spez apology

Reddit CEO apologizes for editing user comments, punishes some abusers

2016-11-30 censorship • freespeech • politics • reddit • trump

Gooligan Android malware

Steals Google credentials

2016-11-30 android • badtech • google • malware • security

North Carolina do-over

Fallout from their racist election tampering; must hold a new election

2016-11-30 northcarolina • politics • racism • voting

Trump DC lease problem

Lease on his hotel in Washington DC clearly states he can't be an elected official

2016-11-29 conflict • ethics • politics • trump • washingtondc

Bird Sounds

Machine learning aided visualization /cc @celesteramsay

2016-11-29 birds • google • machinelearning • ornithology

Electoral college fragility

Tiny changes in state borders change the whole election

2016-11-29 elections • gerrymandering • maps • politics

Anti-semitic academic threats

More of a rising tide of hate, one Trump specific

2016-11-29 civilrights • jews • politics • trump • universities

Mac App Store scams

Good apps aren't in the store, just scams

2016-11-27 apple • macos • scam

UUID history

The origin of the 8-4-4-4-12 format for UUIDs

2016-11-27 apollo • database • guid • id • uuid

Hina missing from Disneyʼs Moana

Cultural critique from a Polynesian expert

2016-11-27 disney • moana • movies • religion

Muslim genocide threats

Someone's sending pro-Trump threatening letters to mosques in California

2016-11-27 california • civilrights • genocide • humanrights • muslims

Matthew Picton | Artist

Paper sculpture based on city layouts

2016-11-27 art • maps • via:migurski

PropOrNot a problem

Claim that the Washington Post story on Russian propaganda comes from an unreliable, anonymous source

2016-11-27 politics • propaganda • russia • trump

!Xóõ

Speech sample from a phonetically complex click language

2016-11-27 africa • click • language • xhosa

MUNI ransomware

San Francisco's transit payment system got hacked

2016-11-27 badtech • muni • ransomware • sanfrancisco

Trump's fake news team

Folks close to Trump also involved with propaganda sites

2016-11-26 journalism • politics • propaganda • trump

Russian propaganda in election

Details of Russia's role in the various kinds of fake news that aided Trump

2016-11-26 espionage • politics • russia • sabotage • trump

Clinton recount

Statement from the Clinton team on vote recount

2016-11-26 clinton • election • politics • trump • voting

San Jose mosque threatened

Invokes Trump, promises genocide

2016-11-26 mosque • muslim • politics • sanjose • trump

Trump corruption

Unprecedented: kleptocracy?

2016-11-26 america • corruption • politics • trump

Gerrymandering maps

Visualization of a subversion of democracy

2016-11-25 democracy • gerrymandering • maps • northcarolina • politics • voting

zget

Simple ZeroConf tool for copying a file between two machines

2016-11-25 copying • files • transfer • zeroconf

spaCy NLP

Natural Language Parsing for Python

2016-11-24 code • machinelearning • nlp • programming • python

Reddit CEO dumbness

Head of Reddit snaps and edits some user comments, apologizes

2016-11-24 censorship • politics • reddit

LosslessCut

Quick tool for cropping video

2016-11-24 crop • ffmpeg • video

Charles Blow on Trump

Strongly worded op/ed

2016-11-24 politics • trump

California vote by mail

SB 450 moves CA to voting by mail by 2024

2016-11-24 california • politics • voting

California vote-by-mail

Nevada County is going to try vote-by-mail in 2018

2016-11-24 california • politics • voting

Through a Looking Glass Darkly

2013 bit of agitprop by Mr. Fish, newly topical

2016-11-24 america • art • kkk • mrfish • politics • racism

Facebook deceptive ads

Zuckerberg's post about misinformation has two ads with misinformation

2016-11-23 ads • facebook • fakenews • misinformation

Ukraine election hacked

Evidence from 2014 that Russia hacked the Ukraine election

2016-11-23 badtech • hack • politics • russia • ukraine • voting

Was the election hacked?

Responsible article arguing that we need to start verifying votes against paper ballots

2016-11-23 election • hacked • politics • voting

Windsor, CA Trump fears

Heart rending but excellent reporting

2016-11-22 california • immigration • politics • trump • windsor

American community survey

US census data about people's culture

2016-11-22 america • census • data • maps

Superman / American

Hi-res scan of an anti-racism poster

2016-11-22 1950s • comics • politics • racism • superman

Homeopathy kills

Product for infants contains "inconsistent amount" of deadly poison

2016-11-21 healthcare • homeopathy • medicine • poison

Case study of fake news

Details of how propaganda propagates

2016-11-21 journalism • news • politics • propaganda • trump

Rural political bias

Various ways US federal policies give disproportionate power to rural areas

2016-11-21 america • politics • rural • urban

Cloudflare's IPv6 view

Web hosting service in a unique position to measure IPv6 usage

2016-11-21 internet • ipv6 • networking

Alt-Right rally

Including Nazi propaganda "in the original German"

2016-11-21 altright • politics • racism • trump

Who Will Command The Robot Armies?

Remarkable cultural criticism talk

2016-11-20 automation • ethics • military • robots

Muslim registry plusuntrue

Trump spokesman tries to rewrite history

2016-11-19 muslims • orwell • politics • trump

Trump must divest

Astonishing WSJ editorial

2016-11-19 ethics • politics • trump

Launching in the wake of the election

A maelstrom of emotion

2016-11-19 politics • startups • trump

Takei on internment

Strong, personal reflection on Trump threats to Muslims

2016-11-18 civilrights • japanese • muslims • politics • racism • takei • trump

SF Clarion Alley

Details on one of San Francisco's biggest street art galleries

2016-11-18 art • sanfrancisco • sf • streetart

what.cd eulogy

Appreciation of a music sharing community

2016-11-18 bittorrent • copyright • music • torrent • whatcd

Richard Spencer interview

Jaw-dropping, upsetting, calm NPR interview with a white nationalist / alt-right leader

2016-11-17 altright • nazis • politics • racism • trup • whitenationalist

Trump's first week

A pessimistic summary

2016-11-17 kakistocracy • politics • trump

A Theranos whistleblower

Detailed story of a young man defying his grandfather, on the board of directors

2016-11-17 fraud • medicine • science • theranos • whistleblower

Fake news writer

Interview with someone completely amoral

2016-11-17 adsense • facebook • journalism • news • politics

Miami Trump asshole

Ugly incident at a Starbucks

2016-11-17 miami • politics • starbucks • trump

How to use AWS

Some observations from the Skyliner architecture

2016-11-17 aws • devops • docker • skyliner

Russia tampered with US election

NSA head confirms Clinton campaign was targeted, but does not specifically name Russia

2016-11-16 badtech • clinton • election • politics • russia

Trump protest in Grass Valley

Local kids speaking up

2016-11-16 grassvalley • politics • protest • trump

jitter needle

Defense of a problematic design element

2016-11-15 anxiety • design • jitter • politics

Trump deportation plans

Details on how he gets to 2-3M people to deport

2016-11-15 immigrants • politics • trump

Google vs fake news

Ads now has a policy against fake news

2016-11-15 google • journalism • news • politics

Facebook employees rebel

More details on the problem of fake viral news

2016-11-15 facebook • journalism • news • politics

Election Security

Excellent essay on how vulnerable our elections are

2016-11-15 badtech • election • politics • security • voting

cliffs & coasts

A friend's project: custom jewelry based on the shapes of mountains and coastlines

2016-11-15 geo • gis • jewelry • maps

Dan Gillmor on Trump

Wise journalist reflects on journalist mistakes during the campaign, risks after

2016-11-14 journalism • politics • trump

Autocracy: Rules for Survival

Strongly worded essay about coping with a Trump presidency

2016-11-11 autocracy • politics • russia • trump

Silicon Valley and Trump

How quickly folks move to normalize and collaborate

2016-11-11 politics • siliconvalley • startups • tech • trump

Drawing the planet in brushstrokes

Beautiful images produced with neural networks and satellite images

2016-11-11 art • maps • neuralnetworks • planetlabs • satellites

Nebra Sky Disc

A remarkable Bronze Age archeological find in Germany

2016-11-11 archeology • astronomy • bronzeage • history • via:metafilter

Westworld: BETA

Funny, no spoilers

2016-11-08 funny • tech • via:metafilter • westworld

American Southwest aerials

Nice set of photographs

2016-11-07 aerial • america • photos

Vote turnout analysis

Academic statistical papers on things that affect voter turnout

2016-11-07 civilrights • politics • voting

Beaten at Trump rally

Unarmed protestor nearly choked to death in panic

2016-11-06 politics • protest • trump • violence

Voting line in North Carolina

Voter suppression in action; inadequate capacity

2016-11-05 northcarolina • politics • unc • voting

State of IP Spoofing

BCP 38 compliance stats. Roughly half to 1/4 of the Internet still allows spoofing

2016-11-05 badtech • ddos • internet • security

NTP BCP

Best practices for NTP servers; security, etc

2016-11-05 ntp • securitytheater • time

FBI v Clinton

US National Police meddling in election. "there’s a revolution going on inside the FBI and it’s now at a boiling point.”

2016-11-05 clinton • fbi • politics • trump

Melania Trump worked illegally

Paid without a work visa; you'd think this would create some empathy in her husband's mind

2016-11-05 immigration • politics • trump

Vote wait stats

Statistics on how long people have to wait to vote

2016-11-04 civilrights • politics • voting

Georgia militia

NYTimes profile of an armed right wing group

2016-11-04 georgia • guns • militia • politics

Doros

Russian male acapella singers

2016-11-03 acapella • music • russia

Diversity in Tech

Funny because it's true

2016-11-03 diversity • funny • satire • tech

Fancy text gen

Various font-like effects using Unicode

2016-11-03 font • funny • text • unicode

Bitcoin alert retirement

Bitcoin has an alert system built in, but it's being disabled for key management problems

2016-11-02 badtech • bitcoin • systems

Voting map options

Various approaches to visualizing election data

2016-11-02 election • maps • visualization

Anthem CA sued

Major California health insurer is screwing a lot of customers

2016-11-01 anthem • california • healthinsurance

WoSign 86ed

Browser manufacturers cut off an SSL certificate vendor

2016-11-01 badtech • security • ssl • startcom • wosign

Trump tax avoidance

His lawyers told him his scheme was likely illegal

2016-11-01 politics • taxes • trump