City of Austin declares local disaster, cancels SXSW 2020 — I'm stunned, I truly can't believe it; here's SXSW's official announcement #

New York Apartment — every NYC real estate listing combined to make one 65,764 bedroom/55,588 bath $43.9B apartment; don't miss the virtual tour (via) #

The Atlantic estimates only 1,895 people tested for coronavirus in the U.S. — by comparison, South Korea tested over 66k people within a week of its first case of community transmission #

The 34 species of trees hidden in Photoshop — Filter > Render > Tree #

Subcutanean — a generative horror novel by interactive fiction author Aaron E. Reed, where no two copies are alike (via) #

Reply All’s The Case of the Missing Hit — no spoilers, I just highly encourage you to listen to what instantly became one of my favorite podcast episodes ever #

Family remakes Spider-Verse scenes with traditional animation techniques — you may remember Pinot from his 8-bit This Is America remake #

Subpar Parks — one-star reviews of U.S. national parks, lovingly illustrated and hand-lettered by Amber Share #

Warren drops out — 😭 #

Election Profit Makers returns — for the first time since the 2016 election, David Rees, Starlee Kine, and Jon Kimball are back to their bullshit #

Do Not Touch Your Face — in seconds, train a machine learning algorithm to scold you #

0107 – b moll — this was emailed to me out-of-the-blue by the director, and I'm blown away #

Mazeletter — a collection of nine infinitely-tiling maze pattern fonts (via) #

A one-year update from Alex Trebek on his pancreatic cancer progress — "if we take it just one day at a time with a positive attitude, anything is possible" #

is it canceled yet?  #

Google cancels I/O conference — despite TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, Intel, and Mashable dropping out, SXSW is continuing as planned #

Malcolm Harris reports on Shell’s private climate change conference — disturbing glimpse into how fossil fuel companies will capitalize on, while subverting, clean energy efforts #

Vox on the Oregon GOP’s subversion of democracy — today's day five of their fourth walkout to prevent the Democratic majority from doing literally anything #

eggdog — an egg that is a dog (via) #

Detailed tutorial on making and releasing a PICO-8 game — the constraints of the 8-bit fantasy console make it a great playground for learning and experimentation (via) #

Adi Robertson imagines a world without YouTube — what if copyright lawsuits sank YouTube before the Google acquisition? (via) #

China blocks Archive of Our Own — China's expanding the scope of internet censorship with new rules going into effect tomorrow (via) #

GDC 2020 canceled over coronavirus fears — SXSW is 14 days away, and they insist it's going on as planned #

The Sounds of Covid-19 — Shardcore converts the Coronavirus DNA sequence to MIDI (via) #

Heathrow airport moving walkway performs The Smiths’ “How Soon Is Now” — from the creator of Jubilee Line Ticket Barrier sings Blur's "Song 2" (via) #

17th Century Death Roulette — see what you might've died from in 1665 based on real mortality records (via) #

Justice Department establishes office to denaturalize immigrants — horrifying #

Clearview AI client list revealed — the DEA, ICE, FBI, Walmart, Wells Fargo, and 2,200 more using privacy-invading facial recognition search (via) #

Sony, EA, Microsoft, and others pull out of GDC over coronavirus fears — also, Facebook/Oculus, Kojima Productions, and this morning, Unity #

Recreating the Parasite house in Sims 4 — turn on the captions and watch this absurdly detailed, and well-directed, build video (via) #

Smithsonian releases 2.8 Million high-res images into the public domain — incredible resource, with an API and metadata dumps on GitHub #

Cat and Girl’s Attack of the Ghouls — your future is a financial instrument #

sok-worlds — a new tool for making weird 3d collage worlds from the amazing Sokpop Collective (via) #

Rian Johnson breaks down a scene from Knives Out — fascinating in-depth commentary, including the tidbit that Apple won't approve the use of iPhones by villains #

Clearview AI’s client list was hacked — because of course it was #

Human Test Regarding Your Creativity — Ze Frank is making stuff again and it makes me happy #

JS Paint — open-source MS Paint remade in Javascript (via) #

Fraidycat 1.1 released — Kicks Condor's open-source app lets you follow accounts anywhere, now supporting for Twitch, Kickstarter, Pinterest, Github, and more (via) #

Jason Kottke on 15 years of doing Kottke.org full-time — I'm on the Superstar member level, and will continue to be for as long as he keeps doing it #

Firefox enables Cloudflare’s DNS over HTTPS by default for US users — you can switch to NextDNS or disable it entirely in Network Settings (via) #

The Atlantic on the challenges of containing coronavirus — "widely banning travel, closing down cities, and hoarding resources are not realistic solutions for an outbreak that lasts years" #

What does T5 know? — brilliant and playful use of Glitch to demonstrate Google AI's new transfer learning technique (via) #

The Markup officially launches — the NYT wrote about the challenges launching the nonprofit newsroom investigating technology news #

JIF and Giphy teamed up to make GIF peanut butter — I managed to get one before it sold out #

Web series successfully appeals YouTube copyright claims — they only won after two months because the claimants let the appeals expire; YouTube holds ad revenue until disputes are resolved #

NYMag’s guide to the memes in The 1975’s The Birthday Party video — like Ryan says, it's "bumping into the third rail of total cringe" (via) #

The Economics of 24/7 Lo-Fi Hip-Hop YouTube Livestreams — artists don't get paid directly, granting permission for exposure and making money elsewhere #

My 72 Hours in a Viral Tweet Vortex — I tweeted a joke that got 100k+ likes a while back and it sucked, 800k+ sounds horrifying (via) #

Songs That Sound the Same — dozens of examples of why these music copyright lawsuits are a horrible precedent #

The virtual production of The Mandalorian — astounding use of Unreal Engine for real-time environments and lighting with 360-degree LED walls (via) #