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Map of non-voting people
Election map colored black where the majority did not vote at all
2018-07-31 elections • politics • voting
Photos of reunifications
Photojournalism about the border crisis of children separated from their parents
2018-07-31 children • immigration • photos • politics • trump
SolarCity malfeasance
Lawsuit alleging fake sales, harassment at Musk's failed solar power company
2018-07-31 elonmusk • harassment • musk • solar • solarcity • tesla • tirefire
3M Russian Troll tweets
An archive of the Internet Research Agency's propaganda efforts
2018-07-31 ira • politics • propaganda • russia • trump • twitter
Glenn Greenwald deletes tweets
Journalist claiming to be about openness deletes his own record, ahead of a WikiLeaks dump
2018-07-31 glenngreenwald • greenwald • journalism • wikileaks
US land use
Nice visualization of percentages of America used for farming, urban areas, forests, etc
2018-07-31 america • landuse • maps • unitedstates • via:reddit • visualization
GOP pedophiles
San Antonio anti-gay hate group fully supports their GOP county chair, the woman who stands behind her child rapist husband
2018-07-31 gop • hypocrisy • lgbt • pedophile • politics • sanantonio • sex
Don't drug migrant kids
Shiloh and other child jails have been giving psychiatric drugs to the kids without parental consent. Or a qualified doctor.
2018-07-31 drugs • immigration • politics • psychiatry • trump
White authoritarianism at the border
Harrowing personal account
2018-07-30 america • border • dhs • ice • politics • trump
Measuring healthy conversation
Twitter partners with a couple of academic groups to study healthy communities.
2018-07-30 abuse • nazis • politics • research • twitter
Favebook's banal evil
Argument that the fundamental problem is just that the company is inhuman
2018-07-30 ethics • facebook • socialmedia
ICE coercion
US authorities forcing parents to accept deportation by threatening their children
2018-07-29 dhs • ice • immigration • politics • trump
Ghost characters
Mistakes that are permanently enshrined in Unicode
2018-07-29 history • japanese • jis • unicode • via:hackernews • writing
National Trails System
Maps of major trails in the US, hiking and historical
2018-07-29 america • hiking • history • maps • nationalparks • nps
Frequency allocation chart
A classic of information design; $6 for a printed poster
2018-07-29 fcc • frequency • government • radio
Origins of gamer misogyny
Detailed history and cultural analysis of how gaming became dominated by toxic men
2018-07-29 culture • feminism • games • gaming • via:metafilter
Hipster Business Names
A generator complete with logo
2018-07-29 funny • hipster • names
Indigenous geographies
Maps of original peoples in the Americas and Oceania
2018-07-29 history • indians • maps • nativeamerians
Ambassador McFaul on Trump
Incredulity he'd cooperate with Putin's fantasy
2018-07-28 politics • putin • russia • trump
Child snatching details
Banal details of inflexible database designs, bureaucratic evil
2018-07-28 children • immigration • politics • trump
Good touch / Bad touch
A 6 year old girl sexually abused while alone in immigration detention signed a form explaining her responsibility for being sexually abused
2018-07-27 humanrights • immigration • politics • sexualabuse • trump
Stormy Daniels' entrapment
Columbus cops planned for months that they were going to bust Stormy Daniels
2018-07-27 civilrights • columbus • entrapment • politics • stormydaniels • trump
Etymology of orange
From 16th century fruit trade
2018-07-27 color • english • etymology • language • orange • via:metafilter
What OpenStreetMap can be
Thoughtful essay on what makes OSM unique
2018-07-27 community • maps • openstreetmap • vectormaps
Made in China
Lovely photo essay on Chinese manufacturing
2018-07-27 china • manufacturing • photography • photos • trade
Flop accounts
An Instagram trend for political discourse
2018-07-27 culture • instagram • politics • trend
Election map critique
Some criticisms from a cartography wonk. He's absolutely right that the NYT map overemphasizes land area over population
2018-07-26 cartography • election • maps • politics • visualization
2016 precinct map, NYT
New look at Ryne Rohla's data, a per-precinct map of the presidential election
2018-07-26 elections • maps • politics • visualization • voting
Figures in the Stars
Cross-cultural astronomy; how different peoples saw constellations
2018-07-25 anthropology • astronomy • constellation • culture • space
Securing BGP
A detailed report on state of the art of protecting the Internet routing infrastructure. It's not great.
2018-07-25 badtech • bgp • internet • routing • security
Super Patriotic Dating Simulator (NSFW)
Eyebrow-raising parody game
2018-07-25 games • isis • islam • kickstarter • muslim • parody
History of game healthbars
Nice tour through visual and game design
2018-07-25 arcades • games • healthbar • history • mechanics
Dev Tools by FullStory
Advanced tools for diagnosing web site performance problems
2018-07-25 debugging • optimization • performance • webdevelopment
TSM raises $37M
Big League of Legends franchise takes in serious venture capital from Bessemer, Steph Curry, etc
2018-07-25 esports • investment • leagueoflegends • lol • riotgames • startups • via:reddit
Voter purges
Brennan Center for Justice on yet another tool of disenfranchisement
2018-07-24 elections • politics • voting • votingrights
How U2F keys work
Details on a new authentication system
2018-07-24 auth • authentication • chrome • u2f • via:fitz • yubikey
Macbook's i9 throttling problem
Details on what may have been the cause; obscure settings controlling the CPU
2018-07-24 cooling • cpu • intel • macbook • overclocking
California Congress races
Details on 14 districts that are somewhat in play
2018-07-24 2018 • california • congress • election • politics
Incipient fascism
Attorney General laughs along with group of high school kids chanting "lock her up", repeats the words
2018-07-24 clinton • fascism • politics • sessions • trump
Reddit Masstagger
A tool to help tag Reddit users based on what communities they belong to. Useful for identifying trolls from /r/The_Donald
2018-07-24 moderation • politics • reddit • trump
Sau Lan Wu
Remarkable high energy physics experimentalist on being a woman in science research
2018-07-24 academics • feminism • physics • research • science • women
On demand PrEP works
Other big news from Amsterdam AIDS conference; PrEP seems to work as well "on demand" as on a daily dose
2018-07-24 aids • health • hiv • prep • prevenir • prevention
Undetectable = Untrasmittable
Great news from the AIDS conference in Amsterdam
2018-07-24 aids • aids2018 • gay • health • hiv • lgbt • partner2
Prison phone rates
FCC was on the way to limiting how much a prisoner could be charged for a phone call. Trump people undid that.
2018-07-24 fcc • humanrights • politics • prison • trump
Sundering families
A wife deported, her child and husband left behind in the middle of Trump's America
2018-07-24 cruelty • deportation • immigration • politics • trump
About the Nazis at Hope Conf
What it's like when some neo-Nazis show up at your tech conference
2018-07-24 coc • hopeconf • nazis • politics
Amazon ops problems
Internal documents reveal some scaling issues on Prime day
2018-07-23 amazon • devops • ops • scaling
State-Sponsored Trolling
Reports on propaganda operations around the world
2018-07-23 facebook • politics • propaganda • twitter
O-zone tax break
Sean Parker managed to pass a massive tax break for investors; turn realized capital gains into tax free investments
2018-07-23 investment • opportunityzone • ozone • politics • tax
Google data portability
Some context on the new Data Transfer Project
2018-07-23 google • opendata • portability • takeout
Designing Paying the President
Details on how the visualization was designed
2018-07-23 corruption • datascience • politics • trump • visualization
Paying the President
Visualization of all the ways Trump has profited from being President
2018-07-23 corruption • politics • trump • visualization
2018 House election
A map of which congressional districts are likely to be up for grabs in 2018
2018-07-23 congress • election • maps • politics
$100 fake iPhone X
Detailed analysis of a cheap Chinese clone; runs Android, sloppy ~4 year old hardware. But cheap!
2018-07-22 android • china • counterfeit • ios • iphone • shenzen • tech
Onion reviews Mamma Mia
Remarkably insightful review of the summer comedy sequel
2018-07-22 depression • funny • mammamia • movies • reviews • therapy
Convicted Republican pedophiles
A handy list with citations of 45 Republicans convicted of sex crimes with children
2018-07-21 gop • pedophiles • politics • republicans
Twitter, an anger video game
Prominent journalist quits Twitter
2018-07-21 journalism • socialmedia • twitter
nazibanning.club
A thoughtful talk on how a software platform could ban Nazis
2018-07-21 dotclub • funny • nazis
Factorio is solved
For the game, a very tidy self contained thing for turning raw materials into science
2018-07-21 factorio • games • reddit
Germanic strong verb
The historical linguistics explanation for irregular verbs in English and German
2018-07-21 english • etymology • german • language
Kompromat and Trump
How the Russian culture of blackmail may have ensnared Trump
2018-07-20 blackmail • kompromat • politics • russia • trump
Google translate eschatology
Nonsense input in minority languages result in apocalyptic religious quotes in English /cc @mahelona
2018-07-20 ai • machinelearning • neuralnetwork • translation
Data portability
Major tech companies working on interoperable sharing of user data
2018-07-20 antitrust • data • dataliberation • facebook • google • microsoft • opendata • sharing • twitter
Maria Butina, 2016 tweets
A bunch of old tweets seem to implicate Butina as a Russian spy right out in public, two years ago
2018-07-20 espionage • mariabutina • politics • russia • trump
Hello Games recovery
No Man's Sky had a bad launch but the team has stuck with the game and improved it significantly
2018-07-20 games • hellogames • nomanssky • seanmurray
Blockchain for POIs
Mapzen alumni form a new startup for places of interest, include a blockchain economy
2018-07-20 maps • mapzen • places • poi
Voter purges
Yet another threat to vote integrity
2018-07-20 politics • voting • votingrights
Flip the 14
A progressive PAC focussed on the 14 currently Republican congressional districts
2018-07-19 california • congress • election • pac • politics
Kushner dodging a lawsuit
Secret service helping to make sure DNC can't serve papers to Kushner
2018-07-19 dnc • justice • kushner • lawsuit • processserver
Kirstjen Nielsen is a Nazi sympathizer
Head of Homeland Security can't bring yourself to say the Nazis at Charlottesville were wrong
2018-07-19 nazi • nazis • nazisympathizer • neonazis • politics • trump • whitesupremacy
Trump + Russia summary
Reasonably well sourced roundup of all the evidence that the Trump campaign colluded with Russian intelligence
2018-07-19 politics • russia • summary • trump
Les projets abandonnés de Paris
Lovely collection of architectural things that were not to be. /cc @testastretta
2018-07-19 architecture • fantasy • paris • via:metafilter
Star Citizen still a scam
$190M for an unfinished game; now they're refusing refunds
2018-07-18 crowdfunding • games • scam • starcitizen
Venmo Drugs
Twitter account highlighting specific kinds of transacations on the public payment ledger
2018-07-18 drugs • funny • public • venmo • via:reddit
Solarpunk
A scifi movement towards optimistic futurism
2018-07-18 scifi • solarpunk • writing
The Igbo slave trade
A Nigerian reflects on her family's history with slave ownership
2018-07-18 culture • history • igbo • nigeria • slavery • via:metafilter
National Prayer Breakfast
A sort of backdoor lobbying effort by Christian nationalists; they love Russia
2018-07-18 christian • politics • russia • theocracy • trump
History of Google safe browsing
A useful, quiet behind the scenes Google security effort
2018-07-18 badtech • fritz • fritzschneider • google • niels • nielsprovos • security
ICE stopping journalists
Bureaucratic nonsense making it nearly impossible to report what's happening to immigrants
2018-07-18 freepress • ice • immigration • journalism • politics • trump
Riot's cheat protection
Strategies used to stop cheating in League of Legends
2018-07-17 cheating • copyprotection • drm • games • leagueoflegends • lol
Bill Browder v Putin
Champion against Russian corruption and murder has some direct words to say after the Trump+Putin lovefest
2018-07-17 magnitskyact • politics • putin • russia • trump
Vaccinations in CA 2018
Despite the law many kids are still not vaccinated
2018-07-17 california • health • vaccination
Overwatch abuse prevention
Blizzard says abusive chat is down about 25% after they added a positive reinforcement system
2018-07-17 abuse • blizzard • community • moderation • overwatch
Rural Americans dominate politics
Details of how various forms of electoral math benefit rural areas and thus Republicans
2018-07-17 america • democracy • electoralcollege • gerrymandering • voting
AMERICA!
Bill Calahan musing on Americana
2018-07-17 america • music • video
Child office jail
Second MVM facility, 20 kids in a 2000 sq ft office, bathing in sinks
2018-07-17 children • humanrights • immigration • mvm • phoenix • politics • trump
Sexual Assault by ICE
Personal accounts of two women sexually abused by ICE guards
2018-07-17 humanrights • ice • immigration • politics • rape • trump
Instapaper independent
Pinterest spinning the small web service back out into a separate company
2018-07-17 instapaper • pinterest • spinoff • startup
Interactive street orientations
Vector maps let you do the popular street orientation histograms in the browser
2018-07-17 mapbox • maps • mourner • orientation • osm • vectormap
Maria Butina photos
Turns out lots of people like to be photographed with a pretty young Russian spy
2018-07-16 espionage • nra • politics • russia • spy
Fakebook
Presentation of political ads on Facebook
2018-07-16 ads • benfry • facebook • fathom • politics • targeting • trump
Moment of Truth for Republicans
Clearly written editorial that the GOP must stand up now against foreign election interference
2018-07-16 gop • politics • republican • russia • trump
PSA Rips process
Details of an H.265 pirate scene video group
2018-07-16 h.265 • h265 • hevc • pirates • scene • video • x265
Pussy Riot at the World Cup
Details on the protest of people running on the field
2018-07-16 football • politics • protest • pussyriot • russia • soccer • worldcup
Trump, Treasonous Traitor
Occasionally it's nice to read something written clearly
2018-07-16 badtech • elections • electionsecurity • politics • russia • treason • trump
Elon Musk is a jerk
Compilation of various times he's rude on Twitter, etc
2018-07-15 elonmusk • twitter
Tech arrogance
Elon Musk's submarine for Thai rescue as an example of Silicon Valley stupidity
2018-07-15 elon • elonmusk • rescue • siliconvalley • submarine • tech • thailand
Is this OPSEC?
Mocking Wikileaks' stupidity in how they worked with the GRU
2018-07-15 assange • funny • gru • meme • wikileaks
Russia Indictment 2.0
Detailed analysis of Mueller's indictment of 12 Russian intelligence agents
2018-07-15 badtech • crime • election • fraud • politics • russia • trump
make at ProPublica
Ancient software build tool useful for data journalism /cc @mbostock
2018-07-14 data • datajournalism • etl • gnumake • make • processing • propublica
Bad reporting
Guy fakes a paragraph of the Mueller indictment, gullible journalists fall for it without verifying
2018-07-14 journalism • mueller • politics • trolling • truth
Russian hack details
Specifics on the indictment of 12 GRU hackers who aided the Trump campaign
2018-07-14 badtech • clinton • politics • russia • trump
Elsagate
Roundup of discussions about creepy YouTube videos targeting children
2018-07-13 children • internet • jamesbridle • youtube
Please give back mi son
Woman in Guatemala begs DHS secretary to release her 8 year old son back to her
2018-07-13 children • guatemala • immigrants • prison • trump
KotakuInAction drama
Creator of the GamerGate hate group has second thoughts, tries to delete the subreddit. Reddit's owners ended up stepping in and restoring everything.
2018-07-13 feminism • gamergate • nazis • politics
Sleeper Russian propaganda
Actual fake news; legit-seeming local newspaper accounts that are fictitious, run out of Russia
2018-07-13 facebook • journalism • news • politics • propaganda • twitter
Tony Perkins flooded
God visited his judgement on one of His most fervently hateful servants
2018-07-13 antigay • familyresearchcouncil • flood • frc • irony • lgbt • tonyperkins
More street orientation viz
Popular histograms going around this week, but the idea of drawing city streets by orientation goes back several years
2018-07-13 cities • maps • orientation • streets • visualization
Splitting racist hairs
The difference between white supremacy and white nationalism. There is one, but it's mostly a matter of semantic details
2018-07-13 hatred • politics • racism • trump • whitenationalism • whitesupremacy
Hawaiian blood quantum
Standard for renewing a Homelands lease changed from 1/4 native blood to 1/32 in 2017
2018-07-13 hawai'i • hawaii • hawaiianhomelands • homelands • land • nativerights • politics
Trump, white nationalist
Interview with The Sun where he shares his blatantly racist views
2018-07-13 europe • immigration • politics • trump • whitesupremacy
CODCO
Canadian sketch comedy remembered by Scott Thompson
2018-07-12 canada • comedy • kidsinthehall • newfoundland • scottthomspon • via:metafilter
Broken Promises
A new study of the Hawaiian Homelands, a program that was supposed to give land and housing to native Hawaiians but has mostly failed.
2018-07-12 hawai'i • hawaii • history • homelands • maps • nativerights
Immigrant jails
Details on how US counties are collaborating with ICE to imprison immigrants
2018-07-12 immigration • jail • politics • trump
Single neutrino detection
Remarkable astronomy achievement; single neutrino is detected, implicates a far-away galaxy as the source of a whole lot of cosmic rays
2018-07-12 astronomy • detector • icecube • neutrinos • science
Guido stepping down from Python
Benevolent dictator is worn out. PEP 572 specifically mentioned
2018-07-12 bdfl • community • guido • leadership • programming • python • software
Kavanaugh shady finances
$100,000 in credit card bills paid off with an unbelievable story
2018-07-12 fraud • kavanaugh • supremecourt
DMV appointment scalping
Scummy business YoGov is selling government appointments for $20 a pop
2018-07-11 business • dmv • scam • yogov
Progressive lawyer and Hammond pardon
Larry Matasar, well known progressive lawyer in Portland, helped get the Hammonds their pardon from Trump
2018-07-11 hammond • matasar • politics • ranching • trump
The pain of being reunited
Stories from small immigrant kids reunited with their parents after the government separated them.
2018-07-11 children • immigration • politics • trump
Aloha shirt history
The development of Hawaiian shirts
2018-07-11 aloha • fashion • hawai'i • hawaii • prints • shirts
LoL client hacked
Garena claims the Bitcoin mining script was placed by a hacker. That's worse, guys.
2018-07-11 badtech • games • garena • lol • riotgames • security
Shutting down Bitcanal
ISP accused of being a source of BGP attacks, kicked off the internet
2018-07-10 badtech • bgp • bitcanal • internet • portugal • via:hackernews
A Lesson in Code Switching
Well written essay about the faces we present in public
2018-07-10 america • culture • race • via:metafilter
Apple + 1Password
Big news for the password manager
2018-07-10 1password • apple • authentication • passwords
LoL client mines bitcoin
League of Legends in SE Asia is surreptitiously mining bitcoin
2018-07-10 badtech • garena • leagueoflegends • lol • malware • riotgames
Oldest living PC games
Games from the 80s still being maintained, mostly fantasy RPGs
2018-07-10 games • history • mmos • nethack • rpgs
Jimena Madrid
6 year old we heard asking for her mommy is still 1000 miles away from her mommy
2018-07-09 children • immigration • politics • trump
2 of 102 kids returned
Detailed accounting of the 102 children under 5 snatched from their parents by ICE
2018-07-09 children • dhs • ice • immigration • politics • trump
RIP Tab Hunter
50s film star came out at age 84
2018-07-09 actors • film • gay • lgbt • movies • tabhunter
Kerala modernist Churches
Christian group in India builds amazing churches
2018-07-09 architecture • church • india • kerala • via:metafilter
Google vs Firefox Mobile
Google's web apps give a degraded experience to Firefox Mobile users
2018-07-09 antitrust • browser • firefox • gecko • google • monopoly
Thai boys vs US border kids
Americans have more compassion for kids trapped in a cave halfway around the world than the ones we put in cages at the US border
2018-07-08 children • immigration • politics • trump
OSM bad hike
Limited cartography in default style leads people to get trapped on a mountain
2018-07-08 cartography • hiking • maps • osm
Shodan for S3 buckets
Tool for searching unsecured Amazon cloud storage
2018-07-08 amazon • aws • badtech • greyhat • s3 • shodan • via:metafilter
Twitter bot purge
Suspending 1 million accounts a day
2018-07-07 bots • politics • propaganda • twitter • via:reddit
UACportal.org
The website immigrant parents are sent to before being reunited with their children. It's not working.
2018-07-07 children • governmentit • immigration • politics • trump
TERFs at London Pride
Small group of anti-trans protestors hijacked the front of the Pride parade in london
2018-07-07 lgbt • london • pride • terf • trans
POI layer mapping company
Former MapZen folks focus on labelling points of interest for maps
2018-07-07 foursquare • location • maps • openstreetmap • osm • poi
Road Trip
Web page that reads Wikipedia articles to you relevant to where you're driving right now
2018-07-07 roadtrip • travel • wikipedia
Foster care instead of reunification
Washington governor says HHS has no plans to reunite immigrant children with their parents at all
2018-07-07 children • humanrights • immigration • politics • trump
GNU/Beardos
Hilarious rant about GnuPG, software bugs, and bad maintainers
2018-07-07 gnupg • gpg • opensource • pgp • sexism • software • tirefire
Stabilized 360 rollercoaster
Odd, compelling video
2018-07-06 park • rollercoaster • sixflags • stabilized • via:boingboing
Office building child jail
Immigrant children held in an unlicensed office in Phoenix by MVM Inc, a contractor
2018-07-06 humanrights • immigration • mvm • politics • trump • twitter
US immigration policy overview
A good somewhat outsider take on decades of American policy failure
2018-07-06 america • immigration • politics
80s game commercials
Really great proto-VR segment starts around 4:20
2018-07-06 ads • atari • games • via:boingboing
Going all-in with Unifi
Over-engineered home networks with Ubiquiti. /cc @jnoxon
2018-07-06 internet • networking • ubiquiti • unifi • wifi
Nazis raus
Richard Spencer forbidden from entering Europe
2018-07-06 europe • nazis • poland • politics • richardspencer • spencer
Immigrant parents can't afford to call their kids
Reports that immigrants in detention separated from their kids can't afford to make a phone call to talk to them
2018-07-06 children • ice • immigration • politics • trump
HHS can't match kids
Department in charge of caring for snatched children can't identify who was snatched, from whom
2018-07-05 children • immigration • politics • trump
Twitter employee dissent
Or rather, the lack of Twitter internal agitation to stop their product being used as a fountain of hate and misinformation
2018-07-05 policy • politics • trump • twitter
ICE deporting legal residents
Green card holders being imprisoned, deported for 20 year old misdemeanors
2018-07-05 greencard • immigrants • justice • politics • resident • trump
Dirty Water closes in mid-Market
Experimental retail / dining in the Twitter building in SF mid-Market seems to be failing
2018-07-04 dining • midmarket • realestate • sanfrancisco • sf • twitter
Notes from separations
Heartbreaking quotes from court filings of immigrant parents separated from their children
2018-07-04 immigrants • immigration • politics • trump
Legendary Stardust Cowboy
Outsider musician from Lubbock, see also Jandek
2018-07-04 jandek • lubbock • music • outsider • psychobilly • texas
Senate confirms Russian meddling
Reassuring that a bipartisan commission would acknowledge that Trump got help from Russia
2018-07-04 collusion • gop • intelligence • politics • republicans • russia • senate • trump
Levandowski back at it
Thrice-tarnished autonomous vehicle expert is starting a new autonomous vehicle company
2018-07-03 levandowski • fraud • google • otto • tirefire • uber
5G skepticism
Critique of current mobile infrastructure evolution
2018-07-03 5g • cellular • mobile • networking • via:timbray • wireless
Digg v4 launch
Hilarious fiasco
2018-07-03 badtech • cassandra • digg • python • redis • scaling
Spiral Internet + Race
More details on the acquisition of the rural broadband project
2018-07-03 bandwidth • broadband • grassvalley • internet • nevadacounty • race • spiral
Father and Child Disunion
Story of one immigrant whose son was snatched from him
2018-07-02 children • immigration • kids • politics • trump
DNA Lounge expenses
Hard reality of economics, particularly in San Francisco
2018-07-02 cost • inflation • jwz • music • nightclubs • sanfrancisco
Google Reader time capsule
Mihai saved away a copy of the code plus a data snapshot to run it
2018-07-02 google • googlereader • history • preservation • rss
Fountain not by Duchamp 2
Also possible Louise Norton created the sculpture, or at least implemented it
2018-07-02 art • dadaism • duchamp • fountain • sculpture • surrealism
Fountain not by Duchamp
Famous Dada sculpture may actually be the work of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
2018-07-02 art • dadaism • duchamp • sculpture • surrealism
Comcast throttling mobile
Comcast reducing bandwidth and video resolution for all mobile customers
2018-07-02 badtech • comcast • mobile • netneutrality • scam
Gun pulled at ICE protest
Some Trump supporter shouted "womp womp" and pulled a handgun on a group of protestors trying to pray
2018-07-02 america • guns • immigration • protest • trump • violence
Huygens
NTP replacement that synchronizes to 10s of nanoseconds
2018-07-01 google • networks • ntp • synchronization • time
GEDMatch arrests
More cases of a genetic testing database being used by law enforcement
2018-07-01 dna • ethics • gedmatch • genome • lawenforcement • privacy
It is as if you were making love
NSFWish: Windows 95 as a very specific lover.
2018-07-01 funny • games • sex • via:rockpapershotgun
Are you alone now?
to Alex, the act of family separation seemed quintessentially American. It was the cornerstone of his American experience.
2018-07-01 ice • immigration • orphans • politics • trump
Portland Occupy ICE
Persistent protest
2018-07-01 ice • immigration • politics • portland • protest • trump