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 #

Super You — free iOS AR app to do playful body-tracking transformations (via) #

The U.S. Army’s Twitch channel is banning people for asking about war crimes — people are speedrunning getting banned from their official Discord #

How the Trump administration could “ban” TikTok — TikTok teens are already retaliating #

Samplr — free music sampler for the MacBook Touch Bar #

mmhmm — clever upcoming Mac app to make video presentations more interesting #

Techdirt’s Mike Masnick on the ridiculous Harper’s open letter — "we want to present bad ideas without losing our readers or our jobs" #

NYT on the racial inequity of coronavirus — new federal data shows Black and Latino people disproportionately affected nationally #

Is Anyone Watching Quibi? — New York Magazine feature on the streaming platform, with plenty of cringe from Whitman and Katzenberg #

Motto — an interactive novella played on your phone using thousands of tiny videos #

Checkboxland — render anything as HTML checkboxes (via) #

Vanity Fair talks to comedian Ziwe Fumudoh about her IG Live show — as Joe Berkowitz wrote, her show is "a bit like Between Two Ferns, if it had a racism fixation and the intensity of a Scientology audit" #

Poynter on how the move to capitalize “Black” happened at the AP and in many newsrooms — the New York Times announced the style change on Tuesday #

Websites That Look Like Desktops — a curated list from Simone (via) #

Gwern’s experiments in creative writing with GPT-3 — in the examples, human-written text is bold, everything else was written by the AI #

Responsively — free browser to make responsive web app development easier #

Silicon Valley elite discuss journalists having too much power in private app — in response to the leak, Srinivasan started offering Bitcoin bounties for memes mocking Taylor and other journalists #

91-DIVOC adds new graphs, reports, and additional data options — easily the best visualization tool I've found to track the epidemic globally or down to the county level #

OpenAI’s GPT-3 model generating Python code from natural language — this is absolutely mind-blowing #

Our Ghost-Kitchen Future — The New Yorker's Anna Wiener digs into Reef, a parking lot company that raised $900M from SoftBank #

MrBeast ends Finger on the App after 70 hours — the remaining four players got $20,000 each, while several others are claiming foul #

Siddhant Adlakha on watching Hamilton on film, five years after its Broadway debut — "It was made for a different America, and today, it’s easy to wonder whether that America ever existed at all." #

Black Lives Matter may be the largest movement in U.S. history — between 15 to 26 million Americans participated in protests #

Josh Gad reunites Ferris Bueller cast — don't miss the John Hughes tribute at the end #

The Verge on the fight for control over The Nod — like Another Round, the show's hosts/creators are now trying to get the rights to their work by going public #

Reddit bans /r/The_Donald, /r/ChapoTrapHouse, and 2,000 other subreddits — also: YouTube banned Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer, and more, while Twitch temporarily banned Trump #

Verizon joins Facebook/Instagram ad boycott over hate speech — companies are pulling ads over their failure to moderate misinformation and hateful content #