Nelson's Linkblog 2017-11

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Motion-stable dithering

Crazy graphics optimization

2017-11-30 3d • graphics • via:metafilter • games • papersplease • obradinn

Economist article on how our fiscal policies don't work very well for redistribution

2017-11-30 america • politics • tax • policy

Amazon Time Service

NTP for AWS. Does leap smearing, recommends chrony

2017-11-30 ntp • amazon • time • synchronization • leapsecond • chrony

Man who silenced Trump

Twitter contractor who got Trump's Twitter account suspended for 11 minutes

2017-11-30 trump • politics • twitter • abuse • policy

For if you love your cat enough to groom him /cc @bookscout

2017-11-29 cats • funny • via:reddit • brush • portland

Arrington cryptocurrency hedge fund

Fuck everything

2017-11-29 arrington • fraud • ico • bitcoin • blockchain

White House doubles down on falsehoods

Press Secretary asserts it doesn't matter if videos Trump shares are real

2017-11-29 trump • politics • truth • reality

Software Engineer Salary Data

Data from Triplebyte, a hiring middle-man. No idea how good this is.

2017-11-29 salary • wages • compensation • siliconvalley • engineering • pay • via:hackernews

The Limits of ‘Believe All Women’

An effort to get to more subtlety, I fear this conversation is impossible

2017-11-29 feminism • women • politics • harassment • metoo

Trump's delusions

Promoting false hoods about his sexual predation, the popular vote, and Obama's birth certificate. It seems mostly sad and funny but it's dangerous.

2017-11-29 trump • politics • truth

Trump's embrace of anti-Muslim hate

Details on the anti-Islam group Trump is promoting

2017-11-29 trump • politics • islam • muslim • prejudice

Dirty Tricks for Roy Moore

Scumbags at Project Veritas tried to entrap the Washington Post with a fake story

2017-11-27 roymoore • politics • truth • journalism • washingtonpost

Silk Road photo trip

Travel via photojournalism curation

2017-11-27 photos • china • silkroad • tourism • travel

Former SEC regulator speaks out

2017-11-27 fraud • ico • bitcoin • regulator • finance • sec • via:hackernews

2018 election not secured

Congress has failed to help hack-proof American elections

2017-11-27 politics • voting • security • badtech • hacking • russia • trump

Share bike graveyard

Amazing photos /cc @migurski

2017-11-27 bikes • china • sharebikes • photography • photos

A dataset for machine learning

2017-11-27 machinelearning • google • data • hands • imagerecognition

Campaign-in-a-box

DNC creating a suite of tech tools for campaigns

2017-11-27 politics • dnc • democrats • tech

Visualization Universe

Details on what charts, books, and tools are most popular among visualization searchers

2017-11-27 visualization • charts • d3js • data • google

Multi-dimensional noise techniques to produce looping animations

2017-11-27 art • animation • noise • perlin

Net Neutrality in the courts

Tim Wu lays out the basic legal argument for net neutrality

2017-11-27 netneutrality • fcc • judiciary • legal

Mexican Pulp Art

Classic 1970s illustrations

2017-11-26 pulp • mexico • art • mexican • illustration • cheese • scifi

Famous shock site has become the latest Blockchain business. (SFW, I think)

2017-11-26 goatse • funny • blockchain • bitcoin

San Francisco in a nutshell

Muni bus with marijuana ad hits a meter maid's Cushman

2017-11-26 sanfrancisco • photo • funny • muni • marijuana

Republicans convicted of child sex crimes

Detailed list of names and locations

2017-11-26 politics • gop • republicans • pedophilia • rape

Gutting the State Department

Trump administration is systematically dismantling our capability for international diplomacy

2017-11-25 america • politics • statedepartment • diplomacy • trump • tillerson

Trump narcissism

Delusions on display

2017-11-25 trump • politics • mentalillness • narcissism • time

what3words DMCA takedown

Someone reverse engineered the proprietary location service last year

2017-11-25 maps • what3words • dmca • copyright

Liquid Sky 4K restoration!

Tragically underappreciated 80s movie getting a reissue. Stills look amazing

2017-11-24 movies • liquidsky • newwave • heroin

Creepy Whitney Houston

Hilarious drag performance of that horrible warbling song

2017-11-24 horror • funny • music • drag • philippines • whitneyhouston

FCC ballot stuffing

Textual analysis of a spam campaign to repeat net neutrality

2017-11-24 fcc • fraud • politics • netneutrality • nlp • via:reddit

/r/oldpeoplefacebook

Folks having a hard time understanding how Facebook works

2017-11-24 facebook • funny • hci • ui • userinterface

Joe Barton's girlfriends

Creepy sex life of a congressman

2017-11-23 texas • gop • republicans • sex • politics

The real history of people crossing Papua New Guinea

2017-11-23 history • png • papua • anthropology • benedictallen • fraud

Uber was hacked and hid it

57M user accounts hacked, Uber paid a ransom and didn't disclose the breach

2017-11-21 uber • fraud • hack • security • badtech • kalanick

simple webapp to visualize compression efficiency

2017-11-21 gzip • compression • gzthermal • visualization • optimiziation

Odd little tool to visualize efficiency of gzip compression

2017-11-21 gzip • compression • visualization • optimization

Tartine croissant recipe

Details on San Francisco's most-loved croissant

2017-11-21 croissant • pastry • baking • tartine • sf • sanfrancisco

Addicted to pretending to be furniture

My weird addiction

2017-11-20 funny • dragqueen • facebook

Opus Magnum Turing complete

Puzzle game now has a Brainfuck interpreter

2017-11-20 programming • computers • games • opusmagnum • zachtronics

FCC to wreck the Internet

Official notice of unwinding net neutrality

2017-11-20 politics • internet • trump • fcc • netneutrality • policy

Tech political naivete

How a lack of nuanced education has led companies like Google and Facebook to build dangerous political machines

2017-11-20 politics • tech • education • liberalarts • rant

Dale / Naomi apology

Coming clean and being decent

2017-11-20 make • makezine • sexism • china • naomiwu • oreilly

Voter suppression committee

Strongly worded editorial about Kobach and Trump's effort to stop people from voting

2017-11-19 vote • votingrights • democracy • politics • america

Jurvetson's disgrace

Big name VC pushed out of his firm for various social and sexual transgressions

2017-11-19 jurvetson • dfj • vc • tech • asshole

Mastodon analytics

Details of user growth and usage, per instance

2017-11-18 mastodon • stats • socialmedia

Cathedral reptition

Interesting zoetrope animation of architecture

2017-11-17 architecture • cathedral • church • temple • animation • zoetrope

Technoutopian conference also has disgusting sexual behavior

2017-11-17 ted • harassment • women • feminism • conference • standards

Hitman / Transgender

Sweet comic about how the Hitman game relates to the experience of being transgender

2017-11-17 trans • transgender • lgbt • games • hitman • comic

Trump assault timeline

13 women documenting sexual harassment or assault over 30 years

2017-11-17 trump • politics • assault • women • sexualharassment • rape

WikiLeaks are scoundrels

Details on the malfeasance of the group

2017-11-17 wikileaks • politics • assange • trump

Spacewar tournament 1972

Very first esports competition, with Stewart Brand at the center

2017-11-17 culture • internet • games • spacewar • esports • stewartbrand

Nevada City medical marijuana shop

Interesting look at the details of how a city picks who to give a marijuana license to

2017-11-16 marijuana • pot • grassvalley • nevadacity • nevadacounty • california

Delhi's toxic sky

2017-11-15 photos • photography • india • delhi

TechShop bankruptcy

Grand Maker experiment has shut the doors

2017-11-15 make • maker • culture • tech • engineering • techshop • fabrication

Patreon Statistics

Details on crowdfunding for creators

2017-11-15 funding • patreon • crowdfunding • money • statistics

Against gay marriage in Australia

Details of who voted no on the recent survey

2017-11-15 gay • minority • religion • australia • politics • equalrights

Ghost the leopard

Lovely wildlife photograph, read the story from the photographer

2017-11-15 reddit • photos • photography • wildlife • tanzania • cat • leopard

Twitch business

Some details on the professional world of video game streaming

2017-11-15 games • twitch • culture • leagueoflegends • tv

Uber stock outcome for SF

Company is not exempt from San Francisco's special 0.7% payroll tax

2017-11-14 tax • california • sanfrancisco • uber • stock • taxes

100,000 users on an old ARM PC

The largest Mastodon instance is run on a small machine

2017-11-14 mastodon • twitter • social • scaling

Alabama rape culture

Everyone in Roy Moore's town knew he was creepy with young girls

2017-11-14 roymoore • rapeculture • politics • alabama

Dealing with angry users

Riot Games director talks about how to communicate in the toxic environment of abusive gamers

2017-11-14 support • users • games • riotgames • lol • leagueoflegends • ghostcrawler

Satisfyingly geometric photography from Bernhard Lang

2017-11-13 art • photography • aviation • aerial • photos

Whitefish scandal

Yet more Trump administration malfeasance; Puerto Rico is getting seriously screwed on rebuilding electricity infrastructure

2017-11-13 trump • fraud • politics • whitefish • puertorico

A Mastodon client that looks just like Twitter's UI. Works with any Mastodon account.

2017-11-13 mastodon • twitter • ui

Sally Ride's partner

Tam O'Shaughnessy on her gay, closeted relationship with astronaut Sally Ride. They did as well as they could IMHO.

2017-11-13 space • astronaut • nasa • gay • lgbt • lesbian • sallyride

Humans in Star Trek

Funny riff on goofy Star Trek technology

2017-11-13 startrek • funny • engineering

Politics at Thanksgiving

Economics research show that in 2016, politically divided families spent less time at the Thanksgiving table

2017-11-12 thanksgiving • politics • family • dinner • via:mastodon

Lovely little PC game. Generative 3d terrain you fly through, the controls and sound design make this really fun

2017-11-11 games • flying • superflight • steam • pc

Tool to post RSS feed content to Mastodon. Good for Pinboard

2017-11-11 pinboard • mastodon • twitter • feed • rss

Korean fire chicken with cheese

Odd but delicious dish

2017-11-11 korean • food • cooking • buldak

Mastodon Bridge

Follow people from Twitter on Mastodon too

2017-11-10 mastodown • twitter • bridge • import

A Net Before the Web

Series of blog posts about pre-Web infosystems. First post is on The Source

2017-11-10 internet • history • web • thesource • via:waxy

Social media and democracy

Long detailed piece about society and Internet communication

2017-11-10 twitter • politics • china • abuse • democracy • propaganda • facebook

Time Well Spent

Consumer interest group pushing back against advertising and tech companies stealing our attention

2017-11-10 time • attention • ethics • advertising • mobile • ads

Profile of the woman inventor from China

2017-11-09 china • women • fashion • sexism • naomiwu • make

Brave Enough to Be Angry

Righteous feminist op/ed

2017-11-09 anger • politics • trump • harassment

As Fast as Possible

John Cage conceptual music piece rendered listenable

2017-11-09 music • cage • johncage • funny

Solving the DNC Hack

Detailed story about Johnston, the lead at CrowdStrike who handled the DNC hack investigation

2017-11-08 dnc • crowdstrike • russia • trump • politics

Very thoughtful essay about how damaging it is when a powerful white man questions the authenticity of a Chinese woman

2017-11-08 make • culture • tirefire • gender • sexism

Cornelia Bailey obit

Geechee matriarch of Georgia. /cc @kellegous

2017-11-08 geechee • gullah • georgia • south • islands • africa • slavery • history • obituary

Indian cooking technique of cooking spices in oil and adding them to the dish at precise intervals

2017-11-08 tadka • indian • cooking • food

Stepping into digital life

Major new report from Mozilla in first-time users of information tech, particularly Internet phots

2017-11-07 culture • mozilla • phones • internet • sociology

Funny snark and analysis on celebrity non-apologies

2017-11-07 apology • weinstein • spacey • funny

Another peaceful day in Australia

Snarky editorial about gun laws

2017-11-07 funny • australia • guns • gunlaws • politics

Turn off retweets!

New simple webapp to disable retweets for every account

2017-11-07 twitter • retweets • filtering • detweet

Weinstein's spies

This is why women don't speak up

2017-11-07 weinstein • harassment • women • feminism • mossad • spies

2012 essay about American gun worship

2017-11-06 guns • death • murder • america • politics

Something is wrong on the internet

James Bridle on creepy automated kids videos

2017-11-06 video • children • youtube • culture • generative • procedural

Paradise Papers

Overview of new document leak about tax shelters

2017-11-06 bermuda • america • politics • corruption • taxfraud • fraud

Yuri Milner and the Kremlin

Major Russian investor in tech companies connected to Putin

2017-11-06 putin • russia • politics • twitter • facebook • investing

Transvestite passes

Magnus Hirschfeld / 1920s Berlin LGBT history

2017-11-04 history • lgbt • trans • transgender • germany • hirschfeld

Epistemic crisis

The danger of right wing people simply not believing reality

2017-11-03 politics • trump • truth • science • america

Robert Mercer, deadbeat

Hedge fund billionaire and kooky alt-right supporter owes $7B in back taxes

2017-11-02 taxes • fraud • mercer • trump • politics

Reed College turmoil

More reporting on RAR and protests that shut classes down

2017-11-02 reed • college • rar • racism

Russian propaganda examples

Detailed summary with links

2017-11-02 russia • propaganda • trump • politics

Netrek archives

Records from an online game culture of the early 1990s

2017-11-02 games • netrek • history • cmu • ogg

A Bea Arthur a Day

Hundreds of portraits

2017-11-02 beaarthur • funny • tumblr • cartoon • art

Russian propaganda ads

Examples from the congressional hearing

2017-11-02 propaganda • ads • twitter • facebook • russia • trump • politics

Strava global heatmap

Lovely visualization of 3T GPS points. Their localized normalization is clever.

2017-11-02 strava • heatmap • gps • visualization

Trump's incompetence

Second tier appointees appear unqualified

2017-11-02 trump • politics • corruption

Civil War reading list

Some basic books on American history

2017-11-01 civilwar • history • reading • racism • slavery • politics

Primitive bitmap display support in VT200 terminals

2017-11-01 graphics • terminal • tty • vt200

Crosscheck voter fraud

GOP tool for suppressing the vote has a 99% false positive rate

2017-11-01 votingrights • voting • indiana

Manafort flight risk

Jaw dropping story on how crooked Trump's campaign manager looks

2017-11-01 manafort • politics • trump • russia

Seashells tty tool

Pipe output of a program to this web server, get a public web view of it

2017-11-01 seashells • via:hackernews • shell • programming • bash • hack

US Navy accident report

Details on the two destroyers that had collisions this summer in the Pacific

2017-11-01 pacific • navy • military • negligence • sailing