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May 20, 2021
— photographers using Creative Commons and the courts “as a blunt object with which to coerce nuisance value settlements from unsuspecting parties” #
— anxiety, grief, and psychic numbing from a self-reinforcing disaster #
— their song “Racist Sexist Boy” is blowing up on Twitter, but the whole set’s great via @BeckTheGirl #
— yet another brilliant Tom Scott video via MetaFilter #
— collaboratively translating Kairosoft’s used bookstore simulator after 24 years via MetaFilter #
— if you know the location/date and have a clear, straight shot, you can estimate within 30 minutes #
— a “documentary travelogue through aging but beloved virtual worlds,” interviewing people trying to preserve them via MetaFilter #
— it’s stayed running continuously for over 30 years, still easily accessible today #
May 19, 2021
— ding dong, AMP is dead via Jeremy Keith #
— the 153 Mile Store opened in 1914 and closed in 1963 with everything inside, a time capsule of the early 20th century #
— wild that the Commodore 64 passed Windows for the last two years, albeit with smaller prods #
— please do Electronics Boutique in 1988 next, thanks #
— they found it favored white faces, leading to the cropping changes this month #
— the holding company for the world’s largest IRC network was sold under false pretenses #
— “I feel that having a No. 1 record derailed my career and my tearing the photo put me back on the right track.” #
— a headline I didn’t expect to see in 2021 #
May 18, 2021
— browser-based idle game about capitalist raccoons taking over the world via @molleindustria #
— browser add-on to see historical versions of a webpage from the Wayback Machine without leaving the tab via @matt_muir #
— newly-launched database of freely-licensed 3D models/textures with an open API via @0xca0a #
— including all adult art, comics, and games, presumably because they’re transitioning from Paypal to traditional payment processors #
— multiple cameras and sensors capture a 3D model in real-time, displayed on a 65-inch holographic light field display #
May 17, 2021
— with evidence pointing to its authenticity, seems like a case of deepfakes being blamed for teens screwing around #
— “I won’t tell you my account number” (clearly types in account number and “0000” PIN on keyboard) via @JonErlichman #
— learn more about Andrew Sillers’ Living GIFs, including Doom on AO3 #
May 14, 2021
— go get some delightful indie games with 100% of revenue going to their creators #
— solid explainer on the political dynamics behind Israel, Hamas, and the Palestinian Authority #
— you can read the full report #
— “They will rubber stamp more evictions, all the while using the tool of law to provide a veneer of integrity.” #
May 13, 2021
— related: Zeynep Tufekci on the long delay in accepting spread by aerosol transmission #
— over 250,000 rooms and 1,600 concurrent players, all running on a 386 and played via postal mail #
— don’t miss his interview with an online sex worker about their lessons learned: cash up-front and never use Paypal #
May 12, 2021
— processing game imagery using a network trained on cityscapes #
— I wonder when media sites will start doing this to prevent ad blockers via Belong.io #
— Charlie Warzel on memeified finance and politics as protest #
— friendly drag-and-drop quirky website builder via kickscondor.com #
— Laine Nooney on the history of computer-induced pain and the ways people tried to manage it #
— raises complex questions around authenticity and identity online #
May 7, 2021
— teen hackers in communist Czechoslovakia made and swapped illegal protest text games on bootleg cassettes #
— as always, an incredible year of indie games to seek out and play #
— StumbleUpon reborn, it immediately paid off for me with this laser bagpipe via Garbage Day #
May 6, 2021
— a tiny desk I never expected to see #
— Simone de Rochefort dives into the site’s history, current drama, and future #
— I never knew until today that it started as an offshoot of internet shock site Ogrish #
— 18 out of 22 million comments were fake, 7.7 million from a single 19-year-old college student #
May 4, 2021
— a stunt, but a good one via @sdw #
May 3, 2021
— incredible reporting from Casey Newton on the disastrous all-hands meeting that led to a third of the company quitting #
— the new company will be just called “Yahoo,” finally dropping the exclamation point #
May 1, 2021
— after a nine-month hiatus, Matt Muir’s link-laden newsletter is back and at its own domain #
— fictional Wikipedia entry about the first executable image of a human brain via Web Curios #
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