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Trump immigration incompetence
The hateful rule was very poorly implemented
2017-01-31 politics • trump • immigration
Interpreting Trump
Excellent essay on how hard it is to read the Trump Administration's actions and plans
2017-01-30 trump • politics
Rules for a constitutional crisis
Calm and rational Lessig essay, I hope he's right
2017-01-30 politics • lessig • trump • america • republic • consitution
NTP pool server costs
Some exploration on what it costs to provide a public service
2017-01-30 ntp • hosting • cloud
Immigration malevolance
Forceful editorial that Trump's intent was to cause harm to Muslim refugees
2017-01-29 muslims • politics • trump • refugees • immigration
Reichstag fire
The singular event that allowed Hitler to cement power in Germany
2017-01-29 germany • politics • history • trump • nazis
Operation Northwoods
1960s plan to create a pretense to go to war in Cuba
2017-01-29 cuba • politics • trump • reichstagfire
Trump constitutional crisis
Border patrol seems to be ignoring federal court order
2017-01-29 cbp • border • politics • trump • immigration
Mapzen bans Trump
Internet mapping service denies service for "promotions of hate"
2017-01-29 trump • mapzen • maps • osm
Trump team confusion
Details of the sloppy chaos caused by Trump's rushing an immigration ban
2017-01-29 politics • trump • immigration
Immigration airport protests
List of all the protests taking place this weekend
2017-01-29 protest • airport • immigration • trump • civilrights
Time to Take a Stand
Y Combinator leader speaks out
2017-01-29 trump • politics • immigration
Holocaust rememberance details
Spiteful and ignorant Trump communications
2017-01-29 trump • politics • jews • nazis • holocaust
GamerGate FBI dossier
173 page report on harassment, etc
2017-01-28 gamergate • fbi • games • trolling • harassment
Refugees detained at the border
Trump's executive order goes immediately in to force; excellent article
2017-01-28 nytimes • iraq • humanrights • refugees • trump • politics
Baylor rape culture
Texas Baptist college sued for an alleged 52 rapes by the football team
2017-01-28 rape • football • texas • baylor • baptist
Trump’s Immigration Ban Is Illegal
Clear, forthright editorial
2017-01-28 trump • immigration • politics
Wikimedia anti-harassment funding
$500,000 for safer community
2017-01-26 wikipedia • craignewmark • trolls • harassment • via:hackernews
D.Va association
Feminist activist group in South Korea takes game character as mascot
2017-01-26 gaming • politics • korea • dva
Emergency Puppy
Dealing with the age of horrors
2017-01-26 politics • trump • puppy • twitter
Voter fraud facts
There is no meaningful voter fraud. Some thoughtful details.
2017-01-25 voting • politics • trump • fraud • voterfraud • civilrights
Rules of Machine Learning
Some best practices
2017-01-25 via:juliaevans • machinelearning • ml • ai • coding
State of BGP
A New Year's reflection on Internet routing
2017-01-25 internet • bgp • routing • networks
Spicer / Obey
Sunglasses reveal the truth
2017-01-25 theylive • spicer • politics • trump • obey
Still no voting fraud
More rebuttal of Trump lies
2017-01-25 trump • politics • voterfraud • voting
Inauguration 2017 timelapse
PBS video of the Mall
2017-01-24 trump • politics • inauguration
Zuckerberg in Kauai
More reporting on his real estate lawsuits
2017-01-24 zuckerberg • hawaii • land • property
USDA gag order
Trump administration taking control of agency communications
2017-01-24 usda • politics • science
Trump internal drama
Behind the insane Spicer briefing
2017-01-24 spicer • press • politics • trump
Discord and hate
Hate groups use the popular Slack-like system
2017-01-24 slack • discord • moderation • hatespeech
French election chanops
Trump memesters turn their attention to France
2017-01-24 france • politics • trump • propaganda • discord
Pink Floyd - Echoes
Crazy cover by an 18 year old playing all instruments and doing his own Live at Pompeii-esque video
2017-01-24 via:metafilter • music • pinkfloyd
Why Trump's Staff Is Lying
Another media political critique
2017-01-23 propaganda • trump • politics • lies
Trump press strategy
Original source of a popular media critique
2017-01-23 trump • politics • propaganda
Alternative Facts
Trump administration start early redefining truth
2017-01-23 trump • politics • america • facts • journalism
Women's march photos
Global protests against Trump
2017-01-22 trump • protest • womensmarch
Space Claw charging
Lighting at Sutro tower /cc @thisisaaronland
2017-01-22 sanfrancisco • sutro • spaceclaw
Ian McKellen protest sign
Picard facepalm, hilarious
2017-01-21 protest • mckellen • picard • actor • politics
Trump's conflict of interests
WSJ visualization of 500+ entities that threaten his presidency
2017-01-20 trump • politics • ethics • visualization
Suspend Trump from Twitter?
Strongly made case
2017-01-20 trump • twitter • politics
POTUS digital transition
Very thoughtful plan on how to hand over the Twitter account, etc.
2017-01-20 twitter • potus • politics • goldman
Zuckerberg in Kauai
Bullying his way through the courts to claim land
2017-01-19 hawaii • hawai'i • zuckerberg • facebook • property
Skittles spill mystery solved!
Your moment of levity for the day
2017-01-19 skittles • via:reddit • wisconsin
Mendeley
Bibliography management software for academics
2017-01-19 bibliography • writing • academics • citation
Alt right forum drama
Hilarious historical account of how the neo-Nazi movement is going down the same Internet rabbit hole other online communities have
2017-01-19 trump • politics • altright • forum • meme
Cops Lie
Detailed investigation of how police cameras show how cops sometimes lie
2017-01-18 police • lie • safety
Tinder coder
Funny essay about guys using coding as a pickup line, or maybe hookups as a recruiting tool
2017-01-18 tinder • dating • funny • gender • programming
Demand Protest!
Weird fake site about paying protestors
2017-01-18 protest • politics • propaganda
Tent Cities of SF
Editorial from last month about the state of homelessness in San Francisco
2017-01-17 sf • sanfrancisco • homelessness • mentalillness • compassion
Homeless mother, dead baby
Heartbreaking story of mental illness and homelessness in Portland
2017-01-17 portland • homeless • mentalhealth
The Problem With AMP
Well written essay about Google's new mobile walled garden
2017-01-17 google • amp • mobile • via:hackernews • lockin
Astronaut
Snippets of random Youtube videos with zero views
2017-01-17 video • cutup • random • youtube • via:metafilter
Lakoff on Trump
Some thoughts from cognitive science
2017-01-16 trump • politics • propaganda • linguistics • cognitivescience
Abstract geoart
Nice feature on Bill Morris' neat satellite photo / machine learning art
2017-01-16 art • geography • maps • machinelearning
Alt-Right vs Jews
Prominent online white supremacist has a Jewish wife, alt-right community freaks out
2017-01-16 racism • politics • altright • jews • hate
The Stench of Torture
Torture only works to dehumanize the torturer
2017-01-14 torture • civilrights • humanrights • trump • politics
Pushover
A simple, unified notifications system
2017-01-14 notifications • sms • messages
On "fake news"
Excellent analysis of how the term "fake news" has been robbed of meaning, and broader propaganda goals
2017-01-14 politics • propaganda • journalism
Super Mario Run onboarding
Devastating critique of the new Nintendo iPhone game
2017-01-13 games • nintendo • userinterface • ui
Shadow Brokers quit
Hacker group likely to be Russian government is quitting, or lulzing, or something
2017-01-13 russia • politics • hacking
Cartography Comparison
O'Beirne's map analysis collected
2017-01-13 maps • google • apple • via:hackernews • cartography
USDS Report to Congress
Group doing modern Internet development for government
2017-01-13 usds • government • politics
Calling Bullshit
A college course about falsehoods in statistical research, big data, and rhetoric
2017-01-13 bullshit • datascience • machinelearning • statistics
Video Game Luck
Probability and perception manipulated for fun
2017-01-13 games • luck • probability
Trump insanity with National Guard
Firing the head of DC National Guard literally the moment he is sworn in, during the inauguration event
2017-01-13 trump • politics • washingtondc • nationalguard
Condom effectiveness for gay men
A look at differing opinions
2017-01-13 condoms • lgbt • gay • aids • hiv • health • sex
BitTorrent's collapse
Weirdness for a doomed startup
2017-01-11 startups • bittorrent • failure
Trump dossier details
Information on motives of the source
2017-01-11 trump • politics • dossier
Software repeatability
Problems of doing science with software that you can't reliably re-run
2017-01-11 software • science • repeatability
Trump / Russia allegations
Full intelligence dossier, uncorroborated and suspicious, but lots of detail that seems plausible
2017-01-10 trump • politics • russia • manafort
Trump compromised by Russia?
FBI has intelligence from multiple sources that the Russians have personal and financial leverage over Trump
2017-01-10 trump • politics • gop • fbi
Forth Worth subway
A weird private short subway for a parking garage. /cc @enf
2017-01-10 texas • dallas • fortworth • transit • subway
VC Reserves
Details on how venture capital reinvests in portfolio companies
2017-01-10 startups • funding • reserve • vc
Swedish SIGINT
Details of cyberwarfare from Scandanavia
2017-01-09 sweden • america • politics • nsa • privacy
1.5 million gamer records
Hacker / leak, but some interesting data
2017-01-09 games • gaming • hacker • badtech • esea • esl • esports
Patreon: $100M
Direct payment to creative people is working!
2017-01-09 financing • art • startups • patreon • games
Jeff Sessions and 1980s voter suppression
Ugly case in Alabama
2017-01-09 trump • politics • alabama • racism • votingrights
Keras
Higher level neural network library
2017-01-09 python • machinelearning • ai • theano • tensorflow
Visual Studio Code
Yet another Javascript code editor, cross platform
2017-01-08 editor • atom • sublime • javascript • coding
Brackets editor
Another editor built in Javascript
2017-01-08 editor • atom • sublime • coding
Geek Squad informants
National chain of computer support people had a side business selling customers out to the FBI
2017-01-08 fbi • privacy • bestbuy • geeksquad • childporn
Trump loves Wikileaks
Details of how Trump was happy to have the Russian hack influence the election
2017-01-08 trump • politics • russia • clinton • wikileaks • lies
Kushner's conflicts
More corruption at the center of the Trump family
2017-01-07 trump • corruption • politics • china • business • ethics
Russian election influence
News article summarizing the declassified intelligence report
2017-01-07 russia • politics • trump • election • propaganda
Noncombatant uniformed services
In addition to the military, the US has NOAA and public health uniformed officers
2017-01-07 noaa • dhs • uniform • america
NextBus broken
Muni's bus notification system relied on AT&T 2G cellular
2017-01-07 att • nextbus • cellular • muni • transit • sanfrancisco • badtech
Yugoslavian computer pinups
1980s Eastern European computer magazine had cheesecake photos of women
2017-01-07 funny • yugoslavia • soviet • computer • cheese • sexism
SF Historical Creek Map
Better rendering than I've seen of this before
2017-01-07 maps • sanfrancisco • history • rivers • water
Russian hacking and election security
Voting machine expert weighs in on the report
2017-01-07 politics • russia • hacking • putin • trump • election • security • badtech
Russian election influence
Public report from the US intelligence community
2017-01-07 russia • putin • trump • election • hacking • politics
Aggretsuko
A Sanrio character for office alcoholic rage
2017-01-07 sanrio • japan • animation • funny • rage • anger
Ghostcrawler on abuse
Famous game designer talks about dealing with hostile gamer fans
2017-01-06 games • blizzard • riotgames • riot • abuse
Russian hacking intel
Some hints at what's in the classified briefing
2017-01-06 russia • hacking • politics • trump • putin
TQ in Public Policy
Statement from White House CTO about need for more tech capability in government positions
2017-01-05 politics • tech • amac
Obama metrics
Nice set of numbers that make the Obama administration look good
2017-01-05 obama • politics • president • economics
The Agency
Report from Russia's online propaganda arm
2017-01-05 russia • politics • trump • propaganda
NTP Pool vs Great Firewall
Chinese citizen wants to serve time on the Internet; thwarted by UDP firewall
2017-01-04 internet • china • ntp • firewall
Padme needed an ob/gyn
Darth Vader was created because the Empire lacked prenatal health care
2017-01-04 starwars • feminism • funny • via:metafilter • obgyn
Isotypes
1920s infographic language
2017-01-04 graphics • visualization • vienna • isotype • design
Secureworks on Podesta
The June 2016 report that confirmed Russian hacking of Clinton campaign emails, including Podesta
2017-01-04 podesta • clinton • hacking • russia • badtech
Tech employee advice
Details on evaluating an equity package
2017-01-03 stock • startups • equity • business
Vermont utility hack update
Probably not a directed Russian attack, also details on malware chatter
2017-01-03 russia • hacking • malware • vermont • security • badtech
Leap second postmortem
Cloudflare code failed when time went backwards
2017-01-02 time • ntp • cloudflare • leapsecond
Leap second in Redhat
Details of Linux options for leap seconds
2017-01-01 leapsecond • time • ntp • redhat • linux
Facebook 2016 Year in Review
A roundup of user-hostile things Facebook has done
2017-01-01 facebook • privacy • badtech