Discussion of the idea of using differential privacy to allow Census to publish aggregate data with less risk of violating individual privacy

Math/crypto framework for understanding how to publish statistics from a database without violating any individual's privacy

Major software provider telling customers it can't use its software for murder toys

Extension for Firefox to make new tabs open in the current container

A nice system for separating cookies, etc when visiting different websites. Like profiles but simpler

Map emphasizing names of people frequently searched on Wikipedia

GOP genius on gerrymandering wanted the 2020 census to ask the citizenship question, as a way to aid gerrymandering via undercounting

Chinese Internet culture of real-time text comments on top of streaming video

Genius leadership says it's time to "begin considering" whether it's a good idea to continue to allow Nazis on the platform.

Vaporwavish album, like you were in the coolest late night grocery store

Boating route around the eastern US; up the east coast, through the Great Lakes, down the Mississippi and other rivers

The reality of security deployment in politics

Evolution of one user from normal stuff to Fox News to Breitbart to straight up Nazi groups

WebAssembly compiler claiming equivalent speed to C++ optimized code, assuming you don't need a sandbox

(despite title, a new post): nice update on what you can use to make maps now

A report on the dangerous and crazy stuff at a fake doctor in Noe Valley

Password access app from the browser company

A new Python wrapper for database access; takes templated SQL and makes it easy to call from Python

Creepy military-style watchtower sold to police

A little known 70s crossover

Google's Infrastructure for Everyone Else, a guide to open source versions of some of Google's internal infrastructure

Cast members being upset about the final season

Google shares statistics on what works to keep out phishers and targeted attacks

Top Chef contestant finally gets to cook his full "Story of the Slave Trade through a Meal"

Parody, but quite sharp, about the new Iran war we're apparently hurtling towards

Interesting visualization of the growth of Fox News

A set of tutorials, etc for making maps in Wikipedia's house style. There's lots of other info scattered in a disorganized way across Wikipedia pages

US policy is kids born to citizens out of the country are still US citizens. Unless both parents are the same sex, in which case we don't grant citizenship.

Texas used federal funds to protect voting rights in an effort to suppress the vote

State gives up on its flawed attempt to disenfranchise 100,000 voters

Some dark pattern bullshit; magic URL lets you opt out of stuff Google is legally required to let you opt out of

Long detailed story of a problem at a Harvard dorm; goes much further than the Harvey Weinstein story

My friend's indie payphone project lands a celebrity

An article about various options for accessing the filesystem on your Android device

Huawei factory is designed to look like European towns. Quite striking really.

The duality of being in the tech industry. This is the love side

The cruellest faction in the Trump White House had a plan to simultaneously arrest 10,000 immigrants, parents and children.

Lovely maps of Pacific islands showing cultural and travel connections

Local news insanity, dangerous conspiracy loons threaten a school and its kids

Explanation of the logic behind GDAL 3.0, a major refactoring of the important GIS library

How has SF's tax incentives for Twitter, etc changed the mid-Market neighborhood?

Amazing animation for the classic Negativland track

Appreciating the costume design of Kym Barrett

Chinese government agents have been using US cyberwar tools; predates the Shadow Brokers leak

Why technological measures to cool the Earth may be politically inevitable

A recent website with restaurant advice in Paris

Nice visualization of how the TV show changes the books

A story of an American teenager's brush with fascist indoctrination

150 employees stage protest against mandatory arbitration in employment agreements

Major shift in the Windows Subsystem for Linux; they're moving to a full Linux kernel in a VM

Public DNS server that blocks ads

A reimplementation of the Symantec VIP two factor token, so you can use it with Authy or other software

Federal court rules it's nakedly partisan gerrymander and therefore illegal

Former Trump staffer joins company that operates jails for children stolen from their parents by Trump policies

Excellent description and history of the Santa Fe art collective

Rethinking what we've lost with cloud-centric software

Excellent article on emotional labor and how men in American society often have little or no support other than the woman in their lives

Scientology's creepy cruise ship has a measles outbreak

Strongly worded editorial from Farhad Manjoo

Classic Sesame Street animation is quite strange, and now hilarious given the alternate meaning of "crack"

Crazy story of rogue YouTube engineers pushing a policy change without permission

Another major press article investigating the $300M vaporware

Stupid monster Jacob Wohl tried to recruit gay men to falsely accuse the gay presidential candidate of rape.