Nelson's Linkblog 2024-10

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Appreciation for 1960s Turkey's answer to Liberace

2024-10-31 culture • gay • lgbt • liberace • music • turkey

America PAC abuses

Musk's pay-for-votes PAC also hires people to knock on doors, then abuses them with unsafe rides and threats of non-payment

2024-10-30 americapac • elonmusk • musk • pac • politics • trump • uspol

Fascinating queer person from the early 1900s

2024-10-30 bahamas • england • genderqueer • history • lgbt • queer

Fun etymology for the word for safety covers on electrical switches.

2024-10-30 children • etymology • industrial • words

Old school website / database of people who've flown their single engine planes around the world

2024-10-30 aviation • batshitinsane • bonanza • flying • singleengine • world

Trailer for Queer

William S. Burroughs novel has been made into a film starring Daniel Craig

2024-10-30 burroughs • gay • guadagnino • lgbt • movies • queer • wsb

Texas disenfranchisement

Detailed story of a woman being denied the right to vote because some process decided she was not a citizen

2024-10-29 citizenship • elections • politics • texas • votingrights

RIP botsin.space

Useful Mastodon service for sharing automated posts to the Fediverse is going away

2024-10-29 bots • fediverse • mastodon • rss

Guerilla art mocking the Trump coup attempt

2024-10-28 funny • j6 • jan6 • politics • poop • satire • trump • uspol

Journey to the gold diggins

1849 comic about the Gold Rush. CW: racism

2024-10-27 california • comic • goldrush • graphicnovel • history

The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model

The PhD thesis that's at the core of NixOS

2024-10-27 academic • computerscience • nix • nixos • os • phd • research • systems

Trump and fascism

Careful analysis with many citations about Trump's fascism

2024-10-27 fascism • politics • uspol

Elon Musk worked illegally in the US

Came to the US on a student visa but was never a student, started working instead

2024-10-26 elonmusk • hypocrisy • immigration • politics • uspol • zip2

1619 Project: Visual

Illustrated version of the essential American history book

2024-10-26 1619project • africanamerican • america • black • history • slavery

Kiribati survival

Wild story of two men surviving 33 days lost at sea

2024-10-25 boating • fishing • kiribati • pasifika • polynesia • survival

Keyboard layouts

Keychron's guides to compact but more or less traditional keyboard layouts

2024-10-25 keyboards • keychron • layout • tenkeyless • typing

Character Amnesia in China

How the prevalence of phonetic written Chinese is causing people to lose their knowledge of brushstroke characters

2024-10-25 chinese • culture • language • linguistics • via:metafilter • writing

Thermoradiative Photovoltaics

Theoretical idea of generating power sort of like a solar cell in reverse

2024-10-23 electricity • energy • physics • power • science • solar

Houston LGBT History

Fun old school website

2024-10-23 bars • gay • history • houston • lgbt

Trump's former right hand man discusses in detail how Trump is fascist and dangerous

2024-10-23 fascism • politics • trump • uspol

Political fundraising fraud

American politicians continue to defraud their donors, exploiting the elderly. The Republicans get 7x as many fraud complaints as the Democrats.

2024-10-22 creditcard • fraud • politics • scam • uspol • via:metafilter

Glitchy art turned into sweaters from Rachel Binx!

2024-10-22 binx • clouds • gifts • glitch • plotter • plotterart • sweaters

How Americans vote

A state-by-state breakdown of voting by mail, early voting, in person voting, etc

2024-10-21 america • politics • uspol • visualization • voting • votingrights

Marissa Mayer interview

Remarkably frank and personal

2024-10-21 feminism • geeks • google • marissa • marissamayer • yahoo

IPv6 Transition

A new state of the Internet post from Geoff Huston

2024-10-20 addressing • internet • ipv6 • networking • via:lobsters

Grass Valley artist, does amazing mixed media sculptures and wearables

2024-10-20 art • grassvalley • mythology • sculpture

Intense animated film about the weird lifecycle of Tears of the Kingdom. Apocalypse Now but with Bokoblin

2024-10-19 games • movies • totk • via:metafilter • zelda

revealing the fediverse's gifts

Erin Kissane on Mastodon community

2024-10-18 fediverse • mastodon • moderation • policy • socialmedia

Tech vs. Apartheid

1980s/90s story of spycraft aiding the ANC in dismantling South Africa's apartheid regime

2024-10-18 apartheid • crypto • encryption • history • security • southafrica • via:hackernews

HP calculator simulator

Nonpariel, high-fidelity simulation of classic scientific and financial calulators

2024-10-18 calculator • emulator • hp • retrocomputing

PikaPods hosting

Managed hosting for a bunch of open source apps. You can run these yourself but if you don't want to bother managing a server it's a cheap alternative

2024-10-18 apps • docker • hosting • managed • server

Self-hosted bookmarks, a Pinboard alternative

2024-10-18 bookmarks • linkblog • pinboard • selfhosting • software

China US immigration

Detailed reporting on the dangerous journey some Chinese take seeking asylum in the US, travelling from Ecuador to the southern US border

2024-10-17 america • china • immigration • migration • politics • us

RIP Ward Christensen

Nice obituary honoring the inventor of the online BBS

2024-10-16 bbs • computing • history • internet • modem • obituary • socialmedia

Chinese numerals

Chinese has a writing system with a character for the number to 10^44. (In modern usage, historical goes to 10^4096).

2024-10-15 chinese • incrementalgame • largenumbers • numbers • writing

List of games of a very specific genre

2024-10-14 clicker • games • idle • incremental

Tempe terrorism

Democratic campaign office has to shut down after being shot up with guns three times

2024-10-13 arizona • guns • politics • terrorism • uspol • violence

325,000 children

Useful background on a Trump lie that gets repeated frequently

2024-10-11 immigration • lies • politics • propaganda • trump • uspol

Open source radio mesh networking for long range usage

2024-10-11 communication • hacking • mesh • network • opensource • radio

US wealth distribution

A visualization on a linear scale

2024-10-10 inequality • money • politics • uspol • visualization • wealth

Nevada County election dashboard

My small California county has a nice online monitor for voting

2024-10-09 dashboard • democracy • elections • natalieadona • politics • votingrights

Ta-Nahesi Coates interview

Excellent Terry Gross / Fresh Air with Coates about his new book on his trips to Senegal and Israel

2024-10-09 america • freshair • interview • israel • journalism • politics • slavery

Winnemucca Pride cancelled

Threats against a small Nevada town Pride celebration

2024-10-05 nevada • lgbt • politics • pride • terrorism • threats • uspol • winnemucca

Gay Native Hawaiian movie, modelled after South Korean boy love

2024-10-04 gay • hawai'i • hawaii • indigenous • lgbt • movie • native