art
Watch This Guy’s Interactive Wooden Pixel Machine Make Art in Real Time
Kilopixel by Ben Holmen turns a CNC machine and a thousand wooden blocks into pixel art.
age verification
Florida Sues Huge Porn Sites Including XVideos and Bang Bros Over Age Verification Law
The lawsuit alleges XVideos, Bang Bros, XNXX, Girls Gone Wild and TrafficFactory are in violation of Florida's law that requires adult platforms to verify visitors are over 18.
Steam
The Anti-Porn Crusade That Censored Steam and Itch.io Started 30 Years Ago
Keywords and tags have never been a useful metric for distilling nuance. Pushing for regulations based on them is repeating a 30-year history of porn panic online.
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Party Vibes and Spilling Tea
This week, we discuss meeting a bunch of you in LA, the ongoing Tea saga, and age verification sweeping the UK.
spotify
Spotify Is Forcing Users to Undergo Face Scanning to Access Explicit Content
Submit to biometric face scanning or risk your account being deleted, Spotify says, following the enactment of the UK's Online Safety Act.
Content Moderation
Former Moderator Sues Chaturbate for 'Psychological Trauma'
“Without these safeguards, Mr. Barber eventually developed full-blown PTSD, which he is currently still being treated for,” the former mod's lawyer said.
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Don't Record Me, Bro
This week, we discuss smart glasses for frat bros, Amazon comms messiness, and more.
grindr
Grindr Won’t Let Users Say 'No Zionists'
An error message appears saying "The following are not allowed: no zionist, no zionists" when users try to add the phrase to their bios, but any number of other phrases about political and religious preferences are allowed.
AI
The NIH Is Capping Research Proposals Because It's Overwhelmed by AI Submissions
The NIH wrote that it has recently “observed instances of Principal Investigators submitting large numbers of applications, some of which may have been generated with AI tools."
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: High Stakes Data Dumps
This week, we discuss data dumps, high stakes, and lizard brain screen time.
AI
White House Partners With PragerU to Make AI-Slopified Founding Fathers
John Adams says "facts do not care about our feelings" in one of the AI-generated videos in PragerU's series partnership with White House.
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: In Our Lane
This week, we discuss choosing what to cover, fishing expeditions, and the library.