Security / identity system has compromised itself in a marketing deal with Stellar

"How DNS over HTTPS is Reshaping Privacy,Performance, and Policy in the Internet Ecosystem". Very thoughtful paper.

TV program about Japanese youth culture

Details of how Vitamin E oil ends up in vape cartridges for nicotine, THC, and CBD

Funny article about Slack cultures and the danger of archives

Details of how the murder toy lobby was captured by the Kremlin

Detailed analysis of a weird video claiming to be the Trump pee tape. Concludes its fake, but it's the thought process that's interesting to read.

Roundup of links about Friston's theory of biology (and intelligence)

Fascinating photo essays of families eating dinner around he world

Deep Internet hipster; blogs run on gopher

Apple is basically ending support for extensions to the Safari browser, so that's it for the popular ad blocker

Reflections on why securing Internet routing is so hard

Upsetting but excellent ad about gun violence in schools

An unauthorized reimplementation of the stupid What3Words proprietary addressing system. Linked FAQ includes plausible claim to not be violating any copyright

And sounds even stupider. Shut up when you're wrong, Larry.

Yet more stories of horrible behavior from the Supreme Court Justice

In 2015 students and faculty were tasked to help court more funding from the child rapist

Stress from tournaments causes players to lose 10-20 pounds in a couple of weeks

danah boyd with an excellent speech / essay about sexism in tech. Not just the Epstein scandal but the pervasive culture of it.

The supercut you didn't know you needed

From August, a reminder of why there's no neutral way to take someone like Epstein's money. TW: lots of sexism and hints of child predation

The virtues of all 10 major remaining candidates (it's funny)

Ugliness splitting hairs in defining various forms of sexual abuse of children

Remarkably forceful Democrat trying (and failing) to stop the North Carolina Republicans from running entirely over democracy

Towards a rational framework for dark/light themes for apps

Details of Hoffman's involvement defending Joi Ito in the Epstein scandal

Denser (more efficient) languages tend to be spoken more slowly

Man and I thought *I* was grumpy about the advertising events

Detailed profile of Trump's digital ad campaign guy. Total huckster, but also has an uncanny knack for succeeding

Details of Republican gerrymandering, intentionally racist and partisan

Jerry Falwell Jr is running what sounds like a real estate scam

Excellent map of Viking raids and conquering in the middle ages

1110 AD, when the Vikings went to Jerusalem

Scientists told not to dispute the false "facts" laid out by Trump

Evgeny Morozov more coherent than usual

Bare metal server provider with APIs to make it easy to run your own Kubernetes cluster, etc. Experience from the ntppool

A "plutocratic back-rub chain of self-protection", how the Epstein-friends and their supports take care of each other at the expense of victims and truth

This is the future liberals want

About the Armed Forces Recipe Service, an article about the military's approach to cooking

Cooking US army style. Lots of recipes, also a fascinating presentation

A replacement electrical panel with per-circuit monitoring and control

One of a series of similar themed Maya Lin sculptures, castings in silver of river traces

A bit of terrifying election science fiction

Company flies rainbow flags in a show of support for diversity across the street from VP Pence's visit

Protestors in Hong Kong are using an unblockable mesh network app that uses Bluetooth to communicate

Lovely generative art, I like this guy's colors in particular

Article arguing that "Adam's rib" is actually a euphemism for his penis and the story of its removal in Genesis is an explanation for the lack of a penis bone in humans and for the raphe

Profiles of 18 Native Americans and Hawaiians working in tech