Nelson's Linkblog 2016-10

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Civilization critique

Cultural / political analysis of the simulation game's shortcomings

2016-10-30 games • civilization • criticism

"just politics"

Thoughtful tweets on the menace of Trump and Thiel's support

2016-10-30 thiel • trump • politics • racism

Vote by mail across the whole state

2016-10-29 democracy • voting • oregon • civilrights

USB-C confusion

Compatibility problems make for confusing cabling

2016-10-29 usb • cable • network • thunderbolt • badtech

IMAQTPIE: $2M / year

Popular League of Legends streamer is making a huge amount of money on Twitch

2016-10-29 twitch • games • lol • streaming

A Stranger Things Christmas

Fabulous mashup / parody

2016-10-28 funny • scifi • strangerhings • charliebrown

NSFWish; disturbing art

2016-10-28 3d • art • strange

The story of the Mozilla logo

2016-10-28 shepardfairey • mozilla • jwz • design • logo

Marcin Wichary on typewriters

Hilarious 5 minute Ignite talk, bad sound quality

2016-10-28 typewriters • ignite • marcinwichary

Nice overview of early social media

2016-10-28 bbs • socialmedia • history • internet

Pot farm sex abuse

Semi-legal marijuana businesses have ugly illegal sex activity associated

2016-10-28 marijuana • sexabuse • backpage • pot • california • journalism

Graphic design feedback

Classic posters redesigned by the client

2016-10-28 funny • design • graphics • art

Management in ten tweets

My buddy Marc summarizes what he's learned in 20+ years of being an engineering manager

2016-10-27 management • startups • business • marc • engineering

Best of Luck with the Wall

Hypnotic video of aerial imagery; the second half is amazing. /cc @vruba

2016-10-27 photography • satellite • mexico • border • aerial

Hurricane water footprint

Neat visualization of increased streamflow because of Hurricane Mathew

2016-10-26 hurricane • matthew • water

Collection of LSD blotter paper art

2016-10-26 art • lsd • drugs

deadmau5 on live performance

"We all hit play"

2016-10-25 edm • music • deadmau5 • funny

Baidu open source

Several substantial projects from the Chinese search company

2016-10-25 baidu • opensource • china

Nice US census map of reservations, etc

2016-10-25 maps • census • indian • nativeamerican

Legendary pilot dies at 94

2016-10-25 aviation • bobhoover • aerobatics • pilot • via:metafilter

Brian Lam is awesome

Appreciation for the hard work of Wirecutter and Sweethome

2016-10-25 nytimes • startups • wirecutter • brianlam

Global warming science 1912

New Zealand paper published the risk of coal burning over 100 years ago

2016-10-24 news • newzealand • globalwarming • science • history • 1912

Your favorite political stories as low-fi videogames

2016-10-24 games • politics • parody • funny

Trump's post-loss TV business is off to a strong start

2016-10-24 trump • funny • domainname • politics

Bot wins contests

Twitter bot automatically retweets and wins online contests

2016-10-24 twitter • bot • contest • funny

Trump Tower Site Tour

Public space at Trump Tower is a dump

2016-10-24 trump • politics • funny • nyc • public

Internet of Things Scanner

Malware check; a quick tool to see if your network is listed in Shodan

2016-10-23 shodan • security • iot • badtech • botnet • malware

Economist Trump covers

2016-10-23 politics • trump • economist

Benjamin Grant images

HD satellite photos. /cc @vruba

2016-10-23 satellite • aerial • imagery • photos

Clinton email explained

A straightforward explanation on the mistake Clinton made and why it's not massively evil

2016-10-22 clinton • email • privacy • politics

Emoji ZWJ Sequences

A crazy kind of combining Unicode that Microsoft is playing around with

2016-10-22 microsoft • emoji • unicode

Full Moon in Mountain Shadow

A remarkable photograph of alignment

2016-10-22 moon • photos • astrophotography • astronomy • hawaii

High end cloud gaming

Details on using a monster new GPU for gaming on a cloud server

2016-10-22 games • cloud • azure • ec2

Mirai botnet stats

Details on the Internet of Things botnet

2016-10-22 mirai • botnet • badtech • via:marc • hacking • ddos

Politics of Sexual Assault

thoughtful analysis of Trump's rape culture talk

2016-10-22 trump • assault • politics • rape

Sound Voltex III

Insane rhythm game performance

2016-10-22 games • rhythm • speed • via:reddit

A specific form of overcoat worn by working men in shops

2016-10-22 clothing • fashion • dustcoat • jacket • coat

You Girls Having Fun?

Lovely story of a bar's staff handling a creeper

2016-10-22 lgbtq • gay • privacy • dining

Mapzen Terrain data

DEM tiles and relief shaded raster images

2016-10-22 maps • terrain • mapzen

New Google ad tracking

Finally erased the line dividing Doubleclick cookies from Google ads

2016-10-21 google • doubleclick • privacy • adwords

Signalling strength with revenue, user counts, etc

2016-10-20 slack • business • startup

NSFWish: Run a porn image classifier in reverse, a la Deep Dream

2016-10-20 nsfw • porn • deepdream • via:hackernews • machinelearning

Podesta and Powell phishing

Details of the attacks by Russian operatives against US politicians

2016-10-20 badtech • russia • politics • fancybear • apt28

Indicator of compromise

Computer security tool; fingerprints of malware used to identify specific Advanced Persistent Threats

2016-10-20 apt • ioc • security • badtech • malware

Hacking tools taken by Martin and given to Shadow Brokers. Maybe.

2016-10-20 nsa • badtech • via:hackernews • hacking

Ann Arbor Ambassador 60

Lovely project to resurrect an old terminal

2016-10-20 tty • terminal • aaa-60 • termcap • emacs • jwz • hacking • computers

strace for Python

2016-10-19 via:Reddit • python • programming • debugger

Rape Culture Syllabus

2016-10-19 via:metafilter • feminism • rapeculture • politics • trump • books

Lessig's graciousness

Response to a WikiLeaks email is remarkably thoughtful

2016-10-19 lessig • privacy • wikileaks

Catalog of rare foods

2016-10-19 food • slowfood • cooking • diversity

A thin hand-made Sardinian pasta

2016-10-19 food • slowfood • pasta • italy • sardinia • cooking

Empty call to monitor polls

Details of Trump's efforts to delegitimize the vote

2016-10-19 trump • politics • voterfraud • vote • civilrights

About Chuck Tingle

Nice profile of the bizarro erotica writer

2016-10-19 gay • lgbt • erotica • chucktingle

No Man's Sky procedural analysis

Reverse engineering how the creatures are made

2016-10-18 games • nomanssky • procedural

Border orientations

Interesting treatment of political boundaries by continent

2016-10-18 via:Reddit • maps • geography

Details on the inevitable malware

2016-10-18 botnet • iot • badtech • via:metafilter

HIV prevention mechanism working for 100,000 people; two failures. Some very detailed medical specifics.

2016-10-18 hiv • aids • gay • lgbt • prep • medicine • health

Election rigging debunked

Trump's dangerous rhetoric is nonsense

2016-10-17 politics • election • trump • democracy

Election confidence undermined

Trump's baseless accusation that the election will be stolen is having a dangerous effect

2016-10-17 politics • election • polls • trump

Rollerskating steadicam

Nice depiction of how movie magic is made

2016-10-17 movies • steadicam • via:reddit

Openly calling for "revolution" after Obama won

2016-10-16 politics • trump • treason

Russian election influence

Nightmare scenarios of rigged elections

2016-10-16 russia • trump • politics • election • democracy

Trump Mahna Mahna

It's funny, a classic Sesame Street track overdubbed on debate

2016-10-15 trump • politics • funny • muppets • sesamestreet

Concept film for an augmented reality future

2016-10-15 ar • vr • ads • badtech

River map print

Company selling high quality prints of a map inspired by my rivers map

2016-10-14 maps • rivers • prints • art

Voter suppression

States ignoring federal court orders to allow people to vote

2016-10-14 voting • civilrights • politics

California proposition funding

See who is spending what to influence state election

2016-10-14 california • spending • corruption • politics

Command line tool to render web pages to images and PDF

2016-10-14 web • screenshot

Tiled USGS topo maps

2016-10-14 maps • topo • usgs • esri

Fuck You Startup World

A righteous rant

2016-10-13 startups • funny

Twitter bot watches airplanes coming in and out of Geneva. /cc @lemonodor

2016-10-13 twitter • politics • aviation • dictator • switzerland • geneva

Natasha Stoynoff on Trump

Very detailed story of sexual assault

2016-10-13 trump • rape • politics • sexualassault

Yahoo Mail trap

Yahoo turns off ability to forward mail just as users are trying to flee

2016-10-11 yahoo • business • badtech • email

Everyone in Paris was wearing these shoes

2016-10-11 paris • shoes • fashion

Trump and his daughter

All the creepy sexualized comments a father made about his daughter

2016-10-04 trump • politics • daughter • creepy • sexist

Tile generation

Quantum mechanics inspired generative art

2016-10-02 via:metafilter • programming • tiles • generative

Aurelion Sol bug

Nice postmortem on a game synchronization but

2016-10-02 games • bugs • lol • riotgames

Death and MetaFilter

Dealing with the loss of a member of an Internet community

2016-10-01 internet • metafilter • community • death