Perplex City’s Satoshi finally found after 14 years — the last of two unsolved challenges from the pioneering ARG was finally solved (via) #

The complexities of Covid vaccine prioritization — an interesting counter-argument, laying out the case for factoring in more than age #

The Boston Dynamics robots can dance now — adorable killbots #

Brian David Gilbert finally unravels Pokémon Edibility — after three years, BDG is leaving Polygon to work on new things (via) #

Throat Notes — Double King creator Felix Colgrave released another bizarre animated short; don't miss the computer UI at 3:40 #

How the Police Killed Breonna Taylor — NYT's visual reconstruction shows their negligence and reckless indifference to human life #

Why is there a bucatini shortage in the U.S.? — deep-dive into a low-stakes mystery that traces back to ramen noodles in World War II #

Where Year Two of the Pandemic Will Take Us — Ed Yong looks at the challenges facing the U.S. in its coronavirus response next year #

WSJ on how Amazon clones and crushes rivals and partners — the world's largest retailer routinely knocks off products and then suspends or hides their listings #

Disney made a plaza restaurant — the latest in Jack Plotnick's Disney studio satires, where he inserts himself into vintage footage #

“All I Want for Christmas Is…” — expertly done Star Trek remix #

Interview with an anonymous AWS engineer — plenty of speculation and gossip, but that just makes it more fun to read (via) #

Garbage Day explains Tumblr — a brief guide to how it works and what makes it special, along with some recommendations #

How Bad Is Your Spotify? — The Pudding and Mike Lacher made a music snob AI that mocks your listening habits #

Infinite Pizza — like Super Hexagon in a fractal pizza hellscape (via) #

Bloomberg’s Jealousy List 2020 — all the articles Businessweek staffers wish they'd written #

Underunderstood digs into the mystery of grocery store animatronic bands — this goes unexpected places, including the office of a sitting state senator #

Congress passes disastrous copyright measures without debate in coronavirus relief bill — opening the floodgates to a new era of copyright trolling #

Ghosthoney and Chansey donut — I love everything about this story #

Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny dupes spy into revealing how he was poisoned — the full video of the call is unreal, detailing the FSB's failed assassination and attempts to cover it up #

The truth in Black and white — the Kansas City Star reports on, and apologizes for, its own racist history (via) #

Videlectrix finishes Stinkoman — days before Flash dies, the Brothers Chaps finished their 15-year-old game with help from Jez, SmallBu and Paul and Storm (via) #

Emoji Kitchen — made by Jennifer Daniel and Bhavik Singh #

Google hit with third major antitrust lawsuit from 38 states — their "bread on Bing" response is kind of laughable #

Cloudflare Pages launches — very competitive with Netlify's pricing and a generous free tier #

Brian Moore’s pull cord to end conference calls — flush your coworkers #

Substack launches RSS reader — good idea, but not too useful without the full text; alternately, read Substack newsletters as RSS feeds #

Works from 1925 entering the public domain next month — The Great Gatsby, Mrs. Dalloway, The Gold Rush, Sweet Georgia Brown, The Trial, and many more #

Blob Opera — amazing David Li project lets you control machine-generated voices trained on 16 hours of audio from four opera singers #

Twitter shutting down Periscope — oh well, back to Meerkat #

Nicholas Quah’s Best Podcasts of 2020 — love seeing You're Wrong About getting the attention it deserves #

Taylor Lorenz on Atlanta’s all-Black collab houses — Black influencers are underpaid, and face discrimination from brands and recommendation algorithms #

nobody.live, random Twitch streams with no viewers — it's surprisingly delightful to be someone's only fan for a few minutes (via) #

Making a digital clock in Google Sheets — see also: analog clock in Google Spreadsheets (via) #

Hypha — grow letters by simulating the mycelium growth found in fungi (via) #

Polygon’s top 50 videogames of 2020 — some great picks including Blaseball, Spiritfarer, If Found…, and Wide Ocean, Big Jacket #

Scroobly — bring doodles to life with your webcam, made with Tensorflow.js, FaceMesh, and PoseNet models (via) #

Amazon-owned Goodreads quietly shutters API — killing countless apps in the process; Open Library's APIs may be a good replacement (via) #

Pony Town — impressive and very active game-like social space (via) #

Biggest announcements from The Game Awards — very excited for Open Roads, We Are OFK, and Season #

Better Days — music video made from 2,117 photos over 101 days of lockdown #

Zodiac Killer cypher solved by amateur sleuths after 51 years — don't miss the video where they break it down #

Familiars.io, a multiplayer game played entirely inside a Twitter embed — I had no idea this was even possible (via) #

The Quarries — Vulture's first, and hopefully last, quarantine culture awards #

EFF whitepaper on how YouTube’s Content ID discourages fair use — includes interviews with Harry Brewis, Lindsay Ellis, and Todd in the Shadows #

Orwell’s Animal Farm out now — game adaptation developed by the creators of Reigns and written by interactive fiction legend Emily Short #

Gifts from Cyberspace — Choire Sicha shitposting in the New York Times brings me great delight #

FTC and 46 states sue Facebook for stifling competition with acquisitions — they're asking a federal court to force them to sell assets "including, but not limited to, Instagram and/or WhatsApp" (via) #

Jazz Cats — live kitten cam with meows converted into sax solos real-time using Imitone #

Physics of Beauty — Clemens Wenger’s interactive jazz album with creative code by Gianluca Monaco #