Magma Studio — powerful multi-user painting/drawing tool, free for public drawings for up to 30 people #

Hope — a free game about "learning to rely on others and fighting against hopelessness, together" #

Open Mike Eagle’s “Bucciarati” — video features Paul F. Tompkins, directed by Demi Adejuyigbe; new album out October 16! #

Song Exploder becomes a Netflix series — coming October 2 with Alicia Keys, Lin-Manuel Miranda, R.E.M., and Ty Dolla Sign #

PIFuHD — make 3D human models from a 2D photos with a Google Colab demo to try it yourself (via) #

In Search Of A Flat Earth — Dan Olson's incredibly well-researched deep dive into QAnon and conspiracy theories (via) #

Nova, Panic’s successor to Coda, is out now — native macOS code editor from the best in the business, with a free 30-day trial #

Annabel Scheme and the Adventure of the New Golden Gate — Robin Sloan released his serialized detective story with a lovely UI and open-sourced the code #

Never post photos of your boarding pass online — Qantas was exposing passport details, phone numbers, and staff comments in JSON, but it's patched now #

How Did MTV Become the ‘Ridiculousness’ Network? — in late June, MTV aired the comedy clip show for 113 of its 168 hours of programming #

Dave Grohl escalates drum battle with 10-year-old Nandi Bushell — the ongoing social media war between these two is incredibly adorable #

Scientific American endorses Joe Biden — the first presidential endorsement in their 175-year history because of Trump's damage to science, health, and truth #

Whistleblower alleges mass hysterectomies, medical neglect at ICE detention center — The Intercept has more information in their coverage #

Polygon reviews Spelunky 2 — it's out today for PS4, Steam release on September 29 #

City of Louisville agrees to $12M settlement, police reforms with Breonna Taylor’s family — the officer who blindly shot her apartment and killed her was fired, but none of them have been charged #

windows 95 dreamscapes — Louie Zong used made a bunch of 3D landscapes with Windows 95 programs and set it to a Windows 3.0 MIDI #

Bill and Melinda Gates say “shocking” US pandemic response is due to “terrible leadership” — Bill Gates is a constant target of ridiculous and dangerous conspiracy theories #

Cameron Hunter’s gesture-triggered comic book messages for video calls — made with Snap Lens Studio and the Snap virtual camera for PC/Mac #

Super Mario Bros 3 three-minute speedrun explained — fascinating breakdown of manipulating enemy positions to change values in memory #

Facebook ignored global political manipulation, says data scientist turned whistleblower — she posted the 6,600 word memo on her last day after being fired this month #

NYT tracks USPS mail delivery times — delivery times are better than during the public outcry in July and August, but still slower than earlier this year (via) #

Biome Online — multiplayer pixel art space based on the Online Museum of Multiplayer Art #

It’s A Bird — Christian Cooper wrote a comic inspired by his racist encounter while birdwatching in Central Park, available free #

Feds seize OnePlus Buds, mistaking them for “counterfeit” AirPods — their excited tweet and press release are still up #

Russell Brandom on Oracle’s bizarre TikTok deal — ByteDance refused Microsoft's offer and won't sell the code or algorithm, raising questions about Oracle's "partnership" #

A Monster’s Expedition — charming and chill new puzzle adventure from the creator of Cosmic Express and A Good Snowman #

How conspiracy theories are shaking the foundation of American democracy — “You cannot have a functioning democracy when people are not at the very least occupying the same solar system.” #

Wildfire photographers threatened by vigilantes who thought they were antifa arsonists — paranoid conspiracy theories and armed militias are a dangerous combo #

Wandaland — animated student film about a fictional animation tycoon (via) #

PayPal’s war on tardigrades — best theory so far is that there's a company called "Tardigrade Ltd" on the OFAC sanctions list (via) #

The Matrix on polarized 3D TV glasses — very clever #

Cory Doctorow launches Kickstarter for Attack Surface audiobook — Amazon-owned Audible won't carry his audiobooks without DRM, so Cory made one for the third Little Brother book on his own #

Hundreds of Americans planted the China mystery seeds — Jason Koebler filed 52 FOIA requests to learn more about the mysterious, but apparently harmless, seed operation #

AI lip-syncs movie clips to All Star — using Wav2Lip, synchronizing lip movement solely from an audio file, with an interactive demo (via) #

Doom Pregnancy Test — Foone replaced the guts of a digital pregnancy test, and hijinks ensue #

Pareidolia — a machine continuously searching for faces in grains of sand (via) #

Allie Brosh emerges from seven year hiatus with new book — the followup to Hyperbole and a Half will be out September 22 and she's doing some virtual events #

Winamp Skin Museum — over 60,000 interactive skins from the Internet Archive's collection (via) #

walk cycles — a Tumblr of rotoscoped videogame walking and running animations (via) #

Public Enemy updates “Fight The Power” for 2020 — with Nas, Rapsody, Jahi, YG, and The Roots' Black Thought and Questlove #

Mezerg’s “Watermelon” — playing fruit as a musical instrument using the Playtron (via) #

press play to pause your thoughts — a poolside.fm side project #

Kelly’s back with “Masks” — 5,117 days after the release of Shoes #

Lo-Fi Player — an 8-bit room that builds a custom chill beats melody and soundscape based on your interactions (via) #

microCOVID Project Calculator — estimate infection risk for common activities factoring in location, ventilation, speaking volume, mask type, and social activity (via) #

Rain in Games, Part I — an incredibly chill 30-minute compilation by Jez Burrows #

xiaoxiaodou’s TikTok cooking videos — every one is absurdly over-the-top, incredibly fun to watch (via) #

Capturing the Police — The Verge launched a project documenting how people use technology to document police brutality and racism #

Darius Kazemi on Twitter usernames with lots of numbers — most people think accounts with names like @Andy2884336 are bots, but it's been the default Twitter onboarding for years #

Michael’s Community Chat — the website for the craft supply chain lets visitors talk to one other, and chaos ensues (via) #