Nelson's Linkblog 2017-08

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2017-08-31 america • fascism • nazis • politics • trump • ww2

Mexican data plans

What cell phone service looks like in a country without net neutrality

2017-08-31 mexico • netneutrality • telecomm • via:reddit

Charles Blow says it out loud

2017-08-31 america • coup • democracy • politics • trump

FCC malware hosting

Naive feature lets anyone upload files for the FCC to serve, creating all sorts of security problems

2017-08-31 badtech • fcc • internet • security • via:hackernews • web

K'inich Janaab' Pakal

We know an astonishing amount of detail about the Maya now

2017-08-30 america • history • maya • mayans • mexico

Sally Hemmings' power

Interesting subtlety about the slave relationship with Jefferson

2017-08-29 history • jefferson • slavery • via:metafilter

Wisconsin gerrymandering

Excellent detailed article on the coming Supreme Court case

2017-08-29 democracy • gerrymandering • politics • wisconsin

Review of the excellent book about 2010 gerrymandering

2017-08-29 gerrymandering • politics • ratf**ked • ratfcked • ratfucked • voting

A radical faerie event for people of color

2017-08-29 fabulous • gay • lgbt

Louise Mensch's hoax source

Crazy left wing rumormonger was deliberately hoaxed

2017-08-29 fakenews • hoax • politics • trump

Trump's ideology

Dangerous embrace of the constitutional sheriff lunacy

2017-08-29 constitution • politics • trump

Confederate history

Black daughter of the Confederacy's thoughts on how to think of monuments

2017-08-29 civilwar • confederacy • history • racism

A cloud computing clone that runs locally, for dev and testing

2017-08-29 amazon • aws • cloud • python • testing

stormfront client hold

Second Nazi domain name seized by registrars

2017-08-29 dailystormer • nazis • politics • stormfront • via:metafilter

Discord and Charlottesville

Social media product used to plan violence

2017-08-29 charlottesville • discord • gamers • nazis • politics

Homestead gerrymander

District drawn to include a state senator

2017-08-29 funny • gerrymandering • senate • via:reddit

Local pool boy makes good

Adam used to service my pool, he bought the company. Good guy.

2017-08-28 entrepreneur • grassvalley • local • pools

Garfield and Cybersecurity

Remarkably bad Jim Davis promo video

2017-08-28 cybersecurity • funny • garfield • jimdavis • timanderic

Antifa violence

Small minority of violent leftists spoil what was otherwise a pretty good outcome for the weekend

2017-08-28 antifa • berkeley • fascism • politics • violence

Hindu generative architecture

Temple designs follow algorithmic rules

2017-08-27 algorithmic • architecture • hindu • india • temple

No one wants the Daily Stormer

Nazi site can't find hosting or a stable domain name

2017-08-27 dailystormer • freespeech • google • nazis • politics

A farce of a boxing / wrestling match in 1975

2017-08-27 ali • boxing • inoki • japan • muhammedali • wrestling

Bitcoin energy waste

Some basic data of how much electricity is wasted making the cryptocurrency's proof of work

2017-08-26 bitcoin • energy • via:hackernews

Charlottesville gunfire

Nazi guy shot a pistol at counterprotestors two weeks ago

2017-08-26 charlottesville • guns • nazis • police • terrorism

Windows app to quick-preview files with spacebar, like a Mac

2017-08-26 app • desktop • macos • preview • windows

DJ Khaled remix by Gabe Oaks

Remix by a friend of mine

2017-08-26 djkhaled • iamtheone • music • remix

Arpaio's fake assassination

A particularly bizarre story of Trump's sheriff buddy

2017-08-26 arpaio • politics • trump

Arpaio's career

Details from a local newspape

2017-08-26 arizona • arpaio • pardon • politics • trump

Constitutional crisis

Pardoning Arpaio creates a precedent for the executive branch ignoring the constitution

2017-08-26 apraio • constitution • pardon • politics • trump

North Carolina efficiency gaps

Proposed 2017 redistricting gives an enormous advantage to the GOP

2017-08-25 gerrymandering • northcarolina • politics • republicans • votes

Offline Wikipedia, free iOS app. Now partnered with Wikipedia Foundation.

2017-08-25 internet • ios • iphone • offline • wikipedia

The game Smite goes too far with a gay stereotype silly character

2017-08-25 culture • games • gay • lgbt • smite

Suicide has a blast radius

Lawrence Lessig on Aaron Swartz

2017-08-25 aaronsw • lessig • suicide • tech

Eclipse flights

Visualization of aircraft going eclipse-seeing

2017-08-25 aviation • eclipse • flying • visualization

Military trans ban

Incompetents in White House start to put hateful policy into place

2017-08-24 hate • lgbt • military • politics • trans • transgender • trump

Samsung bricks TVs

Bad firmware update

2017-08-24 badtech • firmware • samsung • tv • via:reddit

No Man's Sky galactic hub

Interesting self-organized play behavior

2017-08-24 community • games • nms • nomansky

Texas voter ID law struck

Once again Texas told not to suppress minority vote

2017-08-24 politics • texas • voterid • voting • votingrights

Photo ID challenges

How Texas suppresses the vote

2017-08-24 photoid • texas • voterid • voting • votingrights

San Francisco counter-protests

Opposing the fascists on Saturday. Civic Center is the big event and far away from the bad people.

2017-08-24 fascism • nazis • protest • sanfrancisco • trump

Uber pitch deck

2008 slides raising funds for Uber

2017-08-23 investment • sacca • uber • vc

Arya vs Brienne

Better with lightsabres

2017-08-23 funny • gameofthrones • starwars

Series of documents for self therapy

2017-08-23 australia • cbt • therapy

Possible Crashplan alternative for Linux

2017-08-22 backup • crashplan • linux

New version of news service localized for Nigeria and nearby speakers of Pidgin

2017-08-22 bbc • language • news • nigeria • pidgin

When men compete with each other to impress women

2017-08-22 behavior • feminism • funny • language • sexism

Verizon throttling all video

Mobile plans will be limited to 10Mbps streams, 1080p video

2017-08-22 bandwidth • throttling • verizon • video

CrashPlan leaving consumer market

No more easy home network backup

2017-08-22 backup • crashplan • linux

Trump supporters' fake news outlets

Data on Trump supporters relying on garbage sites like Gateway Pundit and InfoWars

2017-08-22 conspiracy • news • politics • trump

Google Trends: "Eyes Hurt"

Data exhaust from the eclipse

2017-08-22 data • eclipse • funny • google • search • via:reddit

Black Death and lead levels

Clever ice core study quantifies the impact of the Black Death

2017-08-22 blackdeath • economy • europe • history • science • via:metafilter

Mastodon and Lolicon

Decentralized social media is used for cartoon child porn in Japan

2017-08-22 japan • lolicon • media • pornography • socialmedia

Roger Ebert on Blue Velvet

Still insightful 30 years later

2017-08-22 bluevelvet • lynch • movies • rogerebert

How I Became Fake News

Aftermath for the guy who filmed the Nazi murder in Charlottesville

2017-08-22 charlottesville • infowars • nazis • politics • propaganda • trump

Eclipse / plane

Remarkable photo

2017-08-22 airplane • aviation • eclipse • photo

Eclipse traffic

One of many maps showing national traffic jams after the eclipse

2017-08-22 eclipse • mapbox • maps • traffic

Did you damage your eyes?

A quick web test for eclipse-staring damage

2017-08-22 eclipse • funny • guardian • lol • politics • sun • trump

A Most American Terrorist

The Making Of Dylann Roof

2017-08-21 america • dylannroof • guns • murder • nra • racism • terrorism

Trump collaborator justifications

Twisted logic to justify working with Trump

2017-08-21 batshitinsane • politics • trump

Don't Suspect a Friend

2017-08-21 brazil • funny • movies • poster • propaganda

Ellen Pao book excerpt

Details of her discrimination lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins

2017-08-21 ekp • ellenpao • feminism • sexism • tech • vc

Berlin Wasserturm

1870 water infrastructure

2017-08-20 berlin • wasserturm • water • watertower

Why PS4 downloads are so slow

Playstation has a "feature" where TCP is throttled if any other app is running

2017-08-20 games • playstation • ps4 • psn • sony

A lovely historical map

2017-08-20 1870s • berlin • germany • history • maps

Camp Logan riot, Houston 1917

Ugly racial history from my home town

2017-08-20 houston • racism • riot • texas

EFF is wrong about Nazis

A thoughtful rebuttal to the EFF

2017-08-20 eff • freespeech • nazis • politics

EFF on Nazis and free expression

Not sure I agree, but it's carefully reasoned

2017-08-20 eff • freespeech • nazis • politics

Compromise of 1877

Part of America's ugly history of Reconstruction

2017-08-20 civilwar • hayes • history • reconstruction

History of the classic Muppet song; appeared first on Sesame Street

2017-08-20 funny • manahmanah • manamana • muppets • music • sesamestreet

Welcome to Oregon!

Anti-semitic signs on I-5

2017-08-20 antisemitism • nazis • oregon • politics • racism

North Korea: Notel

Small portable media device is popular for watching illegal video

2017-08-20 civilliberties • culture • dvd • korea • northkorea • usb

Damore refutation

Long, citation laden takedown to bad sexist science

2017-08-19 damore • google • metafilter • sexism • women

Visualizations of the BitCoin fork

2017-08-19 bitcoin • blockchain • btc • fork • visualization

Nazi Discord dump

Chat room from the Charlottesville planning

2017-08-19 chat • discord • fascism • leak • nazis • politics

European health care models

Intro material for the future of America's healthcare system

2017-08-19 america • europe • healthcare • insurance • medical

Crosswalk the Musical

Hair performed in snippets when the light is green

2017-08-19 funny • hair • linmanuelmiranda • musical • tv

Pakistan embroidery map

From a Lahore clothing company, Generation

2017-08-19 clothing • design • embroidery • maps • pakistan

Sentinel-2 cloudless map

High resolution photographic map of earth, free

2017-08-19 esa • eu • free • maps • satellite

Trumps four weeks

2017-08-18 incompetence • politics • trump

Trump's failure of leadership

Strong and clear Economist article

2017-08-18 economist • politics • trump

Amazon patent controversy

Year 2000 history about software patent debate

2017-08-18 1click • bezos • oreilly • patents • softwarepatents

ACLU on armed protest

A good decision on an issue of conflict

2017-08-18 aclu • america • civilliberties • gunrights • guns • protest

Armed militia in SF

Gun nut group Oath Keepers saying they'll be at the SF fascist rally

2017-08-18 america • fascism • guns • militia • oathkeepers • sanfrancisco

Open carry of guns is a historic aberration, not to mention a threat

2017-08-18 america • guns • nra • protest • safety • secondamendment • security

Jefferson Davis Highway

Confederate roads are named because of 1910s propaganda

2017-08-18 california • confederacy • lostcause • monument • sandiego

Detailed and nuanced response to a frequently-fraudulent investment vehicle

2017-08-17 bitcoin • blockchain • ico • investment • sec

The Eclipse Conspiracy

How do we really know the sun is going to disappear?

2017-08-17 eclipse • funny • globalwarming • parody • science

Overwatch Zombie game

Amazing hack involving watching the screen in spectator mode to implement a new game

2017-08-17 games • hack • mods • overwatch

Trump's isolation

Comments on Charlottesville have greatly expanded rifts

2017-08-17 charlottesville • politics • racism • trump

Military vs Nazis

Clear statement from military joint chiefs against racist extremism

2017-08-17 america • military • racism • trump

Pre-Roman peoples

Lovely hand drawn map. /cc @migurski

2017-08-17 europe • handdrawn • history • maps

Economist cover

Trump with a KKK hood as megaphone

2017-08-17 kkk • politics • trump

Charlottesville: Race and Terror

Remarkable flash documentary, reporter hanging out with Nazis

2017-08-17 charlottesville • documentary • nazis • politics • trump

Why Reconstruction Matters

2015 essay by Eric Foner, the historian of Reconstruction

2017-08-16 america • civilwar • history • reconstruction • slavery • south

Daily Stormer offline

A bunch of companies finally deny the Nazi site hosting

2017-08-16 cloudflare • dailystormer • facebook • godaddy • google • nazis • twitter

Germany's history

Contrast with America and the Confederacy

2017-08-16 america • confederacy • germany • history • memorial • nazis • racism

Some context on violent leftist resistance

2017-08-16 antifa • fascism • politics

Charlottesville permits

Trumps false equivalence is not even vaguely correct

2017-08-16 charlottesville • nazis • politics • trump

Synagogue in Charlottesville

When Nazis are outside the doors threatening the Jews inside

2017-08-16 charlottesville • jews • nazis • politics • trump

Right wing attacks

A list of murders, assaults, and threats

2017-08-16 fascism • politics • trump

Quantifying the "far left"

Some basic perspective on the danger posed by militant groups

2017-08-16 america • antifa • fascism • politics • trump

Nazi rally in SF

White supremacists are rallying in San Francisco. It's on federal land.

2017-08-15 nazis • politics • sanfrancisco • trump • whitesupremacists

Guns vs free speech

Not clear what the First Amendment means when people armed for war show up

2017-08-15 charlottesville • civilrights • freespeech • guns • nazis • politics

Behind YesYoureRacist

Very brave man calling out racism

2017-08-15 politics • racism • twitter

Trump posts cartoon that in the context of Charlottesville is just appalling

2017-08-15 charlottesville • cnn • train • trump • twitter

Details on the context of Confederate monuments

2017-08-15 confederacy • hate • politics • splc

Confederate monument history

Most Confederate monuments were created in the 1920s and 1960s

2017-08-15 confederacy • history • politics • treason

Antifa in America

Some history and op/ed on the violent left

2017-08-15 america • antifa • politics • trump

Texas A&M cancels Nazis

Texas university decides not to host white nationalist event

2017-08-14 nazis • politics • tamu • texasa&m

Germany vs Nazis

How other countries forbid unthinkable politics

2017-08-14 america • confederacy • germany • nazi • trump

Discord bans Nazis

Big step for a social media platform

2017-08-14 altright • discord • games • nazis

Charlottesville details

Attempt to make sense of the chaos

2017-08-14 charlottesville • facism • politics • protest • trump

New Ng machine learning course

New course at Coursera based on Python and Tensorflow

2017-08-13 ai • course • coursera • machinelearning • programming

Password guessing password agents

Tool for breaking into password vaults. They can test about 100,000 passwords a second on a single GPU

2017-08-13 badtech • passwords • security

Portland police + militia

Details on some troubling blending of roles between right wing protestors and police

2017-08-12 facism • militia • oregon • police • portland

LIBOR replacement

Key financial index is based on a thin market, time for a new one

2017-08-12 finance • interest • libor

Feminist systems hacking

Woman's perspective on improving Linux performance with feminism and good system work

2017-08-11 adainitiative • atime • design • feminism • programming

SF Tenderloin starter pack

A bit of black humor

2017-08-11 photos • sanfrancisco • tenderloin • via:reddit

Vinod Khosla loses beach appeal

VC loses his attempt to close a public beach, again

2017-08-11 beach • california • property • surfing • tech • vc • vinod • vinodkhosla

Google cancels all hands

Can't keep employees safe from harassment

2017-08-10 allhands • crisis • doxxing • google • harassment

Post-Trump trash news

Data on Facebook-driven news sites, both left and right

2017-08-10 facebook • journalism • news • propaganda • trump

TempleOS Hymn Bought

Short clip from the outsider OS

2017-08-10 os • religion • schizophrenia • templeos

Eloise / Hearthstone

Being a woman in top tier professional Hearthstone

2017-08-09 blizzard • games • gaming • gender • hearthstone • women

Cities mapped by AirBNB ratings

Clever visualization; city center apartments get higher ratings

2017-08-09 airbnb • cities • maps • visualization

Linux Load Averages

Some deep details

2017-08-08 linux • loadaverage • performance • system

A medieval tradition of a wanderjahr

2017-08-08 crafts • europe • guilds • labor • medieval

Firefox supports Vive and Rift

WebVR support for 3d goggles, tracking systems

2017-08-08 firefox • oculusrift • vr • webgl • webvr

Twitter hate protest

German artist spraypaints tweeted hate speech in front of Twitter's office

2017-08-07 funny • hatespeech • protest • twitter

Nuclear war in Korea

Terrifying speculative fiction from The Economist

2017-08-07 korea • northkorea • nuclear • trump

Buzzfeed puts some algorithms to work on public flight data

2017-08-07 aviation • civilrights • datajournalism • spying

Bitcoin history

Details on the way discussion around Bitcoin tech is controlled

2017-08-07 bitcoin • blockstream • history • reddit

Geoengineering conference

Off the record meeting of scientists to consider a global warming solution

2017-08-07 climate • globalwarming • science • scifi

Eric Fischer interview

Words from a creative mapper

2017-08-07 developer • enf • mapbox • maps

NYC pneumatic garbage

Roosevelt Island has a network of 24" tubes for garbage disposal

2017-08-06 garbage • newyork • nyc • rooseveltisland

A reflection on the neighborhood I grew up in, Houston

2017-08-06 gay • gentrification • houston • lgbt • montrose • texas

Getting rid of junk mail

Some opt out lists for the US

2017-08-05 creditcard • junkmail • mail • spam

Sweet short film about youthful love

2017-08-05 animation • crush • gay • lgbt • love

1950s purge of homosexuals from the US government

2017-08-05 civilrights • gay • gayrights • lavender • lgbt

The banana trade

Details on how bananas are imported and sold in New York

2017-08-05 bananas • food • groceries • newyork

Acorn spy flights

Private company flies electronics surveillance over American cities

2017-08-04 acorn • america • aviation • civilrights • freedom • privacy

Trump tax fraud?

The President sold his children two condos at well below market value

2017-08-04 fraud • politics • tax • trump

NASA Voyager engineers

Profile of the flight engineering team that's been operating for 40 years

2017-08-04 engineering • nasa • space • voyager

A Bluetooth salt shaker. Apparently not a parody.

2017-08-04 amazon • kitchen • saltshaker • smalt • stupid

Congressional districts

Historical data going back to 1789

2017-08-04 congress • districts • history • maps • shapefile

Company knowingly gave drivers broken cars that caught fire

2017-08-03 ethics • fire • safety • singapore • uber

A bad crypto messaging app was involved in the coup in Turkey last year

2017-08-03 badtech • encryption • privacy • security • signal • turkey • whatsapp

Behind the Muslim ban chaos

Details of how Trump administration deliberately cut out Congress, the press

2017-08-03 democracy • dhs • immigration • politics • powers • trump

Golf.com and journalism

Standing by their reporting that Trump called the White House a dump

2017-08-03 golf • politics • trump • whitehouse

White House admits Trump lies

Phone calls of support did not happen, press secretary says so on the record

2017-08-03 boyscouts • lies • mexico • politics • trump • whitehouse

Seven books on reconstruction

Some reading I've been meaning to do

2017-08-02 america • civilwar • history • racism • reconstruction

Angelyne revealed

LA demi-celebrity's real life story

2017-08-02 angelyne • fame • la • losangeles

Collison Offline Wikipedia

Stripe founder had an offline version of Wikipedia for iOS in 2008

2017-08-02 collison • history • ios • iphone • patrick • stripe • wikipedia

Bitcoin shorting mess

Fake currency gets complicated when the fake currency splits

2017-08-02 bitcoin • funny • investment • money • shorting • via:hackernews

Fire Island in 1977

Slightly NSFW. The years of gay paradise.

2017-08-02 fireisland • gay • lgbt • newyork • nsfw

Straight to Hell

Short appreciation for gay pornographer Boyd McDonald

2017-08-02 books • gay • lgbt • porn • sth • straighttohell • writing • zines

Older workers in tech

Excellent Karen Wickre essay on ideas for tech being smarter about benefitting from older workers

2017-08-02 age • aging • discrimination • kvox • older • starups • tech • wisdom

Affirmative Action at Harvard

Minorities get special treatment, by which I mean rich people

2017-08-02 harvard • kushner • legacy • money • politics • trump

Propaganda dashboard

Analytics for Russian tweet spam

2017-08-02 politics • propaganda • russia • trump • twitter

Why is ARKit good?

Details of Apple's augmented reality tech

2017-08-01 apple • arkit • augmentedreality • hci • ios • userinterface

Excellent public transit app for iOS

2017-08-01 berlin • ios • maps • muni • transit

Democratic deconsolidation

The danger of Trump undermining American democratic norms

2017-08-01 america • democracy • politics • trump

Long reporting on a dangerous drug

2017-08-01 acetaminophen • america • drugs • health • healthcare • regulation

How to Grow Cannabis

Dowdy California lifestyle magazine goes a bit edgy

2017-08-01 california • gardening • marijuana • sunset

Snopes legal details

Specifics on the ownership structure and dispute

2017-08-01 company • corporation • governance • legal • snopes

Imran Awan background

Democrat IT guy in legal trouble, story spins to elaborate conspiracies

2017-08-01 awan • conspiracy • democrats • dnc • politics • reddit

Fox News fabrication

One of the people behind the retraced Seth Rich story has flipped and is suing Fox, detailing his role in the fabrication

2017-08-01 ethics • fox • foxnews • journalism • politics • sethrich • trump