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 #

Comparing Rolling Stone’s Top 500 albums for 2003, 2012, and 2020 — fascinating to see who wins and loses cultural cachet in the eyes of Rolling Stone critics (via) #

The Election That Could Break America — Trump continues to undermine the election and will never concede, setting the U.S. up for a constitutional crisis #

How Reddit squashed its QAnon problem — enforcing their doxing and harassment policies by wiping out entire subreddits turned out to be pretty effective #

Leaked messages show far-right group’s plans for Portland violence — open discussion about hurting or killing Black Lives Matters protestors and violence towards elected leaders #

No officers charged for “wantonly and blindly” killing Breonna Taylor — a disgusting miscarriage of justice for what Louisville's police chief called an "extreme indifference to the value of human life" #

Da Vinky?? — learned about the Vörös twins in the latest Garbage Day newsletter #

Casey Newton leaves The Verge to launch Platformer — a new publication covering dedicated to covering social network companies and holding them accountable #

Mark in the Middle — Casey Newton got access to months of revealing internal Facebook Q&As with Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg #

Blacklight — real-time website privacy inspector from Surya Mattu and The Markup, with accompanying pieces on why and how they made it #

Final Cut – Ladies & Gentleman — feature-length mashup of clips (some NSFW) from 451 movies, used without permission to tell a single love story #

New Art City — new platform for virtual 3D art exhibitions by d0n.xyz #

RIP Longcat — longcat was long 😭 #

Vulture interviews Demi Adejuyigbe about his September 21 videos — "a source of pleasant nonsense in a world increasingly full of a more malicious chaos" #

Richard — Allie Brosh posted a chapter from her new book, which comes out tomorrow #

Justice Department threatens to cut federal funding to Portland, Seattle, and NYC over protests — blatantly unconstitutional, but that's hardly stopped this administration before #

Schitt’s Creek sets an Emmy record, sweeping comedy categories — just using this as an excuse to tell you not to sleep on this show, which has a big heart and is so much more than its title suggests #

9/21/20 — Demi Adejuyigbe is back, and this time, accidentally DDOSed the fundraising site #

TikTok and WeChat both managed to avoid Sunday app store bans — a useless Oracle/Walmart deal delayed TikTok's removal by a week, and a federal judge blocked WeChat's removal #

Twitter’s image previews appear to favor white faces — inadvertently discovered as part of a thread about Zoom's failure to recognize Black faces #

Reply All on the origins and identity of QAnon — m@tlock! #

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, champion of gender equality, dies at 87 — I can't even begin to process this loss #

Fast Times At Ridgemont High virtual table read — with Morgan Freeman, Jennifer Aniston, Matthew McConaughey, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, John Legend, Sean Penn, Ray Liotta, and Shia LaBeouf as Spicoli #