Four Seasons Total Landscaping in VRChat — now available for all your press conference needs #

tixy — an extremely minimalist creative coding environment, click the dots for more examples #

Talkin’ ’bout A Revolution — a rare TV appearance for Tracy Chapman, her first since 2015 #

Existential Troopers — with The Mandalorian back, the Auralnauts take on the question of free will in the Star Wars universe #

Homestar Runner’s Halloween Hijinks — quite possibly the last Homestar before Flash is EOLed by Adobe and removed in Chrome on December 31 (via) #

AI camera mistakes soccer referee’s bald head for ball — or maybe it fell in love and couldn't take its eyes off him (via) #

When To Expect Election Results In Every State — plus, whether to expect a blue or red shift based on when results are reported in each state #

MC Frontalot’s This Is Not A Drill — the lyrics are extremely late-October 2020 #

SpaceX declares it won’t recognize international laws in planned Mars colony — "Disputes will be settled through self-governing principles, established in good faith, at the time of Martian settlement." #

Brian Feldman on why conservative news thrives on Facebook — related: Kevin Roose's @FacebooksTop10, tracking top-performing link posts by U.S. Facebook pages (via) #

The Pudding digs into how officer complaints are investigated — using Philadelphia as a case study, they visualize the clear racial differences in reporting and inaction #

Mayor Bones Proudly Presents: Ghost Town’s 999th Annual Pumpkin Festival — make and share pumpkin carvings in this game from the creator of A Short Hike #

Zeynep Tufekci’s Insight — her new Substack is already great, an instant subscribe #

K-pop superfans vs QAnon — I know which side I'm betting on to win the stan wars (via) #

Michael Hobbes on why older Americans are a vector for misinformation online — cognitive decline, digital illiteracy, and a social media ecosystem of fringe partisan websites (via) #

Kim Kardashian’s father resurrected as birthday hologram — Kanye commissioned a deepfake of Robert Kardashian saying she married the "most genius man in the whole world" #

NYT’s Election Distractor — this has Choire Sicha's fingerprints all over it #

Visualization of how Covid-19 spreads indoors with various precautions — with extended exposure and without adequate ventilation, masks and distancing will only go so far (via) #

Not for You — an "automated confusion system" for Firefox that randomizes TikTok viewing behavior (via) #

You Must Build A Lighthouse — a puzzle game in pure CSS #

8800 Blue Lick Rd is the best accidental video game of the year — try it in VR, or attempt one of the many speedrun categories #

The Art Of “Cool As Ice” — if there was an award for worst movie with the best cinematography, Vanilla Ice's feature film debut would clinch it #

Activists turn facial recognition tools against the police — Google Photos would be a dead simple way of doing this kind of face identification with a private corpus #

After Patreon ban, QAnon creators move to PayPal, SubscribeStar, and GoFundMe — last Thursday, Patreon joined YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter in finally cracking down on the conspiracy #

Earn $20K EVERY MONTH by being your own boss — Brian David Gilbert brings Eldritch horror to Google Spreadsheets #

cyberpumpkin.zone — this Halloween, carve and share an e-pumpkin (via) #

Ruffle, a Flash Player emulator in Rust — the extension will allow SWFs to play in the browser after 2020 #

RIAA orders GitHub to remove youtube-dl — they claim that the fabulously useful software is illegal under the DMCA's controversial anti-circumvention provision #

ClipDrop — Cyril Diagne turned his AR cut & paste tech demo into a product #

Krebs on the now-defunct companies behind 8chan, QAnon — here's hoping ARIN pulls Jim Watkins' block of 25,000 IP addresses #

Privacy-invading test monitoring startup sues critic for tweeting its unlisted YouTube videos — this story is about my friend Ian, who's sinking his life savings into fighting this trash #

Em Lazer-Walker on using game design to make virtual events more social — Roguelike Celebration's custom MUD-inspired space made it one of the only fun virtual events I've experienced #

RIP The Amazing Randi — the fantastic 2014 documentary An Honest Liar covered his long career of debunking scammers and charlatans #

Photoshop adds AI-powered filters and features — the Neural Filters are incredibly powerful, and occasionally hilarious #

AppleTV+ gets exclusive rights to Peanuts holiday specials — 2020 will be the first year A Charlie Brown Christmas won’t be broadcast over-the-air since its 1965 debut #

Quibi shutting down after six months and $1.75 billion burned — I hope they bury it with its golden arm #

AOC’s Among Us stream quickly became one of Twitch’s biggest ever — I watched this live and it was sheer delight #

Contrapoints on voting — Natalie takes on some common leftist critiques of voting for Biden, or voting in general #

Gowalla rebooted as an augmented reality social game — I didn't see that coming #

Tom Lehrer releases his lyrics into public domain — this 2014 profile by Ben Smith talks about his outsized influence on musical comedy #

Inside the Fall of the CDC — ProPublica's comprehensive report on the Trump administration's catastrophic interference in public health policy #

The Video Game Source Project — an effort to preserve and make available historical game source code; don't miss their Secret of Monkey Island event (via) #

TikTok starts banning QAnon accounts, redirecting related hashtags — joining YouTube's very belated crackdown last Thursday, citing real-world violence #

Touring the official Biden HQ island in Animal Crossing — so many great touches, from the voting booths and field office to the villager selection and use of forced perspective #

The Verge digs into three years of Foxconn’s broken promises in Wisconsin — continuing their excellent coverage of this disastrous $4 billion boondoggle #

derivative.works — machine-generated collage portraits composed of shapes derived from GAN-generated images made by Artbreeder #

Taylor Lorenz on the blockbuster success of Among Us — like Werewolf meets Spaceteam, the two-year-old indie game is now the biggest game on Twitch (via) #

Something Awful under new ownership, after 21 years online — users revolted against Lowtax after an accusation of domestic assault, leading to an 85% drop in Patreon support #

Vulture profiles Sohla El-Waylly and her life after Bon Appétit — I love her new show in the expanding Babish Culinary Universe #

Library Takeout — a surprisingly catchy song about Covid-19 library safety protocols #