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banray.eu

Ban Ray: Your face is not inventory

Meta sold seven million pairs of camera glasses. The people being filmed never consented. Ban them.

anildash.com

Endgame for the Open Web

You must imagine Sam Altman holding a knife to Tim Berners-Lee's throat.

pudding.cool

Sizing chaos

The inter-generational struggle to find clothes that fit more than a tiny portion of women.

mw.rat.bz

WarGames Terminal Fonts

A replica font from the WarGames movie.

walkman.land

Walkman.land

The most complete portable pocket audio cassette player database. WML is a tribute to the Walkmans.

blog.fallible.net

Why we hate AI

Intellectual property theft on an obscene scale; but law is something that is carved and grown as needed by forces of power.

blog.glyph.im

The next thing will not be big

So we are all — collectively, culturally — looking for the Next Big Thing, and we keep not finding it.

business.pinterest.com

Pinterest predicts: top trends for 2026

Emerging trends across all categories… and unlimited possibilities for using them.

creativereview.co.uk

The best movie posters of the year 2025

Daniel Benneworth-Gray picks his favourite movie posters of 2025, from Frankenstein to Pillion, Sentimental Value to Hard Truths.

flagstories.co

Flag stories

Stats about flags and flag design—a data visualization project.

uxdesign.cc

Locksmith stickers are annoying, but kind of genius

A masterclass in low-tech, persistent, and surprisingly effective guerrilla marketing.

uxdesign.cc

Ornament and culture

Interface as social signifier.

gq.com

The top secret Virgil Abloh archive

A team of archivists has tirelessly catalogued one of the most remarkable private fashion collections ever assembled.

exhibition.rightdesigninc.com

Stuffed memories

Unique stories and memories associated with stuffed animals.

anildash.com

The majority AI view

We're in an unusual situation where the most common opinion about AI within the tech industry is barely ever mentioned.

youtube.com

How did the world get so ugly?

Look at the objects around you: furniture, cars, doors, bins, staircases, railings, doorbells, doorhandles. Do you like how they look, or not?

storyterra.com

StoryTerra

Explore stories by location and time.

panamaplaylists.com

Panama playlists

The real Spotify accounts of celebrities, politicians, and journalists.

theverge.com

Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring

The site’s volunteers face threats from Trump, billionaires, and AI.

sabrinas.space

The peculiar case of Japanese web design

While the nation is known abroad for minimalist lifestyles, their websites are oddly maximalist.