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Adi Robertson

Adi Robertson

Senior Editor, Tech & Policy

Senior Editor, Tech & Policy

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    I finally get the jokes about Elon Musk’s coding whiteboard and Galactus.

    My colleagues Casey Newton and Zoe Schiffer mentioned yesterday that Elon Musk’s infamous Twitter whiteboard chart had gotten posted on Reddit’s programmer humor forum, where it had inspired a host of jokes about Galactus.

    That led me to this delightful video, which is somehow new to me despite being a couple of years old. My other colleague Mitchell Clark referenced it earlier this month, but he shamefully buried it in a hyperlink — instead of shoving it in front of your eyeballs in case it’s also new to you.

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    Facebook’s top-performing page is no longer a rule-breaking meme site.

    Meta just released its quarterly transparency report, including some detail on Facebook’s top-performing content. While it’s relatively dry reading, I was interested in one note from a condensed version given to reporters:

    This quarter’s top content did not contain any policy violating content, and we’re cautiously optimistic of the progress we’ve made as we work to improve the quality of content within Facebook.

    The note is an implicit callback to earlier this year, when reporter Ben Collins noted that Facebook’s most widely viewed page — probably a meme site called That Ain’t Right — had been deleted for violating its community standards. Meta seems to have been interested enough in the criticism to call out the fact that it’s been fixed... and now the top-performing pages are still meme-oriented, but they’re rule-abiding groups like LadBible.

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    An oral history of the grotesquely compelling point-and-click game Sanitarium.

    DreamForge’s Sanitarium is one of my favorite adventure games for its sense of Twilight Zone-ish off-ness and — I say this affectionately — intensely grimdark plot. (It’s a good companion piece to the earlier, similarly eerie game I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream.) Alexis Ong talked with the original creators and dug up some interesting details:

    Dreamforge at the time was in the town of Jeanette, Pennsylvania, just outside Pittsburgh, home to a well-known glass factory whose abandoned ruins became a driving inspiration behind some of the game’s scenes. The fictional decaying town full of mutant children is named Genet, which sounds almost biblical. In Nicholson’s words, Jeannette was a “depressed small town” with the enormous ruined specter of the Jeannette Glass Factory looming over it — a mood that also affected the team’s work commute.

    How a bunch of art school grads made putrid, brilliant horror adventure Sanitarium

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