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October 22, 2020
— here’s hoping ARIN pulls Jim Watkins’ block of 25,000 IP addresses #
— this story is about my friend Ian, who’s sinking his life savings into fighting this trash #
— Roguelike Celebration’s custom MUD-inspired space made it one of the only fun virtual events I’ve experienced #
October 21, 2020
— the fantastic 2014 documentary An Honest Liar covered his long career of debunking scammers and charlatans #
— the Neural Filters are incredibly powerful, and occasionally hilarious #
— 2020 will be the first year A Charlie Brown Christmas won’t be broadcast over-the-air since its 1965 debut #
— I hope they bury it with its golden arm #
— I watched this live and it was sheer delight #
October 20, 2020
— Natalie takes on some common leftist critiques of voting for Biden, or voting in general #
— I didn’t see that coming #
— this 2014 profile by Ben Smith talks about his outsized influence on musical comedy #
October 19, 2020
— ProPublica’s comprehensive report on the Trump administration’s catastrophic interference in public health policy #
— an effort to preserve and make available historical game source code; don’t miss their Secret of Monkey Island event via MetaFilter #
— joining YouTube’s very belated crackdown last Thursday, citing real-world violence #
— so many great touches, from the voting booths and field office to the villager selection and use of forced perspective #
— continuing their excellent coverage of this disastrous $4 billion boondoggle #
October 14, 2020
— machine-generated collage portraits composed of shapes derived from GAN-generated images made by Artbreeder #
— like Werewolf meets Spaceteam, the two-year-old indie game is now the biggest game on Twitch via @lazerwalker #
— users revolted against Lowtax after an accusation of domestic assault, leading to an 85% drop in Patreon support #
— I love her new show in the expanding Babish Culinary Universe #
— a surprisingly catchy song about Covid-19 library safety protocols #
— 256 GAN-generated Banksy artworks, with the purchase price increasing one pound for each sale #
October 13, 2020
— extremely impressive results #
— one of my favorite podcasts returns for its third season after an eight-month break #
— this new technique for inpainting video is unreal #
October 12, 2020
— 16 years after founding and two years after Zuckerberg explicitly said it was allowed #
October 11, 2020
— an apropos cover for what would’ve been John’s 80th birthday #
— after the first big wave hit major cities, Republican-led counties/states now dominate weekly case counts despite lower density #
— NYT investigation reveals over 200 companies, special interests, and foreign governments that paid him for favors and access #
— this illustrated comic essay is very sweet #
October 8, 2020
— stunning monochrome pixel art animation #
— my favorite part about this is that it’s a 10.5 minute loop with lyrics all about Pepsi #
October 6, 2020
— web-based NES/SNES/Sega/GB emulator allowing up to 8 remote players to share a single controller with zero latency via @batslyadams #
— will still allow individual posts, but this is a stunning and long-overdue step to combating dangerous misinformation #
— the costs and potential risks of producing Mystery Show-style investigations are high, limiting who can take them on via @adrianhon #
— a guide to cute-ifying your computer from BubbleSort Zines‘s sailorhg #
— streaming keypoints from your facial expressions and movement, generating a detailed deepfake of your own face locally #
— Noblemania interviews bit players from TV/film/music videos, forming oral histories from untold perspectives #
— TikTok makes this kind of improvisational collaboration so easy #
October 5, 2020
— Caitlin Dewey’s very good newsletter you should consider subscribing to #
— journalists left newspapers to launch their own subscriber-funded newsletters via Caitlin Dewey #
— people struggling to survive the pandemic are finding support and advice on Reddit via Caitlin Dewey #
— without adequate support or reliable internet, many kids are just falling through the cracks via Caitlin Dewey #
— a son remembers his mother’s love of cartooning and illustration, in thread form via b3ta #
— match pairs of images that Twitter users described as having the same energy via b3ta #
October 1, 2020
— Tijmen Schep’s interactive documentary of facial recognition algorithms for tracking and surveillance via MetaFilter #
— the YouTube algorithm largely ignores short-form video, making it challenging to find an audience there #
— The Hood Internet is back to releasing their weekly mega-mashups, over 60 songs from the same year in 3.5 minutes #
— stunningly animated short by Giant Ant via youtube.com #
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