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Covid vaccination rates
Various visualizations of global vaccination rates
2020-12-31 coronavirus • covid19 • publichealth • vaccination • visualization
Starlink Constellation
Excellent visualization of the deployment of the ambitious satellite network
2020-12-31 elonmusk • isp • satellite • space • spacex • starlink
Josh Hawley, voter fraud
Senator votes illegally not from his home in DC, but registered at his sister's address in Missouri
2020-12-30 joshhawley • missouri • politics • registration • voterfraud
Voat shut down
One of the "free speech for hate groups" social media sites has failed
2020-12-29 hatespeech • nazis • reddit • socialmedia • voat
Cocaine Decor
Twitter account of amazing 70s-90s architecture
2020-12-28 architecture • cocaine • culture • design • funny
Filipino vinegar
A guide to different kinds of vinegar
2020-12-27 cooking • filipino • food • vinegar
Why the US failed Covid
Details of Trump's deadly incompetence. It's a big part of it, but I think American selfishness also is to blame
2020-12-27 america • coronavirus • covid19 • disease • epidemic • politics • trump
Reverse engineering an mRNA vaccine
Fascinating details of the molecular design of Pfizer's SARS-CoV-2 vaccine told by analogy to computer programming
2020-12-27 coronavirus • covid19 • health • mrna • vaccine
Yuba Stakeholder map
A map of fire management efforts in Nevada County; Firewise communities, projects to clear land, etc
2020-12-25 fire • firewise • grassvalley • maps • nevadacounty
GoDaddy Christmas trap
Offers bonus to employees and then says "lol jk we were doing a phishing test"
2020-12-24 christmas • godaddy • monstrous • phishing
Gingrich hates democracy
The former leader of the Republican Party in Congress openly says he just doesn't like "the whole election"
2020-12-23 democracy • gingrich • politics • republicans • rnc • trump
Trump is now crazy
It's getting real bad in the White House
2020-12-22 batshitinsane • crazy • danger • politics • trump • whitehouse
Navalny's poisoning
Incredible story of figuring out which of Putin's thugs poisoned the opposition leader and how. Amazing investigative work by Bellingcat.
2020-12-21 assassination • bellingcat • murder • poisoning • politics • putin • russia
ex-cop Trump lunatic
Houston man paid by right wing nutjobs to stalk and then attack a random air conditioning repair guy, alleging he was part of a voter fraud conspiracy
2020-12-20 batshitinsane • election • politics • texas • trump
Fake electoral college
Conspiracy theorists cosplay at an alternative democracy
2020-12-15 batshitinsane • cosplay • electoralcollege • funny • politics • trump
About that Covid celebrity spreadsheet
This spreadsheet made the rounds this weekend as being about vaccination, but really it's about potential celebrities for a pro-Trump propaganda campaign
2020-12-14 covid • politics • psa • vaccines
Vaccinated but still infectious?
Clear article on why having a Covid vaccine doesn't mean you can't infect other people. Testing continues and we should know in a few months.
2020-12-14 coronavirus • covid19 • infection • politics • publichealth • vaccine
Celebrity vaccine spreadsheet
Trump administration's notes on which celebrities should get vaccinated. which is worse; identifying Sigourney Weaver as worried about climate change? Or labelling her "elderly"? *Update* this is wrong: this is not about vaccination, but a Covid PSA
2020-12-14 celebrities • coronavirus • covid19 • politics • trump
How's Milo Yiannopoulos doing?
Not well, it turns out
2020-12-13 deranged • funny • gay • lgbt • milo • politics • trump
Investigating Trump
A thoughtful take on how we should start to root out the corruption Trump has seeded in America
2020-12-12 biden • corruption • democracy • investigation • politics • prosectuion • trump
Elsevier fraud
Yet another Elsevier journal is full of garbage
2020-12-12 bundling • elsevier • fraud • funny • publishing • science • startrek
La Malfa sounds dumb
My local congressman goes on CNN to defend his anti-democratic support of an election overturn, ends up sounding like an idiot
2020-12-12 california • election • lamalfa • politics • trump • votingrights
Rep LaMalfa hates democracy
My local congressman has been trying to subvert the popular vote
2020-12-11 congress • elections • lamalfa • politics • trump
Be A Better Cyberpunk
A bundle of games that are cooler, better, or less offensive than Cyberpunk 2077
2020-12-11 cyberpunk • games • indie • lgbt
Gay Lifetime Christmas
Smarmy feel-good movies for Christmas finally have (limited) gay inclusion
2020-12-10 christmas • gay • lgbt • lifetime
Uber / Swift disaster
A sad engineering story of Apple's not-ready-for-primetime deveopment platform
2020-12-10 apple • programming • swift • uber
Big Freedia - Rona Rona
Truly the bounce video for our times
2020-12-09 bigfreedia • coronavirus • covid19 • funny • music
Chuck Yeager vs Ed Dwight
Black astronaut's career derailed by racist white guy
2020-12-08 aviation • nasa • racism • yeager
Trump coup rolls to PA
President of the United States reaches out to Pennsylvania government to try to subvert the popular vote
2020-12-08 coup • election • pennsylvania • politics • trump
Rebekah Jones assaulted by cops
Florida's dissident public health expert had her home invaded at gunpoint by police serving a search warrant.
2020-12-07 coronavirus • covid19 • desantis • florida • intimidation • politics
The danger of Trump's coup
Thoughtful essay on language but more importantly the meaning of Trump's attempts to undermine the election
2020-12-07 coup • election • gop • politics • republicans • trump • turkey
Giuliani, plague spreader
Arizona Republican senators have to quarantine after meeting with Giuliani to hear his insane attempts to undermine democracy.
2020-12-07 arizona • coronavirus • corruption • covid19 • giuliani • politics • trump • voting
Stu wants a PS5
SNL parody of Eminem's Stan, it's pretty good
2020-12-06 eminem • funny • ps5 • santa • snl • stan
Trump is acting crazy
The danger of just shrugging off Trump's insanity
2020-12-05 corruption • democracy • gop • politics • republicans • trump
Missing kids' data hidden
Trump administration failed to provide basic data that could have been used to help reunite immigrant kids with their parents
2020-12-05 border • cruelty • humanrights • immigration • politics • trump
Flynn calls for a coup
Trump's former national security advisor, convicted and pardoned criminal, now calling for martial law in the US and a "new election"
2020-12-02 batshitinsane • corruption • fascism • flynn • martiallaw • politics • trump
Barr: no fraud
Even Trump's corrupt AG admits there was no election fraud
2020-12-01 barr • election • politics • trump • voting
Corollaria Railing
Beautiful installation by Nervous System
2020-12-01 design • generative • railing • voronoi
M1 speed analysis
Excellent summary of various innovations Apple has made in their system-on-a-chip
2020-12-01 apple • architecture • arm • cpu • m1 • systems
Trump lawyer calls for murder
DiGenova, one of Trump's campaign lawyers, says that Krebs (former cybersecurity chief) should be murdered
2020-12-01 digenova • election • fascism • murder • outrage • politics • trump