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July 21, 2015
— a bot intended to help clue people into issues of social inequality #
— I’d love to see this repeated in other competitive online communities #
— Metafilter’s new podcast going deeper on stories surfaced by the community #
— six-part series on Internet aggression, focused on Gamergate as a case study; good followup #
— one of the best explorations of the challenges of making something, at a particularly interesting time for indie games #
— “People asked for and got equitable pay based on data in the sheet” #
— music request: Yakety Sax at Westboro Baptist Church #
— touches on other major hacks and the ethics of outing personal information #
— super inside baseball, an existential crisis over whether the site is “too mean” #
— an estimated 471,000 vehicles are vulnerable, including brakes, transmission, and GPS #
July 14, 2015
— from multiplayer to single-player #
— “What are we exchanging for efficiency?” #
— terrestrial radio can’t make it past a few light years, but who’s counting #
July 13, 2015
— beautiful algorithmic insects #
— oh, and the trees like to reply #
— 90% of high-tech patent lawsuits are filed by trolls #
— some light Monday morning reading for all my Portland friends #
July 9, 2015
— 1.7 billion comments, also on the Internet Archive #
— emoji short URLs, like so #
— deliberately staying small and focused, excluding an audience they don’t care about #
— so much more expressive than a fav alone #
July 8, 2015
— stylish short animation about four dysfunctional strangers in an apartment building #
July 6, 2015
— this was a fun one to do, Eliot was in the audience #
— Markov-generated comics from Josh Millard, creator of Garkov #
July 5, 2015
— Paul Carr on Zappos’ shift to a flat organization #
July 3, 2015
— many of the most popular subreddits went private, all the top posts are about it #
July 2, 2015
— minority representation in mainstream films, like Her, Fault in Our Stars, and Noah #
— incredible nightmare fodder on Reddit, Facebook, and Twitter, and more #
— a number of women’s rights and digital rights groups wrote a letter to ICANN #
— totally into this, though I’d guess the mouse/keyboard would be more convenient via r/oculus #
— boy bands without the bands, an audience almost entirely composed of young girls #
June 30, 2015
— podcast from the magical land of Foom #
June 29, 2015
— upsetting examples of how badly the media and government gets it wrong, and how easy it is to get it right #
— the side by side cracked me up #
June 26, 2015
— the entire ruling is worth reading, especially the hilariously awful Scalia dissent #
June 25, 2015
— an editable world made of emoji #
— the first full-motion video game I’ve ever enjoyed, highly recommended #
June 24, 2015
— give it something to dream about in the chat; here’s how it works #
June 23, 2015
— Minecraft on extra-hard mode #
June 22, 2015
— a tool for making phone tree-based games like, say, an audio Flappy Bird #
June 20, 2015
— fun detective story spawned by a Reddit thread and cult following #
June 19, 2015
June 16, 2015
— Etsy gets into crowdfunding #
— try clicking his laptop on the right #
— “You are free to be an asshole on Reddit… but keep it on Reddit.” #
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