amac on content moderation

Internet expert lawyer lays out some notes and citations on moderation policies for web products

2018-08-31 amac • facebook • moderation • policy • twitter

Mapbox response to vandalism

Details on how Mapbox handled the hateful slur someone stuck in OSM

2018-08-31 hatespeech • mapbox • maps • moderation • openstreetmap • osm • vandalism

Population density vs. voting pattern

Interesting visualization technique, seeing which parts of America deviate from a norm

2018-08-31 maps • politics • visualization • voting

Dr. Pimple Popper

A whole TV show devoted to squeezing cysts and popping pustules. It is truly the end times.

2018-08-31 disgusting • medical • popping • tv

r/MechanicalKeyboards

People in to keyboards as aesthetic objects. /cc @mwichary

2018-08-31 art • computers • keyboard

Bank of America freezing accounts

Demanding new documentation of citizenship, holding people's money hostage

2018-08-31 bankofamerica • citizenship • immigration • politics • trump

Vinod Khosla profile

A beach-focussed article

2018-08-30 beach • california • coastalaccess • martinsbeach • vcs • vinod • vinodkhosla

Google + Mastercard

Mastercard is sharing card purchase data with Google's ad program

2018-08-30 ads • finance • google • mastercard • privacy

Wil Wheaton done with social media

Excellent summary of all the bad reinforcement happening in Internet media right now

2018-08-30 internet • mastodon • socialmedia • twitter • wilw • wilwheaton

LEGO Technic Bugatti

LEGO builds a working car, including engine

2018-08-30 bugatti • cars • lego • technic • via:metafilter

OSM vandalism takes

Funny and insightful summary of possible responses to the MapBox gaffe

2018-08-30 funny • mapbox • maps • moderation • nazis

White Like Me

One of the great Eddie Murphy SNL sketches

2018-08-30 eddiemurphy • funny • racism • snl

DNC tech team

Interview with Raffi Krikorian, CTO for the Democrats

2018-08-30 badtech • democrats • dnc • politics • raffi • security

2018 Political Atlas

Horse-race site, excellent presentation of polls, influencers, bots (!), etc. Good per-race breakdowns

2018-08-30 election • maps • politics • polling

Google and State of the Union

Yet another random petty Trump lie

2018-08-30 google • politics • stateoftheunion • trump

Teen Cruz vs. Teen Beto

Some hilarity in Texas politics

2018-08-30 beto • funny • tedcruz • texas • zodiackiller

Stripping citizenship

US denying passports to Americans on suspicion their 30+ year old birth certificates might be fake

2018-08-29 american • citizenship • immigration • politics • racism • trump

QAnon vs Voodoo Donuts

Crazy conspiracy theorists decide popular Portland donut shop is actually a pedophile ring. Harassment ensues

2018-08-29 portland • qanon • rumor • voodoodonuts

Racist Florida dogwhistle

Republican governor candidate disparages his Black opponent, with just a shred of plausible deniability

2018-08-29 black • elections • florida • language • politics • race • racism

2001: A Tweet Odyssey

Whole movie in storyboard form

2018-08-29 2001 • film • kokogiak • movies • scifi • storyboard • twitter

1995 Blockchain

Crypto system has been publishing hashes in the NYTimes since 1995

2018-08-29 archive • blockchain • crypto • nytimes

RIP Brian Egg

Ugly murder of a gay man in San Francisco

2018-08-28 gay • lgbt • murder • sanfrancisco

North Carolina gerrymandering update

Court finds the maps in place can't be used in the Nov 2018 election. Gonna make a hell of a mess.

2018-08-28 districting • gerrymandering • nc • northcarolina • politics • votingrights

Google rigging claim

Details behind where Trump got the idea that Google is rigged. One crappy blog, one TV segment on Fox.

2018-08-28 foxnews • google • politics • trump

Pattern Welding

Beautiful blacksmithing work constructing patterns out of composites of different kinds of steel

2018-08-28 blacksmithing • google • niels • nprovos • vikings • welding

Blocked by Trump

Tom Coates reflects on his experience being blocked by Trump for posting factual refutations of his tweets

2018-08-28 freespeech • government • politics • trump • twitter

Magic Leap One Teardown

Hardware details for the new Augmented Reality device

2018-08-28 ar • augmentedreality • magicleap • vr • xr

Uber for Shitting

Good2Go; turning toilets into an app-mediated pay-per-use experience. $6M in VC

2018-08-28 app • bathroom • culture • internet • startup • toilet

GoLang2 error handling

Proposal for a system a bit more like exceptions

2018-08-28 exceptions • go • golang • programming

States sue for right to discriminate

16 states want to "clarify" the law so they employers have the right to fire people for being LBGT

2018-08-28 bigotry • discrimination • equalrights • lgbt

Black ASL video

Example signs and linguistic scholarship. Has English subtitles

2018-08-28 asl • black • blackasl • language

Black ASL

African American sign language is different than the common American sign language

2018-08-28 asl • black • culture • deaf • language

Trump corruption

As President, interferes with FBI construction plans to protect his hotel business

2018-08-28 corruption • fbi • politics • trump • trumphotel

Why I Left Riot Games

Excruciating story of a culture of sexual harassment led from the very top

2018-08-27 games • leagueoflegends • lol • riotgames • sexualharassment • tirefire

Voter suppression in Houston

Part of the Republican's playbook for winning elections is last minute challenges to voter registration

2018-08-27 elections • houston • politics • republicans • texas • voting • votingrights

Why Love Generative Art?

Nice retrospective on computational aesthetics

2018-08-27 art • generative • history • medialab

Stross on Heinlein

The shadow that man casts on a genre... "Heinlein was all about the inadmissible thought experiment"

2018-08-27 cstross • heinlein • scifi • writing

Alex Jones watches transgender porn

InfoWars nutjob inadvertently reveals that he was watching a transgender porn video on his phone. See also 12:45 in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3RZpbXguVE

2018-08-26 alexjones • funny • infowars • lgbt • porn • scandal • transgender

Picular

Color picker based on text search; more inspirational than accurate

2018-08-26 color • design • googlesearch • images

Audrey Denney on healthcare

Congressional candidate for my district films a campaign ad from her hospital bed

2018-08-26 audrey • audreydenny • ca1 • grassvalley • nevadacounty • politics

Every Senate race

Color commentary on the 35 senate races for 2018

2018-08-25 2018 • election • politics • senate

JupyterCon trip report

Future trends for notebook-style computing

2018-08-25 code • computing • jupyter • notebooks • programming

S2 Geometry

Google's approach to grids for spheres. /cc @redblobgames

2018-08-25 geography • geometry • google • maps • via:mastodon

Uber H3

A hex grid for spatial data. Seems a bit overengineered, but interesting. /cc @redblobgames

2018-08-25 geometry • grids • maps • via:mastodon

Snatched child update

Nearly no families have been reunited in the past two weeks

2018-08-25 children • immigrants • politics • trump

QAnon crisis of faith

Insane conspiracy theory has a hard time absorbing Cohen and Manafort's convictions

2018-08-24 4chan • conspiracy • politics • qanon • reddit • trump

Trump squashes secure elections bill

White House cancels a bipartisan bill to make US elections safer

2018-08-24 elections • politics • trump • voting • votingrights • whitehouse

Mozilla Fellowship

Open source organization funds 26 people to do research for a better Internet

2018-08-24 fellowship • firefox • grant • internet • mozilla • tinysubversions

Tesla firmware horrors

Unverified gossipy details from a forum, reposted to Twitter. Source link is https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3862643&userid=20544

2018-08-24 engineering • firmware • programming • tesla • via:hackernews

Texas voter data

2017 story about Texas' response to a federal request for voter records

2018-08-24 kobach • politics • texas • trump • voting • votingrights

Amazon astroturfing

Pays people to tweet positive, corporate-friendly messages about how great it is to work as a human robot in an Amazon warehouse

2018-08-24 amazon • astroturfing • twitter • work

NotPetya story

Details of how a Russian cyberwarfare attack on Ukraine ended up crippling Maersk for weeks

2018-08-23 badtech • cyberwar • maersk • politics • russia • security • ukraine

Asylum seeker abuse

Group transferred up to Oregon and treated inhumanely, illegally

2018-08-23 immigrants • oregon • politics • sheridan • sikhs • trump

Twitter conversation trees

Visualization technique, focused on toxicity

2018-08-23 threading • trees • twitter • visualization

PyPy.js

Python in the browser, via PyPy and Emscripten

2018-08-23 emscripten • programming • python • via:hackernews

Thomas Hofeller obituary

Master Republican gerrymanderer

2018-08-23 gerrymandering • politics • republicans

News vs. Trump rally

How Trump handled the bad news yesterday, by ignoring it

2018-08-22 corruption • politics • trump

Where is my son?

David Xol's 7 year old son Byron was taken away from him. Then David was deported. His son is still imprisoned in the US

2018-08-22 guatemala • humanrights • immigration • politics • trump

Open data licensing

Map project relicenses its data and talks in detail about the features of the open data license they are using

2018-08-21 code • copyright • license • licensing • opendata • opensource • openstreetmap • osm

"SENATOR'S TWITTER ID"

Someone's Twitter spamming web form has a bug

2018-08-21 politics • spam • twitter

Microsoft Defending Democracy

Major tech company pledges to help all political campaigns be more secure

2018-08-21 microsoft • politics • russia • security

Russian political hacks in 2018

Probes against conservative websites

2018-08-21 badtech • elections • hacking • hudsoninstitute • politics • republicans • russia

Adding a pipe operator to Python

Clever code-rewriting hack to add new syntax to the language. Don't do this at work, kids.

2018-08-21 coding • elixir • language • programming • python • via:reddit

Towards a spatial, distributed UI

One of my smartest friends has been working 10+ years on a new user interface for computers. They're starting to explain it in video form

2018-08-20 hci • jh • medialab • mitmedialab • oblong • ui • underkoffler

Ada Lovelace's program

Details on the design of the Analytical Engine and Lovelace's contributions on the idea of computer programming

2018-08-20 adalovelace • babbage • computing • history • lovelace • programming • via:hackernews

N.K. Jemisin's Hugo speech

Takes a bit, but she gets rolling in this award acceptance and it's great

2018-08-20 brokenearth • hugo • jemisin • scifi

RIP Nob Hill Theater

San Francisco's venerable gay strip club closes

2018-08-20 gay • history • lgbt • sanfrancisco • stripclub

Mastodon governance problems

Some people not happy with how the Mastodon author maintains things

2018-08-20 community • gargron • mastodon • software

Ötzi's tools

Remarkable archaeological storytelling based on tools found with a 5300 year old corpse

2018-08-19 archaeology • history • science • ötzi

Lifesaving drone

UAV flew a life jacket 200 feet offshore to rescue someone

2018-08-19 drones • safety • uavs • via:hackernews

North Dakota has no voter registration

ID required to vote, and there is a state database of voters. But no explicit registration step

2018-08-18 northdakota • politics • voting • votingrights

Why I Quit Twitter

A very simple and direct list

2018-08-18 culture • internet • twitter

Shit in San Francisco

Guardian with an opinion column

2018-08-18 city • homeless • mentalillness • publictoilets • sanfrancisco • shit

ICE arrest during childbirth

Father arrested while driving his wife to the hospital

2018-08-18 arrest • cruelty • ice • immigration

Civil War reasons

Historian summarizes secessionists talking about slavery

2018-08-18 civilwar • history • slavery

Pinafore for Mastodon

Alternate web client for the social media platform

2018-08-17 mastodon • twitter • ui • webui

Trump's racism

Why it doesn't much matter whether there's a tape of Trump using racial slurs or not

2018-08-17 politics • racism • trump

Honest Diversity in Tech Report

Sharp satire

2018-08-17 diversity • funny • parody • satire • tech • tirefire

Equal Earth projection

A new equal area projection that's not totally ugly like Gall-Peters is

2018-08-17 earth • equalarea • maps • projection

Google employee unrest

Concerns from staff about ethical quandries, including AI and search in China

2018-08-16 ai • china • ethics • google

“Dog” in European languages

An unusual distribution for a very old word

2018-08-16 etymology • history • language • via:reddit

Faxploit

Pwn a network by calling their fax machine

2018-08-16 badtech • exploit • fax • security

Georgia vote suppression

Closing polling places in predominately Black areas

2018-08-16 georgia • politics • racism • voting • votingrights

Airships: Conquer the Skies

RTS/Tower Defenseish game from an Internet friend of mine

2018-08-16 games • indie • indiegames • rts • towerdefense

Myth of Robert E Lee

Details of General Lee's support for slavery, etc

2018-08-16 civilwar • history • lee • politics • revisionism • robertelee • slavery

Tuvalu photos

Nice images from the Polynesian island /cc @r3x0r

2018-08-15 photography • photos • polynesia • tuvalu

CA political hacking

Cyberwarfare against one of Rohrbacher's opponents

2018-08-15 badtech • california • elections • politics • rohrbacher • security • via:reddit

America Force

Vote for your favorite logo

2018-08-15 america • funny • politics • spaceforce

SIM sticker

Workaround for single-SIM phones; a thin sticker that piggybacks on your existing SIM

2018-08-15 cellular • data • mobile • phone • roaming • sim • sticker

SQLite page level locking

New locking strategy would greatly expand the number of things you can use SQLite for

2018-08-15 concurrency • database • locking • sqlite • via:hackernews

Unleaded Avgas

The decades-long saga of replacing airplane fuel with an unleaded version continues

2018-08-15 100ll • avgas • aviation • evnironment • flying • lead • oshkosh

Wine box boyfriend

Funny art project

2018-08-15 art • funny • gay • lgbt • photos • via:metafilter

Discussing fascism responsibly

German interview with far-right party AdF successfully engages them respectfully without giving them a platform

2018-08-15 adf • fascism • journalism • nazis

Awesome-WSL

some improvements for Windows Services for Linux

2018-08-15 commandline • linux • unix • windows

The whole nine yards

More details on etymology, looks like a phrase that has 400 years of history meaning generically "a lot"

2018-08-14 etymology • language • nineyards • via:languagehat • wholenineyards

On interviewing Nazis

Adam Davidson and Noel King talking about whether she should have interviewed Kessler on NPR

2018-08-14 journalism • kessler • nazis • npr • politics

NandGame

Building a computer by wiring together TTL logic, starting with NAND gates

2018-08-13 computers • games • programming • via:metafilter

Gender-free contra dancing

Friends of mine in Boston featured in an article about queer-friendly dancing

2018-08-13 boston • contradancing • dance • gay • lgbt • queer

Stephen Miller's family

The immigrant family history of the architect of US white supremacist immigration policy

2018-08-13 america • hyporisy • immigration • miller • politics • trump

Separated family

NPR interview with Mircy, a woman whose 3 year old was taken from her at the border

2018-08-12 children • immigration • interview • news • npr • politics • scottsimon • trump

Bitcoin forensics success

Details of tracing MtGox coins after the theft

2018-08-11 badtech • bitcoin • cryptocurrencies • forensics • fraud • theft • via:hackernews

Twitter loves InfoWars

Refuses to boot the conspiracy hate group, even after acknowledging they broke Twitter's rules

2018-08-11 infowars • politics • twitter

No-platforming works

Removing Nazis and other deplorables from Twitter affects their reach

2018-08-10 culture • decency • nazis • platform • speech • twitter

VIA x86 backdoor

2003 model CPU has a full hardware backdoor giving you immediate full system access.

2018-08-10 backdoor • badtech • cpu • via • x86

White Nationalists are winning

The re-normalization of racism in America

2018-08-10 america • politics • racism • trump • whitenationalism

Kara Swisher on Twitter

She puts her thumb on the problem, lack of coherent vision and values at Twitter

2018-08-09 infowars • jack • politics • twitter

Portland, enemy territory

Are these dispatches from the coming civil war? Or just some minor fascism?

2018-08-09 america • fascism • politics • portland • racism • via:metafilter

Six Months at Riot Games

A former employee speaks of her experiences with sexual harassment at Riot Dublin

2018-08-09 feminism • games • harassment • riot • riotgames • sexism • women

Fascist rally in Portland

Details from the August 4 march by Patriot Prayer and fellow travellers

2018-08-09 fascism • joeygibson • nazis • patriotprayer • politics • portland

Responsibility for child snatching

Congress should subpoena Trump administration to figure out who was responsible for the atrocity policy

2018-08-09 children • congress • immigration • justice • politics • trump

gvisor

Google approach to sandboxing; a full Linux syscall emulation written in Golang

2018-08-08 container • go • golang • google • sandboxing • security

App Engine + Python 3.7

Google App Engine is rebranded as "serverless", supports modern computing environments

2018-08-08 appengine • google • python

Voatz details

Inside technical analysis of what sounds like a snakeoil voting technology company

2018-08-08 badtech • elections • politics • voatz • voting • votingrights • westvirginia

GitHub's load balancer

IP load balancer with a bunch of very complex tech, now open source

2018-08-08 engineering • github • internet • layer4 • loadbalancer • scaling

I Quit Twitter and It Feels Great

Newly topical

2018-08-08 culture • jack • nazis • socialmedia • twitter

Done with Twitter

Matt Haughey, one of the Internet's nicest and most thoughtful guys, has had enough

2018-08-08 infowars • jack • mathowie • matthaughey • nazis • politics • twitter

Taking Trump’s corruption seriously

Excellent hour long podcast going deep into various forms of corruption in the Trump Organization, Trump Foundation, etc

2018-08-08 adamdavidson • corruption • davidson • ezraklein • money • politics • trump

Sexism at Riot Games

League of Legends' bro culture extends inside the company

2018-08-07 feminism • games • gender • harassment • leagueoflegends • lol • sexism • women

Homebrew security hole

Mismanaged GitHub credentials

2018-08-07 badtech • homebrew • security

WhatsApp limits

Attempt to stop spread of bad information by limiting how much someone can forward

2018-08-07 economist • india • politics • socialmedia • viral • whatsapp

FCC lied about DDOS

Finally comes clean, blames previous administration

2018-08-07 ajitpai • corruption • fcc • netneutrality • politics

EPA ❤️ asbestos

The gradual dismantlement of all government functions

2018-08-07 asbestos • cancer • corruption • epa • health • politics • regulation • trump

Wilbur Ross' grifts

From stealing Sweet-n-Low packets to stealing $120M from colleagues. He's now the Secretary of Commerce

2018-08-07 corruption • fraud • politics • ross • trump • wilburross

Mobile phone voting

West Virginia is experimenting with what sounds like a snakeoil company

2018-08-06 politics • voatz • voting • votingrights • westvirginia

MoviePass is in a lot of trouble

Changing product from $10 / unlimited movies to $15 / three movies. Stock is worth 0.01% of what it was last year

2018-08-06 companies • moviepass • movies • startups

DeVos McMansion

deliciously snarky architectural critique

2018-08-06 architecture • betsydevos • devos • house • mcmansion • politics • trump • wealth

Facebook API shutdown

Some technical details on all the ways Facebook has limited their API

2018-08-06 api • bridgy • facebook • speech • twitter

James Baldwin on Dick Cavett

Remarkably clear answer about why he is so aware of race

2018-08-05 baldwin • jamesbaldwin • politics • race • racism

Deep Learning Cookbook

New technical book by my friend @dosinga

2018-08-05 ai • books • deeplearning • machinelearning • oreilly

Factorio: Save the Base

A fun story of someone taking an overrun Factorio base and saving it from alien attack

2018-08-05 factorio • games • story • via:reddit

Nazi rally in Portland

Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer bullshit in Portland, antifa and friends made a good showing until the cops attacked them

2018-08-05 nazis • oregon • police • portland • protest

Vote suppression committee sham

Kobach committee on voter fraud had written the conclusions before doing any research

2018-08-04 kobach • kriskobach • politics • trump • votingrights

Vox on Sarah Jeong

Another thoughtful analysis of the false equivalence racism charges

2018-08-03 journalism • nyt • nytimes • politics • racism • sarahjeong • writing

🧚‍♂️ Man Fairy Emoji

Finally a single Unicode character that represents everything about me

2018-08-03 fairy • gay • lgbt • unicode

ICE hiding the evidence

Government agency destroying records of sexual abuse, deaths of prisoners, other malfeasance

2018-08-03 government • ice • immigration • politics • record • transparency • trump

Trinidad, transgender capital

Starting in 1969 this small town was a center of sex reassignment surgery

2018-08-03 colorado • history • lgbt • stanleybiber • trans • transgender • trinidad

Jeong defense

Much stronger words in defense of the writer than her own employer the NYTimes has offered

2018-08-02 nyt • nytimes • politics • racism • sarahjeong • writing

Spectrum ISP shakedown

Why net neutrality is important; forced Riot Games and Netflix to pay for reasonable network access

2018-08-02 badtech • games • isp • leagueoflegends • lol • netneutrality • riotgames • spectrum

Kris Kobach’s grift

Kansas politician creates legal work for himself by convincing small towns to pass useless, illegal laws

2018-08-01 fraud • kansas • kobach • politics • votingrights

Google + China

Reports that Google is preparing a new censored search for the Chinese market

2018-08-01 capitulation • censorship • china • google

SMS 2FA is bad

Reddit had a security breach because someone hijacked an administrator's cell phone

2018-08-01 2fa • badtech • hijacking • reddit • security • sms • twofactor

Colors for visualization

Set of tools and best practices for picking colors

2018-08-01 color • colorbrewer • colour • data • datavis • design • visualization

Street map coffee mugs

Select an area and make a coffee mug map

2018-08-01 coffeemug • maps • openstreetmap • osm • via:reddit • zazzle

QAnon for Trump

Lunatic conspiracy theory highly visible at Trump rally

2018-08-01 8chan • conspiracy • politics • qanon • trump

Minimal Ubuntu

Linux squished down to 29MB as a base for Docker images, etc

2018-08-01 docker • linux • ubuntu