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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 #
— Worthikids uses Blender to flawlessly mimic the feel of stop-motion animation #
April 30, 2021
— I counted 19 out of 57, fully one-third of their team, and those are just the ones who announced it publicly #
— guess whether Snopes fact-checks were true or not based on the article titles via b3ta #
April 27, 2021
— the company banned societal/political discussions at work, to the surprise and dismay of its employees #
— reproducing the Angelfire look with SVG’s noise, color cycling, and blending features #
April 26, 2021
— charming Raspberry Pi project to send and receive Telegram messages to grandma #
— the show will remain free, with Roman Mars and his team developing new shows for Stitcher #
April 25, 2021
— Kaitlin Tiffany interviewed me, Jason Scott, Maciej Ceglowski, and others about Yahoo’s casual destruction of internet history #
— Aaron Krolik and Kashmir Hill dig into the relationship between gripe sites and reputation-management services #
April 24, 2021
— these pack an emotional punch #
— who owns the rights to a link to a photo of a print of a screenshot of a photo #
April 23, 2021
— like Tetris meets Snake via b3ta #
— two GPT-3 bots try to find a time to meet up via Web Curios #
— 77% efficacy over 12 months compared to current vaccines that only prevent 29% of severe cases #
— in the past, human moderators have suppressed videos based on attractiveness and political content #
April 22, 2021
— iOS app to make extremely long cats with augmented reality #
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