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 #

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 #

Disney made a tiki room — I love Jack Plotnick's retro Disney studio satires #

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 #

Rublight — from 2012, a very silly new-to-me Conan sketch that made me laugh #

The Pudding tries to get an AI to win New Yorker cartoon contest — they prompt OpenAI's GPT-3 model with the cartoon description, you vote on the output #

QAmom — a filmmaker makes some bets with his conspiracist mother #

Charlie Bit My Finger video sold as an NFT, will be deleted from YouTube — bought by the same NFT whale who bought Disaster Girl, Overly Attached Girlfriend, and Kevin Roose's NYT article #

A Press Conference About What Happened To This Morning Where I Was Going To Get So Much Done — yes, this morning got away from us (via) #

What the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre destroyed — reconstructing the Greenwood neighborhood from archival photos, insurance maps, city directories, Census data, and survivor accounts (via) #

Caught in the Study Web — exploring the creative use of YouTube, TikTok, Discord, and Twitter for studying, built for and by students #

Taylor Lorenz on Adrian’s Kickback — a party invite went viral on TikTok, drawing thousands of teens and content creators to Huntington Beach #

BuzzFeed profiles The Linda Lindas — their Rebel Girl cover just kills me #

A Mind Is Born — from 2017, a stunning Commodore 64 demo made in 256 bytes #

Uberduck — using Tacotron, generate synthetic speech using dozens of famous voices, such as rappers, politicians, and cartoon characters #

The Battle of Sharks! — CGP Grey digs into a London art group's hilarious battle with a city council #

Remain Seated Please — short doc about two friends who illicitly explored every inch of the Horizons ride at Disney World #

NYT retrospective of the Space Jam website from 1996 — Gina Cherelus and Caity Weaver interviewed several of the people behind it #

Harvard Law School’s analysis of link rot in the New York Times — 6% of deep links in NYT articles from 2018 are dead, 43% from 2008, and 72% from 1998. (via) #

Terms & Conditions Apply — a game where you try to opt out of everything #

New Session — a collection of queer and trans works accessible only via telnet (via) #

River Runner — follow a raindrop placed anywhere in the contiguous U.S. and see where it ends up (via) #

You Can Pet the Dog in VRChat — Coopertom isn't impressed #

Beware the Copyleft Trolls — photographers using Creative Commons and the courts "as a blunt object with which to coerce nuisance value settlements from unsuspecting parties" #

Ed Yong on the aftermath of America’s pandemic trauma — anxiety, grief, and psychic numbing from a self-reinforcing disaster #

The Linda Lindas play the L.A. Public Library — their song "Racist Sexist Boy" is blowing up on Twitter, but the whole set's great (via) #

Were microwaves invented to thaw cryogenically frozen hamsters in the 1950s? — yet another brilliant Tom Scott video (via) #

Fansubbing BookStory — collaboratively translating Kairosoft's used bookstore simulator after 24 years (via) #

Determining the time of a photo by measuring its shadows — if you know the location/date and have a clear, straight shot, you can estimate within 30 minutes #

Preserving Worlds — a "documentary travelogue through aging but beloved virtual worlds," interviewing people trying to preserve them (via) #

Aaron A. Reed on LambdaMOO — it's stayed running continuously for over 30 years, still easily accessible today #

AMP pages no longer get preferential treatment in Google — ding dong, AMP is dead (via) #