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Undermining gay marriage
Ways hate groups try to enshrine new discrimination. "Pro-family" my ass.
2018-05-31 lgbt • equalrights • civilrights • marriage • gay • politics
Jill Stein's recount millions
Money raised for a 2016 recount now being frittered away unaccountably and in contradiction to Stein's promises
2018-05-31 politics • jillstein • greens • fraud • recount
Symantec VIP with standard TOTP
1Password, etc can do Symantic VIP 2FA with a bit of hackery
2018-05-31 login • 2fa • twofactor • schwab • paypal • authentication • 1password • totp
Crash Override harassment protection
So you're about to be harassed online by monsters; here's some tools for protecting yourself
2018-05-31 harassment • feminism • internet • politics • nazis • safety • security
The History of Processing
Creation of the programming environment for designers
2018-05-30 processing • proce55ing • medialab • mit • maeda • caseyreas • benfry
I butchered a pig
Notes and photos from an amateur
2018-05-30 butcher • butchering • pork • pig • hog • food • cooking
Child separation in practice
How America's new policy to immigrant families works in practice, in court
2018-05-29 america • brownsville • humanrights • immigration • trump • politics
Haute Baroque Capitalism
Current aesthetics
2018-05-29 aesthetics • vaporwave • via:metafilter • design • architecture • criticism
Trumpwave 2016
Remarkable video. Parody? Or just A E S T H E T I C?
2018-05-29 vaporwave • trumpwave • trump • politics • funny
Antarctica Pride
Middle of winter, but 10 folks are celebrating LGBT pride
2018-05-29 gay • lgbt • antarctica • pride
1985 tech logos
A slideshow of 80s design
2018-05-28 tech • logo • design • slideshow • marcin
Ninalee Craig obituary
The woman in the classic 1951 photo of Italian street harassment. She saw that photo in a more complicated way.
2018-05-28 sexism • feminism • photography • photo • italy • obituary
American Girl
Classic feminist photos from the 1950s
2018-05-28 photos • photography • italy • sexism • feminism
Talk to Handy!
A sticker for Futel, the new telephone services enterprise
2018-05-28 futel • funny • telehpone • phreaking • hacking • karl
Elon Musk shoots his mouth off
His bizarre crusade against journalism hits a little bump
2018-05-27 press • journalism • elonmusk • cult
WASD Keyboards
Custom mechanical keyboards with your choice of colors for keycaps
2018-05-27 keyboard • typing • computer • hardware • customized • colors
Trump border policy
Decision to separate parents from children is Trump's; his claims otherwise are a lie
2018-05-26 politics • trump • immigraton • civilrights • children
"a senior White House official"
Off the record source named, as a counter to a direct Trump lie
2018-05-26 trump • politics • journalism
Marijuana records
California stores keep personal info on customers
2018-05-25 california • marijuana • privacy • pot • marketing
Python black
An opinionated code formatter
2018-05-25 python • code • programming • via:hackernews
Takei accuser ambiguity
Single accusation of 35+ year old assault is unreliable
2018-05-25 takei • lgbt • metoo • sexualassault
GDPR Hall of Shame
Bad responses to data privacy requirements
2018-05-25 gdpr • funny • privacy • europe
Bernard Schiff on Jordan Peterson
Colleague from university talks in detail about the danger of the misogynist preacher psychologist
2018-05-25 jordanpeterson • peterson • misogyny • feminism • transgender • lgbt • psychology
Google doesn't control own ads
Google and Facebook failed to prevent abortion politics ads in Ireland
2018-05-25 google • facebook • ads • politics • mindcontrol
FBI siezes Russian botnet
Report that Fancy Bear's botnet of compromised consumer routers has been taken over by the US
2018-05-24 cyberwarfare • cyberwar • badtech • russia • politics • fbi • botnet
Facial recognition arrests
Chinese police arrested 3 different wanted people based on facial recognition at a concert. Similar tech is being used in the US.
2018-05-24 china • privacy • police • surveillance • civilrights • ai
Uber fatality report
Details from NTSB about systems failure in the self driving car
2018-05-24 ntsb • uber • selfdrivingcars • ai • safety • badtech
Defending against tyranny
The Onion delivers
2018-05-23 parody • funny • guns • gunrights • nra • politics • 2ndamendment
Trump tweet drafts
His writers emulate his grammatical and punctuation style
2018-05-23 trump • twitter • apocalypse • politics
Mapplethorpe biopic
New movie about the famous gay photographer
2018-05-22 mapplethorpe • gay • lgbt • photos • photography • movie • film
Balwani of Theranos
Profile of the COO as villain; he was also dating Holmes, the CEO
2018-05-22 theranos • companies • fraud • startup • medical
Theranos culture
How a whole company participates in a medical fraud
2018-05-22 theranos • leadership • fraud • medical • startups
Boiled Dressing
Salad dressing before the ready availability of vegetable oils
2018-05-22 food • cooking • dressing • salad • via:metafilter
Wikipedia link previews
Details on a new page summary for Wikipedia
2018-05-22 wikipedia • previews • summary
Sun Ra
Tour de force set of links and information on the prolific afrofuturist Jazz musician
2018-05-22 sunra • music • jazz • afrofuturism
Fascism in public
Dehumanization by the government is a very dangerous step along the road
2018-05-21 fascism • whitehouse • politics • trump • ms13
WSL background tasks
Linux-on-Windows now supports background daemons without a console
2018-05-21 wsl • windows • linux • software • daemons
Sci-Hub repository torrents
Terabytes of academic papers here for bulk downloading
2018-05-21 library • scihub • science • openscience • copyright • via:hackernews
The Incel Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Very sharp satire
2018-05-20 funny • incel • parody • tseliot • eliot • petry • feminism
US child firearm injuries
Peer reviewed study with basic numbers from CDC researchers
2018-05-20 guns • politics • guncontrol • america • kids • children
Trumpwave and Fashwave
Vaporwave co-opted by Nazis
2018-05-20 music • facism • vaporwave • trump • politics
Queen Charlotte's racial features
18th century Queen of England probably had African ancestry via Portugal and the Moors. Europe has never been homogeneous.
2018-05-20 portugal • race • racism • moors • england • royalty • uk • queen • genealogy
OSM completeness
Study of OpenStreetMap measures completeness
2018-05-19 maps • openstreetmap • osm • data
Tildes
A new Internet community founded on principles of decency
2018-05-18 internet • reddit • community
Jordan Peterson profile
Remarkably detailed and insightful info on the current darling of the anti-feminist crowd
2018-05-18 feminism • gender • manosphere • sexism • jordanpeterson • mra
Pie menu retrospective
30 years of an innovative UI idea always just on the cusp of success
2018-05-18 hci • ui • userinterface • piemenu • simcity
Kenneth Reitz's Journal
Python programmer behind Requests, pipenv, etc
2018-05-18 python • journal • programming • coding • blog • pipenv • requests
ICO scams
WSJ analysis of obviously scam cryptocurrency offerings
2018-05-17 ico • scam • fraud • bitcoin • cryptocurrency
Diamond and Silk
Editorial about a Black comedy duo doing a pro-Trump shtick
2018-05-17 trump • politics • black • race • america • racism • diamondandsilk
flaky
Python testing rig for tests that are flaky.
2018-05-17 funny • testing • python • flaky • nosepy • pytest
Bitcoin energy usage
Magic beans burns something like 5 Gigawatts all the time
2018-05-17 money • bitcoin • power • energy
Xbox Adaptive Controller
Microsoft input device that's configurable for people with various mobility limitations
2018-05-17 handicap • accessibility • xbox • games • controller • disability
Cohen leak source
Financial documents leaked because it looks like the official record was doctored
2018-05-17 cohen • trump • corruption • mueller • leak • journalism
Trump calls people animals
A crucial step to dehumanization, abuse, potentially genocide
2018-05-16 trump • politics • shame • genocide
HoweyCoins
SEC trolling; a fake ICO scam site
2018-05-16 ico • funny • via:hackernews • bitcoin • scam
Softbank's Vision Fund
Detailed description of $100B tech venture fund and its likely impact on the industry
2018-05-16 tech • vc • investment • softbank • son
Neat URL
Strip tracking garbage like UTM from URLs
2018-05-16 url • web • privacy • firefox • extension
Twitch emotes
Details and history of a culture's private visual language
2018-05-15 twitch • culture • games • racism • via:metafilter
American economic warfare
Details on how we use US banking law to target foreign companies we don't like
2018-05-15 zte • america • power • economics • dollars
US cell location tracking
Third party company LocationSmart tracks phones through cell towers, sells data to law enforcement
2018-05-15 privacy • location • phone • mobile • cellular
Autechre: NTS Sessions review
A bit pretentious, but captures what I like about Autechre. "It’s that sense of perpetual rhythmic collapse, the feeling that entire songs are slipping out from under your feet."
2018-05-15 autechre • music • idm • electronica
Google Street View: remote islands
Photographs from various middle of the ocean spots
2018-05-14 islands • photography • google • maps
Lewinsky on being disinvited
Woman treated poorly because the man who she had sex with might be in the room
2018-05-14 clinton • politics • women • lewinsky • gender • feminism • sexism
Segmented type
Marcin Wichary's fun text rendering toy
2018-05-14 fonts • text • led • 7segment
We don't have homos in Texas...
Funny / awkward identity politics from 1979 American TV
2018-05-14 soap • america • billycrystal • gay • lgbt • tv • sitcom
Metro gun share
Chicago art project; rent assault rifles like bikes
2018-05-13 art • chicago • guns • via:jwz • politics • nra
Saturation diving
Living and working at 20 atmospheres of pressure
2018-05-13 diving • work • via:hackernews • pressure
DNC security efforts
How do you harden against foreign attackers colluding with the party in power?
2018-05-13 politics • dnc • security • badtech
Disappearing Rivers
A map visualization of water in the American west
2018-05-10 rivers • maps • water • data • visualization • mapbox
NIN physical ticket sales
Big name act decides to only sell tickets in person, not online
2018-05-10 music • tickets • nin • ticketmaster
Grass Valley house for sale
My neighbor is selling his super-nice house up in the Sierra
2018-05-10 grassvalley • realestate • housing • houses • california
Russian election tampering
More details on vote subversion
2018-05-09 russia • politics • vote • votingrights • trump • democracy
Trump / Cohen money details
Payments from foreign and domestic companies then turned around to pay off sex workers
2018-05-09 corruption • scandal • trump • politics
Python glom
New data access library for nested data
2018-05-09 python • code • programming • glom • json • via:hackernews
Women in esports
Complicated thoughts on being a fan
2018-05-08 games • esports • overwatch • geguri • women • gender
Chinese scam calls
Extortion racket via telephone spam
2018-05-08 china • crime • scam • phone
Mumble rap
Genre being parodied by This is America
2018-05-07 music • glover • childishgambino • rap • hiphop • culture
Childish Gambino / This Is America
Astonishing music video; part awesome hip-hop, part agitprop
2018-05-06 music • donaldglover • america • guns • politics
Velvet Mercedes
Great idea or Greatest idea? /cc @john_osborn @rchen
2018-05-02 cars • velvet • funny • reddit
African American genealogy
Erica Joy Baker on her interest in genealogy, excellent interview by Matt Haughey
2018-05-01 genealogy • ancestry • africanamerican • history • slavery • black • culture • archiveorg