Humans imitating AI, real-life Winamp, and a dancing headmaster.

• This feels like a video from fifteen years ago, and I mean that as a sincere compliment: there are "early YouTube" vibes to this school headmaster doing a shot-for-shot recreation of Spike Jonze's legendary video for Fatboy Slim's Weapon of Choice. (I've linked to the side-by-side comparison there; the solo shot is here.) Is it probably counted as marketing by the school? Sure. But watching it, this feels like it's a project done mostly for the joy of it.
   
• Lateral regulars, the Answer in Progress team, have a great new video: why you were forced to learn the recorder in school. This is charming and goes to some unexpected places.
   
• Translated via a Tumblr user because the original appears to be unavailable (or at least, near-impossible to find) outside China: two people imitating generative AI video. This is a brilliant gag that is really difficult to describe in text.
   

• "The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins" is fascinating but also raised a few (mostly-theoretical) ethical questions for me. The author hasn't shown anything was clearly intended to be private, which is great! And there's nothing really embarrassing here. But I do wonder where the line is between "historical research and archiving" and "invasion of privacy" — and how that will change over time.
   
• And related to that: Linamp, the Winamp interface built into an actual physical hi-fi unit.
   
• Make your own Blue Screens of Death. An evil version of this would produce an app that would actually induce custom BSODs, but don't worry; this is just a web page.
   
• Pooping on the moon is a messy business.
   

And finally: I have absolutely no context for this fifteen seconds from Kazakhstani TikTok (sound advised). No description, not even a hashtag. It's just a spectacular, brief, moment that the TikTok algorithm showed to me, a combination of ideas from around the planet distilled into fifteen seconds. This is a near-perfect demonstration of how the smartphone has changed the world.

All the best,

— Tom