Homelessness in SF, LA, NYC

A thoughtful attempt at comparing three cities

2018-10-31 homelessness • via:reddit • politics • homeless • sf • newyork • la • losangeles • sanfrancisco • nyc

Los Angeles typhus

Over 100 people victims of California's cruelty to homless people

2018-10-31 california • losangeles • typhus • politics • disease • homeless

Wong Kim Ark

19th century case finding that the 14th amendment trumped the racism of the Chinese Exclusion Act

2018-10-31 america • immigration • politics • history • tootme • 14thamendment

factcheck.me

New system for monitoring propaganda bot activity on Twitter

2018-10-31 twitter • bots • propaganda

Caravan tweets: 60% bots

Twitter's platform is infested with propaganda software

2018-10-31 politics • twitter • democracy • bots • propaganda

Li Shiu Tong

Magnus Hirschfeld's lover, a victim of the Nazis

2018-10-30 hirschfeld • sex • lgbt • gay • via:metafilter • tootme

Smear campaign against Mueller

Deplorables trying to pay women to allege sexual harassment

2018-10-30 mueller • harassment • politics • trump

Russia propaganda 2018

Election tampering via online propaganda hasn't stopped

2018-10-30 politics • russia • trump • propaganda

Why Is CBD Everywhere?

Marijuana derivative is newly popular an the NYT is ON IT

2018-10-30 marijuana • cbd • drugs • tootme

Baby's first adware

Apps for children contain pervasive deceptive ads. Mind viruses for kids.

2018-10-30 children • ads • kids • ethics • software • google • apple • tootme

Brownshirt arrest

Violent white supremacist arrested after terrorizing various political demonstrations

2018-10-29 politics • fascism • trump

Library of Codexes

Collections of texts from video games like Skyrim, etc

2018-10-29 games • rpg • books • reading • tootme • skyrim

How Trump sparked a massacre

A straight line from Trump's lies about immigration to 11 dead Jews in a synagogue

2018-10-28 trump • politics • violence • facism • judaism • immigration

Pittsburgh shooter's Gab account

CW: violent anti-semitism. Shooter of PGH synagogue had an account on Gab full of hate, making specific threats.

2018-10-27 pittsburgh • hate • shooting • gab • robertbowers

Tibo Knows Photoshop

It gets kinda funny

2018-10-27 tibo • funny • photoshop • via:reddit • fakenews • politics • tootme

Truchet polygons

An extension of an idea on how to make interesting tiling patterns

2018-10-27 tiling • pattern • tootme • via:joshmillard • truchet

"Fake bomb" aftermath

Some followup on what deplorable people are saying now that it's clear the bombing campaign was real and carried about by a Trump fanatic

2018-10-27 trump • politics • bombing • magabomber • lies

systemd bad programming

Detailed snarky review of a security bug that betrays someone who doesn't know how to write modern safer C

2018-10-27 systemd • programming • snark • via:hackernews • tootme

Northern Marianas damage

The typhoon has wrecked the US territory

2018-10-27 typhoon • hurricane • weather • northernmarianas • america • tootme

More Texas voting problems

Democrats end up voting for Ted Cruz (R); Republicans vote for no one.

2018-10-26 politics • texas • elections • votingmachines • votingrights • voting

Roger Severino

The director of Human Rights at HHS is an anti-LGBT activist. He's the center of the anti-trans crap the Trump people are doing now

2018-10-26 lgbt • civilrights • gayrights • trans • politics • trump

Texas votes changed

Reports that a vote for Beto got changed to a vote for Ted Cruz

2018-10-26 election • politics • texas • voting • votingmachines • votingrights • fraud

Georgia votes changed

Reports that people voting for the Democrat are finding the machine changed their vote

2018-10-26 georgia • voting • votingrights • politics • election • fraud • votingmachines

Parsing logs with Rust

Extracting JSON data from logfiles quickly and cheaply

2018-10-26 rust • data • logs • processing • tootme

AI art knockoff

Open source code used to create a piece up for auction, controversy ensues

2018-10-26 art • graphics • machinelearning • ai • christies • tootme • originality

iOS text message forwarding

At some point in the last few years iPhones got the ability to forward SMS text messages you received so they show up on your iPad / Mac laptop

2018-10-25 message • sms • iphone • ios • textmessage • tootme

Google sexual harassment culture

Company has a long problem with senior executives. Mostly details on Andy Rubin, but talks about several other scandals and misconducts too

2018-10-25 google • sexualharassment • tirefire • harassment • women

Alaskan "I Voted!" stickers

Neat collection; there's an English one with a moose, too

2018-10-24 alaska • voting • politics • tootme • election • stickers

Trump's insecure phones

Russian and Chinese intelligence listen in on the President's phone calls, but it's OK because he doesn't really pay attention to classified intel anyway.

2018-10-24 trump • politics • scandal • spy • espionage • iphone • security • badtech

Samin Nosrat appreciation

Recognition for the unusual space the creator of the amazing "Salt, Fact, Acid, Heat" cooking show inhabits

2018-10-24 tootme • food • eating • tv • saminnosrat • culture • cooking

Migrant caravan explained

Vox with context for the immigrants trying to get to the US

2018-10-24 immigration • politics • caravan

SF business taxes

Some more details on Prop C and the current state of San Francisco's unique gross receipts tax

2018-10-24 sanfrancisco • tax • politics

XOXO + Kickstarter

Festival working with Kickstarter to figure out how to support creators with subscription revenue

2018-10-24 kickstarter • patreon • xoxo • tootme • creative

Voter turnout map

Details by county of which Americans voted in 2016

2018-10-24 america • voting • politics • votingrights • maps • data

Delusion to policy

Trump makes up some random promise or claim, bureaucracy scrambles to make it real

2018-10-24 trump • politics • policy • taxcut

Bay Area priest sex abusers

Details on 250+ Catholic priests involved in sex abuse, then posted to work in the Bay Area

2018-10-24 bayarea • catholic • priest • clergy • sexabuse • church • religion

Ultimate Plumber

shell programming tool for interactively building up pipelines

2018-10-24 shell • bash • linux • programming • tootme • interactive • notebooks

Zollars

Zimbabwe's economy is falling apart again, this time hyperinflation of what is supposed to be the US dollar

2018-10-24 money • policy • finance • economy • zimbabwe • politics • tootme

Gamelan Sun Ra

Gamelan Genta Kasturi in Kansas City

2018-10-23 music • sunra • gamelan • tootme

Trump's mystery tax cut

Even by the usual standards of Trump's bullshit this one is pretty baffling

2018-10-23 politics • trump • lies • taxes

Suck's NETMOGULS

The classic parody of late 90s tech culture

2018-10-23 tootme • history • internet • culture • funny • suck

BlairOracle

High school class makes a political prediction system. What's neat is all the assumptions in the model are meticulously documented for you to read

2018-10-23 politics • statistics • prediction • highschool • tootme

Viacrucis Migrante

What the migrant caravan in Mexico is about

2018-10-23 mexico • politics • immigration • trump • honduras • centralamerica

Migrant Caravan

Astonishing photos of people willing to do almost anything to get out of Honduras

2018-10-22 honduras • immigration • travel • politics • tootme

glTF

A file format for 3d scenes; Facebook understands it

2018-10-22 3d • facebook • webgl • vrml • graphics • tootme

California Voter's Choice Act

The law by which some counties in CA are doing all vote by mail

2018-10-22 voting • votingrights • politics • california • tootme

Maritime day shapes

A simple signalling system for boats

2018-10-22 boats • sailing • signal • via:metafilter

866 Our Vote

Phone hotline for people having trouble voting

2018-10-22 votingrights • voting • politics • tootme • election

Democrats tech challenges

Another article about the work Raffi Krikorian and the tech team at the DNC is doing

2018-10-22 dnc • politics • voterfile • democrats • technology • tootme

Ethnographic map of Austrian Empire, 1855

I georectified a beautifully detailed map posted to reddit

2018-10-21 maps • reddit • tootme • austria • europe • 1855 • hungary • ethnicgroups

Evelyne Farkas, private chef

Friend of mine in Paris is available to hire as a private chef

2018-10-21 cooking • chef • evelyne • paris • france • food • tootme

Saudi Twitter manipulation

Not just bots and paid tweets; they had a spy working as a Twitter engineer

2018-10-20 saudiarabia • saudi • twitter • politics

Red Dead Redemption recap

Story recap ahead of RDR2, which will be a prequel

2018-10-20 games • rdr • reddeadredemption • tootme

107,000 Georgia voters purged

People removed from the poll for not voting in prior elections

2018-10-20 georgia • politics • voting • votingrights

Effort to vote by state

Map of which states make it hard to vote

2018-10-20 vote • voting • politics • votingrights • tootme • map

SF homeless infosystem

One System tracks individual homeless people to help provide services more efficiently

2018-10-20 homeless • sf • sanfrancisco • politics • tootme

Slack on a SNES

Using a cartridge that interfaced with a modem receiving satellite broadcasts

2018-10-19 snes • nes • nintendo • slack • hack • via:waxy

Signature voter suppresion

Georgia has amateurs comparing handwriting in signatures to disqualify votes. Guess who suffers the most?

2018-10-19 georgia • voting • votingrights • politics • votersuppression

How to Vote

Fun little promo video

2018-10-19 voting • votingrights • politics • tootme • adejuyigbe

Heirloom fruit trees

Gold Rush orchard remnants in Nevada County with apples, etc. /cc @celesteramsay @scrumphousecidr

2018-10-19 cider • apple • fruit • farming • grassvalley • nevadacounty • tootme

pro-Saudi Twitter botnet

Propaganda in real time

2018-10-19 propaganda • saudiarabia • kashoggi • twitter

Daily life of an HSBC exec

This has to be a parody. For instance, it's not realistic to take Caltrain to visit VCs in Palo Alto for a couple of hours in the afternoon

2018-10-19 business • lifestyle • tootme • hsbc • venturecapital

Heritage cider

Apple cider is an interesting thing making a comeback

2018-10-19 cider • drinks • beverages • food • tootme • apples

Day of the Devs

SF indie gaming event Nov 11

2018-10-19 games • sf • sanfrancisco • gaming • tootme

Nonesuch in OKC

Fun food writing about a very fine restaurant in an unlikely location

2018-10-19 okc • oklahoma • food • travel • restaurants • tootme

CA-50 picture

An odd and close political race in California between an indicted Republican and a Democrat

2018-10-18 politics • california • ca50 • ca-50 • tootme

Pump and Trump

Another major investigation into Trump Organization fraud; this one on international business dealings based on lies

2018-10-18 trump • politics • fraud • realestate • emoluments

Non-compete abuse

Janitors, dog walkers, fast food employees being told to sign their right to future work away

2018-10-18 abuse • labor • via:hackernews • noncompete

Triumphal Procession of Bacchus

Remarkable 16th century painting

2018-10-17 art • 16thcentury • painting • vienna • wien • tootme • penis

Patriot Prayer's gun nest

Fascist group stationed themselves in a sniper position at a Portland protest

2018-10-17 portland • guns • fascism • patriotprayer • politics

Zinke fired his investigator

Corrupt Interior Secretary just fired the person overseeing investigations into his corruption

2018-10-17 politics • zinke • corruption • trump • interior

Apple data export

Big step for data transparency and portability

2018-10-17 apple • export • data • privacy • goodtech

Stratospheric aerosol injection

Geoengineering, a solution to global warming no one wants to consider because it is so frightening

2018-10-17 globalwarming • climate • geoengineering • aerosol • environment

GOP adoptiong Proud Boys

Literal fascist group becoming the Republican's own brownshirts

2018-10-17 politics • fascism • proudboys • republicans • rnc • gop • violence • america

Trump supporters as marketing list

Voter and donator lists are never used for commercial marketing. Until now.

2018-10-17 trump • politics • voterfile • privacy • marketing • ads

Emoluments for dummies

Trump says out loud the reason he likes the Saudis is they give him money

2018-10-17 trump • politics • saudiarabia • money • corruption

Security at the DNC

Long detailed article on what Raffi Krikorian has done as CTO of the Democrats, improving their computer security

2018-10-17 security • badtech • politics • raffi • tootme • dnc • democrats

Methinks

Remnants of English dative and an alternate meaning of the verb "think"

2018-10-17 german • english • language • linguistics • grammer • methinks • dative • tootme

Voting Rights Act fallout

Voting has gotten significantly harder in many states since the Supreme Court gutted the VRA

2018-10-16 votingrights • voting • politics • elections • vra

American assassin mercs

UAE hired American ex-special forces to murder people in Yemen

2018-10-16 yemen • uae • assassination • america • politics • military • mercenaries

Monterey Canyon

Remarkably deep underwater canyon just off the coast of California

2018-10-16 california • ocean • maps • bathymetry • tootme • montereybay • montereycanyon

Riot Games' ongoing garbage

LA Times update on a company culture rife with nepotism and sexism

2018-10-15 sexism • games • leagueoflegends • lol • riotgames

Trump at the Family Research Council

President speaking at an event for the anti-LGBT hate group

2018-10-15 hate • hategroup • lgbt • politics • trump

VC sexual harassment

Y Combinator surveys female founders; 20% report being sexually harassed by investors

2018-10-15 tirefire • investors • yc • sexualharassment • feminism • metoo • vc

Myanmar Facebook propaganda

Myanmar military spent years laying groundwork for genocide on Facebook

2018-10-15 facebook • genocide • myanmar • civilrights • rohingya • propaganda

GEDmatch profile

Details on the small genetics / genealogy company that's been used to break cold cases. /cc @ericajoy

2018-10-15 gedmatch • genealogy • privacy • genetics • dna • crime • tootme

Louisiana v. immigrant marriage

New law requires a birth certificate to get married, something impossible for many refugees to present

2018-10-15 louisiana • politics • racism • immigration

Painkiller - Judas Priest

Lovely cover by two kids totally rocking out and having a great time. They do a whole series of these

2018-10-15 music • heavymetal • kids • funny • judaspriest • tootme

Deep Sea biolumeniscence

75% of deep sea creatures emit light. Some beautiful photos and video

2018-10-15 tootme • marine • monterey • deepsea • bioluminescence • biology • underwater • science

Bizarro brownshirt rally in NY

Proud Boys re-enact a political assassination, then go out wilding

2018-10-14 nazis • politics • trump • proudboys • facism

Berlin rally for open and free society

Some hopeful news; quarter of a million people march in Berlin for openness

2018-10-14 berlin • germany • politics • openness • tootme

North Dakota voter suppression

More details on the Republican plan to prevent Native Americans from voting

2018-10-14 gop • republican • northdakota • politics • native • indian • nativeamerican

Google+ management

Former designer with a litany of complaints about Google management

2018-10-14 vicgundotra • gundotra • googleplus • google+ • google • tootme • management

Unlink Spotify / Facebook

Not supported, but there's a workaround to stop using Facebook to log into Spotify

2018-10-14 spotify • facebook • privacy • music • via:hackernews • tootme

Lokokitchen

photos of beautiful pies

2018-10-14 tootme • via:metafilter • cooking • food • pie • pattern

Male intimacy

Old timey photos of men being physically affectionate, but not sexual

2018-10-13 male • feminism • gay • lgbt • history • photos • tootme

Jared Kushner doesn't pay taxes

Trump's son in law apparently pays no taxes, thanks to depreciation rules

2018-10-13 tax • politics • trump • scandal • taxes

International airspace

The ways that various country's airspaces distort flight paths

2018-10-13 aviation • flying • tootme • maps • airspace

Magic Leap disappointment

One tech writer feels decidedly meh

2018-10-13 magicleap • ar • vr • hci • ui • tootme

Voter suppression roundup

Overview article of various efforts by Republicans to stop people from voting

2018-10-13 voting • votingrights • politics • republicans

New child separation

Trump and GOP want to snatch children from their parents again at the border

2018-10-12 border • immigration • kids • politics • trump

Hayden Pedigo for city council

Amarillo, Texas with some lovely surreal campaign advertising /cc @marfagringo

2018-10-12 texas • amarillo • politics • funny • tootme

Stock video horror

Adult Swim mining a rich comedy well

2018-10-12 comedy • funny • tootme • youdontsurf • stockphotos • stockvideo • adultswim

OpenDyslexic fails

The hyped font that's supposed to help dyslexia doesn't

2018-10-12 fonts • typography • dyslexia • psychology • research

How to take a screenshot

A simple cross-platform reference

2018-10-12 screenshot • howto • tootme • software

Hidden Tribes

A political analysis of American attitudes

2018-10-12 america • politics

Kara Swisher on bosses

She is a badass

2018-10-12 karaswisher • journalism • tootme • sexualharassment • harassment • mclaughlin

8000 family units separated

A new accounting of the Trump/GOP policy of separating children from their parents at the border

2018-10-12 immigration • kids • politics • trump • amnestyinternational

Brian Acton on leaving Facebook

WhatsApp founder talks about privacy, Facebook corporate stance

2018-10-12 whatsapp • facebook • tootme • privacy

The Illustrated TLS Connection

Every byte in a handshake /cc @b0rk

2018-10-12 https • http • networking • tcpip • tls • ssl • wireshark • via:hackernews

Helen

A five year old separated from her family after the supposed end of the separation policy. She gets lost in the US legal system

2018-10-12 politics • trump • immigration • children

Where We Live

NYT visualization of every building in America

2018-10-12 maps • america • openstreetmap • microsoft • osm • buildings • tootme

Voter suppression in North Dakota

ND passes a law not only requiring voter ID, but a residential street address to vote. The intended effect is to make it harder for Native Americans to vote

2018-10-12 vote • politics • northdakota • votingrights • voterid • addresses

Royal de Luxe

photos of the giant puppet company

2018-10-11 puppet • france • art • tootme

Georgia voter suppression

Ridiculously strict rules on name matching disproportionately prevent Black people from voting

2018-10-11 voting • georgia • politics • votingrights

Georgia voter suppression

10% of voters purged?!

2018-10-10 voting • georgia • politics • kemp • votingrights

Stolen children

Some of the children that were separated from their parents at the border are now being stolen via adoption.

2018-10-10 immigration • politics • children • trump

Paris bus line map

Lovely cartography; simple strip maps

2018-10-09 maps • paris • bus • transit • tootme

Portrait of a Campaign

Great Slate organizer talks about his view of Democrats and campaign finance

2018-10-09 democrats • politics • campaignfinance • greatslate

Russian Bank / Trump again

Alfa Bank story comes back; data comes from "Max", an anonymous researcher who has a global view of all DNS queries

2018-10-09 dns • security • badtech • trump • politics

Google finally killing Google+

Shutting down the world's worst pivot-to-social, for security reasons

2018-10-08 google • googleplus • google+ • security

Right wing civil war theme

Observations on the American right's embrace of violent and military rhetoric

2018-10-08 america • trump • politics • rightwing • civilwar

Banksy Bought My House

A funny story of an artist trying to be anonymous

2018-10-08 banksy • art • funny • anonymity • england

Arago Medallions

The Paris Meridian, a cartographic curiosity

2018-10-07 maps • cartography • paris • meridian • france • tootme

Incipient fascism

Trump keeps ratcheting up the rhetoric

2018-10-07 trump • politics • fascism • power

Chinook Jargon

Detailed and scholarly writing about a Pacific Northwest trade language

2018-10-06 language • linguistics • tootme • chinook • pnw • pacificnorthwest

Banky shredding story

Some details on the event; remarkable if Sotheby's wasn't in on it

2018-10-06 art • banksy • funny

Self destructing Banksy

Piece of art shreds itself after being bought at auction

2018-10-06 banksy • art • funny

Being an activist

Parkland survivor Emma Gonzales with powerful words

2018-10-05 activism • politics • guncontrol

cruelty is the point

our hideous reality

2018-10-04 politics • trump

Jason Kander withdraws

Remarkable politician talks about his mental health problems, withdrawing some from politics for now

2018-10-04 politics • kander • letamericavote • votingrights

What the tile?

A new tool for quickly finding the name / address of a specific slippy map tile

2018-10-03 tiles • googlemaps • maps • tiling • maptiles

Zug Link

Very simple list of European trains and current schedule. Not sure which train networks this covers.

2018-10-03 tootme • train • europe • travel

Sue's Taxi

Kauaʻi taxi and tours in Hawaiʻi

2018-10-01 kauai • hawaii • taxi • tour • tourism • travel