Motion-stable dithering

Crazy graphics optimization

2017-11-30 3d • games • graphics • obradinn • papersplease • via:metafilter

US tax policy

Economist article on how our fiscal policies don't work very well for redistribution

2017-11-30 america • policy • politics • tax

Amazon Time Service

NTP for AWS. Does leap smearing, recommends chrony

2017-11-30 amazon • chrony • leapsecond • ntp • synchronization • time

Man who silenced Trump

Twitter contractor who got Trump's Twitter account suspended for 11 minutes

2017-11-30 abuse • policy • politics • trump • twitter

Licki Brush

For if you love your cat enough to groom him /cc @bookscout

2017-11-29 brush • cats • funny • portland • via:reddit

Arrington cryptocurrency hedge fund

Fuck everything

2017-11-29 arrington • bitcoin • blockchain • fraud • ico

White House doubles down on falsehoods

Press Secretary asserts it doesn't matter if videos Trump shares are real

2017-11-29 politics • reality • trump • truth

Software Engineer Salary Data

Data from Triplebyte, a hiring middle-man. No idea how good this is.

2017-11-29 compensation • engineering • pay • salary • siliconvalley • via:hackernews • wages

The Limits of ‘Believe All Women’

An effort to get to more subtlety, I fear this conversation is impossible

2017-11-29 feminism • harassment • metoo • politics • women

Trump's delusions

Promoting false hoods about his sexual predation, the popular vote, and Obama's birth certificate. It seems mostly sad and funny but it's dangerous.

2017-11-29 politics • trump • truth

Trump's embrace of anti-Muslim hate

Details on the anti-Islam group Trump is promoting

2017-11-29 islam • muslim • politics • prejudice • trump

Dirty Tricks for Roy Moore

Scumbags at Project Veritas tried to entrap the Washington Post with a fake story

2017-11-27 journalism • politics • roymoore • truth • washingtonpost

Silk Road photo trip

Travel via photojournalism curation

2017-11-27 china • photos • silkroad • tourism • travel

Regulate ICOs

Former SEC regulator speaks out

2017-11-27 bitcoin • finance • fraud • ico • regulator • sec • via:hackernews

2018 election not secured

Congress has failed to help hack-proof American elections

2017-11-27 badtech • hacking • politics • russia • security • trump • voting

Share bike graveyard

Amazing photos /cc @migurski

2017-11-27 bikes • china • photography • photos • sharebikes

11k Hands

A dataset for machine learning

2017-11-27 data • google • hands • imagerecognition • machinelearning

Campaign-in-a-box

DNC creating a suite of tech tools for campaigns

2017-11-27 democrats • dnc • politics • tech

Visualization Universe

Details on what charts, books, and tools are most popular among visualization searchers

2017-11-27 charts • d3js • data • google • visualization

Looping noise

Multi-dimensional noise techniques to produce looping animations

2017-11-27 animation • art • noise • perlin

Net Neutrality in the courts

Tim Wu lays out the basic legal argument for net neutrality

2017-11-27 fcc • judiciary • legal • netneutrality

Mexican Pulp Art

Classic 1970s illustrations

2017-11-26 art • cheese • illustration • mexican • mexico • pulp • scifi

Goatse ICO

Famous shock site has become the latest Blockchain business. (SFW, I think)

2017-11-26 bitcoin • blockchain • funny • goatse

San Francisco in a nutshell

Muni bus with marijuana ad hits a meter maid's Cushman

2017-11-26 funny • marijuana • muni • photo • sanfrancisco

Republicans convicted of child sex crimes

Detailed list of names and locations

2017-11-26 gop • pedophilia • politics • rape • republicans

Gutting the State Department

Trump administration is systematically dismantling our capability for international diplomacy

2017-11-25 america • diplomacy • politics • statedepartment • tillerson • trump

Trump narcissism

Delusions on display

2017-11-25 mentalillness • narcissism • politics • time • trump

what3words DMCA takedown

Someone reverse engineered the proprietary location service last year

2017-11-25 copyright • dmca • maps • what3words

Liquid Sky 4K restoration!

Tragically underappreciated 80s movie getting a reissue. Stills look amazing

2017-11-24 heroin • liquidsky • movies • newwave

Creepy Whitney Houston

Hilarious drag performance of that horrible warbling song

2017-11-24 drag • funny • horror • music • philippines • whitneyhouston

FCC ballot stuffing

Textual analysis of a spam campaign to repeat net neutrality

2017-11-24 fcc • fraud • netneutrality • nlp • politics • via:reddit

/r/oldpeoplefacebook

Folks having a hard time understanding how Facebook works

2017-11-24 facebook • funny • hci • ui • userinterface

Joe Barton's girlfriends

Creepy sex life of a congressman

2017-11-23 gop • politics • republicans • sex • texas

PNG explorers

The real history of people crossing Papua New Guinea

2017-11-23 anthropology • benedictallen • fraud • history • papua • png

Uber was hacked and hid it

57M user accounts hacked, Uber paid a ransom and didn't disclose the breach

2017-11-21 badtech • fraud • hack • kalanick • security • uber

gzthermal web

simple webapp to visualize compression efficiency

2017-11-21 compression • gzip • gzthermal • optimiziation • visualization

gzthermal

Odd little tool to visualize efficiency of gzip compression

2017-11-21 compression • gzip • optimization • visualization

Tartine croissant recipe

Details on San Francisco's most-loved croissant

2017-11-21 baking • croissant • pastry • sanfrancisco • sf • tartine

Addicted to pretending to be furniture

My weird addiction

2017-11-20 dragqueen • facebook • funny

Opus Magnum Turing complete

Puzzle game now has a Brainfuck interpreter

2017-11-20 computers • games • opusmagnum • programming • zachtronics

FCC to wreck the Internet

Official notice of unwinding net neutrality

2017-11-20 fcc • internet • netneutrality • policy • politics • trump

Tech political naivete

How a lack of nuanced education has led companies like Google and Facebook to build dangerous political machines

2017-11-20 education • liberalarts • politics • rant • tech

Dale / Naomi apology

Coming clean and being decent

2017-11-20 china • make • makezine • naomiwu • oreilly • sexism

Voter suppression committee

Strongly worded editorial about Kobach and Trump's effort to stop people from voting

2017-11-19 america • democracy • politics • vote • votingrights

Jurvetson's disgrace

Big name VC pushed out of his firm for various social and sexual transgressions

2017-11-19 asshole • dfj • jurvetson • tech • vc

Mastodon analytics

Details of user growth and usage, per instance

2017-11-18 mastodon • socialmedia • stats

Cathedral reptition

Interesting zoetrope animation of architecture

2017-11-17 animation • architecture • cathedral • church • temple • zoetrope

TED harassment

Technoutopian conference also has disgusting sexual behavior

2017-11-17 conference • feminism • harassment • standards • ted • women

Hitman / Transgender

Sweet comic about how the Hitman game relates to the experience of being transgender

2017-11-17 comic • games • hitman • lgbt • trans • transgender

Trump assault timeline

13 women documenting sexual harassment or assault over 30 years

2017-11-17 assault • politics • rape • sexualharassment • trump • women

WikiLeaks are scoundrels

Details on the malfeasance of the group

2017-11-17 assange • politics • trump • wikileaks

Spacewar tournament 1972

Very first esports competition, with Stewart Brand at the center

2017-11-17 culture • esports • games • internet • spacewar • stewartbrand

Nevada City medical marijuana shop

Interesting look at the details of how a city picks who to give a marijuana license to

2017-11-16 california • grassvalley • marijuana • nevadacity • nevadacounty • pot

Delhi's toxic sky

Smog photos

2017-11-15 delhi • india • photography • photos

TechShop bankruptcy

Grand Maker experiment has shut the doors

2017-11-15 culture • engineering • fabrication • make • maker • tech • techshop

Patreon Statistics

Details on crowdfunding for creators

2017-11-15 crowdfunding • funding • money • patreon • statistics

Against gay marriage in Australia

Details of who voted no on the recent survey

2017-11-15 australia • equalrights • gay • minority • politics • religion

Ghost the leopard

Lovely wildlife photograph, read the story from the photographer

2017-11-15 cat • leopard • photography • photos • reddit • tanzania • wildlife

Twitch business

Some details on the professional world of video game streaming

2017-11-15 culture • games • leagueoflegends • tv • twitch

Uber stock outcome for SF

Company is not exempt from San Francisco's special 0.7% payroll tax

2017-11-14 california • sanfrancisco • stock • tax • taxes • uber

100,000 users on an old ARM PC

The largest Mastodon instance is run on a small machine

2017-11-14 mastodon • scaling • social • twitter

Alabama rape culture

Everyone in Roy Moore's town knew he was creepy with young girls

2017-11-14 alabama • politics • rapeculture • roymoore

Dealing with angry users

Riot Games director talks about how to communicate in the toxic environment of abusive gamers

2017-11-14 games • ghostcrawler • leagueoflegends • lol • riotgames • support • users

Aerial Views

Satisfyingly geometric photography from Bernhard Lang

2017-11-13 aerial • art • aviation • photography • photos

Whitefish scandal

Yet more Trump administration malfeasance; Puerto Rico is getting seriously screwed on rebuilding electricity infrastructure

2017-11-13 fraud • politics • puertorico • trump • whitefish

Halcyon

A Mastodon client that looks just like Twitter's UI. Works with any Mastodon account.

2017-11-13 mastodon • twitter • ui

Sally Ride's partner

Tam O'Shaughnessy on her gay, closeted relationship with astronaut Sally Ride. They did as well as they could IMHO.

2017-11-13 astronaut • gay • lesbian • lgbt • nasa • sallyride • space

Humans in Star Trek

Funny riff on goofy Star Trek technology

2017-11-13 engineering • funny • startrek

Politics at Thanksgiving

Economics research show that in 2016, politically divided families spent less time at the Thanksgiving table

2017-11-12 dinner • family • politics • thanksgiving • via:mastodon

Superflight

Lovely little PC game. Generative 3d terrain you fly through, the controls and sound design make this really fun

2017-11-11 flying • games • pc • steam • superflight

feed2toot

Tool to post RSS feed content to Mastodon. Good for Pinboard

2017-11-11 feed • mastodon • pinboard • rss • twitter

Korean fire chicken with cheese

Odd but delicious dish

2017-11-11 buldak • cooking • food • korean

Mastodon Bridge

Follow people from Twitter on Mastodon too

2017-11-10 bridge • import • mastodown • twitter

A Net Before the Web

Series of blog posts about pre-Web infosystems. First post is on The Source

2017-11-10 history • internet • thesource • via:waxy • web

Social media and democracy

Long detailed piece about society and Internet communication

2017-11-10 abuse • china • democracy • facebook • politics • propaganda • twitter

Time Well Spent

Consumer interest group pushing back against advertising and tech companies stealing our attention

2017-11-10 ads • advertising • attention • ethics • mobile • time

Naomi Wu

Profile of the woman inventor from China

2017-11-09 china • fashion • make • naomiwu • sexism • women

Brave Enough to Be Angry

Righteous feminist op/ed

2017-11-09 anger • harassment • politics • trump

As Fast as Possible

John Cage conceptual music piece rendered listenable

2017-11-09 cage • funny • johncage • music

Solving the DNC Hack

Detailed story about Johnston, the lead at CrowdStrike who handled the DNC hack investigation

2017-11-08 crowdstrike • dnc • politics • russia • trump

About Naomi Wu

Very thoughtful essay about how damaging it is when a powerful white man questions the authenticity of a Chinese woman

2017-11-08 culture • gender • make • sexism • tirefire

Cornelia Bailey obit

Geechee matriarch of Georgia. /cc @kellegous

2017-11-08 africa • geechee • georgia • gullah • history • islands • obituary • slavery • south

Tadka

Indian cooking technique of cooking spices in oil and adding them to the dish at precise intervals

2017-11-08 cooking • food • indian • tadka

Stepping into digital life

Major new report from Mozilla in first-time users of information tech, particularly Internet phots

2017-11-07 culture • internet • mozilla • phones • sociology

SorryWatch

Funny snark and analysis on celebrity non-apologies

2017-11-07 apology • funny • spacey • weinstein

Another peaceful day in Australia

Snarky editorial about gun laws

2017-11-07 australia • funny • gunlaws • guns • politics

Turn off retweets!

New simple webapp to disable retweets for every account

2017-11-07 detweet • filtering • retweets • twitter

Weinstein's spies

This is why women don't speak up

2017-11-07 feminism • harassment • mossad • spies • weinstein • women

Our Moloch

2012 essay about American gun worship

2017-11-06 america • death • guns • murder • politics

Something is wrong on the internet

James Bridle on creepy automated kids videos

2017-11-06 children • culture • generative • procedural • video • youtube

Paradise Papers

Overview of new document leak about tax shelters

2017-11-06 america • bermuda • corruption • fraud • politics • taxfraud

Yuri Milner and the Kremlin

Major Russian investor in tech companies connected to Putin

2017-11-06 facebook • investing • politics • putin • russia • twitter

Transvestite passes

Magnus Hirschfeld / 1920s Berlin LGBT history

2017-11-04 germany • hirschfeld • history • lgbt • trans • transgender

Epistemic crisis

The danger of right wing people simply not believing reality

2017-11-03 america • politics • science • trump • truth

Robert Mercer, deadbeat

Hedge fund billionaire and kooky alt-right supporter owes $7B in back taxes

2017-11-02 fraud • mercer • politics • taxes • trump

Reed College turmoil

More reporting on RAR and protests that shut classes down

2017-11-02 college • racism • rar • reed

Russian propaganda examples

Detailed summary with links

2017-11-02 politics • propaganda • russia • trump

Netrek archives

Records from an online game culture of the early 1990s

2017-11-02 cmu • games • history • netrek • ogg

A Bea Arthur a Day

Hundreds of portraits

2017-11-02 art • beaarthur • cartoon • funny • tumblr

Russian propaganda ads

Examples from the congressional hearing

2017-11-02 ads • facebook • politics • propaganda • russia • trump • twitter

Strava global heatmap

Lovely visualization of 3T GPS points. Their localized normalization is clever.

2017-11-02 gps • heatmap • strava • visualization

Trump's incompetence

Second tier appointees appear unqualified

2017-11-02 corruption • politics • trump

Civil War reading list

Some basic books on American history

2017-11-01 civilwar • history • politics • racism • reading • slavery

Sixels

Primitive bitmap display support in VT200 terminals

2017-11-01 graphics • terminal • tty • vt200

Crosscheck voter fraud

GOP tool for suppressing the vote has a 99% false positive rate

2017-11-01 indiana • voting • votingrights

Manafort flight risk

Jaw dropping story on how crooked Trump's campaign manager looks

2017-11-01 manafort • politics • russia • trump

Seashells tty tool

Pipe output of a program to this web server, get a public web view of it

2017-11-01 bash • hack • programming • seashells • shell • via:hackernews

US Navy accident report

Details on the two destroyers that had collisions this summer in the Pacific

2017-11-01 military • navy • negligence • pacific • sailing