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Kevin Kelly on the myth of a superhuman AI — refreshing counter-argument to the current religious fervor

Vignettes — lovely exploration game for iOS, recommended for fans of Windosill

Businessweek on Spinal Tap’s $400M lawsuit — a laundry list of the clever ways that movie studios screw over artists

The Guardian quits Facebook Instant Articles and Apple News — I wonder how many publishers would still use AMP if it wasn’t a prerequisite to get in the Google News carousel

Lyrebird — simulate anyone’s voice with a 60-second voice sample and questionable ethics

Biisuke Ball’s Big Adventure — every Rube Goldberg machine needs a storyline and song

Mat Honan on Facebook’s augmented reality aspirations — “You have to build for the reality we live in, not the one we hope to create.”

A Time Capsule for the World Wide Web — Tim Carmody’s running a great series on Kottke.org this week

Bloomberg on Juicero, Silicon Valley’s $400 juicer — investors dumped $120M into a “juicer” that squeezes bags of pre-made juice

Cosmic Express — addictive and devious puzzle game for iOS/PC/Mac

Things full of beans that shouldn’t be full of beans

Internet Archive adds early Mac emulation — launch a vintage Mac app in seconds in the browser; how it works

Cal Henderson’s Webstock talk on the evolution of emoji — incredible deep dive into the technical and cultural history

Like tweeting without the letter “e” — you can’t say Mouse Reeve’s name on her Mastodon instance

Technical postmortem on building Reddit Place — this year’s best April 1 project was a massive team effort

Meme collectors using the blockchain to trade rare Pepe cards — using Counterparty to enforce scarcity for digital works (via)

AutoDraw — Google Creative Lab made autocorrect for drawing

Hyperallergic on Pippin Barr’s virtual museum of digital water — now available free for Mac and Windows; don’t miss the process posts

Burger King abuses Google Home and Wikipedia for Whopper ad — love the increasing desperation in the Wikipedia edit requests from their marketing head

The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI — nobody really knows how the most advanced AI works—only that it does (via)

Glitch’s First Websites collection — remix retro replicas inspired by LiveJournal, MovableType, MySpace, and more (via)

The Verge on the ethics of amiibo hacking — fans create nicely-designed cards for each amiibo bin; here’s a good tutorial

Scott Rosenberg on the status of Google Books — the internal priority shift was part of a larger trend I wrote about

LOT 2046 — ARG or startup? you decide

Windows 3.1 with networking support emulated in WebVR — it’s multi-user too, try walking around (via)

NYT on the booming CD market in Indonesian KFCs — “Music and chicken have become intertwined.” (via)

Resurrecting a 1986 BBS after a 23 year hiatus — they’re a bit busy now, but there’s no shortage of telnet BBSes online

Russian-owned LiveJournal adds censorship policies, bans political speech — LJs with more than 3,000 daily visitors can no longer be anonymous or use obscenities

Smash Mouth Fractal — using harmonics to compose a melody that repeats itself at 1024x the original speed (via)

AI celebrity impressions — using deep learning with famous voices to generate speech-like sounds

Deeply Artificial Trees — Bob Ross gets the Deep Dream treatment, the audio is a WaveNet model of Ross’s voice

Games that might have been — training a recurrent neural network on a list of 150k videogame titles

Cards Against Humanity’s Pay What You Want experiment gone wrong — they did the same thing at XOXO 2013, but our attendees not only paid, they organized the cash

An Oral History of Something Awful — “I’m obviously not a visionary, but I predicted that the internet would be shitty back in 1999”

Eye Gaze Warping — eyes generated by DeepWarp; click to change character (via)

The /r/Place Atlas — 630+ contributors map the story behind nearly every pixel from Reddit Place

Grid Garden — a game for learning CSS Grid (via)

Riding a cat with 360° video and a Vive headset — it may not be VR, but it’s adorable

JODI’s Automatic Rain from 1995 — part of Rhizome’s Net Art Anthology, works open in date-accurate web browsers (via)

Casey Newton on Mastodon, the decentralized, open-source Twitter clone — I signed up on another instance and there’s a learning curve; also: Yoz Grahame and Sarah Jeong

How Uber psychologically manipulates its drivers — outstanding interactive viz from the NYT

The Year in Memes — Select All goes deep with the internet’s own calendar

Atari 2600 emulator in Minecraft — stunning feat of engineering, albeit at one frame every three minutes

10×16 — artists reimagine the covers of their top 10 albums of the year

Gomix — like the power of Heroku with IFTTT’s remixing

Hacker News bans political stories for a week — “the epitome of privilege”

The Outline — Joshua Topolsky’s new site makes some pretty bold design choices

B.S. Detector — browser add-on to denote unreliable news sources on Facebook

Late Night Work Club’s STRANGERS — lovely compilation of indie animators; don’t miss Lovestreams at 21:08

Internet Archive to mirror Wayback archives in Canada — “The history of libraries is one of loss.”