Boris Becker tax cheat

Be sure to read the part where he claims diplomatic immunity as a representative of the Central African Republic

2022-04-30 borisbecker • crime • fraud • germany • tennis

Wanghong and art galleries

Discussion of the cultural phenomenon in China for showing up at places so you look on-trend in social media

2022-04-30 art • china • culture • kols • museum • socialmedia • trend • viral • wanghong

Chinese geolocation experiment

Social media like Weibo are now disclosing their users' general location as part of their posts, in an effort to fight propaganda. A discussion of how it's working and being received.

2022-04-30 china • geolocation • privacy • propaganda • socialmedia • weibo

Cannabis prices

Local dispatch from Nevada County; $300 a pound, $100 of which is to pay the trimmers to process it

2022-04-30 cannabis • economics • marijuana • market • nevadacounty • taxes • weed

Twitodon

A new tool for finding Twitter friends on Mastodon. Written just this week, April 2022.

2022-04-30 dataportability • mastodon • socialmedia • twitter

Mastodon Bridge

An old, now discontinued tool to follow Twitter friends on Mastodon. They shut it down, I think because the Twitter API wouldn't let them do what they needed.

2022-04-30 dataportability • mastodon • socialmedia • twitter

Cawthorn and Smith

Allegations of inappropriate relationship. Maybe sexual, maybe just bros being stupid, but also evidence of financial misconduct.

2022-04-29 cawthorn • corruption • fraud • gay • lgbt • politics

Niemöller's quote

The famous "First they came..." Holocaust quote originally came in different forms naming different groups

2022-04-29 niemoeller • niemöller • germany • holocaust • nazis

More Musk harassment

Editorial on the lack of response from Twitter leadership to protect its employees

2022-04-28 elonmusk • harassment • musk • tirefire • twitter

How to Tuck (midlly NSFW)

The practical aspects of using tape to hide masculine genitalia and present female. (Video is blurred, not explicit.)

2022-04-28 lgbt • passing • trans • transgender • tucking

Musk's Twitter harassment

Directing the ire of his fanboys at individuals at the company

2022-04-28 harassment • musk • tirefire • twitter

Goldman on Musk

Twitter founder on TV talking about how non-serious Elon Musk is.

2022-04-28 elonmusk • goldman • twitter

Great Man in tech

The reality of tech companies is never that one dude is responsible for success

2022-04-27 collaboration • greatman • musk • startups • twitter • work

Pre-Columbian West African food

Discussion of how modern West African food differs from before the Columbian exchange

2022-04-27 africa • chile • cooking • food • tomato • westafrica

Binance + Putin

Crypto company hands over financial data on supporters of Navalny as a way of cozying up to Russian thuggery

2022-04-26 binance • corruption • crypto • fsb • navalny • politics • russia

Gemini / capsules

A 2022 effort to define a new protocol somewhere between the Web and Gopher. No idea why the world needs this, but it's kind of neat.

2022-04-26 gemini • gopher • internet • protocol • publishing • web

Birx' book

Trump Covid lead writes a book about her experience as a collaborator

2022-04-26 birx • covid • politics • trump

Inside Twitter today

Good overview of the chaos and dread for Twitter employees with Musk's acquisition

2022-04-26 acquisition • elonmusk • tirefire • twitter

Musk vs free speech

A roundup of the times Musk has used his wealth and power to suppress speech he doesn't like

2022-04-26 elonmusk • freespeech • hypocrisy • twitter

Carbon removal XPrize

Elon Musk put $100M into a prize for new solutions for carbon capture. They just gave out fifteen $1M prizes

2022-04-26 carbon • carboncapture • climatechange • elonmusk • xprize

Aviation jackass

Red Bull sponsored stunt goes wrong. Two pilots planned to swap planes mid-air. One of the unoccupied planes entered a spin and crashed.

2022-04-25 aviation • faa • hulu • redbull • stunt

RIP Wayne Collins (2019)

A pilot from Mineola, TX who flew around the world twice in a little Bonanza

2022-04-25 aviation • mineola • obituary • texas • worldrounders

The 64 day flight

Excellent details of an aviation stunt keeping a Cessna flying for 64 days

2022-04-25 aviation • cessna • endurance • flying • record • via:metafilter

RIP Ursula Bellugi

Linguist researcher expert in the linguistics of signed languages

2022-04-25 asl • bellugi • linguistics • signlanguage • via:metafilter

French vote map

Detailed map of how French voted in the presidential election

2022-04-25 france • lepen • macron • maps • politics • vote

So.cl

Microsoft's forgotten attempt at building a social media product. (2011-2017).

2022-04-25 microsoft • socialmedia • twitter

Belarussian railway saboteurs

Early days of Russia's attack on Kyiv were thwarted by Belarusians who sabotaged their railway's signaling system

2022-04-25 belarus • cyberwarfare • logistics • railway • russia • trains • ukraine • war

GDPR Conditions for consent

Specific language about requiring explicit consent for cookie tracking, etc online

2022-04-24 consent • gdpr • privacy • ui

Standard Ebooks

Library of public domain books that have been nicely copyedited and typeset

2022-04-24 books • free • gutenberg • manybooks • publicdomain

Elden Ring ambiance

Six hours of music and calm video of the game's mood

2022-04-23 ambient • eldenring • games • music

Sense

Home electricity usage monitor. Clamp CT sensors around your electric supply and their machine learning gives details on power usage in your house

2022-04-23 ctsensor • electricity • energy • home • machinelearning • sense

Implicit Association Test

A psychology experiment in measuring individuals' implicit biases and stereotypes

2022-04-22 bias • diversity • gay • lgbt • psychology

City of Brass reading list

For the fantasy novel, suggested reading on the various forms of Islamic and Arabic culture she drew on for her book

2022-04-22 books • cityofbrass • culture • djinn • fantasy • islam • reading

Pattie Maes and social media

Article about my grad school advisor, mostly about Firefly and a bit Brad Rhodes' Remembrance Agent

2022-04-21 agents • ai • collaborativefiltering • computing • medialab • socialmedia • socialnetworks

Shanghai quarantine sites

Photos of densely packed beds for folks quarantining for Covid

2022-04-21 china • covid • medical • quarantine • shanghai

Kotick + Sandberg (2017)

Long detailed article on the power couple's former relationship

2022-04-21 activision • blizzard • bobbykotick • facebook • mourning • relationship • sexism • sherylsandberg

Sheryl Sandberg news suppression

Ugly story of the Facebook COO pressuring a news organization to hide a story about her boyfriend. Also, ugly story that Sheryl Sandberg was dating Bobby Kotick

2022-04-21 activision • blizzard • bobbykotick • facebook • journalism • kotick • sherylsandberg • tirefire

Craven GOP on Trump

Republican leaders knew Trump's coup attempt was wrong and said so privately, but refused to act out of political fear

2022-04-21 coup • cowardice • democracy • gop • politics • trump

Placemark launches

New web-based map making software by map genius Tom MacWright. $20/mo, free trial

2022-04-21 cartography • gis • maps • service • webapp

Florida textbooks analyzed

Someone looks at banned textbooks to try to understand why they were banned. It's really not clear.

2022-04-21 education • florida • racism • teaching • textbooks

051 Sol Lewitt

1970 generative art piece (to be executed by hand) redone as Javascript

2022-04-21 art • design • generative • sollewitt • via:reddit

Nisenan history

A cultural map of Native American uses of the land that is now Grass Valley and Nevada City

2022-04-20 grassvalley • history • maps • nevadacity • nevadacounty • nisenan

HyperCard Art Bits

A collection of 90s bitmap clip art

2022-04-20 apple • art • clipart • hypercard • pixelart

Arabic leaf calligraphy

Gorgeous gold inscriptions on dried / skeletized leaves

2022-04-20 arabic • art • calligraphy • islam • via:metafilter

Archive of Political Emails

Searchable archive of politics spam from "the worst inbox on earth"

2022-04-20 archive • politics • searchengine • spam

Pumped hydro in Michigan

Why we aren't building more of our best energy storage system

2022-04-20 energy • environmentalism • globalwarming • hydroelectric • michigan • pumpedhydro

DNA Lounge gives up

jwz long, sad piece about giving up on Covid protection policies because no other nightclub is doing it

2022-04-19 covid • disease • dnalounge • health • jwz • publichealth • publicpolicy

Magnetron / GPT3 AI

A short story about someone using a GPT3 AI to bring an imaginary friend to life

2022-04-19 ai • gpt3 • horror • magnetron • microwave • scifi

Null Island analysis

Thorough, thoughtful discussion on the map joke / data coding error

2022-04-19 gis • maps • migurski • nullisland • via:hackernews

Libs of TikTok

A long profile of a propaganda account aimed at attacking LGBTQ people under the name Chaya Raichik

2022-04-19 chayaraichik • gay • hatespeech • lgbt • politics • propaganda • tiktok • twitter

Dirty Computer

Links and info about Janelle Monáe's book connected to her album and video

2022-04-19 janelle • janellemonáe • monae • afrofuturism • books • dirtycomputer • music

Crypto shill tweets

Price list for D-list celebrities and spam accounts to market your magic beans.

2022-04-19 crypto • cryptocurrency • fraud • scam • shilling • twitter

Ted Cruz's sedition

Details on the Texas senators' efforts to overturn an election

2022-04-18 america • politics • sedition • senate • tedcruz • texas • trump

Axie Infinity collapse

Players fleeing the crypto scam, details on the failed game economics

2022-04-18 colonialism • crypto • cryptocurrency • games • nfts • scam

WHO Covid misinformation

Detailed writeup of why it took nearly two years for the health agency to finally correct its mistake early in the pandemic

2022-04-18 communication • covid • pandemic • politics • publichealth • who

Gargantuan Takeout Rocket

Tool for using Google Takeout to download multiple terabytes of data directly to Azure cloud storage

2022-04-18 azure • dataportability • google • googletakeout • youtube

λ-2D

New project from Lingdong Huang, a programming language that you draw rather than type

2022-04-17 graphics • language • lingdonghuang • programming • visualprogramming

Tengen games

Deep dive on an unlicensed Nintendo game manufacturer

2022-04-17 games • nes • nintendo • tengen • via:hackernews

Dunning-Kruger statistical fallacy

A very simple analytical mistake made in the famous psychology observation

2022-04-16 autocorrelation • dunningkruger • psychology • statistics • via:metafilter

Minecraft census

Scanning the whole Internet to find ~100,000 Minecraft servers. Details on what mods people use.

2022-04-16 census • ipv4 • minecraft • mods • scanning • servers

Tesla's founding

The messy early history of Tesla, including the fact it was founded by two people other than Elon Musk

2022-04-15 elonmusk • founders • history • startups • tesla

$600M theft from North Korea?

US Treasury has connected the theft of $600M worth of crryptocurrency to the Lazarus Group

2022-04-15 apt38 • crypto • cryptocurrency • hacking • lazarusgroup • northkorea

Rise Gold vs Nisenan

CEO of an effort to restart a gold mine in Nevada County accidentally reveals his contempt for Native Americans

2022-04-15 california • grassvalley • mine • nativeamericans • nevadacounty • nisenan • politics

Jackie Robinson

Some context on Jackie Robinson and his experience of the civil rights struggle

2022-04-15 baseball • civilrights • history • racism

Content Moderation Remedies

An analysis of options Internet services have to moderate their platform, particularly alternatives to straight up removal of problematic content

2022-04-14 freespeech • internet • moderation • policy

Dianne Feinstein's competence

Long, detailed article making the case the 88 year old senator is not mentally able to do the job any more

2022-04-14 aging • california • dementia • difi • politics • senate

Easter explained

Exoticizing the Christian holiday

2022-04-14 christian • christianity • easter • funny • jewish • judaism • religion • satire

Top Americans taxes

Detailed analysis and visualization of tax rates of the 400 highest earning Americans

2022-04-13 america • finance • investment • politics • taxes • via:metafilter

Amazon drone update

Autonomous flight turns out to be harder than anticipated

2022-04-12 amazon • aviation • delivery • drones • flying • uav • via:reddit

Tiny Elden Ring

Tilt-Shift like effect applied to the videogame

2022-04-12 eldenring • games • tiltshift • via:metafilter • video

Unicorn panic in Ohio

Kids book reading blocked because a school district freaked out thinking it was a secret gay agenda

2022-04-12 books • kids • lgbt • lgbtq • panic • reading • tirefire • unicorn

Misterb&b

AirBnB for LGBTQ people

2022-04-12 airbnb • bnb • gay • hotel • lgbt • lgbtq • travel

Bill Burns profile

Fawning compliments about the current CIA chief, showing himself to be very competent navigating the Russia/Ukraine war

2022-04-12 america • billburns • cia • diplomacy • politics • russia

Crypto Kids Camp

Pretty sure this is the third seal of the Apocalypse

2022-04-12 camp • children • crypto • cryptocurrency • kids • scam

RPi CM4 router board

Add-on module to add a second gigabit ethernet port to the PCIExpress buss

2022-04-12 cm4 • ethernet • hardware • network • raspberrypi • router • rpi

Solar cell research

Wikipedia has a good cluster of articles about photovoltaic solar power and research development

2022-04-12 photovoltaic • power • pv • research • solar

David Mamet, sex obsessed

Bizarre rant claiming all male teachers are predators

2022-04-12 batshitinsane • davidmamet • homophobia • politics • qanon

Color on Musk / Twitter

No new facts but lots of interpretation and commentary on Elon Musk's childish trolling of Twitter

2022-04-11 elonmusk • fraud • governance • sec • twitter

Comma rules

My high school English teacher had this one page set of rules for when to use commas. I've come to wonder if some of these are correct but it was a great teaching aid.

2022-04-11 comma • english • grammar • highschool • writing

ECOTAG open world games

A framework for talking about open world game design choices

2022-04-10 assassinscreed • eldenring • games • openworld • ubisoft

Starlink Ukraine financing

Details of the cost of providing Internet in Ukraine, and the US government's role in financing it

2022-04-09 internet • starlink • ukraine • usaid

PG&E CEO: $51.2M

Boss of the terrible manslaughtering utility company gets paid an obscene amount of money while presiding over incompetence and negligence

2022-04-08 california • pge • piggy • politics

Painting Robot

Adrian Bowyer is working on taking GAN-produced images and painting them in acrylic with a robot

2022-04-08 art • gan • generative • painting • reprap

WebAuthn reality

Problems with a standard, supported system for authenticating without passwords

2022-04-08 authentication • internet • password • security • webauthn

Mozilla Fathom

AI code to parse a web page DOM and tag it with annotations about what the pieces of the page are likely for

2022-04-07 ai • code • dom • firefox • machinelearning • programming • web

Black Excellence

Michael Harriot on what Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination reveals about Black success in America

2022-04-07 america • black • doublestandard • kbj • politics • race • racism

Worldcoin investigation

MIT tech review takes a close look at Worldcoin's ops on the ground and finds a lot of lying and law breaking

2022-04-07 a16z • crypto • cryptocurrency • privacy • samaltman • scam • worldcoin

Air Raid Sirens in Ukraine

A visualization of a daily and nightly horror, still updating.

2022-04-07 airraid • kyiv • ukraine • visualization • war

Musk and Twitter filings

Lots of evidence of late filings, wrong filings, things that all sure look like they add up to fraud to me

2022-04-06 fraud • musk • stocks • twitter

Worldcoin going badly

Company that promised cryptocurrency in exchange for eyeball scans is having a bad time. Part of their business plan is exploiting local labor.

2022-04-06 a16z • crypto • cryptocurrency • samaltman • scam • worldcoin

Tennessee child marriage

Republicans push for a new form of child sexual exploitation

2022-04-06 children • politics • republicans • tennessee

Thai leather map

Fun idiosyncratic map of the world from a restaurant in Thailand

2022-04-06 folkart • leather • maps • thailand

NFTs are forever!

Stupid car racing game loses its F1 license, game and tokens become valueless

2022-04-06 crypto • cryptocurrency • formula1 • games • nfts • scam

Truth Social problems

Turns out the grift is at risk, too

2022-04-06 politics • scam • socialmedia • trump • truthsocial

Litestream

A lightweight streaming backup system for sqlite

2022-04-05 backup • database • programming • replication • sqlite

de-eth-ed.csv

A list of Twitter users who have dropped the cryptocurrency ".eth" from their usernames

2022-04-05 crypto • cryptocurrency • ethereum • twitter

Racism in Border Patrol

Head of Border Patrol officer union parrots the nonsensical Great Replacement theory favored by European ethnofascists.

2022-04-04 borderpatrol • dogwhistle • fascism • greatreplacement • ice • politics • racism

Truth Social disarray

The new Trump-aligned social media company is not going well. At least, developing a product; the grift seems to be doing fine.

2022-04-04 grift • mastodon • politics • scam • trump • truthsocial

Binance scams

Largest cryptocurrency exchange allows absurd levels of leverage, then screws its marks when its own systems fail

2022-04-03 binance • crypto • fraud • gambling • scam

Placemark optimization

Nice details on making a modern, data-heavy webapp perform responsively

2022-04-02 development • optimization • performance • tmcw • webapp

Flags in Unicode

Emoji committee no longer taking flag proposals; it's an impossible task

2022-04-02 flags • identity • unicode • via:waxy

Better Nate Than Ever

A Disney movie for kids starring a 13 year old boy who may or may not be gay but is proudly flamboyant

2022-04-02 disney • gay • kids • lgbt • movies

Browser System 7

Tech details of building a fast, usable 68k Mac emulator in the browser

2022-04-01 apple • basilisk • docker • emulator • mac • macos • retrocomputing

"Grooming" smear

QAnon conspiracy has now become a mainstream Republican smear against people they don't like, particularly in LGBTQ issues

2022-04-01 lgbt • lgbtq • libel • politics • qanon • slander • smear

Firefox blocked localhost ports

Security measure; Firefox blocks access to a few ports on localhost, you can override it

2022-04-01 browser • firefox • internet • security

GOV.UK Design System

A government's official web design style, with code to implement it

2022-04-01 accessibility • design • govuk • hci • ui • uk • usability • web

Fiqh Council of N.A.

The Muslim group in North America that observes the date of Ramadan and provides guidance on various aspects of Islamic law

2022-04-01 america • calendar • canada • islam • muslim • ramadan • religion • shariah

Reed Prof Paul J Currie

Tenured Reed College professor in a video making offensive racist comments.

2022-04-01 politics • racism • reed • reedcollege • tirefire