Twitter.com is officially X.com now — one of the worst rebranding decisions of all time is mostly complete, though references to Twitter and tweets are still everywhere #

Archie, the internet’s first search engine, is rescued and running — a copy of the source code for the FTP search engine was found at the University of Warsaw in Poland #

Retro tech in anime supercut — a compilation of camcorders, VCRs, floppies, cassettes, arcade games, and more from '80s and '90s anime (via) #

Fabio and the Goose — Bobby Fingers teams up with Adam Savage and The Slo Mo Guys to bust a long-standing myth about the incident #

Google Search will now show AI-generated answers to millions by default — a destructive, predatory move that seems likely to hurt everyone who publishes for the web #

Pink Floyd’s “Any Colour You Like” on the Famicom Disk System’s Family Composer — every video on this channel is great, covering Frank Zappa, Weather Report in Otocky, Steely Dan on the Roland PMA-5, and Jaco Pastorius on a music box #

Replace your Windows cursor with a cat paw — inspired by a viral Foone post on Tumblr, you can buy it now at the very good domain catpawdesk.top #

OpenAI announces GPT-4o — they're really tripling down on acting like a human, these live video demos are clearly inspired by Spike Jonze's "Her" #

A British Nurse Was Found Guilty of Killing Seven Babies. Did She Do It? — The New Yorker is geoblocking this fascinating article in the UK, presumably because its impact on the retrial could violate their contempt of court law #

Matt Sephton digs into the early history of Japanese emoji — painstakingly redrawing emoji sets he found on electronic organizers and pocket computers that predate SoftBank's emoji set by at least a decade #

Development notes from xkcd’s “Machine” — how the massive collaborative Rube Goldberg machine was designed and built in three weeks #

Pop Culture Detective’s Patriarchy According to The Barbie Movie — "a primer to help explain what patriarchy actually is, what it isn't, and how it ends up harming everyone, including men" #

Exploring Hacker News by mapping 40 million posts and comments — don't miss the Hackerverse demo, visualizing 2D embeddings as an island of posts #

Food for Fish — a browser game with lots of underpants, made with WebGPU so try it in Chrome, Edge, or Safari Technology Preview (via) #

Apple’s “Crush” iPad ad sparks backlash — amazed nobody there realized how a tech behemoth crushing creative tools with a giant hydraulic press would be received #

Indie rock legend Steve Albini dies at 61 of heart attack — a shocking and tragic loss, Shellac's first album in a decade was due out next week #

Pokémon Go players are vandalizing OpenStreetMap to cheat the game — an issue for seven years, seems like Niantic should be storing a snapshot of map data to discourage editors (via) #

Meet Me at the Workers’ Club — Molleindustria's interactive reconstruction of Alexander Rodchenko's Workers' Club from the 1925 World Expo in Paris #

404 Media investigates the “zombie internet” of Facebook’s AI spam — a growing plague of AI bots posting nonsense for an audience of humans, other bots, and hacked human-bot hybrid accounts (via) #

Washed Out’s “The Hardest Part” — first music video made with OpenAI's Sora, embracing its surreal artifacts, broken physics, and dream-like creepiness #

We can have a different web, if we want it — Molly White on the yearning for the "good old days" of the web #

Printing music with CSS Grid — responsive music rendering for the web; see also: Soundslice's world-class responsive sheet music and guitar tab viewer (via) #

Doom Scroll — a DOOM-inspired demo without JavaScript made with the CSS scroll-timeline property, supported only in Chrome for now (via) #

Daniel Shiffman’s The Nature of Code gets updated for 2024 — his 2012 book on simulating natural systems now uses p5.js, available free online or as a printed edition (via) #

Famous paintings recreated with emoji — Nimona creator ND Stevenson uses Instagram Stories as a canvas #

Moviecart, full-length movie cartridges for the Atari 2600 — nice attention to detail with the box art, manuals, labels, and only using films from the 1970s (via) #

Mystery 1980s pop song “Everyone Knows That” finally found — turns out it's from a 1986 adult film; now we just have to find Celebrity Number Six #

McSweeney’s Millennial CAPTCHA — I'm late-stage Gen X and passed easily, so they may need to tune it a bit #

Super Moxio Bros. — "a loving homage to level 1-1 of Super Mario Bros with art done entirely by typewriter characters" (via) #

FCC votes to restore net neutrality — a 3-2 vote predictably split on party lines #

As The Crow Flies — a mini-game included in arcc, the delightfully weird 1970s-inspired multiuser computer network #

The Man Who Killed Google Search — Ed Zitron is reading the internal emails released in the Google antitrust case #

musicForProgramming(); — beautifully chill mixes for focused work with an excellent interface (via) #

NYT’s incomplete guide to how TikTok has changed America — the Senate advanced the measure today to force ByteDance to sell TikTok within the next nine months or face a national ban #

KRAZAM OS — everyone's favorite satirical startup culture sketch comedy troupe launched a Windows 98-inspired homepage (via) #

The Flipbook Experiment — the findings and animated results of The Pudding's experiment asking anonymous people to trace a line in order, flipbook-style #

Christmas shopping online in 1996 — videos like these are the only documentation of some early websites that predate the Internet Archive's large-scale web crawls with Alexa #

Bizarre traveling flame discovery — Steve Mould digs into a strange phenomenon when igniting lighter fluid in a thin trough (via) #

NASA fixes Voyager 1 glitch, resuming communication after five months — no big deal, they just patched code to work around a corrupted 46-year-old memory chip 15 billion miles away #

Ghost joining the fediverse, will adopt ActivityPub — sounds like Buttondown may be federating too #

Equinox — an impressive WebGL/Three.js space adventure game/demo from Little Workshop (via) #

LatentScape — explore the latent space of Are.na images together with others (via) #

The Read, Write, Own Web of the 1990s — Olia Lialina highlights examples from the Geocities archives of the web before platformization (via) #

I Hope This Email Finds You — Waldo Jaquith made a clever, sometimes poetic, new Mastodon bot that finds sentences in Google Books #

Do Not Reply Cards now selling sticker packs — do not tell me why the thing I like is bad #

2024 AI Elections Tracker — Rest of World is tracking AI-generated election misinformation in this year's global elections (via) #

Post.News shutting down — one of the many Twitter clones to pop up in the wake of the Elon acquisition calls it quits (via) #

Lola Dupre — love the work of this collage artist who primarily works with paper and scissors (via) #

Hands-on with Delta, the first console emulator officially allowed on the Apple App Store — free with support for the NES, SNES, N64, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, and Nintendo DS #

We Need To Rewild The Internet — antitrust enforcement, open standards, public funding, and collective governance (via) #