c0m3w/m3 — an "infinity poem" composed of 62,000 internet-connected cameras #

4D Toys — Marc ten Bosch's mindbending 4th-dimensional physics toybox for iOS and Vive #

Convenient Friction — Christina Xu on human interaction and trust in China's online-to-offline platforms #

Apology Simulator — craft a series of apologies, and decide whether they're sincere (via) #

Bias, She Wrote — visualizing gender balance on the NYT Best Seller list over time #

Super Mario HoloLens — mixed reality nostalgia from Niu (via) #

Google bringing adblocking to Chrome — their motives are transparent, but if it can help indie publishers, might be a good thing #

Cheers Intro by Neil Cicierega (via) #

Away on Vacation — Jonas Lund left his laptop making generative Photoshop art while he went on vacation (via) #

Block Bills — a series of 64 banknotes visualizing a block from the Bitcoin blockchain #

Hair embroidery hoop art — stunning artwork by Malaysian model Sheena Liam (via) #

Moshboy’s 1000 Gamemakers Thread — a year-long effort to surface lesser-known indie game devs #

Neural network band names — using char-rnn and 84,000 band names from Wikipedia #

Pinboard acquires Del.icio.us — "Do not attempt to compete with Pinboard." #

Stained Glass by Real Estate — music video as animated coloring book #

Nicky Case’s Fireflies — interactive explainer on how Thailand fireflies sync their lights; code here (via) #

What Does Wonder Woman Actually Represent? — a comic history lesson by Lucy Bellwood and Sarah Mirk #

Stock Stream — Twitch plays the stock market, starting with $50k in real money (via) #

1Password adds Travel Mode to avoid border snooping — related: Maciej Ceglowski's campaign for social media travel mode #

Pedro Medeiros’ pixel art tutorial GIFs — Saint 11 packs so much into every 256x256 image #

Pro Publica investigates litigious slumlord Jared Kushner — unforgivable corporate behavior, an empire built on exploiting the poor #

Quick Draw dataset released by Google — 50 million drawings, use it with sketch-rnn, a generative model for vector drawings #

Neural network learning to drive in GTA V — code here, built on this great series of Python tutorials #

New paint colors invented by neural network — Janelle Shane's hilarious experiments have become required reading for me (via) #

The Case of the Stolen Source Code — writeup of Panic's brush with blackmail and the Handbrake malware #

bill wurtz’s history of the entire world, i guess — followup to his enormously popular history of japan #

Bot floods FCC with automated anti-net neutrality comments — 128,000 identical comments using names from voter registration records #

Briefcam’s timestamped composite surveillance videos — generating summaries of movement over time (via) #

Down and Out in Los Santos — documenting the representation of poverty and homelessness in GTA V (via) #

Brick Block — click to build, right-click to remove #

Hype Machine launches subscription patronage — working around the continued decline of web ads #

Damien Henry’s generative train ride — a prediction algorithm predicts the most likely next frame, no editing (via) #

Blade Runner 2049 trailer — okay, now I'm excited #

What Are You Syncing About? — Three.js/WebGL demo takes fourth place at Revision 2017; see also: ninjatool and the demo source #

Robovision — compare three image recognition services, though CloudSight is almost certainly humans #

The SIGGRAPH 2017 technical papers trailer — as always, fun glimpse into the bleeding edge of CG and machine learning #

How the ACA drove down personal bankruptcies — down 50% since 2010 #

House passes GOP bill to repeal Obamacare — a disgusting display of callousness, corruption, and greed #

The Datasaurus Dozen — generating datasets with wildly different appearances but identical statistics (via) #

TumbleSeed — rolling roguelike inspired by Ice Cold Beer, out now for Switch, PS4, PC, and Mac #

Beyond Alt — NYMag feature on the counterculture of the far right #

Princess Leia’s Stolen Death Star Plans — full-album Sgt Pepper remake into a Star Wars concept album, with videos for each song (via) #

Leigh Alexander interviews 4am and Jason Scott on cracking Apple II software — the pseudonymous cracker explains why this preservation matters #

Double King — Felix Colgrave's animated film about love and regicide #

If They Could Pay Us Less, They Would — brilliant comic on wealth disparity, the gig economy, and universal basic income #

Hacker leaks Orange Is The New Black’s fifth season after failed blackmail — "thedarkoverlord" claims they also got material from Fox, IFC, ABC, and National Geographic #

Kevin Kelly on the myth of a superhuman AI — refreshing counter-argument to the current religious fervor #

Vignettes — lovely exploration game for iOS, recommended for fans of Windosill #

Businessweek on Spinal Tap’s $400M lawsuit — a laundry list of the clever ways that movie studios screw over artists #

The Guardian quits Facebook Instant Articles and Apple News — I wonder how many publishers would still use AMP if it wasn't a prerequisite to get in the Google News carousel #