Pokémon Go players are vandalizing OpenStreetMap to cheat the game — an issue for seven years, seems like Niantic should be storing a snapshot of map data to discourage editors (via) #

Meet Me at the Workers’ Club — Molleindustria's interactive reconstruction of Alexander Rodchenko's Workers' Club from the 1925 World Expo in Paris #

404 Media investigates the “zombie internet” of Facebook’s AI spam — a growing plague of AI bots posting nonsense for an audience of humans, other bots, and hacked human-bot hybrid accounts (via) #

Washed Out’s “The Hardest Part” — first music video made with OpenAI's Sora, embracing its surreal artifacts, broken physics, and dream-like creepiness #

We can have a different web, if we want it — Molly White on the yearning for the "good old days" of the web #

Printing music with CSS Grid — responsive music rendering for the web; see also: Soundslice's world-class responsive sheet music and guitar tab viewer (via) #

Doom Scroll — a DOOM-inspired demo without JavaScript made with the CSS scroll-timeline property, supported only in Chrome for now (via) #

Daniel Shiffman’s The Nature of Code gets updated for 2024 — his 2012 book on simulating natural systems now uses p5.js, available free online or as a printed edition (via) #

Famous paintings recreated with emoji — Nimona creator ND Stevenson uses Instagram Stories as a canvas #

Moviecart, full-length movie cartridges for the Atari 2600 — nice attention to detail with the box art, manuals, labels, and only using films from the 1970s (via) #

Mystery 1980s pop song “Everyone Knows That” finally found — turns out it's from a 1986 adult film; now we just have to find Celebrity Number Six #

McSweeney’s Millennial CAPTCHA — I'm late-stage Gen X and passed easily, so they may need to tune it a bit #

Super Moxio Bros. — "a loving homage to level 1-1 of Super Mario Bros with art done entirely by typewriter characters" (via) #

FCC votes to restore net neutrality — a 3-2 vote predictably split on party lines #

As The Crow Flies — a mini-game included in arcc, the delightfully weird 1970s-inspired multiuser computer network #

The Man Who Killed Google Search — Ed Zitron is reading the internal emails released in the Google antitrust case #

musicForProgramming(); — beautifully chill mixes for focused work with an excellent interface (via) #

NYT’s incomplete guide to how TikTok has changed America — the Senate advanced the measure today to force ByteDance to sell TikTok within the next nine months or face a national ban #

KRAZAM OS — everyone's favorite satirical startup culture sketch comedy troupe launched a Windows 98-inspired homepage (via) #

The Flipbook Experiment — the findings and animated results of The Pudding's experiment asking anonymous people to trace a line in order, flipbook-style #

Christmas shopping online in 1996 — videos like these are the only documentation of some early websites that predate the Internet Archive's large-scale web crawls with Alexa #

Bizarre traveling flame discovery — Steve Mould digs into a strange phenomenon when igniting lighter fluid in a thin trough (via) #

NASA fixes Voyager 1 glitch, resuming communication after five months — no big deal, they just patched code to work around a corrupted 46-year-old memory chip 15 billion miles away #

Ghost joining the fediverse, will adopt ActivityPub — sounds like Buttondown may be federating too #

Equinox — an impressive WebGL/Three.js space adventure game/demo from Little Workshop (via) #

LatentScape — explore the latent space of Are.na images together with others (via) #

The Read, Write, Own Web of the 1990s — Olia Lialina highlights examples from the Geocities archives of the web before platformization (via) #

I Hope This Email Finds You — Waldo Jaquith made a clever, sometimes poetic, new Mastodon bot that finds sentences in Google Books #

Do Not Reply Cards now selling sticker packs — do not tell me why the thing I like is bad #

2024 AI Elections Tracker — Rest of World is tracking AI-generated election misinformation in this year's global elections (via) #

Post.News shutting down — one of the many Twitter clones to pop up in the wake of the Elon acquisition calls it quits (via) #

Lola Dupre — love the work of this collage artist who primarily works with paper and scissors (via) #

Hands-on with Delta, the first console emulator officially allowed on the Apple App Store — free with support for the NES, SNES, N64, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, and Nintendo DS #

We Need To Rewild The Internet — antitrust enforcement, open standards, public funding, and collective governance (via) #

404 Media on Spy Pet, an underground service secretly scraping thousands of Discord servers — they sell access to scraped user messages and activity to anyone with cryptocurrency #

On Opening Essays, Conference Talks, and Jam Jars — Maggie Appleton tries to understand what makes a good opening for non-fiction writing #

The Cloud Under the Sea — beautiful Verge feature on the invisible seafaring industry that maintains internet cables at the bottom of the ocean (via) #

Molly White on generative AI — a thoughtfully nuanced take that weighs their limited benefits against the outsized human cost #

NYT profiles Today In Tabs’ Rusty Foster — "weird media gremlin" #

Tavi Gevinson’s “Fan Fiction: A Satire” — Rookie's founder made a 75-page zine about her relationship with Taylor Swift and her music, blurring the lines between fiction and reality #

Early 1990s clip art captured an era — Benj Edwards goes spelunking in CD-ROM clip art collections, and you can too now that DISCMASTER is back online #

The Markup investigates sites blocked by school web filters, finds gross overreach — they requested lists of blocked sites from 26 school districts across 14 states, 11 refused on "cybersecurity" grounds #

Mario Meets Pareto — a visual analysis of the 25,704 possible kart builds in Mario Kart 8 (via) #

20 years and a million postcards later, a reflection on PostSecret — opened last July, their Digital Museum of Secrets is worth checking out (via) #

One Minute Park — virtually spend 60 seconds in a random park or add your own to the growing collection (via) #

The Playdate Story — Cabel Sasser's GDC talk is a logistical and emotional rollercoaster of highs and lows, highly recommended #

The Verge reviews the Humane AI Pin — feels like this entire class of AI gadget will be outmoded as soon as Apple integrates the useful bits into iOS #

Dark Visitors — a list of known AI data scrapers and agents, plus an API/WordPress plugin for keeping your robots.txt updated if you want to block them #

How OpenAI, Meta, and Google cut corners to harvest training data — the irony of YouTube scolding OpenAI for transcribing their user's videos when Google did the exact same thing #

telnet mapscii.me — "the whole world in your console" #