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Pixel phone and mmWave
US Google phones are $100 more expensive because of a 5G technology that looks dead on arrival
2020-09-30 mmwave • 5g • google • pixel • cellular • network • wireless • speed
Trump undermining election
The damage Trump is causing and the potential risk for election theft
2020-09-30 trump • politics • election • voting • votingrights
Suppression via fraud claims
A history of how the Republicans have used voter fraud campaigns to suppress the vote. Leads up to the nightmare scenarios we are about to encounter.
2020-09-30 voting • votingrights • politics • republicans • election • democracy • trump
Trump taxes: big takeaways
Nice analysis of the more alarming parts of Trump's tax returns
2020-09-29 trump • politics • fraud • taxes • election
ICE abuse in Georgia
Gynecologist doctor carrying out unnecessary procedures on women without consent
2020-09-29 ice • georgia • women • gynecology • genocide • humanrights
CDC corruption on schools
White House interfered with public health guidelines to try to get schools to open early.
2020-09-29 cdc • politics • whitehouse • corruption • schools • kids • covid19 • coronavirus
BLM in Nevada County
First big event after the right wing attack on the last one. We're a very white county but we have a lot of folks who support Black lives and civil rights
2020-09-29 politics • nevadacounty • blm • protest • blacklivesmatter
San Rafael gun escalation
Random vandal removing a Breonna Taylor tribute pulls a gun on people questioning him
2020-09-29 guns • violence • america • acceleration • sanrafael • marin
US cultural regions (1940)
Fascinating map
2020-09-28 maps • america • unitedstates • culture • history • 1940s
Election reporting standards
NYT calls for Facebook, Twitter, etc to work towards uniform standards on what constitutes election misinformation
2020-09-28 election • politics • trump • 2020 • news • journalism
House selecting the president
Some preparation for an unlikely but possible outcome
2020-09-28 congress • politics • president • election • trump • pelosi
Trump deters Black voters
Channel 4 gets a copy of 2016 Trump campaign database, with Black voters listed as "deterrence"
2020-09-28 trump • racism • politics • voting • votersuppression • votingrights
Modular buildings
Assembly, a new company building 30+ story buildings out of pre-fab parts with a novel approach. Friend of mine works there.
2020-09-28 assembly • building • architecture • prefab • modular • tootme
Church of the SubGenius trailer
Documentary movie
2020-09-28 bob • tootme
Biggest loser
Trump's tax returns finally uncovered, show years of losing hundreds of millions of dollars. And paying effectively no taxes.
2020-09-27 trump • politics • corruption • taxes
Queer Houston
A love letter to Houston's fun and interesting side, and growing up queer there in the 80s
2020-09-27 houston • 80s • queer • lgbt • culture • art • tootme
Jack's donations
Remarkable list of direct philanthropy
2020-09-26 jack • jackdorsey • twitter • square • philanthrophy • donation
DNS root servers
Some fascinating details about the current state of DNS. Chrome's detecting NXDOMAIN hijacking is half the traffic!
2020-09-26 dns • rootserver • traffic • chrome • internet • tootme
DeJoy's USPS failure
This is more than just sabotaging the vote; this is a man completely incapable of running the Post Office
2020-09-25 usps • devoy • politics • trump • incompetence
Santa Maria barbecue
Texas Monthly visits California and discovers that the local BBQ ain't so bad
2020-09-25 texas • california • santamaria • food • tritip • tootme
Random number flaws
Engineer reviews the Rand classic random number book and finds some deviations
2020-09-25 randomness • math • statistics • wsj • rand • tootme
How to stop a coup
An argument for being prepared for non-violent protest in the US
2020-09-24 trump • politics • coup • election • protest • tootme
mapbox-gl-leaflet
Some support for vector tiles in leaflet by grafting in Mapbox GL JS
2020-09-24 maps • leaflet • mapbox • vectortiles • programming • tootme
Oregon fascist chat
Message logs exfiltrated from Patriot Coalition shows planning for violence
2020-09-23 portland • fascism • violence • politics • trump • patriotcoalition
Florida vote suppression
Now Republicans are mad because Bloomberg is paying criminal fines for ex-felons. The real problem here is they don't want people voting.
2020-09-23 florida • election • politics • bloomberg • voting • votingrights • votersuppression
Trump undermines Supreme Court
We used to pretend the Supreme Court was non-partisan. Here Trump nakedly says he wants to appoint a Supreme Court justice to help him take the 2020 election
2020-09-23 politics • election • trump • supremecourt • corruption • voting • votingrights
Blacklight tracker detection
Easy to understand website documenting how many trackers, etc a website foists on you
2020-09-23 ads • tracking • privacy • surveillance • web • tootme
Precursor
bunnie's new hardware platform for hacking ideas; a tiny mobile device with a keyboard
2020-09-23 hacking • mobile • bunnie • software • tech • tootme
Election nightmares
Another series of plausible awful Trump scenarios. "An election cannot be stolen unless the American people, at some level, acquiesce"
2020-09-23 trump • politics • election • voting • votingrights • coup
Power the Polls
Sign up to be a poll worker!
2020-09-23 election • polls • politics • votingrights
Origin of Portland cruise protest
Weird group of Idaho immigrants organized the giant Portland hate rally that resulted in a killing
2020-09-23 portland • protest • america • trump • politics
Fill court to take election
Pence directly says part of the goal is to appoint a judge to the Supreme Court so they can win the election
2020-09-22 election • politics • corruption • supremecourt • pence • trump
Killed by Mozilla
Products let by the wayside
2020-09-22 mozilla • software • products • tootme
Covid-19 and immunity
Some good news about antibodies and T-cells
2020-09-22 immunity • covid19 • coronavirus • disease
California excess deaths
2020 stats suggest the disease has been even worse for Blacks and Latinx people than we knew
2020-09-21 covid19 • coronavirus • disease • politics • california
California 2020 fires
Fire perimeters rendered on a 3d terrain map give a clearer picture
2020-09-21 fire • california • map • visualizaton • tootme
NIAID corrupted
Another government agency has as a mole, a public affairs specialist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. He is also a Covid denier who regularly writes extreme right wing propaganda
2020-09-21 politics • covid19 • coronavirus • crews • fauci • propaganda
QAnon identity
New Reply All podcast, could contain some good info
2020-09-21 qanon • politics • trump • conspiracy • internet • 4chan • 8kun
FDA corruption
Trump's HHS claims authority over all FDA decisions
2020-09-21 fda • trump • hhs • politics • covid19 • coronavirus • corruption
Anarchist Jurisdiction
Bill Barr declares three cities "anarchist jurisdictions" to withhold funding from them
2020-09-21 politics • nyc • portland • seattle • trump • fascism • barr • doj
Restructuring tech companies
China trolls the US over its bizarre attempt to nationalize WeChat and TikTok
2020-09-21 china • funny • tiktok • wechat • politics • internet • companies • trump
Windows 7 BEEP.SYS
An old story about how funky old backward compatibility made all sorts of messes in Windows
2020-09-21 windows • beep • ada • stickykeys • technology • tootme
BBC Micro Bot
Tweet programs to the bot and it responds with a video of it running an emulator
2020-09-20 emulation • software • hack • tootme • art
Armed thugs vs voting
A state by state guide on what you can do if armed "citizens militias" are intimidating voters
2020-09-20 politics • thugs • brownshirts • trump • votingrights • votersuppression • militia • fascism
Trump protestors block voting site
Protest against early voting physically prevents people from accessing the voting site
2020-09-19 trump • votingrights • suppression • votingsuppression • protest • politics
Cell tower location
Guide to various ways to find out which cell towers are near you
2020-09-19 cellular • celltower • mobile • att • verizon • lte • internet • tootme
How the CDC was corrupted
Details of how Caputo waged an anti-science campaign within the CDC to undermine public health
2020-09-19 politics • cdc • corruption • caputo • trump • publichealth • scandal
NC ballot rejection
2020 votes cast by Black people are already being rejected 4x as often as cast by white people in North Carolina
2020-09-19 northcarolina • racism • voting • votingrights • votersuppresion • politics
Jerry Falwell's drunk 911 call
Man of God is falling further and further
2020-09-18 falwell • hypocrisy • religion • alcoholism • 911 • politics • trump
Barr undermines voting secrecy
Veiled threat implicit in his quote: “The government and the people involved can find out and know how you voted."
2020-09-18 politics • barr • voting • votingrights • secretballot • fascism • election • trump
CDC further compromised
Guidelines published by CDC were opposed by CDC scientists, written by HHS political flaks, then published anyway
2020-09-17 cdc • hhs • corruption • trump • politics • covid19 • coronavirus
Another Trump assault victim
Woman was assaulted in 1997 by Donald Trump. She's... the 26th? it's hard to keep count
2020-09-17 trump • politics • sexualassault • women
Caputo is out
Leave of absence after his dangerous accelerationist comments
2020-09-16 politics • caputo • trump • fascism • hhs • accelerationism
Chuck Feeney is broke
Billionaire philanthropist has given essentially all his wealth away
2020-09-16 money • philanthropy • charity • living • values • dfs • tootme
Caputo in trouble
Apologizes, implies his mental health is endangered, and encourages people to listen to the Grateful Dead
2020-09-15 caputo • politics • trump • batshitinsane • hhs
America gone Bugfuck
A useful reality check editorial
2020-09-15 america • politics • covid19 • insane • qanon • trump
Trump: Support our Russian Troops
Campaign ad uses image of Russian planes and guns in a "support our troops" ad.
2020-09-15 russia • politics • trump • funny • stupid • mistake
ICE sterilized women
Nurse reports mass hysterectomies against women who did not consent. The worst form of racism, a tool of genocide.
2020-09-15 ice • politics • trump • abuse • hysterectomy • genocide • immigration • crmie
Caputo doubles down
Instead of resigning, Caputo confirms and reinforces his dangerously inflammatory comments
2020-09-15 caputo • coup • trump • politics • hhs • corruption • fascism
GOP lawyer on voter fraud
Long time Republican political lawyer dismayed at Trump's lies about voter fraud
2020-09-14 voting • votingrights • votingfraud • election • politics • trump
Caputo considers a coup
Trump's partisan hack in DHS goes on a rant about a Biden coup, concludes "If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get." This is dangerous.
2020-09-14 fascism • politics • caputo • coup • trump
SmoothTrack
Cheap PC head tracking by pulling data off a mobile phone camera pointed at your face
2020-09-14 headtracking • ui • hci • tootme • mobile • games • trackir
Patriots Pushing Back
Local Nevada County right wing group linked to violent attacks on protestors
2020-09-13 nevadacounty • protest • blm • fascism • politics • trump
Trump v Kwame
Apprentice candidate was not allowed to win because Trump didn't want a "black f*g"
2020-09-13 trump • racism • homophobia • offense • politics • apprentice • tv
CDC compromised
Direct political interference into public health policy
2020-09-13 cdc • publichealth • trump • scandal • disease • covid19 • coronavirus
Roger Stone, totalitarian
Insane rantings from a Trump and Giuliani buddy
2020-09-12 trump • giuliani • poiltics • coup • republicans
QAnon Website shut
One of the lieutenants in the batshit insane conspiracy theory was outed
2020-09-12 qanon • politics • trump • conspiracy
Magic Wormhole
Simple Python command line tool for securely sending files from A to B
2020-09-11 python • security • filesharing • tools • tootme
Fascists in an evacuation
Folks in the middle of a fire evacuation have military weapons pulled on them by random yahoos running their own "checkpoint"
2020-09-11 guns • fascism • fire • politics • antifa • oregon
TLD list
Authoritative (?) list of all top level Internet domains. It's even dumber than you thought.
2020-09-10 internet • dns • reference • tld • iana • via:hackernews • tootme
Apple ][ and lower case
Woz on why the first Apple ][s didn't support lowercase (he couldn't afford the keyboard or computer time to make it happen)
2020-09-10 apple • history • computer • development • lowercase • tootme
Covid 19 solutions
Ed Yong's latest, on our current pandemic spiral and how we could get out of it and do better for public health
2020-09-10 covid19 • coronavirus • publichealth • politics • trump
Coffin Confessor
Guy paid by dying people to speak the truth at their funeral
2020-09-10 funny • death • culture • funeral • tootme • via:hackernews
Shannon Grove, plague spreader
Head of the Republican caucus in California ignores quarantine and social distancing, potentially spreads disease to thousands
2020-09-10 politics • california • republican • stupid
DoJ corruption
Trump uses the government as his personal lawyer in a rape / defamation case
2020-09-09 trump • politics • corruption • rape
Solar cause for earthquakes?
New study finds a strong correlation between solar emissions and earthquakes with one day advance warning
2020-09-07 earthquake • solar • science • tootme • earth
Fox vs Griffin
Fox News reporter Jennifer Griffin had her own journalism denigrated by Fox News because it went against the state media narrative
2020-09-06 foxnews • politics • trump • griffin • reporting • jounralism • fox
American fascists love Hamas
Boogaloo Bois caught trying to sell weapons to Hamas
2020-09-05 politics • trump • fascism • hamas • terrorism • boogaloo
Guizhou photos
Beautiful images of a more rural province in southwestern China
2020-09-04 china • guizhou • tourism • photos • tootme
Trump vs veterans
Absolute contempt for people who gave their lives for this country
2020-09-03 trump • politics • veterans
Chris Sacca's election advice
Smart suggestions on how to donate and volunteer to save democracy
2020-09-03 america • politics • election • voting • donation • sacca
3rd gen Ryzen performance
Detailed CPU benchmarks; AMD cut a weird corner and memory write speed is awful, but it probably doesn't matter much
2020-09-03 ryzen • amd • cpu • benchmark • tootme
Georgia voter suppression
200,000 people denied the right to vote because the state failed to verify addresses correctly. Probably intentionally.
2020-09-03 georgia • politics • votingrights • voting • elections • atlanta
Kenosha fake photo op
Store owner refused to do a Trump photo op, so Trump rounded up someone who owned a store 10 years ago
2020-09-02 trump • politics • lies • fakery • kenosha
Marc Elias on voting suppression
Effective voting rights lawyer talking about risks this election
2020-09-02 politics • election • marcelias • votingrights • voting • corruption
Counterterrorism corrupted
Barr removed a career non-political person from the role in DoJ whose job it is to be sure that counterterrorism doesn't break the law
2020-09-02 doj • politics • trump • fascism • barr
Number Stations
Detailed websites on mysterious and often creepy radio stations probably used for spies and crypto
2020-09-01 radio • numbersstations • crypto • coldwar • history • tootme
How to vote in every state
Details of deadlines, voting by mail, etc
2020-09-01 voting • america • election • politics • tootme
htop handoff
Nice note from an open source author who outgrew his project
2020-09-01 htop • software • opensource • fork • handoff • tootme
Jetpack at LAX
Someone's flying stupidly near big airplanes
2020-09-01 aviation • jetpack • lax • flying • future • tootme
Big Freedia on identity
The Queen speaks
2020-09-01 bigfreedia • music • bounce • lgbt • queer • tootme
Contact Tracing failure in the US
Reasons why we're simply unable to stop Covid-19. Main reason: too many cases. Also too slow for testing.
2020-09-01 covid19 • coronavirus • contacttracing • disease • politice • trump • failure • cdc
Independent SAGE
Group of scientists in the UK didn't trust the government's official Covid group, so formed their own
2020-09-01 uk • britain • health • sage • cdc • shadowcdc • covid19 • coronavirus • disease