Remarkable anti-futurist essay. It's not really about the Long Now clock, it's about a particular kind of tech industry vision.

Playing games for others to watch is a big, sordid business

Software engineer joining a VPN-for-personal-networking startup

Sweet, nostalgic video clip

Looking at a specific ransom payment that ended up in a relatively law abiding exchange

Big collection of British maps from 18th and early 19th century

October 2019 update on how many kids have been taken from their parents by the Trump administration, where they are now

CEO finally fesses up that the creepy data company is helping get people deported

What it costs to break a cryptocurrency entirely. Answer: sometimes it's not much.

Three western / gay outfits from the Grammies

BlOCkChAIn iS SEcUre!

Wacky video of an awful company; read to bottom about how this is not considered acceptable by most Chinese, either.

Nice timelapse of NEXRAD data

Woman found guilty of a sex crime for being topless in her home with her stepchildren

Hilarious company name, awesome looking Power-over-Ethernet test equipment

Hilarious product concept for removing phone distractions; wrap it in paper so you can't see the screen

State agencies say the class action settlement amount is way too low

Great picture from before the bridges

Slave owner in Jamaica, kept meticulous notes about his torture and rape of his victims

Felons won the right to vote, but then legislators put new restrictions on them requiring paying back fines, restitution, etc.

Obsoleting a bunch of old equipment, including everything I own

Nice article about sci-fi's most exciting author of the last decade

A parody map

Secretive company has scraped photos from Facebook, etc and is selling facial recognition to law enforcement

A very tiny ray of hope

Trump protest image modified to "not offend"

Annual reflection on the growth of the Internet

2014 article; linking now because it's useful as a very short read, an introduction to the topic

Detailed article about the Opera browser company's other business, loaning money in poorer countries. Article alleges predatory lending and fraud.

Indian cooking on YouTube; making gigantic rustic portions

1984 Soviet electronics

Custom ad blocker rules to block the new crap Google added to the results pages. At least for now; it's a fragile change.

Not just an experiment; this visual clutter is on purpose

Media doesn't know how to report the craziness of a Trump rally

Detailed subtle Republican plan to draw state districts not counting folks who can't vote, thereby greatly tilting the scale in the favor of the GOP

A graph showing what fraction of delegates get pledged by date. By March 15, 60% of primary votes are done

Summary of ContraPoints latest video on being "canceled" on Twitter, specifically the framework she uses to analyze how cancellation works.

Google's project to run AI models on small hardware without using cloud computing

Moving property around to avoid paying settlements to the people their leaders sexually abused as children

New HTTP client library for Python, supports async

Trump administration can't get its story straight about why they assassinated Iran's military leader

Gives you a software control for monitor brightness, even on an external monitor. Seems to work.

Queering up rural American culture

A proposal for a better flag for San Francisco, riffing off the existing phoenix motif

Discussions of websites that have a database of TV shows, airtimes, channels, etc

A forgotten part of site speed; resolving name info on the TLD like .com or .biz

Detailed reporting from WSJ, includes impeachment politics as a factor in Trump's decision

Popular database's idea of transactions is, um, unique

Excellent indie platformer, very well tuned to be responsive

An open database of cell tower locations

Financial services company crippled by ransomware

Super tone-deaf drawing of awful experiences in prison as good advice on how to build a company

Street Fighter fan gets tired of Capcom's bug in their netcode that causes lag, fixes it himself

Detailed public info on the flight of the destroyed Ukrainian airliner out of Tehran. The flight track ends abruptly while the plane is still at 8000'

One person's multiyear obsession

New strong neural network AI for Go; trains faster than AlphaZero, LeelaZero, ELF, etc with some tweaks to the learning system and some Go-specific knowledge

Another local Nevada County project to install fiber Internet to people's homes

Small town has innovative community ISP approach, the city treating the fiber as infrastructure

Thoughtful opinions from local journalists

Detailed summary of the Trump administration's rapidly growing tower of lies around the Iran assassination

Current generated by the hydraulic piston gets inducted in to video cables, screws up the signal

Detailed legal and historical reasons why Pompeo, Mulvaney, etc are required to testify to Congress

Major trove of post-Civil War information about freed slaves is now online and searchable via the genealogy site Family Search

A modern update: Yandex and Bing may be better than Google. (I tested Baidu, it is not great.)

Open source for monitoring and managing a giant collection of UPS devices

A tale of a beloved niche service and the difficulty of keeping it running

Troubled VC is no longer a reliable potential partner

Interesting analysis of what might happen next

Nice explanation of the fun little mini sequencers

Details on Google's speech input; it's remarkably good

A trip up Highway 99

New document releases show massive global campaigns for political influence. Also details on Trump campaign hiding payments

PostGIS 2.5 can serve the Mapbox vector tile format natively

Visualizations of major tourist cities by how much AirBnB customers like a place's location

A very simple to use database

Extremely early concert with a hilarious crowd. Live drummer!