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September 29, 2022
— 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 #
— Linus Åkesson’s latest amazing instrument built with a 40-year-old computer #
— scoop from Zoe Schiffer and Casey Newton; Elon Musk’s buyout attempt shifted their focus to spam bots #
— that clock takes me back via @film_girl #
— Manyun Zou digs into Chinese censorship of the Big Bang Theory for The Pudding #
August 22, 2022
— Nicky Case made a charming little tool for making “expandable explanations” #
— among the interviewees, two NASA astronauts, an astrophysicist, and a former Greek Minister of Finance #
— 50 years in the making, a massive 1.5 x 0.5 mile land art installation in the Nevada desert via Nelson Minar #
— a Raspberry Pi-based plug-and-play box running Wayback Proxy to browse the old web on old computers #
— GLASYS drew pixel art frame-by-frame for the first single off his upcoming 8-bit album #
— open-source text-to-image AI model that runs on your own GPU, similar quality as DALL-E 2 without content filters #
August 17, 2022
— this thing was made to play Hot Butter’s “Popcorn” #
August 15, 2022
— new Pandora’s box just dropped #
— and yes, this means you can play Doom on them #
— the industry best suited to deceiving people for fun and profit; see Ryan Broderick’s earlier reporting on Rick Lax and friends #
— turn paint brushes into looping musical soundscapes via Web Curios #
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