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November 12, 2019
— MSCHF created a fake Seamless restaurant to secretly funnel corporate perks to political candidates who oppose big corporations #
November 11, 2019
— I missed the news of his passing last year; his mental illness inspired fascinating work, along with a history of racist, homophobic paranoia #
— two years in development, a surreal animated short inspired by side-scrolling platformers via twitter.com #
November 8, 2019
— just announced and slow right now, but read about how it works while you wait via @ada_rob #
— more info here, including video via twitter.com #
— it’s shorthand for power, money, and privilege via @TaylorLorenz #
— a third-party named Syniverse was responsible for firing off 168,149 messages, 265 days late via @Jonesieman #
— while some are trying to ban it, TikTok is giving some Pakistani users an audience and new source of income via Web Curios #
— from Neal Agarwal’s excellent Neal.fun, a reliable source of joyful internet via Kottke #
— original animation from Worthikids #
— post-apocalyptic animated short by the very talented Beryl Allee #
— any “best of” list that starts with Demi Adejuyigbe is a winner #
— pure nightmare fodder, but especially the pepperoni pizza made of lips via @jonathanfly #
November 7, 2019
— dead simple tool to train a machine learning model entirely in the browser #
— upsetting texts from ex-partners, dead friends, and family members #
— Hugging Face’s Transformers library had me generating text with GPT-2 on my laptop in about five minutes #
November 6, 2019
— reminder that the crime of “jaywalking” was invented by automakers #
— “Pasterns and fetlocks appear abnormal, suggest radiographs before purchase.” #
— download it for Excel 2019/Office 365 #
November 5, 2019
— incredibly minimalist file-based blog service, actively developed in public via Chris Glass #
— inject unauthorized voice commands into Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple voice assistants with lasers! via @kwiens #
November 4, 2019
— cowardly behavior from the paper, withering under a firestorm of criticism fueled by bad-faith actors #
— it’s been a very good decade for games #
November 1, 2019
— the chicken wing gimmick is silly but effective, Sean Evans is a remarkable interviewer, and I love every episode #
— lax verification enables large-scale hosts to exploit their platform #
— the first reviews for Hideo Kojima’s new game are dropping, and it looks both audacious and agonizing #
October 31, 2019
— in a year of amazing goose costumes, Cabel’s is tough to beat #
— feel spirits move your cursor planchette from the great beyond! via @potch #
October 29, 2019
— for designers, a typeface scarier than Comic Sans and Papyrus via Belong.io #
August 1, 2019
— typeface made from gerrymandered districts #
July 23, 2019
— Chris previously started and ran Google Reader, a product sorely missed by everyone who used it via Belong.io #
July 18, 2019
— interesting twigbunch on Rosegarden #
July 8, 2019
— Darius Kazemi’s guide to running a small social network for your friends; emphasis on “small” #
July 3, 2019
— frustrating and funny interactive dark patterns via Belong.io #
— he should have let it die instead of selling it to this asshole #
July 2, 2019
— and more generally, about ethics in technology via @meyerweb #
July 1, 2019
— novel use of AI to search newspaper archives with solid results #
— stunning video essay from Pop Culture Detective‘s Jonathan McIntosh on America’s shifting perceptions of the prison-industrial complex #
— sharply-written modern descendant of Devil’s Dictionary 2.0 via Pinboard #
— great profile of a spectacular artist #
— compete against 99 other birds; open-source, and free for web, iOS, and Android #
May 10, 2019
April 30, 2019
— with a retrospective and a bunch of easter eggs across the site #
April 23, 2019
— participatory music video where visitors upload images that make up the world #
— a free visual game builder for making Game Boy games #
April 16, 2019
— critical gaming history including unreleased and unfinished prototypes; more context from Jason Scott via @textfiles #
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