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September 7, 2021
— Kirby Ferguson is remixing his brilliant video series on copyright and reuse, updating it for 2021 #
September 2, 2021
— in six days, Vine/Peach creator Dom Hofmann’s RPG inventory generator spawned an ecosystem and $180M market cap #
— seinfeld meets miles via @Shnabubula #
September 1, 2021
— photo magic with math #
— the Texas legislature is about to ban abortion medications, as well #
— abortion funds like these are likely to be targeted in Texas courts under the new law #
— designed to be nearly impossible to challenge in court by preventing state officials from enforcing it #
— designed to evade court challenges, deputizing private citizens to sue abortion providers and others with a $10,000 bounty #
August 31, 2021
— using AI to hallucinate details in low-res images to achieve a “let’s enhance” effect #
— Fadeke Adegbuyi on the mirror image of fandom, online communities who find joy in hating together #
— they’re the worst via Belong.io #
— Elise Blanchard digs through the history of browser UIs via Jeremy Keith #
August 30, 2021
— surprisingly competent algorithmically-generated mashup generator via inputmag.com #
— the classic text adventure adapted to telnet for up to four players via Slashdot #
— Adam Neely makes the best argument for plagiarism, then shows all the problems with it #
— government regulators may force online game developers to use facial recognition to enforce the policy #
August 27, 2021
— arguably the most upgradable and DIY-friendly laptop ever made #
August 26, 2021
— Danielle Baskin made the best job listing ever and distributed it on floppies around SF #
— this is so good on so many levels, particularly the section on existential dread #
— AI pixel art from text descriptions with a Google Colab notebook #
August 25, 2021
— montage of the top 100 entries rendering unique CG animations from the same project file via @textfiles #
— 20 years later, looking back at the internet’s first major ARG and the community it spawned #
— 16 years after the original, the crowdfunded sequel to one of my favorite games ever is out #
— musical toy for making looping songs from 3D block sculptures via b3ta #
— a short demo of modern web annoyances via Nelson Minar #
— all these recent cases set a terrible precedent for songwriters; musical influence and inspiration is not plagiarism #
August 15, 2021
— each of Tokyo’s 110+ train stations has a unique 7-second jingle composed by keyboardist Minoru Mukaiya #
— how an overheard conversation spawned a TikTok movement of online friends uniting in real life #
August 13, 2021
— they’re retracting over 50 stories and suspending David Mikkelson from editorial duties #
August 12, 2021
— a single-room game with a single NPC, a statue of a woman brought to life #
— another stunning Andrea Love stop-motion short made with felted wool via r/nextfuckinglevel #
— essential reading, as always via @edyong209 #
August 11, 2021
— a new short animation from Felix Colgrave #
— these demos generating usable code in multiple languages with natural language instructions are blowing my mind #
— brilliant collection of fictional movies and TV shows from movies and TV, like The Rural Juror and The Crows Have Eyes 3 #
August 10, 2021
— hypnotic stop-motion animation by designer Tomohiro Okazaki #
— 20 alternative interfaces for creating and editing images and text via nathalielawhead.com #
August 6, 2021
— “So can GPT-J write code to decide who lives and who dies in the robot uprising?” #
— fast, free, and performs nearly as well as OpenAI’s 6.7B GPT-3 model #
August 5, 2021
— Everest Pipkin reflects on their experience making the Roblox Dream Diary #
— for $60, scammers will copy the target’s profile info with a verified account and report them for impersonation via @josephfcox #
August 4, 2021
— a public domain open-source reimplementation of the Macintosh classic via Belong.io #
— at least 10 women quit in the last couple years, including co-founder Karla Zimonja #
— my new favorite account #
— seems like a group of adults mismanaged the event and left a 17-year-old girl to deal with the fallout #
— Oculus has its own customer support, but this desperate attempt at restoring accounts has mixed results #
— an overview of the emerging art scene using AI to generate surreal imagery from text prompts via Nelson Minar #
July 30, 2021
— a brilliantly elegant PuzzleScript game by increpare and pancelor via terrysfreegameoftheweek.com #
— the paper’s completely incomprehensible to me, but it all sounds suitably sci-fi #
— countdown until someone makes this for real #
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