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April 13, 2016
— challenging and expensive at scale, with traumatic impact on moderators #
— analyzing 70M comments, women and minority authors were targeted disproportionately #
April 9, 2016
— clever methodology maps character names in screenplays to IMDB actors #
— from the 1940s, quite possibly the first choose-your-own-adventure/game book via @FisherPriceTT #
— the same emoji appears wildly different on various phones and browsers #
— Twitterbots are contemporary, populist poetry #
April 8, 2016
— “Koyannisqatsi reconstructed shot-by-shot with modern, watermarked stock footage” #
April 7, 2016
— my favorite robot maker teams up with Adam Savage and Tested #
— a drug he needs to survive now costs $44,000/month in the U.S., $36 in Australia without insurance #
— I wonder what most viewers made of their U.S. television debut #
— watch this on your phone #
April 6, 2016
— one day left to fund the Ordinary Women series, which is about to hit its goal #
— Slack-like commands in the browser #
April 5, 2016
— new designs, revenue options and archive importing preserving timestamps and links #
— warning: can’t be unseen #
— Tom 7’s badass hack to automatically emulate NES games in 3D #
— voxel WebGL fan remake, disable Flashblock for audio #
— the best demonstration of what good VR feels like without actually experiencing it #
April 4, 2016
— interview series with underrepresented people working in tech in Silicon Valley #
— give it light and time #
— I identify with this a little too much #
— Eric Meyer on #663399becca and #gamergate #
— I picked the winner, time to go to the track #
April 3, 2016
— capturing the flag at 8-3 in the nick of time, and the final win against Bowser, are both incredible #
— view in the Javascript console, press “x” to interrupt #
— 12 national leaders using offshore tax havens to hide funds #
— Fusion’s analysis of the Panama Papers, a leak 100x bigger than Wikileaks #
April 2, 2016
— most of the resistance is from older net users, who still think of it as an invention and a place #
— Tested’s Will Smith is doing a TV show in VR; don’t miss where they jump inside the game set #
— their sequel to last year’s thebutton, another game-like experiment in online social dynamics #
April 1, 2016
— Paul Ford on Gmail Mic Drop and Internet Jackass Day #
— read the whole thread starting here, as it unfolded #
— MMOs continue to be weird, but Eve is particularly so via MetaFilter #
— shorthand for that non-existent family member with insider information in the gaming industry #
March 30, 2016
— whaaaa, official support for native bash and Ubuntu Linux binaries in Windows #
— infuriating story of dealing with systemic racism while trying to cash a money order #
— “a series of perceptual landscapes where graphic complexity emerges from the structure of simplistic three-dimensional forms” #
March 28, 2016
— I love IFTTT, but this is a bummer #
— first-of-its-kind code injection, by hand, on an unmodded SNES console #
March 26, 2016
— combining 3D capture with multiple participants with an augmented reality display #
March 25, 2016
— superb Sarah Jeong piece on bot ethics with four of my favorite bot creators #
March 24, 2016
— interactive musical experiment #
March 23, 2016
— given free access to a tiny handful of site, they’re making the most of it #
March 22, 2016
— I fully expect these to be a mundane part of everyday life in a few years #
— detecting faces, bodies, and other focal points #
— it’s out now for PC, Mac, and PS4; worth it for developer commentary alone #
— starts with a shocking quote from Nixon’s Watergate co-conspirator, making made headlines on its own #
March 21, 2016
— play with wobbly mountains #
March 20, 2016
— GTA V hacked to follow a single deer as it randomly roams the landscape #
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