Child concentration camp

immigration gets even worse

2018-09-30 trump • children • immigration • politics

Kavanaugh’s appeal

He's popular *because* he's a loutish frat boy with a history of rapey behavior

2018-09-30 trump • politics • kavanaugh • rape • women

Padma Lakshmi's rape

Model / TV star talks about being raped at 16

2018-09-26 rape • kavanaugh • politics • trump • women • feminism • gender

Oud Amsterdam genever

A touristy liquor store in central Amsterdam, sells aged genever from barrels

2018-09-24 genever • gin • liquor • spirits • amsterdam

Curve-Fitting

xkcd with the reality of statistical presentation

2018-09-21 tootme • visualization • statistics • xkcd • curvefitting • regression

Children as bait

ICE arresting people who came forward to take care of children orphaned by ICE

2018-09-21 ice • immigration • politics • atrocity • outrage • children

Mueller's silence

Details about the prosecutor's complete avoidance of leaks and gossip

2018-09-20 mueller • politics • trump • russia

American connectedness

Smart visualizations of Facebook friendship data, showing geographical connectedness in social relationships

2018-09-20 america • maps • visualization • facebook

Russia Story so Far

Valiant effort by the NYT to summarize what we know to date

2018-09-20 politics • trump • russia

howto.vote

New site helping you register and vote in the United States

2018-09-20 unitedstates • voting • politics • tootme

1500 missing migrant kids

Yet more incompetence by the Trump administration; losing track of children after placing them with sponsor families

2018-09-20 children • kids • immigration • politics • humanrights

Men are more afraid than ever

The shift in conversation towards normalizing the kind of sexual assault Kavanaugh is accused of

2018-09-19 sex • rape • sexualassault • politics • kavanaugh • rapeculture

Gary Sherman of QGIS

Interview with the founder of the open source GIS tool

2018-09-19 qgis • gis • opensource • via:hackernews • tootme

Magecart attacks

Major ecommerce sites are compromised for weeks by malicious Javascript that steals credit card info

2018-09-19 fraud • badtech • creditcards • magecart • newegg • britishairways • ticketmaster

No, I Will Not Debate You

A carefully reasoned piece about the dangers of fascist speech

2018-09-19 freespeech • politics • debate • platform • speech • via:metafilter

B.A.R. Obituaries

An archive of the AIDS crisis; the random obituary button is one way to sample

2018-09-19 aids • hiv • gay • lgbt • history • sanfrancisco • california

Kavanaugh and Vince Foster

Yet another ugly episode from the Supreme Court nominee's life

2018-09-19 politics • kavanaugh • conspiracy • clinton • vincefoster

Women cheated on stock options

Women get half the equity in tech jobs that men do

2018-09-18 gender • tirefire • fairness • startups • stock

Gay Sesame Street

One of the show's writers talks about gay muppets history

2018-09-18 muppets • lgbt • gay • via:metafilter • tootme

Against medical advice

Investigating the folk wisdom that insurance will refuse to pay for your health care if you leave against medical advice. (Spoiler: it's not true).

2018-09-18 medicine • patient • insurance • healthcare

Kavanaugh's attempted rape

Details from the victim of his drunken teenage rape attempt

2018-09-16 kavanaugh • politics • supremecourt

Blistering Moments: Clean Thyself

Experimental Houston electronic duo that blew my mind in the 80s

2018-09-16 music • houston • tootme • blisteringmoments • electronica • therapeuticdreams

Typhoon Mangkhut video

Horrifying clips from a massive storm in Hong Kong / Shenzhen

2018-09-16 typhoon • hurricane • weather • hongkong • shenzhen • tootme

On stage with Bannon

Andrew McLaughlin's thoughts on going to the Economist event despite Steve Bannon being there

2018-09-15 politics • freespeech • bannon • economist • racism • demagogues

ContraPoints

Fascinating and smart cultural and philosophical criticism

2018-09-15 xoxo • tootme • transgender • trans • lgbt • criticism

Guerilla rainbow crosswalk

Oakland residents got tired of waiting, painted the street themselves

2018-09-15 lgbt • oakland • tootme • gayrights • gay

Vat19.com: Kitchen

Ridiculous gadgets you absolutely do not need

2018-09-15 kitchen • tootme • cooking • funny • gadget • store

Unauthorized carrier landing

Remarkable story of the escape of a Vietnamese officer and his family

2018-09-14 aviation • tootme • vietnam • vietnamwar • carrier

Undertaking LA

A progressive funeral home, offering no-nonsense affordable cremation and burial

2018-09-14 funeral • death • burial • losangeles • tootme • california

Automatic Speech Recognition

Comparison of various services for text transcription

2018-09-14 via:hackernews • tootme • speech • ai • text • transcription

Today's Guardian

Excellent alternate user interface, very thin

2018-09-14 guardian • news • newspaper • mobile • tootme • design

NRA vs Thomas the Tank Engine

Pro-murder organization now also anti-diversity, has no limit to how low they'll go

2018-09-14 nra • propaganda • politics • thomas • thomasthetankengine

ICE interrogating children

Kids asked if they have family in the US; then the family is arrested

2018-09-13 ice • immigration • politics • trump • republicans • gop • humanrights

Forbidden Snacks

Subreddit for pictures of things that look like delicious food but are not

2018-09-13 funny • food • tootme • pictures

Spider-Man proposal story

Reality behind that creepy story of a marriage proposal in a videogame

2018-09-13 games • spiderman • marriage • gamergate

5x kids in detention camps

Migrant kids being kept in immigration detention at a much higher rate because Republicans are making it hard to find temporary homes for them

2018-09-13 migrants • immigrations • kids • prison • civilrights • humanrights

Riot's ongoing problem

No sign of any real change as the perpetrators of harassment continue to run the company

2018-09-13 games • riotgames • sexism • tirefire • harassment

College football blowouts

Details of the disgusting greed that drives stupidly overmatched football games

2018-09-12 football • sports • corruption • injury • college • tootme

Trans' right to vote

Strict enforcement of voter registration may disenfranchise transgender people

2018-09-12 trans • lgbt • transgender • politics • voting • votingrights

Beatles kinky sex

NY Daily News really outdoes itself covering salacious memories of Paul McCartney

2018-09-12 funny • sex • beatles • music • tootme

Nomenclature of Colours

Classic 1821 reference

2018-09-12 color • design • tootme

Palmyra Atoll

A piece of US land with unusual jurisdiction

2018-09-11 america • colonialism • polynesia • island • tootme

XOXO art+code

Nice summary of presentations at XOXO Festival

2018-09-11 xoxo • art • culture • tootme • glitch

Aadhaar hack

Anyone can create new fake people in India's national person database

2018-09-11 india • politics • badtech • hacking • aadhaar • tootme

Terrance Davis' life and death

Excellent article about the creator of TempleOS, the outsider operating system

2018-09-11 mentalillness • suicide • templeos • via:metafilter

Google hate result

Hate group is top result for a search looking for support

2018-09-10 lgbt • gay • google • search • focusonfamily

Jupyter diff

Notebook diff and merge tools

2018-09-10 tootme • git • jupyter • notebooks • python • programming • versioncontrol

Kalsarikännit

The feeling when you are going to get drunk home alone in your underwear – with no intention of going out.

2018-09-10 tootme • funny • finland • finnish • drinking • alcohol

Video game proposal

... gone wrong. Most hilarious thing I've read all weekend

2018-09-10 games • marriage • funny • via:reddit

Williams v Osaka video

Clips of Williams' standing up for herself to the tennis judge

2018-09-09 williams • osaka • tennis • usopen • sports • tootme

Williams v Osaka

A failure of judging at the US Open

2018-09-09 tennis • usopen • serenawilliams • racism • sexism • tootme

Kavanaugh perjury

GOP stole documents from Democrats; Kavanaugh used them and lied about it

2018-09-08 politics • supremecourt • kavanaugh • perjury

Riot Games' retaliation

Employees and ex-employees being threatened and harassed for speaking out against the company

2018-09-07 riot • riotgames • games • harassment • tirefire

Becoming American

Laurie Seldo with a very thoughtful essay

2018-09-07 tootme • citizenship • america • politics • immigration • trinidad

"Art dismantles power. Otherwise it's propaganda."

A powerful quote from XOXO (and before)

2018-09-07 art • propaganda • standup • xoxofest • tootme

India legalizes LGBTs

Supreme Court finally struck down 377, the colonial era law outlawing homosexual sex

2018-09-06 lgbt • civilrights • gay • india • politics • tootme

Third party cookie evaluation

Detailed analysis of how well tracking protection works. Summary: it doesn't.

2018-09-06 privacy • ads • cookies • tootme • internet • browser

Trump Resistance

Anonymous op/ed from someone inside the White House talking about how there are adults in the room

2018-09-05 whitehouse • politics • trump • oped • nyt

2002 GOP email hacking

Ugly scandal from the Senate 15 years ago: Republicans stole confidential email from Democrats in the Senate

2018-09-05 gop • republican • ethics • politics • government

1980s chartmaking

From the old days of literal cut-and-paste

2018-09-05 visualization • tootme • newspaper • charts

Silicon Valley's wane

Detailed article on trends in tech companies that suggest more startup activity in other places

2018-09-05 siliconvalley • business • startup • tech • tootme

Precision Time Protocol

Microssecond-level synchronization of time on a local network

2018-09-05 time • ntp • ptp • spanner • truetime • ieee1588 • tootme

Graphtreon

Patreon projects ranked by number of patrons

2018-09-04 patreon • statistics • internet • tootme

Nikuyah Walker

Mayor of Charlottesville, elected after last year's murderous Nazi rally

2018-09-04 nazis • politics • charlottesville • south • tootme

Calafia closing

Chef Charlie from Google's restaurant was no longer financially viable

2018-09-04 google • food • restaurant • charlie • calafia

Neural network concepts

Reasonable overview with pictures of components of machine learning

2018-09-03 neuralnetworks • machinelearning • programming • via:metafilter • tootme

QAnon world map

Batshit insane conspiracy theory has an incomprehensible map

2018-09-03 maps • qanon • charts • politics • conspiracy • batshitinsane

Nakedly subverting the courts

The President directing his Attorney General about influencing the election.

2018-09-03 corruption • trump • politics • sessions • attorneygeneral

Decolonizing Virtual Worlds

AbTeC, a few examples of Indigenous people influencing tech development. /cc @mahelona

2018-09-03 tootme • indigenous • native • tech • diversity • via:metafilter

Corrupting SQLite

various ways the most careful database can fail

2018-09-03 sqlite • database • reliability • computers

Bishop Swan banned from Twitter

NAACP leader banned from Twitter for some intemperate language while Nazis and dangerously hateful people remain

2018-09-03 twitter • policy • ban

Twitter 1/2 CEO protects Nazis

WSJ reporting that Twitter's policy decisions on Richard Spencer and Alex Jones were personally overridden by the half-time CEO

2018-09-03 twitter • politics • alexjones • richardspencer • jack • jackdorsey

The Day Beyoncé Turned Black

Sharp bit of racial parody

2018-09-02 funny • snl • black • beyonce • tootme

Enterprise™

A programming language that is the evolution of Java (parody)

2018-09-02 funny • programming • via:metafilter • java • tootme

Minority users

Profound little tweet

2018-09-01 chrome • pregnancy • feminism • users

Google and bias

Trump's claims are lies, but there is a real concern about what bias at the search engine could do

2018-09-01 google • search • ethics • politics • bias • antitrust • monopoly