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) #

a 1b 1c 1d 1e 1f 1g 1h 1i 1j 1k 1l 1m 1n 2o 2p 3q 4r 6s 8t 11u 15v 22w 31x 44y 63z — long domain is long (via) #

Desktop Goose — Windows-only, sadly #

The uncertain legal state of streaming games online — interesting 2018 article about the untested fair use defense for whether streaming is transformative or not #

Knewz — News Corp's unfortunately-named news aggregator #

Meena, Google’s AI chatbot — read the paper, or see example conversations on Github (via) #

117 new emoji in list for 2020 — new additions include a trans flag, plunger, headstone, cockroach, lungs, and bubble tea #

Zuckwatch — mysterious new project from MSCHF, watch the community try to figure out the password #

The Verge on Kentucky Route Zero’s fifth and final act — seven years in the making #

The Making of Outer Wilds — my favorite game released last year, I can't recommend it highly enough and I'm not alone #

Barcoder — music made with barcode scanners #

Legible News — minimalist news summaries reformatted from Wikipedia's Current Events portal (via) #

Horror Stories From Inside Amazon’s Mechanical Turk — trauma, negligence, and exploitation #

Recs — after a hiatus, Rex Sorgatz's excellent newsletter is back with a new domain and daily publishing schedule #

AR Pianist — releasing in the next couple weeks, according to the creator #

Byte goes out of invite-only beta — the revamped six-second looping video app from the creators of Vine, unrelated to their 2015 app with the same name #

Generative Placeholders — like every glitch project, the source is available to remix #

De La Soulviet — 2011 mashup album combines De La Soul vocals with instrumentals from Soviet Union jazz/soul records #

Collaboration of the Cosmos — Google made a collaborative puzzle game to promote their I/O conference #

Clearview AI has history of dubious marketing claims, ties to far-right and white nationalists — ironically, the founder tried to scrub his own online history #

Google ads now look just like search results — the obvious next step is just intermingling them in between organic results #

The Geocities Gallery — a visual archive of Geocities sites by neighborhood, part of the Restorativland project to restore dead webpages (via) #

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) #