China bans videogames for minors except from Friday to Sunday 8-9pm — government regulators may force online game developers to use facial recognition to enforce the policy #

iFixit’s teardown of the Framework laptop — arguably the most upgradable and DIY-friendly laptop ever made #

Cofounder Quest — Danielle Baskin made the best job listing ever and distributed it on floppies around SF #

FD Signifier on Bo Burnham’s Inside and “white liberal performative art” — this is so good on so many levels, particularly the section on existential dread #

Text2PixelArt — AI pixel art from text descriptions with a Google Colab notebook #

Dynamic Machines’ marble contraption 3D challenge — montage of the top 100 entries rendering unique CG animations from the same project file (via) #

50 Years of Text Games on The Beast — 20 years later, looking back at the internet's first major ARG and the community it spawned #

Ars reviews Psychonauts 2 — 16 years after the original, the crowdfunded sequel to one of my favorite games ever is out #

Ludotune — musical toy for making looping songs from 3D block sculptures (via) #

How I Experience The Web Today — a short demo of modern web annoyances (via) #

Olivia Rodrigo adds Paramore as songwriters for “Good 4 U” — all these recent cases set a terrible precedent for songwriters; musical influence and inspiration is not plagiarism #

The Hidden Melodies of Subways Around the World — each of Tokyo's 110+ train stations has a unique 7-second jingle composed by keyboardist Minoru Mukaiya #

Taylor Lorenz on Marissa Meizz and the No More Lonely Friends movement — how an overheard conversation spawned a TikTok movement of online friends uniting in real life #

Snopes cofounder/CEO plagiarized articles for clickbait under a fake name — they're retracting over 50 stories and suspending David Mikkelson from editorial duties #

50 Years of Text Games on Emily Short’s Galatea — a single-room game with a single NPC, a statue of a woman brought to life #

Summer Grill — another stunning Andrea Love stop-motion short made with felted wool (via) #

Ed Yong on how Delta changed the pandemic endgame — essential reading, as always (via) #

NYLONS — a new short animation from Felix Colgrave #

OpenAI Codex — these demos generating usable code in multiple languages with natural language instructions are blowing my mind #

Nestflix — brilliant collection of fictional movies and TV shows from movies and TV, like The Rural Juror and The Crows Have Eyes 3 #

Matches — hypnotic stop-motion animation by designer Tomohiro Okazaki #

Constraint Systems — 20 alternative interfaces for creating and editing images and text (via) #

Max Woolf experiments with AI code generation with GPT-J — "So can GPT-J write code to decide who lives and who dies in the robot uprising?" #

GPT-J, an open-source 6 billion parameter NLP AI model — fast, free, and performs nearly as well as OpenAI's 6.7B GPT-3 model #

I Know a Place — Everest Pipkin reflects on their experience making the Roblox Dream Diary #

Instagram banning-as-a-service — for $60, scammers will copy the target's profile info with a verified account and report them for impersonation (via) #

JS Kid Pix — a public domain open-source reimplementation of the Macintosh classic (via) #

How the founder’s toxic culture tore apart Fullbright, the studio behind Gone Home — at least 10 women quit in the last couple years, including co-founder Karla Zimonja #

solopsist’s surreal phone booth videos on TikTok — my new favorite account #

Garbage Day interviews DashCon’s creator — seems like a group of adults mismanaged the event and left a 17-year-old girl to deal with the fallout #

Hacked Facebook users buying Oculus headsets to try to get priority support — Oculus has its own customer support, but this desperate attempt at restoring accounts has mixed results #

Alien Dreams — an overview of the emerging art scene using AI to generate surreal imagery from text prompts (via) #

paint everything everywhere — a brilliantly elegant PuzzleScript game by increpare and pancelor (via) #

First “time crystal” built using Google’s quantum computer — the paper's completely incomprehensible to me, but it all sounds suitably sci-fi #

xkcd’s Mine Captcha — countdown until someone makes this for real #

Apple Bottom Jeans — late to this meme, but deep-diving these on YouTube killed me #

Windsor Road — a short delightful game by Louie Zong, made with GB Studio #

RP-FX, the Reese’s Puffs drum machine — printed on the back of cereal boxes, make beats with cereal and an AR web app #

World Record Domino Robot — I love how Mark Rober and friends perform remarkable feats of engineering for delightfully silly ends #

Highlights from Annapurna Interactive’s game showcase — so many great games, I'm most excited for the Outer Wilds expansion, Stray, and Storyteller #

How furries are making VR actually worth visiting — Coopertom is continually doing something great in VRChat #

Panic Podcast on the story of Playdate — preorders for the adorable cranky handheld open today! #

Gawker is back — revived from death by Bustle Digital Group, edited by Leah Finnegan #

Discord adds threads — badly needed, but Slack's implementation feels far more frictionless and natural #

Natsukashii, a nostalgic tile drawing tool — made for the TIC-80 fantasy computer; F6 to disable the CRT effect, K to corrupt (via) #

VICE talks to the Parkland shooting survivor whose QAnon dad thinks it was a hoax — another family torn apart by the conspiracy cult #

Sun, Sand, and Spaghetti — the Dominican tradition of empaguetadas, which I first learned about from Desus & Mero #

Space Invaders meets Kubernetes — elaborate satirical project to emulate an 8088 microprocessor with cloud microservices at 1/2000ths its original speed #

Designing 2D graphics in the Japanese videogame industry — deep dive into the tools used by Japanese game artists in the '80s and '90s #

How The World Works — Netflix is posting some of the best bits from "Inside" on YouTube #