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July 26, 2022
— 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 #
— Twitter bot that detects Garfield dialogue and replaces it with song lyrics via @anniierau #
— 165 years of journalism from 1857 to today, with features on 25 writers that shaped the publication #
— massive dataset of 5.85 billion image-text pairs for developing open text-to-image models like DALL-E #
July 8, 2022
— AI generated artwork inspired by current events via b3ta #
— charming puzzle climbing game reminiscent of Bennett Foddy’s GIRP via terrysfreegameoftheweek.com #
— pickles, black licorice, blue cheese, anchovies, and lots of olives #
— one group of scammers is responsible for more than 8 billion calls since 2018 #
— Twitter has every right to sue him into the ground #
July 7, 2022
— see how you compare to 750k others in Neal Agarwal’s series of increasingly-absurd ethical dilemmas #
— Zoe Schiffer digs into Netflix’s internal cultural shift away from open feedback #
— related: Odette Yousef on nihilistic online subcultures that embrace mass shooter aesthetics #
— the success of Primitive Technology spawned dozens of over-the-top knockoffs based in SE Asia; related: footage of abandoned sites and Coconuts’ 2019 exposé #
July 6, 2022
— another charming Marcin Wichary post about an obscure footnote in keyboard history #
— multiple rounds of phony interviews helped convince a senior engineer to open a malware PDF with the fake compensation package via Platformer #
— the master of uncomfortable comedy via Garbage Day #
— related: Robin Ward’s deep-dive into Sierra graphics and attempts to upscale them #
— Song Exploder expands to literature on August 3 with host Susan Orlean interviewing authors about their work #
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