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spez apology
Reddit CEO apologizes for editing user comments, punishes some abusers
2016-11-30 trump • politics • reddit • freespeech • censorship
Gooligan Android malware
Steals Google credentials
2016-11-30 google • badtech • android • malware • security
North Carolina do-over
Fallout from their racist election tampering; must hold a new election
2016-11-30 politics • racism • northcarolina • voting
Trump DC lease problem
Lease on his hotel in Washington DC clearly states he can't be an elected official
2016-11-29 trump • politics • washingtondc • ethics • conflict
Bird Sounds
Machine learning aided visualization /cc @celesteramsay
2016-11-29 birds • ornithology • machinelearning • google
Electoral college fragility
Tiny changes in state borders change the whole election
2016-11-29 politics • elections • gerrymandering • maps
Anti-semitic academic threats
More of a rising tide of hate, one Trump specific
2016-11-29 trump • politics • jews • civilrights • universities
Mac App Store scams
Good apps aren't in the store, just scams
2016-11-27 apple • macos • scam
UUID history
The origin of the 8-4-4-4-12 format for UUIDs
2016-11-27 uuid • guid • id • database • apollo
Hina missing from Disneyʼs Moana
Cultural critique from a Polynesian expert
2016-11-27 disney • movies • moana • religion
Muslim genocide threats
Someone's sending pro-Trump threatening letters to mosques in California
2016-11-27 california • civilrights • muslims • genocide • humanrights
Matthew Picton | Artist
Paper sculpture based on city layouts
2016-11-27 via:migurski • maps • art
PropOrNot a problem
Claim that the Washington Post story on Russian propaganda comes from an unreliable, anonymous source
2016-11-27 politics • trump • russia • propaganda
!Xóõ
Speech sample from a phonetically complex click language
2016-11-27 language • africa • click • xhosa
MUNI ransomware
San Francisco's transit payment system got hacked
2016-11-27 badtech • muni • sanfrancisco • ransomware
Trump's fake news team
Folks close to Trump also involved with propaganda sites
2016-11-26 propaganda • journalism • politics • trump
Russian propaganda in election
Details of Russia's role in the various kinds of fake news that aided Trump
2016-11-26 russia • politics • trump • espionage • sabotage
Clinton recount
Statement from the Clinton team on vote recount
2016-11-26 voting • politics • clinton • trump • election
San Jose mosque threatened
Invokes Trump, promises genocide
2016-11-26 sanjose • muslim • mosque • politics • trump
Trump corruption
Unprecedented: kleptocracy?
2016-11-26 trump • politics • america • corruption
Gerrymandering maps
Visualization of a subversion of democracy
2016-11-25 voting • politics • democracy • northcarolina • maps • gerrymandering
zget
Simple ZeroConf tool for copying a file between two machines
2016-11-25 files • zeroconf • copying • transfer
spaCy NLP
Natural Language Parsing for Python
2016-11-24 python • nlp • machinelearning • programming • code
Reddit CEO dumbness
Head of Reddit snaps and edits some user comments, apologizes
2016-11-24 reddit • politics • censorship
LosslessCut
Quick tool for cropping video
2016-11-24 video • ffmpeg • crop
Charles Blow on Trump
Strongly worded op/ed
2016-11-24 trump • politics
California vote by mail
SB 450 moves CA to voting by mail by 2024
2016-11-24 california • politics • voting
California vote-by-mail
Nevada County is going to try vote-by-mail in 2018
2016-11-24 california • voting • politics
Through a Looking Glass Darkly
2013 bit of agitprop by Mr. Fish, newly topical
2016-11-24 america • politics • racism • kkk • mrfish • art
Facebook deceptive ads
Zuckerberg's post about misinformation has two ads with misinformation
2016-11-23 ads • facebook • fakenews • misinformation
Ukraine election hacked
Evidence from 2014 that Russia hacked the Ukraine election
2016-11-23 ukraine • russia • politics • badtech • voting • hack
Was the election hacked?
Responsible article arguing that we need to start verifying votes against paper ballots
2016-11-23 voting • hacked • election • politics
Windsor, CA Trump fears
Heart rending but excellent reporting
2016-11-22 california • windsor • politics • trump • immigration
American community survey
US census data about people's culture
2016-11-22 america • census • data • maps
Superman / American
Hi-res scan of an anti-racism poster
2016-11-22 superman • politics • racism • 1950s • comics
Homeopathy kills
Product for infants contains "inconsistent amount" of deadly poison
2016-11-21 poison • medicine • homeopathy • healthcare
Case study of fake news
Details of how propaganda propagates
2016-11-21 news • politics • trump • journalism • propaganda
Rural political bias
Various ways US federal policies give disproportionate power to rural areas
2016-11-21 politics • rural • urban • america
Cloudflare's IPv6 view
Web hosting service in a unique position to measure IPv6 usage
2016-11-21 ipv6 • internet • networking
Alt-Right rally
Including Nazi propaganda "in the original German"
2016-11-21 politics • racism • trump • altright
Who Will Command The Robot Armies?
Remarkable cultural criticism talk
2016-11-20 automation • robots • ethics • military
Muslim registry plusuntrue
Trump spokesman tries to rewrite history
2016-11-19 orwell • trump • politics • muslims
Trump must divest
Astonishing WSJ editorial
2016-11-19 trump • politics • ethics
Launching in the wake of the election
A maelstrom of emotion
2016-11-19 trump • politics • startups
Takei on internment
Strong, personal reflection on Trump threats to Muslims
2016-11-18 racism • takei • politics • trump • muslims • civilrights • japanese
SF Clarion Alley
Details on one of San Francisco's biggest street art galleries
2016-11-18 streetart • sf • sanfrancisco • art
what.cd eulogy
Appreciation of a music sharing community
2016-11-18 bittorrent • torrent • music • copyright • whatcd
Richard Spencer interview
Jaw-dropping, upsetting, calm NPR interview with a white nationalist / alt-right leader
2016-11-17 politics • racism • nazis • whitenationalist • altright • trup
Trump's first week
A pessimistic summary
2016-11-17 trump • politics • kakistocracy
A Theranos whistleblower
Detailed story of a young man defying his grandfather, on the board of directors
2016-11-17 theranos • whistleblower • science • medicine • fraud
Fake news writer
Interview with someone completely amoral
2016-11-17 politics • news • journalism • facebook • adsense
Miami Trump asshole
Ugly incident at a Starbucks
2016-11-17 starbucks • politics • trump • miami
How to use AWS
Some observations from the Skyliner architecture
2016-11-17 aws • skyliner • docker • devops
Russia tampered with US election
NSA head confirms Clinton campaign was targeted, but does not specifically name Russia
2016-11-16 russia • politics • clinton • election • badtech
Trump protest in Grass Valley
Local kids speaking up
2016-11-16 grassvalley • politics • trump • protest
jitter needle
Defense of a problematic design element
2016-11-15 politics • jitter • design • anxiety
Trump deportation plans
Details on how he gets to 2-3M people to deport
2016-11-15 trump • politics • immigrants
Google vs fake news
Ads now has a policy against fake news
2016-11-15 google • news • journalism • politics
Facebook employees rebel
More details on the problem of fake viral news
2016-11-15 facebook • journalism • news • politics
Election Security
Excellent essay on how vulnerable our elections are
2016-11-15 security • badtech • politics • election • voting
cliffs & coasts
A friend's project: custom jewelry based on the shapes of mountains and coastlines
2016-11-15 jewelry • geo • maps • gis
Dan Gillmor on Trump
Wise journalist reflects on journalist mistakes during the campaign, risks after
2016-11-14 journalism • politics • trump
Autocracy: Rules for Survival
Strongly worded essay about coping with a Trump presidency
2016-11-11 trump • politics • russia • autocracy
Silicon Valley and Trump
How quickly folks move to normalize and collaborate
2016-11-11 siliconvalley • politics • trump • tech • startups
Drawing the planet in brushstrokes
Beautiful images produced with neural networks and satellite images
2016-11-11 maps • art • neuralnetworks • satellites • planetlabs
Nebra Sky Disc
A remarkable Bronze Age archeological find in Germany
2016-11-11 via:metafilter • archeology • bronzeage • astronomy • history
Westworld: BETA
Funny, no spoilers
2016-11-08 westworld • funny • tech • via:metafilter
American Southwest aerials
Nice set of photographs
2016-11-07 aerial • photos • america
Vote turnout analysis
Academic statistical papers on things that affect voter turnout
2016-11-07 voting • politics • civilrights
Beaten at Trump rally
Unarmed protestor nearly choked to death in panic
2016-11-06 protest • politics • trump • violence
Voting line in North Carolina
Voter suppression in action; inadequate capacity
2016-11-05 northcarolina • unc • voting • politics
State of IP Spoofing
BCP 38 compliance stats. Roughly half to 1/4 of the Internet still allows spoofing
2016-11-05 internet • security • ddos • badtech
NTP BCP
Best practices for NTP servers; security, etc
2016-11-05 ntp • time • securitytheater
FBI v Clinton
US National Police meddling in election. "there’s a revolution going on inside the FBI and it’s now at a boiling point.”
2016-11-05 politics • clinton • trump • fbi
Melania Trump worked illegally
Paid without a work visa; you'd think this would create some empathy in her husband's mind
2016-11-05 immigration • politics • trump
Vote wait stats
Statistics on how long people have to wait to vote
2016-11-04 voting • politics • civilrights
Georgia militia
NYTimes profile of an armed right wing group
2016-11-04 georgia • militia • politics • guns
Doros
Russian male acapella singers
2016-11-03 music • russia • acapella
Diversity in Tech
Funny because it's true
2016-11-03 satire • funny • diversity • tech
Fancy text gen
Various font-like effects using Unicode
2016-11-03 unicode • font • text • funny
Bitcoin alert retirement
Bitcoin has an alert system built in, but it's being disabled for key management problems
2016-11-02 bitcoin • badtech • systems
Voting map options
Various approaches to visualizing election data
2016-11-02 visualization • election • maps
Anthem CA sued
Major California health insurer is screwing a lot of customers
2016-11-01 california • healthinsurance • anthem
WoSign 86ed
Browser manufacturers cut off an SSL certificate vendor
2016-11-01 ssl • badtech • wosign • startcom • security
Trump tax avoidance
His lawyers told him his scheme was likely illegal
2016-11-01 trump • politics • taxes