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September 12, 2022
— 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 #
— interesting read on the origins of the fan-run fanfic community and its issues addressing racism #
— Hank Green’s excellent explainer on the details of the confusingly-named Inflation Reduction Act #
August 10, 2022
— charmingly naive 13-part TV series from 1996, captures footage of sites that predate the Internet Archive via @textfiles #
— cooperate with your past selves in this browser game made in three days via Web Curios #
August 3, 2022
— Alasdair Beckett-King revisits the Albino Blacksheep aesthetic #
August 2, 2022
— it needs to run at 80,000 FPS to remain stable #
— Joseph’s Machines made a Rube Goldberg machine with comic timing #
August 1, 2022
— use mouse to strum, keys to fret notes #
July 29, 2022
— using GPT-3 and DALL-E 2 to make full articles for the future NYT headlines written in 1965 by Kubrick’s team for 2001: A Space Odyssey #
— using metadata from Wikipedia and Wikidata, including article length, views, and external links via Nelson Minar #
July 26, 2022
— Amazon gets paid either way, so they’re unlikely to fix it #
— interactive macOS app with four meticulous reconstructions of Apple Stores on their opening days #
— related: her excerpts from letters to the judges of the Celsius Network and Voyager Digital bankruptcy cases via @molly0xFFF #
— I finished the cat game this weekend and it was a pure joy, highly recommended #
— you can now play games remotely with Mihai Parparita’s full-featured in-browser classic 68K Mac #
— she spent years recovering from a 2015 brain aneurysm, relearning guitar by watching videos of herself playing #
July 25, 2022
— Max Woolf serves up Rubik’s Cube PB&Js and five-dimensional burgers #
July 21, 2022
— Brian Feldman goes deep into a ’90s viral video and tracks down everyone involved via Today in Tabs #
July 20, 2022
— real-time animated avatars made from a single portrait image #
— it doubled in popularity in the last two years #
— love the interactive article design #
July 19, 2022
— Pop Culture Detective on Everything Everywhere All At Once’s subversive portrayal of masculinity #
— from the fold-out 1980s living room to the game cartridge dioramas, this was laser-targeted to me #
— at his peak, Jason Scott’s adorable cat had over 1.5M Twitter followers and was in the top 100 most-followed accounts #
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