“History Will Not Judge Us Kindly” — Adrienne LaFrance on how employees repeatedly raised alarms about the harm Facebook was doing but were ignored by leadership #

Casey Newton on how Facebook decides which countries need protection — "There is a pervasive sense that, on some fundamental level, no one is entirely sure what’s going on." #

Ben Smith on how the Facebook Papers coverage was coordinated — it's unusual for so many major publications to work together like this, but Frances Haugen was able to set the terms #

Washington Post’s key takeaways from the Facebook Papers — there's simply too much good reporting on this to read today, but WaPo has solid highlights with links to deeper reporting on each #

Facebook’s lost generation — Facebook is dealing with an aging user base, while teens are using Instagram less #

Running list of all the Facebook Papers stories — no longer under embargo, 17 publications started releasing their reporting on the internal Facebook docs leaked by Frances Haugen #

Stinky Tokens — Carter Amelia Davis's animations are full of great fake UIs #

bread land — don't worry, it's for the goats #

Michael Hobbes on the methods of moral panic journalism — media coverage of the "cancel culture" panic is rife with irrelevant examples, bad stats, and false equivalence #

Janelle Shane plays with Ask Delphi, the ethical AI — played with the demo and the results were laughably awful #

Trump’s new social media site collapses after trolls flood it before launch — it's also just a modified Mastodon instance and they're violating the license terms #

Clickbait Genius — quiz to guess which headlines performed better, using real data from the Upworthy Research Archive (via) #

Resignation screenshots on r/antiwork — subreddit filled with stories of people quitting abusive jobs #

The story behind Mariah Carey’s secret ’90s alt-rock album — the label killed the idea of releasing anything that could compromise her pop star image #

What we can learn from _why — I hope he's still out there somewhere doing his thing #

bill wurtz – more than a dream — a day with new bill wurtz is a good day #

The Worst Thing on Earth — an excerpt from Tamara Shopsin’s debut novel LaserWriter II, out tomorrow #

magneticscrolls.net — every classic Magnetic Scrolls adventure playable with color graphics via SSH #

Student stealing notes with iOS 15 — cheating with OCR #

NYT simulation of how gender bias affects promotion cycles — very good interactive infoviz showing how biases stack to impact women in higher roles #

Adam Savage goes incognito at NYCC with an incredible Ghostbusters costume — his enthusiasm is contagious, mirrored by Jason Reitman and the young cast of Ghostbusters: Afterlife #

Adam JK launches “You Are Here (For Now)” podcast — pretty great lineup of upcoming guests #

Investigation finds Amazon puts its own brands above better-rated products — not just house brands like Amazon Basics, but it puts Amazon-exclusive products above competitors (via) #

“Every Frame A Painting” creators to co-direct VOIR, David Fincher’s new Netflix docuseries — visual essays celebrating cinema, a perfect fit for Taylor Ramos and Tony Zhou #

We’re Thinking About Facebook Wrong — some good thoughts on Facebook from Hank Green #

Ryan Broderick on TikTok’s low stakes toxicity — conspiratorially obsessive discourse over mundane subjects going viral, a fender bender or a girl surprising her boyfriend #

Rickrolling an entire high school district — exploiting lax security for a senior prank, followed by a debrief with IT to fix the issues they discovered #

How Slack Upended the Workplace — the chat tool can invert power structures by letting employees speak candidly and organize internally #

ProPublica investigation into Tennessee juvenile court that jailed Black kids for nonexistent crimes — until ordered to stop in a federal court, Rutherford County locked up children in almost half of cases, compared to the state average of 5% #

Please Don’t Destroy makes their SNL debut — flashbacks to the Lonely Island; Rebecca Alter profiled the online comedy trio for Vulture in July #

Netflix suspends trans employee who tweeted about Dave Chappelle special — "You can’t do a carbon offset for bigotry" #

After three years, Michael Hobbes leaving You’re Wrong About — Sarah Marshall will continue the podcast with special guests (via) #

ScummVM turns 20 — they merged with ResidualVM, adding support for Grim Fandango, The Longest Journey, Escape from Monkey Island, and Myst 3 Exile #

Deep Fried Web — Neal Agarwal made a Chrome plugin for MSCHF that deep fries every page #

Kino Cult — just launched, Kino Lorber made hundreds of cult movies available for free on the web, iOS, Roku, AppleTV, etc #

Tweet2Doom — play Doom with text commands on Twitter (via) #

just the punctuation — Clive Thompson made a little utility to look at literary styles by stripping out everything except punctuation (via) #

50 Years of Text Games on “Violet” and Inform 7 — a delightful game about procrastination with a unique narrator, enabled by an equally unique authoring tool #

Bloomberg goes looking for Tether’s billions — searching for the not-so-stablecoin's reserves inexplicably leads to a Mighty Ducks child actor and the co-creator of Inspector Gadget #

I’m Fine I’m Fine Just Understand — Noelle Stevenson's new comic Substack is off to a good start #

Song Exploder on John Lennon’s “God” — the first posthumous episode, made with the help of the Lennon estate using unreleased interviews and demos #

Reuters investigation into how AT&T helped build alt-right news network OANN — 90% of their revenue came from a contract with AT&T-owned TV platforms, including DirecTV #

Entirety of Twitch leaks to 4chan — source code repos, creator payouts, encrypted passwords, mobile/console/desktop apps, and internal/unreleased tools #

Stanley Kubrick loves the DOS 2 manual — also, geeking out on Unix in 1983 #

Who Is the Bad Art Friend? — a wild ride about an author who gave a kidney, another author who drew inspiration from it, and the ensuing legal drama #

An anonymous former Treehouse employee on the company’s mass layoffs — this doesn't paint a pretty picture of leadership under Ryan Carson, the online coding school's founder/CEO #

Pitchfork revisits 19 album review scores they’d change “if they could” — not sure what's preventing them from amending their original snarky takedowns, but it's a nice thought exercise #

Gimlet’s Heavyweight goes Spotify-exclusive — is it even a podcast if I can't listen to it in my podcast player? i guess a lot can change in two years #

Cloudflare explains how Facebook disappeared from the internet — interesting to see the immediate impact on other social networks #

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus back online after hours of downtime — removed BGP routes locked out FB employees from offices, internal tools, and their own VPN, plus every site that uses FB auth #