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October 1, 2020
— short animation with audio sourced from a real missed connections ad on Craigslist via youtube.com #
— Japan’s successful response stopped super-spreading events with ventilation, backwards tracing, and cluster-busting #
September 30, 2020
— another manipulated mashup masterpiece from Neil Cicierega; the listening party was very fun #
— the strategy was hatched soon after the 2016 election with Pence playing a larger role than previously known #
— the gorgeous and surreal mixed-reality narrative game is out now on iOS #
September 29, 2020
— “Coinbase won’t be apolitical so much as it will be as political as he wants it to be, and those politics will be whatever Brian Armstrong says they are.” #
— Amazon is increasingly doing its own deliveries, but still generated $1.3 billion in profit for the USPS last year #
— I’m really enjoying Ironic Sans’ David Friedman’s new newsletter #
September 28, 2020
— Neil Cicierega dropping a new Mouth album this Wednesday #
— Jon Bois returns with a 17776 sequel, new chapters every Mon/Wed/Fri until October 23 #
— 32-part photo essay on a 76-year-old NYC woman’s remarkable life; the campaign for her medical care raised over $1.8M #
— new reporting using a leaked database compiled by Cambridge Analytica and the RNC #
September 27, 2020
— more than two decades of tax records show a history of tax avoidance, audits, losses, and looming debt #
— don’t miss the kicker about where the former communications chief landed #
September 25, 2020
— how many objects from technology history can you recognize? i tapped out at 25/45 #
— people on Twitter are finding some interesting things #
— complete websites bundled in a PNG image, as metadata containing a ZIP file via MetaFilter #
— recently uploaded footage from General Magic #
— the real name requirement makes me immediately skeptical #
— Hank Green drops some knowledge about minced oaths #
— fascinating to see who wins and loses cultural cachet in the eyes of Rolling Stone critics via Kottke #
September 23, 2020
— Trump continues to undermine the election and will never concede, setting the U.S. up for a constitutional crisis #
— enforcing their doxing and harassment policies by wiping out entire subreddits turned out to be pretty effective #
— open discussion about hurting or killing Black Lives Matters protestors and violence towards elected leaders #
— a disgusting miscarriage of justice for what Louisville’s police chief called an “extreme indifference to the value of human life” #
— learned about the Vörös twins in the latest Garbage Day newsletter #
— a new publication covering dedicated to covering social network companies and holding them accountable #
— Casey Newton got access to months of revealing internal Facebook Q&As with Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg #
September 22, 2020
— real-time website privacy inspector from Surya Mattu and The Markup, with accompanying pieces on why and how they made it #
— feature-length mashup of clips (some NSFW) from 451 movies, used without permission to tell a single love story #
— new platform for virtual 3D art exhibitions by d0n.xyz #
September 21, 2020
— “a source of pleasant nonsense in a world increasingly full of a more malicious chaos” #
— Allie Brosh posted a chapter from her new book, which comes out tomorrow #
— blatantly unconstitutional, but that’s hardly stopped this administration before #
— just using this as an excuse to tell you not to sleep on this show, which has a big heart and is so much more than its title suggests #
— Demi Adejuyigbe is back, and this time, accidentally DDOSed the fundraising site #
September 20, 2020
— a useless Oracle/Walmart deal delayed TikTok’s removal by a week, and a federal judge blocked WeChat’s removal #
— inadvertently discovered as part of a thread about Zoom’s failure to recognize Black faces #
September 18, 2020
— I can’t even begin to process this loss #
— with Morgan Freeman, Jennifer Aniston, Matthew McConaughey, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, John Legend, Sean Penn, Ray Liotta, and Shia LaBeouf as Spicoli #
— playful sketch-based modeling and animating of 3D organic shapes in a 2D domain via @ak92501 #
— the EFF similarly filed a brief against the ban, arguing it censors speech and violates First Amendment rights #
— they’re also ordering U.S. networking companies to end support for WeChat on Sunday and TikTok on November 12 #
September 17, 2020
— powerful multi-user painting/drawing tool, free for public drawings for up to 30 people #
— a free game about “learning to rely on others and fighting against hopelessness, together” #
— video features Paul F. Tompkins, directed by Demi Adejuyigbe; new album out October 16! #
— coming October 2 with Alicia Keys, Lin-Manuel Miranda, R.E.M., and Ty Dolla Sign #
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