These Lyrics Do Not Exist — neural-network lyric generator with options for subject, mood and genre (via) #

Patreon Capital — Patreon is starting to offer large cash advances with future Patreon earnings as collateral #

Youka, generate karaoke from any song on YouTube — generates isolated instrumental/vocal tracks and pulls lyrics from public databases; try it before it gets C&Ded #

Kickstarter unionizes — the first union of white-collar, full-time workers in the tech industry #

Robin Sloan on building a tiny messaging app for his family — he compares it to the coding equivalent of home cooking: deliberately amateur, loose, and unscalable  #

The Strokes’ At the Door animated video — the video was heavily inspired by late '70s/early '80s animation like Heavy Metal and Watership Down #

VR demo turns words into 3D objects — it downloads the models real-time from Google Poly #

@wiki_tmnt eats itself — a beautiful Twitter bot moment #

HQ Trivia shuts down — a wild rise and fall from its 2017 launch to 2.4 million peak concurrent players in 2018 to complete collapse #

VICE’s Samantha Cole on ProjektMelody, the first hentai camgirl — like Lil Miquela and Ami Yamato, Melody never breaks character #

SynLimb — hacking an arm prosthesis to a modular synth to make thought-controlled music (via) #

Hear Pearl Jam’s new song by pointing your phone at the moon — their AR app plays animations around the moon seen through your phone's camera #

Cartoonist Dami Lee interviews Perry Bible Fellowship’s Nicholas Gurewitch — he didn't own a smartphone until three years ago #

Media Molecule’s Dreams out now for PS4 — the remarkable creation tool can be used for game development, 3D rendering, music, animation, and more (via) #

A 75-year-old woman’s reflections on learning to play Red Dead Redemption 2 and games as art — Dr. Davis is the mother of the actor who played Dutch in RDR2 (via) #

Emotion Eric, 20 years later — I was lucky enough to get to know Eric when we were both at Yahoo, just a super kind and cool person (via) #

The Neighbors’ Window — this year's Oscar-winning live-action short film (via) #

GPT-2 candy hearts — Janelle Shane asked GPT-2 for some new Valentine's Day slogans #

Avocado ‘n’ Toast — comic strip generated from articles about millennials killing things (via) #

BBC Micro Bot — run your BASIC tweets on a virtual BBC Micro (via) #

Repper — web app for creating patterns (via) #

Printing Money — Neal Agarwal visualizes income streams (via) #

Former Uber CEO’s new startup is running sketchy ghost kitchens — Travis moved on to disrupting health inspections (via) #

Inside the world of “femcels” — a community of women who believe they're genetically destined to be alone, while their male counterparts deny they even exist #

Taylor Lorenz on the unsung 14-year-old creator of the Renegade viral dance — interesting to see the different norms and expectations around attribution between different apps #

Bloomberg campaign floods Instagram with sponsored memes — spearheaded by the CEO of Fyre Festival marketers and professional plagiarists, Jerry Media aka fuckjerry #

Netflix loses bid to drop Choose Your Own Adventure lawsuit — Chooseco's also been going after indie game devs on Itch.io (via) #

DoNotPay’s new project to help you locate and sue robocallers — it uses their virtual credit cards, which can also be used for no-risk free trial signups #

Nonchalance — new site for the immersive design agency behind Jejune Institute and Latitude Society (via) #

Billie Eilish answers questions from an AI — Nicole He fine-tuned GPT-2 to generate interview questions and new lyrics #

Copyrighting every possible melody to avoid accidental infringement — brilliant stunt to subvert the horrible precedents set by recent high-profile music copyright infringement cases (via) #

Botnet — a social network simulator for iOS where you’re the only human with millions of bots obsessed with you (via) #

Chrome to start blocking links on SSL pages to non-SSL downloads — including text, images, and audio, presumably impacting a large swath of the pre-2010s web #

Vulture on the set design from Parasite — with interviews from the team and behind-the-scenes photos and digital renderings #

Dancing Baby meme gets an HD remaster — 24 years later, it's now re-rendered in 1080p 60FPS video from the original 3ds Max source #

dreAIms — stretching machine-generated parallax with the 3D Ken Burns effect to its limits #

Sketch Synth — experimental app to turn hand-drawn sketches into music and synthesizers #

The Verge on the Mario Paint music scene — or, more accurately, free fan-made apps that mimic the Mario Paint aesthetic #

Basecamp announces Hey, an upcoming email app for iOS/Android/web — slated for this April, excited to see what they come up with #

Check Republic — multiplayer pixel art #

Protocol — newly-launched publication from Politico's publisher covering "the people, power and politics of tech" #

Password of the Day — get texted the credentials for a mystery site daily, first person who figures out what it's for gets to keep it #

Beluga — Rachel Binx's new open-source web store project #

Partners — the new podcast from Song Exploder's Hrishikesh Hirway, telling stories of creative partnerships #

Fangs — very good webcomic about a vampire and werewolf in love, from the creator of Sarah's Scribbles #

Lumière Brothers’ “Arrival of a Train” from 1896 upscaled to 4K 60fps video — using Gigapixel AI for increasing resolution and DAIN for interpolation #

Noclip.website — explore 3D maps from classic games in the browser, including Katamari, Psychonauts, Mario Galaxy, and many more #

Panic Podcast tells the story of Pantscast — their commitment to a dumb joke is part of why I love them so much #

Google Takeout data export service sent some private videos to wrong people — 0.01% of Google Photos users attempting to export, but who knows how many that was #

Cards Against Humanity buys ClickHole, grants majority ownership to employees — now they just need to get rid of those crickets #