spez apology

Reddit CEO apologizes for editing user comments, punishes some abusers

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

Gooligan Android malware

Steals Google credentials

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

North Carolina do-over

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

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

Trump DC lease problem

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

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

Bird Sounds

Machine learning aided visualization /cc @celesteramsay

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

Electoral college fragility

Tiny changes in state borders change the whole election

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

Anti-semitic academic threats

More of a rising tide of hate, one Trump specific

2016-11-29 trump • politics • jews • civilrights • 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 uuid • guid • id • database • apollo

Hina missing from Disneyʼs Moana

Cultural critique from a Polynesian expert

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

Muslim genocide threats

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

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

Matthew Picton | Artist

Paper sculpture based on city layouts

2016-11-27 via:migurski • maps • art

PropOrNot a problem

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

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

!Xóõ

Speech sample from a phonetically complex click language

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

MUNI ransomware

San Francisco's transit payment system got hacked

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

Trump's fake news team

Folks close to Trump also involved with propaganda sites

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

Russian propaganda in election

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

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

Clinton recount

Statement from the Clinton team on vote recount

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

San Jose mosque threatened

Invokes Trump, promises genocide

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

Trump corruption

Unprecedented: kleptocracy?

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

Gerrymandering maps

Visualization of a subversion of democracy

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

zget

Simple ZeroConf tool for copying a file between two machines

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

spaCy NLP

Natural Language Parsing for Python

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

Reddit CEO dumbness

Head of Reddit snaps and edits some user comments, apologizes

2016-11-24 reddit • politics • censorship

LosslessCut

Quick tool for cropping video

2016-11-24 video • ffmpeg • crop

Charles Blow on Trump

Strongly worded op/ed

2016-11-24 trump • politics

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 • voting • politics

Through a Looking Glass Darkly

2013 bit of agitprop by Mr. Fish, newly topical

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

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 ukraine • russia • politics • badtech • voting • hack

Was the election hacked?

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

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

Windsor, CA Trump fears

Heart rending but excellent reporting

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

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 superman • politics • racism • 1950s • comics

Homeopathy kills

Product for infants contains "inconsistent amount" of deadly poison

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

Case study of fake news

Details of how propaganda propagates

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

Rural political bias

Various ways US federal policies give disproportionate power to rural areas

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

Cloudflare's IPv6 view

Web hosting service in a unique position to measure IPv6 usage

2016-11-21 ipv6 • internet • networking

Alt-Right rally

Including Nazi propaganda "in the original German"

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

Who Will Command The Robot Armies?

Remarkable cultural criticism talk

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

Muslim registry plusuntrue

Trump spokesman tries to rewrite history

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

Trump must divest

Astonishing WSJ editorial

2016-11-19 trump • politics • ethics

Launching in the wake of the election

A maelstrom of emotion

2016-11-19 trump • politics • startups

Takei on internment

Strong, personal reflection on Trump threats to Muslims

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

SF Clarion Alley

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

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

what.cd eulogy

Appreciation of a music sharing community

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

Richard Spencer interview

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

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

Trump's first week

A pessimistic summary

2016-11-17 trump • politics • kakistocracy

A Theranos whistleblower

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

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

Fake news writer

Interview with someone completely amoral

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

Miami Trump asshole

Ugly incident at a Starbucks

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

How to use AWS

Some observations from the Skyliner architecture

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

Russia tampered with US election

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

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

Trump protest in Grass Valley

Local kids speaking up

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

jitter needle

Defense of a problematic design element

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

Trump deportation plans

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

2016-11-15 trump • politics • immigrants

Google vs fake news

Ads now has a policy against fake news

2016-11-15 google • news • journalism • 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 security • badtech • politics • election • voting

cliffs & coasts

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

2016-11-15 jewelry • geo • maps • gis

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 trump • politics • russia • autocracy

Silicon Valley and Trump

How quickly folks move to normalize and collaborate

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

Drawing the planet in brushstrokes

Beautiful images produced with neural networks and satellite images

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

Nebra Sky Disc

A remarkable Bronze Age archeological find in Germany

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

Westworld: BETA

Funny, no spoilers

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

American Southwest aerials

Nice set of photographs

2016-11-07 aerial • photos • america

Vote turnout analysis

Academic statistical papers on things that affect voter turnout

2016-11-07 voting • politics • civilrights

Beaten at Trump rally

Unarmed protestor nearly choked to death in panic

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

Voting line in North Carolina

Voter suppression in action; inadequate capacity

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

State of IP Spoofing

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

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

NTP BCP

Best practices for NTP servers; security, etc

2016-11-05 ntp • time • securitytheater

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 politics • clinton • trump • fbi

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 voting • politics • civilrights

Georgia militia

NYTimes profile of an armed right wing group

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

Doros

Russian male acapella singers

2016-11-03 music • russia • acapella

Diversity in Tech

Funny because it's true

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

Fancy text gen

Various font-like effects using Unicode

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

Bitcoin alert retirement

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

2016-11-02 bitcoin • badtech • systems

Voting map options

Various approaches to visualizing election data

2016-11-02 visualization • election • maps

Anthem CA sued

Major California health insurer is screwing a lot of customers

2016-11-01 california • healthinsurance • anthem

WoSign 86ed

Browser manufacturers cut off an SSL certificate vendor

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

Trump tax avoidance

His lawyers told him his scheme was likely illegal

2016-11-01 trump • politics • taxes