An ad blocker that simulates clicks on all ads in an effort to poison the tracking data and disrupt advertising

A look at the sleazy business of companies buying and selling your personal location

A taxonomy of kinds of computer languages: Algol, Lisp, ML, Smalltalk, Prolog, Forth, and APL.

Amazon highlights 39 legal actions SpaceX has taken to bolster their market position.

Jailbreaking CPAP machines to upgrade their software capabilities

Excellent insider article on the mechanics of the streaming TV business

Claims of ugly self-dealing between Robinhood and Citadel

Yet another collaborator from the inner circle decides to spill the beans on what a monster Trump is

Details on the screwy cryptotransaction; not intentional fraud this time but a Javascript type error

Excellent set of photographs of the group of Haitians recently coming through Del Rio, TX

Harsh but clever review of Humm's latest experiment with a vegan menu

Notes from someone using an Oculus Quest 50 hours a week

Company outsources spying on users' private messages to Accenture

A small WebGL / Javascript 2d game engine

An overview of what we've learned about Trump's attempts to destroy our democracy

Simple home automation controllers (sprinklers, garage door) based on open source and Raspberry Pi-like platforms

Odd Ethereum transaction included a $23.7M tip. Many possible explanations, a likely one is money laundering.

Browser extension to remove tracking garbage from URLs, including Google's search surveillance

A nice essay explaining how the most important source of scientific information is partially unlicensed but absolutely vital

A conversational style in which someone else starts talking before the first person is finished. Not to interrupt, but to augment.

Company starts using its massive influence to try to shape public opinion about itself.

Details of what the current state of the art in bandwidth shaping is doing

Energy wasted by the cryptocurrency. 11.6GW, or roughly the power used by 10 million American homes

Long, carefully worded essay on how dangerous this moment in American democracy is.

Techniques for rendering crisp fonts in WebGL that work well even with small rotations and zooms

Our excellent Registrar of Voters explains why a "forensic audit" is not a good idea. Recall sore losers are asking for something expensive and absolutely unnecessary.

Boy-men in the US military living out their TV fantasies with a new branch of the US military

Mean spirited but pointedly ironic collection of people who were obnoxiously anti-vaccine on social media and then ended up dying of Covid.

Evidence that a city in the Middle East was destroyed by a meteor around 1650 BC

Referenced in Demi Adejuyigbe's Sept 21 video this year, the site they filmed the video at

The US has an alternate to Hellfire missile warheads (the R9X) which pops out flying sword blades. No, really.

Simple test if your IP address is on any of a bunch of spam and abuse blacklists

A detailed historical explication

Detail from the FTC complaint about Facebook deliberately trying to keep users locked in

Pretty much all of the top "Christian" pages and most of the top African-American pages on Facebook were actually propaganda operations

Unix command line program to run something every time a file in a watched directory changes

SF's mayor ignores her own SF mask mandate

A very detailed explanation of how smooth updates happen in a gaming engine

Georgia Governor Kemp goes on and on about the history of the AIDS vaccine trying to make some point about Covid. It's all based on a fiction.

Firefox extension that works for passing paywalls. There's a Chrome version but Google won't let you use it easily.

The WSJ's series of deep investigative reporting on Facebook malfeasance

Link may let you bypass the WSJ paywall to read their excellent reporting on Facebook's awfulness

Knew they had hit men and sex slavers doing business on Facebook, did nothing about it.

A subreddit for data visualizations that are really just population density maps

Larry Elder's campaign publishes a website claiming the election was rigged with "evidence" for an election that hasn't even been counted yet.

A genderqueer person from 18th century France, in high society and politics (and spycraft!). Was friendly with Ben Franklin.

A set of coding fonts designed with contemporary principles. Explicitly supports proportional fonts

Short, poetic reflection on what 9/11 has become in America

Solve the spaces-vs-tabs debate by having tab mean "go to next cell in a table"

Demo of different color spaces, from someone who's created a couple of new options for color pickers

The go-to online source for ordering quality pens

Later models of the Apple //e supported a double high-res mode of 560x192

Assembly for the legendary 1984 video game. This guy has repos for many other classic games, too.

Some useful historical context on required vaccines, particularly from the smallpox era

Two years of Google ignoring labor law and underpaying temporary workers

New study shows that even modest increases in CO2 (well below safety thresholds) are associated with a decline in cognitive performance

Heroic editor removing Nazi fanboy garbage

More fallout from the ongoing corruption investigation in San Francisco

A list of major political violence events in Washington DC. America likes to pretend it's always peaceful and civilized but the reality is not so tidy.

Make a customized puzzle from any UK map

Great The Root article interviewing Fauci and two Black doctors about Covid and vaccines. "It's gonna be like Thanos in this motherfucker."

A new type of lithium-ion battery with a significantly more efficient chemistry

A history of a game genre

Our insane boondoggle of designing a new trashcan is tracked back to one center of San Francisco corruption, former DPW head Nuru.

Awful editorial decision to pull part of an interview of Judith Butler criticizing the TERF movement

A great explicit statement of the various social rules one open source community implicitly follows

2019 discussion of one artist's attempt to open source his code but prevent the *output* of the code from being used commercially

Quick and thoughtful reversal from the NFT that appropriated an artist's work. There's a deeper conversation that's needed here.

Clever AWS tricks to run a Minecraft server on-demand by listening for DNS queries to spin up an instance

Lil Nas X does some creative fundraising for charities around his new album

Some NFT scammer used Lingdong's open source generative art code to sell some crypto magic beans. The artist is very clear he does not want this use. But the code is MIT licensed so maybe they legally have the right. Big mess.

South Dakota governor commissioned a sculpture adding Trump

Nice article about the Internet Archive

Some history of the (currently) 26% tax credit homeowners get for installing solar

Details of how Juniper Networks got breached by a Chinese hacking groups. Turns out NSA demanded they use a sabotaged algorithm, then the Chinese attackers exploited the weakness.

Korean cooking; well edited with English subtitles

538's take on showing the ongoing process of redistricting

One central place to track all the proposed congressional redistricting maps. Includes links to details, partisan scoring, etc

Excellent essay capturing how dangerous this political moment is given the Republicans' willingness to do seemingly anything to stay in minority rule.

Some more details and "policy clarifications" around Reddit dealing with organized Covid disinformation

Republican leadership starts making baseless threats against companies for complying with a Congressional investigation. Why are they so intent on hiding what happened?