TikTok teens aren’t stanning Osama bin Laden
— Garbage Day's Ryan Broderick digs into what seems to be a moral panic inflamed by the media #
Vivaldi’s Summer on Commodore-based instruments
— Linus Åkesson created each instrument, wrote all the software, and plays every part #
draw my ui
— sketch a UI, which is then sent to GPT-4's vision model and converted to working code; note: OpenAI API key required #
Ferrofluid Synth
— the latest project from Swedish audiovisual artist/mad scientist Love Hultén (via) #
Gwern searches Wikipedia for unused three-letter acronyms
— a case study of coding with GPT-4 with interesting visualizations of the resulting dataset #
Jeff Bezos Rowing Boat
— instead of a miniature diorama, Bobby Fingers goes supersize for his latest unhinged video #
GitHub releases Monaspace font family
— monospace OpenType fonts that intelligently adjust glyphs and kerning to improve readability while staying in the grid #
A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft
— James Somers reflects on the changing nature of programming with AI assistance (via) #
YouTube will require labeling “realistic” AI-generated content, let music partners request removal of deepfake vocals
— it's like they've created their own parallel version of fair use's balancing test #
Internet sleuths search for a mystery pop song from a 17 second clip
— Miles Klee on another low-stakes unsolved internet mystery, like Celebrity Number Six (via) #
Connections with James Burke returns 45 years after it first aired
— streaming now on Curiosity Stream #
Recursive Recipes
— click ingredients to expand them, giving you instructions on how to make Eggs Benedict from scratch in a mere 17.5 years (via) #
G/O Media shutters Jezebel after 16 years, lays off staff
— they should give the domain back to Heather Champ (via) #
Omegle shuts down after 14 years over sexual abuse litigation
— it boomed during the pandemic for live performance and personal connection, but has always struggled with sexual predators #
Barack Obama talks to The Verge’s Nilay Patel
— on AI regulation, free speech on social networks, and the future of democracy and the internet #
Ex-Kotaku staffers launch Aftermath, a worker-owned, reader-supported videogame news site
— I love the trend of small journalist collectives going indie, like Defector, Hell Gate, and 404 Media #
When NYC Put a Celebrity in Every Taxi
— David Friedman's outstanding oral history of NYC's Celebrity Talking Taxi program, also available in article form and on the Internet Archive #
DAK and the Golden Age of Gadget Catalogs
— Cabel Sasser tells the history of a quirky 1980s electronics catalog, scanning 55 of them for the first time #
DreamerJazz covers “Now And Then” like the early Beatles
— I think I like this one-man-band version better than the original song #
Making “Now and Then,” the final Beatles song
— Peter Jackson's team used a voice separation model to isolate John's vocals from his muddy 1977 demo #
Photo preservationist saves 4,000 glass plate negatives from the trash
— selections from the archive documenting life in New England between 1850-1920 can be found on Cappucci's site, Facebook, and Instagram #
Let’s Get Creative
— a growing collection of free online creative tools for all ages, open to submissions that meet the criteria (via) #
Searching for Humanity in Fortnite
— playing a battle royale as a pacifist turns into a parable about survival in a world that discourages solidarity and mutual aid #
CGP Grey’s interactive Rock, Paper, Scissors game on YouTube
— deeper than it appears with over 100 unlisted videos and multiple secret endings #
Amiga ASCII Art
— a 2015 thesis on the history of ASCII art focused on its use in the Amiga warez and BBS scenes, translated and updated for 2023 (via) #
Boston Dynamics turned its robot dog into a talking tour guide with ChatGPT
— their autonomous murderbots are much more fun with a top hat, googly eyes, and British accent (via) #
Now add a walrus: Prompt engineering in DALL-E 3
— fascinating post by Simon Willison with details about how ChatGPT was instructed to use DALL-E 3 #
This woman on TikTok is building a tunnel system under her house
— her side quest is building a castle from the stone she's quarried, I just wonder what her neighbors think #
Separating fact from fiction on social media in times of conflict
— Bellingcat's tips for spotting misinformation and disinformation using real, recent examples #
The restaurant nearest Google
— Mia Sato investigates whether the SEO-driven trend of naming your business "X Near Me" actually works #
Neal.fun’s Internet Artifacts, an online museum of artifacts from the early internet
— including the first spam email, first MP3, first livestream, and dozens of notable early websites with a working browser and Flash emulation #
SANANDREAS.TXT
— a GTA V mod that lets players leave floating persistent messages anywhere in the game world for others to find #
Simon Willison’s primer on embeddings
— a great overview for the technically-minded about a powerful tool for search, recommendations, and classification #
subpar pool
— obsessed with this chonky pool game from the creator of Holedown, out now for iOS/Android, Switch, and Windows #
An art critic reviewed TikTok’s most-followed visual artist, spawning a parasocial pile-on
— the original review is worth reading, a thoughtful and nuanced take that makes the subway artist's reaction even more bizarre #
Tom Cardy and Brian David Gilbert’s Beautiful Mind
— two of my favorite internet weirdos joined forces to make musical madness #
Trust & Safety Tycoon
— the followup to the equally-challenging Moderator Mayhem from Techdirt's Mike Masnick #
Katie Notopoulos on how decentralized federated networks can rebuild the social internet
— "my toxic trait is I can’t shake that naïve optimism of the early internet"; same here, Katie #
What the deal with juggling in animation?
— Jasper's spreadsheet collects over 200 examples from 1919 to today, ranked by accuracy and difficulty (via) #
Meta in Myanmar
— Erin Kissane completed her four-part series about the role of Meta and Facebook in the Rohingya genocide #
Whole Earth Index
— a near-complete archive of the Whole Earth Catalog and related publications from 1970 to 2002 (via) #