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Fedifinder
A tool to help migrate from Twitter to Mastodon: finds people on Mastodon by scraping the Twitter bios of people you follow there
2022-10-30 mastodon • migration • twitter
Elon Code Review
A revolutionary new service to review your code. Note the pricing!
2022-10-30 codereview • elonmusk • funny • parody • twitter • via:metafilter
Tech wealth and art funding
A change in trend, folks from the tech industry funding the arts
2022-10-30 art • charity • culture • donation • ica • sanfrancisco • tech
Data Sovereignty
An indigenous people's perspective on machine learning, AI training, and indigenous languages
2022-10-29 ai • language • machinelinearning • mahelona • maori
Queer Afrofuturism
A short exploration of some remarkable artists
2022-10-28 afrofuturism • black • culture • lgbt • queer • scifi
Throuple geometry
A frank and sweet description of a gay relationship between three men
2022-10-28 gay • lgbt • love • men • polyamory • sex
Winding Down Skittish
Andy's neat experiment in online event spaces is ending
2022-10-27 audio • events • metaverse • online • skittish • waxy
Neptyne programmable spreadsheet
New product for building spreadsheets with real code backing it
2022-10-27 douwe • notebook • programming • python • spreadsheet
Starlink US data caps
Company appears to be severely curtailing service in the US because they are over capacity, but no clear communication yet
2022-10-27 bandwidth • confusion • datacaps • isp • starlink • throttling
Salish Sea map
Lovely new map of British Columbia and Northwestern Washington centered on the waters (/cc @timbray)
2022-10-26 canada • maps • pnw • pugetsound • seattle • washington
Pirate scene encoding
Some details on how video pirate groups think about encoding video in 2022
2022-10-26 codec • h.265 • piracy • scene • video • x265
GTA: Oakland
A map of Oakland in the style of Grand Theft Auto
2022-10-25 games • gta • oakland • via:reddit
Steirische Kürbiscremesuppe
Delicious pumpkin soup I enjoyed in Austria
2022-10-25 austria • cooking • food • kurbis • pumpkin • soup
SF toilet details
Lots of quotes from Parks & Rec trying to justify the $1.7M toilet, including "we built two others at this ridiculous price"
2022-10-23 bathroom • corruption • fraud • noevalley • sanfrancisco • toilet
The Rose Thorn
A 13th century poem of a woman talking to her vulva, arguing which of them is more charming to a man. Thought to be a medieval celebration of women's sexuality
2022-10-22 german • history • melk • poetry • rosendorn • sex • vulva • women
Noe Valley $1.7M toilet
Three years and an enormous amount of money to build *one toilet*. Which no doubt will immediately be closed permanently "for security"
2022-10-19 broken • corruption • noevalley • sanfrancisco • toilet
DNA kits - for kids!
Hideous invasion of privacy in Texas after yet another mass school gun murder. Not to mention a ghoulish concession that more kids' bodies will be so shattered by military guns that they are unidentifiable.
2022-10-19 children • civilrights • dna • guns • privacy • texas • violence
US healthcare outcomes
An excellent graph showing American Exceptionalism in healthcare
2022-10-19 america • data • economics • graph • health • healthcare
Hallstat, China
A tourist town so popular that someone built a replica of the town in China
2022-10-17 austria • china • hallstatt • replica • tourism
Truth Social whistleblower
One of the grifters turns state's, highlights the SPAC fraud and Trump's personal demand for loyalty payments
2022-10-16 fraud • politics • spac • trump • truthsocial
Musk as Russian agent
Useful idiot chats with Putin, then tweets in support of his invasion of Ukraine
2022-10-11 diplomacy • elonmusk • loganact • musk • putin • russia • treachery • ukraine
Self driving bullshit
Skeptic article somehow positively features Levandowski, the convicted thief who was most responsible for self-driving hype and failures
2022-10-11 levandowski • ai • cars • selfdriving • tesla • uber
Musk Messages
Text messages from 2020s Business Genius and his pals, as revealed in the Twitter lawsuit
2022-10-11 elonmusk • musk • siliconvalley • stupid • twitter • vanity
Redistricting and minorities
Details on how the gutting of the Voters Right Act has affected Black and Latino representation
2022-10-08 gerrymandering • migurski • politicalscience • politics • redistricting • voting
"Civil War" language
Unacceptable rhetoric from right wing and fascist sources
2022-10-05 america • civilwar • politics • socialmedia • trump • violence
Starlink capacity simulation
An attempt to model how much bandwidth the ISP may have for customers in various places
2022-10-03 bandwidth • internet • isp • simulation • spacex • starlink