Compost.party – A web server hosted on a retired smartphone, running on solar power. Via Ms. Information on Are.na

Bop Spotter: Like a “shot spotter” used by law enforcement to detect gunshots, but used instead to identify songs that are playing in San Francisco’s Mission District. “This is culture surveillance. No one notices, no one consents. But it’s not about catching criminals. It’s about catching vibes. A constant feed of what’s popping off in real-time.” Via Spencer Chang on Are.na

LatentScape – A virtual art gallery of sorts that culls imagery from Are.na and presents it in latent space (a term I needed to look up on Wikipedia)

Max Bittker – So much fun stuff on this personal website: a super cool personal bookshelf, links to lovely little digital experiments like this loom that weaves with keystrokes.

Broider – A tool for generating “9 patch” borders for website elements. Also has a list of pre-made borders that can be copied + pasted into your CSS. Via Cyber Nymph Garden

Tradwives Are the Harbinger of Systemic Breakdown – Kristin R. Ghodsee (Everyday Utopia) explores the darker elements of the Tradwife phenomenon, and how it is being informed by our current political and economic context. “AI will soon eliminate many jobs. There is a pressing need to prevent high unemployment that could cause social chaos. Promoting traditional gender roles with separate spheres of work, paid labor and unpaid domestic labor, has the beautiful effect of shrinking the formal labor force when jobs are disappearing. It’s likely that some of the powerful people promoting traditional gender roles realize this.”

Homocommunist Library – I’ve been a follower of the @homocommunist Instagram account for a while now, but was unaware of the website (which, shame on me). It contains articles, ~spicy~ vintage photos, and the aforementioned library of free PDFs of canonical queer/socialist texts.

The 88×31 GIF collection – “A collection of 4540 classic 88×31 buttons from the 1990s, 2000s, and today in GIF format.” I was waxing nostalgic about this relic of 90s and aughts internet, and stumbled upon this on the first page of search results.

Manifest for the Anthropos – A thesis project on the Anthropocene and the damages humans have inflicted on the earth. Really, really love the acknowledgements section: “The design of this page was inspired by a series of self-help, alternative religion and conspiracy theory websites made in the late 90s/early 2000s. These websites are in no need of excessive design elements or conceptual references to illustrate their believes.” Here’s one of the aforementioned sites.

The Poolsuite – Not sure if this has been established yet, but I clearly have a thing for the old Mac aesthetic. This summer-vibes music experience is designed to look like a vintage Mac desktop. (Also took me a minute to realize the whole thing is spon-con for Vacation sunscreen.) Via Lucy Pham’s Websites That Look Like Desktops.