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Kinopio — like if Are.na and a modular synth had a baby (via) #

Image Scrubber — a privacy-aware tool for anonymizing photographs taken at protests #

Caught on camera, police explode in rage and violence across the US — "the most comprehensive live picture of police brutality ever" #

The EFF on Trump’s unenforceable and unconstitutional Section 230 executive order — while the president had a tantrum and attacked a Twitter employee, the U.S. passed 100,000 deaths to COVID-19 #

Selfies by Claudius Gentinetta — digital self-portraits animated, mildly NSFW #

How some countries brought their Covid-19 cases to nearly zero — New Zealand is a great example of what leadership looks like #

Ocarina of Time Sudoku — blisteringly hard, congrats if you can make it past the third level #

Facebook ignored own research showing algorithms divided users — they reportedly ignored it because changes would disproportionately affect conservatives and might hurt engagement  #

Wholesome Direct — starting tomorrow 10am PT/1pm ET, a streaming showcase of upcoming adorable indie games #

A Feud in Wolf-Kink Erotica Raises a Deep Legal Question — fascinating story about a writer claiming ownership over tropes in erotic fandom #

Jazz Keys — turn typing into solo piano jazz; click the note for other songs, including Bill Evans' Blue in Green (via) #

Bertrand Fan on the Animal Crossing economy — Nintendo patched the dupe glitch, but an interesting glimpse into how time determines value in a virtual economy #

Adult Swim revives Tuca & Bertie after contentious Netflix cancellation — Lisa Hanawalt's delightful animated series gets ten new episodes #

NVIDIA recreated Pac-Man with AI — trained on 50,000 gameplay videos, it made a functional game with no underlying game engine #

John Krasinski’s Some Good News sold to ViacomCBS in massive bidding war — I was wondering why it went on hiatus after only eight episodes, and now we know #

Paul Ford is blogging again — at least until he bails on it in a month #

Holding meetings in Red Dead Redemption 2 — a great place to socialize until an accidental button press causes you to strangle your coworkers (via) #

MSCHF Magazine — handy tools to defraud Spotify, Uber, and pretty much any big corporation #

Community cast reunites for table read — with special guest, Pedro Pascal from The Mandalorian and Narcos #

ITP’s Spring 2020 Show — experimental 3D spatial audio/video art show in YORB 2.0, a project inspired by ITP's early '90s interactive public access TV show (via) #

Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage — a restauranteur finds a way to capitalize on a delivery startup's underhanded business tactics #

The Miracle Sudoku — I never thought I'd watch a 25-minute video of a guy playing Sudoku, but here we are (via) #

Orb.farm — make a virtual ecosystem with its own self-contained food chain (via) #

Inside Decentraland, the surreal Second Life for crypto true believers — an elaborate and desolate world, I didn't see a single person in there #

Shelter In Place Gallery — a dollhouse-sized Boston art gallery exhibiting artwork at a 1:12 scale, or 1 inch to 1 foot #

Anomalous Materials — Graham Dunning replaced every sound in Half-Life with samples from '90s rave tracks, letting him play it like an instrument (via) #

VR-DOS — JS DOS meets Three.js; see also: Windows 3.1 with networking in WebVR #

DEVO making Energy Dome face shields — the covid merch u want #

Facebook to buy Giphy for $400M — they raised over $150M in four rounds, so this isn't too surprising #

lyrics.rip — make Markov-generated lyrics for any band, like this ridiculous AC/DC pseudo-cover #

Boom/Bust: The Rise and Fall of HQ Trivia — The Ringer launched a behind-the-scenes podcast of the startup's dramatic two years #

Shadowland, The Atlantic’s project about conspiracy thinking in America — includes features on QAnon, 5G, birtherism, and short fiction from Robin Sloan #

Chrome adds tab groups — for the tab hoarders out there #

Kevin Roose on the vaccine misinformation war — conspiratorial thinking is uniting anti-vaccination activists and far-right extremist groups #

Unreal Engine 5 running on the PlayStation 5 — a glimpse into AAA next-gen graphics #

The real Lord of the Flies — fascinating story of what happened to a group of schoolboys marooned on an island for 15 months #

Tristan Cross recreated his local pub in VR — first focusing on architecture and interiors, and eventually, bringing in his friends #

A Practical Guide to Covid-19 Risks and How to Avoid Them — Jason summarizes the key points, but the entire article is great and worth reading in full #

SCOPETREX — play Vectrex games on an oscilloscope #

Pose Animator — animate a 2D vector illustration with your webcam, FaceMesh, and PoseNet #

Making convincing 1990s-era browser fonts in modern browsers — harder than it sounds, but the results are flawless #

RIP “Double Rainbow” viral star Paul Vasquez — posted January 8, 2010, his video was arguably the first meme of the 2010s and made of pure joy #

The Office on Slack — MSCHF is recreating every episode weekdays from 9-5 #

Identifying Generational Gaps in Music — The Pudding put together a fun interactive quiz that's now collected over a million data points #

15.ai — generated text-to-speech using voices from My Little Pony, Portal, Undertale, and more #

Nook Street Market — haute couture in Animal Crossing (via) #

Passed the Brush — riffing on the popular video meme (via) #

Wonder of Wonder Art — draw a little dancing character, or browse the thousands of creations by others on Twitter (via) #

Salman Khoshroo’s Wool on Foam Portraits — reminds me of Joseph Lee's impressionist portraits (via) #