Here’s a version of Doom, downloadable for Windows or playable in a web browser, where you run around an art gallery, sipping and collecting wine, cash, and hors d’oeuvres. Is it still hell? I don’t know, but the music is nice.
Developer bobatealee says they made it with a friend as a student project. I spotted it when Retro Tech Dreams posted it.
I consistently love Neal Agarwal’s web games, but he’s outdone himself this time. In Stimulation Clicker, you just click the button — and the more you click the button, the more stimulants you unlock. You’ll see every attention-grabby trope here, from Subway Surfers to ... true crime podcasts?
This game is like a PhD thesis. I love it so much. And I’ve been playing it for too long.
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A recent Chromium build suggests Chrome could get support for linking directly to highlighted text in PDFs just like you can on a normal webpage, writes code sleuth Leopeva64 in a post that Bleeping Computer spotted.
As a person who has tried too many times to copy links to highlighted text in PDFs only to be disappointed, I’m thrilled.
We didn’t all flock to a new platform or build on a thrilling new protocol. We went everywhere, and did everything, all at once.
The internet is forever. Well, it was supposed to be. What happens when websites start to vanish at random?
This expansion is described as capable of supporting a “fully-fledged media business, encompassing rich design, advanced websites, deep analytics, automated marketing features,” plus newsletters, podcasts, videos, etc.
Substack’s “ideal partner for this initiative” is Weiss’ The Free Press, which, surprisingly, has been described as “a publication that has spread misinformation on transgender youth and amplified harmful anti-trans rhetoric.”
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Last week, WordPress cofounder Matt Mullenweg was ordered to remove the checkbox that asked users to verify that they’re not affiliated with WP Engine when logging in — and he seems to have replaced it with this:
The WordPress co-founder posted the message in a Slack community and changed his username to “gone 💀” after a judge granted WP Engine’s preliminary injunction, 404 Media reports:
I’m sick and disgusted to be legally compelled to provide free labor to an organization as parasitic and exploitive as WP Engine. I hope you all get what you and WP Engine wanted.
Jason Koebler on the ritual of analyzing a killer’s online life:
“People—including me—want to know who Mangione is and what made him allegedly do this. It’s just that it’s not clear what we are actually learning from years-old social media accounts.”
The company’s new AI chief on working for Microsoft, the OpenAI relationship, and when superintelligence might actually arrive.
You can already see parts of the rebrand live on Mozilla’s website, including its new flag logo that doubles as a dino.
My new favorite fan-binding project: Second Head, a collage of fanfic sentences that employ a vivid yet frequently repeated turn of phrase.
There’s an impulse, I think, to in-group even when performing a creative act. A feeling that there are certain ways one Should go about the act, by virtue of seeing it performed that way ... we make what we see and we make what we think we should make. At least, at first.
Consider my emerald orbs transfixed.
Despite everything, websites are still a pretty neat idea — but what if AI builds them?
Meta seemed to have bought the domain earlier this year, sometime after it bought the company that owned it prior to the debut of threads.net, where Meta’s Twitter competitor lives.
Previously, visiting the threads.com URL didn’t show anything, but today, it shows... well, an error message. With a “Meta © 2024” and a Facebook logo.
After days of explosive growth on the platform, the Bluesky Safety team posted Friday that it received 42,000 moderation reports in the preceding 24 hours (versus 360,000 in all of 2023).
The team added that it’s working to bring on new members and asks users to help by reporting troll, spam, and scam accounts. Bluesky has also implemented email verification for new signups.
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones claimed during a live X session that Elon Musk will be “very involved” in helping thwart The Onion’s purchase of Infowars, according to Mother Jones.
Whether or not that’s true, it’s an excuse to remember that Musk once wanted to buy The Onion, didn’t, then funded Thud, a satirical media company, with Onion alums. (He backed out, reportedly because he worried about being targeted by the satire.)
US District Judge Christopher Lopez put The Onion’s acquisition of Infowars on pause and ordered a hearing to go over the results of the bankruptcy auction, according to Variety. “No one should feel comfortable with the results of this auction,” Lopez said during an emergency status conference, Variety reports.
Our sister site Polygon has joined us in getting active on Bluesky, complete with a starter pack of reporters. If you prefer your decentralization ActivityPub-flavored, they’re still posting on Mastodon too.
