RIP Hector Xtravaganza

Key figure in New York drag ball culture

2018-12-31 drag • lgbt • queer • tootme • obituary • newyork • nyc

Tetris Guideline

Details of what makes a correct official Tetris game

2018-12-31 games • tetris • tootme

Gay in the 50s White House

Aid to president was gay, very detailed portrait of his emotional life

2018-12-31 gay • lgbt • history • whitehouse • politics • tootme

I Was A Cable Guy

Big Lesbian writes of her experiences with America

2018-12-30 america • lgbt • cable • service • tootme

Trump lie about military pay

Bizarrely claims a 10% raise after years of no raises. Neither assertion is true.

2018-12-29 military • trump • politics • raise • lie • journalism

Open Precinct Data

Working towards making more of the data of US democracy available to all

2018-12-27 maps • elections • precincts • gerrymandering • opendata • tootme

Wi-Fi 6 Explained

A good detailed technical overview of the late-2019 WiFi standard coming down the pipe. AKA 802.11ax

2018-12-26 wifi • network • wireless • via:reddit • tootme • 802.11ax

CalPERS corruption?

Baffling strategy for the enormous California pension fund

2018-12-26 california • calpers • investment • politics • corruption • fraud

Felipe Gómez Alonzo

8 year old child in US immigration custody for a week died, apparently of an untreated illness

2018-12-26 cbp • border • immigration • atrocity • politics • trump • ice

'Us' Trailer

Jordan Peele's new horror movie

2018-12-25 movies • jordanpeele • film • trailer • tootme

Kevin Spacey Video Director Commentary

Really cold, subtle takedown of the disgraced actor

2018-12-25 kevinspacey • metoo • movies • funny • cruel

Crime in California

Complicated statistics connected to California's changes in sentencing and prison policies

2018-12-25 california • crime • politics • prison

Black Spies in Civil War

Important role played by servants in the Confederate White House

2018-12-25 spies • civilwar • history • slavery • tootme • confederacy

Pedophilia smear campaign

Details of how a deliberate right wing hoax becomes mainstream

2018-12-24 lgbt • propaganda • queer • politics • dailycaller

Dresden Stollen

Germany takes its fruitcake seriously

2018-12-23 dresden • stollen • fruitcake • christmas • food • germany • tootme

Slack apology

*This* is how a company apologizes for a screwup in a way that sounds humane

2018-12-22 slack • apology • tootme

Mercator Globe

The perfect gift for the map nerd in your life

2018-12-22 maps • funny • globe • projection • mercator • tootme

Contrapoints interview

Thoughtful dialog on American politics, Youtube radicalization, and the aesthetic century

2018-12-22 contrapoints • america • politics • youtube • aesthetics

Juul: $4B in cash payouts

Weird structure for an investment, paying off investors and employees

2018-12-21 juul • cigarettes • cancer • nicotine • children • addiction • investment

Bent iPads

Apple says a manufacturing flaw is "normal" and no problem

2018-12-20 apple • ipad • manufacturing • fraud

Harry Potter and the Secret Gay Love Story

Lovely essay about what it's like being a gay person reading a favorite book for any gay subtext

2018-12-19 gay • lgbt • harrypotter • closereading • reading • tootme

SF 1920s zoning

Early plan for much denser commercial /cc @enf @migurski. H igher resolution version at https://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/8699860862/

2018-12-19 maps • sanfrancisco • zoning • commercial • walkable • tootme

Trump charity fraud

The sad denouement to one of the more petty grifts of the Trump family

2018-12-19 trump • crime • fraud • charity • politics

Facebook leaks everywhere

Private deals with other big companies circumvent user privacy settings

2018-12-19 facebook • privacy • twitter • amazon • youhavenoprivacy

Fake brand deals

Social media "influencers" shill things for free, no need to pay them

2018-12-18 ads • influencers • instagram • advertising • brands • tootme

Disinformation Report

Details of Russian propaganda from the Senate intelligence committee data

2018-12-18 russia • politics • propaganda • trump • ira

Monopoly Man AMA

Activist who has been trolling congressional hearings in costume

2018-12-18 troll • trans • politics • tootme • lgbt • monpolyman

Tim May's violent racism

An awful part of the cypherpunk

2018-12-18 cypherpunks • racism • timmay • politics • crypto • obituary

Donald Knuth

Nice profile of an excellent old-fashioned computer scientist

2018-12-18 computerscience • knuth • algorithms • computers • tootme

Azellia White

First female Black pilot in Texas, 1946. /cc @tysonweihs

2018-12-18 flying • aviation • texas • black • africanamerican • tootme • houston

Google Dragonfly malfeasance

Internal team stole user search data without proper notification (internally or externally)

2018-12-17 google • privacy • china • tirefire

Portland basketball posters

Beautiful game day posters

2018-12-17 basketball • design • posters • portland • trailblazers • tootme

LEO Internet satellites

Details on OneWeb and SpaceX's plans to launch thousands of satellites to provide data networks

2018-12-17 data • internet • leo • space • spacex • oneweb • tootme

Russian propaganda info

Details from data collected by the Senate intelligence committee

2018-12-17 russia • politics • propaganda • trump • twitter • facebook • youtube

Riot Games Must Be Better

Painful to read this several months later, after the author was fired and Riot has changed nothing

2018-12-16 games • riotgames • sexism • tirefire • lol • leagueoflegends

RIP Tim May

Influential cypherpunk writer passes away

2018-12-16 cypherpunks • crypto • history • computing • via:hackernews • tootme

Queer Zines

A fun small medium is still thriving

2018-12-16 gay • lgbt • queer • zines • culture • magazine • tootme

Star Wars propaganda

Excellent retro artwork

2018-12-15 via:boingboing • starwars • movies • tootme • propaganda

The Rise, Lean, and Fall of Sheryl Sandberg

Critical profile of Facebook's COO

2018-12-15 facebook • sheryl • sherylsandberg • leanin • criticism • tech

Tree ring visualization details

Specifics on how that beautiful visualization of immigration data was developed

2018-12-15 visualization • infovis • treerings • dendochronology • tootme

Simulated Dendrochronology of U.S. immigration

Lovely visualization technique

2018-12-14 immigration • visualization • art • dataviz • tootme

100 largest islands

Very nicely rendered poster

2018-12-14 maps • islands • geography • tootme • via:reddit

Riot COO slap on the wrist

One of the chief executives involved in the cultural of sexual harassment gets a minor punishment

2018-12-14 riotgames • leagueoflegends • harassment • tirefire • games

Commons Clause

Open source projects are closing off their source by trying to be the exclusive provider of that software as a service

2018-12-14 license • opensource • commonsclause • redis • code • tootme • business

ICE acts with pure evil

ICE puts out a request for families to sponsor migrant children. Then turns around and arrests those families.

2018-12-14 ice • immigration • politics • evil • trump

H○LLA▲D T○NNEL

When decorations go wrong

2018-12-13 typography • funny • newyork • tootme

Robot impales worker

Remarkable photo of 10 foot long, half-inch thick metal rods violating the body of a human worker

2018-12-13 robot • photos • china • tootme • accident • industrial

Cookiebot

A commercial product for helping websites comply with the GDPR

2018-12-13 data • privacy • gdpr • cookies • web • tootme

San Francisco's ghost stations

Some details of SF's transit infrastructure

2018-12-12 transit • wichary • sf • sanfrancisco • marcin • tootme • muni

Ms. Berezin’s Data Secretary

The first computer word processor (the Redactron) was designed by a woman. This is her obituary.

2018-12-11 computing • obituary • history • women • tootme

German rail strike

It's not just the French train system that goes on strike

2018-12-11 germany • diebahn • train • strike • labor • politics

systemd root escalation

If your UID > MAX_INT you get to be root

2018-12-11 badtech • systemd • security • unix • bug

Google+ leaks 52M users' data

Another flaw in Google's failed social network leaks data explicitly marked as private

2018-12-11 google • privacy • badtech • google+ • googleplus

Google $MM ad mistake

Internal tool accidentally ran an ad that cost millions

2018-12-10 google • ads • bug • tootme

Jack's meditation

Twitter + Square CEO talks about a 10 day demanding meditation retreat

2018-12-09 meditation • jack • twitter • square • tootme • vipassana • myanmar

Black

An opinionated Python code formatter, to save you the trouble of worrying about formatting

2018-12-07 python • format • lint • programming • tootme

Goodbye, EdgeHTML

Forceful essay on the value of browser diversity

2018-12-06 firefox • mozilla • edge • msie • microsoft • google • chrome • webkit • browsers • standards • tootme

On a crypto cruise

Reporter embeds with a bunch of Bitcoin true believers

2018-12-06 cryptocurrency • bitcoin • cruise • culture • tootme

Kevin Hart's anti-gay comments

Oscars host is an asshole

2018-12-06 oscars • kevinhart • tv • gay • lgbt

Never use Quora

Nice essay on how awful the closed system is

2018-12-05 quora • freedom • internet • tootme

xonsh

Python and bash had a baby

2018-12-05 programming • unix • python • bash • tootme

Dirty-Poor and Ugly

"qiou", a popular memeish thing in China

2018-12-04 china • weibo • tootme • culture • qiou

Republican email hacked

NRCC had 4 email accounts breached, probably by a foreign power

2018-12-04 politics • nrcc • republicans • gop • security • badtech • russia

Just Cause 4 Easter Egg

Lovely homage to Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy; listen to the narrative

2018-12-04 tootme • games • justcause4 • gettingoverit

FCC continues to hide

Continuing scandal of stolen identities around net neutrality comments

2018-12-04 fcc • ajitpai • corruption • politics

John Henry

Nice essay about the historical importance of the folklore song about a Black steel drivin' man

2018-12-04 labor • politics • black • africanamerican • johnhenry • folklore • tootme

More on NC electoral fraud

Very suspicious absentee ballots, and a convicted felon at the middle of the Republican campaign

2018-12-04 votes • northcarolina • election • politics • fraud • tootme

Jeff and Sanjay

Lovely profile of two of the best systems engineers I've ever known. Details on their unusual collaborative coding method.

2018-12-03 google • engineering • pairprogramming • jeffandsanjay • tootme

Tumblr porn crackdown

One of the most common sources of user-curated pornography is about to go away

2018-12-03 porn • tumblr • tootme • lgbt • gay

The Content Cycle

The way stupid jokes on the Internet become fodder for TV's culture wars

2018-12-03 via:metafilter • tootme • culture • politics • internet • memes • stupid

RSS to Mastodon

Service bridging RSS feeds and Mastodon, experimental / simple hack

2018-12-02 mastodon • rss • activitypub • syndication • tootme

Firecracker

An OS designed to launch in 125ms and 5MB. Runs under Linux KVM and crosvm.

2018-12-01 unix • linux • vm • virtualization • kvm • crosvm • unikernel