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May 10, 2022
— using transcripts from all 1,150 episodes, spreading paranoid conspiracies of white replacement and victimhood #
— early computerized text games for executives #
— Bill Wurtz at his best #
— a disappointing end to the totally different iOS game with a coincidentally-same name #
— a grim milestone, undercounting the actual death toll via FlowingData #
— Apple posted a fond farewell on their site #
— the serialized Dracula is sent as a real-time newsletter based on the dates in the 1897 novel, spawning a new fandom #
— this is the same strategy Elon Musk is using to saddle Twitter with billions in new debt #
— interesting thoughts informed by her experience building Roguelike Celebration’s brilliant MUD-like social space #
— he coined the term in 2008 and has tracked its adoption ever since #
— Daniel Howell’s feature-length video on why he quit YouTube is very good #
May 9, 2022
— this harrowing story just won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting #
— all the questions Jason raises are things I think about often #
May 6, 2022
— from “normie” to “NPC” to the world’s richest men finding new ways to say the things you care about are basic #
— community-contributed images of tattoos stitched into surreal explorable landscapes via Web Curios #
— great reporting on the viral Chinese fast-fashion behemoth, with surprising access to the company via Caitlin Dewey #
May 4, 2022
— Jennifer Daniel and her team at Google turned 3,663 emoji into an open monochrome typeface with multiple weights #
— astounding fan recreation of the Atari 2600 game, tried this today on my C64 and it’s amazing #
— with a discussion of the widespread belief that musicians should be miserable on tour #
May 3, 2022
— “This abandonment by lawmakers is why so many of the most effective solutions we have right now are being developed far outside the realm of electoral politics.” #
— same founder/CEO as Rapleaf (aka LiveRamp), the creepy company that got in trouble for selling private user info that it mined across the web #
— up-to-date information about accessing abortion pills online #
— the draft opinion opens the door to a rollback of federally-assured civil rights #
— interactive map showing the impact in states ready to ban abortion, along with source data #
— the original Roe v Wade ruling was leaked too, published in Time hours before it was announced #
— help fund abortion access in the most restricted states #
— “a brief and incomplete list of the people and institutions that can go fuck themselves this morning” via Today in Tabs #
May 2, 2022
— like Wordle meets crossword puzzles, another brilliant iOS game from the creators of Good Sudoku #
April 29, 2022
— browse the code or try the new 10.1.0 compiler on Borogove.app #
April 28, 2022
— “One of the most cursed things I’ve ever made. I’m so sorry.” #
— off to 9gag or gmail, i guess #
— Emily Gorcenski’s “requiem for the Twitter that could have been” #
— an “existential horror phone sex hotline” from Shing Yin Khor #
— peer-reviewed does not mean reproducible #
April 22, 2022
— “an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web” with contributions from Everest Pipkin, Nick Montfort, May-Li Khoe, and more #
— try the Amazing-QR Python package for making your own #
April 21, 2022
— Google teamed up with the designer of A Dark Room and Gridland to make a quantum computing-themed clicker game via MetaFilter #
— over 700 pieces of 1-bit pixel clip art via Nelson Minar #
April 20, 2022
— review everything on Earth to help improve the simulation via @nealagarwal #
— pose scenarios to three AI models trained exclusively on YTA, NTA, and hybrid answers from Reddit #
April 19, 2022
— incredibly challenging daily browser game to determine the subject of a random redacted Wikipedia article #
April 15, 2022
— amazing deep-dive into the history of FM radio delivered over cable TV lines in the ’80s for early stereo audio #
April 14, 2022
— astounding how close Teenage Engineering’s original concept is to the final product #
— another incredible Inigo Quilez video breaking down a Shadertoy animation #
— Michael Hobbes breaks down a terrible NYT editorial on cancel culture #
— it’s just nice to know he’s still out there, hope he’s doing well #
— his cringe TED interview this morning shows he has zero understanding of how content moderation works at scale #
April 13, 2022
— incredible run of over 25 years of independently-published feminist media #
— The Pudding’s visualization of prominent figures on bank notes around the world #
— the latest in Flurdeh’s series of tilt-shifted game worlds, like Tiny Cyberpunk, Tiny Red Dead, and Tiny Bioshock via Nelson Minar #
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