Liberty University child predator

Falwell's hateful school has been harboring a monster who preys on little girls

2018-06-30 religion • falwell • libertyuniversity • scandal

Nevada County ISP purchase

Effort to bring fiber to homes may be purchased byRace Communications

2018-06-30 spiralinternet • spiral • nevadacounty • isp • internet • racecommunications

Willie Brown middle school

A tale of well meaning philanthropy and school design gone wrong

2018-06-30 sanfrancisco • school • williams • ev • bennioff • education

Another 1,768 snatched kids

Pilot program run before the most recent crisis

2018-06-29 trump • politics • children • immigration

Immigrant Children’s Jails

ProPublica is mapping all of ICE's jails for children

2018-06-29 ice • dhs • immigration • politics • maps • trump

Futuristic Space Drugs

New album by Gabe Oaks, my nephew. It's pretty good

2018-06-29 music • gabeoaks • electronica

Blockchain artist

System for verifying art ownership verifies a random guy as the artist of the Mona Lisa

2018-06-29 funny • prank • blockchain • art • authentication • badtech

Apple Maps investments

Apple is working on building its own map data

2018-06-29 maps • apple • via:hackernews

DHS neo-Nazi code?

A weird coincidence or a terrifying demonstration of power

2018-06-29 dhs • nazi • propaganda • politics • immigration

Permit Patty 911 call

Woman lied about only pretending to call the police

2018-06-28 911 • sanfrancisco • racism • permitpatty

Amazon workers resist ICE

Amazon tech builders protest the use of their work to help ICE

2018-06-28 politics • amazon • ice • immigration • labor

Python 3 at Facebook

A story of heroism, or alternately a story of how hard it is to evolve software

2018-06-28 python • facebook • engineering • via:hackernews • python3

Google internal harassment

Really ugly problem inside the company; happening inside Facebook too

2018-06-28 google • facebook • harassment • codeofconduct

Toddlers alone in court

Child separation meets legal process, everyone is degraded

2018-06-28 politics • immigration • trump • children • humanrights • civilrights

ICE spokesperson quit

Schwab quit ICE after being forced to lie for them. Read to the end for the intimidation visit.

2018-06-28 schwab • ice • whistleblower • politics • immigration

Border reporter AMA

Journalist who visited caged kids in Texas does an interview on Reddit. Lots of informal details here.

2018-06-28 border • immigration • politics • trump • nbc • nbcnews • reddit

Played by conservatives

The nonsense of Twitter and Facebook pandering to right wing whines about how they are treated

2018-06-28 twitter • facebook • politics

Deceived by Design

Government report on dark patterns used to coerce users into giving up privacy rights

2018-06-28 privacy • design • darkpatterns • via:metafilter • ui • google • facebook

Elon Musk ignores copyright

Artist's farting unicorn publically loved by Musk, then copied without compensation

2018-06-28 musk • elonmusk • copyright • art • tesla

Carbanak

$1.2B stolen from banks with hacking, malware

2018-06-26 hacking • badtech • banks • theft • fraud • via:hackernews

Diversity in tech

Detailed data updated for 2018

2018-06-26 race • gender • diversity • tech • siliconvalley • google

Life for snatched children

Nicely humanizing story of what life is like for kids taken away from their parents by ICE

2018-06-26 ice • immigration • politics • trump • children • humanrights

Don't serve ICE

ICE agents ate breakfast then arrested three workers at the restaurant

2018-06-26 ice • immigration • politics

2,053 separated children

According to the White House 522 children have been returned to their parents, over 2000 are still separated

2018-06-25 politics • trump • immigration • children • humanrights

NSA Internet surveillance

Details about eight city hubs

2018-06-25 nsa • internet • surveillance • privacy • via:hackernews • politics

Child jail busses

Photos from a protest for immigrants

2018-06-25 children • immigrants • politics • trump • ice

86ing Sanders

Remarkably well written article about what happened at the Red Hen

2018-06-24 redhen • restaurant • politics • trump • sanders

U.S. Water Use

Per-county visualization of water usage by type of usage

2018-06-23 water • america • usgs • visualization • maps

TrumpHotels.org

A parody site, quite on point

2018-06-23 trump • politics • hotel • immigration

Reuinited with her child

Immigrant woman sued and got a quick settlement to get back with her child. 2299 to go.

2018-06-23 children • immigration • politics • trump

Uber safety driver watching TV

Car that killed someone in Arizona had no driver at all, really

2018-06-23 uber • badtech • cars • manslaughter • selfdrivingcars • ai

Twitter vs Smyte

Mismanaged acquisition results in customers being screwed by Twitter

2018-06-22 twitter • smyte • shutdown • acquisition

Immigrant child jails

WashPo trying to collect information on where 2500 kids are being held

2018-06-22 immigration • politics • trump • gop

Anti-gay execution

Jury explicitly decides to execute someone because he is gay

2018-06-22 gay • lgbt • prison • southdakota • justice

Hateful meme study

Details on how racist and vile political memes travel

2018-06-22 via:metafilter • meme • politics • trump • reddit • 4chan • memes

Your rights in the US border zone

What you can do inside the US if stopped by ICE

2018-06-22 ice • immigration • rights • civilrights • politics

Twitter screws Smyte customers

Buys company, immediately shuts off service

2018-06-22 smyte • twitter • company • badtech

Hats of the Royal Ascot

A fabulously over the top fashion event

2018-06-21 hats • clothing • fashion

We Make Kids Disappear

highly visible billboard on I-80 got turned into an ICE protest

2018-06-21 ice • immigration • politics • trump • culturejamming

Stephen Miller's dead soul

Profile of architect of Trump's outrages on immigration policy. Even a support says "He’s Waffen-SS."

2018-06-21 politics • trump • immigration • stephenmiller • miller

Child abuse in ICE detention

Court case with testimony from teenagers beaten by guards

2018-06-21 children • immigration • abuse • violence • trump • politics

HAU politics

Anthropology open access journal explodes with allegations of a hostile work environment

2018-06-21 openaccess • academics • anthropology • journals • hau

Holly Maniatty

Sign language interpreter performs at rap concerts, signs translations at a blistering pace

2018-06-21 rap • hiphop • music • sign • deaf • asl • americansignlanguage

Uses This / Nelson Minar

I wrote up my current tech stuff

2018-06-21 usesthis • me • technology • software

RAICES can scale

Immigrant legal aid charity can effectively use all the money coming in

2018-06-21 raices • politics • trump • immigration

Chickenpox in immigrant prison

Victorville prison also housing immigrants; now there's a varicella outbreak

2018-06-20 disease • chickenpox • varicella • trump • politics • immigration

At a tender age internment camp

Trauma for immigrant children

2018-06-20 children • politics • trump • ice • immigration

Dangerous shelters

Texas companies caring for immigrant child prisoners have a history of neglect and abuse

2018-06-20 texas • politics • ice • immigration

White People Are Cowards

Dangers of passive racism and inaction by white people. " the most obvious parallel between the Third Reich and the Trump administration is the willing silence of the majority."

2018-06-20 race • politics • trump

Information Wanted

Heartbreaking documents of African Americans trying to reunite their families after slavery ended.

2018-06-19 slavery • history • america • juneteenth • family • newspaper • classifiedad

Gang of Eight

The last serious effort to reform immigration in the US, in 2013. The compromise bill had 68 votes in the Senate but was killed by the GOP in the House

2018-06-19 immigration • politics • rubio • america

Ajit Pai's continued lies

FCC Chair lies about support for repealing net neutrality

2018-06-19 netneutrality • fcc • politics • lies • ajitpai • via:reddit

They scream “Mami” and “Papá” over and over again

Audio recording of kids in internment camps while their guards make jokes

2018-06-18 america • politics • immigration • trump • ice

Supreme Court dodges gerrymandering case

Such a shame, this case is super important to the near-term future of our republic

2018-06-18 america • politics • gerrymandering • supremecourt

Fibonacci Hashing

An alternative hash algorithm that uses the Golden Ratio to evenly distribute things

2018-06-18 hasing • algorithms • fibonacci • goldenratio • phi

Cages for kids

Border Patrol says it's not inaccurate to say we're putting kids in cages, just they don't like the term

2018-06-18 cages • immigration • politics • trump • humanrights

Child separation reality

Interview with an immigration advocate who describes in detail the process at the border right now

2018-06-18 children • kids • politics • trump • immigration • ice • humanrights • asylum

History of ICE child policy

Details on how America came to be a country separating children from their parents

2018-06-18 politics • immigration • policy • history • trump • obama • bush

Shahmeen Kasim

SF Twitch streamer does art and Fortnite

2018-06-17 twitch • culture • games • streaming • sanfrancisco • sf

Imaqtpie profile

Portrait of a professional League of Legends player and $MM streamer

2018-06-17 lol • games • leagueoflegends • twitch • qtpie • imaqtpie

Houston kids internment camp

Considering housing 240 kids in a warehouse 5 miles from the house I grew up in

2018-06-17 houston • politics • immigration • ice • trump • children • humanrights

Elle Mills coming out

Young YouTube star makes a sweet video. I'm totally baffled by YouTube culture but this is nice.

2018-06-17 youtube • lgbt • gay • bisexual • ellemills

Trump charity fraud

Details of the NY AG indictment sure look like Trump broke the law flagrantly. The question is, will anyone care?

2018-06-17 trump • politics • charity • fraud • newyork

4am Apple ][ cracker

Interview with an archivist

2018-06-16 apple2 • apple • games • via:hackernews • cracking • archiveorg

Paul Pressler, predator

Leader of the Southern Baptists has a long history of sexually abusing boys and young men

2018-06-16 lgbt • politics • baptists • texas

Do not repeat lies

Direct and thoughtful writing from an excellent journalist

2018-06-16 journalism • trump • politics • lies

Gay travelling businessmen

Scholarship on a cache of letters from the 50s

2018-06-16 gay • lgbt • history • via:hackernews

AI chips

Overview of the current trend in processor design

2018-06-16 chips • intel • ai • machinelearning • gpus

Social media and happiness

Survey of young people in Britain

2018-06-15 twitter • socialmedia • facebook • mentalhealth • depression

Data Propria and Trump 2020

Cambridge Analytica folks are back and doing more political work

2018-06-15 politics • trump • elections • facebook • demographics

Methods of Comparison

A very nice Observable demo notebook showing data visualization options

2018-06-15 maps • visualization • notebooks • observation

The Update Framework

A cross-platform system for securely shipping software updates

2018-06-15 security • python • opensource • packaging • signatures • pgp • gpg

Problems with package signing

Well written essay on why package signing doesn't solve all software security problems. (I still think it's a good idea though.)

2018-06-15 security • python • badtech • pypi • pgp • gpg • signatures • weboftrust

Know your Meme AMA

Interview with the folks who research Internet culture

2018-06-15 memes • internet • reddit

Lighthouse Maps

Lovely collection of data about lighthouses, simple useful presentation

2018-06-14 maps • lighthouses • via:metafilter

Tu vs Vous

Confusing French grammatical politesse explained

2018-06-14 french • grammar • politeness • funny

Aphyr is amazing

Gaying it up for keynote at #VelocityConf

2018-06-14 aphyr • gay • lgbt • velocity • talk

Laurene Powell Jobs' philanthropy

Profile of Steve Jobs' widow and her $20B career of philanthropy

2018-06-14 philanthropy • charity • stevejobs

The Trump flag issue

Story behind the $100,000 payment

2018-06-14 trump • flag • palmbeach • politics

Tesla worker complaints

Details about working for an egomaniacal part time CEO. Injuries, discrimination.

2018-06-14 tesla • work • labor • elonmusk • factory

Trump Foundation fraud lawsuit

New York Attorney General suing Trump's non-profit

2018-06-14 trump • fraud • politics • newyork

ICE child shelter

Inside a facility in Brownsville holding 1500 boys

2018-06-14 ice • immigration • politics • trump • brownsville • children • humanrights

Provo anti-LGBT bigotry

Fourth of July parade excludes LGBT groups for a second year

2018-06-14 lgbt • utah • religion • politics • mormons • lds • civilrights • gay • parade • july4 • via:reddit

Glass Gem Corn

Ornamental variety, many colors

2018-06-13 plants • agriculture • corn

The Kid Should See This

Collection of smart YouTube videos

2018-06-13 youtube • video • science • education

Bitcoin / Tether fraud

Detailed academic paper finds evidence of manipulation

2018-06-13 tether • bitcoin • markets • badtech • bitfinex • fraud

Webpack and Rollup

Comparison of two similar Javascript tools for packaging code

2018-06-13 javascript • webpack • rollup • programming • webgl

Russian election meddling testimony

Details from a security expert, a good summary of substantive evidence of Russian influence

2018-06-13 trump • politics • russia • elections

Images from Ramadan 2018

Nice photoset.

2018-06-12 ramadan • religion • iftar • muslim • food • islam • holiday • photos • photography

John Kelly was hacked

Trump's chief of staff had his phone and email breached while he was head of Homeland Security

2018-06-12 homelandsecurity • dhs • trump • security • politics • badtech • butheremails

Trump / Kim cult indoctrination film

Bizarre video shown at the Singapore meeting

2018-06-12 politics • trump • cult • korea • northkorea

Honolulu Chinatown was burned

1899 event where the city burned down Chinatown trying to contain a disease

2018-06-12 chinatown • honolulu • racism • history • hawaii • hawai'i

Voter suppression OKed

Supreme Court decision for Ohio is very bad

2018-06-11 ohio • voting • votingrights • politics

AISHub

Central exchange of ship location tracking data

2018-06-11 ships • boats • ais • tracking • gps • marine

China's Sputnik Moment

ZTE embargo creates a national conversation about tech independence

2018-06-11 china • technology • zte • tech

Trump tears his paper

Insane and childish behavior at odds with the most basic of good government laws

2018-06-10 trump • politics • presidency • sunlight

Annexation of Santo Domingo

In 1870 the US almost annexed the Dominican Republic

2018-06-09 reconstruction • history • civilwar • america • caribbean • dominica • dominicanrepublic

More FCC malfeasance

Lies about DDOS are now being walked back. IT chief David Bray is made out to be the villain in this telling

2018-06-08 fcc • ddos • lies • government • politics • corruption

Microsoft/GitHub IAmA

Nat Friedman answering questions on Reddit

2018-06-07 github • microsoft • reddit • software • opensource

José

A story of one 5 year old boy separated from his father by the US

2018-06-07 america • family • immigration • trump • politics • border • ice

Take Five

As sung by an Indian woman with a drone in the background

2018-06-07 music • takefive • jazz • india

Lockdown kids poem

Horrifying elementary school poster

2018-06-07 guns • nra • politics • trump • schools • kids

New Steam policy

This will end poorly; Valve decides to stop having a content policy

2018-06-06 games • steam • valve • tirefire

CrossFit homophobia

Executive for the organization classified gay pride as "sin"

2018-06-06 gay • lgbt • crossfit • bigotry

Self Racing Cars

Hacker / tinkerer friendly self driving car event

2018-06-06 cars • autonomous • ai • racecars

Remote worker data

Remote vs. on-site workers time spend traveling, grooming, working

2018-06-06 remote • remotework • work • statistics

Submarine data center

No idea why you'd do something this difficult, but it's cool

2018-06-06 microsoft • datacenter • hardware • submarine • underwater

LA county vote snafu

118,000 voters left off the rolls by accident

2018-06-06 losangels • voting • politics • votingrights • voterrights

FCC DDOS lie

Federal agency directly lied to journalists

2018-06-06 fcc • ddos • corruption • politics • netneutrality • ajitpai • davidbray • markwigfield

David Hogg SWATted

Parkland survivor terrorized by hoax police calls

2018-06-05 nra • politics • hogg • swatting

Political ad lawsuit

State of Washington sues Facebook and Google for not keeping and disclosing data on advertisers

2018-06-05 politics • google • facebook • tech • election • ads

Planet Money REDMAP

Podcast on 2010 Republican gerrymandering

2018-06-05 politics • gop • republican • gerrymandering

GitHub acquisition gossip

Google was also at the table. Microsoft paid 25x revenues (!)

2018-06-05 google • microsoft • github • acquisition • tech

Melania Trump fantasies

Reflection on what we do when we imagine what the First Lady is doing

2018-06-05 politics • trump • imagination • melania • melaniatrump

Tom Rubnitz

Collection of videos by the late great queer / drag filmmaker, famous for Pickle Surprise

2018-06-05 picklesurprise • lgbt • trans • drag • funny • 1980s • video • gay

Project Blitz

Laying the groundwork for Christian nationalism in the US, at the expense of LGBTs and others

2018-06-05 lgbt • politics • christian • nazi

Disqus and hate speech

Alt right targets online discussions

2018-06-05 disqus • nazis • internet • culture

Giuliani asserts President cannot be prosecuted

Literally says Trump could shoot someone and not be prosecuted. It's insane, and so, so dangerous to democracy

2018-06-04 politics • trump • giuliani • constitution

Baron Von Steuben

A nice comic about American gay history

2018-06-03 lgbt • gay • vonsteuben • america • revolution • military • revolutionarywar

Dependency computing

New notebook automatically only recalculates the minimum it needs to

2018-06-03 notebooks • computing • make • dependencies • observable • javasacript

Throttlestop

Hacker tool for changing CPU speed, voltage, etc. Useful for laptops; either to speed up or to undervolt to make more efficient

2018-06-03 laptop • cpu • intel • hardware

Intellectual Ventures is a failure

The horrible patent troll company has lost a lot of money

2018-06-03 investment • patents • intellectual • property • scam

Droid slaves in Solo

Great article about one of the creepiest plot points in the mediocre movie

2018-06-03 solo • droids • starwars • slavery

Steamed Hams Javascript

Final punchline is delicious

2018-06-02 javascript • funny • steamedhams • meme

Far-flung Faroes

Postal-delivery oriented stories about remote Scandanavian life

2018-06-02 faroes • travel • via:metafilter

USA Really

Brand new Russian propaganda site full of bizarre new stories about the US

2018-06-02 america • russia • politics • propaganda • trump

Game harassment example

Popular streamer woman posts video of the sort of bullshit she gets

2018-06-02 games • online • voicechat • harassment • feminism • twitch

bud.com delivers

Justin Hall lands on his feet

2018-06-01 marijuana • pot • bud.com • weed • bayarea • startup

Trump screws the bond market

Reveals a hint about the jobs report ahead of the embargo

2018-06-01 trump • bonds • finance • politics • incompetence

White House vs GAO

This sounds like a big step towards further corruption

2018-06-01 politics • whitehouse • government • gao • corruption • trump

Google Drone AI

Details on the controversial program; company expects it to be highly valuable

2018-06-01 google • politics • military • ai • drones

Reed and Bromo

The myth of my alma mater's unique brand of synthetic mescaline

2018-06-01 2c-b • mescaline • drugs • psychedelics • reed • reedcollege

Red Shell

Ad tracking / spyware platform for games

2018-06-01 eso • conan • games • spyware • malware • ads

Fellow gays

#brands during Pride

2018-06-01 gay • lgbt • funny • brands • advertising • fellowkids