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Fire insurance in CA
The market has collapsed
2019-07-29 california • fireinsurance • fire • realestate • grassvalley • tootme
Attention K-Mart Shoppers
Tapes to play in the K-Mart store from the late 80s / early 90s
2019-07-29 kmart • k-mart • music • 80s • 90s • tootme
Mallwave
Vaporwave has a subgenre
2019-07-28 vaporwave • mallwave • malls • music • culture • tootme
Victor Blackwell on "infested"
Moving op/ed about President Trump's hateful language directed at non-white Americans
2019-07-27 america • politics • trump • racism
Floppies orphaned in Linux
Old school floppy interface (not USB) is now marked "orphaned" in the Linux kernel because no one has hardware anymore
2019-07-27 floppy • linux • obsolete • software • computers • tootme
Sonic.net turns 25
The Bay Area's best ISP is long-lived
2019-07-26 isp • internet • sonicnet • sonic • bayarea • tech • tootme
jwz's new Lisp machine
The discussion in the comments is terrific
2019-07-26 lisp • jwz • symbolics • funny • tootme
Behind the spoof seal
Creator of the parody Presidential seal has no idea how it ended up in a Trump broadcast, but thinks its hilarious
2019-07-26 trump • funny • politics • parody
Slavery map in 1860 US
County-level data on percentage of slaver households
2019-07-25 slavery • america • history • maps • 1860 • census
Ilhan Omar on American ideals
Excellent editorial about how un-American Trump's racism is
2019-07-25 america • politics • ideals • ilhanomar • trump
Facebook malfeasance
The ad database tool they promised doesn't work
2019-07-25 ads • facebook • mozilla • politics • propaganda
Mauritius tax sheltering
Yet another offshore tax haven for companies
2019-07-23 taxes • fraud • mauritius • finance • geldof
Yelena Grigoryeva
Russia has this thing about murdering human rights activists
2019-07-23 russia • politics • lgbt • humanrights
Zhongguancun
Article about a tech development area in Beijing
2019-07-23 china • beijing • tech • siliconvalley • tootme
Nils Barricelli
Early artificial life researcher, now mostly forgotten
2019-07-23 artificiallife • science • simulation • complexity • tootme
maup: redistricting data toolkit
Python code to work with voting precincts, congressional districts, census blocks, etc
2019-07-22 python • gis • geospatial • politics • redistricting • software • tootme
Trails of Wind
Airport runway orientations mapped
2019-07-22 maps • wind • airports • visualization • tootme
Google age discrimination
Minor lawsuit settlement, no admission of wrong doing or changes
2019-07-22 google • discrimination • tirefire • ageism • agism • employment
Computational Photography
Excellent explanation of how mobile phone cameras can be so good
2019-07-22 photography • computing • lytro • stacking • photos • cameras • mobilephones • tootme
Rebuilding Slack desktop
It's still Electron, but now React based and with one single Electron process. Also lazy loading of data
2019-07-22 Slack • architecture • rewrite • electron • javascript • programming • tootme
Cowboy Town
Low-rent animatronics in South Dakota
2019-07-21 southdakota • tourism • america • westworld • robots • tootme
Where the Bodies are Buried
Early 1900s terrorism in East Texas
2019-07-20 texas • violence • lynching • black • africanamerican • history • america
India's Muslim purge
This is what a serious purge of a religious minority looks like; in Assam, India
2019-07-20 assam • india • politics • muslims
Evening at the park
Skate park: excellent looped cinegraph
2019-07-20 cinegraph • photo • skate • skating • tootme
Sims Design Documents
Details from the milestone game, including some details on the LGBT content
2019-07-20 lgbt • gay • sims • games • programming • tootme
Ham IPv4 addresses sold
Little known ham radio group owned 1/256 of Internet addresess. They sold a quarter of that to Amazon and are starting a non-profit
2019-07-19 ham • amazon • radio • ardc • philkarn • tootme • via:hackernews • ampr
RIP Professor Winston
One of the more beloved professors of CS at MIT
2019-07-19 mit • csail • obituary • rip • winston • ai • tootme
Facebook Libra payment system
This article has made me cautiously optimistic Libra may work as a payment system and not be a terrible monopoly play
2019-07-19 facebook • libra • money • payments • online • wechat • alipay • tootme
What the hell is Cats
Andrew Lloyd Weber explained for millenials
2019-07-19 cats • funny • millenials • musicals • movies • tootme
DroneGun Tactical
As seen at the Bastille Day parade; jams drone control signals
2019-07-19 drones • aviation • flying • control • military • tootme
Grindr's decline
Details of the ugly aftermath of being acquired by a Chinese company
2019-07-18 grindr • china • gay • lgbt • via:hackernews • tootme
Google watches you fap
Web tracking pervades to porn sites
2019-07-18 porn • google • privacy • facebook • ads • tootme
Ramsey Orta
Police harassment of the man who filmed Eric Garner being murdered
2019-07-18 garner • politics • police • corruption • blm • blacklivesmatter
QuickJS
A new Javascript engine from a hugely prolific open source engineer
2019-07-18 opensource • javascript • programming • embedded • tootme
"Send her back Send her back"
Trump rally devolves into fascist chanting against an elected Congressperson. Trump says nothing.
2019-07-18 ilhanomar • trump • politics • fascism
Dark deploys
A different way to think of code artifacts
2019-07-16 programming • software • dark • darklang • deployment • tootme
Family separation cruelty
3 year old child forced to choose her mother or father at the border
2019-07-16 immigration • cbp • ice • border • politics • trump
Life as a 10x engineer
Delicious and funny
2019-07-15 10x • funny • satire • tootme
Open Google's index
Argument that Google should be forced to license its search index to allow competition
2019-07-15 google • antitrust • monopoly • via:hackernews • startpage
Apollo 11 watchdog
Major systems failure right at the crucial time of lunar landing was saved because the Apollo 11 computer had a watchdog and emergency provisions for shedding load
2019-07-15 software • watchdog • apollo11 • nasa • space • tootme
Startpage.com
An independent company's front end to the Google search index; claims to offer privacy. Sort of like DuckDuckGo but Google index, not Bing.
2019-07-15 google • search • privacy • duckduckgo • tootme
10x Venture Capitalists
The satire, it is cutting
2019-07-13 vc • venturecapital • 10x • funny • satire • tootme
How US straight couples meet
Skip to page 17 for the graph; enormous growth in online meeting
2019-07-13 dating • relationships • culture • heterosexuals • america • tootme
Pence surveys his concentration camps
Vice President visits a hideously overcrowded cage full of men, seems unmoved
2019-07-13 pence • politics • immigration • trump • ins • ice
Trump's anti-gay commission
New "human rights commission" is staffed with anti-LGBT people
2019-07-12 lgbt • gay • politics • trump
Gorka Gorka Gorka Gorka!
Crazy and embarrassing altercation in the Rose Garden
2019-07-12 journalism • politics • gorka • fascism • trump
Diné Pride
Navajo LGBT celebration
2019-07-11 navajo • Diné • pride • gay • lgbt • indian • tootme
Poker AI
CMU and Facebook team up to beat six humans at poker
2019-07-11 poker • games • ai • tootme • via:hackernews
Agent Smith Android malware
Collection of exploits used to hijack ads in legitimate apps
2019-07-11 android • malware • badtech • ads • tootme
Epstein and Intelligence
This story of the child rapist gets weirder and weirder
2019-07-10 politics • intelligence • epstein • rapist
Privacy policy history
Looking at Google's policy from 1999 to now
2019-07-10 google • privacy • gdpr • internet • tootme
Seth Rich / Russian propaganda
Hoax story about Rich being assassinated was planted by Russian intelligence, with the help of Fox News
2019-07-09 fox • russia • conspiracy • sethrich • foxnews • propaganda • politics • trump
Armed DHS on BART
Random patrol by frightening federal police force; said to be anti-terrorism
2019-07-09 bart • politics • trump • bayarea • dhs • immigration • fascism
Sean Murray on staying quiet
Game developer talks about the virtue of shutting up and just fixing your product
2019-07-09 games • nomanssky • hellogames • tootme
US Concentration Camp Map
Collection of ICE facilities on the Mexican border with notes on abuses
2019-07-08 mexico • america • immigration • humanrights • trump • politics • maps
Trona, CA
Little SoCal desert town near the center of the earthquakes
2019-07-08 trona • california • mojave • earthquake • tootme
Mapscii
fully functioning slippy maps via telnet, in a tty
2019-07-07 maps • tty • hack • via:migurski • tootme
Hungry, Scared and Sick
New reporting about the abusive conditions of children held by CBP in Clint, TX. Lots of details. And a couple of names for eventual prosecution: Aaron Hull and Matthew Harris
2019-07-07 cbp • ins • immigration • politics • trump • humanrights • ice
This Is Quite Gay!
Heartbreaking article about a Nigerian man living a closeted, self-censorous life because of his hostile family
2019-07-07 nigeria • gay • lgbt • culture • tootme • homophobia
USB-C cable types
There's 6 types of USB-C cable. AT least the best kind of cable can do everything.
2019-07-05 cable • usbc • badtech • computers • tootme • usb
CBP homophobic abuse
Thugs make a male immigrant parade around the detention center with a sign reading "I like men".
2019-07-05 homophobia • gay • lgbt • cbp • ice • politics • immigration • trump
Core rope memory
Apollo guidance computer used a crazy form of hand-woven ROM
2019-07-05 rom • computer • apollo • space • ram • core • memory • tootme
George Nader child porn
Trump hanger-on arrested for child pornography, has a history of convictions for sexual crimes
2019-07-03 trump • politics • corruption
Moderating Roblox
90M kids, many quite young, play this game. Details from someone responsible for keeping them safe
2019-07-03 kids • moderation • games • roblox
Castro secret ICE video
Congressperson ignores CBP orders and videos conditions in concentration camps
2019-07-03 ice • politics • immigration • cbp • congress • oversight
Hong Kong protest
Photos from the group that broke in to LegCo
2019-07-02 hongkong • legco • politics • protest • photos
Google Jigsaw
Weird geopolitical group inside Google is also a toxic waste dump of sexism and bad behavior
2019-07-02 google • sexism • tirefire • jigsaw
Border Patrol Facebook
Border Patrol officers engage in offensive and horrible discussion on semi-private Facebook group
2019-07-02 facebook • borderpatrol • ice • dhs • politics • trump • immigration
Leaving LDS
The Mormons meet the Internet and the changes are significant
2019-07-01 lds • mormon • church • religion • tootme • exmormon