amac on content moderation

Internet expert lawyer lays out some notes and citations on moderation policies for web products

2018-08-31 facebook • twitter • moderation • tootme • amac • policy

Mapbox response to vandalism

Details on how Mapbox handled the hateful slur someone stuck in OSM

2018-08-31 maps • osm • openstreetmap • mapbox • hatespeech • vandalism • moderation

Population density vs. voting pattern

Interesting visualization technique, seeing which parts of America deviate from a norm

2018-08-31 maps • visualization • tootme • politics • voting

Dr. Pimple Popper

A whole TV show devoted to squeezing cysts and popping pustules. It is truly the end times.

2018-08-31 tv • disgusting • popping • medical • tootme

r/MechanicalKeyboards

People in to keyboards as aesthetic objects. /cc @mwichary

2018-08-31 tootme • keyboard • art • computers

Bank of America freezing accounts

Demanding new documentation of citizenship, holding people's money hostage

2018-08-31 bankofamerica • immigration • politics • trump • citizenship

Vinod Khosla profile

A beach-focussed article

2018-08-30 vinod • vinodkhosla • martinsbeach • beach • coastalaccess • california • vcs

Google + Mastercard

Mastercard is sharing card purchase data with Google's ad program

2018-08-30 google • ads • mastercard • finance • privacy

Wil Wheaton done with social media

Excellent summary of all the bad reinforcement happening in Internet media right now

2018-08-30 internet • socialmedia • twitter • wilw • wilwheaton • mastodon

LEGO Technic Bugatti

LEGO builds a working car, including engine

2018-08-30 lego • technic • cars • bugatti • via:metafilter • tootme

OSM vandalism takes

Funny and insightful summary of possible responses to the MapBox gaffe

2018-08-30 mapbox • maps • funny • nazis • moderation • tootme

White Like Me

One of the great Eddie Murphy SNL sketches

2018-08-30 snl • funny • racism • eddiemurphy

DNC tech team

Interview with Raffi Krikorian, CTO for the Democrats

2018-08-30 politics • dnc • democrats • security • badtech • raffi

2018 Political Atlas

Horse-race site, excellent presentation of polls, influencers, bots (!), etc. Good per-race breakdowns

2018-08-30 election • politics • polling • maps

Google and State of the Union

Yet another random petty Trump lie

2018-08-30 trump • politics • google • stateoftheunion

Teen Cruz vs. Teen Beto

Some hilarity in Texas politics

2018-08-30 funny • texas • tedcruz • beto • zodiackiller

Stripping citizenship

US denying passports to Americans on suspicion their 30+ year old birth certificates might be fake

2018-08-29 racism • trump • politics • immigration • citizenship • american

QAnon vs Voodoo Donuts

Crazy conspiracy theorists decide popular Portland donut shop is actually a pedophile ring. Harassment ensues

2018-08-29 portland • voodoodonuts • rumor • qanon

Racist Florida dogwhistle

Republican governor candidate disparages his Black opponent, with just a shred of plausible deniability

2018-08-29 language • race • racism • black • florida • politics • elections

2001: A Tweet Odyssey

Whole movie in storyboard form

2018-08-29 twitter • tootme • movies • 2001 • scifi • storyboard • kokogiak • film

1995 Blockchain

Crypto system has been publishing hashes in the NYTimes since 1995

2018-08-29 blockchain • crypto • nytimes • archive

RIP Brian Egg

Ugly murder of a gay man in San Francisco

2018-08-28 gay • murder • lgbt • sanfrancisco

North Carolina gerrymandering update

Court finds the maps in place can't be used in the Nov 2018 election. Gonna make a hell of a mess.

2018-08-28 gerrymandering • northcarolina • politics • nc • districting • votingrights

Google rigging claim

Details behind where Trump got the idea that Google is rigged. One crappy blog, one TV segment on Fox.

2018-08-28 foxnews • google • politics • trump

Pattern Welding

Beautiful blacksmithing work constructing patterns out of composites of different kinds of steel

2018-08-28 tootme • welding • vikings • nprovos • niels • google • blacksmithing

Blocked by Trump

Tom Coates reflects on his experience being blocked by Trump for posting factual refutations of his tweets

2018-08-28 freespeech • government • twitter • trump • politics

Magic Leap One Teardown

Hardware details for the new Augmented Reality device

2018-08-28 tootme • ar • vr • xr • augmentedreality • magicleap

Uber for Shitting

Good2Go; turning toilets into an app-mediated pay-per-use experience. $6M in VC

2018-08-28 toilet • bathroom • app • culture • startup • internet

GoLang2 error handling

Proposal for a system a bit more like exceptions

2018-08-28 tootme • golang • go • programming • exceptions

States sue for right to discriminate

16 states want to "clarify" the law so they employers have the right to fire people for being LBGT

2018-08-28 lgbt • equalrights • bigotry • discrimination

Black ASL video

Example signs and linguistic scholarship. Has English subtitles

2018-08-28 language • asl • blackasl • black • tootme

Black ASL

African American sign language is different than the common American sign language

2018-08-28 asl • black • culture • deaf • language • tootme

Trump corruption

As President, interferes with FBI construction plans to protect his hotel business

2018-08-28 trump • politics • corruption • fbi • trumphotel

Why I Left Riot Games

Excruciating story of a culture of sexual harassment led from the very top

2018-08-27 games • riotgames • lol • leagueoflegends • tirefire • sexualharassment

Voter suppression in Houston

Part of the Republican's playbook for winning elections is last minute challenges to voter registration

2018-08-27 voting • votingrights • elections • politics • republicans • houston • texas

Why Love Generative Art?

Nice retrospective on computational aesthetics

2018-08-27 art • generative • medialab • history

Stross on Heinlein

The shadow that man casts on a genre... "Heinlein was all about the inadmissible thought experiment"

2018-08-27 heinlein • scifi • writing • cstross

Alex Jones watches transgender porn

InfoWars nutjob inadvertently reveals that he was watching a transgender porn video on his phone. See also 12:45 in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3RZpbXguVE

2018-08-26 infowars • alexjones • porn • transgender • lgbt • funny • scandal

Picular

Color picker based on text search; more inspirational than accurate

2018-08-26 color • design • googlesearch • images

Audrey Denney on healthcare

Congressional candidate for my district films a campaign ad from her hospital bed

2018-08-26 audrey • audreydenny • grassvalley • nevadacounty • politics • ca1

Every Senate race

Color commentary on the 35 senate races for 2018

2018-08-25 politics • senate • election • 2018

JupyterCon trip report

Future trends for notebook-style computing

2018-08-25 computing • programming • jupyter • notebooks • code

S2 Geometry

Google's approach to grids for spheres. /cc @redblobgames

2018-08-25 maps • geometry • geography • google • via:mastodon

Uber H3

A hex grid for spatial data. Seems a bit overengineered, but interesting. /cc @redblobgames

2018-08-25 grids • geometry • maps • via:mastodon

Snatched child update

Nearly no families have been reunited in the past two weeks

2018-08-25 immigrants • politics • trump • children

QAnon crisis of faith

Insane conspiracy theory has a hard time absorbing Cohen and Manafort's convictions

2018-08-24 qanon • politics • conspiracy • reddit • 4chan • trump

Trump squashes secure elections bill

White House cancels a bipartisan bill to make US elections safer

2018-08-24 politics • elections • whitehouse • votingrights • voting • trump

Mozilla Fellowship

Open source organization funds 26 people to do research for a better Internet

2018-08-24 internet • mozilla • firefox • tinysubversions • fellowship • grant

Tesla firmware horrors

Unverified gossipy details from a forum, reposted to Twitter. Source link is https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3862643&userid=20544

2018-08-24 tesla • via:hackernews • programming • engineering • firmware

Texas voter data

2017 story about Texas' response to a federal request for voter records

2018-08-24 texas • politics • trump • kobach • voting • votingrights

Amazon astroturfing

Pays people to tweet positive, corporate-friendly messages about how great it is to work as a human robot in an Amazon warehouse

2018-08-24 amazon • work • twitter • astroturfing

NotPetya story

Details of how a Russian cyberwarfare attack on Ukraine ended up crippling Maersk for weeks

2018-08-23 maersk • russia • politics • ukraine • security • badtech • cyberwar

Asylum seeker abuse

Group transferred up to Oregon and treated inhumanely, illegally

2018-08-23 immigrants • politics • trump • oregon • sheridan • sikhs

Twitter conversation trees

Visualization technique, focused on toxicity

2018-08-23 twitter • visualization • trees • threading

PyPy.js

Python in the browser, via PyPy and Emscripten

2018-08-23 via:hackernews • programming • python • emscripten

Thomas Hofeller obituary

Master Republican gerrymanderer

2018-08-23 politics • gerrymandering • republicans

News vs. Trump rally

How Trump handled the bad news yesterday, by ignoring it

2018-08-22 trump • politics • corruption

Where is my son?

David Xol's 7 year old son Byron was taken away from him. Then David was deported. His son is still imprisoned in the US

2018-08-22 immigration • politics • trump • guatemala • humanrights

Open data licensing

Map project relicenses its data and talks in detail about the features of the open data license they are using

2018-08-21 opendata • opensource • code • license • copyright • licensing • osm • openstreetmap

"SENATOR'S TWITTER ID"

Someone's Twitter spamming web form has a bug

2018-08-21 twitter • spam • politics

Microsoft Defending Democracy

Major tech company pledges to help all political campaigns be more secure

2018-08-21 microsoft • security • politics • russia

Russian political hacks in 2018

Probes against conservative websites

2018-08-21 russia • politics • hacking • badtech • elections • hudsoninstitute • republicans

Adding a pipe operator to Python

Clever code-rewriting hack to add new syntax to the language. Don't do this at work, kids.

2018-08-21 python • coding • programming • language • elixir • via:reddit

Towards a spatial, distributed UI

One of my smartest friends has been working 10+ years on a new user interface for computers. They're starting to explain it in video form

2018-08-20 ui • hci • medialab • mitmedialab • oblong • jh • underkoffler

Ada Lovelace's program

Details on the design of the Analytical Engine and Lovelace's contributions on the idea of computer programming

2018-08-20 history • lovelace • adalovelace • via:hackernews • babbage • programming • computing

N.K. Jemisin's Hugo speech

Takes a bit, but she gets rolling in this award acceptance and it's great

2018-08-20 scifi • hugo • jemisin • brokenearth

RIP Nob Hill Theater

San Francisco's venerable gay strip club closes

2018-08-20 gay • lgbt • history • sanfrancisco • stripclub

Mastodon governance problems

Some people not happy with how the Mastodon author maintains things

2018-08-20 mastodon • software • community • gargron

Ötzi's tools

Remarkable archaeological storytelling based on tools found with a 5300 year old corpse

2018-08-19 archaeology • history • Ötzi • science

Lifesaving drone

UAV flew a life jacket 200 feet offshore to rescue someone

2018-08-19 safety • drones • uavs • via:hackernews

North Dakota has no voter registration

ID required to vote, and there is a state database of voters. But no explicit registration step

2018-08-18 northdakota • voting • votingrights • politics

Why I Quit Twitter

A very simple and direct list

2018-08-18 twitter • culture • internet

Shit in San Francisco

Guardian with an opinion column

2018-08-18 sanfrancisco • shit • city • homeless • mentalillness • publictoilets

ICE arrest during childbirth

Father arrested while driving his wife to the hospital

2018-08-18 ice • immigration • arrest • cruelty

Civil War reasons

Historian summarizes secessionists talking about slavery

2018-08-18 slavery • history • civilwar

Pinafore for Mastodon

Alternate web client for the social media platform

2018-08-17 mastodon • twitter • ui • webui

Trump's racism

Why it doesn't much matter whether there's a tape of Trump using racial slurs or not

2018-08-17 trump • politics • racism

Honest Diversity in Tech Report

Sharp satire

2018-08-17 funny • tirefire • diversity • tech • parody • satire

Equal Earth projection

A new equal area projection that's not totally ugly like Gall-Peters is

2018-08-17 maps • projection • equalarea • earth

Google employee unrest

Concerns from staff about ethical quandries, including AI and search in China

2018-08-16 google • china • ai • ethics

“Dog” in European languages

An unusual distribution for a very old word

2018-08-16 language • via:reddit • etymology • history

Faxploit

Pwn a network by calling their fax machine

2018-08-16 fax • badtech • security • exploit

Georgia vote suppression

Closing polling places in predominately Black areas

2018-08-16 georgia • voting • politics • votingrights • racism

Airships: Conquer the Skies

RTS/Tower Defenseish game from an Internet friend of mine

2018-08-16 games • rts • towerdefense • indiegames • indie

Myth of Robert E Lee

Details of General Lee's support for slavery, etc

2018-08-16 slavery • politics • history • lee • robertelee • civilwar • revisionism

Tuvalu photos

Nice images from the Polynesian island /cc @r3x0r

2018-08-15 polynesia • tuvalu • photos • photography

CA political hacking

Cyberwarfare against one of Rohrbacher's opponents

2018-08-15 politics • elections • security • badtech • rohrbacher • california • via:reddit

America Force

Vote for your favorite logo

2018-08-15 america • politics • funny • spaceforce

SIM sticker

Workaround for single-SIM phones; a thin sticker that piggybacks on your existing SIM

2018-08-15 sim • sticker • mobile • phone • roaming • data • cellular

SQLite page level locking

New locking strategy would greatly expand the number of things you can use SQLite for

2018-08-15 sqlite • database • locking • concurrency • via:hackernews

Unleaded Avgas

The decades-long saga of replacing airplane fuel with an unleaded version continues

2018-08-15 aviation • avgas • lead • evnironment • 100ll • oshkosh • flying

Wine box boyfriend

Funny art project

2018-08-15 gay • lgbt • photos • funny • via:metafilter • art

Discussing fascism responsibly

German interview with far-right party AdF successfully engages them respectfully without giving them a platform

2018-08-15 adf • journalism • nazis • fascism

Awesome-WSL

some improvements for Windows Services for Linux

2018-08-15 linux • windows • unix • commandline

The whole nine yards

More details on etymology, looks like a phrase that has 400 years of history meaning generically "a lot"

2018-08-14 language • etymology • via:languagehat • wholenineyards • nineyards

On interviewing Nazis

Adam Davidson and Noel King talking about whether she should have interviewed Kessler on NPR

2018-08-14 kessler • npr • journalism • politics • nazis

NandGame

Building a computer by wiring together TTL logic, starting with NAND gates

2018-08-13 programming • computers • games • via:metafilter

Gender-free contra dancing

Friends of mine in Boston featured in an article about queer-friendly dancing

2018-08-13 dance • gay • lgbt • queer • boston • contradancing

Stephen Miller's family

The immigrant family history of the architect of US white supremacist immigration policy

2018-08-13 immigration • politics • trump • miller • hyporisy • america

Separated family

NPR interview with Mircy, a woman whose 3 year old was taken from her at the border

2018-08-12 scottsimon • npr • interview • news • immigration • children • politics • trump

Bitcoin forensics success

Details of tracing MtGox coins after the theft

2018-08-11 bitcoin • forensics • via:hackernews • theft • fraud • badtech • cryptocurrencies

Twitter loves InfoWars

Refuses to boot the conspiracy hate group, even after acknowledging they broke Twitter's rules

2018-08-11 twitter • infowars • politics

No-platforming works

Removing Nazis and other deplorables from Twitter affects their reach

2018-08-10 nazis • twitter • platform • speech • culture • decency

VIA x86 backdoor

2003 model CPU has a full hardware backdoor giving you immediate full system access.

2018-08-10 via • x86 • cpu • backdoor • badtech

White Nationalists are winning

The re-normalization of racism in America

2018-08-10 america • politics • trump • racism • whitenationalism

Kara Swisher on Twitter

She puts her thumb on the problem, lack of coherent vision and values at Twitter

2018-08-09 twitter • infowars • politics • jack

Portland, enemy territory

Are these dispatches from the coming civil war? Or just some minor fascism?

2018-08-09 politics • portland • america • racism • via:metafilter • fascism

Six Months at Riot Games

A former employee speaks of her experiences with sexual harassment at Riot Dublin

2018-08-09 games • riot • riotgames • sexism • women • feminism • harassment

Fascist rally in Portland

Details from the August 4 march by Patriot Prayer and fellow travellers

2018-08-09 politics • portland • fascism • nazis • patriotprayer • joeygibson

Responsibility for child snatching

Congress should subpoena Trump administration to figure out who was responsible for the atrocity policy

2018-08-09 trump • politics • children • congress • justice • immigration

gvisor

Google approach to sandboxing; a full Linux syscall emulation written in Golang

2018-08-08 golang • go • security • container • sandboxing • Google

App Engine + Python 3.7

Google App Engine is rebranded as "serverless", supports modern computing environments

2018-08-08 google • python • appengine

Voatz details

Inside technical analysis of what sounds like a snakeoil voting technology company

2018-08-08 voatz • voting • westvirginia • politics • votingrights • elections • badtech

GitHub's load balancer

IP load balancer with a bunch of very complex tech, now open source

2018-08-08 github • loadbalancer • internet • scaling • engineering • layer4

I Quit Twitter and It Feels Great

Newly topical

2018-08-08 twitter • nazis • jack • socialmedia • culture

Done with Twitter

Matt Haughey, one of the Internet's nicest and most thoughtful guys, has had enough

2018-08-08 mathowie • matthaughey • twitter • nazis • politics • infowars • jack

Taking Trump’s corruption seriously

Excellent hour long podcast going deep into various forms of corruption in the Trump Organization, Trump Foundation, etc

2018-08-08 politics • trump • corruption • money • davidson • adamdavidson • ezraklein

Sexism at Riot Games

League of Legends' bro culture extends inside the company

2018-08-07 sexism • harassment • gender • games • lol • leagueoflegends • feminism • women

Homebrew security hole

Mismanaged GitHub credentials

2018-08-07 homebrew • security • badtech

WhatsApp limits

Attempt to stop spread of bad information by limiting how much someone can forward

2018-08-07 viral • economist • politics • whatsapp • india • socialmedia

FCC lied about DDOS

Finally comes clean, blames previous administration

2018-08-07 politics • ajitpai • fcc • corruption • netneutrality

EPA ❤️ asbestos

The gradual dismantlement of all government functions

2018-08-07 epa • asbestos • cancer • trump • health • politics • regulation • corruption

Wilbur Ross' grifts

From stealing Sweet-n-Low packets to stealing $120M from colleagues. He's now the Secretary of Commerce

2018-08-07 trump • politics • wilburross • ross • corruption • fraud

Mobile phone voting

West Virginia is experimenting with what sounds like a snakeoil company

2018-08-06 voatz • voting • votingrights • westvirginia • politics

MoviePass is in a lot of trouble

Changing product from $10 / unlimited movies to $15 / three movies. Stock is worth 0.01% of what it was last year

2018-08-06 moviepass • startups • companies • movies

DeVos McMansion

deliciously snarky architectural critique

2018-08-06 devos • betsydevos • mcmansion • wealth • politics • trump • architecture • house

Facebook API shutdown

Some technical details on all the ways Facebook has limited their API

2018-08-06 facebook • api • bridgy • twitter • speech

James Baldwin on Dick Cavett

Remarkably clear answer about why he is so aware of race

2018-08-05 racism • jamesbaldwin • race • politics • baldwin

Deep Learning Cookbook

New technical book by my friend @dosinga

2018-08-05 books • oreilly • deeplearning • machinelearning • ai

Factorio: Save the Base

A fun story of someone taking an overrun Factorio base and saving it from alien attack

2018-08-05 factorio • games • story • via:reddit

Nazi rally in Portland

Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer bullshit in Portland, antifa and friends made a good showing until the cops attacked them

2018-08-05 nazis • portland • oregon • protest • police

Vote suppression committee sham

Kobach committee on voter fraud had written the conclusions before doing any research

2018-08-04 kobach • kriskobach • votingrights • politics • trump

Vox on Sarah Jeong

Another thoughtful analysis of the false equivalence racism charges

2018-08-03 sarahjeong • nyt • nytimes • racism • politics • writing • journalism

🧚‍♂️ Man Fairy Emoji

Finally a single Unicode character that represents everything about me

2018-08-03 unicode • gay • lgbt • fairy

ICE hiding the evidence

Government agency destroying records of sexual abuse, deaths of prisoners, other malfeasance

2018-08-03 ice • record • government • transparency • immigration • trump • politics

Trinidad, transgender capital

Starting in 1969 this small town was a center of sex reassignment surgery

2018-08-03 stanleybiber • trans • transgender • lgbt • history • colorado • trinidad

Jeong defense

Much stronger words in defense of the writer than her own employer the NYTimes has offered

2018-08-02 sarahjeong • nytimes • nyt • racism • writing • politics

Spectrum ISP shakedown

Why net neutrality is important; forced Riot Games and Netflix to pay for reasonable network access

2018-08-02 spectrum • isp • netneutrality • badtech • games • riotgames • leagueoflegends • lol

Kris Kobach’s grift

Kansas politician creates legal work for himself by convincing small towns to pass useless, illegal laws

2018-08-01 fraud • kobach • votingrights • politics • kansas

Google + China

Reports that Google is preparing a new censored search for the Chinese market

2018-08-01 china • google • censorship • capitulation

SMS 2FA is bad

Reddit had a security breach because someone hijacked an administrator's cell phone

2018-08-01 sms • 2fa • twofactor • hijacking • badtech • security • reddit

Colors for visualization

Set of tools and best practices for picking colors

2018-08-01 datavis • visualization • color • colour • colorbrewer • data • design

Street map coffee mugs

Select an area and make a coffee mug map

2018-08-01 maps • coffeemug • zazzle • via:reddit • osm • openstreetmap

QAnon for Trump

Lunatic conspiracy theory highly visible at Trump rally

2018-08-01 trump • politics • qanon • conspiracy • 8chan

Minimal Ubuntu

Linux squished down to 29MB as a base for Docker images, etc

2018-08-01 docker • linux • ubuntu