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