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September 14, 2020
— multiplayer pixel art space based on the Online Museum of Multiplayer Art #
— Christian Cooper wrote a comic inspired by his racist encounter while birdwatching in Central Park, available free #
— their excited tweet and press release are still up #
— ByteDance refused Microsoft’s offer and won’t sell the code or algorithm, raising questions about Oracle’s “partnership” #
September 11, 2020
— charming and chill new puzzle adventure from the creator of Cosmic Express and A Good Snowman #
— “You cannot have a functioning democracy when people are not at the very least occupying the same solar system.” #
— paranoid conspiracy theories and armed militias are a dangerous combo #
— animated student film about a fictional animation tycoon via It's Nice That #
— best theory so far is that there’s a company called “Tardigrade Ltd” on the OFAC sanctions list via jwz #
September 8, 2020
— Amazon-owned Audible won’t carry his audiobooks without DRM, so Cory made one for the third Little Brother book on his own #
— Jason Koebler filed 52 FOIA requests to learn more about the mysterious, but apparently harmless, seed operation #
September 7, 2020
— using Wav2Lip, synchronizing lip movement solely from an audio file, with an interactive demo via crackunit.com #
— Foone replaced the guts of a digital pregnancy test, and hijinks ensue #
September 6, 2020
— a machine continuously searching for faces in grains of sand via @farty #
September 4, 2020
— the followup to Hyperbole and a Half will be out September 22 and she’s doing some virtual events #
September 3, 2020
— over 60,000 interactive skins from the Internet Archive’s collection via @textfiles #
— a Tumblr of rotoscoped videogame walking and running animations via MetaFilter #
— with Nas, Rapsody, Jahi, YG, and The Roots’ Black Thought and Questlove #
— playing fruit as a musical instrument using the Playtron via r/blackmagicfuckery #
September 2, 2020
— a poolside.fm side project #
— 5,117 days after the release of Shoes #
September 1, 2020
— an 8-bit room that builds a custom chill beats melody and soundscape based on your interactions via @vibertthio #
— estimate infection risk for common activities factoring in location, ventilation, speaking volume, mask type, and social activity via interconnected.org #
August 31, 2020
— an incredibly chill 30-minute compilation by Jez Burrows #
— every one is absurdly over-the-top, incredibly fun to watch via @ScottRhodie #
— The Verge launched a project documenting how people use technology to document police brutality and racism #
— most people think accounts with names like @Andy2884336 are bots, but it’s been the default Twitter onboarding for years #
August 28, 2020
— the website for the craft supply chain lets visitors talk to one other, and chaos ensues via @qDot #
— so much exciting work in spatial virtual spaces right now #
— ALW’s TikTok is pretty great #
August 27, 2020
— his Twitter bot shows the top-performing link posts on U.S. Facebook pages daily #
— the game features simulations of real-time weather patterns globally #
— “a meaningful percentage of Americans live in an alternate reality powered by a completely separate universe of news and information” via getrevue.co #
— Cheesecake Factory, Amazon, McDonald’s, Target, and many more are hiding employee infections #
— they view Black people as less than human, a deadly threat even without a weapon #
— before the shooting, police were filmed offering bottled water to the white militia members and thanking them #
— OneZero published Cory Doctorow’s new book in full, print and ebook editions coming soon via Cory Doctorow #
— 28 ex-prisoners detail the horrors of China’s detention camps #
— they used blanked-out spots on Baidu maps to detect camps, and commissioned new satellite imagery of the censored places #
— Kat Fukui writes about the coordinated harassment she received on GitHub from 4chan anons working in tech via Belong.io #
August 26, 2020
— that explanation smells funny #
— the music helps pass the time #
— most companies are acclimating to a world without physical conferences, event sponsorship, and business travel #
— surprising nobody, the 17-year-old shooter idolized police and was front row at a Trump rally in January via @andymcmillan #
— CNN and NYT are reporting the CDC was pressured by the Trump administration #
— don’t miss the reveal at the end #
— rather than fix underlying issues with late mail sorting, he just forced trucks to deliver less mail via @themail #
— in his excellent newsletter, Marcin Wichary wrote about the acquisition and his final interview with Peter Tytell #
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