Nelson's Linkblog 2024-12

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A map of protests planned for Jan 18

2024-12-31 inauguration • peoplesmarch • politics • protest • trump • womensmarch

Yanyuwa language

Unusual Australian language: 16 noun classes, an unusual consonant inventory, very few vowels, and separate dialects for men and women

2024-12-30 aborigine • australia • language • linguistics • via:languagehat • yanyuwa

19th century Ugandan leader was queer. Interesting bio

2024-12-30 africa • bisexual • history • lgbt • uganda

Reed meat smoke

College buddies got serious about smoking meat for events

2024-12-29 bbq • college • cooking • meatsmoke • reed • rennfayre • smoking

Visualizations of the moon's motions around earth

2024-12-29 eclipse • lunar • moon • space • via:kottke • visualization

Reddit male harassment

Interesting discussion of girls and womens' experiences on a subreddit for girl gamers, how gross men slide into their DMs

2024-12-27 gaming • girlgamers • harassment • reddit • sexism

Hon. Frank Murphy

Supreme Court Justice in early 20th century was almost certainly gay, also a defender of civil rights

2024-12-27 civilrights • gay • history • lgbt • politics • supremecourt

Measuring Starlink users

Clever IPv6 survey finds 3M+ Starlink users

2024-12-27 internet • ipv6 • isp • starlink • survey

Helen Corbitt Texas Caviar

The original recipe for the blackeyed pea salad. Honestly sounds boring, but it's a starting point

2024-12-23 blackeyedpeas • corbitt • food • history • southern • texas

SimonW's linkblog

Details on process and tech for one of the most active current linkblogs

2024-12-22 blogs • internet • linkblogs • sharing • socialmedia

License Plate Game

A new word game from a friend

2024-12-21 dictionary • games • scrabble • wordle • words

The Loves of my Life

Chapter from Edmund White's new sex memoir. Text is very NSFW.

2024-12-20 edmundwhite • erotic • gay • lgbt • sex

World's richest man endorses Germany's right wing extremist party

2024-12-20 afd • elonmusk • fascism • germany • nazis • politics

MacKenzie Scott gives away another large tranche of money to non-profits

2024-12-19 charity • philanthropy • yieldgiving

mail-tester.com

A free service to test if an email is likely to be marked as spam

2024-12-18 dkim • dmarc • email • filtering • spam • spf • testing

Kenji and alcohol

Beloved food writer Kenji Lopez Alt shares a detailed story about his quitting alcohol with the help of AA

2024-12-18 aa • alcohol • drinking • kenji • kenjilopezalt • patreon • recovery • seriouseats

Amazon Time Sync

Microsecond-accurate timing in EC2 instances

2024-12-18 amazon • aws • ec2 • hosting • ntp • ptp • synchronization • time • via:iamcal

hydroxychloroquine fraud withdrawn

Sham paper for the fake Covid drug finally gets retracted

2024-12-18 covid • didierraoult • fraud • retraction • science

bridgy.fed has a new organization and second engineer!

2024-12-17 activitypub • atproto • bluesky • bridgy • fediverse • mastodon • ryanbarrett • socialmedia

Older woman gamer totally roasts stupid gamer boys

2024-12-17 funny • gamergirls • streaming • women

Mass hallucination thinks ordinary airplanes at night are mysterious drones or UFOs

2024-12-15 aviation • drones • hallucination • newjersey • ufos

Radiohead OK Computer re-arranged using Nintendo 64 sounds

2024-12-14 chiptune • music • nintendo • radiohead

A 1990s terminal emulator that provided terminal multiplexing client-side

2024-12-13 1990s • dos • programming • screen • shell • terminal • unix • uw • windows

LocalThunk interview

Thoughts from the solo creator of indie game Balatro

2024-12-13 balatro • games • interview • localthunk

Sora AI gymnastics

Hypnotizing video of an AI *almost* displaying gymnastics correctly

2024-12-13 ai • gymnastics • uncannyvalley

Queer interview

Snappy interview with Luca Guadagnino and Daniel Craig about the new movie

2024-12-12 burroughs • danielcraig • gay • lgbt • movies • queer • queerbait • snowball • wsb

OldInsuranceMaps.net

Crowdsourcing georeferenced Sanborn maps. Very incomplete archive but totally the right idea.

2024-12-10 crowdsourcing • fireinsurance • georeferencing • history • maps • sanborn

The Library of Congress' collection of property maps

2024-12-10 history • maps • property • sanborn

Harmeet Dhillon (CW: anti-trans)

Trump pick for a DoJ lawyer is an anti-trans crusader who is trying to outlaw gender affirming care in all states

2024-12-10 civilrights • hate • politics • trans • transgender • trump

Uranian (sexuality)

A 19th century term for a homosexual man

2024-12-10 gay • history • lgbt • oscarwilde

Stormlight Archive recaps

In case you don't remember what happened in the first 4500 pages of the story, before reading the last 1500

2024-12-09 books • fantasy • sanderson • scifi • stormlight • stormlightarchives

Colorectal Surgeon Song

Bawdy but kind song by a Canadian duo

2024-12-09 colorectal • funny • medicine • music • parody

Website to make it easy to 3d print terrain models

2024-12-06 3dprinting • dem • maps • printing • stl • terrain

Stardew Valley Spouse Survey

Choices made broken down by player's gender, sexual orientation, race, age, etc

2024-12-06 games • lgbt • stardewvalley • survey

Argentinian anarcho-capitalism

Summary of a year of a radical libertarian running Argentina and how what he's doing might be a hint of what Musk and DOGE might try to do. (The article is biased in favor of Milei.)

2024-12-05 argentina • capitalism • doge • libertarian • musk • politics • uspol

Accessing home services

A method for connecting to self-hosted web applications that's nicer than just having a bunch of random local IP addresses and ports

2024-12-05 devops • programming • proxmox • services • tailscale

3d objects that only have one stable position

2024-12-05 3dprinting • gomboc • gravity • sculpture • toys

63 Chinese Cuisines

Interesting review of different regional cuisines in china

2024-12-04 china • food • sichuan • tourism

California solar glut

We don't have the grid and storage infrastructure to use all the electricity we are generating

2024-12-03 california • economics • electricity • electrify • energy • solar

Yet another HTTP server command line tool. This one has options for single page apps, etc.

2024-12-03 hacks • http • server • web

A profile of a prominent gay citizen in Nevada City

2024-12-02 gay • grassvalley • history • lgbt • nevadacity • nevadacounty • niel • niellocke • profile

Threads Won't Take You South of Market

On Facebook's also-ran social media platform pre-emptively blocking a whole lot of queer Fediverse servers

2024-12-02 bdsm • bear • censorship • facebook • fediverse • lgbt • mastodon • meta • threads