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Singapore kitchen
Notes from a commis in Singapore
2019-08-31
singapore • cooking • restaurant • food • kitchen • tootme
African Architectural styles
Lovely roundup of photographs
2019-08-31
architecture • africa • photos • tootme
Locast
Free streaming of local broadcast TV
2019-08-31
tv • local • streaming • tootme
Trump reveals US intel capability
Trump casually tweets an image at remarkably high resolution. Turns out he probably tipped our hand about a secret intelligence satellite we have
2019-08-30
intelligence • trump • security • politics • stupid
Advantages of centralization
Folks behind Signal talk about how not federating allows them to adapt their software quickly
2019-08-30
signal • centralization • decentralization • federation • architecture • tootme
Why do Chinese people like their government?
Excellent essay for re-setting Americans views of Chinese politics
2019-08-29
china • politics • culture • tootme
A Glossary of Gay Animals
Gay stereotypes from 1979, it's quite funny and loving
2019-08-29
gay • lgbt • advocate • culture • bears • funny • via:metafilter • tootme
Why Joi Ito needs to resign
An eloquent essay from a current student at the MIT Media Lab
2019-08-29
joi • joiito • medialab • sexism • epstein • scandal
Global Islands Explorer
New map of polygons for all islands in the world
2019-08-29
islands • maps • gis • polygons • tootme • usgs
Robust arithmetic
Lovely visualization of numerically unstable algorithms with small pertubations in the math
2019-08-29
arithmetic • floatingpoint • visualization • algorithm • stability • tootme
Levandowski arrested
Google / Uber engineer executive charged with criminal theft of trade secrets
2019-08-27
google • waymo • uber • alphabet • theft • tradesecrets • levandowski • tootme
RIP Sally Floyd
Expert in Internet protocols, particularly congestion management. She passed away recently.
2019-08-27
tcp • internet • obituary • tootme • software • congestion • red
Harvard student denied entry
Palestinian / Lebanese student not allowed into the country because *his friends* said mean things about the US on social media
2019-08-27
politics • immigration • harvard • thoughtcrime
Action Movie Kids
Adorable kid videos with movie special effects added
2019-08-26
funny • movie • sfx • specialeffects • dad • tootme
Darth Victorinox
Lovely spoof of the new Star Wars trailer
2019-08-26
starwars • movies • funny • lightsaber • tootme
HSLuv
The intuitive convenience of HSL with something approaching perceptual uniformity like Lab
2019-08-26
color • design • graphics • colorspace • hsl • lab • tootme
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
1985 TV movie featuring Wilford Brimley
2019-08-24
tv • starwars • ewoks • tootme
NuShell
Re-imagining Unix shells with structured data instead of just text. A bit like Powershell, but for Unix.
2019-08-24
unix • shell • programming • powershell
Tattoos and Cheap Booze
New album by my nephew! A mix of EDM and Hip Hop, mostly kind of chill
2019-08-23
music • edm • hiphop • gabeoaks • tootme
Riot settles sexism lawsuit
Employees claiming victory
2019-08-23
riotgames • sexism • tirefire • riot • lol • lawsuit
Nazis in the DOJ
"Accidentally" sent anti-semitic propaganda to judges
2019-08-23
nazis • fascism • politics • trump • doj • justice
Amazon stole drivers' tips
Yet another predatory company stealing from employees and customers
2019-08-23
amazon • tips • tirefire • doordash
Epstein and John Brockman
Another hub in the network connected to the child predator
2019-08-22
epstein • rape • children • medialab • brockman
Google's privacy half-measure
Ben Adida calls out Google for not working in users best interests as a way to protect their ad business
2019-08-22
google • ads • privacy • cookies • tracking
Turbo colormap
Google redesigns the stupid angry rainbow palette.. for some reason? A weird compromise between ugly aesthetics and non-correctness
2019-08-21
google • rainbow • visualization • colormap • scale • tootme
On me, and the Media Lab
Zuckerman has enough, decides to leave the Media Lab over its palling up with a child rapist
2019-08-21
minksy • epstein • rape • children • science • scandal
Minsky and Epstein
More fallout from the child rape ring
2019-08-21
minksy • epstein • rape • children • science • scandal
Epoch Times + QAnon
Falun Gung newspaper has embraced the insane conspiracy
2019-08-20
qanon • epochtimes • conspiracy • falungong • journalism
Noe Valley cheesemonger
Nice profile of a good cheese shop
2019-08-17
cheese • noevalley • sanfrancisco • tootme
Ottawa Mayor comes out
Sweet but also sad; he's 58, spent his whole life in the closet
2019-08-17
gay • lgbt • ottawa • politics • tootme • comingout
X11 tools
For many years this is what computers looked like
2019-08-17
computers • ui • graphics • x11 • ugly • design • tootme
TikTok and Chinese innovation
Good perspective on how the Chinese Internet economy has grown to a formidable strength
2019-08-16
china • internet • firewall • economics • tiktok • tootme
Hong Kong protests
Maciej in fine form writing up his experience as a visitor to a couple of Hong Kong protests
2019-08-16
hongkong • protest • america • politics • marco
Everything is Gamergate
Series of NYT op/ed pieces about the hideousness of online commentary
2019-08-15
gamergate • sexism • politics • twitter • via:metafilter
Indigenous Data Sovereignty
Keoni Mahelona on indigenous people controlling their own data and culture
2019-08-15
hawaii • hawai'i • newzealand • keoni • mahelona • tootme • indigenous
Mullenweg on Tumblr
Detailed interview from the new owner of Tumblr, very thoughtful
2019-08-14
tumblr • wordpress • automattic • mullenweg • tootme
Museum of Westward Expansion animatronics
Now gone, a badly considered National Parks installation
2019-08-13
nps • animatronics • stlouis • nationalpark • robot • westworld • tootme
Google internal politics
Gossipy, detailed account of cultural rifts inside Google
2019-08-13
google • politics • tirefire • sexism • racism
Conspiracies can be real
The difficulty of understanding a story like Epstein's death when there really are powerful conspiratorial forces at work
2019-08-13
conspiracy • politics • epstein • truth • journalism
China-centric map
Cool vertical projection
2019-08-13
via:reddit • maps • china • tootme • projeciton
Irish slaves
Debunking the idea that indentured servitude of Irish people was the same evil as chattel slavery of Africans.
2019-08-12
ireland • slavery • racism • politics • history • america
System Shock 2 revival
Mysterious patches from "Le Corbeau" may have come from a found disk of original source code
2019-08-12
systemshock2 • games • lookingglass • tootme
Twitter and conspiracies
Lessons from the Epstein news cycle. “If you make it trend, you make it true.”
2019-08-12
epstein • news • twitter • propaganda • politics • culture
YouTube and Brazilian politics
Recommendation algorithms radicalize a nation
2019-08-12
brazil • youtube • radicalization • propaganda • ethics • google • tootme
Florida's new poll tax
Details on the Republican attempts to suppress the vote
2019-08-11
voting • politics • florida • felons • votingrights
Stanford tech backlash
The kids are alright; undergraduates getting woke to dangers of tech
2019-08-11
tech • ethics • politics • stanford • slap
Snopes on Clinton death count
A detailed rebuttal to the disgusting right wing / Russian smear campaign
2019-08-11
clinton • deaths • politics • rumor • snopes
Qname minimisation
A small change to DNS usage that greatly improves privacy
2019-08-10
dns • privacy • qname • tootme • internet
Michael Twitty on plantation tours
Well written article on how upside down white people's expectations of presentations about slavery are
2019-08-10
slavery • racism • cooking • politics • plantation
SPY 11 kids
Bizarre corporate structure for an ETF pins it to the lifespans of 11 random people
2019-08-09
etf • spy • finance • tootme
Vanguard tax weirdness
Mutual funds exploit a hole mostly used by ETFs
2019-08-09
taxes • etf • irs • capitalgains • tootme
ETF tax weirdness
How ETFs defer capital gains; it's a sham
2019-08-09
etf • capitalgains • taxes • irs • finance • tootme
Moderating Hacker News
The people managing the tech world's problematic community
2019-08-08
hackernews • moderation • tech • politics • tootme
NYTimes in 2022
Crisp parody of NYTimes' propensity for not criticizing white people
2019-08-08
nytimes • racism • funny • politics
Recycling failing in SF
Private company that collected recycling just closed. Our utility garbage company can't recycle plastic anymore.
2019-08-07
sanfrancisco • recycling • environment • economics • tootme
Riot Games a year later
A year after the big story about sexism at the games company. Some change, some questions
2019-08-07
riotgames • games • sexism • tirefire • harassment • lol • leagueoflegends
Mapping North Korea
Details about the contributors to OpenStreetMap of North Korean data
2019-08-06
northkorea • mapping • tootme • openstreetmap • osm
Aperiodic tilings
Rendering of various aperiodic ways to tile the plane
2019-08-06
tiles • tiling • generative • via:reddit • tootme
Securing campaigns
Maciej on the organizational challenges of computer security for congressional campaigns
2019-08-06
politics • security • elections • democracy
Monkey needs a hug
Black Mirror audio loop
2019-08-06
blackmirror • tv • monkey • sad • tootme
Members of the press, what the fuck?
Beto speaks frankly about Trump
2019-08-05
trump • politics • racism • media
Tulsi Gabbard
Details on the unusual presidential candidate
2019-08-04
tulsi • gabbard • tulsigabbard • hawaii • politics • dnc • primary • tootme
The Stranding of the MV Shokalskiy
Maciej on the question "What if Shackleton had had a Twitter feed?"
2019-08-03
antarctica • travel • maciej • southpole • dumbass • tootme • turney
DNC primary donors
Maps of donations for candidates
2019-08-03
money • politics • donors • democrats • dnc • maps • visualization
A Night Under The Stars
Lovely visualization of overnight stays in national parks
2019-08-03
parks • visualization • nps • america • camping • tootme
LIGO Trifecta signal?
Gravity telescope may have seen an event we also observe with EM and particle detectors
2019-08-03
astronomy • ligo • science • tootme
Buying a phone in Venezuela
When your country has no money you can't buy global products easily
2019-08-03
phones • venezuela • markets • economy • tootme
REDMAP 2020
The fight for redistricting becomes a very local political battle
2019-08-03
politics • gerrymandering • 2020 • redistricting • redmap
Amtrak tracking
Nicely done map with live train locations and status
2019-08-03
amtrak • trains • america • maps • tootme
National Cathedral calls for decency
A condemnation of Trump to the closest thing America has to a national church
2019-08-01
church • christian • america • prayer • trump • politics • via:metafilter • racism