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26 links
Fediverse privacy leak
Fundamentally private accounts and messages don't make much sense in ActivityPub. Pixelfed screwed up and leaked private data.
2025-03-30
activitypub • fediverse • mastodon • pixelfed • privacy
AI mediocrity
Cottom on how applications of AI lead to very meh results
2025-03-29
ai • cottom • education • mid • work
Contrapoints Lewks
A catalog of the video maker's amazing outfits from year to year
2025-03-29
beauty • contrapoints • fashion • lgbt • trans • video
White House cruelty
An examination of the tone of Trump administration's tweets, exalting in hurting people
2025-03-29
cruelty • fascism • politics • socialmedia • trump • twitter • uspol
DOGE collaborators
Some founders and VCs in the tech industry working with Musk, Trump, and the effort to chainsaw the US government
2025-03-26
doge • elonmusk • pmarca • politics • techindustry • trump • vcs
Hegseth texts war plans
Trump administration shares bombing plans in Yemen with a journalist. Perhaps Hegseth was drunk at the time?
2025-03-24
hegseth • politics • security • trump • uspol • yemen
Hooters and gay teens
Sweet article about waitresses being kind to gay teenage boys whose fathers are trying to impose heterosexuality by taking them to Hooters
2025-03-23
allies • gay • hooters • lgbt • teenagers
Assassin’s Creed Shadows
Brazilian ad for the videogame in the style of Tokusatsu, cheesy Japanese live action movies
2025-03-22
assassinscreed • brazil • funny • games • tokusatsu
Understanding Solar Energy
Thoughtful overview of how solar panels work in practice and systemic effects
2025-03-22
electrify • energy • engineering • solar
Khmer cookbooks
A very interesting review of Cambodian cookbooks, almost all of which are not available in the US
2025-03-22
cambodia • cookbooks • cooking • food • khmer
M.I.A.'s Arular at 20
Thoughtful reflection on a big album from 2005
2025-03-22
arular • controversy • diplo • hiphop • mia • music
El Salvador experience
Photojournalist was in El Salvador when one of the planes full of Venezuelan prisoners from the US arrived
2025-03-22
humanrights • politics • republicans • torture • trump • uspol
White Lily
Fassbinder film clip that inspired the Laurie Anderson piece
2025-03-19
fassbinder • laurieanderson • movies • music • via:metafilter • whitelily
ActBlue attacked
Republicans move to outlaw Democratic Party lawyers and fundraising tools
2025-03-19
actblue • marcelias • nazigermany • perkinscoie • politics • republicans • trump • uspol
Plex enshittifies
Popular video piracy platform is now going to require you pay if you want to stream your pirated video offsite. Also prices are going up.
2025-03-19
piracy • plex • streaming • tv • video
Mondrian considered
This interactive has a really nice small multiples of Mondrian's paintings about halfway in
2025-03-18
art • mondrian • painting
Inside CDC
How a bunch of non-political health experts are reacting to having their organization destroyed by Trump and Musk
2025-03-18
cdc • doge • health • musk • politics • publichealth • trump • uspol
More PG&E water problems
Second year in a row that Nevada County will be without an important water source because PG&E failed to maintain water infrastructure
2025-03-13
corruption • grassvalley • nevadacounty • nid • pge • water
Two tone chloropleth
Bonkers visualization technique trying to use 2 colors per country on a map. It sort of works?
2025-03-13
chloropleth • color • maps • via:reddit • visualization
SteamPeek
Tool to find games like other games on steam
2025-03-12
games • recommendations • steam
Balatro timeline
The 3+ years of development for the "overnight" indie game success. This after eight years of developing unpublished games.
2025-03-09
balatro • games • indiegames • jokerpoker • steam • via:lobsters
Brave browser sleaze
Various things the deceptive adware company has done in their web browser
2025-03-09
brave • chrome • internet • via:lobsters • web • webbrowser
Wikipedia in 2024 elections
Research from Wikipedia on edit patterns and users
2025-03-06
community • politics • propaganda • uspol • wikipedia
Cloudflare vs RSS
CDN has a misfeature that causes feed readers to get blocked as if they were bots
2025-03-04
capcha • cloudflare • feeds • rss • via:pb • web
Primary every Democrat
Website providing information about alternative Democratic candidates that show more leadership
2025-03-04
democrats • dnc • election • politics • primary • uspol
18F statement
US government IT organization just got destroyed, their home page now is a statement of service and defiance
2025-03-02
18f • government • politics • tech • uspol