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) #
Party Is Such Sweet Sorrow
— a delightful short point-and-click adventure; hints available in the Metafilter thread (via) #
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 #
What Do We Do With All This Rage?
— "I don’t want to bleed out empathy, a virtue I cherish. But I’m angry." #
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 #
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 #
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 #
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 #
Support Texas Abortion Funds
— abortion funds like these are likely to be targeted in Texas courts under the new law #
The Deviousness of Texas’s New Abortion Law
— designed to be nearly impossible to challenge in court by preventing state officials from enforcing it #
Texas abortion ban is next-level cruelty
— designed to evade court challenges, deputizing private citizens to sue abortion providers and others with a $10,000 bounty #
High-fidelity image generation using diffusion models
— using AI to hallucinate details in low-res images to achieve a "let's enhance" effect #
The Anti-Fan Phenomenon
— Fadeke Adegbuyi on the mirror image of fandom, online communities who find joy in hating together #
Did Olivia Rodrigo steal from Paramore?
— Adam Neely makes the best argument for plagiarism, then shows all the problems with it #