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August 11, 2021
— 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 #
— late to this meme, but deep-diving these on YouTube killed me #
July 29, 2021
— a short delightful game by Louie Zong, made with GB Studio #
— printed on the back of cereal boxes, make beats with cereal and an AR web app #
— I love how Mark Rober and friends perform remarkable feats of engineering for delightfully silly ends #
— so many great games, I’m most excited for the Outer Wilds expansion, Stray, and Storyteller #
— Coopertom is continually doing something great in VRChat #
— preorders for the adorable cranky handheld open today! #
July 28, 2021
— revived from death by Bustle Digital Group, edited by Leah Finnegan #
July 27, 2021
— badly needed, but Slack’s implementation feels far more frictionless and natural #
— made for the TIC-80 fantasy computer; F6 to disable the CRT effect, K to corrupt via @Polyducks #
— another family torn apart by the conspiracy cult #
July 26, 2021
— the Dominican tradition of empaguetadas, which I first learned about from Desus & Mero #
— elaborate satirical project to emulate an 8088 microprocessor with cloud microservices at 1/2000ths its original speed #
— deep dive into the tools used by Japanese game artists in the ’80s and ’90s #
July 25, 2021
— Netflix is posting some of the best bits from “Inside” on YouTube #
July 24, 2021
— not just politicization and anti-vaccine sentiment, but slow FDA approval and confused CDC guidance #
July 23, 2021
— try to guess the difference between art priced under $25 and over $4,000 on eBay via b3ta #
— monitoring live Twitch channels for spikes in chat activity, surfacing clips with a high concentration of emotes via b3ta #
— undetectable by current systems, the network continues to function normally with up to half of neurons affected #
— “We may not have achieved Universal Access to All Knowledge yet, but we still can.” #
— a Substack newsletter outed a priest using location data tying him to Grindr and gay bars, leading to his resignation via Nelson Minar #
— Jason Scott gives more context about Mark Herring’s contributions to BBS history #
— intensely-annotated post about every aspect of the “one-man/one-room pandemic comedy masterpiece” #
— “today we’re sharing high-quality predictions for the shape of every single protein in the human body” #
— GAN-generated beaches trained on 20,000 beach photos via Web Curios #
— musician tries to recreate the Sonic the Hedgehog soundtrack from memory 30 years later via Web Curios #
— good demo of how it can send you down extremely specific rabbit holes #
— “PDF artists” selling faked documents #
— critics allege Diana Deets is “pedobaiting,” she says it’s for privacy and a form of performance art #
— waiting for dead video sites like Viddler, LiveLeak, and blip.tv to meet the same fate #
— lucrative sponsorship deals from crypto casinos let them quietly play with free house money #
— a website that changes every time you blink via Web Curios #
— Engadget, The Verge, and Eurogamer also previewed the little handheld, with preorders opening next Thursday #
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