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AI copyright
US Copyright Office against AI-generated image copyrights
2023-02-23 ai • art • copyright • intellectualproperty • ip
Proud Boys vs story hour
Another fascist attack on parents taking their kids to listen to stories being read
2023-02-22 america • fascism • politics • proudboys • storyhour
Early net lingo
A timeline of network culture terms going back to the 1970s.
2023-02-22 culture • history • internet • slang • usenet • via:metafilter
Fox News perfidy
Inside the lie factory; Fox employees privately mocked Trump's conspiracy theories while spreading them to their viewers
2023-02-18 fox • foxnews • journalism • news • politics • propaganda • trump
Stripe equity problem
Employee's RSUs expire if the tech company doesn't go public, causing a lot of financial and tax drama. Paywall bypass: https://archive.is/8bCAp
2023-02-18 equity • option • rsu • startup • stripe • tech
GoDaddy multi-year hack
Sleazy hosting company has been infiltrated for 3+ years, spreading malware via customers' properties
2023-02-18 badtech • godaddy • hacking • malware • sleaze
Open source map stack
Free software replacements for stuff MapBox provides
2023-02-17 mapbox • maps • opensource • via:hackernews
Black American History
Video series of history recommended by a teacher friend
2023-02-17 africanamerican • america • black • history • usa
Nevada City Mardi Gras
An explanation of one of the great local public events we have in Grass Valley
2023-02-16 california • grassvalley • mardigras • nevadacity • nevadacounty • party • tradition
SondeHub Amateur
Site tracking amateur radio balloon releases
2023-02-16 balloons • ham • maps • radio • science • windsaloft
Lost pico balloon?
Amateur radio fans launch helium balloons with tiny radio payloads. One went missing right about where the US shot down an object
2023-02-16 balloons • ham • politics • radio • windsaloft
Election manipulation company
"Team Jorge" hacks and spams to sway elections all over the world, including the US
2023-02-15 elections • fraud • politics • socialmedia
Oliver Sacks' swim purchase
Famous writer talks about buying a house mid-way through swimming in the Bronx
2023-02-15 daddy • newyork • oliversacks • realestate • swimming
Squares in Squares
A collection of optimial square packing for small numbers of squares
2023-02-15 geometry • math • packing • squares
SmoothWAN
OpenWRT with Speedify integrated, so you can easily bond two separate ISP connections for one more reliable / faster link
2023-02-15 bandwidth • bonding • internet • openwrt • speedify • starlink
Pseudo-Kufic
Christian artists in the Middle Ages copied Arabic calligraphy but only as decoration, not meaningful writing
2023-02-15 art • calligraphy • kufic • middleages • via:metafilter
Musk's ranking change
Twitter's new owner told engineers at 2am to ensure his tweets got seen or they were fired. So they gave him a 1000x ranking boost
2023-02-15 clown • ego • elonmusk • shame • twitter
Z-Library returns
Elaborate hosting setup to avoid legal trouble
2023-02-13 books • ebooks • piracy • zlibrary
Sylvester
An appreciation of the disco star and queer icon
2023-02-13 cockettes • disco • lgbt • music • queer • sanfrancisco • sylvester
MRI gun death
Idiot keeps a concealed pistol near an MRI, it goes off and kills him
2023-02-13 death • guns • mri • stupidity
Space Invader
A profile of the Parisian street artist
2023-02-12 art • invader • paris • spaceinvader • streetart
Burning Man vs clean energy
Yearly "temporary" festival suing to block a geothermal plant
2023-02-12 nevada • burningman • climatechange • geothermal • gerlach • globalwarming
Bypass Paywalls Clean removed
Firefox extension for accessing websites was removed without explanation
2023-02-12 appstore • extension • firefox • paywall
Stewart and Jen's homes
Details on the $140M in properties the Internet startup couple have bought
2023-02-12 away • jenrubio • realestate • slack • stewart • wealth
ChatGPT lossiness
Excellent essay exploring the knowledge and correctness limits inherent in deep learning models
2023-02-10 ai • chatgpt • lossiness • scifi
Vertical pig farming
Awful photos of industrial pork production, 20+ story high rise buildings
2023-02-09 china • dystopia • farming • food • pigs
Security Envelope Patterns
Diverse patterns printed inside envelopes to keep their contents invisible
2023-02-09 design • envelope • pattern • security • texture • via:metafilter
0.1 + 0.2
A very deep and precise dive into the oddities of floating point math
2023-02-08 computers • floatingpoint • ieee • math
Chuck Csuri and D. P. Henry
Comments on two early generative artists. Including a wholesome perspective on NFTs
2023-02-07 algorithm • art • drawing • generative • nft
Shift Happens Kickstarter
Been waiting for this for years; Marcin's amazing book on the history of typewriters and keyboards is now on Kickstarter.
2023-02-07 design • history • keyboard • kickstarter • marcinwichary • typewriter
Jan 6 and Twitter
Original reporting on how Twitter helped Trump foment his coup, including details of special treatment that Twitter and Facebook gave him and his fellow plotters
2023-02-04 coup • facebook • jan6 • policy • politics • trump • twitter
Twitter and the Jan 6 coup
Details on how the Jan 6 report left out all their research on the role social media planned in trying to overthrow the US government.
2023-02-04 coup • facebook • jan6 • policy • politics • socialmedia • twitter
SleepHQ
A newish web app for tracking sleep apnea and CPAP data, sort of an OSCAR clone in your browser
2023-02-04 cpap • data • medical • oscar • sleepapnea
Ikeda's pies & orchard
A local paper profile of the much loved fruit stand / pie shop / hamburger place in Auburn on I-80.
2023-02-04 food • fruit • ikeda • pie
Fake license plates
Washington DC's growing problem of folks hiding their car's identity
2023-02-03 cars • dc • law • safety • traffic • washingtondc
RIP fun Twitter bots
Some details on the good content we're losing thanks to Musk's capricious leadership
2023-02-03 api • bot • elonmusk • twitter • via:waxy
Last of Us gay appreciation
Lovely queer essay about the 3rd episode of the show
2023-02-02 gay • lastofus • lgbt • queer • zombies
WinCompose
An excellent, simple way to type characters outside your normal language set on Windows. Modeled after the old Unix compose key.
2023-02-02 emoji • internationalization • software • typing • unicode • windows • xcompose
Sniffies sex stats (NSFW)
Gay hookup app publishes some stats, giving the lie to there being no tops
2023-02-01 cruising • gay • lgbt • nsfw • sex • sleaze • sniffies
Ted Chiang at SFI
Sci-fi author takes a residency at the complex systems science institute.
2023-02-01 chiang • complexity • cormac • scifi • sfi • writing