DHS doxxes victim

Wife of the man illegally transported to El Salvador is now in hiding after the federal government shared her home address on X

2025-04-24 twitter • fascism • government • dhs • ice • uspol • politics • immigration • civilrights

Doll Takeover

2024 article about the word "dolls" as applied to transgender women

2025-04-23 slang • lgbt • trans • dolls • protectthedolls • ballculture

AI sycophancy

How reinforcement learning leads to AIs that act obsequious

2025-04-22 ai • training • llm • rlhf • chatgpt

ConsolePi

Turn a Raspberry Pi into a serial console with Internet access

2025-04-21 internet • tcpip • server • console • serial • hacking

Python t-strings

Language support for templates in a nice way, an evolution of f-strings

2025-04-21 python • code • template • programming

Ostentatio Genitalium

A detailed analysis and rebuttal of the portrayal of the adult Christ's penis in art

2025-04-20 art • religion • christianity • penis • christ • renaissance

Gay men subreddits

A nicely organized list

2025-04-19 gay • lgbt • reddit • community

applejohn

Obscure English word for a shriveled old man

2025-04-18 words • language • english • applejohn • slang

Futel update

Heartfelt status report from the 10+ year public payphone project

2025-04-18 futel • karl • art • telephony • portland • pdx • payphone

Juan Carlos Gomez-Lopez

Natural born US citizen being detained by US ICE agents

2025-04-18 ice • politics • uspol • immigration • civilrights • trump

SillyTavern

An LLM frontend that allows a lot of customizaton, RAG, etc

2025-04-17 ai • local • llm • selfhosted

ICE resistance

Family's neighbors in Tennessee physically protect a man from being snatched by immigration

2025-04-16 immigration • politics • uspol • ice • neighbors • community • resistance

Musk's personal eugenics program

Long, well researched WSJ reporting on Musk and the women who are having babies from his genetic material. CW: really gross.

2025-04-16 elonmusk • eugenics • spermdonor • genetics • whitesupremacy

Hertz data breach

Yet another disaster of a major consumer site

2025-04-15 hertz • privacy • breach • badtech

BG3: The Final Patch

Fun animated short celebrating the last major content update for the popular RPG

2025-04-15 games • baldursgate3 • bg3

4chan pwned

Very serious hack: hosting account compromised, users and moderators doxxed, source code released.

2025-04-15 4chan • hacking • badtech • security • rightwing

Ubisoft Chroma

Open source tool for developing videogames that are accessible to people with color-blindness

2025-04-15 games • ubisoft • color • colorblindness • shaders

Mohsen Mahdawi

Another legal US immigrant disappeared by the Republicans, this time as he was on his way to a citizenship appointment

2025-04-15 civilrights • trump • politics • uspol • immigration • student

Svalbard population map

Finally a population density map that's easy to read

2025-04-14 maps • svalbard • norway • arctic • funny

US power outages

Detailed look at power outage statistics across the US

2025-04-11 infrastructure • power • us • pge • california

Friend of a Friend Finder

A 1997 grad school project of mine, in retrospect would have been a terrific early social media system if I hadn't abandoned working on it

2025-04-11 fff • medialab • mit • gradschool • socialmedia • me

GL.iNet routers

Consumer routers with OpenWRT installed

2025-04-11 router • internet • openwrt • hardware • networking

Blue Shield / Google disaster

For three+ years Blue Shield has been giving Google private medical data that Google then used to target ads.

2025-04-11 privacy • google • surveillance • ads • blueshield • california • fraud

Triple-I showcase

Announcements from the event for high budget indie games

2025-04-10 games • indie • shapez • timberborn

Modulus Demo

New automation game along the lines of Factorio or Shapez. Demo is good!

2025-04-10 games • factorio • shapez • automation

A1 education

America's head of Education gives a talk where she talks about "AI education" only she says "A one", like the steak sauce

2025-04-10 uspol • politics • funny • education • ignorance • ai

Musk plays PoE 2 again

World's richest man loses to tutorial boss when his satellite network fails. At least he didn't pay to get boosted this time!

2025-04-08 uspol • politics • funny • gaming • elonmusk • pathofexile

US citizen deportations

Stories of US citizens snatched by ICE and ejected from the US, entirely illegally

2025-04-07 uspol • politics • immigration • civilrights • trump • ice

Warrington-Runcorn

Mellow electronic music tinged with nostalgia

2025-04-04 music • nostalgia • electronica • england

PDFgear

Free PDF editing software

2025-04-04 pdf • editing • adobe • publishing • documents

Self-hosted email archive

Detailed notes on downloading Gmail and importing it into notmuch, a UNIX CLI mail system

2025-04-04 gmail • email • selfhosting • archives

SF proposed zoning map

Interactive for the draft plan to allow major new housing in San Francisco

2025-04-04 sanfrancisco • housing • density • politics • uspol • california

DOGE so far

A direct assessment of the impact of Elon Musk's effort to eliminate government capability

2025-04-03 politics • doge • elonmusk • trump • uspol

David Hockney 25

A retrospective

2025-04-02 art • hockney • lgbt • gay • paris

Galaxy Einstein ring

Lovely astronomy image of two galaxies, one lensing the other

2025-04-02 via:hackernews • space • astrophotography • astronomy • einsteinring • galaxy

Disappearing color

Interesting analysis of car paint and photography trends

2025-04-02 via:hackernews • photos • color • design

Restaurant Naar

Fine dining in the Indian Himalayas

2025-04-02 food • dining • restaurant • india • himalayas • kashmir

CSS Clicker

An incremental game about and built with CSS and HTML

2025-04-01 games • via:waxy • incremental • clicker • css • web • funny

US disappeared tracking

A data site collecting information on the people the United States has disappeared into ICE custody

2025-04-01 uspol • politics • immigration • ice • civilrights • via:kottke • fascism

The Holdout

A Norman Rockwell painting with a remarkable gender story

2025-04-01 rockwell • art • americana • gender • jury

Fediverse privacy leak

Fundamentally private accounts and messages don't make much sense in ActivityPub. Pixelfed screwed up and leaked private data.

2025-03-30 pixelfed • activitypub • mastodon • fediverse • privacy

AI mediocrity

Cottom on how applications of AI lead to very meh results

2025-03-29 ai • mid • cottom • work • education

Contrapoints Lewks

A catalog of the video maker's amazing outfits from year to year

2025-03-29 contrapoints • fashion • trans • beauty • video • lgbt

White House cruelty

An examination of the tone of Trump administration's tweets, exalting in hurting people

2025-03-29 trump • politics • fascism • cruelty • twitter • socialmedia • uspol

DOGE collaborators

Some founders and VCs in the tech industry working with Musk, Trump, and the effort to chainsaw the US government

2025-03-26 trump • politics • elonmusk • doge • pmarca • vcs • techindustry

Hegseth texts war plans

Trump administration shares bombing plans in Yemen with a journalist. Perhaps Hegseth was drunk at the time?

2025-03-24 uspol • politics • security • yemen • trump • hegseth

Hooters and gay teens

Sweet article about waitresses being kind to gay teenage boys whose fathers are trying to impose heterosexuality by taking them to Hooters

2025-03-23 hooters • gay • lgbt • allies • teenagers

Assassin’s Creed Shadows

Brazilian ad for the videogame in the style of Tokusatsu, cheesy Japanese live action movies

2025-03-22 funny • games • tokusatsu • brazil • assassinscreed

Understanding Solar Energy

Thoughtful overview of how solar panels work in practice and systemic effects

2025-03-22 solar • electrify • energy • engineering

Khmer cookbooks

A very interesting review of Cambodian cookbooks, almost all of which are not available in the US

2025-03-22 food • cooking • cambodia • khmer • cookbooks

M.I.A.'s Arular at 20

Thoughtful reflection on a big album from 2005

2025-03-22 mia • music • hiphop • arular • diplo • controversy

El Salvador experience

Photojournalist was in El Salvador when one of the planes full of Venezuelan prisoners from the US arrived

2025-03-22 uspol • torture • politics • trump • republicans • humanrights

White Lily

Fassbinder film clip that inspired the Laurie Anderson piece

2025-03-19 music • movies • laurieanderson • fassbinder • whitelily • via:metafilter

ActBlue attacked

Republicans move to outlaw Democratic Party lawyers and fundraising tools

2025-03-19 politics • uspol • nazigermany • actblue • perkinscoie • marcelias • republicans • trump

Plex enshittifies

Popular video piracy platform is now going to require you pay if you want to stream your pirated video offsite. Also prices are going up.

2025-03-19 plex • tv • piracy • video • streaming

Mondrian considered

This interactive has a really nice small multiples of Mondrian's paintings about halfway in

2025-03-18 art • painting • mondrian

Inside CDC

How a bunch of non-political health experts are reacting to having their organization destroyed by Trump and Musk

2025-03-18 cdc • health • publichealth • politics • uspol • doge • musk • trump

More PG&E water problems

Second year in a row that Nevada County will be without an important water source because PG&E failed to maintain water infrastructure

2025-03-13 pge • corruption • nevadacounty • water • nid • grassvalley

Two tone chloropleth

Bonkers visualization technique trying to use 2 colors per country on a map. It sort of works?

2025-03-13 via:reddit • visualization • chloropleth • color • maps

SteamPeek

Tool to find games like other games on steam

2025-03-12 games • recommendations • steam

Balatro timeline

The 3+ years of development for the "overnight" indie game success. This after eight years of developing unpublished games.

2025-03-09 balatro • jokerpoker • games • steam • indiegames • via:lobsters

Brave browser sleaze

Various things the deceptive adware company has done in their web browser

2025-03-09 brave • webbrowser • web • chrome • internet • via:lobsters

Wikipedia in 2024 elections

Research from Wikipedia on edit patterns and users

2025-03-06 uspol • politics • wikipedia • propaganda • community

Cloudflare vs RSS

CDN has a misfeature that causes feed readers to get blocked as if they were bots

2025-03-04 rss • feeds • web • cloudflare • capcha • via:pb

Primary every Democrat

Website providing information about alternative Democratic candidates that show more leadership

2025-03-04 uspol • politics • democrats • dnc • primary • election

18F statement

US government IT organization just got destroyed, their home page now is a statement of service and defiance

2025-03-02 18f • government • tech • politics • uspol

Cambodian herbs

Great list of local ingredients, the fishwort was really interesting

2025-02-27 food • cambodia • khmer • herbs • tourism • cooking

Nom Banh Chok

My favorite Cambodian food so far, rice noodle with a fish curry soup

2025-02-27 food • cambodia • tourism • noodles • fish • curry

Urban Forage Cambodia

Company offering street food tours, we had a really excellent time with them

2025-02-27 food • cambodia • streetfood • markets • tourism

Jackie Kennedy in Cambodia 1967

Visit from the president's widow, at a very inauspicious time in Cambodian politics and US foreign policy

2025-02-27 history • cambodia • kennedy • jackieo • usa • vietnamwar

the King of Cambodia

Fascinating personal history of the titular monarch of Cambodia, Norodom Sihamoni

2025-02-24 cambodia • politics • history • ballet • bachelor • king

LGBTQ survey in US

New Gallup poll on identity: younger people are identifying as queer much more than older generations

2025-02-22 lgbt • queer • poll • us • uspol • demographics • gay

Project 2025 Tracker

Simple line item tracking of the agenda to destroy US government

2025-02-19 uspol • politics • trump • project2025 • via:kottke

Thai Boys Love shows

TV craze for LGBT entertainment from Asia

2025-02-18 tv • gay • lgbt • vietnam • thailand • television

Tearoom NSFW

Documentary about 1961 gay sex with film from a police entrapment operation

2025-02-18 movies • films • gay • lgbt • ohio • mansfield • tearoom • police • civilrights

NSFW: Keith Haring

Joyful, sexy gay art at the LGBT center in New York

2025-02-16 art • nsfw • erotica • keithharing • streetart • lgbt • gay • newyork

Nevada County water shortage

Second year in a row that PG&E incompetence means a bunch of people in California won't have enough water

2025-02-16 pge • corruption • nevadacounty • water • infrastructure

Wrong about GPUs

Cloud hosting provider Fly discovers their customers don't want to lease GPUs

2025-02-15 cloud • computing • gpu • ai • llm • flyio • fly • hosting

Gorton font

Marcin Wichary's loveletter to a workmanlike font

2025-02-14 fonts • design • engraving • singlestroke • gorton • typography

50501

Growing grassroots protest movement against Trump's destruction of our government. Next big protests are Monday Feb 17

2025-02-14 protest • 50501 • trump • musk • politics • uspol

Schwurbler

German slang for someone who talks nonsense

2025-02-13 german • language • slang • conspiracy • funny

Little Sisyphus

Remarkable physics platformer for NES, built with NESfab

2025-02-13 games • nes • nintendo • retro • platformer • physics • nesfab

DOGE team

Online tech press continues to do remarkable work figuring out who's actually running the US government

2025-02-13 doge • politics • trump • corruption • coup • journalism

Atkinson Hyperlegible Font

A well designed font for readability gets major update

2025-02-12 fonts • opendyslexic • accessibility • typography • blind • vision

minisearch

Javascript search engine for small document stores

2025-02-09 search • web • development • javascript

Heat pumps in US

Details on finding a good installer and why it's hard

2025-02-09 hvac • electrify • heatpump • home • heating • globalwarming • consumer

Kottke on #uspol

Thoughtful comments from an O.G. blogger about covering the current awful political situation in the US

2025-02-07 kottke • politics • uspol • outrage • linkblog • blogs • mentalhealth

Pearblossom Hwy., 11

David Hockney collage from 1986

2025-02-07 hockney • art • collage • polaroid • socal • california • desert

David Hockney's A Rake's Progress

Gay artist in the 60s does a parody of a famous 18th century moral work

2025-02-07 art • hockney • davidhockney • hogarth • moral • drawing

Special government employees

Insider explains the SGE role in the US government, a way for outsiders to come in as a short term consultant. Trump is abusing this position now to attack the bureaucracy.

2025-02-06 uspol • politics • musk • trump • sge • eeob • consultant • government

Alley Cat (video game)

1983 videogame that's a predecessor to Stray and Little Kitty Big City

2025-02-05 games • atari • cats • alleycat • stray

gcode2dplotterart

A Python framework for making plotter art. Also 3d printers.

2025-02-05 art • python • coding • axidraw • 3dprinter • plotterart

Risk at al-Hol

How Trump's destruction of foreign spending has immediately threatened global security with a specific example of an IS prison / home base

2025-02-04 trump • politics • uspol • syria • is • isis • terrorism

Musk's government sabotage

Major overview article from NYTimes about the chaos Musk is wrecking inside the federal government

2025-02-04 elonmusk • politics • trump • doge • chaos • eeob • treasury • usaid • uspol

USB 3 vs 2.4GHz

USB 3.0 ports emit interference at 2.4GHz, the frequency popular with wifi, controller dongles, etc

2025-02-03 tech • usb • radio • 8bitdo • interference • usb3 • wireless

Musk's lackeys

Some information on the people who have illegal access to US government systems right now

2025-02-02 musk • elonmusk • politics • doge • opm • gsa • usaid • uspol

CDC on PrEP

Until Trump took over the CDC used to have a webpage about life saving medication

2025-01-31 prep • aids • hiv • gay • lgbt • trump • uspol • politics

Hexaflexamexagon

Old but delicious and hilarious post about mixing geometry, origami, and burritos

2025-01-30 funny • food • mexican • via:metafilter • hexaflexagon • flexagon

$50M condoms to Gaza?

A fact-check on one of the stupid Trump administration lies. It's not $50m for condoms. And they're being sent to Mozambique, not the Palestinian Territory

2025-01-30 trump • politics • lies • condoms • gaza • geoegraphy • stupid

DuckDB

Embeddable database, like sqlite, but columnar so better for certain kinds of repetitive data

2025-01-30 database • sqlite • datastore • db • parquet • timeseries