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November 20, 2020
— Chrome/Firefox add-on spotlights Google’s web search results instead of their own info boxes #
— USA Today’s crossword editor is pushing for more modern and inclusive puzzle design #
November 19, 2020
— Jonah Peretti cofounded the Huffington Post, but they’ve always been separate companies #
— anticipating Flash’s EOL next month with a growing archive emulated with Ruffle #
— they seem to think they no longer need to pay royalties on acquired works via Cory Doctorow #
— if you’ve opted out of monetization or don’t yet qualify for the partner program, you’re out of luck #
— very competitive with Patreon, with lower fees and more flexibility with your own domain and branding #
— my interest in ephemeral tweets is already fleeting via @garbageday #
— “If we do not have the capacity to distinguish what’s true from what’s false, then by definition the marketplace of ideas doesn’t work.” #
— nonprofit streaming over-the-air broadcast TV, currently fighting for its life in court with the EFF’s help via @ironicsans #
— so much of science is astonishing, but rarely taught in a way that conveys it via @textfiles #
— browser-based real-time video rotoscoping with machine learning via @runwayml #
— for years, the requirement for news sites to use AMP to appear in top stories was a flagrant example of their monopoly power #
— a voyeuristic, aspirational, and escapist internet hobby, “the opposite of doomscrolling” #
— I’m intrigued both by the artist who made the couch and the person using Craigslist for surreal hoaxes via mailchi.mp #
— Joe Biden’s political campaign may be the last to have its own island #
November 16, 2020
— they changed their policies for anticircumvention takedowns and created a $1M developer defense fund #
November 12, 2020
— Twitch’s negligence is inexcusable, failing to tell streamers which of their clips are infringing #
— teachers are threatening to fail students because shitty AI says they’re moving their eyes too much during tests #
— 50 years ago today, an early internet legend now available in gloriously visceral 4K #
November 11, 2020
— Kirby Ferguson’s incredibly entertaining new video essay draws a bright line between conspiracies and conspiracy theories #
November 9, 2020
— now available for all your press conference needs #
November 3, 2020
— an extremely minimalist creative coding environment, click the dots for more examples #
— a rare TV appearance for Tracy Chapman, her first since 2015 #
October 30, 2020
— with The Mandalorian back, the Auralnauts take on the question of free will in the Star Wars universe #
— quite possibly the last Homestar before Flash is EOLed by Adobe and removed in Chrome on December 31 via MetaFilter #
— or maybe it fell in love and couldn’t take its eyes off him via Nelson Minar #
— plus, whether to expect a blue or red shift based on when results are reported in each state #
— the lyrics are extremely late-October 2020 #
— “Disputes will be settled through self-governing principles, established in good faith, at the time of Martian settlement.” #
— related: Kevin Roose’s @FacebooksTop10, tracking top-performing link posts by U.S. Facebook pages via @bnet #
— using Philadelphia as a case study, they visualize the clear racial differences in reporting and inaction #
— make and share pumpkin carvings in this game from the creator of A Short Hike #
— her new Substack is already great, an instant subscribe #
— I know which side I’m betting on to win the stan wars via Caitlin Dewey #
— cognitive decline, digital illiteracy, and a social media ecosystem of fringe partisan websites via Caitlin Dewey #
— Kanye commissioned a deepfake of Robert Kardashian saying she married the “most genius man in the whole world” #
— this has Choire Sicha’s fingerprints all over it #
October 29, 2020
— with extended exposure and without adequate ventilation, masks and distancing will only go so far via Kottke #
— an “automated confusion system” for Firefox that randomizes TikTok viewing behavior via Platformer #
October 28, 2020
— a puzzle game in pure CSS #
October 27, 2020
— try it in VR, or attempt one of the many speedrun categories #
— if there was an award for worst movie with the best cinematography, Vanilla Ice’s feature film debut would clinch it #
October 26, 2020
— Google Photos would be a dead simple way of doing this kind of face identification with a private corpus #
— last Thursday, Patreon joined YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter in finally cracking down on the conspiracy #
— Brian David Gilbert brings Eldritch horror to Google Spreadsheets #
— this Halloween, carve and share an e-pumpkin via @pnc #
October 23, 2020
— the extension will allow SWFs to play in the browser after 2020 #
— they claim that the fabulously useful software is illegal under the DMCA’s controversial anti-circumvention provision #
— Cyril Diagne turned his AR cut & paste tech demo into a product #
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