The New York Times
Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet
7 min · · In a landmark antitrust complaint, the Justice Department is targeting a secretive partnership that is worth billions of dollars to both companies. · Shared by 402, including Scott Galloway, Dave McClure, Steve Troughton-Smith (Archived), Craig Brown, PhD, Allen Gannett, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Azeem Azhar, Marc Abrahams, David Wallace-Wells, Millie Tran, Michael Arrington 🏴☠️ 🛡️, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (offline, on parental leave), Kashmir Hill, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Tom Raftery, Matt Zoller Seitz, Marko Saric, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Rebecca (Slatkin) Sloane, Kyle Chayka
Rest of World
The World’s Last Internet Cafes
3 min · · For a quarter century, internet cafes connected the world. Now they’re vanishing into history. · Shared by 329, including Christian Müller
XKCD Comic
RIP John Conway
· This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). More details. · Shared by 270, including Pixel, Steve Silberman, Paolo Attivissimo @ildisinformatico@mastodon.uno, Massimo Pigliucci, Albert Wenger 🌎🔥⌛, Thomas Fuchs , zach lieberman, Maarten Lambrechts @maarten@vis.social, keithwilson@fediphilosophy.org on Mastodon 🦣, Tim Harford, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor, Logical Analysis, Christopher D. Long, Sascha Brossmann (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦, Nils Hitze, Danielle Fong 🙋🏻♀️, AGI.Eth | MTL.Eth, Adrian Roselli (no blue check) 🗯, Oliver Gassner https://mastodon.social/@oliverg, shishir das
BuzzFeed News
100 Best Memes Of The Decade
· From planking to VSCO girls. · Shared by 256, including Tom Connor, Johannes Lenz, Matthew Perpetua, Fern, Virginia Hughes, Gisele Navarro, Mark Kaigwa, jennifer daniel, Rob Kniaz 🛬🇬🇧, Simon Carless, Luis Roig | @darum@indieweb.social, Klaus Eck, Marcus Schwarze 🚀, Daniel, Katja Evertz
Fast Company
MoMA’s newest artist is an AI trained on 180,000 works, from Warhol to Pac-Man
· Unsupervised reaches new highs in what’s possible with AI, creating a breathing being that synthesizes 180,000 artworks from MoMA.
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youtube.com
Anonymous Message To Elon Musk
· Source: https://bit.ly/3fTHtDI#Elonmusk#Crypto#Bitcoin · Shared by 203, including Peter McCormack🏴☠️, Altcoin Dad, @timnitGebru@dair-community.social on Mastodon, Ran Neuner, David Andolfatto, 𝚃𝚒𝚏𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚢 𝙷𝚊𝚢𝚍𝚎𝚗, Adel, Crypto Rand, Jamie Burke ⛺️, Yves Mulkers
stevejobsarchive.com
The Steve Jobs Archive
· The Steve Jobs Archive is building programs, fellowships, collections, and partnerships that reflect Steve’s values and carry his sense of possibility forward. · Shared by 185, including Horace Dediu, Esther Schindler, Damian J Mullins, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Gordon, Guillermo Rauch, Patrick Sanwikarja, Jonathan Kogan, Robert Scoble, Oliver Raduner, pizza.lottie 🍕, Chris Coyier, Fabricio Teixeira, John Koetsier, Chris Fralic, Bright, Adham Dannaway, InterfaceLovers, Chris Messina
boginjr.com
Booting from a vinyl record
2 min · · Most PCs tend to boot from a primary media storage, be it a hard disk drive, or a solid-state drive, perhaps from a network, or – if all else fails – the USB stick or the boot DVD comes to the rescue…… · Shared by 149, including Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Mohamed Azazy, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Ric “el pony esponjoso”, Esther Schindler, Chris Fralic, Thomas Fuchs
book.stevejobsarchive.com
Make Something Wonderful
16+ min · · The online book featuring speeches, quotes, emails, and photographs from the Steve Jobs Archive. · Shared by 145, including John Nosta, Galen King, David Perell, Josh Elman, Stammy, Guillermo Rauch, Amit Agarwal, Dayyan Smith, Richard Gutjahr, Barry Ritholtz, Ethan Anderson
NASA
First Images from the James Webb Space Telescope
· NASA.gov brings you the latest images, videos and news from America's space agency. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, watch NASA TV live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and… · Shared by 129, including Packy McCormick, Phil (SubStack link in bio) Plait, Adrian Roselli (no blue check) 🗯, Marius Bleuer, Joshua Bowman, Elena Neira, Elizabeth Stokoe, John Maeda, DoctorPeinado, Scott Brinker
Fast Company
50 years ago today, the internet was born in Room 3420
9 min · · Here’s the story of the creation of ARPANET, the groundbreaking precursor to the internet—as told by the people who were there. · Shared by 129, including Gabriele, Katja Evertz, Jonathan Kogan, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, SES, John Nosta, John Koetsier, Howard Getson, Ric “el pony esponjoso”, Esther Schindler
2020game.io
2020 Game
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tixy.land
(t,i,x,y) => "creative code golfing"
· A minimalist coding environment. Control 16x16 points with a single JavaScript function. By @aemkei · Shared by 105, including Dion Almaer, Roman Nurik 🇺🇦, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Chris {he, they} , @JanWillemTulp@vis.social, Data Pointed, Jake Archibald, THAT @REM SHOW, Nils Hitze, Golan Levin, Mathias Bynens, patrick h. lauke (redux) "Big Dog" #toryScum #cis, Tim Holman, Elm
youtube.com
This Video Has 573,045 Views
· The title of this video should change with the times. But nothing lasts forever: here's the story of how I made it work, why it used to be easier to make tha... · Shared by 73, including Geeks are Sexy, Matteo Fogli, Jay DuBois, BrendanEich, Kevin Kelly, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Craig Mod, Kunal Bhatia, Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange
The New York Times
A Weird Monolith Is Found in the Utah Desert
5 min · · A team surveying bighorn sheep for Utah’s wildlife agency found the strange object, 10 to 12 feet tall, embedded in the ground in a remote part of Red Rock Country. It’s probably art, officials said. · Shared by 67, including maggiefox 🇺🇦, Esther Choo, MD MPH, Bailey Richardson, Lynn Cherny, Olivia Nuzzi, Katie Benner, Carl T. Bergstrom, Prof Michael E. Mann, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, felix salmon
youtube.com
Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Remastered 4K 60 FPS)
· Remastered music video with Topaz Video Enhance AI and RIFE (Flowframes). I hope you like it! · Shared by 62, including Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social, Robert McGregor, Geeks are Sexy, Robert Scoble, Rebecca Franks, Andreas Von Gunten, CBC Music, MIT CSAIL, Ariya Hidayat, Vala Afshar, AGI.Eth | MTL.Eth