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Feng Joe Guey
1909 biplane flight by a Chinese-American in Oakland
2019-12-31 aviation • flying • california • racism • tootme
Fentanyl + coke in the Bay Area
Deadly adulterant is showing up in Bay Area cocaine, killing people
2019-12-31 cocaine • drugs • fentanyl • bayarea
NSFW: Behold, the Master Race
Subreddit mocking "supremacists of any shade", but mostly white supremacists.
2019-12-31 nazis • supremacists • politics • racism
Ecstasy in Houston
Lovely essay about religion and drugs in 90s Houston
2019-12-31 houston • culture • christianity • texas • djscrew • tootme
Hiring Day
In America, Jan 1 was the day slavers would rent their slaves out to other slavers, splitting up families
2019-12-30 slavery • america • south • civilrights • jan1 • newyears
Łóó’ Hashkéii Awéé’
Baby shark translated in to Navajo / Diné
2019-12-29 navajo • language • babyshark • kids • native • nativeamerican • indian • tootme • Diné
Scam PACs
Various scam organizations pretend to be police charities or veteran's aid organizations, are actually political action committees
2019-12-29 scam • charity • rightwing • trump • politics
Don't use What3Words
Search and rescue says the app is dangerous.
2019-12-29 what3words • maps • searchandrescue • location • tootme
How to Draw a Horse
Sweet cartoon about female adolescence and crushes
2019-12-28 horses • lgbt • lesbian • drawing • tootme • cartoon
On GOP disinformation
Close reading of a political journalism editor only now realizing the Republican's strategy of lies
2019-12-27 politics • lies • journalism • trump • chucktodd • nbc • meetthepress
Rural Internet speeds
Data from a web speed test tool
2019-12-23 internet • speed • broadband • rural • tootme • technology
Caltrans Webcam map
Excellent resource for keeping track of weather and traffic on the major highways in California
2019-12-23 california • weather • traffic • webcam • map • tootme
Is It Snappy?
Simple iOS app for measuring latency, by using the 250fps camera on the back of an iPhone
2019-12-23 iphone • ui • latency • lag • software • tootme
Emerson Collective Demo Day '19
Video clips of presentations given for Laurene Powell Jobs's massive charitable organization
2019-12-21 charity • jobs • emersoncollective • ec • tootme
Trump's fake quotes
A small thing in his general pattern of lies and corruption, but also a shocking thing
2019-12-21 trump • politics • lying • quotes • tootme
New attacks on refugee children
Trump and Miller tried to plant spies inside the child refugee program to further their anti-immigrant agenda
2019-12-20 ice • dhs • privacy • children • immigration • politics • trump • stephenmiller • miller
Malheur planner, in government
One of Bundy's cronies got elected to Washington state government. Now identified as domestic terrorist.
2019-12-20 terrorism • republicans • gop • politics • washington • malheur
Stephanie Hofeller
Personal profile of the woman who released her GOP operative father's files on gerrymandering
2019-12-20 politics • gerrymandering • northcarolina • bravery • via:metafilter
Location tracking
Detailed info on how your cell carrier tracks your location, sells the data to brokers, who then sells it to pretty much anyone who asks
2019-12-19 privacy • america • location • tracking • gps • phones • wanderings
DEA Amtrak harassment
Story about corrupt-sounding cops hassling Amtrak passengers. There's other stories like this.
2019-12-17 amtrak • dea • police • abuse
US Army Nazi details
Specifics on some US Army PR folks choosing to glamorize an SS soldier for some reason on their Facebook accounts
2019-12-17 nazis • facebook • joachimpeiper • army • scandal • politics
Leela Zero maxed out?
Community-trained Go AI like AlphaGo Zero has reached a plateau of training, project may wind down
2019-12-17 games • go • gogame • leelazero • leela • ai • alphago • tootme
US DoD features a Nazi
Verified government accounts on Facebook briefly had an image of a Nazi soldier for Battle of the Bulge. The images are gone now, but they appear to have been there briefly
2019-12-17 facebook • nazis • military • america • politics • trump
William Webster on Trump
Republican former head of FBI and CIA criticizes Trump's actions
2019-12-16 trump • politics • fbi • cia
Health care "choice"
Industry insider spills the beans on how the insurance industry created the illusion of choice
2019-12-16 healthcare • insurance • health • lies • propaganda • politics
WeWork Board Failure
How the board of directors completely failed to provide any oversight to Neumann and his people at WeWork
2019-12-15 wework • business • investment • failure • tirefire • tootme
BitClub Network scam
Straight up Ponzi scheme, the crypto is just a sideshow, but oh so common. $722M dollars.
2019-12-15 bitcoin • scam • crypto • fraud • tootme
Bass Reeves
More about the Black marshall in the old West, a real person and not just a Watchmen character
2019-12-15 watchmen • black • history • africanamerican • lawenforcement • oklahoma • tootme
White Power at Army/Navy
Classic armed forces football game marred by cadets making white supremacist gestures on the TV camera. They think it's hilarious.
2019-12-15 whitepower • whitenationalism • nazis • army • navy • politics
Folsom Dam Disaster
Satire: ugly, on-point talk about a memorial for a yet-to-have-happened dam failure
2019-12-14 funny • oroville • onion • parody • politics • dam
Hodgman on the Mandalorian
A defense of enjoyable culture, even if it's not high art
2019-12-14 mandalorian • tv • scifi • middlebrow • tootme
LGBT marriage erasure
Hallmark deems an ad showing a lesbian wedding as "controversial"
2019-12-14 hallmark • lgbt • homophobia • politics • civilrights
Consumer profile access
Details on how to get personal profiles from several Internet tracking companies. Californians have a right to request this data.
2019-12-14 california • privacy • profile • advertising • ads • tootme
FCC Internet speed lies
Major ISPs regularly lie and cheat when reporting broadband speeds to the FCC
2019-12-14 fcc • broadband • internet • bandwith • speed • politics • scandal
100 Best Memes Of The Decade
I hate that it is necessary that this list exists
2019-12-14 buzzfeed • memes • culture • funny • tootme
California voting snafu
DMV screwed up voter registrations, changing some people to "no party preference"
2019-12-14 california • dmv • voting • votingrights • politics • tootme
You Have the Rite
Amazing poetry performance about Black fatherhood in America, by Marc Bamuthi Joseph
2019-12-14 poetry • black • africanamerican • politics • trayvon • tootme • police
Android RCS messaging
Clear explanation of Google's iMessage-like feature and how to enable it
2019-12-14 android • google • messaging • text • sms • imessage • rcs • tootme • phone
Facebook vs PREP
Running misleading ads from a liability lawyer has public health risks
2019-12-14 facebook • aids • prep • hiv • medicine • lawyer • ads • tootme
Mandalorian + OwlKitty
Replacing Baby Yoda with a cat
2019-12-14 cats • funny • mandalorian • starwars • greenscreen • animation • tootme
NGINX raided
Popular open source web server company raided by Russian police. Not clear if this is a normal business dispute or a shakedown
2019-12-12 russia • opensource • nginx • corruption • software
Stephen Miller's politicking
Internal memos and emails reveal how Trump's most active racist gets policy implemented
2019-12-12 miller • racism • trump • politics • immigration
SF siren's last call
Hilarious article, contains an explanation of why it will take two years to replace: the old system is insecure and they have to take it offline.
2019-12-11 sf • sanfrancisco • siren • emergency • civildefense • tootme
Landscape embroidery
Lovely little vignettes, I like the top down view of farm plots
2019-12-11 landscape • maps • embroidery • crafts • art • tootme
Gen Z Quiz
One of those horrible Buzzfeed things, and it's an ad for a Brand, but also it's pretty great
2019-12-10 buzzfeed • culture • genz • highschool • funny
RCS rollout in the US
Google is enabling more Americans to use its iMessage-like alternative to SMS
2019-12-10 google • android • sms • texting • rcs • imessage • tootme
Alloy: politics tech
A new progressive non-profit collecting political data for progressive causes and candidates
2019-12-09 politics • elections • progressives • amac • tootme
ICE Nativity
Church near LA depicts the Holy Family as if they tried to enter the US
2019-12-09 immigration • politics • christmas • nativity
Why Republicans Play Dirty
Argument that the GOP acts so anti-democratically because they know they'd lose a fair fight and are afraid of what that means
2019-12-08 politics • republicans • votingrights • democracy
Katie Hill's despair
(CW: suicide) deeply personal story of the Congresswoman who resigned in a revenge porn / sex-with-staffers situation
2019-12-08 congress • politics • women • feminism • sexuality • revengeporn
Don't tan your taint
Latest health fad may not be healthy!
2019-12-08 health • funny • hilarious • anus • taint • tanning • tootme
Google Inactive Account Manager
A backup option in case you die
2019-12-07 google • gmail • death • planning • will • tootme
The Beauty of Death Stranding
Nice spoiler-free video showing the gorgeous environments
2019-12-07 deathstranding • landscape • games • beauty • tootme
FCC and rural cell service
Someone at FCC finally test-drove cellular service and found (surprise!) that the carrier's self-reported service was nowhere near as good as stated in rural areas
2019-12-07 fcc • rural • internet • telephone • tootme
Russian propaganda on Reddit
Another operation discovered and blocked
2019-12-06 reddit • russia • propaganda • politics
China attacks the Internet
The Great Firewall injects malware into all Chinese users' browsers that has them attack a Hong Kong protestor website
2019-12-06 china • ddos • badtech • politics • greatfirewall • internet
I Worked for Alex Jones
Guy who worked editing video for the Infowars nutjob now has regrets
2019-12-05 infowars • alexjones • propaganda • rightwing • nutjob • trump • politics
Best singles of the decade
Some musical history going back to 14,000 BC. (Be sure to play samples, gets interesting back in the 1970s and before.)
2019-12-05 music • parody • funny • decade • tootme
Real world porters
Death Stranding precedent in Japanese "step cargo"
2019-12-05 japan • deathstranding • games • porter • labor • cargo • tootme
Valley of Gods writer
Duncan Fyfe, a contract writer for Campo Santo, reflecting on what may be a game that never gets finished
2019-12-05 games • valleyofgods • camposanto • valve • firewatch
Torture drawings
Abu Zubaydah, a victim of American torture, made drawings of some of the ways he was tortured
2019-12-04 america • politics • torture • bush • warcrime • guantanamo
Links of the 2010s
Remarkable attempt to round up a decade of interesting Internet culture
2019-12-04 internet • links • coolsite • via:waxy • tootme
.org undervalued
Internet domain sold for $1B with no competitive bids, inside dealing
2019-12-03 isoc • internet • dotorg • org • icann • tootme
Firefox Private Network
VPN service from Mozilla (based on Mullvad)
2019-12-03 vpn • privacy • firefox • mozilla • goodtech • tootme
Riot settles for $10M
A token payout to be divided among 1000 victims of their discrimination
2019-12-02 riotgames • tirefire • games • sexualharassment • sexualdiscrimination
Trump corrupting the military
Best article I've seen yet on how disturbing the Gallagher intervention is
2019-12-02 gallagher • trump • politics • warcrimes • military • seals
Aaron Parecki's home automation
Hardware and software used by a smart hacker
2019-12-02 parecki • homeautomation • zigbee • house • tech • tootme