Some listings are shady landlords doing bait-and-switch. AirBNB doesn't seem to police it very well

David Lynch meets Southern Gothic in this hell of a mixology performance

Python creator and steward is retiring from Dropbox

Another pro-Republican map found unconstitutional. State court does what the Supreme Court refused to do.

For once an Olympics logo that doesn't suck!

Excellent summary of the continuing fraud-seeming backbone of all cryptocurrency exchanges

Details on why cell phones, AT&T landlines, and VOIP phone services like Comcast all don't work when the power is out (answer: deregulation)

A font just in time for Halloween

A lovely investigation of the evolution of technology from demand note currency to 80x25 computer terminals

When fascists and Jews battled on the streets of London (in the late 40s)

Lovely essay on videogames that make you feel like you're creating a home. Minecraft, most importantly

A reminder Trump never appears in unscripted environments; when he does the people hate him

At 84 and Skyline, near Woodside, CA. A biker bar of sorts.

California fraud case from ~2010; local officials passed a law making the tiny town inside LA a charter city, then started siphoning money out

Detailed record of all of Trump's golfing as president

Some factual answers to stupid arguments about American slavery

A whole book made with love about one of America's most clearly designed freeway systems

Anti-government protestors in Egypt had their accounts disabled

Crowdsourced maps of cell tower locations, etc

Republicans working to make sure young educated people don't vote

Amazing letter where Lindehof defends the hubris of making a TV extension of the beloved comic

National Security Agency publishes some open source tools

A DIY wireless ISP in Grass Valley plugging in to an underused fiber backbone

Companion web site for The Watchmen tv show

Not a joke: software to work around Apple's shitty keyboards

Most downtown commercial real estate was purchased by church members in the past few years. Now sitting idle.

Test drive webapp for a whole lot of monospace fonts for programming

Long live the new flesh

Blog focussing on technologies available in the DPRK. Definitely not a pro-DPRK blog but more about tech than politics

Kids separated from parents at the border get permanently taken under the guise of adoption. Note this is reporting on Obama-era abuses, but there's reason to fear this will happen to Trump-era stolen kids too.

Hilarious government training game from 1998; various ethical scenarios.

Clear explanation on how to set up FPS, G-Sync, etc to have a clean consistent framerate

Tweet thread on the failure of the UK to impose a "you must be 18 to look at porn online" law. Verifying age online turns out to be super hard.

Giant cats with military hardware

Someone's making perfect bets ahead of Trump actions

Notes from a grueling 53 day hike

Well documented evidence of telling lenders one thing, tax authorities another

A heroic effort to explain 15 years of Ukrainian corruption and how it led to the Trump scandal

A game about walking through the forest picking mushrooms and taking photographs

lololo "I am perfectly capable of maintaining python 2 myself. Far less work than migrating the entire calibre codebase."

Random citizen hobbyist discovers 40,000 people who were about to incorrectly purged from voter roles

A run down of the bills San Francisco's state senator wrote / got passed

An Apple ][ retrogaming all-in-one

iOS sends info on what sites you visit to the Chinese company. For security.

Nice live Youtube channel of chill music

Very simple web service for getting your IP address

Badge for a US surveillance mission

It takes a close reading, but turns out the film is not entirely queer

Fascinating detail for the core low-level message dispatch function in Objective C. The new type is absolutely wrong in all circumstances, forcing programmers to cast it

What to do when Apple muscles in on your product. "But all along, we really should have been worried about our platform provider, Apple"

Thoughtful essay on the slow disappearance of an electronic music pioneer

Congress has its own ceremonial weapon

A large litany of broken things

A house-by-house map of fire risk in California, something a little like the proprietary FireLine scores that insurance companies use

Nice bit of agitprop

A subreddit rule guaranteed to piss off some white people

Looking seriously bad for Elon here

This is it; the executive branch is completely ignoring the powers of the legislative

They run a disgusting far right extremist Facebook group

Free clone of What3Words is being bullied by the company.

A simple, cheap CDN with low minimum monthly costs

GNU maintainers step up against Stallman remaining in charge of GNU

Richer Americans now pay *lower* tax rates than average Americans

A roundup of difficulties rendering text correctly

An impossible piano piece. "fascination morphs into agitation, which gradually morphs into all-encompassing agony. But listeners who withstand that phase enter a state of deep tranquility."

A 1970s computer for scanning and printing film. Company was founded by Edward Fredkin.

Sort of horrifying version of the Satie classic

1958 British book that's the source of the funny list of types of homosexuals

A close reading of the rap from Succession

A sober, responsible read on a very dangerous question

A view into what ads the Trump campaign are buying, using Facebook's excellent Ads Library tool

A little game where you type in all the names of cities you remember