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 #

Lyrebird — simulate anyone's voice with a 60-second voice sample and questionable ethics #

Biisuke Ball’s Big Adventure — every Rube Goldberg machine needs a storyline and song #

Mat Honan on Facebook’s augmented reality aspirations — "You have to build for the reality we live in, not the one we hope to create." #

A Time Capsule for the World Wide Web — Tim Carmody's running a great series on Kottke.org this week #

Bloomberg on Juicero, Silicon Valley’s $400 juicer — investors dumped $120M into a "juicer" that squeezes bags of pre-made juice #

Cosmic Express — addictive and devious puzzle game for iOS/PC/Mac #

Things full of beans that shouldn’t be full of beans  #

Internet Archive adds early Mac emulation — launch a vintage Mac app in seconds in the browser; how it works #

Cal Henderson’s Webstock talk on the evolution of emoji — incredible deep dive into the technical and cultural history #

Like tweeting without the letter “e” — you can't say Mouse Reeve's name on her Mastodon instance #

Technical postmortem on building Reddit Place — this year's best April 1 project was a massive team effort #

Meme collectors using the blockchain to trade rare Pepe cards — using Counterparty to enforce scarcity for digital works (via) #

AutoDraw — Google Creative Lab made autocorrect for drawing #

Hyperallergic on Pippin Barr’s virtual museum of digital water — now available free for Mac and Windows; don't miss the process posts #

Burger King abuses Google Home and Wikipedia for Whopper ad — love the increasing desperation in the Wikipedia edit requests from their marketing head #

The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI — nobody really knows how the most advanced AI works—only that it does (via) #

Glitch’s First Websites collection — remix retro replicas inspired by LiveJournal, MovableType, MySpace, and more (via) #

The Verge on the ethics of amiibo hacking — fans create nicely-designed cards for each amiibo bin; here's a good tutorial #

Scott Rosenberg on the status of Google Books — the internal priority shift was part of a larger trend I wrote about #

LOT 2046 — ARG or startup? you decide #

Windows 3.1 with networking support emulated in WebVR — it's multi-user too, try walking around (via) #