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Civilization critique
Cultural / political analysis of the simulation game's shortcomings
2016-10-30 games • civilization • criticism
"just politics"
Thoughtful tweets on the menace of Trump and Thiel's support
2016-10-30 thiel • trump • politics • racism
Oregon voting
Vote by mail across the whole state
2016-10-29 democracy • voting • oregon • civilrights
USB-C confusion
Compatibility problems make for confusing cabling
2016-10-29 usb • cable • network • thunderbolt • badtech
IMAQTPIE: $2M / year
Popular League of Legends streamer is making a huge amount of money on Twitch
2016-10-29 twitch • games • lol • streaming
A Stranger Things Christmas
Fabulous mashup / parody
2016-10-28 funny • scifi • strangerhings • charliebrown
COOL 3D WORLD
NSFWish; disturbing art
2016-10-28 3d • art • strange
OBEY Mozilla
The story of the Mozilla logo
2016-10-28 shepardfairey • mozilla • jwz • design • logo
Marcin Wichary on typewriters
Hilarious 5 minute Ignite talk, bad sound quality
2016-10-28 typewriters • ignite • marcinwichary
BBS history
Nice overview of early social media
2016-10-28 bbs • socialmedia • history • internet
Pot farm sex abuse
Semi-legal marijuana businesses have ugly illegal sex activity associated
2016-10-28 marijuana • sexabuse • backpage • pot • california • journalism
Graphic design feedback
Classic posters redesigned by the client
2016-10-28 funny • design • graphics • art
Management in ten tweets
My buddy Marc summarizes what he's learned in 20+ years of being an engineering manager
2016-10-27 management • startups • business • marc • engineering
Best of Luck with the Wall
Hypnotic video of aerial imagery; the second half is amazing. /cc @vruba
2016-10-27 photography • satellite • mexico • border • aerial
Hurricane water footprint
Neat visualization of increased streamflow because of Hurricane Mathew
2016-10-26 hurricane • matthew • water
Blotter Barn
Collection of LSD blotter paper art
2016-10-26 art • lsd • drugs
deadmau5 on live performance
"We all hit play"
2016-10-25 edm • music • deadmau5 • funny
Baidu open source
Several substantial projects from the Chinese search company
2016-10-25 baidu • opensource • china
Indian lands
Nice US census map of reservations, etc
2016-10-25 maps • census • indian • nativeamerican
RIP Bob Hoover
Legendary pilot dies at 94
2016-10-25 aviation • bobhoover • aerobatics • pilot • via:metafilter
Brian Lam is awesome
Appreciation for the hard work of Wirecutter and Sweethome
2016-10-25 nytimes • startups • wirecutter • brianlam
Global warming science 1912
New Zealand paper published the risk of coal burning over 100 years ago
2016-10-24 news • newzealand • globalwarming • science • history • 1912
GOP Arcade
Your favorite political stories as low-fi videogames
2016-10-24 games • politics • parody • funny
trump.tv
Trump's post-loss TV business is off to a strong start
2016-10-24 trump • funny • domainname • politics
Bot wins contests
Twitter bot automatically retweets and wins online contests
2016-10-24 twitter • bot • contest • funny
Trump Tower Site Tour
Public space at Trump Tower is a dump
2016-10-24 trump • politics • funny • nyc • public
Internet of Things Scanner
Malware check; a quick tool to see if your network is listed in Shodan
2016-10-23 shodan • security • iot • badtech • botnet • malware
Economist Trump covers
Graphic arts
2016-10-23 politics • trump • economist
Benjamin Grant images
HD satellite photos. /cc @vruba
2016-10-23 satellite • aerial • imagery • photos
Clinton email explained
A straightforward explanation on the mistake Clinton made and why it's not massively evil
2016-10-22 clinton • email • privacy • politics
Emoji ZWJ Sequences
A crazy kind of combining Unicode that Microsoft is playing around with
2016-10-22 microsoft • emoji • unicode
Full Moon in Mountain Shadow
A remarkable photograph of alignment
2016-10-22 moon • photos • astrophotography • astronomy • hawaii
High end cloud gaming
Details on using a monster new GPU for gaming on a cloud server
2016-10-22 games • cloud • azure • ec2
Mirai botnet stats
Details on the Internet of Things botnet
2016-10-22 mirai • botnet • badtech • via:marc • hacking • ddos
Politics of Sexual Assault
thoughtful analysis of Trump's rape culture talk
2016-10-22 trump • assault • politics • rape
Sound Voltex III
Insane rhythm game performance
2016-10-22 games • rhythm • speed • via:reddit
Dustcoats
A specific form of overcoat worn by working men in shops
2016-10-22 clothing • fashion • dustcoat • jacket • coat
You Girls Having Fun?
Lovely story of a bar's staff handling a creeper
2016-10-22 lgbtq • gay • privacy • dining
Mapzen Terrain data
DEM tiles and relief shaded raster images
2016-10-22 maps • terrain • mapzen
New Google ad tracking
Finally erased the line dividing Doubleclick cookies from Google ads
2016-10-21 google • doubleclick • privacy • adwords
Slack stats
Signalling strength with revenue, user counts, etc
2016-10-20 slack • business • startup
Synthetic porn
NSFWish: Run a porn image classifier in reverse, a la Deep Dream
2016-10-20 nsfw • porn • deepdream • via:hackernews • machinelearning
Podesta and Powell phishing
Details of the attacks by Russian operatives against US politicians
2016-10-20 badtech • russia • politics • fancybear • apt28
Indicator of compromise
Computer security tool; fingerprints of malware used to identify specific Advanced Persistent Threats
2016-10-20 apt • ioc • security • badtech • malware
NSA leak
Hacking tools taken by Martin and given to Shadow Brokers. Maybe.
2016-10-20 nsa • badtech • via:hackernews • hacking
Ann Arbor Ambassador 60
Lovely project to resurrect an old terminal
2016-10-20 tty • terminal • aaa-60 • termcap • emacs • jwz • hacking • computers
lptrace
strace for Python
2016-10-19 via:Reddit • python • programming • debugger
Rape Culture Syllabus
A reading list
2016-10-19 via:metafilter • feminism • rapeculture • politics • trump • books
Lessig's graciousness
Response to a WikiLeaks email is remarkably thoughtful
2016-10-19 lessig • privacy • wikileaks
Ark of Taste
Catalog of rare foods
2016-10-19 food • slowfood • cooking • diversity
su filindeu
A thin hand-made Sardinian pasta
2016-10-19 food • slowfood • pasta • italy • sardinia • cooking
Empty call to monitor polls
Details of Trump's efforts to delegitimize the vote
2016-10-19 trump • politics • voterfraud • vote • civilrights
About Chuck Tingle
Nice profile of the bizarro erotica writer
2016-10-19 gay • lgbt • erotica • chucktingle
No Man's Sky procedural analysis
Reverse engineering how the creatures are made
2016-10-18 games • nomanssky • procedural
Border orientations
Interesting treatment of political boundaries by continent
2016-10-18 via:Reddit • maps • geography
IoT botnets
Details on the inevitable malware
2016-10-18 botnet • iot • badtech • via:metafilter
A PrEP failure
HIV prevention mechanism working for 100,000 people; two failures. Some very detailed medical specifics.
2016-10-18 hiv • aids • gay • lgbt • prep • medicine • health
Election rigging debunked
Trump's dangerous rhetoric is nonsense
2016-10-17 politics • election • trump • democracy
Election confidence undermined
Trump's baseless accusation that the election will be stolen is having a dangerous effect
2016-10-17 politics • election • polls • trump
Rollerskating steadicam
Nice depiction of how movie magic is made
2016-10-17 movies • steadicam • via:reddit
Trump in 2012
Openly calling for "revolution" after Obama won
2016-10-16 politics • trump • treason
Russian election influence
Nightmare scenarios of rigged elections
2016-10-16 russia • trump • politics • election • democracy
Trump Mahna Mahna
It's funny, a classic Sesame Street track overdubbed on debate
2016-10-15 trump • politics • funny • muppets • sesamestreet
Hyper-Reality
Concept film for an augmented reality future
2016-10-15 ar • vr • ads • badtech
River map print
Company selling high quality prints of a map inspired by my rivers map
2016-10-14 maps • rivers • prints • art
Voter suppression
States ignoring federal court orders to allow people to vote
2016-10-14 voting • civilrights • politics
California proposition funding
See who is spending what to influence state election
2016-10-14 california • spending • corruption • politics
wkhtmltopdf
Command line tool to render web pages to images and PDF
2016-10-14 web • screenshot
USA Topo Maps
Tiled USGS topo maps
2016-10-14 maps • topo • usgs • esri
Fuck You Startup World
A righteous rant
2016-10-13 startups • funny
Dictator alert
Twitter bot watches airplanes coming in and out of Geneva. /cc @lemonodor
2016-10-13 twitter • politics • aviation • dictator • switzerland • geneva
Natasha Stoynoff on Trump
Very detailed story of sexual assault
2016-10-13 trump • rape • politics • sexualassault
Yahoo Mail trap
Yahoo turns off ability to forward mail just as users are trying to flee
2016-10-11 yahoo • business • badtech • email
Stan Smiths
Everyone in Paris was wearing these shoes
2016-10-11 paris • shoes • fashion
Trump and his daughter
All the creepy sexualized comments a father made about his daughter
2016-10-04 trump • politics • daughter • creepy • sexist
Tile generation
Quantum mechanics inspired generative art
2016-10-02 via:metafilter • programming • tiles • generative
Aurelion Sol bug
Nice postmortem on a game synchronization but
2016-10-02 games • bugs • lol • riotgames
Death and MetaFilter
Dealing with the loss of a member of an Internet community
2016-10-01 internet • metafilter • community • death