Trump campaign staffers and Roger Stone involved

A reasonable summary of different Javascript build tools

A simple Javascript build tool

The story behind the iconic Depression-era photo is way more complicated than it looks

Simple tutorial

Details on the intellectual property situation

Lower court decides it has no authority to review the ethics of Supreme Court justices

Original report of 95,000 potentially fraudulent voters was way overblown

Someone puts climate change in a context the President might understand

Sharp parody from McSweeney's about The Left

La Bamba played featuring a harp.

Run Python code in the browser with a 1MB Javascript shim

Some stories about the Internet security analyst / journalist

Linux system monitor, like top/htop/iotop but watches everything at once

The snark is intense

Friend talks about discovering he's not who he thinks he was, then when 23AndMe "corrects" their data turns out he is afterall

Archival pages from my graduate research in the late 90s

Cable outage has folks with bandwidth working creatively

Damning internal communications about Facebook's online game ecosystem

Streetcar map from the time that was

Some details on DeepMind's new game AI for Starcraft; interesting multiagent technique

San Francisco history; prostitutes marched for their rights

How the Republicans are deliberately avoiding doing any oversight, leading to abuses like the location sharing scandal

Totally normal human talking about normal human food

A bizarre trip report from Rob Pike about the _bad_ things he saw at PARC, the place that invented so much of modern computing

Lovely generative art spin on truchet tiles

Their lone cable feed broke, relying on slow satellite backup

One of Trump's tools used to discourage Cohen's congressional testimony, one of many threats against his family

The President of the United States has successfully intimidated a witness from testifying to Congress

Pictures of modded Jeeps

Go Back to the Future with Google Lively

Planet isn't as featureless as it first appears

Nice history and details on production

Big new article with interviews

More on the wacky transit option

Crazy cool idea, an automated way to get a bike up a hill

His Facebook and Instagram accounts feature doctored photos to make his hands look bigger

A thoughtful take on where we are with advertising and behavioral targeting in tech companies like Google and Facebook

An old underground reservoir in Houston, looks amazing. /cc @SGHSRena

Crazy shift in attitude of Trump-voting older women in attitude towards sexual harassment. A bad one.

Government doesn't really know how many children they stole from their parents, but apparently it's more than they've said so far

A friend's eulogy for his cat, it's very sweet

Latest video from the amazing performer / gender philosopher. It's intense, and complex, and I admire how Natalie is working at a higher level than any other media on gender I know about

Strongly worded article about Riot's "new company values"

Heatmap visualizer for Google Timeline data; kind of like my own Wanderings product

Amazing details of a regional American cuisine

Wife of the vice president takes a job at a virulently anti-gay school

The Yes Men take credit for the WaPo "Unpresidented" prank / parody. I helped fund this, apparently! (It was a blind GoFundMe)

DuckDuckGo is now publishing Apple Maps, this may be the first consumer web interface to Apple's maps

Sweet ad about what positive masculinity can be

Refuses to explain why the FCC isn't protecting consumers from having their location data stolen

It's funny

Funny parodies of 60s popular media

A detailed analysis of the McDonald's, Burger King, and Wendy's the White House served to Clemson. (Trump lied about how many burgers were bought, inflating the number by 3x.)

We spend $40M / year of taxpayer money on monuments to slavery and treason

Donald Trump posing in the White House in front of a portrait of Lincoln, with an array of fast food laid out on the gilded table in front of him

A reminder Hillary Clinton called out Trump's being a Russian puppet back in October 2016

50 short essays on outrageous things President Trump has done

Some basic charts showing the effect on the US government and economy that Trump can't even keep the government open

Insanely dangerous water heating shower head. AC current gives "a tingling sensation"

On display for first time in years! In pieces in local libraries

Articles I wrote back in 2001 about centralized vs decentralized systems

Articles I wrote back in 2001 about centralized vs decentralized systems

Modern Javascript build tools try to eliminate dead code. Kind of a mixed bag on how well it works in practice.

Unlike every previous president, demands there be no record of his face to face meetings

Famed white-bread singer tackles some funky David Bowiesque

Eve Online players spend a year hiding battleships in a system to then pull the trigger and blow up a massive space station

Trump floats the idea of taking money intended for relief from natural disasters in California and Puerto Rico to fund his stupid wall

A history of things Trump has said

Feynman and others who are lauded for their genius, but also treated women awfully

Simplest, biggest vulnerability in blockchain systems exploited for the second biggest cryptocurrency in the world

William Morgan Shepard, character actor beloved for his work in sci-fi TV, has died

Thoughtful article on videogames and people getting older

The stupidity behind some men pretending to be women playing pro Overwatch. Perpetrator had been dropped because of bad behavior before.

Montana local takes Far Cry 5's politics seriously, finds them severely lacking in reality

Tom calls out some of the overengineered or broken things Google Chrome recommended websites do

Interview with the artist behind most American ski maps

Berliners have a reputation for being not so friendly

Player that was the target of harassment turns out to have been an impostor afterall. What a shitshow.

Blackberry of all people has a binary that lets you get access to iOS console logs on Windows.

Because of Trump's shutdown local governments are having to do maintenance of federal lands

Pioneering computer linguistics researcher honored 10 years after her death with an obituary

Monstrous "fans" doxx her and invent elaborate conspiracy theories because they believe a woman can't be good at a videogame

Nice high level technical survey of why neural networks improved so much in the last 10 years

An appreciation of the well-simulated wildlife of the game

A series of simple, rational explanations of why Trump's Wall is a bad idea

An analysis on a shift in tone as Trump's job has changed

I skipped this last week, which was a mistake. Great article!