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Who Goes Nazi?
A 1941 article
2017-08-31 nazis • politics • ww2 • trump • fascism • america
Mexican data plans
What cell phone service looks like in a country without net neutrality
2017-08-31 netneutrality • via:REddit • mexico • telecomm
Trump's Army
Charles Blow says it out loud
2017-08-31 trump • politics • democracy • america • coup
FCC malware hosting
Naive feature lets anyone upload files for the FCC to serve, creating all sorts of security problems
2017-08-31 fcc • internet • web • badtech • security • via:hackernews
K'inich Janaab' Pakal
We know an astonishing amount of detail about the Maya now
2017-08-30 maya • mexico • history • america • mayans
Sally Hemmings' power
Interesting subtlety about the slave relationship with Jefferson
2017-08-29 via:metafilter • slavery • history • jefferson
Wisconsin gerrymandering
Excellent detailed article on the coming Supreme Court case
2017-08-29 gerrymandering • politics • Wisconsin • democracy
Ratf**cked
Review of the excellent book about 2010 gerrymandering
2017-08-29 ratfucked • ratfcked • ratf**ked • politics • gerrymandering • voting
Xrysalis
A radical faerie event for people of color
2017-08-29 gay • lgbt • fabulous
Louise Mensch's hoax source
Crazy left wing rumormonger was deliberately hoaxed
2017-08-29 hoax • fakenews • trump • politics
Trump's ideology
Dangerous embrace of the constitutional sheriff lunacy
2017-08-29 trump • politics • constitution
Confederate history
Black daughter of the Confederacy's thoughts on how to think of monuments
2017-08-29 confederacy • history • civilwar • racism
AWS localstack
A cloud computing clone that runs locally, for dev and testing
2017-08-29 aws • amazon • cloud • python • testing
stormfront client hold
Second Nazi domain name seized by registrars
2017-08-29 nazis • politics • via:metafilter • dailystormer • stormfront
Discord and Charlottesville
Social media product used to plan violence
2017-08-29 gamers • discord • nazis • politics • charlottesville
Homestead gerrymander
District drawn to include a state senator
2017-08-29 senate • gerrymandering • funny • via:reddit
Local pool boy makes good
Adam used to service my pool, he bought the company. Good guy.
2017-08-28 pools • grassvalley • local • entrepreneur
Garfield and Cybersecurity
Remarkably bad Jim Davis promo video
2017-08-28 funny • timanderic • cybersecurity • garfield • jimdavis
Antifa violence
Small minority of violent leftists spoil what was otherwise a pretty good outcome for the weekend
2017-08-28 berkeley • antifa • violence • politics • fascism
Hindu generative architecture
Temple designs follow algorithmic rules
2017-08-27 hindu • india • temple • architecture • algorithmic
No one wants the Daily Stormer
Nazi site can't find hosting or a stable domain name
2017-08-27 nazis • dailystormer • politics • freespeech • google
Ali-Inoki
A farce of a boxing / wrestling match in 1975
2017-08-27 japan • ali • muhammedali • boxing • wrestling • inoki
Bitcoin energy waste
Some basic data of how much electricity is wasted making the cryptocurrency's proof of work
2017-08-26 bitcoin • energy • via:hackernews
Charlottesville gunfire
Nazi guy shot a pistol at counterprotestors two weeks ago
2017-08-26 nazis • charlottesville • terrorism • guns • police
Seer (Windows)
Windows app to quick-preview files with spacebar, like a Mac
2017-08-26 macos • preview • windows • app • desktop
DJ Khaled remix by Gabe Oaks
Remix by a friend of mine
2017-08-26 music • remix • djkhaled • iamtheone
Arpaio's fake assassination
A particularly bizarre story of Trump's sheriff buddy
2017-08-26 arpaio • trump • politics
Arpaio's career
Details from a local newspape
2017-08-26 arpaio • arizona • politics • trump • pardon
Constitutional crisis
Pardoning Arpaio creates a precedent for the executive branch ignoring the constitution
2017-08-26 apraio • pardon • constitution • politics • trump
North Carolina efficiency gaps
Proposed 2017 redistricting gives an enormous advantage to the GOP
2017-08-25 republicans • votes • politics • northcarolina • gerrymandering
Kiwix
Offline Wikipedia, free iOS app. Now partnered with Wikipedia Foundation.
2017-08-25 wikipedia • offline • internet • ios • iphone • tootme
Gay minstrely
The game Smite goes too far with a gay stereotype silly character
2017-08-25 gay • lgbt • smite • games • culture
Suicide has a blast radius
Lawrence Lessig on Aaron Swartz
2017-08-25 aaronsw • lessig • suicide • tech
Eclipse flights
Visualization of aircraft going eclipse-seeing
2017-08-25 eclipse • aviation • flying • visualization
Military trans ban
Incompetents in White House start to put hateful policy into place
2017-08-24 trans • lgbt • military • trump • politics • hate • transgender
Samsung bricks TVs
Bad firmware update
2017-08-24 samsung • tv • firmware • badtech • via:reddit
No Man's Sky galactic hub
Interesting self-organized play behavior
2017-08-24 games • nms • nomansky • community
Texas voter ID law struck
Once again Texas told not to suppress minority vote
2017-08-24 texas • voterid • votingrights • voting • politics
Photo ID challenges
How Texas suppresses the vote
2017-08-24 photoid • votingrights • voting • voterid • texas
San Francisco counter-protests
Opposing the fascists on Saturday. Civic Center is the big event and far away from the bad people.
2017-08-24 sanfrancisco • protest • nazis • fascism • trump
Uber pitch deck
2008 slides raising funds for Uber
2017-08-23 uber • vc • investment • sacca
Arya vs Brienne
Better with lightsabres
2017-08-23 funny • starwars • gameofthrones
CBT self-help
Series of documents for self therapy
2017-08-23 cbt • australia • therapy
Duplicati
Possible Crashplan alternative for Linux
2017-08-22 crashplan • linux • backup
BBC Pidgin
New version of news service localized for Nigeria and nearby speakers of Pidgin
2017-08-22 pidgin • language • nigeria • bbc • news
Lekking (n)
When men compete with each other to impress women
2017-08-22 sexism • feminism • behavior • funny • language
Verizon throttling all video
Mobile plans will be limited to 10Mbps streams, 1080p video
2017-08-22 verizon • throttling • bandwidth • video
CrashPlan leaving consumer market
No more easy home network backup
2017-08-22 crashplan • linux • backup
Trump supporters' fake news outlets
Data on Trump supporters relying on garbage sites like Gateway Pundit and InfoWars
2017-08-22 conspiracy • news • trump • politics
Google Trends: "Eyes Hurt"
Data exhaust from the eclipse
2017-08-22 funny • via:reddit • eclipse • data • google • search
Black Death and lead levels
Clever ice core study quantifies the impact of the Black Death
2017-08-22 blackdeath • europe • economy • via:metafilter • history • science
Mastodon and Lolicon
Decentralized social media is used for cartoon child porn in Japan
2017-08-22 japan • lolicon • pornography • media • socialmedia
Roger Ebert on Blue Velvet
Still insightful 30 years later
2017-08-22 movies • lynch • rogerebert • bluevelvet
How I Became Fake News
Aftermath for the guy who filmed the Nazi murder in Charlottesville
2017-08-22 nazis • politics • trump • charlottesville • propaganda • infowars
Eclipse / plane
Remarkable photo
2017-08-22 eclipse • photo • airplane • aviation
Eclipse traffic
One of many maps showing national traffic jams after the eclipse
2017-08-22 eclipse • maps • traffic • mapbox
Did you damage your eyes?
A quick web test for eclipse-staring damage
2017-08-22 funny • sun • guardian • lol • eclipse • trump • politics
A Most American Terrorist
The Making Of Dylann Roof
2017-08-21 terrorism • racism • america • dylannroof • guns • nra • murder
Trump collaborator justifications
Twisted logic to justify working with Trump
2017-08-21 trump • politics • batshitinsane
Don't Suspect a Friend
Report Him
2017-08-21 brazil • movies • funny • poster • propaganda
Ellen Pao book excerpt
Details of her discrimination lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins
2017-08-21 vc • sexism • tech • feminism • ellenpao • ekp
Berlin Wasserturm
1870 water infrastructure
2017-08-20 berlin • water • watertower • wasserturm
Why PS4 downloads are so slow
Playstation has a "feature" where TCP is throttled if any other app is running
2017-08-20 sony • ps4 • psn • playstation • games
Berlin 1871
A lovely historical map
2017-08-20 maps • berlin • germany • history • 1870s
Camp Logan riot, Houston 1917
Ugly racial history from my home town
2017-08-20 texas • houston • racism • riot
EFF is wrong about Nazis
A thoughtful rebuttal to the EFF
2017-08-20 eff • politics • freespeech • nazis
EFF on Nazis and free expression
Not sure I agree, but it's carefully reasoned
2017-08-20 eff • freespeech • politics • nazis
Compromise of 1877
Part of America's ugly history of Reconstruction
2017-08-20 reconstruction • civilwar • history • hayes
Mah Na Mah Na
History of the classic Muppet song; appeared first on Sesame Street
2017-08-20 muppets • music • manamana • manahmanah • funny • sesamestreet
Welcome to Oregon!
Anti-semitic signs on I-5
2017-08-20 oregon • racism • nazis • antisemitism • politics
North Korea: Notel
Small portable media device is popular for watching illegal video
2017-08-20 northkorea • civilliberties • dvd • usb • korea • culture
Damore refutation
Long, citation laden takedown to bad sexist science
2017-08-19 sexism • damore • google • women • metafilter
Coin Dance
Visualizations of the BitCoin fork
2017-08-19 bitcoin • btc • fork • visualization • blockchain
Nazi Discord dump
Chat room from the Charlottesville planning
2017-08-19 nazis • leak • discord • chat • fascism • politics
European health care models
Intro material for the future of America's healthcare system
2017-08-19 america • healthcare • medical • insurance • europe
Crosswalk the Musical
Hair performed in snippets when the light is green
2017-08-19 hair • funny • musical • linmanuelmiranda • tv
Pakistan embroidery map
From a Lahore clothing company, Generation
2017-08-19 maps • pakistan • clothing • embroidery • design
Sentinel-2 cloudless map
High resolution photographic map of earth, free
2017-08-19 maps • satellite • free • esa • eu
Trumps four weeks
A short recap
2017-08-18 trump • politics • incompetence
Trump's failure of leadership
Strong and clear Economist article
2017-08-18 economist • trump • politics
Amazon patent controversy
Year 2000 history about software patent debate
2017-08-18 patents • softwarepatents • oreilly • bezos • 1click
ACLU on armed protest
A good decision on an issue of conflict
2017-08-18 aclu • gunrights • protest • civilliberties • america • guns
Armed militia in SF
Gun nut group Oath Keepers saying they'll be at the SF fascist rally
2017-08-18 fascism • america • sanfrancisco • oathkeepers • militia • guns
Ban Open Carry
Open carry of guns is a historic aberration, not to mention a threat
2017-08-18 guns • america • security • protest • safety • nra • secondamendment
Jefferson Davis Highway
Confederate roads are named because of 1910s propaganda
2017-08-18 confederacy • monument • california • sandiego • lostcause
SEC on ICOs
Detailed and nuanced response to a frequently-fraudulent investment vehicle
2017-08-17 ico • bitcoin • blockchain • investment • sec
The Eclipse Conspiracy
How do we really know the sun is going to disappear?
2017-08-17 eclipse • parody • globalwarming • science • funny
Overwatch Zombie game
Amazing hack involving watching the screen in spectator mode to implement a new game
2017-08-17 games • overwatch • hack • mods
Trump's isolation
Comments on Charlottesville have greatly expanded rifts
2017-08-17 trump • politics • racism • charlottesville
Military vs Nazis
Clear statement from military joint chiefs against racist extremism
2017-08-17 racism • america • military • trump
Pre-Roman peoples
Lovely hand drawn map. /cc @migurski
2017-08-17 maps • europe • history • handdrawn
Economist cover
Trump with a KKK hood as megaphone
2017-08-17 kkk • trump • politics
Charlottesville: Race and Terror
Remarkable flash documentary, reporter hanging out with Nazis
2017-08-17 nazis • charlottesville • documentary • politics • trump
Why Reconstruction Matters
2015 essay by Eric Foner, the historian of Reconstruction
2017-08-16 reconstruction • slavery • south • america • history • civilwar
Daily Stormer offline
A bunch of companies finally deny the Nazi site hosting
2017-08-16 google • twitter • facebook • cloudflare • godaddy • nazis • dailystormer
Germany's history
Contrast with America and the Confederacy
2017-08-16 confederacy • america • racism • nazis • germany • history • memorial
Antifa history
Some context on violent leftist resistance
2017-08-16 antifa • politics • fascism
Charlottesville permits
Trumps false equivalence is not even vaguely correct
2017-08-16 trump • politics • charlottesville • nazis
Synagogue in Charlottesville
When Nazis are outside the doors threatening the Jews inside
2017-08-16 charlottesville • politics • trump • nazis • jews
Right wing attacks
A list of murders, assaults, and threats
2017-08-16 fascism • trump • politics
Quantifying the "far left"
Some basic perspective on the danger posed by militant groups
2017-08-16 america • politics • trump • antifa • fascism
Nazi rally in SF
White supremacists are rallying in San Francisco. It's on federal land.
2017-08-15 sanfrancisco • nazis • trump • politics • whitesupremacists
Guns vs free speech
Not clear what the First Amendment means when people armed for war show up
2017-08-15 freespeech • nazis • charlottesville • politics • civilrights • guns
Behind YesYoureRacist
Very brave man calling out racism
2017-08-15 racism • twitter • politics
Trump train!
Trump posts cartoon that in the context of Charlottesville is just appalling
2017-08-15 charlottesville • train • cnn • trump • twitter
Whose Heritage
Details on the context of Confederate monuments
2017-08-15 confederacy • politics • hate • splc
Confederate monument history
Most Confederate monuments were created in the 1920s and 1960s
2017-08-15 confederacy • treason • history • politics
Antifa in America
Some history and op/ed on the violent left
2017-08-15 america • antifa • politics • trump
Texas A&M cancels Nazis
Texas university decides not to host white nationalist event
2017-08-14 texasa&m • tamu • nazis • politics
Germany vs Nazis
How other countries forbid unthinkable politics
2017-08-14 germany • nazi • america • confederacy • trump
Discord bans Nazis
Big step for a social media platform
2017-08-14 games • discord • nazis • altright
Charlottesville details
Attempt to make sense of the chaos
2017-08-14 Charlottesville • protest • facism • trump • politics
New Ng machine learning course
New course at Coursera based on Python and Tensorflow
2017-08-13 coursera • machinelearning • ai • programming • course
Password guessing password agents
Tool for breaking into password vaults. They can test about 100,000 passwords a second on a single GPU
2017-08-13 passwords • badtech • security
Portland police + militia
Details on some troubling blending of roles between right wing protestors and police
2017-08-12 police • facism • militia • portland • oregon
LIBOR replacement
Key financial index is based on a thin market, time for a new one
2017-08-12 libor • interest • finance
Feminist systems hacking
Woman's perspective on improving Linux performance with feminism and good system work
2017-08-11 feminism • design • programming • atime • adainitiative
SF Tenderloin starter pack
A bit of black humor
2017-08-11 sanfrancisco • tenderloin • photos • via:reddit
Vinod Khosla loses beach appeal
VC loses his attempt to close a public beach, again
2017-08-11 vinod • vinodkhosla • california • surfing • beach • property • vc • tech
Google cancels all hands
Can't keep employees safe from harassment
2017-08-10 google • harassment • allhands • doxxing • crisis
Post-Trump trash news
Data on Facebook-driven news sites, both left and right
2017-08-10 news • journalism • propaganda • trump • facebook
TempleOS Hymn Bought
Short clip from the outsider OS
2017-08-10 templeos • os • religion • schizophrenia
Eloise / Hearthstone
Being a woman in top tier professional Hearthstone
2017-08-09 gender • women • gaming • games • hearthstone • blizzard
Cities mapped by AirBNB ratings
Clever visualization; city center apartments get higher ratings
2017-08-09 cities • maps • airbnb • visualization
Linux Load Averages
Some deep details
2017-08-08 linux • loadaverage • system • performance
Journeymen
A medieval tradition of a wanderjahr
2017-08-08 europe • medieval • guilds • crafts • labor
Firefox supports Vive and Rift
WebVR support for 3d goggles, tracking systems
2017-08-08 firefox • webvr • vr • webgl • oculusrift
Twitter hate protest
German artist spraypaints tweeted hate speech in front of Twitter's office
2017-08-07 twitter • hatespeech • protest • funny
Nuclear war in Korea
Terrifying speculative fiction from The Economist
2017-08-07 northkorea • korea • trump • nuclear
Spy Planes
Buzzfeed puts some algorithms to work on public flight data
2017-08-07 spying • civilrights • aviation • datajournalism
Bitcoin history
Details on the way discussion around Bitcoin tech is controlled
2017-08-07 blockstream • bitcoin • reddit • history
Geoengineering conference
Off the record meeting of scientists to consider a global warming solution
2017-08-07 globalwarming • climate • science • scifi
Eric Fischer interview
Words from a creative mapper
2017-08-07 maps • mapbox • enf • developer
NYC pneumatic garbage
Roosevelt Island has a network of 24" tubes for garbage disposal
2017-08-06 garbage • newyork • nyc • rooseveltisland
The Montrose
A reflection on the neighborhood I grew up in, Houston
2017-08-06 houston • texas • montrose • gay • lgbt • gentrification
Getting rid of junk mail
Some opt out lists for the US
2017-08-05 mail • spam • junkmail • creditcard
In a Heartbeat
Sweet short film about youthful love
2017-08-05 crush • love • lgbt • gay • animation
Lavender scare
1950s purge of homosexuals from the US government
2017-08-05 lgbt • civilrights • gayrights • lavender • gay
The banana trade
Details on how bananas are imported and sold in New York
2017-08-05 newyork • bananas • food • groceries
Acorn spy flights
Private company flies electronics surveillance over American cities
2017-08-04 america • freedom • civilrights • privacy • aviation • acorn
Trump tax fraud?
The President sold his children two condos at well below market value
2017-08-04 tax • fraud • trump • politics
NASA Voyager engineers
Profile of the flight engineering team that's been operating for 40 years
2017-08-04 nasa • space • voyager • engineering
SMALT
A Bluetooth salt shaker. Apparently not a parody.
2017-08-04 smalt • amazon • kitchen • saltshaker • stupid
Congressional districts
Historical data going back to 1789
2017-08-04 congress • shapefile • maps • districts • history
Uber car fires
Company knowingly gave drivers broken cars that caught fire
2017-08-03 fire • uber • safety • ethics • singapore
ByLock
A bad crypto messaging app was involved in the coup in Turkey last year
2017-08-03 turkey • encryption • privacy • whatsapp • signal • security • badtech
Behind the Muslim ban chaos
Details of how Trump administration deliberately cut out Congress, the press
2017-08-03 trump • politics • democracy • powers • immigration • dhs
Golf.com and journalism
Standing by their reporting that Trump called the White House a dump
2017-08-03 whitehouse • trump • politics • golf
White House admits Trump lies
Phone calls of support did not happen, press secretary says so on the record
2017-08-03 trump • lies • politics • whitehouse • boyscouts • mexico
Seven books on reconstruction
Some reading I've been meaning to do
2017-08-02 reconstruction • racism • history • america • civilwar
Angelyne revealed
LA demi-celebrity's real life story
2017-08-02 angelyne • fame • la • losangeles
Collison Offline Wikipedia
Stripe founder had an offline version of Wikipedia for iOS in 2008
2017-08-02 wikipedia • ios • iphone • history • stripe • collison • patrick
Bitcoin shorting mess
Fake currency gets complicated when the fake currency splits
2017-08-02 money • funny • bitcoin • shorting • investment • via:hackernews
Fire Island in 1977
Slightly NSFW. The years of gay paradise.
2017-08-02 gay • nsfw • lgbt • newyork • fireisland
Straight to Hell
Short appreciation for gay pornographer Boyd McDonald
2017-08-02 gay • porn • lgbt • sth • straighttohell • books • writing • zines
Older workers in tech
Excellent Karen Wickre essay on ideas for tech being smarter about benefitting from older workers
2017-08-02 discrimination • age • starups • tech • aging • older • wisdom • kvox
Affirmative Action at Harvard
Minorities get special treatment, by which I mean rich people
2017-08-02 harvard • money • legacy • kushner • politics • trump
Propaganda dashboard
Analytics for Russian tweet spam
2017-08-02 russia • politics • trump • twitter • propaganda
Why is ARKit good?
Details of Apple's augmented reality tech
2017-08-01 arkit • apple • ios • augmentedreality • hci • userinterface
Transit.app
Excellent public transit app for iOS
2017-08-01 transit • muni • ios • maps • berlin
Democratic deconsolidation
The danger of Trump undermining American democratic norms
2017-08-01 trump • politics • democracy • america
Acetaminophen
Long reporting on a dangerous drug
2017-08-01 drugs • healthcare • health • america • regulation • acetaminophen
How to Grow Cannabis
Dowdy California lifestyle magazine goes a bit edgy
2017-08-01 marijuana • gardening • sunset • california
Snopes legal details
Specifics on the ownership structure and dispute
2017-08-01 snopes • company • governance • corporation • legal
Imran Awan background
Democrat IT guy in legal trouble, story spins to elaborate conspiracies
2017-08-01 dnc • democrats • awan • politics • reddit • conspiracy
Fox News fabrication
One of the people behind the retraced Seth Rich story has flipped and is suing Fox, detailing his role in the fabrication
2017-08-01 foxnews • fox • journalism • sethrich • ethics • trump • politics