Joy Generator
— short stories about the things that bring us joy and the science behind them (via) #
“I Kissed A Girl” to “Call Me By Your Name”
— Jan Diehm shares a story in The Pudding about hearing yourself represented with same-gender lyrics for the first time #
NYT visualizes the intensely weird PNW heat wave
— from these charts, I learned that it's really hot outside #
GitHub Copilot
— powered by OpenAI, an evolution of AI code autocomplete tools like Tabnine and Codota #
Don’t Piss Off Bradley, the Parts Seller Keeping Atari Machines Alive
— amusing story of one temperamental guy who cornered the market on Atari new-old stock (via) #
What the Robot Saw
— livestreamed "robot film" generated from YouTube's least-viewed recently-uploaded videos #
Court records show Britney Spears quietly tried to end her conservatorship for years
— for 13 years, her father's controlled her life, including work, finances, and even forced birth control #
Paul Rudd shows a clip on Conan, one last time
— when you're done watching that, go find the Baby Geniuses fight scene on YouTube #
A Eulogy for the Free Press in Hong Kong
— after 25 years, Apple Daily shuttered after 500 police raided its HQ, froze its assets, and arrested its founder and directors #
The Chinese content farms behind Factory TikTok
— popular industrial channels aren't factory workers documenting their labor, but largely cheap marketing for their employers #
How Peter Thiel turned a Roth IRA into a $5 billion tax-free piggy bank
— accounts designed to help working Americans save for retirement are being abused as tax loopholes for the ultra-rich #
John McAfee found dead in Spanish prison
— hours after courts approved his extradition to the U.S. for criminal tax evasion #
Joni Mitchell’s Blue turns 50
— the NYT spoke to 25 artists and writers about its influence; Joni released an EP of Blue outtakes/demos today #
Alternate Realities
— 2,400 CG artists were challenged to render a base animation, here's the top 100 in a single video (via) #
The Digital Antiquarian on the best of The Voyager Company
— Jimmy Maher digs through the vault of hard-to-emulate Apple CD-ROM multimedia #
Associated Press will no longer name suspects in minor crimes
— search results can cause lasting damage even if charges were dropped (via) #
NYT investigation into JFK8, Amazon’s massive NYC fulfillment center
— interviews with nearly 200 current and former employees reveal high turnover, inadvertent firings, and racial inequities #
Discriminator
— brilliant interactive documentary about facial recognition algorithms trained on Flickr's CC-licensed corpus #
Jay-Z’s verse on Monster except he’s listing as many monsters as he can
— Uberduck.ai is a good tool for comedy (via) #
50 Years of Text Games on Curses
— the game and language that launched the modern interactive fiction scene #
Wired on finding Satoshi, the final Perplex City ARG puzzle
— imagine searching for a puzzle for 14 years, knowing your partner held the answer the whole time #
A Supercut of Supercuts
— this pushed me to put Supercut.org back online, frozen in time from 2015 (via) #
Bo Burnham: Inside
— finally finished this and it's very good, grappling with the pandemic, mental health, and the internet #
ProPublica investigation into the tax avoidance strategies used by billionaires
— using anonymously-leaked tax documents for Musk, Bezos, Buffett, Gates, Zuckerberg, Bloomberg, and other ultra-wealthy Americans #
Playdate Update
— full Season 1 game lineup, a delightful dock, a browser-based no-code game maker, and preorders start next month! #
The Mystery of the $113 Million Deli
— Jesse Barron figures out the mystery of a New Jersey sandwich shop with a ridiculous valuation #
9/11 and 1/6
— Yale history professor Timothy Snyder on the big lie, anti-voter laws, and the end of free U.S. elections (via) #
Indie Bundle for Palestinian Aid
— donate at least $5, get 1,000+ games including Minit, Calico, GNOG, Pikuniku, VVVVVV, Windosill, Luna, and Art Sqool #
50 Years of Text Games on “Silverwolf”
— astounding story of the "Game Mistresses" of St. Bride’s School, who released eight full-length text adventures from 1985 to 1992 #
Polygon’s list of “stupid but absolutely genius” internet videos
— part of their Masterpieces of Streaming feature, including the best of Vine and video essays #
Four Laps
— Marcin Wichary's Ignite talk about looping videos, told as a live looping video; how it was made #
U.S. soldiers exposed nuclear weapons secrets via online flashcard apps
— found by, uh, searching Google #
Charlie Bit My Finger will stay online after NFT sale
— 3F Music decided not to take it offline after all #
We Need To Get Real About How the Pandemic Will End
— a companion piece to Zeynep Tufekci's NYT new op-ed urging world leaders to take action against new variants #
Dynamo Dream: Salad Mug
— Blender virtuoso Ian Hubert's absurdly detailed CG-rich short film about a salad vendor in a cyberpunk city (via) #
Invisible Roommates
— Nicole He and Eran Hilleli's delightful AR prototype imagining the secret lives of smart devices #
Motherboard’s exposé of Citizen’s dangerous effort to cash in on vigilantism
— remarkable reporting using internal documents, messages, and roadmaps #