Child concentration camp

immigration gets even worse

2018-09-30 children • immigration • politics • trump

Kavanaugh’s appeal

He's popular *because* he's a loutish frat boy with a history of rapey behavior

2018-09-30 kavanaugh • politics • rape • trump • women

Padma Lakshmi's rape

Model / TV star talks about being raped at 16

2018-09-26 feminism • gender • kavanaugh • politics • rape • trump • women

Oud Amsterdam genever

A touristy liquor store in central Amsterdam, sells aged genever from barrels

2018-09-24 amsterdam • genever • gin • liquor • spirits

Curve-Fitting

xkcd with the reality of statistical presentation

2018-09-21 curvefitting • regression • statistics • visualization • xkcd

Children as bait

ICE arresting people who came forward to take care of children orphaned by ICE

2018-09-21 atrocity • children • ice • immigration • outrage • politics

Mueller's silence

Details about the prosecutor's complete avoidance of leaks and gossip

2018-09-20 mueller • politics • russia • trump

American connectedness

Smart visualizations of Facebook friendship data, showing geographical connectedness in social relationships

2018-09-20 america • facebook • maps • visualization

Russia Story so Far

Valiant effort by the NYT to summarize what we know to date

2018-09-20 politics • russia • trump

howto.vote

New site helping you register and vote in the United States

2018-09-20 politics • unitedstates • voting

1500 missing migrant kids

Yet more incompetence by the Trump administration; losing track of children after placing them with sponsor families

2018-09-20 children • humanrights • immigration • kids • politics

Men are more afraid than ever

The shift in conversation towards normalizing the kind of sexual assault Kavanaugh is accused of

2018-09-19 kavanaugh • politics • rape • rapeculture • sex • sexualassault

Gary Sherman of QGIS

Interview with the founder of the open source GIS tool

2018-09-19 gis • opensource • qgis • via:hackernews

Magecart attacks

Major ecommerce sites are compromised for weeks by malicious Javascript that steals credit card info

2018-09-19 badtech • britishairways • creditcards • fraud • magecart • newegg • ticketmaster

No, I Will Not Debate You

A carefully reasoned piece about the dangers of fascist speech

2018-09-19 debate • freespeech • platform • politics • speech • via:metafilter

B.A.R. Obituaries

An archive of the AIDS crisis; the random obituary button is one way to sample

2018-09-19 aids • california • gay • history • hiv • lgbt • sanfrancisco

Kavanaugh and Vince Foster

Yet another ugly episode from the Supreme Court nominee's life

2018-09-19 clinton • conspiracy • kavanaugh • politics • vincefoster

Women cheated on stock options

Women get half the equity in tech jobs that men do

2018-09-18 fairness • gender • startups • stock • tirefire

Gay Sesame Street

One of the show's writers talks about gay muppets history

2018-09-18 gay • lgbt • muppets • via:metafilter

Against medical advice

Investigating the folk wisdom that insurance will refuse to pay for your health care if you leave against medical advice. (Spoiler: it's not true).

2018-09-18 healthcare • insurance • medicine • patient

Kavanaugh's attempted rape

Details from the victim of his drunken teenage rape attempt

2018-09-16 kavanaugh • politics • supremecourt

Blistering Moments: Clean Thyself

Experimental Houston electronic duo that blew my mind in the 80s

2018-09-16 blisteringmoments • electronica • houston • music • therapeuticdreams

Typhoon Mangkhut video

Horrifying clips from a massive storm in Hong Kong / Shenzhen

2018-09-16 hongkong • hurricane • shenzhen • typhoon • weather

On stage with Bannon

Andrew McLaughlin's thoughts on going to the Economist event despite Steve Bannon being there

2018-09-15 bannon • demagogues • economist • freespeech • politics • racism

ContraPoints

Fascinating and smart cultural and philosophical criticism

2018-09-15 xoxo • criticism • lgbt • trans • transgender

Guerilla rainbow crosswalk

Oakland residents got tired of waiting, painted the street themselves

2018-09-15 gay • gayrights • lgbt • oakland

Vat19.com: Kitchen

Ridiculous gadgets you absolutely do not need

2018-09-15 cooking • funny • gadget • kitchen • store

Unauthorized carrier landing

Remarkable story of the escape of a Vietnamese officer and his family

2018-09-14 aviation • carrier • vietnam • vietnamwar

Undertaking LA

A progressive funeral home, offering no-nonsense affordable cremation and burial

2018-09-14 burial • california • death • funeral • losangeles

Automatic Speech Recognition

Comparison of various services for text transcription

2018-09-14 ai • speech • text • transcription • via:hackernews

Today's Guardian

Excellent alternate user interface, very thin

2018-09-14 design • guardian • mobile • news • newspaper

NRA vs Thomas the Tank Engine

Pro-murder organization now also anti-diversity, has no limit to how low they'll go

2018-09-14 nra • politics • propaganda • thomas • thomasthetankengine

ICE interrogating children

Kids asked if they have family in the US; then the family is arrested

2018-09-13 gop • humanrights • ice • immigration • politics • republicans • trump

Forbidden Snacks

Subreddit for pictures of things that look like delicious food but are not

2018-09-13 food • funny • pictures

Spider-Man proposal story

Reality behind that creepy story of a marriage proposal in a videogame

2018-09-13 gamergate • games • marriage • spiderman

5x kids in detention camps

Migrant kids being kept in immigration detention at a much higher rate because Republicans are making it hard to find temporary homes for them

2018-09-13 civilrights • humanrights • immigrations • kids • migrants • prison

Riot's ongoing problem

No sign of any real change as the perpetrators of harassment continue to run the company

2018-09-13 games • harassment • riotgames • sexism • tirefire

College football blowouts

Details of the disgusting greed that drives stupidly overmatched football games

2018-09-12 college • corruption • football • injury • sports

Trans' right to vote

Strict enforcement of voter registration may disenfranchise transgender people

2018-09-12 lgbt • politics • trans • transgender • voting • votingrights

Beatles kinky sex

NY Daily News really outdoes itself covering salacious memories of Paul McCartney

2018-09-12 beatles • funny • music • sex

Nomenclature of Colours

Classic 1821 reference

2018-09-12 color • design

Palmyra Atoll

A piece of US land with unusual jurisdiction

2018-09-11 america • colonialism • island • polynesia

XOXO art+code

Nice summary of presentations at XOXO Festival

2018-09-11 xoxo • art • culture • glitch

Aadhaar hack

Anyone can create new fake people in India's national person database

2018-09-11 aadhaar • badtech • hacking • india • politics

Terrance Davis' life and death

Excellent article about the creator of TempleOS, the outsider operating system

2018-09-11 mentalillness • suicide • templeos • via:metafilter

Google hate result

Hate group is top result for a search looking for support

2018-09-10 focusonfamily • gay • google • lgbt • search

Jupyter diff

Notebook diff and merge tools

2018-09-10 git • jupyter • notebooks • programming • python • versioncontrol

Kalsarikännit

The feeling when you are going to get drunk home alone in your underwear – with no intention of going out.

2018-09-10 alcohol • drinking • finland • finnish • funny

Video game proposal

... gone wrong. Most hilarious thing I've read all weekend

2018-09-10 funny • games • marriage • via:reddit

Williams v Osaka video

Clips of Williams' standing up for herself to the tennis judge

2018-09-09 osaka • sports • tennis • usopen • williams

Williams v Osaka

A failure of judging at the US Open

2018-09-09 racism • serenawilliams • sexism • tennis • usopen

Kavanaugh perjury

GOP stole documents from Democrats; Kavanaugh used them and lied about it

2018-09-08 kavanaugh • perjury • politics • supremecourt

Riot Games' retaliation

Employees and ex-employees being threatened and harassed for speaking out against the company

2018-09-07 games • harassment • riot • riotgames • tirefire

Becoming American

Laurie Seldo with a very thoughtful essay

2018-09-07 america • citizenship • immigration • politics • trinidad

"Art dismantles power. Otherwise it's propaganda."

A powerful quote from XOXO (and before)

2018-09-07 art • propaganda • standup • xoxofest

India legalizes LGBTs

Supreme Court finally struck down 377, the colonial era law outlawing homosexual sex

2018-09-06 civilrights • gay • india • lgbt • politics

Third party cookie evaluation

Detailed analysis of how well tracking protection works. Summary: it doesn't.

2018-09-06 ads • browser • cookies • internet • privacy

Trump Resistance

Anonymous op/ed from someone inside the White House talking about how there are adults in the room

2018-09-05 nyt • oped • politics • trump • whitehouse

2002 GOP email hacking

Ugly scandal from the Senate 15 years ago: Republicans stole confidential email from Democrats in the Senate

2018-09-05 ethics • gop • government • politics • republican

1980s chartmaking

From the old days of literal cut-and-paste

2018-09-05 charts • newspaper • visualization

Silicon Valley's wane

Detailed article on trends in tech companies that suggest more startup activity in other places

2018-09-05 business • siliconvalley • startup • tech

Precision Time Protocol

Microssecond-level synchronization of time on a local network

2018-09-05 ieee1588 • ntp • ptp • spanner • time • truetime

Graphtreon

Patreon projects ranked by number of patrons

2018-09-04 internet • patreon • statistics

Nikuyah Walker

Mayor of Charlottesville, elected after last year's murderous Nazi rally

2018-09-04 charlottesville • nazis • politics • south

Calafia closing

Chef Charlie from Google's restaurant was no longer financially viable

2018-09-04 calafia • charlie • food • google • restaurant

Neural network concepts

Reasonable overview with pictures of components of machine learning

2018-09-03 machinelearning • neuralnetworks • programming • via:metafilter

QAnon world map

Batshit insane conspiracy theory has an incomprehensible map

2018-09-03 batshitinsane • charts • conspiracy • maps • politics • qanon

Nakedly subverting the courts

The President directing his Attorney General about influencing the election.

2018-09-03 attorneygeneral • corruption • politics • sessions • trump

Decolonizing Virtual Worlds

AbTeC, a few examples of Indigenous people influencing tech development. /cc @mahelona

2018-09-03 diversity • indigenous • native • tech • via:metafilter

Corrupting SQLite

various ways the most careful database can fail

2018-09-03 computers • database • reliability • sqlite

Bishop Swan banned from Twitter

NAACP leader banned from Twitter for some intemperate language while Nazis and dangerously hateful people remain

2018-09-03 ban • policy • twitter

Twitter 1/2 CEO protects Nazis

WSJ reporting that Twitter's policy decisions on Richard Spencer and Alex Jones were personally overridden by the half-time CEO

2018-09-03 alexjones • jack • jackdorsey • politics • richardspencer • twitter

The Day Beyoncé Turned Black

Sharp bit of racial parody

2018-09-02 beyonce • black • funny • snl

Enterprise™

A programming language that is the evolution of Java (parody)

2018-09-02 funny • java • programming • via:metafilter

Minority users

Profound little tweet

2018-09-01 chrome • feminism • pregnancy • users

Google and bias

Trump's claims are lies, but there is a real concern about what bias at the search engine could do

2018-09-01 antitrust • bias • ethics • google • monopoly • politics • search