GANksy — 256 GAN-generated Banksy artworks, with the purchase price increasing one pound for each sale #

Top 10 games from the JS13K 2020 competition — extremely impressive results #

Underunderstood digs into how Ryan Broderick became a Chinese face model on Amazon — one of my favorite podcasts returns for its third season after an eight-month break #

AI-based video completion — this new technique for inpainting video is unreal #

Facebook finally removes holocaust denial content — 16 years after founding and two years after Zuckerberg explicitly said it was allowed #

Sean Ono Lennon performs “Isolation” — an apropos cover for what would've been John's 80th birthday #

How many potatoes does it take to run DOOM? — too many (via) #

Visualizing Covid-19 cases by state partisanship — after the first big wave hit major cities, Republican-led counties/states now dominate weekly case counts despite lower density #

The Swamp That Trump Built — NYT investigation reveals over 200 companies, special interests, and foreign governments that paid him for favors and access #

Noelle Stevenson’s coming out story — this illustrated comic essay is very sweet #

Mattis Dovier — stunning monochrome pixel art animation #

24/7 lo-fi hip hop beats to drink pepsi to — my favorite part about this is that it's a 10.5 minute loop with lyrics all about Pepsi #

Telemelt — web-based NES/SNES/Sega/GB emulator allowing up to 8 remote players to share a single controller with zero latency (via) #

Facebook bans QAnon Pages, Groups, and Instagram accounts — will still allow individual posts, but this is a stunning and long-overdue step to combating dangerous misinformation #

The Problem with the Inconsequential Quest — the costs and potential risks of producing Mystery Show-style investigations are high, limiting who can take them on (via) #

Compute Cuter — a guide to cute-ifying your computer from BubbleSort Zines's sailorhg #

Nvidia’s AI video compression — streaming keypoints from your facial expressions and movement, generating a detailed deepfake of your own face locally #

Ironic Sans interviews pop culture archaeologist Marc Tyler Nobleman — Noblemania interviews bit players from TV/film/music videos, forming oral histories from untold perspectives #

Grocery store musical duets on TikTok — TikTok makes this kind of improvisational collaboration so easy #

Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends — Caitlin Dewey's very good newsletter you should consider subscribing to #

The history of paid newsletters in the mid-20th century — journalists left newspapers to launch their own subscriber-funded newsletters (via) #

The Cut’s Bridget Read on /r/unemployment — people struggling to survive the pandemic are finding support and advice on Reddit (via) #

The students left behind by remote learning — without adequate support or reliable internet, many kids are just falling through the cracks (via) #

My Mum, A Cartoon Life — a son remembers his mother's love of cartooning and illustration, in thread form (via) #

Same Energy Snap — match pairs of images that Twitter users described as having the same energy (via) #

How Normal Am I? — Tijmen Schep's interactive documentary of facial recognition algorithms for tracking and surveillance (via) #

The Verge on the boom of young animators on TikTok — the YouTube algorithm largely ignores short-form video, making it challenging to find an audience there #

1990 — The Hood Internet is back to releasing their weekly mega-mashups, over 60 songs from the same year in 3.5 minutes #

Right Now — stunningly animated short by Giant Ant (via) #

“Was that your limb? – w4m” — short animation with audio sourced from a real missed connections ad on Craigslist (via) #

Zeynep Tufekci on dispersion as key to fighting the pandemic — Japan's successful response stopped super-spreading events with ventilation, backwards tracing, and cluster-busting #

Mouth Dreams is out — another manipulated mashup masterpiece from Neil Cicierega; the listening party was very fun #

NYT investigation into Trump’s false claims of voter fraud — the strategy was hatched soon after the 2016 election with Pence playing a larger role than previously known #

HoloVista — the gorgeous and surreal mixed-reality narrative game is out now on iOS #

Casey Newton on Coinbase’s ban on politics — "Coinbase won’t be apolitical so much as it will be as political as he wants it to be, and those politics will be whatever Brian Armstrong says they are." #

Why Amazon Isn’t Ripping Off the Post Office — Amazon is increasingly doing its own deliveries, but still generated $1.3 billion in profit for the USPS last year #

Turturro Time — I'm really enjoying Ironic Sans' David Friedman's new newsletter #

Think Twice Dice — Wask sells all sorts of cursed oddities like silica gel candies, short-sided rulers, and double-sided matches #

Mouth Dreams — Neil Cicierega dropping a new Mouth album this Wednesday #

20020 — Jon Bois returns with a 17776 sequel, new chapters every Mon/Wed/Fri until October 23 #

Humans of New York interviews Stephanie aka Tanqueray — 32-part photo essay on a 76-year-old NYC woman's remarkable life; the campaign for her medical care raised over $1.8M #

Trump’s 2016 campaign disproportionately targeted 3.5 million Black Americans to deter them from voting — new reporting using a leaked database compiled by Cambridge Analytica and the RNC #

NYT exclusive on Trump’s tax returns — more than two decades of tax records show a history of tax avoidance, audits, losses, and looming debt #

NYT investigation into how eBay execs secretly terrorized a blogging couple — don't miss the kicker about where the former communications chief landed #

Techade Quiz — how many objects from technology history can you recognize? i tapped out at 25/45 #

Windows XP source leaked to 4chan by apparent Bill Gates conspiracist — people on Twitter are finding some interesting things #

Pow Player — complete websites bundled in a PNG image, as metadata containing a ZIP file (via) #

What It Was Like To Buy A Computer In 1994 — recently uploaded footage from General Magic #

Protocol on the launch of Telepath, a new social network emphasizing kindness and active moderation — the real name requirement makes me immediately skeptical #

For Fuck’s Sake — Hank Green drops some knowledge about minced oaths #