Nelson's Linkblog 2024-10

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Appreciation for 1960s Turkey's answer to Liberace

2024-10-31 gay • turkey • culture • lgbt • liberace • music

America PAC abuses

Musk's pay-for-votes PAC also hires people to knock on doors, then abuses them with unsafe rides and threats of non-payment

2024-10-30 musk • elonmusk • politics • trump • uspol • americapac • pac

Fascinating queer person from the early 1900s

2024-10-30 queer • lgbt • genderqueer • history • bahamas • england

Fun etymology for the word for safety covers on electrical switches.

2024-10-30 etymology • words • children • industrial

Old school website / database of people who've flown their single engine planes around the world

2024-10-30 aviation • flying • world • singleengine • batshitinsane • bonanza

Trailer for Queer

William S. Burroughs novel has been made into a film starring Daniel Craig

2024-10-30 movies • gay • lgbt • queer • burroughs • wsb • guadagnino

Texas disenfranchisement

Detailed story of a woman being denied the right to vote because some process decided she was not a citizen

2024-10-29 politics • votingrights • elections • citizenship • texas

RIP botsin.space

Useful Mastodon service for sharing automated posts to the Fediverse is going away

2024-10-29 bots • rss • mastodon • fediverse

Guerilla art mocking the Trump coup attempt

2024-10-28 uspol • politics • funny • satire • poop • jan6 • j6 • trump

Journey to the gold diggins

1849 comic about the Gold Rush. CW: racism

2024-10-27 california • history • graphicnovel • comic • goldrush

The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model

The PhD thesis that's at the core of NixOS

2024-10-27 nixos • research • academic • computerscience • systems • os • nix • phd

Trump and fascism

Careful analysis with many citations about Trump's fascism

2024-10-27 uspol • politics • fascism

Elon Musk worked illegally in the US

Came to the US on a student visa but was never a student, started working instead

2024-10-26 elonmusk • politics • immigration • uspol • hypocrisy • zip2

1619 Project: Visual

Illustrated version of the essential American history book

2024-10-26 history • america • black • africanamerican • slavery • 1619project

Kiribati survival

Wild story of two men surviving 33 days lost at sea

2024-10-25 kiribati • polynesia • pasifika • fishing • boating • survival

Keyboard layouts

Keychron's guides to compact but more or less traditional keyboard layouts

2024-10-25 keyboards • keychron • layout • tenkeyless • typing

Character Amnesia in China

How the prevalence of phonetic written Chinese is causing people to lose their knowledge of brushstroke characters

2024-10-25 chinese • language • linguistics • writing • via:metafilter • culture

Thermoradiative Photovoltaics

Theoretical idea of generating power sort of like a solar cell in reverse

2024-10-23 power • electricity • solar • energy • physics • science

Houston LGBT History

Fun old school website

2024-10-23 houston • history • gay • lgbt • bars

Trump's former right hand man discusses in detail how Trump is fascist and dangerous

2024-10-23 uspol • trump • politics • fascism

Political fundraising fraud

American politicians continue to defraud their donors, exploiting the elderly. The Republicans get 7x as many fraud complaints as the Democrats.

2024-10-22 fraud • via:metafilter • politics • uspol • creditcard • scam

Glitchy art turned into sweaters from Rachel Binx!

2024-10-22 gifts • sweaters • clouds • glitch • plotterart • plotter • binx

How Americans vote

A state-by-state breakdown of voting by mail, early voting, in person voting, etc

2024-10-21 visualization • voting • politics • uspol • america • votingrights

Marissa Mayer interview

Remarkably frank and personal

2024-10-21 google • marissa • marissamayer • feminism • geeks • yahoo

IPv6 Transition

A new state of the Internet post from Geoff Huston

2024-10-20 internet • ipv6 • via:lobsters • addressing • networking

Grass Valley artist, does amazing mixed media sculptures and wearables

2024-10-20 art • grassvalley • sculpture • mythology

Intense animated film about the weird lifecycle of Tears of the Kingdom. Apocalypse Now but with Bokoblin

2024-10-19 movies • via:metafilter • games • totk • zelda

revealing the fediverse's gifts

Erin Kissane on Mastodon community

2024-10-18 mastodon • socialmedia • fediverse • moderation • policy

Tech vs. Apartheid

1980s/90s story of spycraft aiding the ANC in dismantling South Africa's apartheid regime

2024-10-18 via:hackernews • apartheid • encryption • crypto • security • history • southafrica

HP calculator simulator

Nonpariel, high-fidelity simulation of classic scientific and financial calulators

2024-10-18 hp • calculator • emulator • retrocomputing

PikaPods hosting

Managed hosting for a bunch of open source apps. You can run these yourself but if you don't want to bother managing a server it's a cheap alternative

2024-10-18 hosting • docker • apps • server • managed

Self-hosted bookmarks, a Pinboard alternative

2024-10-18 pinboard • bookmarks • linkblog • selfhosting • software

China US immigration

Detailed reporting on the dangerous journey some Chinese take seeking asylum in the US, travelling from Ecuador to the southern US border

2024-10-17 china • politics • us • immigration • america • migration

RIP Ward Christensen

Nice obituary honoring the inventor of the online BBS

2024-10-16 bbs • history • computing • internet • socialmedia • modem • obituary

Chinese numerals

Chinese has a writing system with a character for the number to 10^44. (In modern usage, historical goes to 10^4096).

2024-10-15 numbers • largenumbers • chinese • writing • incrementalgame

List of games of a very specific genre

2024-10-14 games • incremental • idle • clicker

Tempe terrorism

Democratic campaign office has to shut down after being shot up with guns three times

2024-10-13 politics • uspol • terrorism • violence • guns • arizona

325,000 children

Useful background on a Trump lie that gets repeated frequently

2024-10-11 lies • propaganda • politics • uspol • trump • immigration

Open source radio mesh networking for long range usage

2024-10-11 mesh • radio • network • communication • opensource • hacking

US wealth distribution

A visualization on a linear scale

2024-10-10 politics • uspol • inequality • wealth • money • visualization

Nevada County election dashboard

My small California county has a nice online monitor for voting

2024-10-09 elections • politics • votingrights • natalieadona • dashboard • democracy

Ta-Nahesi Coates interview

Excellent Terry Gross / Fresh Air with Coates about his new book on his trips to Senegal and Israel

2024-10-09 interview • politics • israel • slavery • america • journalism • freshair

Winnemucca Pride cancelled

Threats against a small Nevada town Pride celebration

2024-10-05 LGBT • Nevada • winnemucca • Pride • terrorism • threats • politics • uspol

Gay Native Hawaiian movie, modelled after South Korean boy love

2024-10-04 hawai'i • hawaii • movie • gay • lgbt • native • indigenous