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June 8, 2017
— first biweekly chapter documenting the artist’s project to build a computer #
— machine-generated uncanny valley faces upressed into 4k images #
— stunning interactive visualization of Archive Team’s 650GB GeoCities backup #
— we live in a weird future via Boing Boing #
June 7, 2017
— most new printers are exposing you #
— ready for a nap anywhere, anytime #
— the fifth book will be out on June 29 #
— men talking over women in science, captured on video #
— 360º photogrammetry study of abandoned malls; see also: Dan Bell’s Dead Malls series via @golan #
— the rise of Trump inspiring waves of sexist, racist rhetoric in school #
— as a festival organizer, reading these is pure schadenfyre #
June 5, 2017
— Maciej Ceglowski on how five American tech companies built a toolkit for authoritarian movements #
— experimental browser distributed openly in a peer-to-peer mesh with revisions and forking #
— Twitter bot turns every Trump tweet into the correct Presidential statement format #
June 3, 2017
— an “infinity poem” composed of 62,000 internet-connected cameras #
June 2, 2017
— Marc ten Bosch’s mindbending 4th-dimensional physics toybox for iOS and Vive #
— Christina Xu on human interaction and trust in China’s online-to-offline platforms #
— craft a series of apologies, and decide whether they’re sincere via Indie Games+ #
— visualizing gender balance on the NYT Best Seller list over time #
— mixed reality nostalgia from Niu via blog.attractmo.de #
— their motives are transparent, but if it can help indie publishers, might be a good thing #
— Jonas Lund left his laptop making generative Photoshop art while he went on vacation via Kottke #
June 1, 2017
— a series of 64 banknotes visualizing a block from the Bitcoin blockchain #
— stunning artwork by Malaysian model Sheena Liam via Colossal #
— a year-long effort to surface lesser-known indie game devs #
— using char-rnn and 84,000 band names from Wikipedia #
— “Do not attempt to compete with Pinboard.” #
May 31, 2017
— music video as animated coloring book #
— interactive explainer on how Thailand fireflies sync their lights; code here via @buster #
May 30, 2017
— a comic history lesson by Lucy Bellwood and Sarah Mirk #
— Twitch plays the stock market, starting with $50k in real money via Belong.io #
May 23, 2017
— related: Maciej Ceglowski’s campaign for social media travel mode #
— Saint 11 packs so much into every 256×256 image #
— unforgivable corporate behavior, an empire built on exploiting the poor #
May 19, 2017
— 50 million drawings, use it with sketch-rnn, a generative model for vector drawings #
— Janelle Shane’s hilarious experiments have become required reading for me via Belong.io #
May 17, 2017
— writeup of Panic’s brush with blackmail and the Handbrake malware #
May 10, 2017
— followup to his enormously popular history of japan #
— 128,000 identical comments using names from voter registration records #
— generating summaries of movement over time via @tomcoates #
May 9, 2017
— documenting the representation of poverty and homelessness in GTA V via gamescenes.org #
— click to build, right-click to remove #
May 8, 2017
— working around the continued decline of web ads #
— a prediction algorithm predicts the most likely next frame, no editing via @cpriestman #
— okay, now I’m excited #
— Three.js/WebGL demo takes fourth place at Revision 2017; see also: ninjatool and the demo source #
May 6, 2017
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