Trump immigration incompetence

The hateful rule was very poorly implemented

2017-01-31 politics • trump • immigration

Interpreting Trump

Excellent essay on how hard it is to read the Trump Administration's actions and plans

2017-01-30 trump • politics

Rules for a constitutional crisis

Calm and rational Lessig essay, I hope he's right

2017-01-30 politics • lessig • trump • america • republic • consitution

NTP pool server costs

Some exploration on what it costs to provide a public service

2017-01-30 ntp • hosting • cloud

Immigration malevolance

Forceful editorial that Trump's intent was to cause harm to Muslim refugees

2017-01-29 muslims • politics • trump • refugees • immigration

Reichstag fire

The singular event that allowed Hitler to cement power in Germany

2017-01-29 germany • politics • history • trump • nazis

Operation Northwoods

1960s plan to create a pretense to go to war in Cuba

2017-01-29 cuba • politics • trump • reichstagfire

Trump constitutional crisis

Border patrol seems to be ignoring federal court order

2017-01-29 cbp • border • politics • trump • immigration

Mapzen bans Trump

Internet mapping service denies service for "promotions of hate"

2017-01-29 trump • mapzen • maps • osm

Trump team confusion

Details of the sloppy chaos caused by Trump's rushing an immigration ban

2017-01-29 politics • trump • immigration

Immigration airport protests

List of all the protests taking place this weekend

2017-01-29 protest • airport • immigration • trump • civilrights

Time to Take a Stand

Y Combinator leader speaks out

2017-01-29 trump • politics • immigration

Holocaust rememberance details

Spiteful and ignorant Trump communications

2017-01-29 trump • politics • jews • nazis • holocaust

GamerGate FBI dossier

173 page report on harassment, etc

2017-01-28 gamergate • fbi • games • trolling • harassment

Refugees detained at the border

Trump's executive order goes immediately in to force; excellent article

2017-01-28 nytimes • iraq • humanrights • refugees • trump • politics

Baylor rape culture

Texas Baptist college sued for an alleged 52 rapes by the football team

2017-01-28 rape • football • texas • baylor • baptist

Trump’s Immigration Ban Is Illegal

Clear, forthright editorial

2017-01-28 trump • immigration • politics

Wikimedia anti-harassment funding

$500,000 for safer community

2017-01-26 wikipedia • craignewmark • trolls • harassment • via:hackernews

D.Va association

Feminist activist group in South Korea takes game character as mascot

2017-01-26 gaming • politics • korea • dva

Emergency Puppy

Dealing with the age of horrors

2017-01-26 politics • trump • puppy • twitter

Voter fraud facts

There is no meaningful voter fraud. Some thoughtful details.

2017-01-25 voting • politics • trump • fraud • voterfraud • civilrights

Rules of Machine Learning

Some best practices

2017-01-25 via:juliaevans • machinelearning • ml • ai • coding

State of BGP

A New Year's reflection on Internet routing

2017-01-25 internet • bgp • routing • networks

Spicer / Obey

Sunglasses reveal the truth

2017-01-25 theylive • spicer • politics • trump • obey

Still no voting fraud

More rebuttal of Trump lies

2017-01-25 trump • politics • voterfraud • voting

Inauguration 2017 timelapse

PBS video of the Mall

2017-01-24 trump • politics • inauguration

Zuckerberg in Kauai

More reporting on his real estate lawsuits

2017-01-24 zuckerberg • hawaii • land • property

USDA gag order

Trump administration taking control of agency communications

2017-01-24 usda • politics • science

Trump internal drama

Behind the insane Spicer briefing

2017-01-24 spicer • press • politics • trump

Discord and hate

Hate groups use the popular Slack-like system

2017-01-24 slack • discord • moderation • hatespeech

French election chanops

Trump memesters turn their attention to France

2017-01-24 france • politics • trump • propaganda • discord

Pink Floyd - Echoes

Crazy cover by an 18 year old playing all instruments and doing his own Live at Pompeii-esque video

2017-01-24 via:metafilter • music • pinkfloyd

Why Trump's Staff Is Lying

Another media political critique

2017-01-23 propaganda • trump • politics • lies

Trump press strategy

Original source of a popular media critique

2017-01-23 trump • politics • propaganda

Alternative Facts

Trump administration start early redefining truth

2017-01-23 trump • politics • america • facts • journalism

Women's march photos

Global protests against Trump

2017-01-22 trump • protest • womensmarch

Space Claw charging

Lighting at Sutro tower /cc @thisisaaronland

2017-01-22 sanfrancisco • sutro • spaceclaw

Ian McKellen protest sign

Picard facepalm, hilarious

2017-01-21 protest • mckellen • picard • actor • politics

Trump's conflict of interests

WSJ visualization of 500+ entities that threaten his presidency

2017-01-20 trump • politics • ethics • visualization

Suspend Trump from Twitter?

Strongly made case

2017-01-20 trump • twitter • politics

POTUS digital transition

Very thoughtful plan on how to hand over the Twitter account, etc.

2017-01-20 twitter • potus • politics • goldman

Zuckerberg in Kauai

Bullying his way through the courts to claim land

2017-01-19 hawaii • hawai'i • zuckerberg • facebook • property

Skittles spill mystery solved!

Your moment of levity for the day

2017-01-19 skittles • via:reddit • wisconsin

Mendeley

Bibliography management software for academics

2017-01-19 bibliography • writing • academics • citation

Alt right forum drama

Hilarious historical account of how the neo-Nazi movement is going down the same Internet rabbit hole other online communities have

2017-01-19 trump • politics • altright • forum • meme

Cops Lie

Detailed investigation of how police cameras show how cops sometimes lie

2017-01-18 police • lie • safety

Tinder coder

Funny essay about guys using coding as a pickup line, or maybe hookups as a recruiting tool

2017-01-18 tinder • dating • funny • gender • programming

Demand Protest!

Weird fake site about paying protestors

2017-01-18 protest • politics • propaganda

Tent Cities of SF

Editorial from last month about the state of homelessness in San Francisco

2017-01-17 sf • sanfrancisco • homelessness • mentalillness • compassion

Homeless mother, dead baby

Heartbreaking story of mental illness and homelessness in Portland

2017-01-17 portland • homeless • mentalhealth

The Problem With AMP

Well written essay about Google's new mobile walled garden

2017-01-17 google • amp • mobile • via:hackernews • lockin

Astronaut

Snippets of random Youtube videos with zero views

2017-01-17 video • cutup • random • youtube • via:metafilter

Lakoff on Trump

Some thoughts from cognitive science

2017-01-16 trump • politics • propaganda • linguistics • cognitivescience

Abstract geoart

Nice feature on Bill Morris' neat satellite photo / machine learning art

2017-01-16 art • geography • maps • machinelearning

Alt-Right vs Jews

Prominent online white supremacist has a Jewish wife, alt-right community freaks out

2017-01-16 racism • politics • altright • jews • hate

The Stench of Torture

Torture only works to dehumanize the torturer

2017-01-14 torture • civilrights • humanrights • trump • politics

Pushover

A simple, unified notifications system

2017-01-14 notifications • sms • messages

On "fake news"

Excellent analysis of how the term "fake news" has been robbed of meaning, and broader propaganda goals

2017-01-14 politics • propaganda • journalism

Super Mario Run onboarding

Devastating critique of the new Nintendo iPhone game

2017-01-13 games • nintendo • userinterface • ui

Shadow Brokers quit

Hacker group likely to be Russian government is quitting, or lulzing, or something

2017-01-13 russia • politics • hacking

Cartography Comparison

O'Beirne's map analysis collected

2017-01-13 maps • google • apple • via:hackernews • cartography

USDS Report to Congress

Group doing modern Internet development for government

2017-01-13 usds • government • politics

Calling Bullshit

A college course about falsehoods in statistical research, big data, and rhetoric

2017-01-13 bullshit • datascience • machinelearning • statistics

Video Game Luck

Probability and perception manipulated for fun

2017-01-13 games • luck • probability

Trump insanity with National Guard

Firing the head of DC National Guard literally the moment he is sworn in, during the inauguration event

2017-01-13 trump • politics • washingtondc • nationalguard

Condom effectiveness for gay men

A look at differing opinions

2017-01-13 condoms • lgbt • gay • aids • hiv • health • sex

BitTorrent's collapse

Weirdness for a doomed startup

2017-01-11 startups • bittorrent • failure

Trump dossier details

Information on motives of the source

2017-01-11 trump • politics • dossier

Software repeatability

Problems of doing science with software that you can't reliably re-run

2017-01-11 software • science • repeatability

Trump / Russia allegations

Full intelligence dossier, uncorroborated and suspicious, but lots of detail that seems plausible

2017-01-10 trump • politics • russia • manafort

Trump compromised by Russia?

FBI has intelligence from multiple sources that the Russians have personal and financial leverage over Trump

2017-01-10 trump • politics • gop • fbi

Forth Worth subway

A weird private short subway for a parking garage. /cc @enf

2017-01-10 texas • dallas • fortworth • transit • subway

VC Reserves

Details on how venture capital reinvests in portfolio companies

2017-01-10 startups • funding • reserve • vc

Swedish SIGINT

Details of cyberwarfare from Scandanavia

2017-01-09 sweden • america • politics • nsa • privacy

1.5 million gamer records

Hacker / leak, but some interesting data

2017-01-09 games • gaming • hacker • badtech • esea • esl • esports

Patreon: $100M

Direct payment to creative people is working!

2017-01-09 financing • art • startups • patreon • games

Jeff Sessions and 1980s voter suppression

Ugly case in Alabama

2017-01-09 trump • politics • alabama • racism • votingrights

Keras

Higher level neural network library

2017-01-09 python • machinelearning • ai • theano • tensorflow

Visual Studio Code

Yet another Javascript code editor, cross platform

2017-01-08 editor • atom • sublime • javascript • coding

Brackets editor

Another editor built in Javascript

2017-01-08 editor • atom • sublime • coding

Geek Squad informants

National chain of computer support people had a side business selling customers out to the FBI

2017-01-08 fbi • privacy • bestbuy • geeksquad • childporn

Trump loves Wikileaks

Details of how Trump was happy to have the Russian hack influence the election

2017-01-08 trump • politics • russia • clinton • wikileaks • lies

Kushner's conflicts

More corruption at the center of the Trump family

2017-01-07 trump • corruption • politics • china • business • ethics

Russian election influence

News article summarizing the declassified intelligence report

2017-01-07 russia • politics • trump • election • propaganda

Noncombatant uniformed services

In addition to the military, the US has NOAA and public health uniformed officers

2017-01-07 noaa • dhs • uniform • america

NextBus broken

Muni's bus notification system relied on AT&T 2G cellular

2017-01-07 att • nextbus • cellular • muni • transit • sanfrancisco • badtech

Yugoslavian computer pinups

1980s Eastern European computer magazine had cheesecake photos of women

2017-01-07 funny • yugoslavia • soviet • computer • cheese • sexism

SF Historical Creek Map

Better rendering than I've seen of this before

2017-01-07 maps • sanfrancisco • history • rivers • water

Russian hacking and election security

Voting machine expert weighs in on the report

2017-01-07 politics • russia • hacking • putin • trump • election • security • badtech

Russian election influence

Public report from the US intelligence community

2017-01-07 russia • putin • trump • election • hacking • politics

Aggretsuko

A Sanrio character for office alcoholic rage

2017-01-07 sanrio • japan • animation • funny • rage • anger

Ghostcrawler on abuse

Famous game designer talks about dealing with hostile gamer fans

2017-01-06 games • blizzard • riotgames • riot • abuse

Russian hacking intel

Some hints at what's in the classified briefing

2017-01-06 russia • hacking • politics • trump • putin

TQ in Public Policy

Statement from White House CTO about need for more tech capability in government positions

2017-01-05 politics • tech • amac

Obama metrics

Nice set of numbers that make the Obama administration look good

2017-01-05 obama • politics • president • economics

The Agency

Report from Russia's online propaganda arm

2017-01-05 russia • politics • trump • propaganda

NTP Pool vs Great Firewall

Chinese citizen wants to serve time on the Internet; thwarted by UDP firewall

2017-01-04 internet • china • ntp • firewall

Padme needed an ob/gyn

Darth Vader was created because the Empire lacked prenatal health care

2017-01-04 starwars • feminism • funny • via:metafilter • obgyn

Isotypes

1920s infographic language

2017-01-04 graphics • visualization • vienna • isotype • design

Secureworks on Podesta

The June 2016 report that confirmed Russian hacking of Clinton campaign emails, including Podesta

2017-01-04 podesta • clinton • hacking • russia • badtech

Tech employee advice

Details on evaluating an equity package

2017-01-03 stock • startups • equity • business

Vermont utility hack update

Probably not a directed Russian attack, also details on malware chatter

2017-01-03 russia • hacking • malware • vermont • security • badtech

Leap second postmortem

Cloudflare code failed when time went backwards

2017-01-02 time • ntp • cloudflare • leapsecond

Leap second in Redhat

Details of Linux options for leap seconds

2017-01-01 leapsecond • time • ntp • redhat • linux

Facebook 2016 Year in Review

A roundup of user-hostile things Facebook has done

2017-01-01 facebook • privacy • badtech