“Papyrus is a virus and restraint is the inoculum”
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Usenet-Rewind
new commercial archive with deep full-text search of 982M posts going back to 1981
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Grand Theft Automated License Plate Reader
Morry Kolman made a GTA V mod that adds 235 Flock cameras around Los Santos, earn cash by destroying them
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Kids Trends
Riley Walz analyzed 100 million children’s drawings over 20 years, try searching for your own name
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Rogue OpenAI agents using public wikis as message boards
in a week, a swarm of 3,700 agents made 13k edits with disposable email addresses to collude on tasks
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Unusual Suspects
Neal.fun’s latest is a sketch artist game where you draw famous characters from witness testimony
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Inflight Simulator
like Airplane Mode, but multiplayer and in the browser
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The Internet Archive’s Vintage AI collection
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Vote for the 2026 Tiny Awards winner
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Katamari Object Library
sort by triangle count to see the simplest and most complex models in the game
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Relay Tetris
play Tetris using 1,465 relays on 248 simulated Minivac 601s
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Walkable Cities
the dev made a fun postmortem on how the game was made and later went viral in Japan
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Mimic your own voice with Pink Trombone
an open-source model to control the classic human vocal tract simulator
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Nitter, XCancel shut down after X sends cease-and-desist
the privacy-friendly X/Twitter frontends were a helpful way to view a post without an account
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Amazon shuttering Mechanical Turk after 21 years
cnbc.com/2026/08/25/amazon-service-that-jeff-bezos-called-artificial-ai-is-shutting-down.html
three years after it launched, I asked Turkers to send me selfies for cash
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Type
one of several playful web experiments by Joohyun Park
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail, in alphabetical order
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Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” is set today
libraryofshortstories.com/storiespdf/there-will-come-soft-rains.pdf
“‘Today is August 4, 2026,’ said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling, ‘in the city of Allendale, California.'”
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Marcin Wichary on the Mac’s quirky drag-install app windows
unsung.aresluna.org/as-a-windows-user-its-a-very-surreal-way-to-install-a-program/
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The Pudding’s lawn mowing experiment
30,954 mowed a virtual lawn, but the best mowers thought about it first
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House House’s Big Walk out now
I played the first hour of the game with three friends at Panic HQ last month and it’s brilliant
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Waxy Refresh: The End of Playfic
After 14 years, I decided to retire Playfic, an online community for writing and sharing interactive fiction made with Inform 7. All the games will stay online indefinitely.
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Ikea Complexity Index
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Waxy Refresh: Supercut.org
Continuing my series of updating old side projects, I gave Supercut.org a big refresh, plus some notes on the sad state of Vimeo.
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A Little Waxy Refresh
I updated Waxy.org's design over the last few weeks, part of a series of updates to some of my long-dormant projects.
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Boxsquad
new from the creator of Space Type Generator, be sure to turn on the “twerk” option
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Restaurants are leaning into handmade/DIY aesthetics as AI slop grows
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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How AI agents forced a 30-year-old movie box office stats website offline
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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3D gaussian splat tour of San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral
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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NYT on how Google’s AI search is hurting the open web
starving websites big and small of search traffic while regurgitating their information for profit
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