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Peter Thiel and Y Combinator back startup to find and invest in lawsuits — I hate everything about this with a bright, white heat

Zoë Quinn on life since Gamergate and her Chuck Tingle game — Project Tingler sounds perfectly, absurdly terrible

Lister Gallery — love this guy’s style, like watercolor pixel art

Blackbox — maybe the best animated GIF I’ve ever seen, by pixel art legend Paul Robertson

Nick Denton pens Gawker's final post — see also: Gawker was murdered by gaslight

A-Frame brings room-scale VR to the browser — this is unreal, I’m walking around in a web page

Justice Department plans to stop using private prisons — thank you, Mother Jones

Gawker.com shutting down next week after 14 years — Univision paid $135M for Deadspin, Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Jalopnik, Jezebel and Kotaku

Disney's Practical Guide to Path Tracing — modern animation techniques presented like a 1950s Disney short

How to Be a Guy: Swimsuit Edition — from Jay Edidin’s outstanding new column on transitioning

Buzzfeed on Twitter's decade-long failure to address harassment — failure largely from the top down, it seems

castles made of castles

Spaceplan — clicker game with a storyline

Text analysis of Trump's tweets — he writes angry tweets on Android, gentler tweets authored by staff on iPhone/web

Generating fantasy maps for Uncharted Atlas — beautiful Twitter bot; from the same author, how placenames are generated

Desktop Ensemble — more from Soft Object

Bicycling the length of Britain in VR — currently on day 58

Morbotron — the Futurama counterpart to Frinkiac

Vlogbrothers' How to Vote In Every State — big project with 54 videos to get out the vote for the Nerdfighter/VidCon community

Rick and Morty recreate State of Georgia Vs. Denver Fenton Allen — this is a word-for-word voicing of an actual, incredibly NSFW court transcript

Fan video for Macintosh Plus's "Floral Shoppe" — the 2011 remix album that defined the vaporwave genre

This Is Not Fine — updated for 2016; related: new This Is Fine plush dogs

webcomic name — oh no

Tilt Brush adds audio reactive brushes — like anything VR-related, it really has to be experienced to appreciate it

A Field Guide to China's Most Indispensible Meme — more remixable than reaction GIFs, and the most popular platforms don’t support animation

Only 9% of America chose Trump and Clinton as the nominees — elegant visualization from the New York Times

Retro-Daze's VHS cover collection — so much great ’80s design

GuriVR — like Inform 7 for WebVR; describe scenes with pseudo-natural language

Kickstarter's Impact on the Creative Economy — academic study finds Kickstarter contributed $5.3 billion to the economy and 8,800 new companies

Quadrilateral Cowboy is out — Brendon Chung’s stunning cyberpunk hacking heist game, years in the making

Texture — a WYSWYIG editor for making interactive fiction, simpler than Twine

Jason Kottke closes Stellar — it’s been touch and go for a while, and I miss it daily; thanks for making something great

I'm With the Banned — ferocious and sad Laurie Penny piece on MIlo, Trump, and weaponized insincerity

The Was — Soda_Jerk’s astounding visual collage for The Avalanches

XOXO 2016 launch lineup and registration — in case you missed it, we’re not doing XOXO next year, or maybe ever again

Cabel Sasser's annual 4th of July fireworks packaging roundup — likely the last time because Vancouver, WA banned fireworks

Multi Entry — Christina Xu’s project on the “creative young people of modern mainland China”

DJ Jazzy Jeff + Mick's Summertime Mixtapes — seven years of perfect summer soundtracks

Heavy Metal and Natural Language Processing — “particularly” is the least metal word

Ambiguous Cylinder Illusion — how it works, and more ambiguous objects

Hillary Clinton's goodbye note to The Toast on their last day — hell of a way to send it off

VRTX, 3D modeling in virtual reality — like the practical counterpart of Tilt Brush (via)

FiveThirtyEight launches 2016 U.S. election forecast — don’t miss the methodology, including lessons learned from forecasting the primaries

Auctioneer Beats

Mother Jones' Shane Bauer's investigation as a private prison guard — astounding work of journalism, four months of life in the prison system

Felix Salmon on Brexit — a “senseless, self-inflicted blow,” “isolationist catastrophe,” and a grim warning for the U.S.

C-SPAN broadcasts Periscope from House members — Republicans turned off the cameras during the sit-in on gun control

Crows Crows Crows' The Temple of No — a very good use of Twine

Seinfeld recreated in Doom 2 — downloadable here

Vi Hart on internet fame, violence against women, and dealing with tragedy — in the context of Christina Grimmie and the Pulse nightclub shootings in Orlando