Trump’s Disgraceful Endgame

Even the National Review has had enough

2020-11-30 politics • conservatives • trump • election • coup • nationalreview

Is that Arabic?

Simple guide for non-Arabic-readers to at least vaguely understand what written Arabic looks like. Don't fake it; hire someone.

2020-11-30 arabic • language • appropriation • writing • tootme

Nope, Not Arabic

Collection of ignorant graphic design abuses, folks who don't know Arabic trying to fake it

2020-11-30 arabic • culture • language • calligraphy • appropriation • tootme

Covid myths refuted

Quick tweet-sized refutations to stupid Covid denier arguments

2020-11-30 covid19 • coronavirus • disease • deniers • debunk

Trump’s failed coup

Excellent insider information on Trump's attempt to undo an election

2020-11-29 politics • trump • coup • democracy • voting

Web Conversations With the Year 2000

Funny reflection on technology development

2020-11-28 web • tech • 2000 • funny • history • tootme

TCP Congestion Control Census

Survey of what sort of TCP algorithms sites are using

2020-11-28 via:hackernews • tcp • tcpip • internet • congestioncontrol • tootme

Dogbert rescripted

Scott Adams tweets on Dogbert comics

2020-11-27 funny • dogbert • scottadams • parody • racism

Racism at Coinbase

Awful but also common story of tech startups

2020-11-27 racism • coinbase • tech • brianarmstrong • fredwilson

Thenaudio Sharc

Add eArc decoding to any existing home theater with a special $200 box

2020-11-27 earc • audio • hometheater • ps5 • tv • games • tootme

Trump derangement

Loses his shit at a reporter, continues to stick to his bizarre fantasy the election was a fraud

2020-11-27 politics • trump • election • corruption • media

Midnight Regulations

Lame duck's terrible last minute new rules

2020-11-26 politics • trump • lameduck

Women, Art and Technology

Excellent article about pioneering women in digital art

2020-11-26 art • generative • computers • history • feminism • women • tootme • via:golanlevin • via:benfry • via:caseyreas

Trump's Dolchstosslegende

The lie that Biden's election was illegitimate doesn't have to believeable, only believed.

2020-11-25 trump • politics • nazis • lies • germany • history • biden • election

Flynn pardoned

Naked corruption, no pretending

2020-11-25 trump • politics • flynn • corruption • pardon

American Thanksigiving mixing

Map of where people plan to have a disease spreading Thanksgiving dinner

2020-11-24 covid19 • coronavirus • thanksgiving • epidemic • politics

Ready Player Two

A line by line close reading

2020-11-24 funny • novel • scifi • stupid • tootme • review

Covid ranking

Which countries are the best to be in from a safety-from-Covid perspective/

2020-11-24 covid19 • coronavirus • disease • vaccine • countries

Election undermining

The danger of Republican insiders undermining Biden's election

2020-11-23 politics • election • america • democracy • trump

Sidney Powell and QAnon

Pro-Trump lawyer and former member of campaign legal team is down with the batshit insane conspiracy theory

2020-11-23 qanon • trump • politics • sidneypowell • conspiracy • batshitinsane

Shame on Ted Cruz

July video of him saying Covid will magically go away after the election

2020-11-23 politics • tedcruz • lies • covid19 • coronavirus • monster • disease

Coup attempt: Wisconsin

Trump's attempt to disqualify enormous numbers of Wisconsin votes

2020-11-22 wisconsin • politics • election • trump

On Not Meeting Nazis Halfway

Very thoughtful essay by Rebecca Solnit

2020-11-22 politics • culture • america • democrats • abuse

Holiday plans

"After Big Thanksgiving Dinners, Plan Small Christmas Funerals, Health Experts Warn"

2020-11-21 covid19 • coronavirus • disease • mississippi

Observable Series A

$10.5M from Sequoia and Acrew for Mike Bostock's visualization startup

2020-11-20 visualization • d3js • d3 • observable • programming • startup • funding • tootme

Trump coup

The president is literally attempting a coup, right now

2020-11-20 politics • trump • coup • democracy • emergency

Trump's policy sabotage

Foreign policy being wrecked. "their goal is to set so many fires that it will be hard for the Biden administration to put them all out."

2020-11-18 trump • politics • foreignpolicy • corruption • biden • transition

Rule of Law in the US

Can we get to justice without prosecuting Trump? Can we prevent future presidents from so debasing the office?

2020-11-18 politics • trump • justice • biden • prosecution

Trump campaign spyware

Details on the mobile app developed by Phunware for trump's campaign. It's a hot mess.

2020-11-18 trump • privacy • politics • phunware • austin • mobile

Trump's concession speech

An edit from Trump clips

2020-11-18 trump • politics • concession • funny

mRNA vaccines

detailed article on the new medical technology

2020-11-18 vaccines • mrna • immunology • covid19 • coronavirus • medicine • health

Immune memory and Covid

Excellent news from a study

2020-11-17 covid19 • coronavirus • immunity • disease • tcells • bcells • antibodies

Amazon Pharmacy

Long rumored, now a reality

2020-11-17 amazon • pharmacy • prescription • drugs • tootme

Georgia vote pressure

Lindsay Graham fishing for ways to throw out legal votes. Death threats against the Republican Secretary of State. Just a normal Republican party Georgia recount

2020-11-17 politics • republicans • georgia • voting • votingrights • trump • graham

youtube-dl rescued

GitHub takes steps to fight DMCA abuse

2020-11-16 dmca • software • github • youtube-dl • copyright • riaa • tootme

Moonlight

Open source version of NVidia Gamestream, as used in the Shield. Used for streaming games.

2020-11-15 nvidia • games • gamestream • shield • streaming • limelight • moonlight • tootme

Democratic backsliding

Argues Trump and the Republicans aren't staging a coup since they don't have military support. But they are deliberately undermining democracy.

2020-11-15 politics • democracy • trump • republicans • america • crisis • coup

California Election Results

In 2020 NYT so far has the best map-based results, with per-county data. LA Times has done per-precinct maps in the past but I haven't seen any yet this year.

2020-11-14 maps • election • politics • california

Inhumane testing software

Cheat detection systems get incredibly invasive and stupid.

2020-11-14 education • software • covid19 • coronavirus • teaching • kids • trust • school

The US election

A parody written from a first world paternalistic stance

2020-11-14 funny • america • election • politics

Trump's legal results

Making a complete mockery of the justice process, just like everything. He's 1 for 19 in cases so far.

2020-11-14 trump • politics • election • legal • court • judicial • corruption • giuliani

Takashumi Holdings Company

Keep digging, there's a lot here. Haitian Dad.

2020-11-14 funny • weirdtwitter • tootme • via:waxy • geocities • web

Secret Service Covid

10% of presidential security is quarantined for Covid-19 after Trump's irresponsible campaign rallies

2020-11-14 trump • politics • covid19 • coronavirus • disease • secretservice

CEOs Trump plan

Major leaders of American corporations form a plan if Trump tries to stage a coup

2020-11-14 trump • politics • coup • election • ceos • business • america • democracy

Trump disrupting Covid planning

Biden team can't get engaged on vaccine efforts because Trump is blocking the transition

2020-11-14 politics • trump • biden • transition • covid19 • coronavirus • deaths

Canadian Covid growth

Our neighbor's absolute Covid numbers are way, way lower than the US. But they're showing some worrying acceleration in many provinces

2020-11-13 canada • data • province • covid19 • coronavirus • disease

Owning a house privately in California

Legal structures to keep your name out of public property records

2020-11-13 california • property • privacy • legal • llc • trust • tootme

Miami ratfucking

Shill candidates placed on the ballot to disrupt the election

2020-11-12 politics • miami • florida • election • ratfucking

Trump's grift

Raising money claiming it's for recounts and fighting election fraud, really is going to pay off his debts and fatten up the RNC

2020-11-12 politics • rnc • trump • donation • grift • fraud • scam

Trump vs the military

Roundup of a lot of outrageous comments and actions

2020-11-12 trump • politics • military • veterans

Apple 5nm capacity

They bought all of the manufacturing capability of TSMC. Samsung is the only other 5nm fab that exists.

2020-11-12 samsung • tsmc • apple • hardware • 5nm • marketpower • tootme

Is this a coup?

Single page website

2020-11-11 politics • fascism • trump • coup • democracy

Structure Sensor 3d scanner

Nifty 3d scanner that piggybacks on an iPad

2020-11-11 ipad • 3d • scanner • lidar • structuresensor • camera • tootme • hardware

No voter fraud

NYTimes calls election heads in all 50 states; 49 answer, no election fraud. (Texas was too busy to return the call)

2020-11-11 poltics • nytimes • fraud • election • trump • votingfraud

Lodi racism

The bravery of being a BLM protestor in a small racist California town

2020-11-11 racism • california • lodi • politics • blm

RIP Betty Anne Dodson

Obituary of famous feminist and sex-positive teacher who taught masturbation seminars and argued for pleasure

2020-11-11 sex • feminism • women • masturbation • tootme

Voting / postal lies

Project Veritas bribed a postal worker to lie and say there was voting fraud

2020-11-10 politics • votingfraud • projectveritas • usps • fraud

DendroCloud

Point cloud software for interpreting lidar scans of forests

2020-11-10 trees • forests • lidar • pointcloud • software • processing • tootme

Dean Browning, gay black guy

Right wing politician gets caught tweeting from the wrong account, hilarity ensues

2020-11-10 politics • drowning • deadbrowning • astroturf • fake • funny

Josh Pigford, douchebag

The disclosed terms of this deal are jaw-droppingly gross. Needless to say this is someone you never want to work for or invest in.

2020-11-10 business • acquisition • investment • venturecapital • ethics

Observers on US election

International observers say it looked like a fair vote

2020-11-10 election • politics • oas • observers • voting • trump

No “Latino Vote”

Sharp editorial on the reality of Latinx diversity

2020-11-10 latinx • latino • politics • voting • demographics • racism

Child rape conspiracy

Yet more evidence the Catholic Church has worked for 50+ years to enable its leadership to continue to sexually abuse children and adults

2020-11-10 church • catholic • scandal • rape • vatican

2020 voting changes

Ambitious visualization of two trends; where people voted more, and where there were big shifts to the left or right

2020-11-10 politics • visualization • map • trump • 2020 • election • windmap

Pennsylvania respects the vote

Hugely reassuring; the state legislature of PA won't try some weird gimmick with electors

2020-11-09 politics • electors • trump • voting • democracy • pennsylvania

Trump disrupts transition

Basic orderly bureaucratic transfer of power is being stopped by a GSA official, for Trump

2020-11-09 trump • politics • gsa • biden • transition

Census corruption

Workers told to fake data

2020-11-08 corruption • census • politics • trump

Apple vs users

Apple removes yet another programming environment from iOS apps because it's too flexible

2020-11-08 apple • shell • programming • walledgarden • tootme • monopoly

Georgia's 2019 voter purge

200,000 voters mistakenly removed from voter rolls. Can you guess which races of people were most affected?

2020-11-07 racism • georgia • politics • voting • votingrights • votersuppression

Horny for Fivey Fox

The inevitable collison of furry porn and political polling

2020-11-07 funny • fiveyfox • porn • furries • election • politics • 538 • tootme • rule34

Tangzhong

Asian technique foor softer bread; cooking a flour paste first

2020-11-07 cooking • baking • japan • tangzhong • dough • tootme

County election map

Nice visualization of NYT shows how every US county voted

2020-11-06 politics • counties • america • nyt • visualization • 2020 • election • maps

Trump / Scooby Doo

Remarkably excellent voice fake

2020-11-06 trump • politics • scoobydoo • funny

Navajo vote for Biden

Election report from Indian Country

2020-11-06 arizona • indian • nativeamerican • politics • navajo • biden

Illegal campaign texts

Anonymous text messages urging people to disrupt vote counting in Philadelphia seem to have come from the Trump campaign

2020-11-06 politics • trump • corruption • campaign • philadelphia

Seeds of a coup

Two senior Republican senators entertain the idea of ignoring the popular vote and just appointing electors

2020-11-06 politics • election • coup • trump • electors

Voight-Kampf vs politicians

Classic bit of political journalism from 2006. Be sure to read Newsom's part.

2020-11-06 funny • politics • newsom • bladerunner • tootme

The Silk Road $1B

Turns out the feds talked a mysterious "Individual X" into transferring the funds to the government! Asset seizure. Weird.

2020-11-06 silkroad • bitcoin • money • crypto • cryptocurrency • government • seizure • tootme

Nebraska's split vote

Why Nebraska splits its electoral college votes: the efforts of one progressive legislator

2020-11-05 nebraska • voting • electoralcollege • politics • tootme

Silk Road $1B is moved

Bitcoin connected to giant drug market had lain dormant for seven years

2020-11-04 bitcoin • silkroad • fraud • money • via:hackernews • tootme

Brownshirts banging

You can hear the Republican thugs banging against the wall

2020-11-04 politics • brownshirts • voting • votingrights • michigan • detroit • trump • fascism

Brownshirt report

Republicans attack a vote counting facility to disrupt the vote

2020-11-04 votingrights • voting • politics • counting • michigan • detroit • trump

Brownshirt summons

This was the call to Republicans to try to disrupt the Detroit vote count

2020-11-04 politics • detroit • voting • votingrights • count • michigan • trump

Ubooquity

A server for your books; kind of like Plex for reading

2020-11-04 books • plex • software • ebooks • comics • library • tootme • calibre

138k Michigan votes

Mystery about 138k Michigan votes turns out just to be a clerical error

2020-11-04 voting • michigan • politics • counting

Election certification dates

State by state, when the actual final vote tally is certified. Typically end of Novemberish

2020-11-04 politics • election • certification • november

Venus life doubts

That phosphine study may be marred by overfitting the noise reduction

2020-11-03 venus • statistics • space • life • phosphine • tootme

Foothills Park

Excellent high school paper article about Palo Alto's weirdly private park

2020-11-03 paloalto • california • park • publicaccess • foothillspark • stanford • tootme

Biden Covid-19 plan

What's hopefully coming in the next few weeks

2020-11-03 covid19 • coronavirus • biden • politics • disease • publichealth

RPi 400 teardown

Inside the $70 keyboard computer. It's not much!

2020-11-03 rpi • raspberrypi • computer • keyboard • teardown • tootme

Samuel Paty

Obituary of French schoolteacher brutality murdered for teaching about free speech in France and parodies of Mohammed

2020-11-03 france • islam • freespeech • blasphemy • offense • murder

True Detective / Ghost of Tsushima

A shot-for-shot faithful recreation of the True Detective intro (Season 1) using Ghost of Tsushima imagery and footage

2020-11-02 games • tsushima • truedetective • via:reddit • tootme

Starlink beta and pricing

$500 + $100/mo. beta opening now

2020-11-02 starlink • isp • wisp • internet • tootme • spacex

CDC hospitalization data

Suppressed federal data finally leaks, info about Covid and hospital capacity.

2020-11-02 covid19 • coronavirus • politics • disease • cdc • hospitals • data

Dialysis King of Cheyenne

Mark Zuckerberg in a surprising local advertisement

2020-11-01 zuckerberg • deekfake • funny • dialysis • southpark • tootme