AR audio visualizer distorts real-world surfaces — built with ARKit #

TikTok’s Top 100 of 2020 — see also: Elite TikTok and Cartel TikTok #

Sidney Powell teams with 8chan admin Ron Watkins — Ron and his dad are widely suspected to be Q #

Laura Hudson reviews Ready Player Two — "Don’t you kids ever get tired of picking through the wreckage of a past generation’s nostalgia?" (via) #

Judgement on COVID-19 goes Heavy Metal — Andre Antunes remixes televangelist grifter Kenneth Copeland #

Adrian Smith discovers his 8-year-old self is a meme — he's taking it well #

Billie Eilish: Same Interview, The Fourth Year — I hope she keeps doing these forever #

A song by the demon of 2020 — Beardyman channels Randy Newman #

20 days of fantasy and failure — WaPo goes inside Trump’s attempted coup, a failed quest to overturn election results #

Web Conversations With the Year 2000 — Paul Ford's brief conversation with his younger self about web tech (via) #

First-person account and photos of the removal of the Utah monolith — four men dismantled it on Friday night, implied that they were annoyed by the environment impact of tourists in the area #

SpaceHey — MySpace rebooted by an 18-year-old German student, who was five years old at its peak popularity (via) #

How old, ambient Japanese music became a smash hit on YouTube — a 2016 study analyzed 22k YouTube videos and found recommendations fell into 50 clusters (via) #

Vulture on the season finale of “How To with John Wilson” — the strange and good HBO docuseries ended with scenes of NYC shot as the pandemic unfolded #

Russian Cyberpunk Farm — you'll want to turn on the captions (via) #

Painting a Selfie Girl with Maths — fascinating step-by-step breakdown of a procedurally-generated graphic; play with it on Shadertoy (via) #

The mysterious Utah monolith disappeared — Deborah Solomon dug into the theory that it was created by artist John McCracken #

First Tweets — just setting up my twttr #

Radicle — intriguing new app for decentralized collaborative code development (via) #

DeepMind’s AlphaFold makes huge leap in protein folding predictions — it nearly solves the 3D shapes of complex protein structures, more than doubling accuracy in the last four years (via) #

Closing the Loop on China’s Mystery Seeds — outstanding audio investigation by Adrianne Jeffries into Amazon review scammers, why they used seeds, and why it ended so quickly #

Banners Begone! — clicker games are my Kryptonite, transparently manipulative but I still succumb #

David Lu spent 11 years making a Line Rider track — in the process, he rebuilt Line Rider using modern web standards to fix its bugs, which became the official version #

Correlating Covid-19 cases and negative reviews of scented candles — people who lost their sense of smell and haven't realized it yet #

NYT investigation into Coinbase’s treatment of Black employees — nearly all the company's Black employees left a year and a half ago, before their "no politics" stance last month led to another exodus #

Strong Bad Emails on the Internet Archive — all the interactive easter eggs will now be preserved thanks to Flash emulation (via) #

Every Movie Cough — and some sneezes too #

Mixtape for the Milky Way’s “Video Games” — touching music video with papercraft recreations of games from Pong to Gris (via) #

Talkin’ Strong Bad — makes a great holiday gift, along with Trogdor!! The Board Game #

Cursor*10 — over a decade later, this short Flash game now emulated with Ruffle is still perfect #

The Secrets of Monkey Island’s Source Code — unused art, assets, and deleted scenes found spelunking through the source #

If you own an Echo/Ring device, you should opt out of Amazon Sidewalk ASAP — the service automatically opts you into sharing your bandwidth with randos #

Redditor finds the mysterious Utah monolith — using the rock type, color, and shape, texture of the canyon floor, and flight paths #

Twitch plays the NYT Crossword — chill collaborative gameplay, for now #

Four Seasons Total Landscaping and Fantasy Island Adult Books in miniature — stunning work from artist Tracey Snelling #

Why I’m Mourning the Arecibo Telescope — a good time to watch Tom Scott's visit to Arecibo from 2017 #

YouTube temporarily demonetizes OANN and suspends uploads for a week — why now? they've posted thousands of videos filled with harmful disinformation for years #

Pop Culture C-SPAN — David Friedman mines the C-SPAN archives for cultural references in government hearings #

lofi hip hop radio beats to relax/study on a Sony Watchman — aesthetic #

Salesforce may buy Slack — if it happens, it'll be one of the top 10 largest tech acquisitions ever #

Laura Hudson reads Ready Player Two — lowlights from the sequel #

Email A Dumpster Fire — send an email and watch it printed and burned in a live stream #

Gone with a Flash — Paolo Pedercini talks about his game design work in the context of Flash's life, death, and surprising afterlife #

Maskalike — incredibly disturbing face masks of your own face, now available for $30 (via) #

NYT report on internal Facebook battle over safeguards to limit hate speech and misinformation — despite employee protests, they won't add measures that lower engagement or disproportionately impact right-wing outlets #

Connection Interrupted — stunning surrealist datamoshing videos #

Sherwin-Williams fired their employee who went viral for his paint-mixing TikTok videos — good job firing your most enthusiastic staff member #

Booting DOS from a vinyl record — 64k bootloader stored in 6 minutes and 10 seconds of audio on a 10" record #

Algorithmic Trap — uniquely-generated copyright-free beats made with SuperCollider #

Hunter Walk on the multi-SKU creator — most indies are cobbling together their income from multiple sources and platforms #