sequencer with some incredible examples in the thread and quote-tweets #

YouTube permanently bans Dan Bongino — good riddance, he's the worst #

Alex Falcone has nothing to hide — I like the way this man thinks #

Blockedchain — from the creators of Non-Fungible Olive Gardens #

Searching for Susy Thunder — Claire Evans tracks down a notorious 1980s hacker (via) #

Cease & Desist Grand Prix — MSCHF is selling eight shirts with infringing corporate logos, with the winning team whoever C&Ds them first #

Multitrack breakdown of Bee Gees’ “Stayin’ Alive” — incredible how much went into the production, check out the isolated acoustic guitar or synth/keys #

Perfect Tides — the charming point-and-click adventure game from Octopus Pie's Meredith Gran is out on February 22 #

New breakfast cereals from AI — prompted by my tweet, Janelle Shane generated some delicious new cereal options #

22 indie games to look forward to in 2022 — great list, many completely new to me #

Folding Ideas on the problem with NFTs — Dan Olson's massive 2.5 hour critical deep-dive into crypto, NFTs, DAOs, and web3 #

Hank Green on how TikTok is failing to adequately pay creators — how TikTok's fixed creator fund pays out 6x less of their earnings than YouTube's 55/45 revenue split #

Google ends support for free legacy G Suite users — if you use Gmail with a custom domain for free, you have to start paying a minimum $6/user/month by May 1 #

Major record labels sue youtube-dl’s web host — the German service only hosts the documentation, not the repo or downloads, which are all on GitHub #

Anti-vaxxers, QAnon influencers, and white nationalists are flocking to Substack — they seem determined to repeat the mistakes made by Twitter and Reddit's hands-off approach to content moderation #

Playdate Pulp goes into public beta — Panic's browser-based code-optional editor for making games for their upcoming handheld (via) #

homecoming.diary — bizarre TikTok account demonstrating dozens of hyper-specific gadgets in each video, "if Shein was a house" #

COVIDtests.gov launches a day early — currently serving over 500k people with one order of four tests per residential address #