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eater.com/trends/975087/restaurants-lean-into-bespoke-handmade-elements-during-ai-flyer-backlash
we’re going to see this backlash everywhere to the polished blandness of generated imagery
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stephenfollows.com/p/what-just-happened-to-thenumberscom-should-worry-us-all
an escalating flood of agentic traffic, plus attempts to hack the server to manipulate prediction markets
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many nice touches from the the cutaway view to the cars and ambient audio, try WASD movement inside with Shift to sprint
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starving websites big and small of search traffic while regurgitating their information for profit
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jenniferdaniel.substack.com/p/why-do-some-new-emoji-look-familiar
cracked face, pickle, eraser, lighthouse, and more
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a very good personal homepage by Dustin Mierau
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404media.co/hack-reveals-suno-ai-music-generator-scraped-youtube-deezer-and-genius/
even if courts decide AI training is fair use, companies may still be liable for illicitly acquiring copyrighted works
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his entertaining research found examples 30 years earlier than cited on Wikipedia, which was quickly updated
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pigeonsandplanes.com/read/music-piracy-what-cd-oink-nine-inch-nails-streaming
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gamesindustry.biz/how-evil-trout-aims-to-turn-a-cult-free-game-into-a-steam-hit-again
The Incident at Galley House, the fully-voiced graphical adaption of the brilliant Type Help, is out now
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Louie Mantia on the history, limitations, and benefits of Apple’s squircle icons
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make and share collages from the Internet Archive’s magazine collection or upload your own PDF
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an AIM-style buddy list of your active Bluesky mutuals, no login necessary
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fascinating postmortem of blockchain music startup Nina Protocol, which is shutting down this week
via aux.xyz #
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wired.com/story/inside-the-luddite-festival-harnessing-gen-zs-rage-against-big-tech/
run by anonymous organizers and promoted without social media, the whole thing sounded great
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OpenType font that turns bracketed text into QR codes
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I missed the news that Cloudflare will start blocking Googlebot by default on September 15
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the best outcome for the studio, I hope we get another documentary out of it
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thanks to Manu for asking me to be the second-to-last blogger in his interview series
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seems like the company failed precisely because the protocol was so successful in achieving its goals
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as a huge fan of The Show, I’ve been anxiously waiting for this episode of Hank’s new podcast
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another brilliant guide to the movies by internet cinephile Neil Cicierega
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teenvogue.com/story/focus-gaming-apps-that-help-combat-adhd-like-behavior
On-Together: Virtual Co-Working sits at the bottom of your desktop while you work with others
via Aftermath #
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with my old friend Annalee Newitz as editor-in-chief!
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if you like that, he did followups on dynamic lighting and shaders for 3D objects with oil-painted textures
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don’t miss the interactive map of 5,000 historical menus pulled from the NYPL’s Buttolph collection
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