Felix "PewDiePie" Kjellberg is the world's most popular streamer, a goofy gamer whose reactionary tendencies were relentlessly encouraged by YouTube and its engagement machinery. Now he faces the consequences, rich… Read the rest of the article: PewDiePie goes on the record
Splinter was the news site at G/O Media (the successor to Gawker Media), housing left-leaning current affairs commentary and anchoring the groups' more advertiser-friendly tech, game and sports "verticals". The… Read the rest of the article: Splinter News shuttered, boss tells staff not to write about it
Mike Winkelmann (homepage, behance) animated a few illustrative seconds of the immediate future: "ZUCKERBORG'S NIPPLE FREE TECHNO-UTOPIA" ZUCKERBORG'S NIPPLE FREE TECHNO-UTOPIA #everydays pic.twitter.com/nPGlLkemie — beeple (@beeple) October 9, 2019 Here's… Read the rest of the article: Nice animation of Zuckerberg as giant cyborg spider enjoying Facebook's nipple-free techno-utopia
Behold the master in enunciation outclass the mediocrities that surround him. Previously in Diabeetus: Cat resembling Wilford Brimley skilled in art of playing "death by diabeetus"
An app used by Hong Kong protestors to track security forces there disappeared Wednesday from Apple's app store. Apple says it's being used by criminals to attack police, but given… Read the rest of the article: Apple removes Hong Kong protest app
After the rollout of its own game store, Epic (of Unreal and Fortnite fame) published a string of exclusives, most recently the all-conquering Untitled Goose Game. Today it launched Unreal… Read the rest of the article: Unreal Indies: game platform seeks more developers
Raytracing is a method for drawing scenes by modeling beams of light, illuminating and richocheting off objects. It's realistic but very slow, and only the newest and most expensive video… Read the rest of the article: Raytracing with MySQL
Ellen DeGeneres's friendship with ex-President George W. Bush became controversial this week, in light of the progressive values she claims and the 600,000 corpses left by his occupation of Iraq.… Read the rest of the article: Devastating remix of Ellen's lecture on befriending George W. Bush disappears after copyright takedown … then reappears in force
Oregon Zoo posted a collection of X-ray images of animals taken at its Veterinary Medical Center, reavealing "the inner gothy beauty of animals." [h/t Steven Glista] See if you can… Read the rest of the article: Oregon Zoo X-rays
Ronan Farrow reports in his forthcoming book Catch and Kill [Amazon] that TV host Matt Lauer is accused of raping a colleague at NBC News.
Natalie Martinez offers some good advice, which will not be taken, to Fox News: "Maybe read the screen name aloud before you broadcast it to the world." i'd like to… Read the rest of the article: Fox News reduced to segments quoting anti-Clinton Twitter bot named Hugh Janus
Jaywick started life as a holiday camp for East London's working class families. It became permanently occupied after World War II and is now a cluster of rotting shotgun shacks… Read the rest of the article: Jaywick once again named Britain's poorest town
Twitter reports that email address and phone numbers added for security reasons such as two-factor authorization "may have inadvertently been used for advertising purposes." When an advertiser uploaded their marketing… Read the rest of the article: Twitter admits two-factor login phone numbers were used for advertising
The reborn VCS looked like a thoroughbred among a field of retro nags, wedding Atari's classic pedigree to powerful modern hardware. But its designer has quit the project, according to… Read the rest of the article: Retro Atari console designer quits, says he hasn't been paid
PlayStation 5 is coming for winterval 2020, and will have … drum roll … USB-C.
Bloomberg News reports on the porcine powerhouses bred in the People's Republic. The 500 kilogram, or 1,102 pound, animal is part of a herd that's being bred to become giant… Read the rest of the article: Chinese farmers breeding pigs as heavy as polar bears
Saturn "has overtaken" Jupiter as the planet with the most satellites, at least in our own system: 82 to the larger world's 79. A team "discovered a haul of 20… Read the rest of the article: 20 mini-moons spotted orbiting Saturn
Nick "Ulillillia" Smith is a game developer, writer and YouTuber who achieved recognition in the early 2010s due to his eccentricity, the shameless intensity of his outsider-art creations, and his… Read the rest of the article: The Story of Ulillillia
Serhii Londar (Patreon) maintains a list of open-source applications available for MacOS. Unlike some similar guides, it's exhaustive rather than curated, and easy to reference in a single, well-organized HTML… Read the rest of the article: Big list of open-source MacOS apps
After killing a man in a road accident, Anne Sacoolas, the wife of an American diplomat, was interviewed by police and promised not to leave the country while the incident… Read the rest of the article: U.S. diplomat's wife flees Britain after killing man in road accident
