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Homelessness in SF, LA, NYC
A thoughtful attempt at comparing three cities
2018-10-31
homelessness • via:reddit • politics • homeless • sf • newyork • la • losangeles • sanfrancisco • nyc
Los Angeles typhus
Over 100 people victims of California's cruelty to homless people
2018-10-31
california • losangeles • typhus • politics • disease • homeless
Wong Kim Ark
19th century case finding that the 14th amendment trumped the racism of the Chinese Exclusion Act
2018-10-31
america • immigration • politics • history • tootme • 14thamendment
factcheck.me
New system for monitoring propaganda bot activity on Twitter
2018-10-31
twitter • bots • propaganda
Caravan tweets: 60% bots
Twitter's platform is infested with propaganda software
2018-10-31
politics • twitter • democracy • bots • propaganda
Li Shiu Tong
Magnus Hirschfeld's lover, a victim of the Nazis
2018-10-30
hirschfeld • sex • lgbt • gay • via:metafilter • tootme
Smear campaign against Mueller
Deplorables trying to pay women to allege sexual harassment
2018-10-30
mueller • harassment • politics • trump
Russia propaganda 2018
Election tampering via online propaganda hasn't stopped
2018-10-30
politics • russia • trump • propaganda
Why Is CBD Everywhere?
Marijuana derivative is newly popular an the NYT is ON IT
2018-10-30
marijuana • cbd • drugs • tootme
Baby's first adware
Apps for children contain pervasive deceptive ads. Mind viruses for kids.
2018-10-30
children • ads • kids • ethics • software • google • apple • tootme
Brownshirt arrest
Violent white supremacist arrested after terrorizing various political demonstrations
2018-10-29
politics • fascism • trump
Library of Codexes
Collections of texts from video games like Skyrim, etc
2018-10-29
games • rpg • books • reading • tootme • skyrim
How Trump sparked a massacre
A straight line from Trump's lies about immigration to 11 dead Jews in a synagogue
2018-10-28
trump • politics • violence • facism • judaism • immigration
Pittsburgh shooter's Gab account
CW: violent anti-semitism. Shooter of PGH synagogue had an account on Gab full of hate, making specific threats.
2018-10-27
pittsburgh • hate • shooting • gab • robertbowers
Tibo Knows Photoshop
It gets kinda funny
2018-10-27
tibo • funny • photoshop • via:reddit • fakenews • politics • tootme
Truchet polygons
An extension of an idea on how to make interesting tiling patterns
2018-10-27
tiling • pattern • tootme • via:joshmillard • truchet
"Fake bomb" aftermath
Some followup on what deplorable people are saying now that it's clear the bombing campaign was real and carried about by a Trump fanatic
2018-10-27
trump • politics • bombing • magabomber • lies
systemd bad programming
Detailed snarky review of a security bug that betrays someone who doesn't know how to write modern safer C
2018-10-27
systemd • programming • snark • via:hackernews • tootme
Northern Marianas damage
The typhoon has wrecked the US territory
2018-10-27
typhoon • hurricane • weather • northernmarianas • america • tootme
More Texas voting problems
Democrats end up voting for Ted Cruz (R); Republicans vote for no one.
2018-10-26
politics • texas • elections • votingmachines • votingrights • voting
Roger Severino
The director of Human Rights at HHS is an anti-LGBT activist. He's the center of the anti-trans crap the Trump people are doing now
2018-10-26
lgbt • civilrights • gayrights • trans • politics • trump
Texas votes changed
Reports that a vote for Beto got changed to a vote for Ted Cruz
2018-10-26
election • politics • texas • voting • votingmachines • votingrights • fraud
Georgia votes changed
Reports that people voting for the Democrat are finding the machine changed their vote
2018-10-26
georgia • voting • votingrights • politics • election • fraud • votingmachines
Parsing logs with Rust
Extracting JSON data from logfiles quickly and cheaply
2018-10-26
rust • data • logs • processing • tootme
AI art knockoff
Open source code used to create a piece up for auction, controversy ensues
2018-10-26
art • graphics • machinelearning • ai • christies • tootme • originality
iOS text message forwarding
At some point in the last few years iPhones got the ability to forward SMS text messages you received so they show up on your iPad / Mac laptop
2018-10-25
message • sms • iphone • ios • textmessage • tootme
Google sexual harassment culture
Company has a long problem with senior executives. Mostly details on Andy Rubin, but talks about several other scandals and misconducts too
2018-10-25
google • sexualharassment • tirefire • harassment • women
Alaskan "I Voted!" stickers
Neat collection; there's an English one with a moose, too
2018-10-24
alaska • voting • politics • tootme • election • stickers
Trump's insecure phones
Russian and Chinese intelligence listen in on the President's phone calls, but it's OK because he doesn't really pay attention to classified intel anyway.
2018-10-24
trump • politics • scandal • spy • espionage • iphone • security • badtech
Samin Nosrat appreciation
Recognition for the unusual space the creator of the amazing "Salt, Fact, Acid, Heat" cooking show inhabits
2018-10-24
tootme • food • eating • tv • saminnosrat • culture • cooking
Migrant caravan explained
Vox with context for the immigrants trying to get to the US
2018-10-24
immigration • politics • caravan
SF business taxes
Some more details on Prop C and the current state of San Francisco's unique gross receipts tax
2018-10-24
sanfrancisco • tax • politics
XOXO + Kickstarter
Festival working with Kickstarter to figure out how to support creators with subscription revenue
2018-10-24
kickstarter • patreon • xoxo • tootme • creative
Voter turnout map
Details by county of which Americans voted in 2016
2018-10-24
america • voting • politics • votingrights • maps • data
Delusion to policy
Trump makes up some random promise or claim, bureaucracy scrambles to make it real
2018-10-24
trump • politics • policy • taxcut
Bay Area priest sex abusers
Details on 250+ Catholic priests involved in sex abuse, then posted to work in the Bay Area
2018-10-24
bayarea • catholic • priest • clergy • sexabuse • church • religion
Ultimate Plumber
shell programming tool for interactively building up pipelines
2018-10-24
shell • bash • linux • programming • tootme • interactive • notebooks
Zollars
Zimbabwe's economy is falling apart again, this time hyperinflation of what is supposed to be the US dollar
2018-10-24
money • policy • finance • economy • zimbabwe • politics • tootme
Gamelan Sun Ra
Gamelan Genta Kasturi in Kansas City
2018-10-23
music • sunra • gamelan • tootme
Trump's mystery tax cut
Even by the usual standards of Trump's bullshit this one is pretty baffling
2018-10-23
politics • trump • lies • taxes
Suck's NETMOGULS
The classic parody of late 90s tech culture
2018-10-23
tootme • history • internet • culture • funny • suck
BlairOracle
High school class makes a political prediction system. What's neat is all the assumptions in the model are meticulously documented for you to read
2018-10-23
politics • statistics • prediction • highschool • tootme
Viacrucis Migrante
What the migrant caravan in Mexico is about
2018-10-23
mexico • politics • immigration • trump • honduras • centralamerica
Migrant Caravan
Astonishing photos of people willing to do almost anything to get out of Honduras
2018-10-22
honduras • immigration • travel • politics • tootme
glTF
A file format for 3d scenes; Facebook understands it
2018-10-22
3d • facebook • webgl • vrml • graphics • tootme
California Voter's Choice Act
The law by which some counties in CA are doing all vote by mail
2018-10-22
voting • votingrights • politics • california • tootme
Maritime day shapes
A simple signalling system for boats
2018-10-22
boats • sailing • signal • via:metafilter
866 Our Vote
Phone hotline for people having trouble voting
2018-10-22
votingrights • voting • politics • tootme • election
Democrats tech challenges
Another article about the work Raffi Krikorian and the tech team at the DNC is doing
2018-10-22
dnc • politics • voterfile • democrats • technology • tootme
Ethnographic map of Austrian Empire, 1855
I georectified a beautifully detailed map posted to reddit
2018-10-21
maps • reddit • tootme • austria • europe • 1855 • hungary • ethnicgroups
Evelyne Farkas, private chef
Friend of mine in Paris is available to hire as a private chef
2018-10-21
cooking • chef • evelyne • paris • france • food • tootme
Saudi Twitter manipulation
Not just bots and paid tweets; they had a spy working as a Twitter engineer
2018-10-20
saudiarabia • saudi • twitter • politics
Red Dead Redemption recap
Story recap ahead of RDR2, which will be a prequel
2018-10-20
games • rdr • reddeadredemption • tootme
107,000 Georgia voters purged
People removed from the poll for not voting in prior elections
2018-10-20
georgia • politics • voting • votingrights
Effort to vote by state
Map of which states make it hard to vote
2018-10-20
vote • voting • politics • votingrights • tootme • map
SF homeless infosystem
One System tracks individual homeless people to help provide services more efficiently
2018-10-20
homeless • sf • sanfrancisco • politics • tootme
Slack on a SNES
Using a cartridge that interfaced with a modem receiving satellite broadcasts
2018-10-19
snes • nes • nintendo • slack • hack • via:waxy
Signature voter suppresion
Georgia has amateurs comparing handwriting in signatures to disqualify votes. Guess who suffers the most?
2018-10-19
georgia • voting • votingrights • politics • votersuppression
How to Vote
Fun little promo video
2018-10-19
voting • votingrights • politics • tootme • adejuyigbe
Heirloom fruit trees
Gold Rush orchard remnants in Nevada County with apples, etc. /cc @celesteramsay @scrumphousecidr
2018-10-19
cider • apple • fruit • farming • grassvalley • nevadacounty • tootme
pro-Saudi Twitter botnet
Propaganda in real time
2018-10-19
propaganda • saudiarabia • kashoggi • twitter
Daily life of an HSBC exec
This has to be a parody. For instance, it's not realistic to take Caltrain to visit VCs in Palo Alto for a couple of hours in the afternoon
2018-10-19
business • lifestyle • tootme • hsbc • venturecapital
Heritage cider
Apple cider is an interesting thing making a comeback
2018-10-19
cider • drinks • beverages • food • tootme • apples
Day of the Devs
SF indie gaming event Nov 11
2018-10-19
games • sf • sanfrancisco • gaming • tootme
Nonesuch in OKC
Fun food writing about a very fine restaurant in an unlikely location
2018-10-19
okc • oklahoma • food • travel • restaurants • tootme
CA-50 picture
An odd and close political race in California between an indicted Republican and a Democrat
2018-10-18
politics • california • ca50 • ca-50 • tootme
Pump and Trump
Another major investigation into Trump Organization fraud; this one on international business dealings based on lies
2018-10-18
trump • politics • fraud • realestate • emoluments
Non-compete abuse
Janitors, dog walkers, fast food employees being told to sign their right to future work away
2018-10-18
abuse • labor • via:hackernews • noncompete
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus
Remarkable 16th century painting
2018-10-17
art • 16thcentury • painting • vienna • wien • tootme • penis
Patriot Prayer's gun nest
Fascist group stationed themselves in a sniper position at a Portland protest
2018-10-17
portland • guns • fascism • patriotprayer • politics
Zinke fired his investigator
Corrupt Interior Secretary just fired the person overseeing investigations into his corruption
2018-10-17
politics • zinke • corruption • trump • interior
Apple data export
Big step for data transparency and portability
2018-10-17
apple • export • data • privacy • goodtech
Stratospheric aerosol injection
Geoengineering, a solution to global warming no one wants to consider because it is so frightening
2018-10-17
globalwarming • climate • geoengineering • aerosol • environment
GOP adoptiong Proud Boys
Literal fascist group becoming the Republican's own brownshirts
2018-10-17
politics • fascism • proudboys • republicans • rnc • gop • violence • america
Trump supporters as marketing list
Voter and donator lists are never used for commercial marketing. Until now.
2018-10-17
trump • politics • voterfile • privacy • marketing • ads
Emoluments for dummies
Trump says out loud the reason he likes the Saudis is they give him money
2018-10-17
trump • politics • saudiarabia • money • corruption
Security at the DNC
Long detailed article on what Raffi Krikorian has done as CTO of the Democrats, improving their computer security
2018-10-17
security • badtech • politics • raffi • tootme • dnc • democrats
Methinks
Remnants of English dative and an alternate meaning of the verb "think"
2018-10-17
german • english • language • linguistics • grammer • methinks • dative • tootme
Voting Rights Act fallout
Voting has gotten significantly harder in many states since the Supreme Court gutted the VRA
2018-10-16
votingrights • voting • politics • elections • vra
American assassin mercs
UAE hired American ex-special forces to murder people in Yemen
2018-10-16
yemen • uae • assassination • america • politics • military • mercenaries
Monterey Canyon
Remarkably deep underwater canyon just off the coast of California
2018-10-16
california • ocean • maps • bathymetry • tootme • montereybay • montereycanyon
Riot Games' ongoing garbage
LA Times update on a company culture rife with nepotism and sexism
2018-10-15
sexism • games • leagueoflegends • lol • riotgames
Trump at the Family Research Council
President speaking at an event for the anti-LGBT hate group
2018-10-15
hate • hategroup • lgbt • politics • trump
VC sexual harassment
Y Combinator surveys female founders; 20% report being sexually harassed by investors
2018-10-15
tirefire • investors • yc • sexualharassment • feminism • metoo • vc
Myanmar Facebook propaganda
Myanmar military spent years laying groundwork for genocide on Facebook
2018-10-15
facebook • genocide • myanmar • civilrights • rohingya • propaganda
GEDmatch profile
Details on the small genetics / genealogy company that's been used to break cold cases. /cc @ericajoy
2018-10-15
gedmatch • genealogy • privacy • genetics • dna • crime • tootme
Louisiana v. immigrant marriage
New law requires a birth certificate to get married, something impossible for many refugees to present
2018-10-15
louisiana • politics • racism • immigration
Painkiller - Judas Priest
Lovely cover by two kids totally rocking out and having a great time. They do a whole series of these
2018-10-15
music • heavymetal • kids • funny • judaspriest • tootme
Deep Sea biolumeniscence
75% of deep sea creatures emit light. Some beautiful photos and video
2018-10-15
tootme • marine • monterey • deepsea • bioluminescence • biology • underwater • science
Bizarro brownshirt rally in NY
Proud Boys re-enact a political assassination, then go out wilding
2018-10-14
nazis • politics • trump • proudboys • facism
Berlin rally for open and free society
Some hopeful news; quarter of a million people march in Berlin for openness
2018-10-14
berlin • germany • politics • openness • tootme
North Dakota voter suppression
More details on the Republican plan to prevent Native Americans from voting
2018-10-14
gop • republican • northdakota • politics • native • indian • nativeamerican
Google+ management
Former designer with a litany of complaints about Google management
2018-10-14
vicgundotra • gundotra • googleplus • google+ • google • tootme • management
Unlink Spotify / Facebook
Not supported, but there's a workaround to stop using Facebook to log into Spotify
2018-10-14
spotify • facebook • privacy • music • via:hackernews • tootme
Lokokitchen
photos of beautiful pies
2018-10-14
tootme • via:metafilter • cooking • food • pie • pattern
Male intimacy
Old timey photos of men being physically affectionate, but not sexual
2018-10-13
male • feminism • gay • lgbt • history • photos • tootme
Jared Kushner doesn't pay taxes
Trump's son in law apparently pays no taxes, thanks to depreciation rules
2018-10-13
tax • politics • trump • scandal • taxes
International airspace
The ways that various country's airspaces distort flight paths
2018-10-13
aviation • flying • tootme • maps • airspace
Magic Leap disappointment
One tech writer feels decidedly meh
2018-10-13
magicleap • ar • vr • hci • ui • tootme
Voter suppression roundup
Overview article of various efforts by Republicans to stop people from voting
2018-10-13
voting • votingrights • politics • republicans
New child separation
Trump and GOP want to snatch children from their parents again at the border
2018-10-12
border • immigration • kids • politics • trump
Hayden Pedigo for city council
Amarillo, Texas with some lovely surreal campaign advertising /cc @marfagringo
2018-10-12
texas • amarillo • politics • funny • tootme
Stock video horror
Adult Swim mining a rich comedy well
2018-10-12
comedy • funny • tootme • youdontsurf • stockphotos • stockvideo • adultswim
OpenDyslexic fails
The hyped font that's supposed to help dyslexia doesn't
2018-10-12
fonts • typography • dyslexia • psychology • research
How to take a screenshot
A simple cross-platform reference
2018-10-12
screenshot • howto • tootme • software
Hidden Tribes
A political analysis of American attitudes
2018-10-12
america • politics
Kara Swisher on bosses
She is a badass
2018-10-12
karaswisher • journalism • tootme • sexualharassment • harassment • mclaughlin
8000 family units separated
A new accounting of the Trump/GOP policy of separating children from their parents at the border
2018-10-12
immigration • kids • politics • trump • amnestyinternational
Brian Acton on leaving Facebook
WhatsApp founder talks about privacy, Facebook corporate stance
2018-10-12
whatsapp • facebook • tootme • privacy
The Illustrated TLS Connection
Every byte in a handshake /cc @b0rk
2018-10-12
https • http • networking • tcpip • tls • ssl • wireshark • via:hackernews
Helen
A five year old separated from her family after the supposed end of the separation policy. She gets lost in the US legal system
2018-10-12
politics • trump • immigration • children
Where We Live
NYT visualization of every building in America
2018-10-12
maps • america • openstreetmap • microsoft • osm • buildings • tootme
Voter suppression in North Dakota
ND passes a law not only requiring voter ID, but a residential street address to vote. The intended effect is to make it harder for Native Americans to vote
2018-10-12
vote • politics • northdakota • votingrights • voterid • addresses
Royal de Luxe
photos of the giant puppet company
2018-10-11
puppet • france • art • tootme
Georgia voter suppression
Ridiculously strict rules on name matching disproportionately prevent Black people from voting
2018-10-11
voting • georgia • politics • votingrights
Georgia voter suppression
10% of voters purged?!
2018-10-10
voting • georgia • politics • kemp • votingrights
Stolen children
Some of the children that were separated from their parents at the border are now being stolen via adoption.
2018-10-10
immigration • politics • children • trump
Paris bus line map
Lovely cartography; simple strip maps
2018-10-09
maps • paris • bus • transit • tootme
Portrait of a Campaign
Great Slate organizer talks about his view of Democrats and campaign finance
2018-10-09
democrats • politics • campaignfinance • greatslate
Russian Bank / Trump again
Alfa Bank story comes back; data comes from "Max", an anonymous researcher who has a global view of all DNS queries
2018-10-09
dns • security • badtech • trump • politics
Google finally killing Google+
Shutting down the world's worst pivot-to-social, for security reasons
2018-10-08
google • googleplus • google+ • security
Right wing civil war theme
Observations on the American right's embrace of violent and military rhetoric
2018-10-08
america • trump • politics • rightwing • civilwar
Banksy Bought My House
A funny story of an artist trying to be anonymous
2018-10-08
banksy • art • funny • anonymity • england
Arago Medallions
The Paris Meridian, a cartographic curiosity
2018-10-07
maps • cartography • paris • meridian • france • tootme
Incipient fascism
Trump keeps ratcheting up the rhetoric
2018-10-07
trump • politics • fascism • power
Chinook Jargon
Detailed and scholarly writing about a Pacific Northwest trade language
2018-10-06
language • linguistics • tootme • chinook • pnw • pacificnorthwest
Banky shredding story
Some details on the event; remarkable if Sotheby's wasn't in on it
2018-10-06
art • banksy • funny
Self destructing Banksy
Piece of art shreds itself after being bought at auction
2018-10-06
banksy • art • funny
Being an activist
Parkland survivor Emma Gonzales with powerful words
2018-10-05
activism • politics • guncontrol
cruelty is the point
our hideous reality
2018-10-04
politics • trump
Jason Kander withdraws
Remarkable politician talks about his mental health problems, withdrawing some from politics for now
2018-10-04
politics • kander • letamericavote • votingrights
What the tile?
A new tool for quickly finding the name / address of a specific slippy map tile
2018-10-03
tiles • googlemaps • maps • tiling • maptiles
Zug Link
Very simple list of European trains and current schedule. Not sure which train networks this covers.
2018-10-03
tootme • train • europe • travel
Sue's Taxi
Kauaʻi taxi and tours in Hawaiʻi
2018-10-01
kauai • hawaii • taxi • tour • tourism • travel