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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 #
— “Our institutions have no capability for responding to crisis with compassion.” #
July 14, 2022
— structured image generation with prompts and simple drawing tools via @artbreeder #
July 13, 2022
— Doom for DOS exploit lets you run Doom and Heretic as animated textures via Medium #
— this is going to end up in court some day soon and it’s going to be wild #
— good inspiration fodder for playing around with text-to-image AI models #
— Twitter’s now in the bizarre position of trying to force Musk to buy a company he’s trying to destroy #
July 12, 2022
— a good companion to Hank Green on the issues with the TikTok Creator Fund vs. YouTube revenue sharing #
— the full complaint is an enjoyable read #
— interactive Three.js experiment inspired by Stranger Things via @lusionltd #
— they already switched from SoundCloud to Spotify in several countries #
— he’ll remain chairman, Tony Stubblebine is taking over #
— what we know and don’t yet know about transmissibility, immune evasion, and long-term effects from the latest surge #
— they should have sent a poet #
— more interesting and beautiful experiments in the replies #
— Everest Pipkin’s simple no-code tool for making unfolding stories like Soft Corruptor without logic #
— breakdown of rendering a savory bowl of ramen with Unity and Blender #
July 11, 2022
— a surreal text-to-image model run entirely in Discord channels #
— thousands of galaxies in one image, more images coming tomorrow morning #
— Simon Willison uses GPT-3 to help understand complex code #
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