The Woman With No Face — powerful science-fantasy short story from A.L. Goldfuss #

Clive Thompson on the legacy of COBOL in the banking industry — related: an oral history of Bank Python (via) #

Mundane Halloween 2021 — "person who briefly mistook a plastic bag for a cat" #

haveagood.today — built on her collection of found GIFs, Olia Lialia's Perpetual Calendar wishes you a happy day (via) #

Weeklypedia — weekly digest of most-edited Wikipedia articles and discussions #

Tweet Shelf — an excellent replacement for Nuzzel, I love being able to break out articles, websites, and videos #

DIY lava lamp Halloween costume — with LED smart lights (via) #

Metaverse Noir — Kathryn Yu made this branching narrative thread for an MFA class project, earning her an A in the process #

5,162 attempts Super Mario Bros speedruns combined into a single video — don't miss the behind-the-scenes video showing the custom software used to reconstruct it #

DOOM playable as 16,000 HTML checkboxes — made with Checkboxland #

Rebecca Jennings on the Mountain Goats’ “No Children” going viral on TikTok — she talked to John Darnielle about its surprising rise as a TikTok meme #

Penzil — three.js app for sketching in 3D #

Cleanup.pictures — content-aware fill as a free web app (via) #

Garbage Day on the Facebook Papers — reiterating again that Facebook knew all along, ignored everyone ringing the alarm bell, and lied about it publicly #

Cabel Sasser shares a prototype original iPod — I'm lucky enough to have seen this yellowing beast in person #

Lay All Your Love On Me, performed by a vampire — the first song from Brian David Gilbert's AAAH!BBA, his Halloween-themed ABBA cover album releasing at midnight PT tonight #

Glitch Art in Medical Imaging — love that confetti (via) #

“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 #