bots
Playfool built a working bot farm that hands you the controls
Type an opinion into [OP]erator, and100 X accounts post LLM-varied versions of it back
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Virtual Reality
Uzoma Orji:The spiritual undertones of virtual reality
Through virtual reality, photography, and digital installations, Nigerian artist Uzoma Orji examines how technology can reconnect us with ancestral practices and reimagine African futures.
Creative Technology
Maya Man
At the intersection of dance and creative code, Maya Man creates browser-based experiences that transform human movement into data, examining our intimate relationships with technology.
Online identity
Alfatih: Cracking open digital utopias
Artist Alfatih explores the liminal space between physical and digital identities through GTA machinima, AR filters, and wearable prosthetics, questioning the supposed neutrality of virtual spaces while creating works that blur the boundaries between fashion, gaming, and digital art.
News
#Everest asks if you’d die for the selfie that gets you famous
First you tested your Olympic skills from your seat, now you can summit Mt. Everest from the safety of your home—and take some bomb selfies along the way. The latest from independent game studio Team Dogpit, survival sim #Everest challenges you to climb the highest mountain on Earth and get internet
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How Twitter bots could sway the outcome of the presidential election
n the midst of the most unprecedented election season in recent history, questioning the political power of technology is now more important than ever. Over on Wired, Samuel Wooley and Phil Howard investigated how social platform’s could be changing the course of history with propaganda bots. Elsewh
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Let’s Play Snake brings the classic arcade hit to Twitter
With visuals that can be easily represented using only a line and a dot, and rules no more complex than “get to point b without hitting anything along the way,” classic arcade game Snake has become renowned for its simplicity and elegant design. This, in turn, has lead to its prevalence among a numb
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Facebook’s looking to streamline your next breakup
I started dating when MSN Messenger was still a thing and started breaking up in the era of Facebook, which was a good system right up until the moment that it wasn’t. That last comment is probably a fair description of all relationships. Social media did not create the awkwardness of breakups, but
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Facebook filter adds the flags of all countries attacked by ISIS to your profile picture
Feeling guilty about not showing solidarity with France? We’ve got the answer.
Feature
Super Mario Maker, and the problem of reviewing a community
Nintendo’s community is subverting and reinventing the platformer.
Article
Mario Maker: The Platformer Platform
Mario Maker feels less like a Kyoto product than a Silicon Valley one
Article
Tapeheads is the official movie of Millennials
The best description of the new generation arrived in 1988.