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November 22, 2021
— CLIP generates surreal pixel art animations #
— investigation into how millions of ad dollars bankroll clickbait actors, funding disinformation campaigns internationally via Garbage Day #
— Stuart Brown goes deep into chiptune for a new episode of Ahoy via @soobrosa #
— a “barely active drop-shipping scam page full of stolen video content” is the most widely-viewed page in the U.S. this year #
— she deleted the comic and her presence online after a 2014 Kickstarter update blew up online #
November 17, 2021
November 16, 2021
— new daily word game from Josh Wardle, the creator of r/button and r/place at Reddit #
November 11, 2021
— related: Motherboard’s oral history of SA from 2017 #
November 10, 2021
— charming video talks to the current owner and some of the exiled, now in their 40s and 50s via twitter.com #
November 9, 2021
— how they’ve adapted to the redesign of something they never wanted to change #
— the second part documenting the history of the influential creative coding language is out now #
— because of natural immunity in red counties and new antiviral treatments, that gap may soon peak via New York Times #
November 8, 2021
— interesting conversation about privilege and culture from someone with a history of ironically saying shitty things for shock value via @Zaron3 #
— Neal Agarwal’s rock-stacking simulator #
— how a religious movement played a role in spawning the U.S. sushi industry via Belong.io #
November 5, 2021
— how the Twine revolution opened up interactive fiction to a new world of writers and audiences #
— powerful science-fantasy short story from A.L. Goldfuss #
— 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 #
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