Nelson's Linkblog 2017-05

about • archive • mastodon • feed

1980s postpunk classic movie, unauthorized copy on Youtube

2017-05-31 liquidsky • movies

UberPool cash burn

Details on how Uber uses investor money to enter a market

2017-05-31 investment • lyft • uber • uberpool

Interview with the game developer /cc @amitp @therealfitz

2017-05-30 ama • factorio • games • iama

Cross-dressing men from the 1950s

2017-05-30 america • crossdressing • gay • lgbt • newyork • trans • transgender

The Great Gerrymander of 2012

Simple statistics about how well the GOP has rigged Congressional elections

2017-05-29 gerrymandering • politics • republicans • votingrights

Email encoding bug persists for 7 years

2017-05-29 email • emoji • funny • microsoft • outlook • unicode

An interesting tattoo style from a German studio

2017-05-29 art • tattoo

Driving through airport

Drunk in Russia, amazing CCTV footage

2017-05-29 airport • driving • drunk • funny • russia

1830 Australians in Japan

Interesting story of a rogue ship

2017-05-28 1800s • australia • history • japan

Tactical survival shovel

War toys for mall ninjas

2017-05-27 funny • shovel • weapon

Obamacare sabotage

Details on funding cuts from Trump designed to destroy our health insurance system

2017-05-27 aca • health • obamacare • politics • trump

Erdogan thugs in DC

Details of 24 Turkish delegation members who assaulted protesters in Washington DC

2017-05-26 assault • dc • erdogan • turkey

Levandowski's moonlighting

Uber's head of driverless cars has some odd ethics related to his obligation to his employer

2017-05-26 google • lawsuit • lidar • theft • tradesecrets • uber • waymo

Details on the world's best ham

2017-05-26 food • ham • jamon • pork • portugal • spain

GoFundMe for health

Heartbreaking comic about a friend who died $50 short of being able to afford insulin

2017-05-26 america • comic • diabetes • health • healthinsurance • medicine • politics

American bullying

2017-05-25 bully • nato • politics • shove • trump

Details of violence between neo-Nazis and anti-fascists in Portland

2017-05-24 civilwar • politics • portland • riot • trump

Windows git repo

Some performance stats from a very large git repo

2017-05-24 git • microsoft • performance • via:hackernews • windows

Medieval City Generator

Naturalistic shapes. /cc @amitp

2017-05-24 cities • games • generative • maps

Uber steals from drivers

$900 / New York driver stolen

2017-05-24 fraud • newyork • theft • uber

Landrieu on the Confederacy

An honest appraisal of Civil War history

2017-05-23 civilwar • confederacy • history • racism • slavery • south

List of top places

2017-05-23 barbecue • barbeque • bbq • cooking • food • texas

A 6502 built with discrete components

2017-05-21 6502 • apple • computers • hardware • history

Twitter drops Do Not Track

One of the few companies to honor users' privacy wishes decides to stop

2017-05-20 ads • privacy • twitter

A 42 inch yacht

Insane tiny boat for crossing the Atlantic

2017-05-20 crazy • sailing • yacht

Update on Medium and Ev

Thoughts on publishing and business

2017-05-20 blogger • companies • ev • evanwilliams • medium • startups • twitter • writing

Uber vs customers

Details on surveillance programs

2017-05-19 greyballing • privacy • surveillance • uber

Super awkward not-hug

2017-05-19 comey • funny • handshake • hug • politics • trump

Facebook + Russia

Trump propaganda via targeted ads

2017-05-18 facebook • politics • russia • trump

Flynn malfeasance 3

Refusing to honor a subpoena

2017-05-18 flynn • politics • trump

Flynn malfeasance 2

Contacts with Turkey, his undisclosed financial benefactor

2017-05-18 flynn • politics • trump • turkey

Flynn malfeasance 1

Contacts with Russia

2017-05-18 flynn • politics • russia • trump

Hacking Mar-a-Lago

Private club unsurprisingly has terrible computer security

2017-05-17 badtech • politics • security • trump

Detailed design notes for an Arabic calligraphy style

2017-05-16 arabic • calligraphy • design • grid • kufic

My Family's Slave

Heartbreaking, excellent writing

2017-05-16 america • indonesia • philippines • servants • slavery

Skyliner shuts down

Friend's AWS startup is shutting down, team joining Mailchimp. Very classy announcement

2017-05-16 aws • mailchimp • marc • skyliner • startup

GOP leak hypocrisy

Collection of tweets from Republicans criticizing mishandling of intelligence

2017-05-16 gop • politics • republicans • russia • trump

Trump's reveal to Russians

Details of the implications of Trump spilling highly classified intelligence

2017-05-16 impeachment • intelligence • politics • treason • trump

An obscure Unicode character

2017-05-15 cyrillic • unicode • via:jwz

Gerrymandering game

Politics for fun!

2017-05-14 games • gerrymandering • politics • votingrights

Facebook in Papua New Guinea

The new digital colonialism

2017-05-14 anthropology • culture • facebook • png

Drag queen authored travel guides, fun and dishy

2017-05-14 drag • funny • gay • lgbt • travel

Republican’s Guide to Presidential Behavior

The snark comes out at the NYT

2017-05-14 nytimes • politics • president • snark • trump

Trading antennas

Microsecond advantages in financial parasites

2017-05-13 finance • latency • speed • trading

Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism

2017-05-13 funny • meme • socialism

Fully Inusrrectionary Luxury Queer Space Anarchism

2017-05-13 anarchism • australia • funny • gay

MLM scam exploiting Facebook

2017-05-13 facebook • mlm • pearls • scam

Street artist in Porto

2017-05-12 art • porto • portugal • streetart

Week 25 of Trump

Weekly lists of the eroding of American norms

2017-05-12 america • normality • politics • trump

Wisconsin voter suppression

Voter ID laws prevented 200,000 votes

2017-05-10 civilrights • politics • racism • votersuppression • voting • votingrights

Migurski's open geodata projects

OpenStreetmap, OpenAddresses, and Who's on First

2017-05-09 maps • migurski • opendata • opensource

Net Neutrality and gaming

Details from a lawsuit

2017-05-09 gaming • internet • netflix • netneutrality • riotgames • timewarner

Traceroute mapper

Simple IP based mapping

2017-05-08 map • network • traceroute • via:hackernews

Meme warfare in France

Failures of the US style online propaganda

2017-05-08 4chan • election • france • politics • stupid

Whoever owns this data owns the future

profile of the era of Big Data and politics

2017-05-08 bigdata • brexit • election • machinelearning • politics • trump