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Keybase and shitcoins
Security / identity system has compromised itself in a marketing deal with Stellar
2019-09-29 keybase • stellar • identity • malware • badtech • via:hackernews
DNS over HTTPS and policy
"How DNS over HTTPS is Reshaping Privacy,Performance, and Policy in the Internet Ecosystem". Very thoughtful paper.
2019-09-29 dns • doh • encryption • policy • isp • tootme • fcc
Kawaii International
TV program about Japanese youth culture
2019-09-29 japan • culture • kawaii • tootme
Tainted vape cartridges
Details of how Vitamin E oil ends up in vape cartridges for nicotine, THC, and CBD
2019-09-27 marijuana • smoking • vaping • health • counterfeit • journalism • tootme
Slack Is a Hell of Our Own Making
Funny article about Slack cultures and the danger of archives
2019-09-27 slack • culture • funny • tootme • socialmedia
NRA a Russian asset
Details of how the murder toy lobby was captured by the Kremlin
2019-09-27 nra • guns • politics • russia • corruption • trump
A fake pee tape
Detailed analysis of a weird video claiming to be the Trump pee tape. Concludes its fake, but it's the thought process that's interesting to read.
2019-09-26 trump • politics • peetape • fake • russia
Free energy principle
Roundup of links about Friston's theory of biology (and intelligence)
2019-09-26 fristo • neuroscience • ai • philosophy • tootme
Middle-class dinners
Fascinating photo essays of families eating dinner around he world
2019-09-26 dinner • eating • cooking • food • culture • tootme • photos • photojournalism
Phlog
Deep Internet hipster; blogs run on gopher
2019-09-24 gopher • blog • phlog • funny • internet • tootme
uBlock Origin vs Safari
Apple is basically ending support for extensions to the Safari browser, so that's it for the popular ad blocker
2019-09-20 ads • adblocking • safari • browser • apple • tootme • via:hackernews
BGP security
Reflections on why securing Internet routing is so hard
2019-09-19 internet • bgp • routing • networking • tootme
Back to school essentials
Upsetting but excellent ad about gun violence in schools
2019-09-18 school • guns • politics • sandyhook
WhatFreeWords
An unauthorized reimplementation of the stupid What3Words proprietary addressing system. Linked FAQ includes plausible claim to not be violating any copyright
2019-09-16 copyright • what3words • addressing • maps
Lessig tries again on Epstein
And sounds even stupider. Shut up when you're wrong, Larry.
2019-09-15 lessig • joiito • epstein • medialab • donations
Brett Kavanaugh's penis
Yet more stories of horrible behavior from the Supreme Court Justice
2019-09-14 kavanaugh • assault • sexualabuse • penis • politics • supremecourt • trump
Epstein meetings at the Media Lab
In 2015 students and faculty were tasked to help court more funding from the child rapist
2019-09-14 medialab • joiito • mit • epstein • tirefire
Chess weightloss
Stress from tournaments causes players to lose 10-20 pounds in a couple of weeks
2019-09-14 chess • weight • metabolism • tootme
Tech Great Reckoning
danah boyd with an excellent speech / essay about sexism in tech. Not just the Epstein scandal but the pervasive culture of it.
2019-09-13 danahboyd • dana • medialab • epstein • tech • sexism • tirefire • tootme
Alex Trebek / genre
The supercut you didn't know you needed
2019-09-13 supercut • jeapordy • trebek • genre • funny • tootme
Jeffrey Epstein’s circle.
From August, a reminder of why there's no neutral way to take someone like Epstein's money. TW: lots of sexism and hints of child predation
2019-09-13 science • sexism • shank • epstein
DNC candidates
The virtues of all 10 major remaining candidates (it's funny)
2019-09-13 democrats • politics • funny
Richard Stallman is a bad person
Ugliness splitting hairs in defining various forms of sexual abuse of children
2019-09-12 rms • stallman • tirefire • sexualabuse • rape
Deb Butler's NC protest
Remarkably forceful Democrat trying (and failing) to stop the North Carolina Republicans from running entirely over democracy
2019-09-12 northcarolina • politics • butler • debbutler • democracy • veto
Discord light theme
Towards a rational framework for dark/light themes for apps
2019-09-12 discord • theme • ui • usability • design • tootme
Reid Hoffman being disappointing
Details of Hoffman's involvement defending Joi Ito in the Epstein scandal
2019-09-11 epstein • joi • joiito • hoffman • sexism • tirefire • medialab
Speech is 39bps
Denser (more efficient) languages tend to be spoken more slowly
2019-09-11 language • complexity • speech • linguistics • tootme
Against Apple Keynotes
Man and I thought *I* was grumpy about the advertising events
2019-09-11 apple • keynote • funny • ads • advertising • tootme
Brad Parscale
Detailed profile of Trump's digital ad campaign guy. Total huckster, but also has an uncanny knack for succeeding
2019-09-11 politics • trump • ads • campaigns • parscale
Hofeller archives
Details of Republican gerrymandering, intentionally racist and partisan
2019-09-09 hofeller • gerrymandering • politics • gop • racism • tootme
Liberty University fraud
Jerry Falwell Jr is running what sounds like a real estate scam
2019-09-09 politics • religion • corruption • falwell • libertyuniversity • fraud • scam
Viking Expansion
Excellent map of Viking raids and conquering in the middle ages
2019-09-09 vikings • norway • history • maps • tootme
Norwegian Crusade
1110 AD, when the Vikings went to Jerusalem
2019-09-09 vikings • norway • history • crusade • tootme
NOAA corrupted
Scientists told not to dispute the false "facts" laid out by Trump
2019-09-08 trump • politics • noaa • alabama • corruption
Moral bankruptcy of techno elites
Evgeny Morozov more coherent than usual
2019-09-07 scandal • mit • culture • technoelite • joi • joiito • negroponte • brockman • epstein
Packet hosting
Bare metal server provider with APIs to make it easy to run your own Kubernetes cluster, etc. Experience from the ntppool
2019-09-06 packet • hosting • computers • kubernetes • tootme • ntp • ntppool
Epstein protectors
A "plutocratic back-rub chain of self-protection", how the Epstein-friends and their supports take care of each other at the expense of victims and truth
2019-09-06 epstein • medialab • joiito • reidhoffman
Lil Nas X - Panini
This is the future liberals want
2019-09-06 music • lilnas • lilsnasx • panini • video • tootme
Menu mavens
About the Armed Forces Recipe Service, an article about the military's approach to cooking
2019-09-05 food • military • cooking • recipes • army • tootme
Armed Forces Recipe Service
Cooking US army style. Lots of recipes, also a fascinating presentation
2019-09-05 recipe • cooking • army • military • tootme
Leviton Load Center
A replacement electrical panel with per-circuit monitoring and control
2019-09-04 leviton • power • electricity • home • monitoring • green • energy • tootme
Silver Upper White River
One of a series of similar themed Maya Lin sculptures, castings in silver of river traces
2019-09-04 maps • mayalin • rivers • art • sculpture • tootme
What could go wrong in 2020
A bit of terrifying election science fiction
2019-09-04 election • politics • votingrights • america
Iceland has my back
Company flies rainbow flags in a show of support for diversity across the street from VP Pence's visit
2019-09-04 pence • gay • lgbt • iceland • politics • tootme
Bridgefy; BlueTooth chat
Protestors in Hong Kong are using an unblockable mesh network app that uses Bluetooth to communicate
2019-09-03 bluetooth • meshnetwork • communication • hongkong • tootme
Fleen Forsythia
Lovely generative art, I like this guy's colors in particular
2019-09-02 art • generative • via:Reddit • tootme • fractal • recursive
The generative bone of Genesis
Article arguing that "Adam's rib" is actually a euphemism for his penis and the story of its removal in Genesis is an explanation for the lack of a penis bone in humans and for the raphe
2019-09-02 genesis • bible • penis • anatomy • tootme
18 Native Folks in STEM
Profiles of 18 Native Americans and Hawaiians working in tech
2019-09-01 native • indian • indigenous • hawaiian • tech • diversity • tootme