Happy Public Domain Day! — published works from 1923 entered the public domain today, the first additions in over 20 years #

Lauren Hough’s compelling account of a decade doing cable repair in D.C. — sex dungeons, Russian mobsters, and Dick Cheney #

Analyzing the phonetics of Grover swearing on Sesame Street — step-by-step breakdown of how two very different phrases can sound similar (via) #

Very Slow Movie Player — watching 2001: A Space Odyssey on a custom ePaper display at 24 frames per hour (via) #

How Much of the Internet Is Fake? — Max Read on "the Inversion," the point when fake traffic is perceived as real by algorithms #

Some images Joe Veix saved to his laptop in 2018 — this is an excellent use of Medium, and also, I want to subscribe to this newsletter please #

Infinite Gift — the final day of Christmas XP, the WebGL advent calendar #

Recovering Nintendo’s Lost SimCity for the NES — Frank Cifaldi's in-depth writeup on the unreleased prototype, with downloadable ROM (via) #

Turtletoy — make generative art using the Turtle graphics API #

Every Mickey — combining every 3D model of Mickey Mouse found online into a single physical object #

Happy Shopper — from Christmas XP, a WebGL advent calendar (via) #

StyleGAN — applying style transfer techniques to adversarial networks for better control over generated imagery (via) #

Dimensions.Guide — database of dimensioned drawings (via) #

Soup-Salad-Sandwich Space — related: The Cube Rule of Food Identification #

Cabel Sasser’s screenshots of Xbox Live’s former support forum — hard to imagine any major platform handling moderation this publicly again #

Archive Team’s race to preserve 700,000 Tumblrs before Monday — Tumblr isn't just deleting porn, but anything their bot thinks is "adult"; follow along and help here #

Reply All on Foxconn’s plant in a small Wisconsin town — incredible reporting by Sruthi Pinnamaneni; more on The Verge #

AI Art Gallery — visual art, music, and design made with machine learning, curated by Luba Elliott #

Pixar releases Bao animated short — weirdly, only on Twitter #

Looky What We Made — a 76-page book of interesting projects from the Glitch community (via) #

Choir — from David Li, who made Elastic Man, Fluid Paint, and Character Soup #

Searching the Creative Internet — "you have to choke your way through the money-making miasma to find the joy" (via) #

Cragne Manor — for the 20th anniversary of Anchorhead, over 80 authors made one room in a huge interactive fiction game (via) #

NYT Interactive on apps that track and share detailed location data — sold to advertisers, retail outlets, and anyone else seeking insights about consumer behavior #

CastlevaniaBot — teaching a bot how to play Castlevania without machine learning (via) #

Google “turning down” Fusion Tables next year — turn down for what? #

Population Mountains — Matt Daniels' stunning visualization of world population for The Pudding #

Patreon de-platforms Gamergate heroes Milo and Sargon — if you're not familiar with Sargon, here's a good rundown #

How to recognize fake AI-generated images — Kyle McDonald teaches a valuable skill for the near-future #

BetamaXMas turns 10 years old today — an internet Christmas classic #

Anatomy of an AI System — a visual map and long-form essay about the labor and resources used by the Amazon Echo (via) #

Rapper 2 Milly Sues Epic Games For Stealing His Dance — Fortnite reproduces, renames, and sells dance moves as emotes, raising questions about copyrighting choreography #

Four Days Trapped at Sea With Crypto’s Nouveau Riche — Laurie Penny goes on a crypto cruise #

The Making of Crossy Road — on its fourth birthday, short look at the progressive development of the instant classic #

India is jailing people for social media posts criticizing government — at least 50 arrested in the last two years, here are stories of ten cases #

Vanity Fair on the long winter for digital media networks — Vice, Vox, BuzzFeed, and others diversifying away from ad revenue #

The Untitled Goose Holiday Pop-Up Shop — you'll love this if you're as excited about Untitled Goose Game as I am #

Recomendo — weekly newsletter of six solid recommendations from Kevin Kelly, Mark Frauenfelder, and Claudia Dawson #

Monster Factory is back — oh, thank god #

The Verge’s Laura Hudson announces Better Worlds — a series of short written, animated, and audio science fiction about hopeful futures #

Rudy Giuliani doesn’t understand the internet — this might be funny if he wasn't Trump's cybersecurity advisor #

Tumblr’s porn detection algorithm is garbage — many, many, many, many more examples of false positives #

BeatBot — make beats with voice synthesis; by the same creator: Polynote and Flock Sound #

Getting Over It mini-game easter egg in Just Cause 4 — with narration by Bennett Foddy himself #

The full Bee and PuppyCat series is on YouTube — after years of VRV exclusivity, all ten episodes available free #

Student projects from Nicole He’s ITP class on voice technology — comfort a Google Home going through a breakup, or let Google comfort you (via) #

Kevin Roose’s ode to TikTok — like Vine, it's a hotbed for short-form video experimentation and meme creation #

10×18 — a daily countdown of top ten albums of the year, with new album covers by 33 different artists #

Friends with Secrets — three friends with different backgrounds share their transcripts from online text therapy sessions #

Tumblr to ban all adult content on December 17 — that should go over well with everyone #