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Motion-stable dithering
Crazy graphics optimization
2017-11-30
3d • graphics • via:metafilter • games • papersplease • obradinn
US tax policy
Economist article on how our fiscal policies don't work very well for redistribution
2017-11-30
america • politics • tax • policy
Amazon Time Service
NTP for AWS. Does leap smearing, recommends chrony
2017-11-30
ntp • amazon • time • synchronization • leapsecond • chrony
Man who silenced Trump
Twitter contractor who got Trump's Twitter account suspended for 11 minutes
2017-11-30
trump • politics • twitter • abuse • policy
Licki Brush
For if you love your cat enough to groom him /cc @bookscout
2017-11-29
cats • funny • via:reddit • brush • portland
Arrington cryptocurrency hedge fund
Fuck everything
2017-11-29
arrington • fraud • ico • bitcoin • blockchain
White House doubles down on falsehoods
Press Secretary asserts it doesn't matter if videos Trump shares are real
2017-11-29
trump • politics • truth • reality
Software Engineer Salary Data
Data from Triplebyte, a hiring middle-man. No idea how good this is.
2017-11-29
salary • wages • compensation • siliconvalley • engineering • pay • via:hackernews
The Limits of ‘Believe All Women’
An effort to get to more subtlety, I fear this conversation is impossible
2017-11-29
feminism • women • politics • harassment • metoo
Trump's delusions
Promoting false hoods about his sexual predation, the popular vote, and Obama's birth certificate. It seems mostly sad and funny but it's dangerous.
2017-11-29
trump • politics • truth
Trump's embrace of anti-Muslim hate
Details on the anti-Islam group Trump is promoting
2017-11-29
trump • politics • islam • muslim • prejudice
Dirty Tricks for Roy Moore
Scumbags at Project Veritas tried to entrap the Washington Post with a fake story
2017-11-27
roymoore • politics • truth • journalism • washingtonpost
Silk Road photo trip
Travel via photojournalism curation
2017-11-27
photos • china • silkroad • tourism • travel
Regulate ICOs
Former SEC regulator speaks out
2017-11-27
fraud • ico • bitcoin • regulator • finance • sec • via:hackernews
2018 election not secured
Congress has failed to help hack-proof American elections
2017-11-27
politics • voting • security • badtech • hacking • russia • trump
Share bike graveyard
Amazing photos /cc @migurski
2017-11-27
bikes • china • sharebikes • photography • photos
11k Hands
A dataset for machine learning
2017-11-27
machinelearning • google • data • hands • imagerecognition
Campaign-in-a-box
DNC creating a suite of tech tools for campaigns
2017-11-27
politics • dnc • democrats • tech
Visualization Universe
Details on what charts, books, and tools are most popular among visualization searchers
2017-11-27
visualization • charts • d3js • data • google
Looping noise
Multi-dimensional noise techniques to produce looping animations
2017-11-27
art • animation • noise • perlin
Net Neutrality in the courts
Tim Wu lays out the basic legal argument for net neutrality
2017-11-27
netneutrality • fcc • judiciary • legal
Mexican Pulp Art
Classic 1970s illustrations
2017-11-26
pulp • mexico • art • mexican • illustration • cheese • scifi
Goatse ICO
Famous shock site has become the latest Blockchain business. (SFW, I think)
2017-11-26
goatse • funny • blockchain • bitcoin
San Francisco in a nutshell
Muni bus with marijuana ad hits a meter maid's Cushman
2017-11-26
sanfrancisco • photo • funny • muni • marijuana
Republicans convicted of child sex crimes
Detailed list of names and locations
2017-11-26
politics • gop • republicans • pedophilia • rape
Gutting the State Department
Trump administration is systematically dismantling our capability for international diplomacy
2017-11-25
america • politics • statedepartment • diplomacy • trump • tillerson
Trump narcissism
Delusions on display
2017-11-25
trump • politics • mentalillness • narcissism • time
what3words DMCA takedown
Someone reverse engineered the proprietary location service last year
2017-11-25
maps • what3words • dmca • copyright
Liquid Sky 4K restoration!
Tragically underappreciated 80s movie getting a reissue. Stills look amazing
2017-11-24
movies • liquidsky • newwave • heroin
Creepy Whitney Houston
Hilarious drag performance of that horrible warbling song
2017-11-24
horror • funny • music • drag • philippines • whitneyhouston
FCC ballot stuffing
Textual analysis of a spam campaign to repeat net neutrality
2017-11-24
fcc • fraud • politics • netneutrality • nlp • via:reddit
/r/oldpeoplefacebook
Folks having a hard time understanding how Facebook works
2017-11-24
facebook • funny • hci • ui • userinterface
Joe Barton's girlfriends
Creepy sex life of a congressman
2017-11-23
texas • gop • republicans • sex • politics
PNG explorers
The real history of people crossing Papua New Guinea
2017-11-23
history • png • papua • anthropology • benedictallen • fraud
Uber was hacked and hid it
57M user accounts hacked, Uber paid a ransom and didn't disclose the breach
2017-11-21
uber • fraud • hack • security • badtech • kalanick
gzthermal web
simple webapp to visualize compression efficiency
2017-11-21
gzip • compression • gzthermal • visualization • optimiziation
gzthermal
Odd little tool to visualize efficiency of gzip compression
2017-11-21
gzip • compression • visualization • optimization
Tartine croissant recipe
Details on San Francisco's most-loved croissant
2017-11-21
croissant • pastry • baking • tartine • sf • sanfrancisco
Addicted to pretending to be furniture
My weird addiction
2017-11-20
funny • dragqueen • facebook
Opus Magnum Turing complete
Puzzle game now has a Brainfuck interpreter
2017-11-20
programming • computers • games • opusmagnum • zachtronics
FCC to wreck the Internet
Official notice of unwinding net neutrality
2017-11-20
politics • internet • trump • fcc • netneutrality • policy
Tech political naivete
How a lack of nuanced education has led companies like Google and Facebook to build dangerous political machines
2017-11-20
politics • tech • education • liberalarts • rant
Dale / Naomi apology
Coming clean and being decent
2017-11-20
make • makezine • sexism • china • naomiwu • oreilly
Voter suppression committee
Strongly worded editorial about Kobach and Trump's effort to stop people from voting
2017-11-19
vote • votingrights • democracy • politics • america
Jurvetson's disgrace
Big name VC pushed out of his firm for various social and sexual transgressions
2017-11-19
jurvetson • dfj • vc • tech • asshole
Mastodon analytics
Details of user growth and usage, per instance
2017-11-18
mastodon • stats • socialmedia
Cathedral reptition
Interesting zoetrope animation of architecture
2017-11-17
architecture • cathedral • church • temple • animation • zoetrope
TED harassment
Technoutopian conference also has disgusting sexual behavior
2017-11-17
ted • harassment • women • feminism • conference • standards
Hitman / Transgender
Sweet comic about how the Hitman game relates to the experience of being transgender
2017-11-17
trans • transgender • lgbt • games • hitman • comic
Trump assault timeline
13 women documenting sexual harassment or assault over 30 years
2017-11-17
trump • politics • assault • women • sexualharassment • rape
WikiLeaks are scoundrels
Details on the malfeasance of the group
2017-11-17
wikileaks • politics • assange • trump
Spacewar tournament 1972
Very first esports competition, with Stewart Brand at the center
2017-11-17
culture • internet • games • spacewar • esports • stewartbrand
Nevada City medical marijuana shop
Interesting look at the details of how a city picks who to give a marijuana license to
2017-11-16
marijuana • pot • grassvalley • nevadacity • nevadacounty • california
Delhi's toxic sky
Smog photos
2017-11-15
photos • photography • india • delhi
TechShop bankruptcy
Grand Maker experiment has shut the doors
2017-11-15
make • maker • culture • tech • engineering • techshop • fabrication
Patreon Statistics
Details on crowdfunding for creators
2017-11-15
funding • patreon • crowdfunding • money • statistics
Against gay marriage in Australia
Details of who voted no on the recent survey
2017-11-15
gay • minority • religion • australia • politics • equalrights
Ghost the leopard
Lovely wildlife photograph, read the story from the photographer
2017-11-15
reddit • photos • photography • wildlife • tanzania • cat • leopard
Twitch business
Some details on the professional world of video game streaming
2017-11-15
games • twitch • culture • leagueoflegends • tv
Uber stock outcome for SF
Company is not exempt from San Francisco's special 0.7% payroll tax
2017-11-14
tax • california • sanfrancisco • uber • stock • taxes
100,000 users on an old ARM PC
The largest Mastodon instance is run on a small machine
2017-11-14
mastodon • twitter • social • scaling
Alabama rape culture
Everyone in Roy Moore's town knew he was creepy with young girls
2017-11-14
roymoore • rapeculture • politics • alabama
Dealing with angry users
Riot Games director talks about how to communicate in the toxic environment of abusive gamers
2017-11-14
support • users • games • riotgames • lol • leagueoflegends • ghostcrawler
Aerial Views
Satisfyingly geometric photography from Bernhard Lang
2017-11-13
art • photography • aviation • aerial • photos
Whitefish scandal
Yet more Trump administration malfeasance; Puerto Rico is getting seriously screwed on rebuilding electricity infrastructure
2017-11-13
trump • fraud • politics • whitefish • puertorico
Halcyon
A Mastodon client that looks just like Twitter's UI. Works with any Mastodon account.
2017-11-13
mastodon • twitter • ui
Sally Ride's partner
Tam O'Shaughnessy on her gay, closeted relationship with astronaut Sally Ride. They did as well as they could IMHO.
2017-11-13
space • astronaut • nasa • gay • lgbt • lesbian • sallyride
Humans in Star Trek
Funny riff on goofy Star Trek technology
2017-11-13
startrek • funny • engineering
Politics at Thanksgiving
Economics research show that in 2016, politically divided families spent less time at the Thanksgiving table
2017-11-12
thanksgiving • politics • family • dinner • via:mastodon
Superflight
Lovely little PC game. Generative 3d terrain you fly through, the controls and sound design make this really fun
2017-11-11
games • flying • superflight • steam • pc
feed2toot
Tool to post RSS feed content to Mastodon. Good for Pinboard
2017-11-11
pinboard • mastodon • twitter • feed • rss
Korean fire chicken with cheese
Odd but delicious dish
2017-11-11
korean • food • cooking • buldak
Mastodon Bridge
Follow people from Twitter on Mastodon too
2017-11-10
mastodown • twitter • bridge • import
A Net Before the Web
Series of blog posts about pre-Web infosystems. First post is on The Source
2017-11-10
internet • history • web • thesource • via:waxy
Social media and democracy
Long detailed piece about society and Internet communication
2017-11-10
twitter • politics • china • abuse • democracy • propaganda • facebook
Time Well Spent
Consumer interest group pushing back against advertising and tech companies stealing our attention
2017-11-10
time • attention • ethics • advertising • mobile • ads
Naomi Wu
Profile of the woman inventor from China
2017-11-09
china • women • fashion • sexism • naomiwu • make
Brave Enough to Be Angry
Righteous feminist op/ed
2017-11-09
anger • politics • trump • harassment
As Fast as Possible
John Cage conceptual music piece rendered listenable
2017-11-09
music • cage • johncage • funny
Solving the DNC Hack
Detailed story about Johnston, the lead at CrowdStrike who handled the DNC hack investigation
2017-11-08
dnc • crowdstrike • russia • trump • politics
About Naomi Wu
Very thoughtful essay about how damaging it is when a powerful white man questions the authenticity of a Chinese woman
2017-11-08
make • culture • tirefire • gender • sexism
Cornelia Bailey obit
Geechee matriarch of Georgia. /cc @kellegous
2017-11-08
geechee • gullah • georgia • south • islands • africa • slavery • history • obituary
Tadka
Indian cooking technique of cooking spices in oil and adding them to the dish at precise intervals
2017-11-08
tadka • indian • cooking • food
Stepping into digital life
Major new report from Mozilla in first-time users of information tech, particularly Internet phots
2017-11-07
culture • mozilla • phones • internet • sociology
SorryWatch
Funny snark and analysis on celebrity non-apologies
2017-11-07
apology • weinstein • spacey • funny
Another peaceful day in Australia
Snarky editorial about gun laws
2017-11-07
funny • australia • guns • gunlaws • politics
Turn off retweets!
New simple webapp to disable retweets for every account
2017-11-07
twitter • retweets • filtering • detweet
Weinstein's spies
This is why women don't speak up
2017-11-07
weinstein • harassment • women • feminism • mossad • spies
Our Moloch
2012 essay about American gun worship
2017-11-06
guns • death • murder • america • politics
Something is wrong on the internet
James Bridle on creepy automated kids videos
2017-11-06
video • children • youtube • culture • generative • procedural
Paradise Papers
Overview of new document leak about tax shelters
2017-11-06
bermuda • america • politics • corruption • taxfraud • fraud
Yuri Milner and the Kremlin
Major Russian investor in tech companies connected to Putin
2017-11-06
putin • russia • politics • twitter • facebook • investing
Transvestite passes
Magnus Hirschfeld / 1920s Berlin LGBT history
2017-11-04
history • lgbt • trans • transgender • germany • hirschfeld
Epistemic crisis
The danger of right wing people simply not believing reality
2017-11-03
politics • trump • truth • science • america
Robert Mercer, deadbeat
Hedge fund billionaire and kooky alt-right supporter owes $7B in back taxes
2017-11-02
taxes • fraud • mercer • trump • politics
Reed College turmoil
More reporting on RAR and protests that shut classes down
2017-11-02
reed • college • rar • racism
Russian propaganda examples
Detailed summary with links
2017-11-02
russia • propaganda • trump • politics
Netrek archives
Records from an online game culture of the early 1990s
2017-11-02
games • netrek • history • cmu • ogg
A Bea Arthur a Day
Hundreds of portraits
2017-11-02
beaarthur • funny • tumblr • cartoon • art
Russian propaganda ads
Examples from the congressional hearing
2017-11-02
propaganda • ads • twitter • facebook • russia • trump • politics
Strava global heatmap
Lovely visualization of 3T GPS points. Their localized normalization is clever.
2017-11-02
strava • heatmap • gps • visualization
Trump's incompetence
Second tier appointees appear unqualified
2017-11-02
trump • politics • corruption
Civil War reading list
Some basic books on American history
2017-11-01
civilwar • history • reading • racism • slavery • politics
Sixels
Primitive bitmap display support in VT200 terminals
2017-11-01
graphics • terminal • tty • vt200
Crosscheck voter fraud
GOP tool for suppressing the vote has a 99% false positive rate
2017-11-01
votingrights • voting • indiana
Manafort flight risk
Jaw dropping story on how crooked Trump's campaign manager looks
2017-11-01
manafort • politics • trump • russia
Seashells tty tool
Pipe output of a program to this web server, get a public web view of it
2017-11-01
seashells • via:hackernews • shell • programming • bash • hack
US Navy accident report
Details on the two destroyers that had collisions this summer in the Pacific
2017-11-01
pacific • navy • military • negligence • sailing