"American rocket engineer, chemist, and Thelemite occultist" from the 1940s. Developed ground breaking rocket fuels, then also ran around with L Ron Hubbard conducting occult rituals.

The forgotten queer history of one of San Francisco's best known local restaurants

Apparently all their devices are going to opt users in to sharing their Internet connection with strangers?!

Clever Ignite-format talk about videos of time loops

This is the future liberals want

Student doing impressive computer art work with generative art, Hershey fonts, etc

One of many Khoisan languages, this one uses more click consonants than most. Only a few speakers left

CEO and founder is a vigilante nutjob taking his company to a dangerous place

A threat to "use the second amendment" against the tech industry

A collection of bawdy poetry by Robert Burns

Spotlight on one of @jack's $400M (so far) of charitable donations. Universal basic income trial for San Francisco artists

Reconstruction of the Black neighborhood in Tulsa that was destroyed by murderous white Americans in 1921. 300 people dead.

A solution for hiding actual integer IDs in your UI, using hashed ones that don't reveal the actual numbers instead.

The new laws in eight states are in part a coordinated campaign by the radical right organization

Daily drawing challenges to inspire creativity. From an old friend from MIT.

Accessible explanation of how a modern computer power supply works. Everything is electrically isolated!

Detailed analysis of the "unwritten rules" of solid state drives and how software can work more efficiently with a very complex storage system

Anti-gay people just look more and more ridiculous

Frustrating story from a data scientist about having her data analysis be ignored

Before being a huge music star he built a large fanbase online as a Nicki Minaj personality and all around Internet presence

Deals are made between camel brokers by a series of hidden handshakes

A comprehensive index of slash fanfic from the classic 70s British sci-fi show

SFW images, NSFW text. CUMMIES: a cryptocurrency for the adult entertainment industry.

New release of the phone OS will explicitly support alternate app stores. Major change for competition in the market!

Classic demoscene archive (click "Prods" to get to the demos)

No major new info here, but a good telling of one of the first major global cyberattacks. Conducted by China against RSA, the security company

Firefox returns to process-level isolation for multiple websites in its browser

"I knew I was the only poor person at my tech startup because nobody ever wished me a happy payday."

An aggressive attempt to statistically estimate the true count of Covid deaths, accounting for countries with limited data reporting. 2-4x the official number.

The sharpest of Scott Thompson's stereotype-laden standup bits from Kids in the Hall. (CW: heavy use of racist and anti-gay stereotypes.)

Major fight between the folks who run Freenode and someone who claims to own some legal assets. Old Freenode operators recommend moving to libera.chat

Arabic adapted to ASCII, an online form of writing

Nice set of images from one of the biggest religious holidays in the world

map of broadband graphs and activity

New version of the Flamin' Hot Cheetos origin story, corporate committee

New fantasy series was filmed in Hungary

Academic analysis (CHI) of a DIY community of folks doing art and design work with plotters

Two thirds of online garbage false information about Covid and vaccines comes from just 12 people

Contract for providing Internet service. But the looks of things, Starlink had already been using Google services for awhile now...

Some data guessing at how Starlink's ground-based Internet works (as of eight months ago)

Group of 124 retired military officers signs a letter threatening American democracy

Sort of kidding, sort of not, designed to go viral

Helen Rosner writes on Jewish identity and Israel

What it takes to get back to normal

An argument for using plain ol' system fonts for utility websites. They're very well designed, they're clean, they look like the rest of your computer.

AirBnB for pools. Rent someone else's pool by the hour

Satellite ISP prevents its customers from even accessing the web page of a competing service

All the clips collected, should you need a heavy dose of cringe in one place

Copyright infringement suit against Childish Gambino; the older song sure sounds similar

An insider in the sleaziest part of cryptocurrency trading, pump-n-dumps of obviously useless coins

Details of the dispute; AV1 codec support, treatment of voice search results

Some of the psychology behind the world's stupidest rhetorical game

Retrospective on 15 years of Stamen's creative mapping work with OpenStreetMap data

JVM bytecode hijinks to bypass a complicated sandbox. /cc @schnarfed

Classic mistake to use zipcodes instead of census tracts for demographics results in 2M people not getting the Covid treatment access they should have

Some numbers of the space-based ISPs performance. They're not as good as promised

NY Attorney General reports that the broadband industry created millions of fake accounts. They don't mention the other suspected part about Ajit Pai's role in letting that happen.

Excellent visualization of 90 shrinking glaciers

All the ways barrels get used and reused in the production of wine and spirits

An excellent set of videos for testing an AV setup. Various video formats with a surround sound track with samples isolated to rear left and rear right.

Every young adult book cliche in tweet form

Handy list of Ethiopian food words explained in English

Law enforcement manages to follow money through explicit efforts to obscure it on the blockchain and bust the operator of Bitcoin Fog

Turns out suicide rates have not been up in the first few months of the Covid crisis

Turn any M.2 SSD into an external drive with a $50 USB-C enclosure. Thunderbolt and USB 3 options also available.