Russian-owned LiveJournal adds censorship policies, bans political speech — LJs with more than 3,000 daily visitors can no longer be anonymous or use obscenities #

Smash Mouth Fractal — using harmonics to compose a melody that repeats itself at 1024x the original speed (via) #

AI celebrity impressions — using deep learning with famous voices to generate speech-like sounds #

Deeply Artificial Trees — Bob Ross gets the Deep Dream treatment, the audio is a WaveNet model of Ross's voice #

Games that might have been — training a recurrent neural network on a list of 150k videogame titles #

Cards Against Humanity’s Pay What You Want experiment gone wrong — they did the same thing at XOXO 2013, but our attendees not only paid, they organized the cash #

An Oral History of Something Awful — "I'm obviously not a visionary, but I predicted that the internet would be shitty back in 1999" #

Eye Gaze Warping — eyes generated by DeepWarp; click to change character (via) #

The /r/Place Atlas — 630+ contributors map the story behind nearly every pixel from Reddit Place #

Grid Garden — a game for learning CSS Grid (via) #

Riding a cat with 360° video and a Vive headset — it may not be VR, but it's adorable #

JODI’s Automatic Rain from 1995 — part of Rhizome's Net Art Anthology, works open in date-accurate web browsers (via) #

Casey Newton on Mastodon, the decentralized, open-source Twitter clone — I signed up on another instance and there's a learning curve; also: Yoz Grahame and Sarah Jeong #

How Uber psychologically manipulates its drivers — outstanding interactive viz from the NYT #

The Year in Memes — Select All goes deep with the internet's own calendar #

Atari 2600 emulator in Minecraft — stunning feat of engineering, albeit at one frame every three minutes #

10×16 — artists reimagine the covers of their top 10 albums of the year #

Gomix — like the power of Heroku with IFTTT's remixing #

Hacker News bans political stories for a week — "the epitome of privilege" #

The Outline — Joshua Topolsky's new site makes some pretty bold design choices #

B.S. Detector — browser add-on to denote unreliable news sources on Facebook #

Late Night Work Club’s STRANGERS — lovely compilation of indie animators; don't miss Lovestreams at 21:08 #

Internet Archive to mirror Wayback archives in Canada — "The history of libraries is one of loss." #

Bird Sounds — using machine learning to cluster and visualize audio (via) #

Reddit is tearing itself apart — the Trump subreddit is slowly dominating the site through manipulation and inaction #

Lois Lane on Facebook — face recognition is Superman's other kryptonite #

Slack client for the Commodore 64 — finally #

Datalegreya — OpenType font that mingles charts with text #

Seagulls! (Stop It Now) — the sequel to Bushes of Love, both masterpieces #

SHOPAGEDDON.biz — your eyes are your wallet #

Auralnauts’ Attack of the Phantom Past — fifth episode of their brilliant Star Wars remixes; worth it for the opening alone #

OK Go’s new music video was filmed in 4.2 seconds — as usual, the behind-the-scenes is as interesting as the final product #

Holiday Hole — this feels like a metaphor for something, but I don't know what #

A Mathematician’s Perspective on the Divide — Vi Hart argues that age was the critical factor for the election #

Owlchemy’s Mixed Reality update is unreal — dynamic lighting and transparency with proper depth #

A Good Bundle — absurdly great bundle of 151 indie games, 100% of proceeds to ACLU and Planned Parenthood #

PARADISE — animated 4K interpretation of Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights (via) #

The Secret World of Stuff — compilations of animator Sean Charmatz's Instagram shorts (via) #

in/ex troversion — short student animation visualizes the feeling of social exhaustion (via) #

Looking back at Homestuck, the “internet’s first masterpiece” — I first wrote about it five years ago this month (via) #

Ask MetaFilter’s collection of interesting automated phone numbers — I recommend Here and There Along the Echo #

Bandcamp traces the subgenres of vaporwave — the Bandcamp blog is killing it; see also: Orange Milk Records, Japanese chiptune, Sammus #

Who Will Command The Robot Armies? — yet another amazing talk/essay from Maciej Ceglowski (via) #

Everything Is Fucked (Keep On Going) — a 60-second song from MetaFilter's Josh Millard #

Full-color video player built in Factorio — this is just astounding; how it works #

Doom on the MacBook Pro Touch Bar — or just the HUD #

Winter in America — a road trip through Donald Trump's America in the days before the election #

Quick, Draw! — train Google's neural net with your crappy drawings #

Washington Post interviews a fake news profiteer — "satire," my ass #

Watching the Election from The Post-Truth Future — Christina Xu on fake viral news in China #