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qntm on Control
SCP project author talks about the SCP-inspired game
2022-03-31
control • games • qntm • scp
Facebook amplifies misinformation
Six months of what is claimed to be a bug was promoting harmful content instead of suppressing it
2022-03-31
bug • facebook • moderation • tirefire
Tesla solar delays
Very awkward; since the Tesla solar tiles *are* the roof, whole houses are being held in limbo during construction
2022-03-31
roof • solar • supplychain • tesla
In the Shadow of the Star Wars Kid
Andy reflects on his role in one of the early mean spirited viral moments in Internet culture
2022-03-31
culture • internet • meme • starwarskid • viral • waxy
Wyze camera security disaster
Internet camera company knew for *three years* that their product was vulnerable and didn't tell customers
2022-03-31
badtech • cameras • security • wyze
LGBTQ romance trend
Queer romance finally finds publishers. It always had an audience.
2022-03-31
books • culture • lgbt • romance
Four King Maps
A What3Words parody with naughty words
2022-03-31
funny • maps • parody • swearwords • what3words
Google Maps antitrust
Various monopolistic behavior from Google leveraging their maps product
2022-03-31
antitrust • competition • google • maps • monopoly
Protomaps
Tools for generating your own map tiles
2022-03-30
cartography • leaflet • maps • vectortiles
Facebook vs TikTok
Company paid sleazy Republican political influencer company to smear TikTok in the press
2022-03-30
facebook • journalism • meta • sleaze • stupid • tiktok
$625M in cryptocurrency stolen
May be the largest value heist in history, total clown show
2022-03-29
badtech • crypto • cryptocurrency • fraud • ronin
J&J vaccine update
Big new report suggests if you only have J&J vaccine, you really need an mRNA booster.
2022-03-29
covid • health • j&j • mrna • vaccine
Kaspersky on US black list
Major security company, Russian but thought to be independent, is now listed as suspect by the FCC in addition to the FBI
2022-03-29
antivirus • kaspersky • politics • russia • security
Trumps missing 7 hours
More Nixonian than Nixon, hiding evidence from investigation
2022-03-29
coup • coverup • nixon • politics • trump • watergate
Population density map tiles
An easy to use raster map layer for population density
2022-03-29
maps • populationdensity • slippymaps • tiles • visualization
Slime Moulds
Love macro lens photography /cc @cramsay
2022-03-28
nature • photography • photos • slimemold • slimemould • via:kottke
Pirating the Oscars 2022
Andy does his yearly roundup of movie pirate activity. No one cares about screeners anymore.
2022-03-28
academy • culture • movies • oscars • piracy • screeners
Starlink availability
Official map of where it's possible to buy Starlink without a waitlist. It looks more optimistic than I think may be real.
2022-03-28
internet • isp • maps • starlink
Republicans and Covid
Stark visualization of how "red states" have significantly higher death rates from Covid
2022-03-27
covid • death • disease • politics • publicpolicy • republicans
Severance production design
Details of the amazing look of the TV show
2022-03-27
design • production • severance • tv
Пу́тин хуйло́
A detailed linguistic and cultural analysis of a Ukranian slogan which roughly translates to "Putin is a dick". only with much complexity and obscenity.
2022-03-27
insult • language • russia • slang • ukraine • war
Annotated crypto guide
15 experts make notes on NYT's puff piece on cryptocurrency
2022-03-25
crypto • cryptocurrency • factcheck • nyt • nytimes
Fortenberry convicted
Another corrupt Republican congressman
2022-03-25
corruption • criminal • gop • government • politics • republican
Atlanta is back
Donald Glover's TV show has a new season
2022-03-25
atlanta • glover • tv
Muse App
An advanced UI for note taking / brainstorming, using zoomable UI ideas developed by Ben Bederson and others
2022-03-24
app • ios • notes • pad • pad++ • zoomable
removing a.out
The long, slow process of removing legacy features from the Linux kernel
2022-03-24
aout • binary • development • elf • kernel • linker • linux • loader • via:hackernews
Texas vs LGBTQ+ pride
Corrupt state attorney general tells Austin's school district that having a Pride Week is illegal
2022-03-24
hatred • lgbt • paxton • politics • texas
A Latin Tribute to Kraftwerk
Cover album with a Latinx flair
2022-03-24
cover • kraftwerk • latinx • music
Carbon credit scam
Insider blows the whistle on Australia's carbon offset program
2022-03-24
australia • carboncredit • co2 • globalwarming • politics • scam
Cory Booker on Ketanji Brown Jackson
Sweet, deep, meaningful break in the racism parade of the Senate hearings in praise of a successful Black woman
2022-03-24
america • black • corybooker • kbj • politics • race
SF relief / Lidar
Interesting aesthetic of making a map the hard way
2022-03-23
blender • lidar • maps • relief • sanfrancisco • sf
Starlink in Ukraine war
Internet service is helping fight the Russian invaders
2022-03-23
internet • russia • starlink • ukraine • war
Troxler's fading
Creepy visual phenomenon, images disappear if you stare at them
2022-03-23
antimemetics • cognitivescience • opticalillusion • retina • vision
Packet Loss Test
Internet connection test that measures latency, jitter, packet loss in various scenarios
2022-03-23
internet • jitter • latency • network • packetloss • speedtest • testing
12ft paywall bypass
Uses Google cache data to let you read articles that are paywalled
2022-03-23
google • journalism • news • paywall • web
Congress cryptocorruption
Small bipartisan group of congresspeople inappropriately try to stop the SEC from regulating financial instruments
2022-03-22
congress • corruption • crypto • fraud • politics • scam
Electricity map
carbon emissions for electricity grids around the world
2022-03-22
carbon • electricity • energy • globalwarming • maps • via:metafilter
OneWeb + SpaceX
Good news for LEO satellite Internet; the most viable competitor to Starlink just got a new launch contract with... SpaceX.
2022-03-21
internet • isp • leo • oneweb • spacex • starlink
Starlink congestion
Increasing number of posts like this; the LEO satellite ISP has oversold their capacity
2022-03-21
badtech • bandwidth • congestion • isp • starlink
0E0P metacell
Metagaming for the Game of Life. Simulate any 2d 8 cell automata within Conway's Life
2022-03-21
ca • cellularautomata • conway • games • life • programming
UCLA unpaid professor
WTF? They want someone with a PhD to teach college chemistry "on a without salary basis"
2022-03-19
adjunct • california • professor • teaching • tirefire • ucla
Search engine survey
Comprehensively broad collection of search engines. There's only really 3 for English: Google, Bing, and Yandex.
2022-03-19
bing • google • search • via:lobsters
This City Does Not Exist
GAN aerial imagery /cc @vruba
2022-03-18
ai • cities • gan • generative • maps • satellite • via:waxy
DST bill shenanigans
Senators apparently surprised they passed the bill unanimously
2022-03-17
daylightsavings • dst • poltics • procedure • senate • time
Horizon: land gods (Spoilers)
A truly lovely surprise moment in the game Horizon Forbidden West, when you finish a quest to repair some broken farming machines
2022-03-17
games • hfw • horizon • plainsong • spoiler
First Webb focussed image
Alignment on the primary sensor worked!
2022-03-17
astronomy • jwst • optics • space • telescope • webb
Space Force emblems
Military anime
2022-03-16
america • design • emblem • military • spaceforce
Mister Global
2022 awesome national costumes
2022-03-16
beautypageant • costume • fashion • funny • nationalism
OpenGL rendering course
Writing a tiny renderer to understand how 3d graphics work
2022-03-15
3d • games • graphics • opengl • programming • via:hackernews
Gen-Z mode
A discussion of making user interfaces look not-boring
2022-03-15
design • genz • styles • themes • ui • ux • via:hackernews
Refinement interface
A simulation of Lumon's MDR task interface, from the TV show Severance
2022-03-15
games • lumon • severance • tv • via:metafilter • via:reddit
LibraryThing, OCLC, Open Library compared
Notes on book lookup services (from 2013)
2022-03-13
books • isbn • library • librarything • oclc • openlibrary
Wordle analysis
Nicely done data on 15 million Wordle tweets
2022-03-13
data • games • visualization • wordle
Orville Peck update
New album, personal notes about his career
2022-03-11
country • covid • music • orvillepeck • via:reddit
Outgoing NYC
Excellent historical map of NYC gay nightlife going back to the 1850s
2022-03-09
bars • gay • history • lgbt • maps • newyork • nightlife • nyc
Smithsonian / Benin bronzes
American museum sets a good example in the most egregious example of plundered art deserving repatriation
2022-03-09
art • museums • nigeria • repatriation • smithsonian
Zelle fraud
Banks refusing to take responsibility for their poorly designed system
2022-03-07
badtech • banks • cfpb • fraud • zelle
Carrier shell photos
Google image search of the wacky snail species
2022-03-06
nature • photos • shells • snails
Carrier shells
A species of snail that embellishes its own shell with the shells of other animals
2022-03-06
animals • nature • shells • snails
How Goodreads Deleted My Account
Another victim of Amazon / Goodreads
2022-03-06
amazon • badtech • books • goodreads
Pickles of Kyiv
Ukranian defense in meme form; a babushka took out a Russian drone with a jar of pickles
2022-03-05
kyiv • memes • pickles • russia • ukraine • war
Thai Elden Ring ad
Fantastic mini family drama, an ad for the hardcore fantasy game
2022-03-05
ads • eldenring • funny • games • thai • thailand
Ambushed by Russians
Terrifying personal story of a journalist crew in Ukraine being tricked and ambushed by Russian shooters
2022-03-05
journalism • news • politics • russia • ukraine • war
Coolors
A really nice and simple palette tool
2022-03-05
colors • design • palette • web
See you in prison
Roger Stone had a documentary film crew with him the whole time he was helping with Trump's coup. Some of the evidence is finally being disclosed.
2022-03-04
coup • politics • rogerstone • sedition • trump
Location spying
Details on the sleazy business of companies tracking people's movements through cell phone surveillance in apps they installed
2022-03-04
android • apple • data • location • mobile • privacy
Warming stripes
A data visualization of climate change with nice aesthetics
2022-03-02
climatechange • dataviz • globalwarming • graphicdesign • politics • showyourstripes • visualization
CDMX taquerias
94% of Chilangos live within a 5 minute walk of a taqueria
2022-03-01
cdmx • funny • mexicocity • taqueria • via:reddit • visualization • walkability
Dreams around the world
A map of Google searches about dreams by country. Western Europeans dream about teeth falling out; a lot of the world dreams about snakes.
2022-03-01
culture • dreams • google • maps • psychology • via:reddit