Undertale’s Japanese localization causes a fan frenzy — over a personal pronoun with cultural connotations #

NYT Mag profiles Jonny Sun — melancholic joy at the intersection of weird Twitter and M.I.T. #

Theoriz’ Mixed Reality — projection mapping experiments with motion tracking #

Instagram adds Archive feature to hide old photos from public view — this should be an option in all social software #

NYT moves to machine learning-assisted comment moderation — built on top of Perspective, a project from Instrument and Google's Jigsaw incubator #

Super Mario Odyssey — the Mario universe meets David OReilly's Everything #

Ars Technica’s investigation into the litigious jerk who thinks he invented e-mail — after suing Gawker, he's going after Techdirt for reporting on his easily-debunked claims #

Mallory Ortberg’s Internet — an oral history of The Toast #

Gun Emoji Pairings — analyzing 100k tweets to understand how people use the gun emoji (via) #

Ian Bogost on Binky, a fake social networking app for iOS/Android — an infinite timeline of random images with fake likes and comments #

#c0ffee is the color — valid words as hex colors (via) #

eleVR’s expressive programming in VR — making LOGO Turtles in Anyland, a creative social space in VR #

Design in the Era of the Algorithm — Josh Clark on design principles for addressing flaws in machine learning #

Giorgio Cam — take a picture to make music with a computer; source is here (via) #

What Will Happen to Us? — four cartoonists on life without the Affordable Care Act #

Reddit designs the worst possible volume controls — related: enter your phone number #

Taeyoon Choi’s The Handmade Computer — first biweekly chapter documenting the artist's project to build a computer #

Portraits of Imaginary People — machine-generated uncanny valley faces upressed into 4k images #

The Deleted City 3.0 — stunning interactive visualization of Archive Team's 650GB GeoCities backup #

Russian malware controlled through comments on Britney Spears’ Instagram photos — we live in a weird future (via) #

How microdots exposed The Intercept’s anonymous source — most new printers are exposing you #

Simone Giertz’ wearable mattress — ready for a nap anywhere, anytime #

Meredith Gran’s Octopus Pie webcomic wraps after ten-year run — the fifth book will be out on June 29 #

Let Her Speak, Please — men talking over women in science, captured on video #

Merch Mulch — 360º photogrammetry study of abandoned malls; see also: Dan Bell's Dead Malls series (via) #

The Kids Are Alt-Right — the rise of Trump inspiring waves of sexist, racist rhetoric in school #

Leaked Fyre Festival emails — as a festival organizer, reading these is pure schadenfyre #

Notes from an Emergency — Maciej Ceglowski on how five American tech companies built a toolkit for authoritarian movements #

Beaker Browser — experimental browser distributed openly in a peer-to-peer mesh with revisions and forking #

Real Press Sec — Twitter bot turns every Trump tweet into the correct Presidential statement format #

Jon Satrom’s glitch art homepage — seizure warning #

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 #