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July 7, 2022
— 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 #
— Thomas Flight ties the film to hypermodernity, Bo Burnham’s Inside, and the feeling of being extremely online #
— the final game from indie legends Zachtronics is out now #
— in development hell for 20 years, it’s sort of amazing it was ever made #
— surreal variations of “pig-butchering” confidence scams #
June 25, 2022
— very funny parody of The Witness, free for Windows via terrysfreegameoftheweek.com #
June 24, 2022
— “we are entering an era not just of unsafe abortions but of the widespread criminalization of pregnancy” #
— you can make a big impact giving to local abortion funds and other support groups #
— “From the very moment of fertilization, a woman has no rights to speak of.” #
— catastrophic decision from the Conservative majority, abortion is now banned in 13 states with more to follow #
June 18, 2022
— interactive essay to experiment with adjusting game feel in a simple side scroller #
— the only way to listen to Weezer’s new single is to spin around in a circle with your phone #
June 10, 2022
— search captions from 528 million YouTube videos and 45 million channels #
June 8, 2022
— don’t miss the long exposé detailing all the evidence #
June 7, 2022
— animating and voicing the output from Janelle Shane’s AI prompts #
— Michael Hobbes debunks the conspiracy theory at the center of the “largest explosion of online misogyny since Gamergate” #
— Aaron A. Reed is turning my favorite newsletter of 2021 into a book, with “feelies” and new material in deluxe editions #
June 3, 2022
— Linus Akesson performs Bach live on three Commodore 64s and a 1541 disk drive #
— this goes the extra mile via Garbage Day #
— “a tool for wandering through Twitter” via Web Curios #
— with a bonus video talking to artists about what AI art means for human artists #
— it’s a perfect Sbubby meme generator #
— from 1990s credit card fraud to phone line simulators #
— if you’re stuck, maybe Clippy can help #
June 2, 2022
— Vox’s Estelle Caswell and The Pudding did a seven-month data investigation into how TikTok is shaping the music industry #
— this probabilistic programming language is impenetrable to me, but the generated results are amazing via Nelson Minar #
— stem splitting, chord detection, instrument conversion, tempo stretching in a browser-based editor #
— Joshua Schachter’s very funny plotter videos are a hit #
May 30, 2022
— Bo Burnham dropped an hour-long compilation of material cut from his Netflix special released one year ago today #
May 27, 2022
— minimalist coding playground to make animations with 64 HTML sliders, don’t miss the music video via @blinry #
May 26, 2022
— Frank Force’s tiny city and raycasting system in a tweet, with more info about how it works #
— since 2015, the Japanese toy firm Good Smile has been its silent partner #
— try to guess if an image was generated by a human or machine #
— Rob Manuel doing critical research #
— a later version without the “Marble Man” branding or trackball support, but fully playable in the next MAME release #
May 24, 2022
— crowdsourced browser add-on removes YouTube sponsor reads, “like and subscribe” reminders, intros, outros, and other filler via MetaFilter #
— Google Research announced an impressive DALL·E 2 rival #
May 23, 2022
— Sam Lavigne updated his Videogrep tool to use Vosk, a powerful speech recognition toolkit #
— starting with the prompt “a bad photo” and requesting variations of each image #
May 18, 2022
— co-creator Alex Goldman and co-host Emmanuel Dzotsi announced their departures in a leaked internal memo #
May 17, 2022
— People Make Games digs into the chaotic and expressive alternative to Facebook’s bland corporate vision #
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