An aggregator for streaming TV services; combine Sling, etc into one UI with a DVR

OpenAI developed system trained on billions of lines of code writes code for you

Comment from a Mozilla team member about how the shift to Matrix from IRC has worked out culturally

Watchdog media commentary group gets banned, possibly because of the hateful content of the videos they were criticizing and showing fair use excerpts from

Nicholas Brothers' / Cab Calloway classic performance from 1943

A tool for Google RPC services; builds a simple web UI to access all the methods you can find via reflection. Useful with Starlink!

Details of how older Americans are particularly ensnared by a bunch of dark patterns and deception in political online fundraising. Republican causes are worse but Democrats do it too.

A web browser based on Emacs as a UI model for control and navigation. Which sounds like a terrible idea but could have some interesting stuff!

General who was Joint Chiefs Chairman pushed back on Trump advocating "just shooting" protestors

Meticulous profile of the giant tech investment company and its various shady dealings

Wonderful form of street art in the Bay Area

Details from his psychonaut days freebasing MDPV

Newsom's office greatly overstates the amount of fire prevention work that's been done

Flegal, a CDC scientist, documents a personal vendetta against her research by another research group with conflicting interpretations

Inside 20+ failures to accomplish the most basic chat communication

Cute video of kids talking about what Pride means for them

New mobile map app; it's basically Maps.Me without all the commercial bullshit that added. Simple clean maps, easily downloaded for offline use

First chapter of a major book; it's quite readable as an introduction.

Michael Harriot delivers again. A true national hero, a gentleman among wypipo scholars

New map of real data about Internet performance in the US

1980s/90s Soviet propaganda campaign to spread the idea that AIDS was germ warfare from the US government

From 2017; Tesla only did a few battery swaps as a one-off. Completely coincidentally that was all that was required to qualify for a tax credit.

Wonderful collection of ~2000 era web ads

Details of Trump criminally trying to pressure the Department of Justice to help overthrow the 2020 election

Glider pilot with a deathwish, or maybe just good instincts

A map of the post offices; shows the history of American expansion

Sweet article about a bit of history I didn't know about, Chinese fishing and shrimping villages on the Bay.

Effort to "teach Texas history accurately" may not have the impact it's intended to by the racist Texas government

Harriot on some of the misconceptions surrounding discussion of racism in America

Facebook took ads from a right wing group knowing it was pretending to be a progressive group

Artificial life simulator, GPU accelerated. Looks like a fun toy, not sure if it's got any research goals

Hilarious code comment from someone angry at the Adobe Photoshop file format

Hipster drink got popular thanks to one brilliant marketer

Works by Saul Steinberg, the cartoonist for the famous "view of the world from 9th Avenue" New Yorker cover

An explainer about the dangerous apocalyptic political thinking that shapes a lot of far right groups like the QAnon crowd and the Boogaloo boys

A map of all of France coloring every building by age or construction type

Historical map shows the ages of buildings

A few years old, but a guide to accessing debug / developer settings on Roku devices including TVs

(NSFWish) Fascinating article on da Vinci's evolving understanding of male sexual anatomy

Remarkable guerilla art installation

Detailed report of the basic outrage of the American tax system for very wealthy people. The richest people pay a true tax rate of about 1%.

Woah, this is really a major change. I like the screenshot!

Legacy of science denialism

Details of the terrorist group that attacked cops and was ready to fight for Trump's coup

Not the best flow, but the location can't be beat

Hiragana, the Japanese syllabic alphabet, was only standardized in 1900. Hentaigana are the non-standard other characters.

Important videogame developer, splits time between designing Playstation hardware and working on games. Also as a teenager created both Major Havoc and Marble Madness

A religion in central Borneo. Based on animist traditions but with some Hindu influence too. The details get political.

Surprisingly sharp and detailed article proves Bitcoin actually does have an army

Judge decided after 30 years California can't ban assault weapons. Why, they're just like pocketknives!

Another crack at a new image format. Or rather, collection of formats.

New product feature lets you password protect some photos. You know, so the kids don't see the photos of the new puppy you are surprising them with.

Excellent, long op/ed about how Germany has grappled with its evil history and what it'd look like for America to do that too

Reporting confirming Trump's insane and anti-American weirdness

LGBT positive messages from cast and crew, more thoughtful than the usual Pride marketing crap

June 5 is the anniversary of the first publication about AIDS

Sotheby's does a good job introducing the concept. (I hate it, but there are interesting aspects.)

A timeline up to last October of all the times Donald Trump said that Covid was just going to magically go away

Self hosted visitor tracking. Runs in NodeJS with a database

An obscure German dialect spoken by a handful of people in Poland. Or maybe it's Flemish?

Collection of changes to YouTube UI to add extra features

Nice appreciation from a gay tourist

Details of new look in Firefox, streamlined UI for a calmer experience

Report that a drone in autonomous mode attacked a soldier in Libya in 2020 without a specific human control or order