Panic Podcast — my favorite indie software/game publisher/console developer launched its own podcast #

BoingBoing.net turns 20 — 33 years old, if you count the zines #

Instagram for Win95 — from Moscow-based animation studio Petrick (via) #

OneZero tracks down the source of wikiHow’s bizarre illustrations — sourced from freelancers primarily in the Philippines for $1 or less per image #

The Feather’s “Sister” — screens on screens on screens, directed and animated by Elenor Kopka #

Tiny Helpers — a collection of free single-purpose online tools for web developers #

EFF on YouTube’s new feature to trim copyright-claimed content from videos — videos with short segments of copyrighted material are much more likely to fall under fair use #

Ars Technica plays AI Dungeon 2 — more like collaborative surrealist storytelling than classic interactive fiction #

Reverberations — from the creator of the Chipophone, classical music played on a Commodore 64 with reverb to simulate church acoustics (via) #

Hand tracking on flat surfaces for the Oculus Quest — mapped his apartment in Sketchup and Blender, composed the proof of concept in Unity (via) #

Mystery Flesh Pit National Park — sadly, it closed suddenly in 2007 (via) #

Zombo.com VR — anything is possible in VR, the only limit is yourself #

What facial recognition steals from us — part of Open Sourced, Recode's new journalism project on the hidden consequences of tech #

Nototo — quirky note-taking web app that takes the form of cities and islands (via) #

NYT on Clearview, a powerful facial recognition database used by law enforcement — the Peter Thiel-funded startup scraped over three billion images (via) #

Underunderstood — new-to-me podcast that investigates questions the internet hasn't found answers to yet #

The Pudding’s analysis of 34 YouTube apologies — looking at number of cuts, like ratios, and apology phrases, and the impact of growth (via) #

Biden wants to revoke Section 230 of the CDA — more nonsense in the long NYT interview #

Fast.ai’s guide to starting a free, simple blog you own on GitHub Pages — no coding knowledge required, very portable with Markdown text, and supports custom domains #

Google Search adds favicons, blurs lines between ads and search results — it's clutter and designed to confuse, here's how to remove it with a content blocker (via) #

Mojo Vision’s augmented-reality contact lenses — personally, I'd prefer glasses to something I had to stick in my eye and disinfect nightly (via) #

Vox on how misinformation overwhelmed our democracy — "democracy cannot function without a shared understanding of reality" #

Hello Void — Irish artist Mary Safro makes '90s retrotech-inspired products like these excellent enamel pins #

The Apple Archive — unofficial collection of Apple-related images and video #

Who Wrote That? — Chrome/Firefox add-on to see who wrote text on Wikipedia entries #

Billboard sells Stereogum back to its founder/editor — Spin had a different fate, purchased by a private equity company #

YouTube creators claiming copyright on their own videos — a creative hack to deal with increased copyright claims, a flawed appeal process, and de-monetization issues #

Players are speedrunning Nintendo’s exercise game for 18+ straight hours — even on the easiest setting, a feat of physical endurance #

How to Build a Twitter Text-Generating AI Bot With GPT-2 — one of many great resources for creative coding with machine learning from Max Woolf #

Raph D’Amico on Yo and low-friction attention — he ties it back to Matt Webb's Glancing from 2004 #

Reconstructing speech from silent videos — using GANs to teach HAL 9000 how to lip-read (via) #

Mute.vc — mute VC thought leaders on Twitter (via) #

Sweater Rat Creator — see also: ratmaker #

AIGA interviews Darius Kazemi about Friend Camp — try keeping the tab open for while for a little easter egg #

Sandspiel — an open-source homage to the falling sand microgenre, more about how it was made #

Rough.js — JS graphics to draw in a hand-drawn, sketchy style; see also: Chart.xkcd (via) #

Everyday Twenty Years — Noah Kalina took a photo of himself for the 7,263 days #

It’s Nice That on the snail art of Aleia Murawski and Samuel Copeland — scratches the surface of their work, much more on Aleia's Instagram #

MTA takes down artist’s NYC subway map on Etsy — the artist is an attorney by day, so I'm excited to see where this absurd copyright claim goes #

VVVVVV open-sourced for its 10th birthday — don't miss the 4099 case switch #

A Sick Giant — Wait But Why on the roots of modern political polarization #

vj for your home — experimental web app to generate random glitchy visuals (via) #

IAC sells CollegeHumor to COO, lays off 100+ employees — more details from Sam Reich, who is the new majority owner #

The Mane Quest — website dedicated to horses in video games, with reviews and in-depth analysis (via) #

Nick Heer on Teen Vogue’s weird, now-removed puff piece on Facebook’s election security — feels very out of character for the progressive publication #

Twitter adding feature to disable replies or limit to people you follow — I'm curious to see if they extend it to quote-retweets, another major source of harassment #

NYT on the battle over the .org TLD — weirdly, that article is the only mention of the newly-formed co-op I could find #

Tomorrow’s On Fire — a short film from Australian animator and director Darcy Prendergast #

Nelson Minar on Yandex’s face recognition — I found the same thing in my tests, worked disturbingly well #

Two Minute Papers on MuZero, DeepMind’s new game-playing AI — interesting to hear which games it still can't master, particularly those with long-term planning; related: AlphaStar #