Dead Startup Toys — MSCHF is selling miniature replicas of overfunded hardware flops #

Freespin — astounding demo running entirely on a Commodore floppy drive with the Commodore 64 unplugged #

Britney Spears’s Conservatorship Nightmare — Ronan Farrow and Jia Tolentino investigate for the New Yorker #

All the right words on climate have already been said — Sarah Miller pens a painful postscript to her 2019 article on Miami real estate and climate change (via) #

Bloomberg on a Microsoft contractor who stole $10 million in Xbox gift cards — internal code generation, identity theft, and funds laundered through crypto #

Janelle Shane on teasing higher-quality images out of neural nets — adding phrases like "Unreal Engine," "Trending on Artstation," and "award-winning" can generate better results #

Portland Year of Protest — Luka Grafera's incredibly detailed illustrated map, with giclée prints for sale #

The songs that inspired the Super Mario Bros soundtrack — this would totally be a lawsuit if it happened now #

John Lennon and Space Invaders — Space Invaders was a smash hit in 1979, but finding these photos still surprised me #

Oakland police officer admits to playing Taylor Swift to keep video off YouTube — another example of police trying to abuse automated copyright takedowns to avoid public accountability #

Joy Generator — short stories about the things that bring us joy and the science behind them (via) #

“the persistence of memory by lisa frank” — from @images_ai, which uses VQGAN+CLIP #

“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 #

Little Alchemy — how have I never seen this 10-year-old web game or its sequel until today? #

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 #

NVIDIA Canvas — productized version of their GauGAN browser-based demo (via) #

Shmorby’s Guide To The Internet! — written and animated by Louie Zong, voiced by Griffin McElroy #

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 #

Wayfinder — lovely web-based art game exploring an animated landscape and generating poetry (via) #

Dot Dot Dot — try to hit the black ball, a new-to-me web game from 2016 (via) #

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 #

Tuca & Bertie returns — Adult Swim put the first full episode online #

Feels — like Where's Waldo with emoji (via) #

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) #

Photopea — web-based vector/raster image editor with native support for Photoshop, Figma, Sketch, Illustrator, and more #

The Shortcut (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) #

Bo Burnham’s “Welcome to the Internet” — anything and everything all of the time #

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 #