Who all is using the creepy facial recognition software?

Their traffic data suggests basically no impact on traffic speeds. But that's great because of all the advantage of a car free corridor!

Queer reading of the publically gay politician

Reflecting on life under lockdown in China

A list of public Jabber servers; still running today!

Consumer device fails for days at a time, leaving the cat to go hungry. How Internet of Shit systems don't have failsafes.

Shockingly bad procedure by people involved with coronavirus cases

Simple geocoding service, out of the ashes of Mapzen

Police state / charter school insanity

A really wonderful collection of photos

Tool to generate an extract from OpenStreetMap with any polygon and up to the minute data

Some plausible advice for building a reliable wifi network

Trump policies have gutted our ability to respond to health emergencies

In wake of fire, two PG&E managers funded money to a company that overcharged and gave them kickbacks. This is just one incident; how many are there?

US copyright law allows authors a broad right to terminate license agreements 35 years after licensing. Probably applies to software, but not work-for-hire

Chef competitor writes a direct and honest essay of the experience. She also is doing a Reddit AMA today.

Illustrators at SwissTopo hid little doodles in their maps

1980s real time chat BBS, worked by loading up Apple ][s with modems and connecting them via a totally janky bridging system

Details on group of folks rushing to make sure Nevada's caucus today goes smoothly

All sorts of candidates are texting cell phones now. It's unclear whether it's legal, but given it is political speech no one is willing to stop it.

Details on one of Trump's most evil staffers

Cryptocurrency company founder's religious visions

Congressional briefing on the erosion of American democracy

Details on the engineer for Twitter working as a Saudi spy. Lots of damage done, maybe people murdered.

Large part of the staff at cryptocurrency company left. Apparently they lost faith in their founder, Cosmuhammad Bitcoin Jaesustein. (No, really.)

Alan Turing hid 150 pounds of silver in the woods during WW2, never found it

Uber whistleblower suffers horrible harassment and creepy investigators after calling out the company's disgusting management

Google's customer support is so terrible that bad people are blackmailing companies threatening their AdSense revenue, knowing Google won't stop it

Not actually scripts, I think this is scraped subtitles from pirate video copies. But very handy text copies of TV show dialog.

Fantastic schematic view of overnight passenger trains

DoJ overrides recommendation on funds to stop human trafficking, gives it to two dubious groups instead.

York was an important part of the famous expedition, as Clark's slave. Clark treated him particularly badly.

The science and development process for quickly making a new vaccine

Details on Moxie's secure messaging product

Inside SF's latest approach to homeless shelters; heavy emphasis on dignity and letting families stay together

Lovely intellectual essay by an older woman talking about learning to play video games so she can understand her son's performance in Red Dead Redemption 2

Deliberately adding latency to addictive websites to soften their power

Judge Alsup delivers a clever verdict; saddling DoorDash with millions in arbitration fees because they force their employees into it

Bro who founded Uber is back again with a bottom-of-the-barrel set of cafeteria kitchens

Turns out the 16 digit space isn't big enough to stop simple brute force attacks

Friend's project bringing back payphones (for free)

Excellent investigative journalism about far right movements in America's west. First season is about the Malheur standoff; second season expands to a bunch of craziness in Nevada, Washington, ...

Once again the Republicans stop any forward progress on securing our elections. Why would Trump's party be so against election security?

Fun looking little indie toy simulating pottery throwing

Huge, old Swiss cryptography company has been spying on its customers all along

Sweet, messy story of grandma having an affair with someone from the Yiddish Club

A new lightweight web based GeoJSON viewer / editor

Some details of language and cultural markers

It's not clear the Iowa caucus process has ever been run really correctly

Algorithms to protect privacy also can distort data

San Francisco's useless response to people in crisis is a form of cruelty

Details on how the Trump Campaign's online propaganda works

Facebook's cryptocurrency coalition fell apart in part because of a failure to commit to obeying the law

A React + NodeJS framework for online stores

Thoughtful article on advantages of various languages

Reasonable Twitter thread on why we don't have good tech in the Democratic party

Excellent short course on practical software engineering stuff, the things they don't teach you in classes

Company sent private videos to other users

Food delivery companies are now falsely claiming to work with restaurants they have no agreement to

Incarcerated prisoners are counted by the census at the jail where they are held, not their homes. That has significant political impact on the census and representation

Drag queen / Black resister in 1850s-1900 Washington DC, held drag balls and other queer culture

Flash games preservation; works by running a custom web server emulating an Internet environment

Cell phone companies broke the law. Ajit Pai actually does something useful.