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Gates 2018 letter
Bill & Melinda Gates answe their 10 toughest questions
2018-02-25 gates • philanthropy • gatesfoundation
Twitter verified scam
Blue checkmark for a phishing fraud
2018-02-24 twitter • verified • scam • fraud • cryptocurrency
Omar Souleyman
Syrian techno wedding singer
2018-02-24 music • via:metafilter • syria • omarsouleyman
AR-15 wounds
High powered rifle shatters bodies in a way normal handguns don't
2018-02-22 guns • politics • ar15 • guncontrol • medicine
MapBox hillshading
Dynamic hillshading in a style editor; remembering Migurski laboriously doing this by hand with code years ago
2018-02-22 maps • terrain • migurski • mapbox • stamen
America Is Under Attack and the President Doesn't Care
Clearly written editorial
2018-02-22 america • trump • politics • russia • electionhacking • elections
All Star but it's a TED talk
Smash Mouth never sounded so smart
2018-02-22 music • funny • parody • ted • smashmouth • allstar • via:metafilter
Former Jehovah's Witness
Reddit AMA with someone who left the cult
2018-02-21 religion • jehovahswitnesses • cult • reddit
Pennsylvania redistricting
Details on the impact of the new plan
2018-02-21 politics • pennsylvania • redistricting • planscore
maps.me
Continues to be an excellent offline mode mobile map
2018-02-21 maps • openstreetmap • osm • mapsme • mapswithme
JupyterLab
Evolution of notebook computing
2018-02-21 jupyter • notebook • ipython • python • programming
Shit and Needles
A report on San Francisco
2018-02-21 sanfrancisco • health • poverty • homelessness
Merikins
African-Americans who fought for the British in the War of 1812 and were relocated to Trinidad
2018-02-20 trinidad • america • history • merikin • africanamerican • 1812
Bots vs Al Franken
Sexual harassment allegations amplified with digital propaganda
2018-02-20 alfranken • politics • franken • twitter • bots • sexualharassment
Twitter abuse management
Details about bad leadership possibly being part of Twitter's abuse problem
2018-02-20 twitter • abuse • spam • delharvey • jackdorsey • jack • trustandsafety
Taxes and charitable donations
An economic argument that charitable donations should not be tax deductible
2018-02-20 taxes • charity • politics • economist • economics • philanthropy
Chimerical colors
Fun color illusion; fatigue the eye and it can see impossible colors
2018-02-19 color • impossiblecolor • stygianblue
“Black Panther” and the Invention of “Africa”
Thoughts on colonialism from an African-American perspective
2018-02-19 movies • blackpanther • wakanda
Africans on Black Panther
Some thoughts from Kenya on the American movie
2018-02-18 movies • africanamerican • africa • blackpanther
Killmonger was right
A nice exploration of the central ethical quandry of Black Panther
2018-02-18 blackpanther • killmonger • movies • black • africanamerican
Russian troll protest
Both sides of a Houston protest over nothing was organized by Russian trolls
2018-02-18 russia • trump • politics • facebook • houston • texas
Film Crit Hulk on Black Panther
Very insightful essay
2018-02-18 blackpanther • movies • black • africanamerican • culture • film
Black versions of movies
Cultural history from Hollywood
2018-02-17 black • history • movies • films • africanamericans • culture
Black Panther's importance
Excellent essay on Black pride in America
2018-02-17 movies • blackpanther • black • africanamerican • race
OpenStreetMap critique
Thoughtful list of organizational problems
2018-02-17 maps • openstreetmap • osm • serge • emacsen
Kottke.org at 20
Thoughtful interview with Jason Kottke about old school blogging and Internet media
2018-02-17 internet • culture • blogging • kottke
Space is the Place
Sun Ra's 1974 afrofuturist film
2018-02-17 movies • film • sunra • blackpanther
Trump and Karen McDougal
Detailed account of his affair with yet another woman
2018-02-16 trump • politics • sex • scandal • mcdougal
New Zealand apocalypse prep
Story about the bizarre obsession Thiel and other Silicon Valley people have with New Zealand
2018-02-15 newzealand • apocalypse • tech • thiel • via:metafilter
VA Corruption
Random Trump administrator spending public money for a European vacation for him and his wife
2018-02-15 trump • corruption • politics • veterans • va
Usernames
Challenges of building a login system for Internet software
2018-02-15 internet • login • django • username • name • security
CoinHive - Demo
A web page showing a Javascript cryptocurrency miner (Monero)
2018-02-14 bitcoin • cryptocurrency • coinhive • monero
Blocklists in practice
Study of how lists of accounts to block work for protecting against harassment and implications on free speech
2018-02-14 blocklists • twitter • censorship • socialmedia
KotakuInAction study
Acacdemic work looking at the GamerGate community on Reddit
2018-02-14 gamergate • reddit • kotakuinaction • community • freespeech • hategroups • feminism
Evolving a Decompiler
A sort of insane project in generating algorithms
2018-02-14 geneticalgorithms • evolution • computing • decompiling • machinelearning • ai
China on AI
Chinese government investing heavily in AI research
2018-02-13 ai • china • unitedstates • america • trump • politics • computerscience
The Bittersweet Beauty of Adam Rippon
Sweet essay on what it means to have an out gay athlete in the Olympics
2018-02-13 olympics • gay • lgbt • comingout
PlanScore
New data journalism website about partisan gerrymandering
2018-02-13 gerrymandering • politics • data • journalism • migurski
matplotlib.pyplot.xkcd
Give your Python plots a hand-drawn feel
2018-02-13 xkcd • python • matplotlib • visualization • funny
Alternatives to censorship
EFF's ideas for fighting hate speech on the Internet. Not sure I agree with this position any more, but it's thoughtful
2018-02-13 eff • freespeech • censorship • twitter • politics
Erlang racism in package name
Stupid debate about whether to name a package after a racist slur
2018-02-13 software • erland • racism • tirefire
Out LGBT Olympians
Medal results so far for openly LGBT athletes
2018-02-12 lgbt • sports • olympics • gay
Genderbending Overwatch cosplay
Fun set of fan photos
2018-02-12 games • transgender • lgbt • genderbending • overwatch • cosplay • via:reddit
Intersections of San Francisco
Fun selection of odd angles
2018-02-12 sanfrancisco • maps • streets • intersections
Harassment of women developer
Young woman publishes a crypto app; hideous misogynists try to tear her down
2018-02-11 crypto • reddit • programming • sexism • toxicmasculinity
Kumbaya
Gullah Geechee origins of a folk song / spiritual
2018-02-10 music • blackhistory • gullah • geechee • kumbaya
CHP + Nazis
California state police working with Nazi groups to pursue Antifa
2018-02-09 antifa • nazis • california • police • facism
The Alt-Right is Killing People
Details of how Internet hate culture leads to murders
2018-02-09 murder • nazis • racism • misogyny • via:metafilter • pepe • altright • trump
Russian probing voter lists
This story continues to be muddled; how much did Russian espionage target US election systems?
2018-02-08 elections • votingrights • russia • trump • politics • badtech
Photos from Assassin’s Creed Origins
Nice travelogue from an astonishingly beautiful videogame
2018-02-07 games • assassinscreed • egypt • screenshots
Coining "open source"
Etymology of the phrase that changed an entire industry
2018-02-07 software • opensource • timoreilly • freesoftware
FEMA Puerto Rico failures
Republicans aren't very good at hurricane relief
2018-02-07 hurricane • fema • puertorico • trump • politics
Citizen Thiel
Details on Peter Thiel's New Zealand citizenship
2018-02-07 peterthiel • newzealand • billionaires • wealth
New hillshading map
MapBox releases client-side hill shaded relief / terrain maps
2018-02-06 maps • terrain • relief • hillshading • mapbox
"Reply-To" Munging Still Considered Harmful
A very old debate about mailing lists and spam
2018-02-05 mail • email • rfc822 • rfc2822 • replyto • replyall
Gerrymandering and the courts
The long difficult legal road for having fair elections in the US
2018-02-05 gerrymandering • politics • courts • supremecourt • votingrights
#ReleaseTheMemo propaganda campaign
Details on how information warfare works on Twitter
2018-02-04 twitter • politics • trump • propaganda • releasethememo
"What Time Does The Super Bowl Start?"
A roundup of when websites started spamming the popular query
2018-02-04 superbowl • seo • google • funny
Chrome adblocking
Details on the new feature Feb 15; will default to on
2018-02-03 google • ads • blocking • browser
Deep learning math
All the multivariable calculus required for neural networks. Truthfully you can hack the code without understanding this stuff
2018-02-03 math • programming • machinelearning • ai • matrix
Moon Museum
Art smuggled on Apollo 12 to the moon. Includes a Warhol scribble of a p enis
2018-02-02 warhol • art • funny • nasa • moon
4chan's cryptocurrency
Ponzi scheme riddled with bugs, all the money stolen
2018-02-01 4chan • ponzi • bitcoin • blockchain
PyFilesystem
Python library that lets you access many resources as if they were a filesystem
2018-02-01 python • filesystem • fuse • sshfs • ftp
The Bayeux Tapestry
A silly but engaging tour of the famous 11th century graphic novel
2018-02-01 bayeuxtapestry • history • hastings • 1066 • bayeux • tapestry