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May 10, 2018
— post-industrial Japanese social trends may be a glimpse at America’s future #
— lovely fusion of Fortnite and the Three-Body Problem #
— Epic Games is suing game players for using freely-available Fortnite cheats #
May 4, 2018
— incredibly impressive visual tool for building deep learning models #
May 2, 2018
— source on GitHub, along with two more astounding illustrations by Diana Smith #
April 27, 2018
— paying people with real accounts in order to automate networks of artificial likes #
— for your consideration via @meganamram #
April 26, 2018
— misogynistic, racist, and violent #
— stop-motion photography game about one woman’s daily routine #
April 23, 2018
— Businessweek profile on Peter Thiel’s dystopian data-mining operation #
— next-level content-aware fills #
— intensely disturbing makeup illusions #
April 20, 2018
— they want to keep it going, but hard to imagine the archives staying online indefinitely #
April 19, 2018
— the utopian belief that technology would make all voices equal instead of amplifying existing social inequality #
— Janelle Shane trained a neural network to generate knitting patterns, and Ravelry knitters made them #
— the writer herself was groped 22 times #
— for the first time in its 85 year history, it’s drawn by a woman, a pseudonymous webcomics artist #
April 13, 2018
— you probably need the distraction right now #
April 10, 2018
— exaggerated facial expressions in thumbnails is “clickbait, attaining human form” #
April 9, 2018
— the hand-tracking experiments by Keiichi Matsuda are incredible #
— world 1-2 is unnerving #
April 5, 2018
— embedding hidden information in text documents by slightly modifying glyphs #
— can’t recommend highly enough; out now for PC/Mac, Xbox, PS4 #
April 2, 2018
— turn on dark web mode #
March 27, 2018
— quarantines your Facebook identity in a container inaccessible to third parties #
March 26, 2018
— fun little looping animation tool by Casey Reas via prostheticknowledge.tumblr.com #
— open-source recreation of HyperCard; you can run emulated stacks on the IA too #
— handheld electronic games emulated by MAME, now in Javascript #
— weird little peg string game; try it as a musical toy #
— they systematically and illegally targeted older workers for layoffs #
March 22, 2018
— 838 events happening worldwide on Saturday, hope to see you there #
— one of the best ads I’ve ever seen via @kepano #
March 20, 2018
— nearly five years of obsessive, solo development fortunately found an audience #
— to celebrate Fred Rogers’ 90th birthday and the 50th anniversary of the show #
March 16, 2018
— we’re back after a year off, kicking things off with four talented artists livestreaming an XOXO mural all day today #
March 14, 2018
— “kottke.org isn’t so much a thing I’m making but a process I’m going through” #
March 13, 2018
— cryptocurrency prospectors setting up shop in Montana, Washington, and Wyoming for cheap electricity #
— “If we hoard and hide what we love, we can still lose it; only then, we’re alone in the loss.” #
— Ortberg continues to be an internet treasure; the book’s out today #
March 12, 2018
— Oregon’s tourism board commissioned a Miyazaki-inspired animation blending magical creatures with real-life Oregon locations #
— related: New York Times adding obituaries for prominent women it originally ignored #
— absent of broadband, industrious pirates are charging for coordinated Sneakernet file transfers, including YouTube videos and magazines with ads #
March 8, 2018
— building a robot to solve a Rubik’s Cube in 0.38 seconds #
— an upcoming zine of new Hypercard stacks #
March 7, 2018
— not mentioned: Rocketboom founder Andrew Baron’s arrest for stealing from Syrian refugees #
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