Notes from a commis in Singapore

Lovely roundup of photographs

Free streaming of local broadcast TV

Trump casually tweets an image at remarkably high resolution. Turns out he probably tipped our hand about a secret intelligence satellite we have

Folks behind Signal talk about how not federating allows them to adapt their software quickly

Excellent essay for re-setting Americans views of Chinese politics

Gay stereotypes from 1979, it's quite funny and loving

An eloquent essay from a current student at the MIT Media Lab

New map of polygons for all islands in the world

Lovely visualization of numerically unstable algorithms with small pertubations in the math

Google / Uber engineer executive charged with criminal theft of trade secrets

Expert in Internet protocols, particularly congestion management. She passed away recently.

Palestinian / Lebanese student not allowed into the country because *his friends* said mean things about the US on social media

Adorable kid videos with movie special effects added

Lovely spoof of the new Star Wars trailer

The intuitive convenience of HSL with something approaching perceptual uniformity like Lab

1985 TV movie featuring Wilford Brimley

Re-imagining Unix shells with structured data instead of just text. A bit like Powershell, but for Unix.

New album by my nephew! A mix of EDM and Hip Hop, mostly kind of chill

Employees claiming victory

"Accidentally" sent anti-semitic propaganda to judges

Yet another predatory company stealing from employees and customers

Another hub in the network connected to the child predator

Ben Adida calls out Google for not working in users best interests as a way to protect their ad business

Google redesigns the stupid angry rainbow palette.. for some reason? A weird compromise between ugly aesthetics and non-correctness

Zuckerman has enough, decides to leave the Media Lab over its palling up with a child rapist

More fallout from the child rape ring

Falun Gung newspaper has embraced the insane conspiracy

Nice profile of a good cheese shop

Sweet but also sad; he's 58, spent his whole life in the closet

For many years this is what computers looked like

Good perspective on how the Chinese Internet economy has grown to a formidable strength

Maciej in fine form writing up his experience as a visitor to a couple of Hong Kong protests

Series of NYT op/ed pieces about the hideousness of online commentary

Keoni Mahelona on indigenous people controlling their own data and culture

Detailed interview from the new owner of Tumblr, very thoughtful

Now gone, a badly considered National Parks installation

Gossipy, detailed account of cultural rifts inside Google

The difficulty of understanding a story like Epstein's death when there really are powerful conspiratorial forces at work

Cool vertical projection

Debunking the idea that indentured servitude of Irish people was the same evil as chattel slavery of Africans.

Mysterious patches from "Le Corbeau" may have come from a found disk of original source code

Lessons from the Epstein news cycle. “If you make it trend, you make it true.”

Recommendation algorithms radicalize a nation

Details on the Republican attempts to suppress the vote

The kids are alright; undergraduates getting woke to dangers of tech

A detailed rebuttal to the disgusting right wing / Russian smear campaign

A small change to DNS usage that greatly improves privacy

Well written article on how upside down white people's expectations of presentations about slavery are

Bizarre corporate structure for an ETF pins it to the lifespans of 11 random people

Mutual funds exploit a hole mostly used by ETFs

How ETFs defer capital gains; it's a sham

The people managing the tech world's problematic community

Crisp parody of NYTimes' propensity for not criticizing white people

Private company that collected recycling just closed. Our utility garbage company can't recycle plastic anymore.

A year after the big story about sexism at the games company. Some change, some questions

Details about the contributors to OpenStreetMap of North Korean data

Rendering of various aperiodic ways to tile the plane

Maciej on the organizational challenges of computer security for congressional campaigns

Black Mirror audio loop

Beto speaks frankly about Trump

Details on the unusual presidential candidate

Maciej on the question "What if Shackleton had had a Twitter feed?"

Maps of donations for candidates

Lovely visualization of overnight stays in national parks

Gravity telescope may have seen an event we also observe with EM and particle detectors

When your country has no money you can't buy global products easily

The fight for redistricting becomes a very local political battle

Nicely done map with live train locations and status

A condemnation of Trump to the closest thing America has to a national church