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Cambridge Analytica's models
Technical details on what it did with Facebook data
2018-03-31 facebook • politics • ca • cambridgeanalytica • svd • netflix
Teen Bo$$!
Description of the creepy children's magazine
2018-03-29 tirefire • teenboss • magazine • culture • business • teenagers
pre-Columbian Amazon towns
Armchair archaeology using Google Earth
2018-03-29 archaeology • amazon • via:hackernews
"Colonizability" of Africa in 1899
A hideous historical map
2018-03-29 maps • africa • colonialism • genocide
Parkland students demands
List of gun control changes requested by victims of one of America's mass school shootings
2018-03-29 guns • guncontrol • politics • parkland • students • nra
Unprisoning your Think Rhino
Whiteboard techniques from TED-future
2018-03-29 funny • bullshit • whiteboard
J Frank Parnell
Excellent scene from Repo Man
2018-03-28 repoman • movies • crazy • lobotomy • neutronbomb • radiation
Trump v Mueller
Worried about a legal investigation? Smear the investigator.
2018-03-28 trump • politics • mueller • russia
Mercer, NM sheriff
Hedge fund billionaire moonlights as a volunteer sheriff so he can carry a concealed gun anywhere in the US
2018-03-28 guns • mercer • politics • newmexico • trump
GDC unsafe in SF
Twitter discussion from conference attendees on how unsafe and shitty San Francisco felt
2018-03-28 sanfrancisco • safety • tenderloin • gdc • conference • business
DC lawyer ad
It's funny
2018-03-27 parody • trump • politics • craigslist
FEMA and Puerto Rico
Details from Trump administration shows favoring Texas over Puerto Rico
2018-03-27 hurricane • fema • politics • trump • shame • puertorico • texas
Facebook Container
Mozilla publishes an addon to let you keep using Facebook while limiting data leakage
2018-03-27 facebook • privacy • mozilla • firefox • addon • browser
1970s Custom Vans
A celebration of sex and drugs
2018-03-27 drugs • sex • funny • 70s • van • vanlife • cars
Maria LoL update
Pro gamer and trans woman talks about her personal situation with botched gender reassignment surgery
2018-03-26 surgery • trans • leagueoflegends • lol • games
SF names history
Map of names of streets, etc and their history
2018-03-25 maps • history • sanfrancisco • sf • via:reddit
2016 election precinct map
Still unmatched, a student made an unprecedentedly detailed map of the 2016 presidential election
2018-03-24 maps • politics • elections • precincts • data
OpenStreetMap in Jerusalem
Academic paper about the lack of Palestinian mappers
2018-03-24
Google Apps Script
Scripting language for Calendar, Gmail, etc
2018-03-24
Rocks vs School Shooters
More American sickness
2018-03-24
#MeToo in China
A summary of anti-sexual-harassment as it has played out in China
2018-03-23
Cambridge Analytica methods
Some details on the kinds of advertising they did. It's not very complicated.
2018-03-23
Cow Clicker vs. Cambridge Analytica
Satirical stupid game from 2010 "stole" personal data as much as the evil political firm
2018-03-23
Guccifer 2.0 is Russia
Supposed lone hacker of DNC email is actually the GRU, possibly Fancy Bear
2018-03-22
Stats vs gerrymandering
The power of well communicated statistics
2018-03-22
Details on Uber fatality
Technical details on how a self-driving car should have been able to avoid killing the pedestrian
2018-03-22
Theranos fire alarm
Reporter's story of a fraud coverup
2018-03-22
Fair Play Alliance
Bunch of game companies working together to fight abusive behavior
2018-03-21
Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission
Insane commission to suppress civil rights in Mississippi by intrusive investigations
2018-03-21
Jihadi reform in the US
Detailed story of a Somali-American who got a second chance
2018-03-21
Social Enterprise Is Not Social Change
Clearly written article about problems with neoliberal social enterprise initiatives, charter schools, etc
2018-03-21
Facebook + Cambridge Analytica
Tech/legal analysis of details of what happened, particularly the transitivity of trust
2018-03-21
100 Māori words
Some very basic language, with recordings
2018-03-20 maori • newzealand • language • Māori
Chinese tech ascendant
Deep dive on the growth of tech in China, particularly AI
2018-03-20 china • politics • america • tech • siliconvalley • ai
Blockchain for child porn
Bitcoin has images of child sexual abuse embedded in its history
2018-03-20 bitcoin • porn • troll • blockchain
Hawaiian blood test
Colonialist legacy about land and race persists in Hawai'i
2018-03-20 hawaii • hawai'i • land • native • homelands • hawaiianhomelands
Machine learning reproducibility
In practice training AI is not always reproducible
2018-03-20 machinelearning • ai • programming • ml
The Exchange
Buying something on Craigslist
2018-03-19 funny • craigslist • ecommerce • movie
Uber self-driving fatality
Not clear whether there was a backup human driver
2018-03-19 tempe • uber • selfdrivingcar
Hope Hicks profile
Details of part of Trump's inner circle
2018-03-19 trump • politics • hopehicks
Race and social mobility in the US
Black American males are doing very poorly
2018-03-19 america • race • income • inequality • demographics
Kansas disenfranchisement
Update from Kris Kobach's un-American efforts to stop citizens from voting
2018-03-19 voting • votingrights • politics • kobach
Worst of OSM
Screenshots of bad mapping with snarky commentary
2018-03-19 funny • osm • openstreetmap • maps • fail
About @anonymaps
Interview with some part of the shadowy collective behind a snarky mapping Twitter account
2018-03-19 maps • funny • twitter • osm • openstreetmap • anonymaps
Revenge porn on Slack
I feel the company is not equipped to deal with this kind of trust and safety issue
2018-03-18 slack • moderation • discord • policy • porn • misogyny • anonib
Cambridge Analytica founding
Details on Chris Wylie, an architect of the "cyberwarfare for elections" company
2018-03-18 politics • trump • propaganda • mercer • bannon • cambridgeanalytica
Python 3.7 breakpoints
New API for easier debugging
2018-03-17 python • programming • breakpoint • debugger • pdb • pudb
Facebook v Cambridge Analytica
Facebook finally suspends the sleazy political firm
2018-03-17 facebook • cambridgeanalytica • politics • trump
Cambridge Analytica Facebook source
How the sleazy political firm got the Facebook data in the first place, exploiting Mechanical Turk workers
2018-03-17 facebook • mechanicalturk • amazon • aws • cambridgeanalytica • politics
Telugu crash
Technical analysis of an Apple text rendering bug
2018-03-16 unicode • bug • apple • ios • macos • badtech
Forget flying cars
Carl Steadman lives!
2018-03-16 via:jwz • funny • stockphoto • youdontsurf
Fox News double standard
Video clips about Obama vs Trump meeting with North Korea
2018-03-16 northkorea • trump • obama • politics • journalism • foxnews • propaganda
Stormy Daniels' agency
Excellent editorial about how the President's sex worker is playing her hand very smart, exploiting Trump's own shtick
2018-03-16 trump • politics • sexworker • sex • prostitution • scandal
Russia vs US power plants
Cyberattacks already carried out, ready to sabotage
2018-03-16 russia • cyberwar • trump • politics • power • infrastructure • badtech
Ready Player One for Girls
Trashy 80s culture novel, now in pink!
2018-03-15 books • funny • parody • feminism • readyplayerone
Twitter's failure to stop harassment
2016 article still highly relevant
2018-03-15 twitter • abuse • harassment • tirefire
Cyberattacks vs petro plant
Saudi Arabian business destroyed by what looks like a government cyberattack
2018-03-15 warfare • petro • saudi • saudiarabia • iran • badtech
White men and guns
Light piece on research about American gun ownership
2018-03-15 guns • america • politics • masculinity
Women in OpenStreetMap
Gender diversity is important in mapping
2018-03-15 mapping • osm • openstreetmap • maps • diversity • gender • via:metafilter
LoL matchmaking
Stats from Riot's game creation system
2018-03-14 games • matchmaking • lol • elo • ranking
Discord + SPLC
Social media working with experts to root out hategroups
2018-03-14 splc • discord • hategroups • nazis
Travel power / USB adapter
Used one of these in Australia and it worked great
2018-03-13 travel • australia • power • adapter
Project Veritas v Twitter
Scumbag activist group offers fake jobs and dates, illegal records victims
2018-03-13 twitter • projectveritas • politics • scumbag • tirefire
The complete galactic plane
Nice photo comp of the Milky Way
2018-03-13 astronomy • astrophotography • milkyway • space • stars • galaxy
ICE and Sessions lied
800 people did not elude arrest because of the Oakland Mayor
2018-03-13 ice • lies • trump • politics • sessions
Inside El Paquete
Details on Cuba's unique media piracy drops
2018-03-13 via:waxy • cuba • software • media
Slingshot APT
Sophisticated malware found hidden for six years
2018-03-13 malware • badtech • via:hackernews • nsa • government • mikrotik
National Geographic self examination
Acknowledging the racism of the magazine's past
2018-03-13 natgeo • nationalgeographic • culture • racism • geography
Telegram $1B ICO
Less scammy than most ICOs, but still sounds like a terrible idea
2018-03-10 ico • telegram • tech • fundraising
Private drone ATC
Tech companies building their own systems to manage flying UAVs
2018-03-10 drones • atc • via:hackernews • google • amazon • aviation
Olsen Twins witchcraft
Wicca supplies
2018-03-10 wicca • witchcraft • olsens • scam • funny
About Tex Mex
Long detailed story about Texas' other excellent cuisine
2018-03-08 texmex • food • texas • cooking
Slow news experiment
Two months of only print journalism
2018-03-07 nyt • nytimes • journalism • slownews • news • socialmedia
NSA APT detection
How NSA identifies cyberattack enemies in real time
2018-03-07 nsa • security • badtech • via:hackernews • apt
FakeMark
A watermark to indicate digitally manipulated imagery
2018-03-07 fake • counterfeit • authentic • images • ethics
Bluff oyster
Special New Zealand oyster that's in season right now. Very mild flavor, large, plump
2018-03-07 oyster • food • newzealand
Fox news authorized keys
Bad security practice at a news website
2018-03-06 fox • news • politics • funny • ssh • badtech
dropchop.io
Simple web-based GIS tool for doing spatial calculations on data
2018-03-06 gis • maps • spatial • cartography
Reddit and Russian propaganda
Mealymouthed non-statement
2018-03-05 russia • politics • propaganda • reddit • moderation • policy
Māori placenames
Maps of which place names in New Zealand are in the indigenous language
2018-03-05 maps • maori • newzealand
Aging vampires
Snake oil salesmen in Palm Beach
2018-03-04 palmbeach • blood • health • aging • scam
Prescription gag orders
Insane price gouging driven in part by abusive contracts
2018-03-04 drugs • america • healthcare • pharmacy
Bitcoin computer heist
Computers stolen out of a datacenter in Iceland
2018-03-04 iceland • bitcoin • via:hackernews • theft • crime
Scoring Pennsylvania
PlanScore's analysis of gerrymandering
2018-03-01 politics • planscore • pennsylvania • gerrymandering
Jared Kushner rant
Silly, but satisfying rant
2018-03-01 trump • politics • whitehouse • russia • kushner