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Child concentration camp
immigration gets even worse
2018-09-30
trump • children • immigration • politics
Kavanaugh’s appeal
He's popular *because* he's a loutish frat boy with a history of rapey behavior
2018-09-30
trump • politics • kavanaugh • rape • women
Padma Lakshmi's rape
Model / TV star talks about being raped at 16
2018-09-26
rape • kavanaugh • politics • trump • women • feminism • gender
Oud Amsterdam genever
A touristy liquor store in central Amsterdam, sells aged genever from barrels
2018-09-24
genever • gin • liquor • spirits • amsterdam
Curve-Fitting
xkcd with the reality of statistical presentation
2018-09-21
tootme • visualization • statistics • xkcd • curvefitting • regression
Children as bait
ICE arresting people who came forward to take care of children orphaned by ICE
2018-09-21
ice • immigration • politics • atrocity • outrage • children
Mueller's silence
Details about the prosecutor's complete avoidance of leaks and gossip
2018-09-20
mueller • politics • trump • russia
American connectedness
Smart visualizations of Facebook friendship data, showing geographical connectedness in social relationships
2018-09-20
america • maps • visualization • facebook
Russia Story so Far
Valiant effort by the NYT to summarize what we know to date
2018-09-20
politics • trump • russia
howto.vote
New site helping you register and vote in the United States
2018-09-20
unitedstates • voting • politics • tootme
1500 missing migrant kids
Yet more incompetence by the Trump administration; losing track of children after placing them with sponsor families
2018-09-20
children • kids • immigration • politics • humanrights
Men are more afraid than ever
The shift in conversation towards normalizing the kind of sexual assault Kavanaugh is accused of
2018-09-19
sex • rape • sexualassault • politics • kavanaugh • rapeculture
Gary Sherman of QGIS
Interview with the founder of the open source GIS tool
2018-09-19
qgis • gis • opensource • via:hackernews • tootme
Magecart attacks
Major ecommerce sites are compromised for weeks by malicious Javascript that steals credit card info
2018-09-19
fraud • badtech • creditcards • magecart • newegg • britishairways • ticketmaster
No, I Will Not Debate You
A carefully reasoned piece about the dangers of fascist speech
2018-09-19
freespeech • politics • debate • platform • speech • via:metafilter
B.A.R. Obituaries
An archive of the AIDS crisis; the random obituary button is one way to sample
2018-09-19
aids • hiv • gay • lgbt • history • sanfrancisco • california
Kavanaugh and Vince Foster
Yet another ugly episode from the Supreme Court nominee's life
2018-09-19
politics • kavanaugh • conspiracy • clinton • vincefoster
Women cheated on stock options
Women get half the equity in tech jobs that men do
2018-09-18
gender • tirefire • fairness • startups • stock
Gay Sesame Street
One of the show's writers talks about gay muppets history
2018-09-18
muppets • lgbt • gay • via:metafilter • tootme
Against medical advice
Investigating the folk wisdom that insurance will refuse to pay for your health care if you leave against medical advice. (Spoiler: it's not true).
2018-09-18
medicine • patient • insurance • healthcare
Kavanaugh's attempted rape
Details from the victim of his drunken teenage rape attempt
2018-09-16
kavanaugh • politics • supremecourt
Blistering Moments: Clean Thyself
Experimental Houston electronic duo that blew my mind in the 80s
2018-09-16
music • houston • tootme • blisteringmoments • electronica • therapeuticdreams
Typhoon Mangkhut video
Horrifying clips from a massive storm in Hong Kong / Shenzhen
2018-09-16
typhoon • hurricane • weather • hongkong • shenzhen • tootme
On stage with Bannon
Andrew McLaughlin's thoughts on going to the Economist event despite Steve Bannon being there
2018-09-15
politics • freespeech • bannon • economist • racism • demagogues
ContraPoints
Fascinating and smart cultural and philosophical criticism
2018-09-15
xoxo • tootme • transgender • trans • lgbt • criticism
Guerilla rainbow crosswalk
Oakland residents got tired of waiting, painted the street themselves
2018-09-15
lgbt • oakland • tootme • gayrights • gay
Vat19.com: Kitchen
Ridiculous gadgets you absolutely do not need
2018-09-15
kitchen • tootme • cooking • funny • gadget • store
Unauthorized carrier landing
Remarkable story of the escape of a Vietnamese officer and his family
2018-09-14
aviation • tootme • vietnam • vietnamwar • carrier
Undertaking LA
A progressive funeral home, offering no-nonsense affordable cremation and burial
2018-09-14
funeral • death • burial • losangeles • tootme • california
Automatic Speech Recognition
Comparison of various services for text transcription
2018-09-14
via:hackernews • tootme • speech • ai • text • transcription
Today's Guardian
Excellent alternate user interface, very thin
2018-09-14
guardian • news • newspaper • mobile • tootme • design
NRA vs Thomas the Tank Engine
Pro-murder organization now also anti-diversity, has no limit to how low they'll go
2018-09-14
nra • propaganda • politics • thomas • thomasthetankengine
ICE interrogating children
Kids asked if they have family in the US; then the family is arrested
2018-09-13
ice • immigration • politics • trump • republicans • gop • humanrights
Forbidden Snacks
Subreddit for pictures of things that look like delicious food but are not
2018-09-13
funny • food • tootme • pictures
Spider-Man proposal story
Reality behind that creepy story of a marriage proposal in a videogame
2018-09-13
games • spiderman • marriage • gamergate
5x kids in detention camps
Migrant kids being kept in immigration detention at a much higher rate because Republicans are making it hard to find temporary homes for them
2018-09-13
migrants • immigrations • kids • prison • civilrights • humanrights
Riot's ongoing problem
No sign of any real change as the perpetrators of harassment continue to run the company
2018-09-13
games • riotgames • sexism • tirefire • harassment
College football blowouts
Details of the disgusting greed that drives stupidly overmatched football games
2018-09-12
football • sports • corruption • injury • college • tootme
Trans' right to vote
Strict enforcement of voter registration may disenfranchise transgender people
2018-09-12
trans • lgbt • transgender • politics • voting • votingrights
Beatles kinky sex
NY Daily News really outdoes itself covering salacious memories of Paul McCartney
2018-09-12
funny • sex • beatles • music • tootme
Nomenclature of Colours
Classic 1821 reference
2018-09-12
color • design • tootme
Palmyra Atoll
A piece of US land with unusual jurisdiction
2018-09-11
america • colonialism • polynesia • island • tootme
XOXO art+code
Nice summary of presentations at XOXO Festival
2018-09-11
xoxo • art • culture • tootme • glitch
Aadhaar hack
Anyone can create new fake people in India's national person database
2018-09-11
india • politics • badtech • hacking • aadhaar • tootme
Terrance Davis' life and death
Excellent article about the creator of TempleOS, the outsider operating system
2018-09-11
mentalillness • suicide • templeos • via:metafilter
Google hate result
Hate group is top result for a search looking for support
2018-09-10
lgbt • gay • google • search • focusonfamily
Jupyter diff
Notebook diff and merge tools
2018-09-10
tootme • git • jupyter • notebooks • python • programming • versioncontrol
Kalsarikännit
The feeling when you are going to get drunk home alone in your underwear – with no intention of going out.
2018-09-10
tootme • funny • finland • finnish • drinking • alcohol
Video game proposal
... gone wrong. Most hilarious thing I've read all weekend
2018-09-10
games • marriage • funny • via:reddit
Williams v Osaka video
Clips of Williams' standing up for herself to the tennis judge
2018-09-09
williams • osaka • tennis • usopen • sports • tootme
Williams v Osaka
A failure of judging at the US Open
2018-09-09
tennis • usopen • serenawilliams • racism • sexism • tootme
Kavanaugh perjury
GOP stole documents from Democrats; Kavanaugh used them and lied about it
2018-09-08
politics • supremecourt • kavanaugh • perjury
Riot Games' retaliation
Employees and ex-employees being threatened and harassed for speaking out against the company
2018-09-07
riot • riotgames • games • harassment • tirefire
Becoming American
Laurie Seldo with a very thoughtful essay
2018-09-07
tootme • citizenship • america • politics • immigration • trinidad
"Art dismantles power. Otherwise it's propaganda."
A powerful quote from XOXO (and before)
2018-09-07
art • propaganda • standup • xoxofest • tootme
India legalizes LGBTs
Supreme Court finally struck down 377, the colonial era law outlawing homosexual sex
2018-09-06
lgbt • civilrights • gay • india • politics • tootme
Third party cookie evaluation
Detailed analysis of how well tracking protection works. Summary: it doesn't.
2018-09-06
privacy • ads • cookies • tootme • internet • browser
Trump Resistance
Anonymous op/ed from someone inside the White House talking about how there are adults in the room
2018-09-05
whitehouse • politics • trump • oped • nyt
2002 GOP email hacking
Ugly scandal from the Senate 15 years ago: Republicans stole confidential email from Democrats in the Senate
2018-09-05
gop • republican • ethics • politics • government
1980s chartmaking
From the old days of literal cut-and-paste
2018-09-05
visualization • tootme • newspaper • charts
Silicon Valley's wane
Detailed article on trends in tech companies that suggest more startup activity in other places
2018-09-05
siliconvalley • business • startup • tech • tootme
Precision Time Protocol
Microssecond-level synchronization of time on a local network
2018-09-05
time • ntp • ptp • spanner • truetime • ieee1588 • tootme
Graphtreon
Patreon projects ranked by number of patrons
2018-09-04
patreon • statistics • internet • tootme
Nikuyah Walker
Mayor of Charlottesville, elected after last year's murderous Nazi rally
2018-09-04
nazis • politics • charlottesville • south • tootme
Calafia closing
Chef Charlie from Google's restaurant was no longer financially viable
2018-09-04
google • food • restaurant • charlie • calafia
Neural network concepts
Reasonable overview with pictures of components of machine learning
2018-09-03
neuralnetworks • machinelearning • programming • via:metafilter • tootme
QAnon world map
Batshit insane conspiracy theory has an incomprehensible map
2018-09-03
maps • qanon • charts • politics • conspiracy • batshitinsane
Nakedly subverting the courts
The President directing his Attorney General about influencing the election.
2018-09-03
corruption • trump • politics • sessions • attorneygeneral
Decolonizing Virtual Worlds
AbTeC, a few examples of Indigenous people influencing tech development. /cc @mahelona
2018-09-03
tootme • indigenous • native • tech • diversity • via:metafilter
Corrupting SQLite
various ways the most careful database can fail
2018-09-03
sqlite • database • reliability • computers
Bishop Swan banned from Twitter
NAACP leader banned from Twitter for some intemperate language while Nazis and dangerously hateful people remain
2018-09-03
twitter • policy • ban
Twitter 1/2 CEO protects Nazis
WSJ reporting that Twitter's policy decisions on Richard Spencer and Alex Jones were personally overridden by the half-time CEO
2018-09-03
twitter • politics • alexjones • richardspencer • jack • jackdorsey
The Day Beyoncé Turned Black
Sharp bit of racial parody
2018-09-02
funny • snl • black • beyonce • tootme
Enterprise™
A programming language that is the evolution of Java (parody)
2018-09-02
funny • programming • via:metafilter • java • tootme
Minority users
Profound little tweet
2018-09-01
chrome • pregnancy • feminism • users
Google and bias
Trump's claims are lies, but there is a real concern about what bias at the search engine could do
2018-09-01
google • search • ethics • politics • bias • antitrust • monopoly