US Google phones are $100 more expensive because of a 5G technology that looks dead on arrival

The damage Trump is causing and the potential risk for election theft

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.

Nice analysis of the more alarming parts of Trump's tax returns

Gynecologist doctor carrying out unnecessary procedures on women without consent

White House interfered with public health guidelines to try to get schools to open early.

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

Random vandal removing a Breonna Taylor tribute pulls a gun on people questioning him

Fascinating map

NYT calls for Facebook, Twitter, etc to work towards uniform standards on what constitutes election misinformation

Some preparation for an unlikely but possible outcome

Channel 4 gets a copy of 2016 Trump campaign database, with Black voters listed as "deterrence"

Assembly, a new company building 30+ story buildings out of pre-fab parts with a novel approach. Friend of mine works there.

Documentary movie

Trump's tax returns finally uncovered, show years of losing hundreds of millions of dollars. And paying effectively no taxes.

A love letter to Houston's fun and interesting side, and growing up queer there in the 80s

Remarkable list of direct philanthropy

Some fascinating details about the current state of DNS. Chrome's detecting NXDOMAIN hijacking is half the traffic!

This is more than just sabotaging the vote; this is a man completely incapable of running the Post Office

Texas Monthly visits California and discovers that the local BBQ ain't so bad

Engineer reviews the Rand classic random number book and finds some deviations

An argument for being prepared for non-violent protest in the US

Some support for vector tiles in leaflet by grafting in Mapbox GL JS

Message logs exfiltrated from Patriot Coalition shows planning for violence

Now Republicans are mad because Bloomberg is paying criminal fines for ex-felons. The real problem here is they don't want people voting.

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

Easy to understand website documenting how many trackers, etc a website foists on you

bunnie's new hardware platform for hacking ideas; a tiny mobile device with a keyboard

Another series of plausible awful Trump scenarios. "An election cannot be stolen unless the American people, at some level, acquiesce"

Sign up to be a poll worker!

Weird group of Idaho immigrants organized the giant Portland hate rally that resulted in a killing

Pence directly says part of the goal is to appoint a judge to the Supreme Court so they can win the election

Products let by the wayside

Some good news about antibodies and T-cells

2020 stats suggest the disease has been even worse for Blacks and Latinx people than we knew

Fire perimeters rendered on a 3d terrain map give a clearer picture

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

New Reply All podcast, could contain some good info

Trump's HHS claims authority over all FDA decisions

Bill Barr declares three cities "anarchist jurisdictions" to withhold funding from them

China trolls the US over its bizarre attempt to nationalize WeChat and TikTok

An old story about how funky old backward compatibility made all sorts of messes in Windows

Tweet programs to the bot and it responds with a video of it running an emulator

A state by state guide on what you can do if armed "citizens militias" are intimidating voters

Protest against early voting physically prevents people from accessing the voting site

Guide to various ways to find out which cell towers are near you

Details of how Caputo waged an anti-science campaign within the CDC to undermine public health

2020 votes cast by Black people are already being rejected 4x as often as cast by white people in North Carolina

Man of God is falling further and further

Veiled threat implicit in his quote: “The government and the people involved can find out and know how you voted."

Guidelines published by CDC were opposed by CDC scientists, written by HHS political flaks, then published anyway

Woman was assaulted in 1997 by Donald Trump. She's... the 26th? it's hard to keep count

Leave of absence after his dangerous accelerationist comments

Billionaire philanthropist has given essentially all his wealth away

Apologizes, implies his mental health is endangered, and encourages people to listen to the Grateful Dead

A useful reality check editorial

Campaign ad uses image of Russian planes and guns in a "support our troops" ad.

Nurse reports mass hysterectomies against women who did not consent. The worst form of racism, a tool of genocide.

Instead of resigning, Caputo confirms and reinforces his dangerously inflammatory comments

Long time Republican political lawyer dismayed at Trump's lies about voter fraud

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.

Cheap PC head tracking by pulling data off a mobile phone camera pointed at your face

Local Nevada County right wing group linked to violent attacks on protestors

Apprentice candidate was not allowed to win because Trump didn't want a "black f*g"

Direct political interference into public health policy

Insane rantings from a Trump and Giuliani buddy

One of the lieutenants in the batshit insane conspiracy theory was outed

Simple Python command line tool for securely sending files from A to B

Folks in the middle of a fire evacuation have military weapons pulled on them by random yahoos running their own "checkpoint"

Authoritative (?) list of all top level Internet domains. It's even dumber than you thought.

Woz on why the first Apple ][s didn't support lowercase (he couldn't afford the keyboard or computer time to make it happen)

Ed Yong's latest, on our current pandemic spiral and how we could get out of it and do better for public health

Guy paid by dying people to speak the truth at their funeral

Head of the Republican caucus in California ignores quarantine and social distancing, potentially spreads disease to thousands

Trump uses the government as his personal lawyer in a rape / defamation case

New study finds a strong correlation between solar emissions and earthquakes with one day advance warning

Fox News reporter Jennifer Griffin had her own journalism denigrated by Fox News because it went against the state media narrative

Boogaloo Bois caught trying to sell weapons to Hamas

Beautiful images of a more rural province in southwestern China

Absolute contempt for people who gave their lives for this country

Smart suggestions on how to donate and volunteer to save democracy

Detailed CPU benchmarks; AMD cut a weird corner and memory write speed is awful, but it probably doesn't matter much

200,000 people denied the right to vote because the state failed to verify addresses correctly. Probably intentionally.

Store owner refused to do a Trump photo op, so Trump rounded up someone who owned a store 10 years ago

Effective voting rights lawyer talking about risks this election

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

Detailed websites on mysterious and often creepy radio stations probably used for spies and crypto

Details of deadlines, voting by mail, etc

Nice note from an open source author who outgrew his project

Someone's flying stupidly near big airplanes

The Queen speaks

Reasons why we're simply unable to stop Covid-19. Main reason: too many cases. Also too slow for testing.

Group of scientists in the UK didn't trust the government's official Covid group, so formed their own