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Rendered Twitter archive
A tool to make a simple static HTML of a Twitter archive. Browseable and searchable
2023-06-30 twitter • archive • data • socialmedia • selfpublishing
Fake plaintiff in gay case
Most recent Supreme Court ruling against LGBTQ rights is apparently based on a faked case from the plaintiff
2023-06-30 lgbt • politics • supremecourt • civilrights • fraud
Google Reader history
Interview with various folk who worked on the beloved, doomed social media project
2023-06-30 google • googlereader • rss • atom • feedreader • socialmedia
Power Outage map
An aggregation of outage data from many US electric companies
2023-06-30 power • electricity • pge • outage • infrastructure • poweroutage
ERC scam
New US tax scam, I'm getting several junk calls a week from very professional sounding scammers offering me this credit
2023-06-29 scam • irs • covid • erc • fraud • taxes • telemarketing
Technically Optimistic podcast
A friend has a new podcast about AI big picture, first one has a great interview with the journalist John Markoff
2023-06-28 podcast • ai • machinelearning • raffi • markoff
US elite slave history
Reuters investigates slave ownership of the families of 100 American political leaders
2023-06-27 slavery • history • genealogy • via:metafilter • politics
Penis enlargement surgery
Horror stories from a surgical procedure
2023-06-27 penis • men • surgery • penuma • urology
Operation Midnight Climax
A 1950s CIA brothel dosed people with acid in San Francisco
2023-06-25 police • politics • sanfrancisco • 1950s • history • cia • drugs • lsd • prostitution • abuse
Radio Beach
An odd forgotten beach just at the Bay Bridge toll plaza
2023-06-25 bayarea • sanfrancisco • beach • oakland • baybridge
Fake real photos
Simulating a camera in Blender
2023-06-24 graphics • blender • camera • photography • photos • raytracing • rendering
Meteor reporting
Website for collecting observations of a fireball or meteor
2023-06-24 space • meteor • fireball • astronomy
Meow: Mastodon export viewer
Handy browser based tool for searching your own toots, etc using an archive
2023-06-23 mastodon • fediverse • archive • javascript • webapp
htmx - high power tools for html
HTML framework that lets you do more dynamic things with a lightweight bit of code
2023-06-23 html • javascript • browser • webapp • frontend
Justice Alito corruption
A second Supreme Court judge caught taking luxury gifts from people with business before the court, not disclosing it
2023-06-21 politics • supremecourt • corruption • alito • justice
Cleaning laptop viruses
A clip from an Indian soap opera
2023-06-20 funny • india • tv • soapopera • laptop • virus • security • via:metafilter
The Matrix at 60fps
A particularly bad example of the soap opera effect
2023-06-20 movies • interpolation • upscaling • 60fps • soapopera • film • cinematography
NACS car charging
Details on the Tesla connector that other car companies are adopting in North America. The connector is smaller.
2023-06-20 ev • tesla • supercharger • charging • standards • northamerica
Muon positioning system
Navigation using cosmic rays instead of radio
2023-06-20 navigation • gps • location • muon • physics • underwater
OLED & subpixel fonts
Very detailed tech description of adapting a text rendering algorithm to newer types of displays
2023-06-19 oled • rendering • antialiasing • fonts • typography • cleartype
Zelda mods
Folks are already modding Tears of the Kingdom
2023-06-18 games • mods • zelda • totk • nintendo • hacking
Reddit pirated /r/piracy
Moderator coup by Reddit to force a closed subreddit open
2023-06-18 reddit • moderation • policy • tirefire • spez
India Stack / DPI
Overview of Indian government working to export its national infrastructure for identity and payments
2023-06-16 india • government • politics • tech • identity • payments
Reddark
Current state of the reddit protest; about half the subreddits are continuing the protest
2023-06-16 reddit • internet • community • labor • moderation
Super preemption
New trend of Republican state legislatures stripping power from cities
2023-06-15 politics • gop • republicans • states • cities • government
Archiving your father
Paul Ford on compressing his father's works to 7GB for the Internet Archive
2023-06-15 paulford • writing • obituary • mourning • library • archive • poetry
Link's fashion debut
Legend of Zelda Zonai machines used to make Link slay
2023-06-15 fashion • games • link • gay • zonai • totk
Click languages
Short sample of someone pronouncing four click consonants used in southeastern Bantu languages like Zulu and Xhosa
2023-06-14 language • zulu • khosa • southafrica • phonology • click • phonemes • zunda
LGBTQ+ flags
A comprehensive list of various pride flags. We do love our diversity.
2023-06-14 lgbtq • gay • politics • flags • pride
Starlink Action Figure
Show off your love for Space Internet with a 1:4 scale model of Dishy
2023-06-14 starlink • spacex • funny • doll • dishy
Trump supporter violence
Scary fascist language in response to a legal indictment
2023-06-11 trump • politics • fascism • escalationism
Tesla Autopilot: 17 kills so far
The dangerous not actually full self driving feature is lethal
2023-06-10 tesla • cars • elonmusk • autopilot • ai
California home insurance
Details about the FAIR plan and the slow collapse of California's home insurance market
2023-06-03 insurance • california • fire • fair • climatechange • politics • realestate
NY Senate Bill S6686
Proposed law that would require social media companies have APIs to let third parties write code to benefit users
2023-06-03 api • newyork • politics • twitter • facebook • reddit
Chotiner, Koppel, Kissinger
New Yorker journalist famous for skewering morally compromised people skewers Ted Koppel for befriending a war criminal
2023-06-03 politics • kissinger • koppel • journalism • chotiner
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
A short history of the drag nuns that have been in the news recently
2023-06-02 lgbtq • sisters • catholic • drag • politics
CA power bill change
Detailed explanation of work on significantly changing how most Californians pay for electricity
2023-06-02 climatechange • electrify • california • politics • pge
Lisa Sue of AMD
Profile of the CEO who has been leading the company in its recent successful era
2023-06-02 amd • tech • cpu • executive
Zelda open world
How Breath of the Wild's game design works and makes for a really satisfying open world experience. (No ToTK discussion, although many design principles still apply.)
2023-06-01 games • openworld • design • narrative