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 #

Eevee’s whirlwind history of CSS and web design — a delightful, practical look back at how CSS evolved (via) #

Coffee Talk — visual novel where the core interaction is making coffee drinks for customers #

Kaitlyn Tiffany on the reappropriation of the Doomer Girl meme — for more on Doomer memes, see the MEL piece by Miles Klee #

Reddit thread of little-known but obvious facts — "You don't actually bite down. You bite up because of your lower jaw." (via) #

In secret deal with drugmaker, health records tool pushed opioids to doctors — dark software patterns fueling the opioid crisis (via) #

Private equity takeover of .org delayed by California attorney general — kill it dead (via) #

Byte will share 100% of revenue with creators during partner pilot program — competing with the most valuable startup on the planet won't be easy, but this is a good way to do it #

Spiderfoot — intense open-source intelligence automation tool with over 170 modules #

VICE on tabletop RPG creators’ efforts at inclusivity — and the inevitable backlash from internet bozos #

BlueMaxima’s Flashpoint — massive Flash/Shockwave preservation project makes 38,000 webgames and 2,400 animations playable from a single Windows-only launcher (via) #

Strikethrough’s Carlos Maza leaves Vox to go independent — instant subscribe #

Unnamed Temporary Sports Blog — after last year's exodus, several Deadspin writers reunited for a sponsored Super Bowl weekend project (via) #

Map of Emotions Evoked by Music — a companion to the vocal burst map, an interactive visualization of emotions conveyed by music (via) #

Taro Oono’s animated Twitter microgames — creative use of the pause function to turn tweets into single-button games (via) #

CineShader — 3D shader visualizer in the style of Refik Anadol's stunning art installations (via) #

Human Test For People Who Work In An Office — relatable content from Ze Frank #

The 10,000-Year Clock Is a Waste of Time — a $42M monument to techno-utopianism inside a mountain owned by Jeff Bezos #

West Wing Weekly ends podcast with huge live show with 30+ cast and crew members — four years and 156 episodes later #

Dissolving Realities — 360 scans of a Vietnam street converted to a 3D point cloud and rendered real-time in Unity with custom shaders #

YourStack — from the Product Hunt folks, a new social site for sharing stuff you use and love #

NYT profile on MSCHF — their bi-weekly drops are a great source of random internet weirdness, I highly recommend signing up #

Schwerkraftprojektionsgerät — Increpare made a hellish four-way version of Tetris #

Pop Culture Detective on the sexual assault of men by women in comedy — don't miss the first part, which focused on male perpetrators #

Avast Antivirus shuts down data-collection arm after exposé — a transparent attempt to avoid litigation, which should absolutely go forward or this kind of abuse will keep happening #

Speaking Simulator — like Pink Trombone meets QWOP, out now for Windows and Switch #

Google’s tenth messaging service will “unify” Gmail, Drive, Hangouts Chat — aka Google Messaging '20 #

Kotaku on the big streamers leaving Twitch — huge exclusivity deals from Microsoft, Facebook, and YouTube, some brokered by shady talent agencies #

Charlie Warzel on the Post’s suspension of a journalist for her controversial tweets — news orgs need to understand the dynamics of the online culture war #

Presidential Hopefuls Screensaver — a bouncing visualization of FiveThirtyEight polling data (via) #