1909 biplane flight by a Chinese-American in Oakland

Deadly adulterant is showing up in Bay Area cocaine, killing people

Subreddit mocking "supremacists of any shade", but mostly white supremacists.

Lovely essay about religion and drugs in 90s Houston

In America, Jan 1 was the day slavers would rent their slaves out to other slavers, splitting up families

Baby shark translated in to Navajo / Diné

Various scam organizations pretend to be police charities or veteran's aid organizations, are actually political action committees

Search and rescue says the app is dangerous.

Sweet cartoon about female adolescence and crushes

Close reading of a political journalism editor only now realizing the Republican's strategy of lies

Data from a web speed test tool

Excellent resource for keeping track of weather and traffic on the major highways in California

Simple iOS app for measuring latency, by using the 250fps camera on the back of an iPhone

Video clips of presentations given for Laurene Powell Jobs's massive charitable organization

A small thing in his general pattern of lies and corruption, but also a shocking thing

Trump and Miller tried to plant spies inside the child refugee program to further their anti-immigrant agenda

One of Bundy's cronies got elected to Washington state government. Now identified as domestic terrorist.

Personal profile of the woman who released her GOP operative father's files on gerrymandering

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

Story about corrupt-sounding cops hassling Amtrak passengers. There's other stories like this.

Specifics on some US Army PR folks choosing to glamorize an SS soldier for some reason on their Facebook accounts

Community-trained Go AI like AlphaGo Zero has reached a plateau of training, project may wind down

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

Republican former head of FBI and CIA criticizes Trump's actions

Industry insider spills the beans on how the insurance industry created the illusion of choice

How the board of directors completely failed to provide any oversight to Neumann and his people at WeWork

Straight up Ponzi scheme, the crypto is just a sideshow, but oh so common. $722M dollars.

More about the Black marshall in the old West, a real person and not just a Watchmen character

Classic armed forces football game marred by cadets making white supremacist gestures on the TV camera. They think it's hilarious.

Satire: ugly, on-point talk about a memorial for a yet-to-have-happened dam failure

A defense of enjoyable culture, even if it's not high art

Hallmark deems an ad showing a lesbian wedding as "controversial"

Details on how to get personal profiles from several Internet tracking companies. Californians have a right to request this data.

Major ISPs regularly lie and cheat when reporting broadband speeds to the FCC

I hate that it is necessary that this list exists

DMV screwed up voter registrations, changing some people to "no party preference"

Amazing poetry performance about Black fatherhood in America, by Marc Bamuthi Joseph

Clear explanation of Google's iMessage-like feature and how to enable it

Running misleading ads from a liability lawyer has public health risks

Replacing Baby Yoda with a cat

Popular open source web server company raided by Russian police. Not clear if this is a normal business dispute or a shakedown

Internal memos and emails reveal how Trump's most active racist gets policy implemented

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.

Lovely little vignettes, I like the top down view of farm plots

One of those horrible Buzzfeed things, and it's an ad for a Brand, but also it's pretty great

Google is enabling more Americans to use its iMessage-like alternative to SMS

A new progressive non-profit collecting political data for progressive causes and candidates

Church near LA depicts the Holy Family as if they tried to enter the US

Argument that the GOP acts so anti-democratically because they know they'd lose a fair fight and are afraid of what that means

(CW: suicide) deeply personal story of the Congresswoman who resigned in a revenge porn / sex-with-staffers situation

Latest health fad may not be healthy!

A backup option in case you die

Nice spoiler-free video showing the gorgeous environments

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

Another operation discovered and blocked

The Great Firewall injects malware into all Chinese users' browsers that has them attack a Hong Kong protestor website

Guy who worked editing video for the Infowars nutjob now has regrets

Some musical history going back to 14,000 BC. (Be sure to play samples, gets interesting back in the 1970s and before.)

Death Stranding precedent in Japanese "step cargo"

Duncan Fyfe, a contract writer for Campo Santo, reflecting on what may be a game that never gets finished

Abu Zubaydah, a victim of American torture, made drawings of some of the ways he was tortured

Remarkable attempt to round up a decade of interesting Internet culture

Internet domain sold for $1B with no competitive bids, inside dealing

VPN service from Mozilla (based on Mullvad)

A token payout to be divided among 1000 victims of their discrimination

Best article I've seen yet on how disturbing the Gallagher intervention is

Hardware and software used by a smart hacker