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 #

Facebook whistleblower on 60 Minutes — "Facebook has set up a system of incentives that is pulling people apart" #

Meet the original streamer, who ran his own public access gaming show in 1993 — "Video Games and More" was like Twitch on TV, with kids calling in to talk to a 12-year-old gamer instead of spamming chat (via) #

Garbage Day on the mystery of the “I Want To Live In This Era” photo — "being nostalgic for being in the early-2010s being nostalgic for the 90s" #

The Pandora Papers — WaPo investigation based on 12M leaked documents reveal how the global elite shield their riches in international tax havens, including in the U.S. #

Demi Adejuyigbe’s thread of behind-the-scenes footage from his final September 21 video — absurd commitment to the gag; less than $25k left to hit $1 million raised #

Fully Justified Metroid — embarrassed to admit I wrote every post like this when I was a Cool Teen in the BBS era (via) #

Google Maps tracks global warming with new “Fire” layer — a grim but useful addition #

Party Is Such Sweet Sorrow — a delightful short point-and-click adventure; hints available in the Metafilter thread (via) #

Imgur sold to Medialab — bought by the same company who acquired Genius two weeks ago #

Adrienne LaFrance on Facebookland, the largest autocracy on Earth — "a weapon against the open web, against self-actualization, and against democracy" #

Licorice Pizza trailer — PTA's latest is a coming-of-age story set in 1970s San Fernando Valley with impeccable attention to detail #

LittleJS — Frank Force's tiny lightweight 2D game engine with WebGL rendering and impressive performance #

What Do We Do With All This Rage? — "I don’t want to bleed out empathy, a virtue I cherish. But I’m angry." #

BuzzFeed profiles Tyler Gaca aka Ghosthoney — one of my favorite people on TikTok #

The Flickr Foundation — love seeing SmugMug's commitment to the Flickr Commons project in the form of a new nonprofit #

Anne Helen Petersen on revenge bedtime procrastination — how a desperate need for control over our lives transforms into self-sabotage (via) #

Anil Dash on “cooperative overlap” — I've experienced this conflict myself, as a conversational overlapper working with a turn-taker #

The Creative Independent turns five — a "growing resource of emotional and practical guidance for creative people" with over 1,100 interviews, essays, and guides (via) #

File Not Found — with the shift to online apps, educators report students are increasingly confused by the idea of a local filesystem with nested files and folders #

9/21/21 — Demi Adejuyigbe's sixth and final September 21 video raised over $180k for three charities in an hour #

Amplosion — if you're running iOS 15, install this Safari extension to automatically redirect AMP links #

Playable Quotes for Game Boy — interactive tiny moments from classic games, using an emulator save state and a limited slice of the ROM (via) #

The Facebook Files — reported from leaked documents, WSJ's damning series on Facebook's failure to act on internal reports of social harm #

Shades of Doom — 50 Years of Text Games on a pioneering Doom-inspired audio game for the visually impaired #

Phil Berge’s flip-book tattoos — he's doing Steamboat Willie next; CW: flashing images #

Twenty Is Myth — as he has for the last 20 years, and maybe for the last time, Anil Dash reflects on September 11 then and now #

The surprisingly big business of library e-books — every library should be pushing for Controlled Digital Lending to avoid abusive licensing #

20% of a picture of a dog — on the absurdity of fractionalized NFT ownership #

Sprout, formerly MakeSpace, goes live — delightfully customizable virtual spaces for video chat and real-time collaboration #

Facebook is making smart glasses — glasses that can listen to you and record everything you see, from the the world's most trusted brand in user privacy #

sheet-posting — Glitch app turns a Google Sheets spreadsheet into a simple blog with RSS, remix it for your own domain (via) #

404PageFound — a directory of active vintage websites created between 1994-1997 and last modified pre-2000, like thenanny.com (via) #

Porno Hustlers Of The Atari Age — Kate Willært's deep-dive into Custer's Revenge, one of the most offensive video games ever made (via) #

Prompting an AI to write and illustrate famous novels — Phil Gyford gave titles and opening lines to EleutherAI and VQGAN+CLIP, with interesting notes on the results #

Everything Is A Remix is back — Kirby Ferguson is remixing his brilliant video series on copyright and reuse, updating it for 2021 #

Casey Newton on Loot — in six days, Vine/Peach creator Dom Hofmann's RPG inventory generator spawned an ecosystem and $180M market cap #

Sein of Blue — seinfeld meets miles (via) #

Marcin Wichary on removing moire patterns from halftone printing — photo magic with math #