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April 8, 2021
— this entire story is a sad sandwich #
— for over a decade, My Brother, My Brother and Me turned its silliest questions into comedy gold #
April 7, 2021
— Republicans are working overtime to make sure fewer people can vote to regain control via Nelson Minar #
— provided to Buzzfeed News from an anonymous source, as of February 2020 #
— using the photo mode to turn it into a walking simulator, exploring the glitchy planet from ground level #
April 6, 2021
— six years ago, Eric Meyer wrote about inadvertent algorithmic cruelty via Belong.io #
— her controversial research on false memories made her a popular expert witness casting doubt on claims of sexual assault via Today in Tabs #
— check if your personal info was among 533 million Facebook accounts leaked #
April 5, 2021
— just like Yahoo to delete 16 years of community-contributed content with 30 days’ notice #
— they tricked donors into emptying their bank accounts with automatic weekly donations via Nelson Minar #
— don’t miss the absurdly impressive demo video via @ak92501 #
April 2, 2021
— their haha-just-serious Seven on Seven presentation is worth watching, if you’ve never seen it via @anildash #
April 1, 2021
— VICE interviewed three dozen people about their QAnon family members of widely-varying backgrounds #
— free blazingly fast web app to send files with end-to-end encryption, up to 10GB #
— try to guess the second-most voted picture, or wait to see vote counts for fewer points #
March 31, 2021
— I love this supportive little ghost #
March 30, 2021
— Space Jam mashed up with Hamilton shouldn’t work this well, but it does #
— a social network for imaginary friends like Gloop, Dracula CEO, and Tears for Fears #
— “Tested on Netscape 1.1 through 4 on a Mac SE/30” via Kottke #
— fun to see her creative process and missteps along the way #
March 29, 2021
— the flipside of his Chipophone project, turning an organ into an 8-bit synthesizer via Kottke #
March 26, 2021
— they found the source of the avatar, bafflingly set as the default webcam software for some Dell computers in the late 2000s #
— visualize your Google Search history as poetry or a wall of questions via Caitlin Dewey #
March 25, 2021
— “nude” and “natural” mostly describe light skin tones, while darker shades are named after objects #
March 24, 2021
— Casey Newton talks to 14 and current Medium employees about their unionization attempt, editorial layoffs, and eternal pivot #
— generate one of these daily for 5,000 days and sell a token with some metadata pointing to a collage for $69M #
March 23, 2021
— during the pandemic, the courts were tasked with balancing transparency, accessibility, and privacy via Platformer #
— Taylor Lorenz digs into what happened to the gonzo journalism YouTube series and how its creator was fired #
March 22, 2021
— “I will briefly summarize the plot of Back to the Future II for you” is a sure-fire winner #
— across thousands of incidents in nine major cities, police escalated conflicts with an aggressive militarized response #
— a book series about internet subcultures, first one by Ana Valens on Tumblr porn is out now via theatlantic.com #
— the most balanced explanation I’ve seen of the potential value of NFTs, Ethereum’s “eye-watering energy use,” and sustainable alternatives #
March 19, 2021
— regional balkanization, paywalls and walled gardens, and the potential end of Section 230 via Caitlin Dewey #
— the black market of playlist payola and stream bots via Caitlin Dewey #
— disable all cookies, try to get a sub-30 second time #
— a short text adventure you play in your file browser via Hacker News #
— jaw-dropping Pokemon-lite videogame in an OpenType font, with a postmortem and tutorial for making your own font game via Hacker News #
March 18, 2021
— English-only for now, but just tested and this works surprisingly well for clearly-spoken speech #
— don’t miss the video of it in action #
— hand-stitched CMYK embroidered swatchbook laboriously made with 219,647 stitches #
— I continue to believe cryptoart is one of the most pointless and wasteful trends in modern history #
— “lions pretend to be really cool and awesome and stuff, but really, they’re just assholes like most cats” via @bookymargoof #
March 17, 2021
— from “yellow peril” to “model minority” to the “Chinese virus” #
— “If we’re not challenging and educating our kids about racism, we leave them at risk of perpetuating it” #
— also: Vox covered the policing debate among members of Asian-American communities #
— many go unreported because of language/cultural barriers and lack of trust in law enforcement #
— free one-hour interactive training, I signed up for next month via Kottke #
— from policy reform and legal defense funds to LGBTQ and gender-based orgs #
— new report from Stop AAPI Hate, a reporting center for anti-Asian hate incidents, which escalated during the pandemic #
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