Space Alert, an Apple Shortcuts text adventure — very short proof-of-concept, but shows potential #

How WhatsApp Destroyed A Village — misinformation, facilitated by easy social sharing, can be deadly #

The McElroy Brothers Will Be in Trolls 2 — shhh, my XOXO co-organizer Andy McMillan gave them the edibles that kicked off the whole thing #

John Green’s surprise birthday gift for Hank — they never forget to be awesome #

GT Zirkon — creative promo site for Grilli's new typeface #

Motherboard on Hosni Auji’s upcoming Flight Simulator — like a hyper-realistic Desert Bus, but played as a passenger #

Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared teases new series — very few details, but SuperDeluxe and Conan O'Brien's production company are involved #

Draw Out the Vote — a state-by-state comics guide to why voting matters #

Generative Artistry — simple and elegant interactive tutorials for generative art #

ENHANCE.COMPUTER — Nicole He's cyberpunk voice game; see also: Blade Runner's Esper Machine in the browser #

There’s Waldo — using Google's AutoML Vision and a creepy robot doll hand to find Waldo #

Self Draw  #

Animating “This Is America” on vintage Mac hardware — MacPaint on a Mac 128K for drawing, MacroMind Director on a Mac SE for animation #

itty bitty — microsites stored within their own URL fragment, how it works #

Google Reader Time Capsule — Mihai Parparita's snapshot of Google Reader before it shuttered five years ago; more on the project #

Below the Surface — stunning project to document 700,000 objects excavated from an Amsterdam canal #

Jon — a surprisingly touching Garfield fancomic about the life of Jon Arbuckle #

Matt Haughey interviewed me on Hobby Horse about interactive fiction — Matt's new podcast about our personal obsessions #

XOXO 2018 — our launch lineup is up and surveys open until next Friday, come on in #

Cameron Esposito’s “Rape Jokes” — her brilliant one-hour standup special about sexual assault, stream free or purchase to support RAINN #

Shinrashinge’s monster battle daydream — astounding paper animation filmed in one shot an iPhone; see more #

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" #