TANK — a short film doubling as a visual love letter to vector arcade games; how it was made #

New Yorker on Alexandra Bell’s Counternarratives project — re-editing subtle and not-so-subtle racism on the front page of the NYT #

Recursive Recipes — make eggs benedict from scratch in under 13 years! #

Tom 7 reverse-emulates the NES — running an NES emulator on a Raspberry Pi encased in an NES cartridge, plugged into an unmodified NES (via) #

Favstar to shutter next month because of Twitter API changes — the streaming API closure is delayed for now, but there's still a lot of uncertainty #

Marcin Wichary’s Segmented Type playground — you can draw with it too, read the Twitter thread for more (via) #

Shudu Gram, the virtual black supermodel created by a white man — see also: Lil Miquela, the virtual Brazilian-American model created by an AI startup #

Chrome’s autoplay changes broke countless web games and art projects — I contributed dozens of links to projects broken by the update, many featured by Chrome #

ResistanceHole — ClickHole's response to ClickHole's PatriotHole #

The United States of Japan — post-industrial Japanese social trends may be a glimpse at America's future #

Robin Sloan on uncertainty and cooperation in a multiplayer universe — lovely fusion of Fortnite and the Three-Body Problem #

Sarah Jeong on the legality of cheating in videogames — Epic Games is suing game players for using freely-available Fortnite cheats #

Lobe — incredibly impressive visual tool for building deep learning models #

Francine, an oil painting in pure CSS — source on GitHub, along with two more astounding illustrations by Diana Smith #

Buzzfeed on Instagram engagement trading — paying people with real accounts in order to automate networks of artificial likes #

Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer — an emotion picture #

An Emmy for Megan — for your consideration (via) #

Laura Hudson on the internet’s “incel” community — misogynistic, racist, and violent #

10 Mississippi by Karina Popp — stop-motion photography game about one woman's daily routine #

Palantir Knows Everything About You — Businessweek profile on Peter Thiel's dystopian data-mining operation #

NVidia’s image inpainting with neural networks — next-level content-aware fills #

Mimi Choi’s makeup artistry — intensely disturbing makeup illusions #

SmugMug buys Flickr — they want to keep it going, but hard to imagine the archives staying online indefinitely #

Ready Player One is the roadmap to digital dystopia — the utopian belief that technology would make all voices equal instead of amplifying existing social inequality #

SkyKnit — Janelle Shane trained a neural network to generate knitting patterns, and Ravelry knitters made them #

Sexual harassment was rampant at Coachella — the writer herself was groped 22 times #

The new Nancy comics are pretty great — for the first time in its 85 year history, it's drawn by a woman, a pseudonymous webcomics artist #

Multiplayer Minesweeper — you probably need the distraction right now #

Joe Veix on YouTube Face — exaggerated facial expressions in thumbnails is "clickbait, attaining human form" #

Leap Motion open-sources low-cost AR headset design — the hand-tracking experiments by Keiichi Matsuda are incredible #

Jelly Mario — world 1-2 is unnerving #

FontCode — embedding hidden information in text documents by slightly modifying glyphs #

Minit, an adventure game played 60 seconds at a time — can't recommend highly enough; out now for PC/Mac, Xbox, PS4 #

Cloudflare announces 1.1.1.1, free privacy-conscious DNS — instantly switched #

xkcd’s right-click — turn on dark web mode #

Firefox announces Facebook Container Extension — quarantines your Facebook identity in a container inaccessible to third parties #

Sketch Machine — fun little looping animation tool by Casey Reas (via) #

ViperCard — open-source recreation of HyperCard; you can run emulated stacks on the IA too #

The Internet Archive’s Handheld History Collection — handheld electronic games emulated by MAME, now in Javascript #

Constellations — weird little peg string game; try it as a musical toy #

Pro Publica/Mother Jones exposé on age discrimination at IBM — they systematically and illegally targeted older workers for layoffs #

March For Our Lives — 838 events happening worldwide on Saturday, hope to see you there #

Behind the scenes of Spike Jonze’s “Welcome Home” Apple commercial — one of the best ads I've ever seen (via) #

1% of subreddits start 74% of conflicts — analyzing Reddit raids in 1.8 billion comments in 36,000 subreddits across 40 months #

GQ feature on the solitary success of Stardew Valley — nearly five years of obsessive, solo development fortunately found an audience #

Twitch streaming every episode of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood — to celebrate Fred Rogers' 90th birthday and the 50th anniversary of the show #

XOXO returns in 2018 — we're back after a year off, kicking things off with four talented artists livestreaming an XOXO mural all day today #

Kottke.org turns 20 — "kottke.org isn’t so much a thing I’m making but a process I’m going through" #

Charlie Warzel on Bitcoin mining towns and local backlash — cryptocurrency prospectors setting up shop in Montana, Washington, and Wyoming for cheap electricity #

Inside the booming black market for Spotify playlists — the new payola #