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BowieNet
David Bowie started an ISP in 1998 and ran it for several years
2025-05-31 bowie • davidbowie • history • internet • isp • via:metafilter
Queer Nevada City
Nice National Geographic feature on where I live and its LGBT history and community
2025-05-31 gay • grassvalley • history • lgbt • nevadacity
Color blindness simulator
Takes an image and shows what it looks like with varying vision. This one has academic citations for the simulation filters
2025-05-31 accessibility • color • colorblind • colorblindness • images • web
Hokusai CO₂
Scroll down: CO2 growth chart styled after Hokusai's "Great Wave" painting
2025-05-31 art • climatechange • co2 • greatwave • hokusai • visualization
Metamour
A term to describe your lover's lover.
2025-05-30 language • polyamory • queer • relationship
Polari in DQB2
Article about the gay slang that shows up in the English localization of the game Dragon Quest Builders 2
2025-05-30 dqb2 • dragonquest • games • gay • lgbt • polari • slang
Musk's drug habit
New reporting on his personal problems: heavy ketamine use, other recreational drugs, all sorts of baby daddy problems
2025-05-30 drama • drugs • elonmusk • politics
prompts.chat
A collection of prompts to LLMs to change their output
2025-05-29 ai • awesome • chatgpt • github • llm • promptengineering • prompts
Walt Whitman's Boys
A consideration on Whitman's queerness and its meaning in modern times
2025-05-29 america • gay • history • lgbt • poetry • whitman
London Backstreet
Appreciation of a now-closed fetish bar
2025-05-28 culture • fetish • gay • leather • lgbt • london • nsfw
The Who Cares Era
On American mediocrity and AI
2025-05-28 ai • america • culture • effort
Switch 2 comic
Funny comic about the angels and devils on our shoulder. (Note: two panels)
2025-05-26 comic • funny • gaming • gay • lgbt • switch
VTracer
A free image vectorizer that works quite well
2025-05-26 art • images • plotter • plotterart • svg • vetorize
Husbands Out to Wives
Online support group for non-traditional relationships
2025-05-25 community • gay • lgbt • marriage • support
Claude 4 prompt
Simon Willison breaks down the details of an LLM chatbot's system prompt
2025-05-25 ai • claude • llm • programming • prompt
Tying your shoes
You probably tie your shoes wrong, with a granny knot. Use a square knot.
2025-05-24 funny • knots • shoes • ted • tying
Senate Twink's story
Interview with the guy who filmed himself having sex with another man in a Senate hearing room and shared it
2025-05-23 begaydocrime • gay • lgbt • politics • senate • sex • therapy • uspol
Fakespot shutdown
Mozilla is killing fakespot, a useful tool for finding fake reviews of Amazon products
2025-05-23 fakespot • internet • mozilla • review • shopping • shutdown
New Stereolab
First album in 15 years from the shiny electronic pop group
2025-05-23 electronica • music • stereolab
Trump's cryptocorruption
Detailed reporting on all the various ways Trump is selling access to power and enriching himself and his family by billions of dollars. And helping the cryptocurrency grifters.
2025-05-22 a16z • corruption • crypto • cryptocurrency • fraud • gop • politics • trump
Jang maker
Details of a Korean artisan who makes fermented condiments: soy sauce, gochujang, doenjang
2025-05-22 fermentation • food • gochujang • jang • jinjang • korea • via:hackernews
Plotter jokes
Joshua Schachter on his mini-fame with videos of computer plotters being forced to do annoying things
2025-05-22 art • funny • joshu • plotter • plotterart • tednext
AI and energy usage
Deep new reporting on how much electricity AI datacenters are using, how they generate the power, and what impacts that power usage may have
2025-05-20 ai • climatechange • datacenter • energy • llm • power
Whitman's self promotion
America's famous 19th century poet was a hustler
2025-05-19 advertising • audaciousness • history • literature • poetry • publishing • whitman
WSL open source
Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. Article includes a nice project history.
2025-05-19 hypervisor • linux • opensource • vm • windows • wsl • wsl2
Partagaz / Krennic
Slash fanfic for two Andor villains
2025-05-19 andor • ao3 • fanfic • gay • lgbt • romance • starwars
Country music 2025
Cultural criticism on how country has a resurgence in the US but on two axes
2025-05-18 beyonce • country • culture • music • racism
Project Esther
Details of Heritage Foundation's propaganda campaign to discredit anyone voicing any support for Palestinian human rights
2025-05-18 america • heritagefoundation • israel • palestine • politics • propaganda • trump • uspol
Mystical
A programming language based on magical-looking sigils and signs
2025-05-18 alchemy • art • programming • via:metafilter
Defector: civil servants
Interviews with people fired by the Trump administration, very personal and direct
2025-05-16 civilservice • interview • politics • trump • uspol
The First Homosexuals
Museum exhibition about the construction of homosexuality as an identity 1869-1939
2025-05-16 chicago • gay • history • lgbt • museum
Whitman, Alabama
Interpretive program evaluating Whitman in the modern context
2025-05-16 english • poems • poetry • whitman
Calamus Project
Presentation of Walt Whitman's classic gay poems, with readings and commentary
2025-05-16 english • gay • lgbt • poetry • whitman • writing
Anubis
New tool for protecting web servers from badly behaved scraper bots
2025-05-16 ai • capcha • dos • llm • web • webserver
Nevada County archive (2)
More information on the archives going online in my local California historical society
2025-05-16 archive • california • domlindars • library • nchs • nevadacounty
Nevada County archive
California historical society archive is online with a great search interface
2025-05-16 domlindars • history • library • nchs • nevadacounty
What is HDR, anyway?
Excellent discussion of dynamic range in imagery, in practice
2025-05-14 exposure • hdr • images • photography • photos • via:hackernews
Little Dig Game
Cute incremental game with a bit of story and graphics
2025-05-13 clicker • games • incremental • via:metafilter • via:waxy
Tauri
Modern alternative to Electron: build native apps with web technologies but not as bloated .
2025-05-12 apps • development • electron • frontend • javascript • rust
NNCPNET email
Atavistic project to bring back old style UUCP email but with modern protocols and tools
2025-05-12 email • history • internet • networking • nncp • uucp
1966 Tea Dance
Queer history, the origin of the sunday afternoon gay dance on Fire Island
2025-05-11 fireisland • gay • history • lbgt • teadance
Queer Alcatraz
A history of men imprisoned for loving other men
2025-05-10 alcatraz • gay • history • lgbt • prison • sanfrancisco • sodomy
Gates' philanthropy
Long interview with Bill Gates about his charitable plans
2025-05-09 billgates • charity • gatesfoundation • giving • health • philanthropy
Pope Leo XIV vs. LGBT
Various vile comments up to about 10 years ago
2025-05-08 catholicism • church • humanrights • lgbt • politics • pope • vatican
Barry Diller comes out
Media mogul comes out as gay. He is also in a high visibility celebrity marriage with a woman and is unapologetic about it.
2025-05-08 bisexual • gay • lgbt • marriage
US weather forecast failing
GFS, the world leading weather prediction model, has started getting significantly worse in the past couple of months. Possibly a direct consequence of the Republicans defunding NWS and NOAA.
2025-05-07 climate • gfs • noaa • nws • politics • uspol • weather
Hexer 4k Demo
Gorgeous short film in 4 kilobytes of code, for Revision 2025
2025-05-06 4kdemo • art • demo • demoscene • movies • via:bea
WorldCon followup
A few days after posting an explanation of ChatGPT use they posted a followup saying the explanation was not complete.
2025-05-06 ai • chatgpt • hugos • worldcon
ChatGPT for WorldCon
Controversy over the folks putting on the scifi convention using ChatGPT like a search engine. Their use of it seems 100% reasonable to me.
2025-05-06 ai • chatgpt • hugos • worldcon
AI spirituality
People are talking to ChatGPT, etc and convincing themselves they are finding deep meaning
2025-05-05 ai • culture • loneliness • religion • spirituality
AIDS Info BBS
1985 project to create an online community of people with AIDS
2025-05-03 aids • bbs • gay • history • lgbt • socialmedia
Pope kerning
Tomb's letters were chiseled with equally spaced letters instead of proper typgraphy
2025-05-01 design • kerning • pope • religion • typesetting • vatican • via:kottke