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December 10, 2019
— this year’s articles their editorial staff most wish they’d written #
December 9, 2019
— Chooseco has only owned the trademark since 1999, after Random House let it lapse #
— made from 10,000 LEGOs, the AI-powered sorting machine can recognize and sort every LEGO part ever made #
— first day of the annual project where designers and illustrators create new covers for their top 10 albums of the year #
— days before mass deletion, they banned Archive Team’s volunteer email addresses via @textfiles #
— related: Taylor Lorenz interviewed Vanessa Pappas, TikTok’s most accessible executive in the West #
December 7, 2019
December 6, 2019
— delightfully weird short from Kirsten Lepore, who’s currently directing an indie feature film #
— reconstructing the shadows in Plato’s cave with deep matrix factorization via @xsteenbrugge #
— playing with this feels like black magic #
— an AI-driven text adventure that responds realistically to any input, one of the most profoundly amazing projects I’ve ever seen #
December 5, 2019
— lilly is a precious resource and must be protected at all costs #
— taking the safe route with a purely stats-focused roundup after last year’s cringefest #
— Arwa Michelle Mboya is training a neural network on iconic feminist texts via twitter.com #
— trust me and stick with it #
— as Patrick explains, the ultra-hard Kaizo Mario fan-made games almost certainly inspired the original Mario Maker #
— charming animated short, have tissues ready via @matthewacherry #
December 4, 2019
— next-level deepfake from the creator of the Bill Hader/Arnold Schwarzenegger swap #
— new creative coding tool for experimenting with looping animation via producthunt.com #
— the first of a three-part series, here’s part two via Belong.io #
— I truly never thought this would ever happen via @mikebodge #
— 24 hours left to back this puzzle book in the guise of an Ikea-esque catalog #
— “a graphic design project exploring the fiction in translation” from Hilda Wong and Ellen Lo via It's Nice That #
— they fingerprint individuals with both Canvas images and internal audio generation #
December 3, 2019
— disinformation doesn’t always look how you expect, often just telling you what you want to hear #
— a poorly-conceived attempt at inclusivity turned into a lesson on tokenization via MetaFilter #
— brilliant roundup of the best internet from the 2010s; from Kicks Condor, who is the best #
— the former Firewatch devs are focused on Half Life: Alyx and other projects at Valve #
— if you use Keybase, you’ve probably seen a rise in spam lately and here’s why #
— I wasn’t familiar with The-Eye, which seems to be an Archive Team-esque project #
— “porn creators… weren’t quarantined in some illicit corner of the site—they were woven into its basic fabric” #
December 2, 2019
— “at the end of the day, Riot prefers to pay the women still here for the trouble of continuing to work with alleged abusers” via @cecianasta #
— play real-time music with a machine-learning drummer that drums based on your melody via @notwaldorf #
— charming stop-motion animation from Andrea Love via MetaFilter #
— “Please leave us with some privacy.” #
— generative language model making up word definitions, also available in print #
— we’ve come a long way since Microsoft Songsmith #
— new project from Neal Agarwal, a constant source of joyful old-school internet via @nealagarwal #
December 1, 2019
— with thoughts from Mikki Kendall, Erika Hall, Janelle Shane, Safiya Umoja Noble, John Scalzi, and Siva Vaidhyanathan #
November 30, 2019
— I love this series from Data Is Beautiful, covering websites, social networks, programming languages, and more #
November 29, 2019
— Comcast owns E.T.’s owner, Universal Pictures, as well as NBC, the network this expertly-made schlock aired on #
— stunning desktop-only color visualization of 144,000 outfits from 3,800 runway shows; how it was made via Web Curios #
November 27, 2019
— try it out, just start typing and hit Tab any time for generated text from GPT-2 #
— one of many talented artists using MagicaVoxel, the free voxel art editor/renderer; see also: Niklas Mäckle, Sir Carma #
— “Even if I become the number one, there is an entity that cannot be defeated.” #
— this immediately raised the issue of memorializing accounts, with no clear answers #
November 26, 2019
— Columbia University students trained a machine to understand fail videos via @jonathanfly #
November 25, 2019
— the final registry allocated the last available IPv4 blocks via Nelson Minar #
— mass surveillance, large-scale data collection, and machine learning employed for social control and state-run terror via @bethanyallenebr #
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