Nelson's Linkblog 2017-09

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Trump is a monster

James Fallows with soothing words

2017-09-30 monster • monstermonstermonster • politics • puertorico • trump

Warrants for activists

DOJ requests personal Facebook info on political activists

2017-09-30 america • civilrights • doj • facebook • politics • trump

Trump Fog Machine

Impossible to keep a clear head in the face of so many outrages

2017-09-30 lies • politics • trump

Twitter is lying to you

Pushback from researchers on Twitter's claims of ignorance

2017-09-30 propaganda • russia • twitter

Trump golf vs Puerto Rico

Four days of no response as Trump golfed

2017-09-30 corruption • golf • politics • puertorico • trump

FAA vs Standing Rock

Another case of law enforcement abusing safety rules to shut down journalism

2017-09-30 aviation • drones • faa • firstamendment • freespeech • journalism • tfr

Mike Bostock's new company building a tool for thinking with code

2017-09-30 code • d3 • d3js • javascript • visualization

Soviet control rooms

Photos from 1960s-ish computing and logistics /cc @migurski

2017-09-30 1960s • art • computers • history • soviet

Deep Learning overview

A good summary of the state of the art in AI

2017-09-30 ai • computerscience • deeplearning • machinelearning • ml • research • via:hackernews

Against collaboration

Thoughtful op/ed on not working with the Trump White House

2017-09-30 democracy • girlswhocode • politics • principles • trump • whitehouse

Grass Valley love walk

Community response to racist harassment

2017-09-30 california • grassvalley • racism

Twitter testimony inadequate

Criticism of Twitter's congressional testimony and disclosures

2017-09-29 2016 • politics • russia • trump • twitter

Twitter on Russian election tampering

Twitter's public statement

2017-09-29 2016 • politics • russia • trump • twitter

Fake news in Idaho

Detailed heartbreaking story of a rumor that spread out of control

2017-09-28 fake • hatred • idaho • journalism • news • politics • rumor

Ban Trump from Twitter

Clear editorial by Mike Monteiro

2017-09-28 politics • trump • twitter

Levandowski profile

Details on the self-driving car and alleged thief

2017-09-28 levandowski • google • ip • lawsuit • tradesecrets • uber • waymo

Facebook and German election

Notes on combating propaganda

2017-09-27 facebook • fakenews • germany • politics • propaganda

How neural networks learn

A theory about information compression

2017-09-27 adaptivesystems • ai • complexity • deeplearning • infomatics • machinelearning • ml

Intel encrypted computing in practice

Signal is using an Intel CPU security feature for user privacy

2017-09-27 crypto • intel • privacy • security • signal

Germany 2017 election maps

Detailed visualizations

2017-09-25 germany • politics • voting

How to sort by ratings on consumer sites

2017-09-24 algorithm • probability • rating • sites • via:reddit

Sexist backlash in tech

Men on the record saying stupid things about gender

2017-09-24 gender • sexism • tech • tirefire

Twitter Thread Reader

A UI that makes horrible tweetstorms more readable

2017-09-23 thread • tweetstorm • twitter • ui

Go: Ten years and climbing

Reflections on 10 years of GoLang

2017-09-22 go • golang • google • languages • programming • robpike

Trump news cycle

A timeline of scandals

2017-09-22 google • news • politics • scandal • trump

Hilarious lawyer-shaming of a man who beats women

2017-09-22 america • funny • legal

La vie privée du roi de Prusse

1784 scandal book written by Voltaire about Frederick the Great being gay

2017-09-22 french • gay • germany • history • homosexual • lgbt

Ben Franklin and von Steuben

Story of Franklin helping von Steuben escape prosecution for sodomy in France, to help the US military cause

2017-09-22 america • benfranklin • gay • germany • history • homosexual • lgbt

Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben

Yet another gay Prussian leader; he was hugely important to the American Revolutionaries

2017-09-22 america • gay • history • homosexual • lgbt • prussia

Prince Henry of Prussia

Frederick the Great's younger brother, also gay

2017-09-22 gay • germany • history • homosexual • lgbt • prussia

German elections

Germany has proportional representation with an interesting two-stage ballot

2017-09-22 germany • politics • proportional • voting

Internet history from 1995 or so

2017-09-22 history • internet • web • webapps

One of Berlin's public transit routes is a rowboat ferry

2017-09-20 berlin • boat • ferry • transit

Berlin: The Spatial Structure of a Divided City

Detailed urban planning book about a uniquely divided city. /cc @enf

2017-09-20 berlin • books • cities • maps • urbanplanning

Google Timeline heatmap

Nice visualization of location data

2017-09-20 data • google • lbs • location • tracking

Small meeting for a far-right party in Germany, assault of a protestor

2017-09-20 afd • fascism • germany • politics • protest • trump

Boys' pee-pee physics

Crazy argument boys are better at physics because they play games with their urine

2017-09-19 boys • funny • gender • tirefire

Sections of France that still are unsafe because of WW1 munitions

2017-09-18 bombs • france • war • ww1

Many examples of mail refused or marked for political reasons

2017-09-18 mail • politics • postage • war

When postal services go to war. Snarky stamps issued by East and West Germany

2017-09-18 germany • history • post • postage • stamps

Art project I helped with

2017-09-17 art • mississippi • rivers • tamsie

Sleazy browser company also raised money with a scammy sounding ICO

2017-09-17 brave • bravebrowser • brendaneich • ico • scam

Dogecoin and ICOs

A brief history of cryptocurrency scams

2017-09-17 bitcoin • dogecoin • ethereum • ico • scam

Berlin weekly markets

Lovely map overlaying food markets on the transit system

2017-09-16 berlin • food • maps • transit • wochenmarkt

Voter suppression email fraud

Trump commission avoiding Presidential Records Act by illegally using private email servers

2017-09-16 email • politics • trump • voting

Trump's petty grift

Receipt for overpriced hotel room at taxpayer expense. Trump personally benefits.

2017-09-16 corruption • fraud • hotel • maralago • politics • trump

Trump's latest embarassment

Jackass tweets just hours after a terrorist bombing

2017-09-16 embarassment • london • politics • trump

Facebook Jew-hating ads

When automated ad categories go wrong

2017-09-15 facebook • jews • politics

Doublelift came to win

Sports hype video for a League of Legends player

2017-09-15 doublelift • esports • games • leagueoflegends • lol • tsm

Mister Rogers' obscene gesture

Even the smiling bird flipping turns out to be entirely innocent

2017-09-15 funny • misterrogers • sincerity • tv

Pritikin mansion for sale

Chenery House, a weird mansion in Noe Valley

2017-09-15 house • noevalley • pritikin • realestate • sanfrancisco • sf

Tetris in Game of Life

An insane project of building up abstractions

2017-09-15 ca • cellularautomata • gameoflife • gol • life • programming • tetris

Eve Online heist

Leader of a large coalition flips sides

2017-09-14 betrayal • ccp • eve • games • scam

Ugly details of sexual harassment, etc at finance startup

2017-09-13 sex • sexualharassment • socialfinance • sofi • tirefire

Yet another scammy fundraise from a tech company. Kik is infamous for child porn, btw.

2017-09-13 childporn • ico • kik • scam

Hakim Bey and pedophilia

Famous anarchist writer and his having sex with children

2017-09-12 anarchism • hakimbey • pedophilia • taz

Not voter fraud

Detailed takedown of Kobach's claim of New Hampshire vote fraud

2017-09-11 kobach • newhampshire • politics • trump • voting • votingrights

Taxi Medallion collapse

What happens when an artificial monopoly is dismantled

2017-09-11 medallion • newyork • nyc • taxi • uber

Foot juggling tables

Odd variety act from the 60s

2017-09-11 funny • juggling • tv • via:reddit

MIT Senior House

Even-handed treatment of MIT's funky dorm, now gone

2017-09-11 campus • college • culture • mit • seniorhouse • sportdeath

Recent article about the manuscript being decoded is junk

2017-09-11 crypto • hoax • manuscript • voynich

Google employee salaries

Women are paid less than men

2017-09-10 google • salaries • spreadsheet • tirefire • women

Cajun Navy dispatch

Intense, personal story of trying to help during Hurricane Harvey

2017-09-10 cajunnavy • dispatch • emergency • harvey • hurricane • rescue • zello

Detailed article on Tex-Mex favorite item

2017-09-08 chileconqueso • food • mexican • queso • texmex • via:metafilter

Machine learning can pick gay people out from straight ones

2017-09-08 ai • dating • gay • lgbt • machinelearning • ml

The first white president

Powerful Ta-Nahesi Coates on the racism of the Trump presidency

2017-09-08 politics • racism • trump

Reed anti-racism protests

Left wing at my college goes very far

2017-09-08 academics • politics • protest • racism • reed

Raffi at the DNC

Nice profile of the new head tech guy

2017-09-08 cto • dnc • politics • raffi • tech

Polygonal Map Generation v2

Amit updates his excellent procedural map generator

2017-09-05 amitp • games • generator • maps • procedural

An ignominious end to one of the best Unix companies

2017-09-04 history • oracle • sun • unix

Neural Network mistakes

Some basic things AI programmers need to do

2017-09-04 ai • machinelearning • ml • neuralnetwork • programming • via:douwe

A minimal program to run as PID 1 for a Docker image

2017-09-03 container • docker • init • linux • systems • unix

Driving movie made entirely from Google Streetview images

2017-09-03 google • maps • streeview • via:metafilter

Waiting for a Perfect Protest?

Excellent historical perspective on violence at progressive protests

2017-09-02 antifa • civilrights • history • nonviolence • nytimes • politics • protest • tactics • trump

Keyword in context

A maximalist machine-generated text index

2017-09-02 books • index • publishing • text

IBM mainframe terminal font

2017-09-02 fonts • ibm • mainframe • tn3270

Justise Winslow

Basketball player; went to my high school in Houston

2017-09-02 basketball • houston • miamiheat • sjs • stjohns

Kelly and Trump

More on the new chief of staff, gossip about Omarosa

2017-09-02 kelly • politics • trump • whitehouse

Kelly and Trump

President's new Chief of Staff may not be long for the job

2017-09-02 kelly • politics • trump

All Güt Things

A documentary about Texas Germans

2017-09-02 culture • german • language • texas

Reddit goes closed source

Code that runs the service was open source

2017-09-02 business • code • opensource • reddit

Russian election tampering

More evidence the 2016 vote was manipulated by hacking

2017-09-01 election • politics • russia • trump • voter • voting

Colorado election auditing

Security expert company helping Colorado conduct secure elections

2017-09-01 colorado • election • freeandfair • politics • voters • voting

Voting security

2016 squabbling led to non-secure voting systems

2017-09-01 badtech • elections • politics • security • voters • voting

Collection of near real time data streams about the planet; climate, earthquakes, etc

2017-09-01 data • earth • maps

Lovely animations of public transit in cities

2017-09-01 animation • maps • transit • visualization

Nazi private chats

More analysis of the Discord logs from Charlottesville

2017-09-01 charlottesville • nazis • politics • rightwing • trump

A Serf on Google’s Farm

Details of just how much market power Google has

2017-09-01 ads • antitrust • google • internet • monopoly