Nelson's Linkblog 2017-05

about • archive • mastodon • feed

1980s postpunk classic movie, unauthorized copy on Youtube

2017-05-31 movies • liquidsky

UberPool cash burn

Details on how Uber uses investor money to enter a market

2017-05-31 uber • investment • uberpool • lyft

Interview with the game developer /cc @amitp @therealfitz

2017-05-30 games • factorio • iama • ama

Cross-dressing men from the 1950s

2017-05-30 america • newyork • transgender • trans • lgbt • crossdressing • gay

The Great Gerrymander of 2012

Simple statistics about how well the GOP has rigged Congressional elections

2017-05-29 politics • republicans • gerrymandering • votingrights

Email encoding bug persists for 7 years

2017-05-29 microsoft • outlook • unicode • emoji • funny • email

An interesting tattoo style from a German studio

2017-05-29 tattoo • art

Driving through airport

Drunk in Russia, amazing CCTV footage

2017-05-29 russia • funny • airport • driving • drunk

1830 Australians in Japan

Interesting story of a rogue ship

2017-05-28 japan • australia • history • 1800s

Tactical survival shovel

War toys for mall ninjas

2017-05-27 funny • weapon • shovel

Obamacare sabotage

Details on funding cuts from Trump designed to destroy our health insurance system

2017-05-27 obamacare • aca • health • trump • politics

Erdogan thugs in DC

Details of 24 Turkish delegation members who assaulted protesters in Washington DC

2017-05-26 dc • assault • turkey • erdogan

Levandowski's moonlighting

Uber's head of driverless cars has some odd ethics related to his obligation to his employer

2017-05-26 google • uber • waymo • lawsuit • theft • tradesecrets • lidar

Details on the world's best ham

2017-05-26 ham • jamon • spain • portugal • food • pork

GoFundMe for health

Heartbreaking comic about a friend who died $50 short of being able to afford insulin

2017-05-26 medicine • healthinsurance • health • america • politics • diabetes • comic

American bullying

2017-05-25 trump • politics • bully • shove • nato

Details of violence between neo-Nazis and anti-fascists in Portland

2017-05-24 portland • politics • riot • civilwar • trump

Windows git repo

Some performance stats from a very large git repo

2017-05-24 git • performance • via:hackernews • microsoft • windows

Medieval City Generator

Naturalistic shapes. /cc @amitp

2017-05-24 generative • games • cities • maps

Uber steals from drivers

$900 / New York driver stolen

2017-05-24 newyork • uber • theft • fraud

Landrieu on the Confederacy

An honest appraisal of Civil War history

2017-05-23 slavery • racism • history • south • civilwar • confederacy

List of top places

2017-05-23 barbeque • barbecue • bbq • food • texas • cooking

A 6502 built with discrete components

2017-05-21 6502 • apple • computers • history • hardware

Twitter drops Do Not Track

One of the few companies to honor users' privacy wishes decides to stop

2017-05-20 twitter • ads • privacy

A 42 inch yacht

Insane tiny boat for crossing the Atlantic

2017-05-20 sailing • yacht • crazy

Update on Medium and Ev

Thoughts on publishing and business

2017-05-20 companies • startups • medium • writing • blogger • twitter • ev • evanwilliams

Uber vs customers

Details on surveillance programs

2017-05-19 uber • privacy • surveillance • greyballing

Super awkward not-hug

2017-05-19 trump • comey • funny • handshake • hug • politics

Facebook + Russia

Trump propaganda via targeted ads

2017-05-18 trump • politics • facebook • russia

Flynn malfeasance 3

Refusing to honor a subpoena

2017-05-18 trump • politics • flynn

Flynn malfeasance 2

Contacts with Turkey, his undisclosed financial benefactor

2017-05-18 flynn • turkey • politics • trump

Flynn malfeasance 1

Contacts with Russia

2017-05-18 flynn • russia • trump • politics

Hacking Mar-a-Lago

Private club unsurprisingly has terrible computer security

2017-05-17 trump • security • badtech • politics

Detailed design notes for an Arabic calligraphy style

2017-05-16 arabic • kufic • calligraphy • design • grid

My Family's Slave

Heartbreaking, excellent writing

2017-05-16 indonesia • slavery • servants • america • philippines

Skyliner shuts down

Friend's AWS startup is shutting down, team joining Mailchimp. Very classy announcement

2017-05-16 aws • startup • skyliner • marc • mailchimp

GOP leak hypocrisy

Collection of tweets from Republicans criticizing mishandling of intelligence

2017-05-16 gop • republicans • politics • trump • russia

Trump's reveal to Russians

Details of the implications of Trump spilling highly classified intelligence

2017-05-16 trump • politics • intelligence • treason • impeachment

An obscure Unicode character

2017-05-15 unicode • cyrillic • via:jwz

Gerrymandering game

Politics for fun!

2017-05-14 games • politics • gerrymandering • votingrights

Facebook in Papua New Guinea

The new digital colonialism

2017-05-14 facebook • png • anthropology • culture

Drag queen authored travel guides, fun and dishy

2017-05-14 gay • lgbt • funny • travel • drag

Republican’s Guide to Presidential Behavior

The snark comes out at the NYT

2017-05-14 nytimes • president • politics • trump • snark

Trading antennas

Microsecond advantages in financial parasites

2017-05-13 finance • trading • speed • latency

Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism

2017-05-13 meme • funny • socialism

Fully Inusrrectionary Luxury Queer Space Anarchism

2017-05-13 gay • funny • anarchism • australia

MLM scam exploiting Facebook

2017-05-13 facebook • scam • mlm • pearls

Street artist in Porto

2017-05-12 porto • art • streetart • portugal

Week 25 of Trump

Weekly lists of the eroding of American norms

2017-05-12 america • politics • trump • normality

Wisconsin voter suppression

Voter ID laws prevented 200,000 votes

2017-05-10 votersuppression • racism • politics • votingrights • civilrights • voting

Migurski's open geodata projects

OpenStreetmap, OpenAddresses, and Who's on First

2017-05-09 maps • opensource • opendata • migurski

Net Neutrality and gaming

Details from a lawsuit

2017-05-09 gaming • riotgames • netflix • netneutrality • timewarner • internet

Traceroute mapper

Simple IP based mapping

2017-05-08 traceroute • map • network • via:hackernews

Meme warfare in France

Failures of the US style online propaganda

2017-05-08 france • politics • election • 4chan • stupid

Whoever owns this data owns the future

profile of the era of Big Data and politics

2017-05-08 bigdata • politics • trump • brexit • election • machinelearning