book recommender; give it a couple of titles and it pops out suggestions

Notes on hacking solar system monitoring to get data out directly from the device

Internal email about problems with production of a new engine and how the whole company (including Starlink) depends on getting it working

Legendary resignation letter from 2008, several years before he'd go on to found the company that became Slack

Months old, but the comedy team planned an NFT then pulled it when fans complained

Organization devoted to sharing art and music flirts with stupid cryptocurrency systems

The feel-good cryptocurrency attempt to buy the US Constitution is at best underprepared for the aftermath. More directly they seem to be completely failing at issuing refunds after a brief sojurn into trying to scam folks into some new useless cryptotoken

A very slick and non-spammy Google project to give you some idea whether solar on your roof makes sense

An interactive site for learning about how solar power works

Are we finally getting a nice pedestrian area? No, the motivation is our serious crime problem.

Details of our peculiar custom of stamping street names into sidewalks

Demonstration of satellite dropped a whole lot of new debris right in useful LEO orbits where Starlink, etc operate

Bullshit that Americans have to do to keep their legal rights when they buy Google hardware

A report on market conditions in Nevada County, CA

Details on a recent design cliche

Nice little generator site; pick a color and a type of shadow and it does the rest

An overview of the likely impact of our 2020 districting

Andy Baio's project creating a low-key virtual meeting space for events

A video clip of some of the really sloppy things Rockstar did with what should have been a great game release

A handy card for playing large Internet outages

Details from the investigation reveals new stories of sexual harassment, assault, death threats. And that the CEO Bobby Kotick knew much more than he's admitted.

Gerrymandering evaluation tool gets a nice feature

A nice study in small multiples

Anil Dash talks about the subtleties of tech invention and the polarized discourse around NFTs

Hints that Twitter might be willing to let third parties develop meaningfully on the platform again

A paper on a new design for random numbers in Linux

A chart of sounds ordered by frequency. The "zh" in "vision" and the "oi" in "boy" are the rarest.

Entertainingly informal and sprawling interview focusing on his identity as a gay person

Hilarious SNL sketch about male friendships

Hilarious looking contraption for launching things to orbit by spinning them really fast and flinging them up. It seems for real?

Community backlash about adding a Ponzi scheme to the social media system

US military bombed 60+ refugee women and children in Syria, then covered up the war crime

Details come out of the Trump administration deliberately sabotaging the early response to Covid

A clear statement of "don't use this for NFTs". Sadly, includes not publishing source.

"the Republican Party is mainstreaming menace as a political tool."

Map from 2018, source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtqzUtT2KYQ

Interesting analysis on how the deal got done, thanks to the behind the scenes influence of Sean Parker

Excellent visualizations of one of the most corrupted practices of American democracy

“I advise everybody to be a little careful when they go down through there,” Lead Belly said of Alabama. “Just stay woke. Keep your eyes open.”

Details of a fake memory extender from 25 years ago

Really stupid idea, even if its limited (so far) in where it can be applied

A thoughtful researched article; it's a satire project, I guess

A protest movement, an art project, or just someone having a mental breakdown?

Registry key to get Windows 11 to install even if your system is technically not supported

A profile of one of Trump's loyalty enforcers

A repository of binaries for things like numpy or rasterio

Excellent appraisal of the actor's career

Longstanding law against elected officials campaigning while on the job ignored by Trump people, found to have no enforcement teeth

Details and variants of a very subtle piece of art

A map showing only country adjacency

Really depressing article about how we're never going to get back to normal

FTC action recovers $60M in delivery tips that Amazon stole from its employees

Latest stunt about selling his stock is probably motivated by his tax burden related to options

New dataset; computer vision-derived map of all solar facilities on the planet bigger than 10kW.

An alternate DNS client for Windows that allows lots of flexibility

Local paper report on the fatal crowd crush at Astroworld

CA state park near Grass Valley rebuilds its historic covered bridge

Excellently written short article on Saul Griffith's book about how electrification is the solution for global warming

Wonderful story of a young man being his best self in a (somewhat?) accepting high school

Ford combines a 1978 F-100 with an electric motor

Visualization of which densely populated areas have lots of map features vs which have few

A genetic / cultural group of people from 10,000 years ago in what is now Siberia

NFTs stripped to their essence: own integers

Reflections on technologies to stop global warming by dimming the sun

An optimistic take on the hope for removing CO2 to stop global warming

I've seen lots of reports like this in the last week; Google ships Pixel phones via Fedex in the US, but the boxes arrive empty. Google's help for this problem is terrible.

Snips of film spliced in before the motion picture feature with test images featuring attractive women.

A privacy / adblocking DNS provider

All about the suckers who treat investing like gambling

The origin of the Google parody video

2010-era parody of Google overengineering

Gay / porny magazines from the 1980s and 1990s celebrating older men. Scans of whole issues.

Evidence that Trump representatives were conspiring directly with Capitol attackers

A time series database based on Postgres

Spray paint robot painting a 50 foot wall

A simple addon to a site to take payments for memberships, sponsorships, etc

A clear moral statement from a Guantanamo jury