Portland protesters forced to stop attending protests as a condition of jail release — federal judges requiring people, many charged only with minor offenses, to give up their Constitutional rights #

Tech’s four biggest companies are going on trial — hearings this week may determine the future of antitrust regulation #

“We’re Your Family Now” — personal stories of what it's like to lose loved ones to the QAnon cult #

Former Deadspin staffers launching Defector Media — employee owned and operated, should be an interesting experiment #

E.gg — experimental Facebook app is very reminiscent of Byte's original design (via) #

60 Years and Still — a tabletop mixed-media short covering incidents of police violence against Black Americans over six decades #

The Last Bronycon — Jenny Nicholson gives the brony phenomenon the documentary it deserves #

macintosh.js — an Electron app running Mac OS 8 emulating a 1991 Macintosh Quadra 900 #

Bijan Stephen profiles MSCHF — not every MSCHF drop is a winner, but they have a remarkably high hit rate #

Why your USPS packages are delayed — historic mail volume, a reliance on overtime instead of new hires, and a Trump donor as new Postmaster General #

Minecraft running in Minecraft — using the VM Computers mod letting you boot a Windows PC inside the game (via) #

The Guardian on Bortac, the quasi-military border patrol units sent to Portland — "the most violent and racist in all law enforcement" #

ProPublica releases thousands of NYPD police discipline records — "303 officers still working at the NYPD have had five or more substantiated allegations against them" #

The Pudding launches Winning the Internet, a meta-links newsletter — tracking the most popular links from other link-heavy newsletters #

More federal officers deploying to Portland as protests gain momentum — great article that talks to several Black activists who have been at the protests since the beginning #

The Verge on the Nintendo Gigaleak — internal source code and development repositories from over a dozen classic SNES and N64 games #

Success Kid, 13 years later — the family and subject of an accidental meme, born from a 2007 Flickr photo, looks back #

Alexagate — MSCHF's new drop is an Amazon Echo speaker blocker #

Tedium on the history of RIP graphics — a doomed graphical innovation for BBSes in the early '90s, released just before the web made every BBS feel obsolete #

How Flash Games Shaped the Videogame Industry — a visual essay and remembrance from a bunch of Flash game creators (via) #

Good Sudoku — Zach Gage and Jack Schlesinger's new iOS app takes the tedium out of Sudoku and teaches you advanced strategy while you play #

Friends intro recreated as stock footage — several more in the Twitter thread #

Racial demographic dot-density map — Observable continues to be an incredible tool for live coding and visualization #

Defining the ’90s Music Canon — part of The Pudding's series on identifying generation gaps in music memory #

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World Reunion Table Read — the instant cult classic is 10 years old next month #

Hurting People at Scale — BuzzFeed News investigation on employee dissent inside Facebook based on dozens of internal documents #

On Lacework — Everest Pipkin watched 1 million three-second videos from an MIT dataset for a project and wrote about how it affected them (via) #

The Endless Doomscroller — perfectly healthy and normal #

Twitter finally cracks down on QAnon — better late than never? #

The Daily Beast on local police unions colluding with federal law enforcement — police unions enable and conceal abuse of power and fight reform efforts #

Judge won’t free Michigan teen in juvenile detention for not doing online schoolwork — don't miss the original ProPublica investigation #

Gotta Eat the Plums! — William Carlos Williams meets RPG Maker (via) #

Federal law enforcement use unmarked vehicles to grab protesters off Portland streets — despite objections from city/state leaders, the DHS is escalating force in what looks like a trial run for other cities #

Giving GPT-3 a Turing test — the AI will never say "I don't know," so just ask it nonsense questions #

Solving the Mask Shortage in Huntington Beach — two surfer dudes try to hand out free masks in Orange County, and it doesn't go well #

Minimum wage workers cannot afford rent in any U.S. state — there was a housing crisis before the pandemic, and now it's a coming apocalypse #

rev-ind, reverse indent your code — cursed energy #

Yale Union transfers land and historic building to Native American arts nonprofit — the YU was the home for the early years of XOXO, and this is incredible news #

Biden, Gates, Musk, Bezos, Apple, Uber, and others hacked in unprecedented Twitter attack — a Bitcoin scammer apparently got access to internal Twitter tools #

ProPublica investigates a Black teen sent to juvenile detention for not doing her online homework — she attended a predominantly white school that shifted to remote learning during the pandemic #

NYT investigates NYPD violence during protests — the Washington Post found eight people blinded by police munitions nationally in a single day #

AI Dungeon upgrades to GPT-3 — like so much of GPT-3's output, this hurts my brain #

“Palm Springs” breaks Hulu records — it's a very fun take on the time loop rom-com, I recommend it #

Influencer Pay Gap surfaces pay disparities between Black and non-Black influencers — Mikai McDermott's Instagram account lets influencers anonymously share what they make #

Tom Scott visualizes a million vs. a billion dollars — using a GPS to turn distance to money #

Bohemian Rhapsody in Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 — weirdly hypnotic, reminiscent of Line Rider music videos #

Kaitlin Tiffany on celebrity baby conspiracy theorists — part of The Atlantic's Shadowland project about conspiracy thinking in America #

GPT-3 layout generator — describe a layout and the AI generates (mostly) working code in whatever format you like #

Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, Grim Fandango, Broken Age free on Mac App Store this weekend — excellent LucasArts remasters with commentary from the devs #

American Passports Are Worthless Now — most of the world is now off-limits to the U.S., if you can get a passport at all #