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Kissinger's legacy
A reflection on his war crimes and debasement of American politics
2023-11-30 kissinger • politics • cambodia • warcrime • america • uspol
Musk video: "Go Fuck Yourself"
Recording of Musk telling advertisers to go fuck themselves
2023-11-29 musk • elonmusk • twitter • ads • advertising • tirefire • adderall
Bridgy Fed
Ryan's project to make it easy to share blog posts to the Fediverse, etc
2023-11-29 bridgy • interoperability • fediverse • mastodon • blogs • rss
Jason Rohrer
Home page of the creative game developer
2023-11-28 games • passage • jasonrohrer • art
Fallout TV show
Game adapted to TV, stills look great
2023-11-28 games • fallout • tv • television
uBlock Origin Lite
Version of the popular ad blocker that will work in Chrome Manifest v3. Said to work well despite the limitations of the new API
2023-11-28 ads • adblocker • chrome • google • extensions • web • privacy
Video Privacy Protection Act
American privacy law created in the wake of someone obtaining Robert Bork's video rental history without permission
2023-11-27 privacy • america • library • vppa • politics • bork
Plex privacy mess
Company opted its customers in to broadcasting to friends what TV and movies you are watching
2023-11-27 plex • privacy • tv • media • lgbt • porn • via:waxy
ripgrep
2016 post introducing a new Unix file searching tool, talking about why it is so fast. 7 years later and it is still great
2023-11-26 text • search • ripgrep • rg • unix • linux • code
Bear 100 retro
Sean Gillies on attempting to run a 100 mile ultra marathon in under 36 hours. Remarkable athleticism.
2023-11-25 ultramarathon • running • fitness • body
Common Expression Language
Simple math expressions (think a * b + c) that you can then use in systems. A standard to allow for interoperability
2023-11-23 programming • code • math • cel • google • expressions • sandbox
R. Crumb / P.K. Dick
Comic about a religious experience
2023-11-22 crumb • dick • scifi • religion • schizophrenia • art • comics
The Dream House
Account of hearing La Monte Young play his unique American minimalism in New York
2023-11-22 music • lamonteyoung • minimalism • dream • house
Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein
In the 2010s the new OpenAI board member was buddy buddy with the convicted sex trafficker and raised money from him.
2023-11-22 summers • openai • epstein • scandal • sex
Z-machine source found
Code for Infocom's original game engine found and published
2023-11-22 infocom • games • zmachine • zip • retrocomputing
Tesla culpability
Judge rules Tesla and Musk knew their so-called autopilot could kill people and marketed it as full self driving anyway
2023-11-22 cars • tesla • ai • legal • elonmusk • autopilot • fsd
Not the usual Yada Yada
Screenshot of Google Toolbar disclosure in 2007 to get truly informed user consent
2023-11-21 privacy • google • history • toolbar • tracking • consent
The Australian Ballot
Secret ballots are called "Australian" because Australia had them before the US or the UK
2023-11-21 voting • history • election • australia • politics
Ads opt out
Automated industry tool to opt you out of 100+ surveillance sites
2023-11-21 ads • surveillance • privacy • internet • adblocker
Del Harvey on Twitter trust & safety
She was in charge of trust & safety at Twitter for many years and doesn't talk often. Interview takes a bit to get going but has a lot of interesting detail.
2023-11-21 delharvey • twitter • moderation • trustandsafety • trump • del
YouTube delays
Company is now deliberately sabotaging their video experience for people using ad blockers
2023-11-21 youtube • google • adblock • adsense
Electricity Map
Live map of carbon impact of energy usage broken up by region
2023-11-21 power • electricity • climatechange • carbon • emissions • co2
Understanding TESCREAL
A quick guide to the various problematic technoreligions that influence some in the tech industry
2023-11-19 tescreal • politics • ai • tirefire • siliconvalley
LoL Worlds Viewership
Historical stats for viewership of the big esports event
2023-11-19 leagueoflegends • lol • games • riotgames • china • ratings • esports
Pretty Maps interview
Excellent comments from Marcelo Prates on his artistic map making software and his career in general
2023-11-19 programming • art • prettymaps • maps • generative
break_infinity.js
Library for working with approximations of very large numbers, used in incremental games
2023-11-19 games • javascript • programming • infinity • exponential • logarithm • idle • incremental
Apple to support RCS
Finally, unified open text messaging across Android and iOS
2023-11-16 apple • ios • messaging • rcs • sms • google • imessage
I'm A Fairy Xmas ornaments
Gay up your Christmas tree
2023-11-16 gay • lgbt • christmas • ornament • kitsch
NEMA connector
A guide to all the various AC electrical plugs we use in the US. NEMA 5-15 is the standard we know and love.
2023-11-16 northamerica • electricity • power • plug • ev • ac
NEMA connector
A guide to all the various AC electrical plugs we use in the US. NEMA 5-15 is the standard we know and love.
2023-11-16 northamerica • electricity • power • plug • ev • ac
HTML Web Components
Easy to understand example of using Javasript and web components to enhance vanilla HTML
2023-11-15 webdevelopment • html • javascript • webcomponents
The Bars are Ours
New book on the history of gay bars
2023-11-14 lgbt • gay • culture • community • bars • losangeles • history
Mastodon critique
Useful roundup of various cultural and technical problems. It's all correct but doesn't stop me from enjoying the community
2023-11-13 socialmedia • mastodon • fediverse • via:metafilter
Noe Koi
SF Street Artist paints giant fish in intersection at beginning of our pedestrianized street
2023-11-11 sanfrancisco • streetart • noevalley • koi • novy • slowstreets • sanchez
Autocracy: Rules for Survival
2016 essay about how autocracies normalize extreme politics, after Trump's election. Much of Trump's extremism is now normalized and shapes 2023 politics.
2023-11-10 uspol • politics • trump • normal • autocracy • russia
Jill Stein, Moscow's candidate
2018 report on how the Green party candidate's 2016 run was aided by Russian propaganda spending
2023-11-09 uspol • russia • politics • greenparty • jillstein • putin
SF Mission burrito considered
A reflection on our signature food
2023-11-08 food • burrito • sanfrancisco • mission
Drug Emoji Codes
DEA panic flyer about the Kids These Days using emoji to talk about drugs. ❄️🍁🏈❤️
2023-11-08 funny • drugs • reddit • dea • emoji • panic
Perfect San Francisco Days
A surprisingly good tourist site by the SF government, focused on what to do in particular neighborhoods
2023-11-08 tourism • sanfrancisco • neighborhoods • sf
Starlink fraud
Last month or so Starlink accounts are getting stolen and saved payment info is used to order equipment for resale
2023-11-07 starlink • fraud • creditcard • scam
Android 14 upgrade disaster
Some fraction of phones haven't worked for a month and may have permanent data loss because Google screwed up an update
2023-11-07 android • google • dataloss • malfeasance
Trump's revenge plans
Plans to corrupt the Justice Department to get back at various people the former President doesn't like.
2023-11-06 uspol • trump • politics • justice • corruption • doj • barr
Overwatch League to end?
End of one of the biggest western esports efforts. Reports are the teams will vote to dissolve the league and take a refund from Microsoft.
2023-11-06 esports • games • overwatch • blizzard • microsoft • owl
Teeth falling out dreams
Apparently a cultural universal
2023-11-06 dreams • anxiety • teeth • psychology
Ten Guardians of SF
Funny pictures of SF landmarks as giant mechas (AI generated?)
2023-11-05 sanfrancisco • art • mecha • kaiju
Git Notes
When working on a code project you can add annotations to old commits with "git notes".
2023-11-05 notes • git • comments • programming
Rewind dot AI
A personal assistant that watches everything you see and hear and summarizes it for you.
2023-11-03 via:tmcw • ai • assistant • lifestreams
Zero Width Shortener
Hilarious link shortener that produces URLs that look empty, by using zero width Unicode
2023-11-03 linkshortener • zws • web • bookmarks
LibreHardwareMonitor
An active fork of OpenHardwareMonitor, a good Windows open source program for monitoring system sensors
2023-11-02 hardware • monitoring • windows • temperature • fan
de Young Museum cruelty
Awful story of the museum not offering a defibrillator to save someone's life.
2023-11-02 deyoung • museum • sanfrancisco • health • defibrillator
Queer Country Music
A short history
2023-11-01 music • gay • lgbt • queer • country • cw
Phanpy for Mastodon
Alternate client, very clean
2023-11-01 mastodon • activitypub • socialmedia