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February 7, 2022
— Michael Hobbes (Maintenance Phase/You’re Wrong About) made a video about our national moral panic #
February 4, 2022
— Ian Bogost on the securitization of everything; see also: Kaitlyn Tiffany on Web3 backlash and Amanda Mull on celebrity NFTs via @ibogost #
— visceral essay from writer Aubrey Hirsch about hate and harassment she’s experienced online via Caitlin Dewey #
— “Crush hearts with your lovely forehead, Valentine!” #
February 3, 2022
— Stef Animal’s “fan-fiction” tribute to the 1990 keyboard, try the demo button for an example via @disasteradio #
— and cheezy pickup lines later in the thread #
February 2, 2022
— the free 20-billion parameter model powering goose.ai, a drop-in OpenAI replacement at a fraction of the cost via @ak92501 #
— some genuinely funny comics in the replies #
— TôBach made a song entirely out of dialup modem sounds #
— four charts that describe themselves, inspired by xkcd’s comic of the same name #
— @Seinfeld2000 and Hood Internet team up via @Seinfeld2000 #
— virtual Linux environment compiled to WebAssembly and running in the browser via Simon Willison #
February 1, 2022
— their CEO quietly left last month, Matt Mullenweg will be running it for a while #
January 31, 2022
— Microsoft buys Activision Blizzard, Sony buys Bungie, and now the biggest game acquisition news of all #
— they want to convince you it’s a moderation problem, but they paid $100M to exclusively publish him #
— free game for PC/Mac that’s like Unpacking in reverse, set in the pandemic #
— is this the metaverse #
— Blathers as the owl from CInderella is inspired casting #
January 28, 2022
— intensely weird Twitch streams of 3D characters having surreal GPT-3 conversations via Garbage Day #
— silly music sequencer with some incredible examples in the thread and quote-tweets #
January 26, 2022
— good riddance, he’s the worst #
— I like the way this man thinks #
— Claire Evans tracks down a notorious 1980s hacker via @cabel #
January 24, 2022
— MSCHF is selling eight shirts with infringing corporate logos, with the winning team whoever C&Ds them first #
— incredible how much went into the production, check out the isolated acoustic guitar or synth/keys #
— the charming point-and-click adventure game from Octopus Pie’s Meredith Gran is out on February 22 #
January 21, 2022
— prompted by my tweet, Janelle Shane generated some delicious new cereal options #
— great list, many completely new to me #
— Dan Olson’s massive 2.5 hour critical deep-dive into crypto, NFTs, DAOs, and web3 #
January 20, 2022
— how TikTok’s fixed creator fund pays out 6x less of their earnings than YouTube’s 55/45 revenue split #
January 19, 2022
— if you use Gmail with a custom domain for free, you have to start paying a minimum $6/user/month by May 1 #
— the German service only hosts the documentation, not the repo or downloads, which are all on GitHub #
— they seem determined to repeat the mistakes made by Twitter and Reddit’s hands-off approach to content moderation #
— Panic’s browser-based code-optional editor for making games for their upcoming handheld via @playdate #
January 18, 2022
— bizarre TikTok account demonstrating dozens of hyper-specific gadgets in each video, “if Shein was a house” #
— currently serving over 500k people with one order of four tests per residential address #
— co-written by Al and the writer of the Funny or Die sketch in 2013 #
January 17, 2022
— try to drag Wikipedia articles into chronological order, my best streak is 12 via Garbage Day #
January 14, 2022
— reading up on Nineties Fuzzy Toys via Caitlin Dewey #
— part of Henning M. Lederer’s ongoing series of videos animating vintage book covers #
— Jennifer Daniel’s interactive breakdown of emoji trends via Web Curios #
— in this behind-the-scenes post, Ben Stokes wrote about using GPT-3 to correct errors in handwriting recognition via Web Curios #
January 11, 2022
— WaPo turns manipulated election maps into a colorful game #
January 10, 2022
— pineapple on pizza is in a dead heat #
— the former Signal CEO built some provocative crypto projects and wrote about it #
— minimalist editor for drawing only straight lines and semicircles, like Hundred Rabbits’ Dotgrid #
— it changes the word based on the possibility space; see also: HATETRIS from the same creator #
January 6, 2022
— thoughtfully nuanced take, a good companion to Tim O’Reilly‘s post last month #
— some reassuring words from Erin Kissane’s Calm Covid newsletter #
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