Nelson's Linkblog 2017-08

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

Mexican data plans

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

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

Charles Blow says it out loud

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

FCC malware hosting

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

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

K'inich Janaab' Pakal

We know an astonishing amount of detail about the Maya now

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

Sally Hemmings' power

Interesting subtlety about the slave relationship with Jefferson

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

Wisconsin gerrymandering

Excellent detailed article on the coming Supreme Court case

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

Review of the excellent book about 2010 gerrymandering

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

A radical faerie event for people of color

2017-08-29 gay • lgbt • fabulous

Louise Mensch's hoax source

Crazy left wing rumormonger was deliberately hoaxed

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

Trump's ideology

Dangerous embrace of the constitutional sheriff lunacy

2017-08-29 trump • politics • constitution

Confederate history

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

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

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

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

stormfront client hold

Second Nazi domain name seized by registrars

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

Discord and Charlottesville

Social media product used to plan violence

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

Homestead gerrymander

District drawn to include a state senator

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

Local pool boy makes good

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

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

Garfield and Cybersecurity

Remarkably bad Jim Davis promo video

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

Antifa violence

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

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

Hindu generative architecture

Temple designs follow algorithmic rules

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

No one wants the Daily Stormer

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

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

A farce of a boxing / wrestling match in 1975

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

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 nazis • charlottesville • terrorism • guns • police

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

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

DJ Khaled remix by Gabe Oaks

Remix by a friend of mine

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

Arpaio's fake assassination

A particularly bizarre story of Trump's sheriff buddy

2017-08-26 arpaio • trump • politics

Arpaio's career

Details from a local newspape

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

Constitutional crisis

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

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

North Carolina efficiency gaps

Proposed 2017 redistricting gives an enormous advantage to the GOP

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

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

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

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

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

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 eclipse • aviation • flying • visualization

Military trans ban

Incompetents in White House start to put hateful policy into place

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

Samsung bricks TVs

Bad firmware update

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

No Man's Sky galactic hub

Interesting self-organized play behavior

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

Texas voter ID law struck

Once again Texas told not to suppress minority vote

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

Photo ID challenges

How Texas suppresses the vote

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

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 sanfrancisco • protest • nazis • fascism • trump

Uber pitch deck

2008 slides raising funds for Uber

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

Arya vs Brienne

Better with lightsabres

2017-08-23 funny • starwars • gameofthrones

Series of documents for self therapy

2017-08-23 cbt • australia • therapy

Possible Crashplan alternative for Linux

2017-08-22 crashplan • linux • backup

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

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

When men compete with each other to impress women

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

Verizon throttling all video

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

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

CrashPlan leaving consumer market

No more easy home network backup

2017-08-22 crashplan • linux • backup

Trump supporters' fake news outlets

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

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

Google Trends: "Eyes Hurt"

Data exhaust from the eclipse

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

Black Death and lead levels

Clever ice core study quantifies the impact of the Black Death

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

Mastodon and Lolicon

Decentralized social media is used for cartoon child porn in Japan

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

Roger Ebert on Blue Velvet

Still insightful 30 years later

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

How I Became Fake News

Aftermath for the guy who filmed the Nazi murder in Charlottesville

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

Eclipse / plane

Remarkable photo

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

Eclipse traffic

One of many maps showing national traffic jams after the eclipse

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

Did you damage your eyes?

A quick web test for eclipse-staring damage

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

A Most American Terrorist

The Making Of Dylann Roof

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

Trump collaborator justifications

Twisted logic to justify working with Trump

2017-08-21 trump • politics • batshitinsane

Don't Suspect a Friend

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

Ellen Pao book excerpt

Details of her discrimination lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins

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

Berlin Wasserturm

1870 water infrastructure

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

Why PS4 downloads are so slow

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

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

A lovely historical map

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

Camp Logan riot, Houston 1917

Ugly racial history from my home town

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

EFF is wrong about Nazis

A thoughtful rebuttal to the EFF

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

EFF on Nazis and free expression

Not sure I agree, but it's carefully reasoned

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

Compromise of 1877

Part of America's ugly history of Reconstruction

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

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

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

Welcome to Oregon!

Anti-semitic signs on I-5

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

North Korea: Notel

Small portable media device is popular for watching illegal video

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

Damore refutation

Long, citation laden takedown to bad sexist science

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

Visualizations of the BitCoin fork

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

Nazi Discord dump

Chat room from the Charlottesville planning

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

European health care models

Intro material for the future of America's healthcare system

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

Crosswalk the Musical

Hair performed in snippets when the light is green

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

Pakistan embroidery map

From a Lahore clothing company, Generation

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

Sentinel-2 cloudless map

High resolution photographic map of earth, free

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

Trumps four weeks

2017-08-18 trump • politics • incompetence

Trump's failure of leadership

Strong and clear Economist article

2017-08-18 economist • trump • politics

Amazon patent controversy

Year 2000 history about software patent debate

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

ACLU on armed protest

A good decision on an issue of conflict

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

Armed militia in SF

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

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

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

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

Jefferson Davis Highway

Confederate roads are named because of 1910s propaganda

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

Detailed and nuanced response to a frequently-fraudulent investment vehicle

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

The Eclipse Conspiracy

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

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

Overwatch Zombie game

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

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

Trump's isolation

Comments on Charlottesville have greatly expanded rifts

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

Military vs Nazis

Clear statement from military joint chiefs against racist extremism

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

Pre-Roman peoples

Lovely hand drawn map. /cc @migurski

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

Economist cover

Trump with a KKK hood as megaphone

2017-08-17 kkk • trump • politics

Charlottesville: Race and Terror

Remarkable flash documentary, reporter hanging out with Nazis

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

Why Reconstruction Matters

2015 essay by Eric Foner, the historian of Reconstruction

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

Daily Stormer offline

A bunch of companies finally deny the Nazi site hosting

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

Germany's history

Contrast with America and the Confederacy

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

Some context on violent leftist resistance

2017-08-16 antifa • politics • fascism

Charlottesville permits

Trumps false equivalence is not even vaguely correct

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

Synagogue in Charlottesville

When Nazis are outside the doors threatening the Jews inside

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

Right wing attacks

A list of murders, assaults, and threats

2017-08-16 fascism • trump • politics

Quantifying the "far left"

Some basic perspective on the danger posed by militant groups

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

Nazi rally in SF

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

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

Guns vs free speech

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

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

Behind YesYoureRacist

Very brave man calling out racism

2017-08-15 racism • twitter • politics

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

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

Details on the context of Confederate monuments

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

Confederate monument history

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

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

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 texasa&m • tamu • nazis • politics

Germany vs Nazis

How other countries forbid unthinkable politics

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

Discord bans Nazis

Big step for a social media platform

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

Charlottesville details

Attempt to make sense of the chaos

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

New Ng machine learning course

New course at Coursera based on Python and Tensorflow

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

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 passwords • badtech • security

Portland police + militia

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

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

LIBOR replacement

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

2017-08-12 libor • interest • finance

Feminist systems hacking

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

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

SF Tenderloin starter pack

A bit of black humor

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

Vinod Khosla loses beach appeal

VC loses his attempt to close a public beach, again

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

Google cancels all hands

Can't keep employees safe from harassment

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

Post-Trump trash news

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

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

TempleOS Hymn Bought

Short clip from the outsider OS

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

Eloise / Hearthstone

Being a woman in top tier professional Hearthstone

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

Cities mapped by AirBNB ratings

Clever visualization; city center apartments get higher ratings

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

Linux Load Averages

Some deep details

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

A medieval tradition of a wanderjahr

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

Firefox supports Vive and Rift

WebVR support for 3d goggles, tracking systems

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

Twitter hate protest

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

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

Nuclear war in Korea

Terrifying speculative fiction from The Economist

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

Buzzfeed puts some algorithms to work on public flight data

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

Bitcoin history

Details on the way discussion around Bitcoin tech is controlled

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

Geoengineering conference

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

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

Eric Fischer interview

Words from a creative mapper

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

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 houston • texas • montrose • gay • lgbt • gentrification

Getting rid of junk mail

Some opt out lists for the US

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

Sweet short film about youthful love

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

1950s purge of homosexuals from the US government

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

The banana trade

Details on how bananas are imported and sold in New York

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

Acorn spy flights

Private company flies electronics surveillance over American cities

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

Trump tax fraud?

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

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

NASA Voyager engineers

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

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

A Bluetooth salt shaker. Apparently not a parody.

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

Congressional districts

Historical data going back to 1789

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

Company knowingly gave drivers broken cars that caught fire

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

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

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

Behind the Muslim ban chaos

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

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

Golf.com and journalism

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

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

White House admits Trump lies

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

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

Seven books on reconstruction

Some reading I've been meaning to do

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

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 wikipedia • ios • iphone • history • stripe • collison • patrick

Bitcoin shorting mess

Fake currency gets complicated when the fake currency splits

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

Fire Island in 1977

Slightly NSFW. The years of gay paradise.

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

Straight to Hell

Short appreciation for gay pornographer Boyd McDonald

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

Older workers in tech

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

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

Affirmative Action at Harvard

Minorities get special treatment, by which I mean rich people

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

Propaganda dashboard

Analytics for Russian tweet spam

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

Why is ARKit good?

Details of Apple's augmented reality tech

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

Excellent public transit app for iOS

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

Democratic deconsolidation

The danger of Trump undermining American democratic norms

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

Long reporting on a dangerous drug

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

How to Grow Cannabis

Dowdy California lifestyle magazine goes a bit edgy

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

Snopes legal details

Specifics on the ownership structure and dispute

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

Imran Awan background

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

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

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 foxnews • fox • journalism • sethrich • ethics • trump • politics