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November 5, 2021
— related: an oral history of Bank Python via MetaFilter #
November 1, 2021
— “person who briefly mistook a plastic bag for a cat“ #
October 29, 2021
— built on her collection of found GIFs, Olia Lialia’s Perpetual Calendar wishes you a happy day via blog.archive.org #
— weekly digest of most-edited Wikipedia articles and discussions #
— an excellent replacement for Nuzzel, I love being able to break out articles, websites, and videos #
— with LED smart lights via r/nextfuckinglevel #
— Kathryn Yu made this branching narrative thread for an MFA class project, earning her an A in the process #
October 28, 2021
— don’t miss the behind-the-scenes video showing the custom software used to reconstruct it #
October 26, 2021
— made with Checkboxland #
— she talked to John Darnielle about its surprising rise as a TikTok meme #
October 25, 2021
— three.js app for sketching in 3D #
— content-aware fill as a free web app via The Verge #
— reiterating again that Facebook knew all along, ignored everyone ringing the alarm bell, and lied about it publicly #
— I’m lucky enough to have seen this yellowing beast in person #
— the first song from Brian David Gilbert’s AAAH!BBA, his Halloween-themed ABBA cover album releasing at midnight PT tonight #
— love that confetti via Medium #
— Adrienne LaFrance on how employees repeatedly raised alarms about the harm Facebook was doing but were ignored by leadership #
— “There is a pervasive sense that, on some fundamental level, no one is entirely sure what’s going on.” #
— it’s unusual for so many major publications to work together like this, but Frances Haugen was able to set the terms #
— there’s simply too much good reporting on this to read today, but WaPo has solid highlights with links to deeper reporting on each #
— Facebook is dealing with an aging user base, while teens are using Instagram less #
— no longer under embargo, 17 publications started releasing their reporting on the internal Facebook docs leaked by Frances Haugen #
October 22, 2021
— don’t worry, it’s for the goats #
— media coverage of the “cancel culture” panic is rife with irrelevant examples, bad stats, and false equivalence #
October 21, 2021
— played with the demo and the results were laughably awful #
— it’s also just a modified Mastodon instance and they’re violating the license terms #
October 20, 2021
— quiz to guess which headlines performed better, using real data from the Upworthy Research Archive via MetaFilter #
October 19, 2021
— subreddit filled with stories of people quitting abusive jobs #
— the label killed the idea of releasing anything that could compromise her pop star image #
— I hope he’s still out there somewhere doing his thing #
— a day with new bill wurtz is a good day #
October 18, 2021
— an excerpt from Tamara Shopsin’s debut novel LaserWriter II, out tomorrow #
— every classic Magnetic Scrolls adventure playable with color graphics via SSH #
October 14, 2021
— very good interactive infoviz showing how biases stack to impact women in higher roles #
— his enthusiasm is contagious, mirrored by Jason Reitman and the young cast of Ghostbusters: Afterlife #
— pretty great lineup of upcoming guests #
— not just house brands like Amazon Basics, but it puts Amazon-exclusive products above competitors via @themarkup #
October 13, 2021
— visual essays celebrating cinema, a perfect fit for Taylor Ramos and Tony Zhou #
— some good thoughts on Facebook from Hank Green #
October 12, 2021
— conspiratorially obsessive discourse over mundane subjects going viral, a fender bender or a girl surprising her boyfriend #
— exploiting lax security for a senior prank, followed by a debrief with IT to fix the issues they discovered #
— the chat tool can invert power structures by letting employees speak candidly and organize internally #
October 11, 2021
— until ordered to stop in a federal court, Rutherford County locked up children in almost half of cases, compared to the state average of 5% #
— flashbacks to the Lonely Island; Rebecca Alter profiled the online comedy trio for Vulture in July #
— “You can’t do a carbon offset for bigotry” #
— Sarah Marshall will continue the podcast with special guests via @yourewrongabout #
— they merged with ResidualVM, adding support for Grim Fandango, The Longest Journey, Escape from Monkey Island, and Myst 3 Exile #
— Neal Agarwal made a Chrome plugin for MSCHF that deep fries every page #
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