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Silicon Valley dictionary
Devil's Dictionary style defintiions for "tech bro", "microdosing", etc
2019-06-28
funny • tech • siliconvalley • satire • tootme
Migrant kids' testimony
Children speak up about the conditions they are being held in. This is America.
2019-06-28
politics • immigration • kids • children • humanrights • trump • outrage
Zombie startups
Focus on Evernote, but more generally about formerly hot startups that are now wallowing
2019-06-28
tech • companies • startups • evernote • siliconvalley • tootme
Machine learning and gerrymandering
Justice Kagan is aware of the threat of increasingly sophisticated computer models
2019-06-28
gerrymandering • politics • voting • kagan • supremecourt • tootme
Bad Google detour
100 cars get trapped in a muddy field
2019-06-27
google • maps • routing • colorado • funny • tootme
/r/The_Donald quarantined
Big Trump supporter subreddit / awful hate group has been quarantined by Reddit in response to people there calling for violence against police in Oregon
2019-06-26
trump • politics • reddit • moderation
Drinking with the enemy
Sanders lied to the press, labelled them enemies of the state, and generally wasted two years of journalist's lives. When she quits they all hang out at a bar and have a party together
2019-06-26
politics • journalism • trump • corruption • sanders
Fogust
Visualization of SF Bay Area fog patterns over the year
2019-06-26
fog • visualization • weather • bayarea • sanfrancisco • tootme
#caravantoclint
Spontaneous group protest of abuses of children at the Mexico/US border
2019-06-26
politics • trump • immigration • protest • clint • clinttx • humanrights
Kids moved back to Clint
Children being held in terrible conditions in a concentration camp were moved out of the facility totally inadequate to house them. Now they're moved back.
2019-06-25
kids • children • humanrights • ice • cbp • trump • politics • immigration
Border crisis summary
Roundup of stories about the continuing atrocity at the US/Mexico border
2019-06-25
border • atrocity • children • humanrights • politics • trump
Weird, Wonderful Photos
Lovely selection of photos from the 30s-50s
2019-06-25
photography • america • photos • tootme
Global ocean circulation
Map on a neat projection, spilhaus, shows ocean currents
2019-06-24
ocean • oceanography • current • maps • projections • tootme
More on Clint, TX
Interview with a lawyer who spent several days investigating a child concentration camp
2019-06-23
children • politics • immigration • border • humanrights • trump
A chaotic scene of sickness and filth
Conditions in a children's concentration camp in Clint, Texas
2019-06-23
immigration • children • politics • humanrights • trump
Concentration camp context
Some details on what the US is doing at the border and how it compares to 150+ years of concentration camps
2019-06-23
america • politics • immigration • concentrationcamps • history
US border abuse
American citizen and journalist harassed for hours by CBP
2019-06-23
border • cbp • ice • immigration • politics • journalism • freespeech
US cyberattack vs Iran
Report that the US took out Iran's missile launch capability, at least temporarily
2019-06-23
cyberwar • badtech • war • iran • america • politics
Legality of "safe and sanitary"
Details of the judicial process overseeing immigrant treatment. Note that these abuses pre-date Trump and will probably last behind them; they are American, not just Trumpist
2019-06-23
trump • politics • immigration • children • flores • tootme
Doctor Strange pinup
Hilarious parody MCU art; there's more by this artist
2019-06-22
funny • pinup • gay • lgbt • mcu • doctorstrange
Drag Queen story time in Grass Valley
Tempest in a teapot controversy in rural California because some people are mad that royalty came to read a story to children. The kids look to be having a good time.
2019-06-22
drag • lgbt • grassvalley • california • politics • tootme
ICE child abuse
Our government is directly harming children it is holding in immigrant detention
2019-06-21
childabuse • children • politics • ice • atrocity
Warp at 30
Big-deal electronic music label is celebrating 30 years
2019-06-21
music • warp • bleep • autechre • aphextwin • tootme
Ta-Nehisi Coates video
The transcript of his comments to Congress on slavery reparations was good, but hearing him speak is really powerful
2019-06-20
reparations • coates • slavery • america • politics • tootme
A Cleaner Emacs Build
Lars went through and fixed a bunch of compiler warnings in emacs
2019-06-20
emacs • software • c++ • build • compiling • tootme
The Anita Sarkeesian story
A profile of ten years of critique and activism
2019-06-20
feminism • sarkeesian • games • culture • tootme
Turn off for two seconds
Turn on for eight seconds
2019-06-20
lightbulb • ge • funny • internetofshit • firmware • tootme
Concentration camp vs Death camp
A distinction about Nazi war crimes, two different kinds of camps
2019-06-20
nazis • genocide • holocaust • concentrationcamp • deathcamp
Content review sweatshops
Miserable conditions at a Facebook contractor
2019-06-19
facebook • cognizant • contracting • review • policy • labor • tootme
Topographic Maps of Planets andMoons
Beautiful visualization comes with data and source code
2019-06-19
planets • moons • hillshading • dem • tootme • visualization
Mapping the Solar System
Beautiful visualization comes with data and source code
2019-06-19
visualization • tutorial • solarsystem • orbit • tootme
Monument Valley
Nice collection of varied photos
2019-06-19
photos • photography • monumentvalley • arizona • west • art • tootme
Ubuntu dropping i386
End of support for 32 bit Intel systems
2019-06-18
intel • ubuntu • i386 • x32 • linux • tootme
Above the Law
Trump's lackeys are helping out Manafort for being such a stand-up bro
2019-06-17
trump • politics • manafort • corruption
MH370 five years later
Langewiesche doesn't really have anything new here, just more suggestions the captain killed the plane
2019-06-17
mh370 • aviation • malaysia • airline • mystery • tootme
Uber for Uber couriers
French Uber Eats drivers don't drive; they outsource the deliveries to immigrants working under the table
2019-06-17
france • uber • courier • economy
Where’s my mommy? Where’s my daddy?
Detailed example of a child stolen from his parents; European asylum seekers, in this case
2019-06-17
politics • immigration • ice • trump • humanrights
US escalating cyberwar
American retaliation for Russian actions online
2019-06-16
russia • america • politics • war • cyberwar • hacking • badtech
37 is a special number
Only 37 registered AKC dogs can have the same name; the reason will astonish you!
2019-06-16
dogs • numbers • romannumerals • typography • funny • tootme
I'm Gay
Eugene Lee Yang's remarkable coming out video for pride
2019-06-15
pride • gay • lgbt • drag • music • tootme
Albanian bunkers
Repurposed ruins of a cold war paranoia
2019-06-15
albania • coldwar • photography • photos • tootme
WSL 2 impressions
New Linux environment for Windows based on a super-optimized VM
2019-06-14
linux • windows • wsl • programming • tootme • virtualization
Mumbai Typoday
2019 winners of a typography contest in India; see previous years as well
2019-06-13
india • typography • calligraphy • design • via:metafilter • tootme
Spacecraft locator
Where a bunch of our robotic spacecraft are hanging out right now
2019-06-13
space • astronomy • via:kottke • robots • science • tootme
ContraPoints in LA Times
Another interview with the Youtube philosopher / transgender activist
2019-06-13
contrapoints • lgbt • fascism • politics • tootme
ContraPoints interview
Current Affairs talks to Natalie and it is awesome
2019-06-11
contrapoints • interview • currentaffairs • culture • politics • lgbt • tootme
Leah Chase funeral
No one knows how to have a public funeral like New Orleans. Last video includes a fun Second Line
2019-06-11
secondline • music • leahchase • cooking • food • creole • neworleans • tootme
InfoWars settles with Pepe
Artist whose cartoon was hijacked by Nazis has now won every single copyright enforcement action
2019-06-11
copyright • nazis • fascism • infowars • pepe • pepethefrog • memes • tootme
ICE and license plate scans
Private databases of where cars go in the US are completely open to ICE, they've been using it to reconstruct people's travels and lives.
2019-06-11
privacy • ice • licenseplate • vigilant • badtech • politics
AC: Origins story creator
Xena the Warrior Princess simulator adds ability for players to make their own story quests
2019-06-10
games • acorigins • assassinscreed • tootme • usercontent
Saildrone temperature
New-to-me website for microforecasts
2019-06-10
weather • forecast • microforecast • tootme
indie.vc v3
New wave of investments from the alternative venture fund
2019-06-10
investment • venture • indievc • bryce • tootme
Black Girl Gamers
Excellent Metafilter roundup of links about an underrepresented community in gaming
2019-06-10
games • metafilter • africanamerican • black • culture • tootme • women • girls
Weapons of mass disruption
Outsider view on the cost of Trump waging unfettered economic war globally. The US is going to lose its market hegemony
2019-06-10
trump • politics • economics • trade
Camera phone test
Biting satire about Chinese censorship
2019-06-09
china • funny • huawei • censorship • tootme • Tiananmen
Hewwo
Trolling as a art in Sea of Thieves
2019-06-09
trolling • funny • games • seaofthieves • tootme
30 years of BGP
Venerable routing protocol continues working mostly unchanged for 25 years, and 30 years since v1
2019-06-08
bgp • routing • internet • infrastructure • tootme
California electric grid
Open data map of major powerlines in California
2019-06-08
california • power • maps • gis • tootme
Pride in Ageing
Ian McKellen launching a program for older LGBT people
2019-06-07
lgbt • ianmckellen • mckellen • gay • aging • tootme
"Straight Pride" rally is fascism
The stupid offensive straight pride parade in Boston is actually cover for white supremacist and fascist groups
2019-06-06
fascism • trump • politics • patriotprayer • boston
Joyent / Textdrive scam
Ugly bit of history for the cloud company Samsung bought
2019-06-06
samsung • joyent • textdrive • computing • scam • tootme
Online gaming for male bonding
Men who aren't comfortable with intimate conversation still have meaningful conversations with friends while gaming
2019-06-06
games • gaming • men • feminism • socialization • tootme • discord
RIP Joyent Cloud
Pioneering hosting service company concludes its incredible journey
2019-06-06
joyent • samsung • hosting • cloud • computing • tootme
US immigrant detention getting worse
Comments from an expert on concentration camps around the world
2019-06-06
immigrants • politics • concentrationcamps • abuse • humanrights • trump
Moving Diamond illusion
Really powerful optical illusion
2019-06-06
illusion • opticalillusion • brains • tootme
Duncan Hunter, war criminal?
In addition to being under investigation for fraud, California congressman makes some alarmingly casual statements about killing civilians
2019-06-05
politics • warcrime • hunter • duncanhunter • california
Women in STEM
Teen Vogue profile of 12 women science-types, including Erica Joy Baker!
2019-06-05
erica • women • stem • feminism • teenvogue • tootme
"Kill out" the gays
Mayor of a town in Alabama has a final solution for all the LGBT people he hates.
2019-06-05
alabama • fascism • nazis • lgbt • politics
Relicensing CockroachDB
Open source database startup grapples with the risk some business will run their code as a service
2019-06-04
licensing • gpl • opensource • cockroachdb • tootme
Sign In with Apple details
Apple's new privacy-friendly third party signin protocol
2019-06-04
apple • oauth • identity • login • tootme • programming • openid
Mozilla Persona reflections
Summary of some of the problems for one of the best attempts at building a federated login/identity system to replace passwords on the web
2019-06-04
mozilla • personal • login • openid • oauth • tech • tootme
Justin Sun interview
Pan-global hucksterism, Chinese entrepreneur is newly famous today for paying $4.6M to have lunch with Warren Buffett
2019-06-03
china • internet • tech • startups • bittorrent • blockchain • trongoo • tootme
Rabbit hole effect
Recommendation algorithms like YouTube continually escalate the worst human impulses; in this case, sexualization of children
2019-06-03
porn • pornography • sex • pedophilia • youtube • ai • algorithms • rapeculture
Lil Nas X
Excellent article about the rapper whose country crossover "Old Town Road" is an unusual hit
2019-06-03
music • country • rap • lilnasx • lilnas • fashion • cowboy • tootme
Aramark failing in Yosemite
Monopoly service has completely screwed up the bus shuttle
2019-06-02
yosemite • aramark • nps • shuttle • bus • tourism • california • tootme
RIP Leah Chase
Famous New Orleans restauranteusse passed away after a long and important career as a Creole chef
2019-06-02
creole • neworleans • cooking • food • tootme
William Barr is scary
Detailed summary of Barr's recent TV interview, apparently he's a full and true Trump believer
2019-06-01
trump • politics • corruption • fascism
7x crowding for immigrant jails
DHS completely failing in their job to keep immigrants safe
2019-06-01
immigration • politics • fascism • concentrationcamp • cbp • dhs • humanrights