In this interesting post from 2015—getting a viral second wind—Alex Danco offers a model to understand how the "middle ground" of interest in things is fading. That's the normal distribution,… Read the rest of the article: The attention economy "bifurcating" is just the long tail in dystopia
The cults we hear about are the ones that explode or implode, not the ones chugging along quietly long after their Rolling Stone cover story moment. Guinevere Turner has fond… Read the rest of the article: What it's like to grow up in a cult
Damon Beres notes that the situation with folding displays is quickly going to hell. Enter Samsung’s Galaxy Fold, a kind of metal and glass taco that could define a new… Read the rest of the article: Folding phones are an unfolding disaster
To say that this video depicts "video game physics IRL," as I have in this headline, is quite stupid. At least in the sense that the world should not be… Read the rest of the article: Car accident: video game physics IRL
Attorney General Bill Barr, plainly described as a liar by the House Majority leader, is only the latest "respectable" Republican to disgrace themselves by association with Trump and Trump's political… Read the rest of the article: Working with Trump destroys your reputation, but who cares?
Reacting to a storm of derision on the internet following the release of Sonic the Hedgehog's first trailer, the filmmakers have promised to redesign the CGI title character before it… Read the rest of the article: Filmmaker promises to change live-action Sonic the Hedgehog's widely-disliked design
Yahoo bought Tumblr in 2013 for $1.1bn, then Verizon acquired Yahoo. Now Verizon, after purging Tumblr of adult material and watching its traffic plunge as a result, is trying to… Read the rest of the article: Verizon "trying to sell Tumblr"
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Kelsey Ables explains how social media killed art communities. It's not just a statement of fact, but a history of the parts of the web that mainstream users might have… Read the rest of the article: How social media destroyed the web's art communities
1mb.site is a simplified hosting service for personal websites with all the bells and whistles: custom domains, SSL, databases and an online code/content editor. It's free of charge so long… Read the rest of the article: 1MB: free website host for coders
The 8bit Deck is a standard 52-card deck with pixelated artwork using the Pico-8 pallette. A few months ago, I began designing a few face cards for what, at the… Read the rest of the article: Deck of cards with pixelated 8-bit style designs
With Nintendo and now Sega offering popular retro consoles and Atari soon to join them, here comes the Intellivision Amico. All of its games are downloadable and will run between… Read the rest of the article: Intellivision Amico, another retro console
The only noises to be heard are footsteps and video editing suites firing up. The nice ceremonies come later.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was sentenced Wednesday to 50 weeks in jail for skipping bail. Assange took refuge in London's Ecuadorean embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over… Read the rest of the article: Assange sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for skipping bail
David Marby & Nijiko Yonskai's Lorem Picsum is an online service that generates placeholder images. All you have to do is write image URLs like so — https://picsum.photos/400/300 — with… Read the rest of the article: Lorem Ipsum but for images
https://youtu.be/FvvZaBf9QQI They've obviously refined the design since the suprisingly bad model sheet leaked. Now it is perfectly bad, launched on an orbital trajectory from the uncanny valley's curve. But perhaps… Read the rest of the article: Sonic the Hedgehog movie trailer
Mark Lisseman asks: "Is that diagram… accurate??" I looked into it and it turns out that the book is called The Story of Life and is by chris (simpsons… Read the rest of the article: Babby is fully formed
Having won the Fortnite nationals, co-champion Jack Stuttard is asked what's next: another season? More tournaments? The online circuit? Honestly, we don't like the game that much any more. Not… Read the rest of the article: Fortnite champions don't even like the game anymore
There's a certain elegance to the troll here. Knowing that Twitter doesn't moderate racist terms of abuse, and realizing that Uber's Twitter support account is a dumbly overfamiliar auto-response bot,… Read the rest of the article: Uber apologizes for tweeting racial slur
Mail A Letter…online is just like sending email, but it imprints your message onto a thin, highly portable lignin-cellulose substrate using a solution of carbon black in petroleum distillates. Then… Read the rest of the article: Mail an old-fashioned letter, made of actual paper, via the internet
