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Grindr response on outing
Thoughtful details on location privacy from Grindr's CEO in response to the homophobic journalists who destroyed a man's career for being gay
2021-07-31 lgbt • gay • catholic • privacy • location • grindr • tech
Pac-Man and porn (NSFW)
1982 article in a porn magazine is remarkably detailed about Pac-Man and its culture. Also contains some burlesqueish images of naked women.
2021-07-31 porn • games • pacman • via:metafilter • culture • 1980s • tootme
Inter font family
Lovely simple sans-serif font, open source
2021-07-30 via:hackernews • fonts • typography • sansserif • design • tootme • opensource • free
Safari is killing the web
Detailed criticism of Apple's browser being underdeveloped
2021-07-30 browser • safari • webkit • apple • web • tootme
Trump's other coup attempt
Explicitly told the Justice Department to declare a corrupted election and "leave the rest to me"
2021-07-30 politics • trump • democracy • corruption • election • coup
Amanda Knox's words
Victim of a bad prosecution talks about the problems of being famous and yet without any power as other people appropriate and misrepresent her story
2021-07-30 identity • movies • amandaknox • celebrity • culture • tootme
Texas and slavery
One big motivator for the 1835 Texas Revolution was to reinstate slavery of Blacks; Mexico had outlawed it
2021-07-29 mexico • texas • history • slavery • racism • revisionism
Dyson Sphere designs
Youtube channel for someone who's making beautiful designs in the game Dyson Sphere Program
2021-07-29 games • dsp • dysonsphere • factorio • tootme
Criticize Simone Biles?
A handy flowchart of who is allowed to express their opinion
2021-07-29 simonebiles • gymnastics • black • culture • funny
Covid time use
Some statistics on changes in American behavior during Covid
2021-07-29 covid19 • coronavirus • behavior • america • work • tootme
100 no lead
Small airplanes still use leaded fuel; after many, many years a no lead alternative was finally approved
2021-07-28 gami • aviation • planes • fuel • 100ll • environment • tootme
Grass Valley ransomware
Our little town paid money to crooks who stole city data
2021-07-28 security • badtech • grassvalley • ransomware • california • it
Trump promises wild protest
From Dec 2020, a reminder that the coup attempt was planned weeks in advance
2021-07-28 jan6 • coup • trump • politics • insurrection • sedition
Max Steiner for Congress
Democratic candidate running for CA-1 in 2022
2021-07-28 politics • california • congress • maxsteiner • tootme
Poppers
A detailed article about the inhalant drug popular with gay men
2021-07-27 drugs • poppers • alkylnitrate • amylnitrate • gay • lgbt • via:metafilter • tootme
OneTrust Cookie Consent
A decent UI for user privacy management on websites
2021-07-27 cookies • privacy • gdpr • web • development • tootme
ColorfulTabs
Firefox extension to color tabs based on the domain name of the site. Doesn't seem to change the window title though :-(
2021-07-27 firefox • tabs • colors • ui • tootme
Activision Blizzard harassment summary
Excellent overview of the explosion of criticism about Activision / Blizzard and their horrible culture of sexual harassment
2021-07-27 sexualharassment • tirefire • blizzard • activision • wow • tootme
Plaza Mayor
Excellent aerial photo of astonishing city architecture. It's just as impressive from the ground.
2021-07-26 madrid • spain • photos • aerial • plazamayor • tootme
Lifecycle wind carbon
The full carbon cost of generating electricity with wind power
2021-07-26 globalwarming • wind • windmill • power • generation • electricity • carbon • emissions • tootme
Life-cycle carbon of cars
Detailed study very recently published
2021-07-26 climatechange • cars • manufacturing • carbon • emissions • tootme
Rewiring America
Saul Griffith's plan for fighting climate change by electrifying things now. He's working on an actual dead trees publication for October
2021-07-25 electrification • climatechange • carbon • saulgriffith • electrify • tootme
Budapest Pride
An important year in Hungary as Orban scapegoats and attacks LGBT Hungarians
2021-07-25 hungary • pride • lgbt • politics • tootme • orban
Pigeon seduction
People who train their pigeons to seduce, lure, and then steal other people's pigeons
2021-07-25 pigeons • sport • scotland • funny • birds • tootme
Twitter banned Sci-Hub
over a "counterfeit policy", apparently
2021-07-24 scihub • twitter • copyright • tootme • science
500px TOS
An example of a website that explains their terms of service in plain language
2021-07-24 legal • language • photos • usability • tootme
Benin City history
The grandeur of a pre-Colonial African state
2021-07-24 africa • history • benin • beninbronzes • british • colonialism • nigeria • tootme
Emmy Noether
A scientist in the 1910s-1920s who made enormous contributions to physics and math, without much reward
2021-07-24 science • math • noether • abstractalgebra • physics • women • jewish • tootme
Clubhouse data for sale
Stupid VC-beloved product leaks 3.8 billion phone numbers. (Or not, there is some skepticism.)
2021-07-24 clubhouse • data • privacy • vc • security
Juden Raus! game (CW)
A hideous board game from Nazi Germany making a lark of forcing Jews out of the country
2021-07-24 history • games • racism • jews • jewish • nazi • holocaust
AWS’s Egregious Egress
Cloudflare talks shit about Amazon's bandwidth pricing
2021-07-23 pricing • bandwidth • via:hackernews • cloudflare • aws • amazon • cloud • hosting • tootme
No athiests in foxholes
Anti-vax radio jerk gets serious Covid, is now a vaccine believer
2021-07-23 covid19 • coronoavirus • hypocrisy • disease • vaccination
Framework Laptop
A Windows/Linux laptop designed to be repairable
2021-07-23 laptops • windows • linux • hardware • tinkerable • repairable • tootme
Doodle Champion Island Games
Google invents a whole 16 bit Japanese RPG as an Olympics themed doodle
2021-07-23 google • sports • games • doodle • jprg • 16bit • tootme
Tweet Like Me
GPT-3 which generates tweets like yours
2021-07-23 twitter • machinelearning • generative • gpt3 • text • tootme
Political bubbles
Excellent personalized visualization of American political affiliation
2021-07-23 politics • maps • america • visualization
ECMA 4: flow charts
A 1960 standard for computing
2021-07-22 standards • ecma • history • flowchart • programming • tootme
Kavanaugh never investigated
No surprise but the supposed FBI vetting was a sham
2021-07-22 trump • corruption • politics • supremecourt • kavanaugh • sexualharassment • tirefire
Satellite kidnapping details
Much more detailed article about the CIA briefly stealing a Soviet satellite
2021-07-22 satellite • soviet • coldwar • espionage • space • tootme
Satellite kidnapping
Wacky Cold War story of the CIA briefly "borrowing" a Soviet satellite when it was being shipped from one city to another
2021-07-22 cia • soviets • coldwar • espionage • spies • satellite • via:metafilter • tootme
Burrill and ethics
A clearly written editorial against Catholic witch hunts
2021-07-21 catholic • politics • lgbt • burrill • gay • grindr
Covid: Trump vs blue states
Detailed report from July 2020 on how the Trump response to Covid was influenced by the idea that it was mostly killing Democrats
2021-07-21 politics • trump • covid • coronavirus • corruption
App data weaponization
A thoughtful article on the meaning of the homophobic attack on a gay man based on purchased location data from his phone
2021-07-21 lgbt • gay • privacy • location • via:metafilter • catholic • homophobia • grindr
Multics Security Evaluation
1974 Air Force report
2021-07-21 multics • unix • security • airforce • computing • history • tootme
Pornhub art project
Sort of hilarious; porn company makes short films re-enacting classical works of art. This link is SFW.
2021-07-21 porn • pornhub • art • museum • tootme • nsfw
Catholic gay witchhunt
Nasty homophobic Catholic publication buys location data, finds a church leader has been going to gay bars. So of course he resigns. Meanwhile, the Church continues to protect its leaders who sexually abused children.
2021-07-21 gay • catholic • lgbt • homophobia • privacy • location • via:metafilter
Sacred garment discussion
Mormon's unique undergarments now a topic of discussion about practicality and health. "It isn’t bringing me closer to Christ, it’s giving me U.T.I.s"
2021-07-21 mormon • lds • underwear • feminism • ritual
Flipdots
Source for displays with old fashioned electromagnetic elements that flip between white and black
2021-07-21 display • electronics • flip • flipdot • art • tootme • hardware
Flip digit display
Neat display of a liquid simulation
2021-07-21 art • display • simulation • flipdigit • tootme
Emoji similarity
A map of clusters of emoji used together
2021-07-20 emoji • twitter • meaning • signifier • visualization • tootme
This city does not exist
Use a GAN to create plausible Japanese municipal flags
2021-07-20 flags • gan • neuralnetworks • generative • japan • art • tootme
It rains, it pours
Map of where it rains and pours in the world
2021-07-20 rain • map • weather • earth • maps • visualization • tootme
Automattic buys Pocket Casts
Best podcast app bought by best weblog company. Cautiously optimistic
2021-07-16 companies • acquisition • podcast • pocketcasts • wordpress • automattic • tootme
M.2 screw alternatives
Various options for replacing the horrible screw that attaches an SSD to a motherboard
2021-07-16 m.2 • motherboard • ssd • screw • computer • hardware • tootme
Paleotronic
Retrocomputing magazine; the folks behind The Print Shop Club
2021-07-16 retrocomputing • apple • history • computing • tootme • printshop • australia
The Print Shop
Apple ][ print shop running in emulation in your browser with PDF output
2021-07-16 apple • graphics • printshop • retrocomputing • pdf • design
AI writing code
Excellent summary of research efforts that goes far beyond the recent GitHub announcement
2021-07-15 ai • ml • gpt • programming • machinelearning • code • tootme
Manu Cornet profile
Details on the talented cartoonist who recently left Google
2021-07-15 google • tech • cartoons • funny • twitter • tootme
Coup fears inside the White House
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs' comments on fearing Trump was going to stage a coup
2021-07-15 coup • politics • trump • military • milley
RIP Fleets
Twitter's failure to iterate on their product is a multi-year disastrous problem that starts at the top.
2021-07-14 twitter • fleets • clone • copy • socialmedia • business
Fewer SF poops
Congratulations, San Francisco has a few thousand fewer reports of shit on the sidewalk or street than last year.
2021-07-14 sf • sanfrancisco • poop • shit • qualityoflife
Boys Will Be Boys
A little gay bit from a 1934 musical
2021-07-12 musical • lgbt • gay • dancing • tootme
Hating InDesign
Marcin Wichary on the difficulties of iterating a book design in InDesign
2021-07-12 software • books • indesign • typography • layout • tootme • via:waxy
93 meter free dive
Terrifying video of an astounding athlete
2021-07-12 diving • freediving • zharkova • via:reddit • tootme
Blue field entoptic phenomenon
You can see your own white blood cells when looking at a blue sky
2021-07-11 biology • eyes • optics • retina • tootme
Confederacy costs
A lot of these monuments to slavers and traitors are paid for with public funds
2021-07-11 america • politics • confederacy • slavery • history • welfare
Aegis 2FA
A non-proprietary alternative to Google Authenticator and Authy
2021-07-11 2fa • security • login • password • authy • tootme • otp
Native Land
A global map of indigenous peoples and their traditional lands
2021-07-10 maps • natives • indigenous • indians • america • history • tootme
Jello: JSON parser
Like jq for processing JSON data, but with a Python syntax
2021-07-10 json • programming • python • unix • linux • shell • tootme
jc: JSON Unix output
Tool to turn the free text output of various Unix tools into JSON
2021-07-10 json • unix • programming • shell • linux • tootme
Arrested for voting
Texas man's bail set at $100,000 because he voted while still on parole. No one told him that wasn't legal.
2021-07-10 voting • texas • politics • votingrights • tootme
Beddr sleep monitor
Sensor sticks to your forehead and measures blood oxygen, body position, etc
2021-07-10 sleep • sleepapnea • sensor • position • medical • tootme
America vs sex education
Infuriating story of a teacher being harassed out of a job at a private school by people with a twisted view of sexuality
2021-07-09 america • sex • lgbt • via:metafilter
Vaccine efficacy defined
A simple explanation of what reported efficacy numbers mean
2021-07-09 vaccine • covid19 • covid • efficacy • statistics • tootme
Oldschool PC Fonts
Another collection of retrocomputing fonts
2021-07-08 fonts • retrocomputing • typography • tootme
Bitmap fonts
Huge collection of old bitmap fonts from various computers
2021-07-08 fonts • bitmap • retrocomputing • typography • via:hackernews • tootme
Goomics, Google comics
Collection of Google-oriented comics. I think these were originally for insiders only?
2021-07-08 google • funny • tech • parody • tootme
Subversive Joy of Lil Nas X
Fantastic profile of the rising queer music star, with excellent detail both on his history and locating his public sexuality and race in contemporary culture
2021-07-07 lilnasx • music • profile • lgbt • queer • tootme
Lil Nas X - Sonic Shit
Funny nerdy video from before the fame
2021-07-07 music • lilnasx • sonic • sega • tootme
California migration
Folks leaving LA and SF and moving to smaller semi-urban places in California
2021-07-06 california • demographics • migration • tootme
Starlink firmware
Folks taking apart the SpaceX Internet terminal
2021-07-06 spacex • starlink • hacking • firmware • teardown • tootme
UBC Visible Speech
Videos showing pronunciation of a bunch of IPA phonemes
2021-07-06 ipa • phoneme • phonology • linguistics • tootme • speech
Another Tesla victim
Autopilot encourages Tesla drivers to be unsafe
2021-07-06 tesla • autopilot • liability • cars • traffic
Nikole Hannah-Jones statement
Classy, poignant statement from the journalism professor about taking a job at Howard after racists associated with UNC tried to sabotage her career
2021-07-06 unc • howard • journalism • racism • nikolehannahjones • tootme
Socket activation
Appreciation of a technical trick to improve system boot time
2021-07-05 systemd • init • boot • unix • linux • tootme
Thin line flags
Americans of all stripes love their identity politics
2021-07-05 america • politics • thinblueline • flags • identity
Evan Martin moving on
At Google since 2004, just left for Figma
2021-07-05 google • evanmartin • livejournal • programming • engineer • career • tootme
Sci-Hub threats
Updates on the legal attacks on one of the most important achievements in scientific communication of the century
2021-07-04 scihub • elsevier • publishing • science • tootme • copyright
Covid-19 variants
Excellent, non-panic-inducing overview of Covid variants and what they mean
2021-07-04 covid19 • coronavirus • variants • disease • epidemic • science • medicine
Umurangi Generation review
Review of an indie photography game
2021-07-04 games • maori • photography • indie • review • tootme
C64 drive slowness
Accumulation of manufacturing errors and engineering mistakes is what made the C64 floppy drive so slow
2021-07-04 c64 • 1541 • computers • speed • history • tootme
6502 illegal opcodes
Analysis of the pattern of microcode inside the 6502
2021-07-04 6502 • programming • apple • microcode • hacking • tootme
Freespin 1451tro
Classic C64 demo. Only without the C64, just the hard drive plugged directly into the monitor
2021-07-04 c64 • demo • hardware • 1541 • via:metafilter • demoscene • scene • tootme
Dance performance
I have no idea what this but it's a fantastic video clip from a modern dance performance
2021-07-04 dance • bdf2021 • video • tootme
Coast Starlight closed
Fire near Mt Shasta closes the Union Pacific line Amtrak relies on
2021-07-04 amtrak • fire • california • tootme
McConnell's Jan 6 speech
In the teeth of a coup attempt the Republican Senate leader said reasonable things about voting and democracy. Shame his party has immediately turned its back on these principles.
2021-07-04 voting • votingrights • mcconnell • politics • republicans
Dark Academia
A new subculture of literate young people with a sense of fashion
2021-07-03 darkacademica • culture • literacy • critique • criticism • tootme
Conjunto vs Norteño
A battle for Tejano music
2021-07-03 music • texas • tejano • conjunto • norteno • norteño • tootme
Svelte
Alternative to React for building web apps; compiler does more work up front so the browser side is lighter
2021-07-02 programming • frontend • javascript • web • framework • svelte • react • js • tootme
Turboencabulator
A 1944 engineering breakthrough
2021-07-02 funny • engineering • parody • tootme
AWS Infinidash explained
Finally a clear short explanation of Amazon's newest cloud service
2021-07-02 amazon • aws • infinidash • architecture • tootme • i8h
Boy Scout settlement
$850M for decades of mishandling sexual abuse
2021-07-02 boyscouts • scouts • bsa • sexualabuse • settlement • legal
Nevada County's pandemic
One of a series of detailed interviews with healthcare providers in Nevada County, California and their experience of the pandemic
2021-07-02 covid • pandemic • women • nevadacounty • california • tootme
Target vs SF shoplifting
Store reduces opening hours because of theft and security problems
2021-07-02 target • sanfrancisco • shoplifting • tootme
Ships cats in hammocks
A photo series from the olden times
2021-07-02 cats • ships • hammocks • cute • tootme
Russiman considered
A 2015 overview of responses to a theory from 2003 that humans have been causing global warming for 8000 years now
2021-07-02 climatechange • ruddiman • anthropology • architecture • tootme
Climate change, 8000 years
Argument that human activity moved CO2 from 240ppm to 280ppm over the last 8000 years through agriculture
2021-07-02 globalwarming • science • anthropology • tootme • co2
Frodo and Sam's romance
A close queer reading highlights the joy of finding ambiguities and sexual representation in texts
2021-07-02 queer • lgbt • fiction • tolkien • lotr • tootme
Strip farmland
Arabian farming following a straight line along a road. Worth heading to 23.255361°, 53.801306° on Google Maps to look at the patterns nearby
2021-07-01 farming • uae • agriculture • irrigation • oasis • tootme
Jan 6 coup, in detail
NYTimes doing what the Republicans refuse, putting together an understanding of what Trump's mob did when attacking the US Capitol
2021-07-01 jan6 • coup • insurrection • trump • politics • america
CO2 sensor vs temperature
Some consumer CO2 sensors give wildly different results depending on ambient temperature
2021-07-01 co2 • temperature • ndir • sensor • airquality • calibration • tootme
Lit web components
A simple framework for building webapps that's not React
2021-07-01 web • framework • javascript • html • css • webapp • tootme
MapLibre
Open source fork of Mapbox GL JS. Hooray!
2021-07-01 maps • mapbox • mapboxgljs • cartography • javascript • mobile • free • opensource • tootme