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My MPXXX Story (CW)
A friend details his awful experience of monkeypox. Content warning: graphic photos of skin lesions
2022-07-31 monkeypox • health • gay • lgbt • mpx • mpxxx • skin • disease
RFD Magazine
The famous queer magazine dating back to the 70s. Rural topics, radical faeries, thoughtful.
2022-07-31 gay • lgbt • rfd • radicalfaeries • rural • america • magazine
Russian fascism
Long, upsetting picture of the current state of Russian politics and society
2022-07-30 russia • fascism • politics • ukraine • war • putin
GPSJam Map
Map showing places where airplane navigation is reported unreliable around the globe
2022-07-30 gps • aviation • warfare • jamming • radio
Making Light
Low power DC gizmos like LED lights, etc are very easy to build with a USB PD trigger module supplying power
2022-07-29 electricity • power • led • electronics • hacking • usb-pd
Better Call Saul titles
Season-by-season comparison of the gradual video degradation of the show's title cards (other videos for other episodes)
2022-07-29 tv • bettercallsaul • via:metafilter • video • vcr
Notability calculation
Details of how the notability map calculates people; ranking based on Wikipedia and Wikidata
2022-07-29 notability • socialscience • via:hackernews • wikipedia • metrics • maps
Notable people map
Most famous person on Wikipedia in a geographic region
2022-07-29 maps • wikipedia • culture • socialscience • via:hackernews
Hachure map
Indicating steep terrain by drawing short lines along the slope gradient, perpendicular to the countours
2022-07-28 maps • terrain • gis • hillshading • hachure
Tanaka contours
The technique of making shaded relief maps by simulating a light source projecting over the terrain
2022-07-28 maps • hillshading • terrain • contour • gis • tanaka
Dore Alley monkeypox safety
Public health suggestions for the yearly BDSM party
2022-07-27 monkeypox • lgbt • gay • bdsm • safesex • publichealth • dorealley
French Tacos
A new fast food item from France; tortilla, meat, cheese, fries. With North African cultural influence.
2022-07-27 food • france • wrap • taco • fastfood • junkfood • delicious
Evolution of ASL
Sign languages change rapidly with culture, technology. Particularly interesting is the space the signs take up gets smaller, maybe related to phone video chat
2022-07-27 language • asl • Deaf • signlanguage • linguistics • culture
Bay Area monkeypox
Data from wastewater analysis
2022-07-26 monkeypox • bayarea • health • sanfrancisco • disease • publichealth
Rep Thompson's hypocrisy
Republican congressman votes against gay marriage, then goes to his son's gay wedding three days later
2022-07-26 politics • lgbt • gay • hypocrisy • civilrights
Monkeypox vaccine snafu
Details of the bureaucratic disaster that has resulted in vaccines not being made available as a new disease gets hold
2022-07-26 vaccine • monkeypox • health • politics • publichealth
Sausage Tacos
Hilarious food parody
2022-07-26 food • culture • appropriation • funny • hotdog
Gay Houston 1976
Excellent map of gay businesses in 70s Houston
2022-07-25 lgbt • gay • houston • forallmankind • history • 1970s
ERCOT dashboard
Neat fan-made presentation of the state of Texas' electricity grid
2022-07-25 texas • power • ercot • dashboard • iso • via:hackernews
Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be)
New wireless standard; much lower latency worst cases, up to 40 Gbps (!) throughput
2022-07-24 wireless • wifi • 802.11be • via:reddit • networking
1400lbs of White House cheese
Gift to Andrew Jackson in 1835 turns into a strange public event
2022-07-23 funny • whitehouse • cheese • andrewjackson • history
SF V-J Day Riot
Drunk party turns ugly at the end of World War II
2022-07-23 history • riot • sanfrancisco • sf • vjday
Librarian on Dershowitz
World's stupidest "I've been cancelled" whine put into context by the stern librarian who has to deal with his bullshit
2022-07-22 dershowitz • library • marthasvineyard • cancelculture • trump
One-shot avatars
Using AI to turn a single headshot image into an animated avatar rigged for facial expression puppetry
2022-07-21 ai • avatar • portrait • animation
Monkeypox update
Notes from a disease researcher on what we know
2022-07-21 disease • monkeypox • gay • lgbt • msm
Dershowitz cancelled
Hilarious interview; the right wing lawyer does not seem to understand he's being mocked by the interviewer
2022-07-19 dershowitz • politics • trump • cancelculture • marthasvineyard • chillwick
Nova Launcher acquired
The best Android app launcher got bought by Branch, a surveillance company
2022-07-19 android • novalauncher • apps • launcher • privacy
Cincinnati chili
Details of the odd dish; turns out it's Greek/Macedonian in origin, not Tex-Mex chili at all
2022-07-19 chili • food • cincinnati • skylinechili
Intel microcode decrypter
Major advance; we can now see inside Intel's CPU design
2022-07-19 intel • via:hackernews • microcode • xucode • uops • hacking • optimization • cpu
Facebook hates URLs
Breaking links with encrypted tracking data
2022-07-19 facebook • url • web • privacy • ads • surveillance
Starlink -> Stinky
ISP changes the WiFi's default SSID possibly based on an Elon Musk joke, breaks customers networks
2022-07-18 starlink • isp • wisp • ssid • networking • badtech
East Pacific Islands
A map of geographical oddities: Galapagos, Revillagigedo, Cocos, and Clipperton
2022-07-18 islands • pacific • mexico • clipperton • galapagos • maps
SF's NFT club
Deliciously nasty article about an exclusive NFT club being built in the middle of a public park
2022-07-18 sanfrancisco • nft • crypto • salesforce • excess • corruption • irori
Chart.js
A very simple Javascript chart library
2022-07-18 programming • charts • visualization • simple • code
Houston near mass shooting
Misdemeanor and release, twice, for a man who looked to be moments away from massacring people at the Galleria
2022-07-17 houston • guns • redflag • politics • batshitinsane • texas
Jambu herb
A Brazilian plant with similar numbing effects (but not spice) as Sichuan pepper
2022-07-15 food • brazil • via:hackernews • sichuanpepper • jamba • numbing • mala
Lawsuit againt PrEP
Same Republican brain trust that got us the Stasi Texas abortion law now trying to undermine HIV prevention. They literally want us dead.
2022-07-15 lgbt • gay • prep • aids • hiv • texas • hate • truvada
Baron's butcher profile
Story of the excellent local butcher in Noe Valley
2022-07-15 butcher • food • grocery • jewish • sanfrancisco • barons • noevalley • bayarea
Monkeypox update in California
Details of the growing spread of a transmissable disease. Still only 150 confirmed cases but it's troubling.
2022-07-14 monkeypox • smallpox • disease • california • gay • lgbt • health
The DALL·E 2 Prompt Book
Thoughtful survey of various text triggers for deep learning generative art
2022-07-14 dalle2 • dalle • ai • ml • machinelearning • gan • generative • art
The Hajj Trail
Oregon Trail only it's the 1600 Islamic world and you are on your way to Mecca
2022-07-13 islam • history • mecca • hajj • via:hackernews • games • oregontrail
Unity and IronSource
Popular game engine company merges with an aggressive / scammy adware company
2022-07-13 unity • ironsource • ads • games • mobile • via:hackernews • malware
Stray introduction
New PS5 game, you play a stray cat exploring a city with a robot pal
2022-07-12 cats • games • stray • ps5 • playstation • meow
horizon(te)s
Zach Lieberman on his new collaborative NFT project. Beautiful art and helped me understand a creative possibility in NFTs that isn't a scam.
2022-07-12 nft • art • generative • medialab • code • lieberman • velitchkova
Nevada County recount
LA Times on a baffling recount that seems intended to undermine confidence in our elections
2022-07-11 recount • tedder • nevadacounty • politics • adona • elections
Uber whistleblower
The person behind the giant document leak was formerly in charge of European policy and expansion efforts
2022-07-11 uber • whistleblower • business • ethics • europe • traviskalanick
Texas electricity and cryptomining
Details of the bizarre alliance between energy producers and energy wasters
2022-07-11 texas • energy • grid • power • electricity • bitcoin • scam • ercot
Joel Kim Booster profile
Excellent profile of the Fire Island auteur
2022-07-11 gay • lgbt • asian • koreanamerican • film • movies • fireisland • yang • booster
Uber international corruption
Details of the Travis Kalanick era and all sorts of sleazy tactics
2022-07-10 uber • corruption • traviskalanick • politics • via:hackernews • tirefire
Ants Sandbox
Cute little pheremone / agent simulator
2022-07-10 via:hackernews • artificiallife • ai • complexsystems • emergence • simulation
Technoblade appreciation
Detailed Metafilter comment about the accomplishments of the young Minecraft celebrity who passed away
2022-07-10 games • minecraft • technoblade • skyblock • hypixel
Tiny web monitoring
Lightweight approaches to making sure custom web services are working
2022-07-09 monitoring • web • programming • devops • uptime
GPT-3 explains code
Some interesting explorations into the machine learning text model and programming
2022-07-09 gpt3 • ai • machinelearning • code • via:lobsters
Irregular grids
Some basic generative art algorithms
2022-07-09 generative • art • programming • grid
SleepHQ
Webapp for analyzing CPAP machine data; like OSCAR but in your browser
2022-07-09 sleep • sleepapnea • health • cpap • oscar • visualization
US dietary trends from 1800
Detailed historical dataset, some guesses how it's affected health
2022-07-08 diet • food • science • america • nutrition • health
Avatar hairstylist
Hilarious little TikTok
2022-07-08 avatar • movies • tiktok • funny
FCC vs Robocalls
Government singles out one company as the source of $8B scam calls, demands carriers stop routing their traffic immediately
2022-07-08 robocall • scam • fcc • carwarranty • spam
Burmese and Unicode
Details of how folks in Myanmar have a different text encoding they mostly use (Zawgyi) instead of Unicode
2022-07-08 unicode • burmese • myanmar • burma • language • encoding • zawgyi
About Protomaps
A new web mapping stack for open source maps and OpenStreetMap data. Vector map tiles rethought.
2022-07-08 maps • software • osm • leaflet • mapbox • protomaps • performance
Georgia Guidestones destroyed
Weird propaganda monument blown up in an anonymous attack
2022-07-07 georgia • weird • guidestones • monument
Republican election nonsense
A nice overview of just how incoherent the Republican claims of election fraud are
2022-07-07 politics • election • voting • votingrights • fraud
Florida university goodthink
State moves to survey teachers and students for their political opinions to make sure they are "diverse"
2022-07-06 florida • politics • desantis • fascism • university • college • academicfreedom
Nevada County Recount
The candidate who lost the Clerk-Recorder election by 22800 votes to 7843 is asking for a recount, supported by some far away radio personality.
2022-07-06 california • politics • adona • tedder • recount • voting • votingrights
Lego A380
Minifig scale model of a giant airplane
2022-07-05 legos • airplane • a380 • via:metafilter • model
Datawrapper
Simple charts and maps from data for publication
2022-07-05 visualization • charting • data • graphing • maps • journalism
IBM Selectric bug
Cold war spy tech, a keystroke logger hidden in electric typewriters
2022-07-03 spycraft • espionage • typewriter • keylogger • coldwar • russia • sovietunion • via:hackernews
IPv4 address prices
Charts of the price of an IP address; $40 per address
2022-07-03 ipv4 • internet • address • technology • ipv6
Key Maps
From the time before Internet maps; a Houston company that made detailed driving maps
2022-07-02 maps • houston • keymaps • gps • directions
About Zugzwang
Artist's statement for the gay sex game, there's a lot of depth going on in here
2022-07-02 games • robertyang • sex • gay • lgbt • zugzwang • art
Zugzwang by Robert Yang
New gay sex game from the auteur of arty gay sex games, with a heavy does of esoterotica
2022-07-02 games • gay • lgbt • nsfw • esoterica • erotica • comstock • sex • craddock • robertyang
MPPT charging
Details of how to charge a battery efficiently with a solar panel putting out variable power
2022-07-01 battery • solar • charging • electricity • mppt • dc
Pig-Butchering scams
"Wrong number" spam messages are the start of a romance con
2022-07-01 con • scam • whatsapp • fraud • catfishing
Technoblade: so long nerds
Heartbreaking video of a Youtube star's father sharing the news that he passed away
2022-07-01 minecraft • obituary • cancer • technoblade • hypixel
Bowie Barbie
Awesome looking gender bending doll
2022-07-01 barbie • lgbt • genderqueer • davidbowie • bowie • toys
Apple insider trading
Former Director enforcing insider trading policy was an insider trader
2022-07-01 fraud • apple • insidertrading • levoff • stockmarket
About @robotdraw
Nice feature on Joshua Schachter's success making little comedy short videos of a plotter
2022-07-01 joshu • plottertwitter • tiktok • plotter • comedy • robot