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 #

Plan C — the Texas legislature is about to ban abortion medications, as well #

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 #

Refuse Uline — they're the worst (via) #

Why are hyperlinks blue? — Elise Blanchard digs through the history of browser UIs (via) #

RaveDJ — surprisingly competent algorithmically-generated mashup generator (via) #

multizork — the classic text adventure adapted to telnet for up to four players (via) #

Did Olivia Rodrigo steal from Paramore? — Adam Neely makes the best argument for plagiarism, then shows all the problems with it #

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) #