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A popular form of spam on Musk Twitter. Provocative Neighbors pays spammers $3 or more per victim.
2024-03-28 spam • twitter • elonmusk • porn • via:waxy
Sagittarius A* image
First polarized image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy and why that's so interesting
2024-03-27 space • astronomy • blackhole • milkyway • radioastronomy
Manarchists
Biting critique of a certain kind of awful white guy
2024-03-27 sexism • activism • misogyny • protests • anarchist • applebaum
If Trump Wins
The Atlantic's full issue looking at plans for a second Trump presidency
2024-03-26 politics • uspol • trump • fascism • project2025
Practical Sous Vide
A technical book on the cooking method
2024-03-26 cooking • food • foodsafety • sousvide
Dali ship position
Click "track" for detailed path of the container ship that hit a bridge in Baltimore
2024-03-26 accident • shipping • ais • baltimore • dali • disaster • maps
PG&E water failures
Nevada County is facing a water shortage because our incompetent electric company is mismanaging their water systems. New evidence of neglected maintenance
2024-03-26 pge • nevadacounty • water • power • california
Fifth Circuit judge corruption
Judge in anti-abortion case ruled as his wife was collecting payments from the folks who brought the case to the court
2024-03-25 corruption • abortion • civilrights • politics
About Placemark.io
Forthright discussion of the difficulty in being sole owner of a small tech startup. Business, emotion, the whole muddle.
2024-03-25 startups • entrepreneur • tmcw • maps • gis • placemark
Geli Raubal
Hitler's niece, a young woman he controlled and possibly had a sexual relationship with. She met an early end by either suicide or murder.
2024-03-24 hitler • history • nazis • depravity • incest
Hitler's Enablers
Detailed writing of Hitler's rise to power and how it was enabled by scheming political men who were all outmaneuvered
2024-03-24 hitler • germany • history • trump • politics • nazis
Codices of San Andrés Tetepilco
1600 Aztec texts come to public display, having been preserved for centuries by a family
2024-03-24 aztec • history • archaeology • codex • via:hackernews
1870s gay bushrangers
Two Australian men who were a couple in a very rough time and place
2024-03-24 australia • history • lgbt • gay • bushranger • couple
mapml-viewer
Embedded web maps as an HTML component
2024-03-24 maps • html • webdev • leaflet • htmlcomponents
Strachey love letters
Interesting 1950s proto-AI, also an early example of queer computing
2024-03-23 gay • lgbt • queer • computing • ai • turing • strachey • via:simonw
ChatGPT for extended coding
Remarkable lengthy session getting an LLM to write C code, compile it as a sqlite extension, then test and use it from Python
2024-03-23 programming • llm • ai • simonw
Life Universe
Conway's Game of Life set up to emulate the Game of Life. Infinitely recursive. Click "Life Universe" link in the article to see it in action.
2024-03-23 via:hackernews • life • ca • cellularautomata • recursion
Awesome Selfhosted
A very long list of self-hosted apps and servers
2024-03-22 indie • selfhosting • internet • server • apps
Dream Quest
2014 deck building game that was genre-defining for deckbuilders and metaprogression
2024-03-22 games • deckbuilder • roguelike • roguelite
Roguelike vs. Roguelite
Cogent 2024 explanation for a couple of related game genres
2024-03-22 games • roguelike • roguelite • rogue • procgen
PG&E cuts our water
It's not just electricity; the incompetent company also has screwed up the water supply for Nevada County
2024-03-22 pge • nid • water • california • nevadacounty
USB / DC barrel cables
Cables to power things from USB that ordinarily require their own transformer
2024-03-21 usb • barrel • dc • electronics • power
Reddit content moderation
Overview of the positive social changes in the site in the last ten years
2024-03-21 reddit • moderation • content • socialmedia
Thermal Springs in the U.S.
Nice detailed map of locations of hot springs
2024-03-20 via:kottke • maps • hotsprings • hiking • america
GPS jamming map
Clever public map of where GPS is being interfered with
2024-03-20 gps • navigation • aviation • via:hackernews • war
Shrinking Salton Sea
Detailed plot of changing shoreline
2024-03-19 saltonsea • california • desert • environment • water
Balatro interview
Discussion with LocalThunk, the sole indie developer of the new breakout hit game. 1M copies sold so far, $15M revenue.
2024-03-19 games • balatro • roguelike • poker • indie
Reddit deceptive ads
Company very proud to make ads that look just like actual organic content
2024-03-17 ads • reddit • ftc • deception
Consent-o-Matic
An open source extension for autofilling privacy / cookie consent forms on many popular publishing platforms
2024-03-17 consent • cookie • gdpr • privacy • web • plugin • chrome
Atkinson Hyperlegible
A sans-serif font designed for legibility for people with limited vision
2024-03-17 adaptive • blind • font • typography • readability
Dating app enshittification
Details of how Tinder / Bumble / Hinge / Grindr etc are getting worse, in part as a monetization strategy
2024-03-16 dating • grindr • romance • sex • hookup • culture • enshittification
On Colorblindness
Long, carefully researched and argued essay about racial justice in America
2024-03-15 affirmativeaction • racialjustice • justice • america • black • slavery • reparations • politics
nanofont3x4
A legible ASCII font in a 3x3 bitmap matrix
2024-03-15 fonts • tiny • pixelart
Political email blocklist
EveryAction has a global blacklist that will help you avoid a lot of political email
2024-03-14 politics • spam • email • campaign
FNET/GridEye
Global scale monitoring of power grids. Click the map links, etc for interesting views
2024-03-14 infrastructure • power • electricity • grid • ac • alternatingcurrent
Facebook and Mercurial
Details on why Facebook doesn't use git. Partly performance, partly the culture of git development.
2024-03-13 mercurial • facebook • git • versioncontrol • programming • via:lobsters
Museo Larco
A collection of Mesoamerican pottery, maybe specifically Moche pots? Those are famous for their sexually explicit ones.
2024-03-13 archaeology • mesoamerican • moche • pots • sexpots
Daily AI
Framework for using LLMs with voice applications
2024-03-13 voice • ai • llm • daily • generative • chatbot • python
Billionaires are a policy failure
Thoughtful essay explicating just how weird it is to have an enormous amount of money and how it is bad for American society.
2024-03-13 finance • money • politics • taxes • america • inequality • wealth
Attacking Biden effigy
Fascism on display in Kansas City
2024-03-11 politics • fascism • biden
Chinese thoughts on EV brands
Interesting Reddit post from a Chinese person talking about how people see the various Chinese electric car brands
2024-03-11 cars • evs • electric • china
Musk's charity fraud
Collected billions in tax breaks, doesn't distribute the foundation money to worthy causes unless they benefit him and his businesses directly.
2024-03-10 fraud • charity • taxevasion • elonmusk • spacex
Venus figurines
Roundup of speculation on prehistoric feminine sculptures that span millenia
2024-03-10 via:hackernews • sculpture • history • archaeology • venus
1963 NYT on Overt Homosexuality
Ugly newspaper article but somewhat well researched and balanced for its time.
2024-03-09 gay • lgbt • history • nytimes • homosexuality • mattachine
Starlink Latency improvements
Brief technical notes on a significant service improvement I've noticed
2024-03-08 starlink • latency • isp • performance • bufferbloat • lag • ping
British Library postmortem
Details of the ransomware attack on the institution and the recovery. Really nice to see this level of detail in public.
2024-03-08 security • ransomware • malware • badtech • library • it • recovery
Training LLM at home
Clever work to make AI training possible on cheaper lower RAM video cards instead of specialized AI processors
2024-03-08 ai • training • lora • quantization • llm
Apple cuts off Epic
Highlighting the danger of a monopoly platform
2024-03-06 apple • epic • games • competition • antitrust
St. Piran's Day
Grass Valley celebrates its Cornish history by tossing pasties
2024-03-06 cornwall • cornish • california • grassvalley • stpiran • community
Aptos design
Details of Microsoft's process for their new default fonts
2024-03-06 via:lobsters • typography • fonts • microsoft • aptos • bierstadt
Autobiography of an Androgyne
1918 narrative of a transgender woman's life
2024-03-05 lgbt • history • trans • america • transgender
Twitter leaking IP address
Geniuses launch a new feature which lets any Twitter user see your IP address, a major privacy violation
2024-03-05 twitter • privacy • elonmusk
ambient.garden
"can a composition be organized in space rather than time?"
2024-03-04 generative • art • music • electronica • via:reddit
Voter suppression
Trump allies misapplying regulations to disenfranchise voters
2024-03-03 politics • trump • votingrights
Feeds All Around
Shows RSS feeds related to Mastodon users
2024-03-03 rss • feeds • socialmedia • mastodon • via:adactio
Bissextus
Leap Day is actually February 24, according to historical calendars
2024-03-03 calendar • via:jwz • leapyear • leapday
Observable Framework ideas
Simon Willison breaks down the innovations in Mike Bostock's new data science publishing system
2024-03-03 datascience • observable • visualization • infovis • javascript
REST reconsidered
A lament on how the distributed systems term REST has gotten watered down
2024-03-03 soap • rest • xmlrpc • rpc • http • webservices • api • programming
Avast fraud
Anti-virus software / malware has been selling browsing data for years and misleading customers
2024-03-03 avast • malware • privacy • scam • fraud • security
One billion rows in Go
Nice explication of optimization and profiling techniques
2024-03-03 golang • go • programming • optimization • parallelization • hashtables
Mastodon for Apple II
Now with video?!
2024-03-03 apple2 • appleii • mastodon • socialmedia • retrocomputing • hacking
DONOTREPLY.CARDS
A website for Dan Hon's brilliant "don't reply to my social media message in a dumb way" project
2024-03-02 funny • socialmedia • via:waxy • tirefire
Radio Squirrels
Photo essay on some folks keeping an old maritime radio station alive
2024-03-02 via:simonw • ham • radio • pointreyes • history • photos
Tumblr / Mullenweg analysis
A thoughtful commentary on the mess over at Tumblr lately centered on the CEO Matt Mullenweg responding to a complaint of anti-transgender bias
2024-03-02 tumblr • mullenweg • socialmedia • trustandsafety • moderation
NYC Trash
Excellent feature on the most baffling of American civic problems; a great city that leaves its garbage mounded on the sidewalks
2024-03-02 newyork • nyc • trash • sanitation • infrastructure
LGBTQ+ representation in games
Report on a GLAAD study showing 1 in 5 gamers are queer, then reflecting on the lack of representation in games
2024-03-01 games • gayming • lgbt • glaad • via:reddit
2024 Leap Day bugs
A depressing list of sloppy programming
2024-02-29 programming • bugs • leapyear • leapday • feb29
Save the gay whales
First instance of humpback sex observed, between two males. Article includes some complex explanation for homosexual behavior. Maybe they're just good buddies?
2024-02-29 sex • whales • gay • lgbt • nature • science
SRENITY ONLINE
Affirmations for tech workers
2024-02-28 funny • krazam • tv • devops • sre
DoorDash Gremlins
Unflattering photos of people picking up their delivery food
2024-02-28 doordash • funny • delivery • food • candid • photos
Friends of Sophia
Queer sci-fi short with Nana Visitor. Looks fun.
2024-02-27 movies • scifi • gay • lgbtq • nanavisitor
The Calculator
1970s Casio QL-10 calculator came with a built-in cigarette lighter
2024-02-27 funny • casio • calculator • smoking
pkgx drama
Software packager uses AI to write nonsense descriptions of various projects
2024-02-27 homebrew • brew • mxcl • pkgx • ai • opensource • drama
Weak Jalapeño
An argument that the special TAM II peppers bred to have little heat now have infiltrated the nation's chile supply
2024-02-26 jalapeno • food • spice • pepper • via:hackernews
Cert expiry RSS
Simple solution for monitoring when an SSL certificate is about to expire
2024-02-26 monitoring • rss • ssl • cert • certificate • via:lobsters
AI supervision
Interesting results looking at how an AI overseer has changed the way tennis umpires do their jobs
2024-02-26 ai • supervision • tennis • hawkeye • research
Turkish TV
Turkey exports a lot of TV shows that are popular in Europe and elsewhere, but not so much the US / UK
2024-02-26 tv • television • turkey • soapopera
Delicious in Dungeon
A new Netflix show that's sort of D&D fantasy, sort of a food show
2024-02-25 tv • fantasy • netflix • dnd • dungeonsanddragons • cooking
Electric factories
Detailed article on efforts to replace industrial fossil fuel heating with electric. Heat pumps, thermal batteries, etc. In lieu of carbon capture.
2024-02-25 electrify • globalwarming • factory • industry • heating • carbon
Reddit IPO plan
Details on a program to let major Reddit users buy a taste of the stock offering
2024-02-25 reddit • finance • investment • ipo • money
Reddit IPO plan
Details on a program to let major Reddit users buy a taste of the stock offering
2024-02-25 reddit • finance • investment • ipo • money
Self hosting maps
Covering the open source GIS options for hosting web maps in 2024. Protomaps, MapLibre,
2024-02-24 maps • opensource • hosting • protomaps • slippymap • mapbox
UnReal World
An early roguelike RPG that still gets updates
2024-02-24 games • survival • roguelike • rpg
Reno vote-by-mail problems
Degradation of postal service might mean it gets difficult to vote in Reno, Nevada
2024-02-23 usps • voting • votingrights • votebymail • washoecounty
Anthropology Yesterday
A history of anthropology blog
2024-02-23 rex • golub • blog • anthropology • academics
Fixing Atari E.T.
Detailed notes on patching the infamously buggy game
2024-02-22 atari • programming • 2600 • et • games • hacking
Niue .nu TLD
Long, sad story of a country's Internet identity being sold and not reclaimed
2024-02-21 niue • internet • tld • sweden • colonialism • registry • nic
Mother 3 fan translation
Unauthorized translation of the 2006 GBA game
2024-02-21 games • earthbound • mother • gameboy • japan • nintendo • mother3
Mother 3 / Switch (JP)
Legendary unobtainable game has gotten a new release, but once again Japan only.
2024-02-21 games • switch • nintendo • earthbound • mother • mother3 • japan
Wilhoit's Law
An aphorism about conservative politics that is often misattributed
2024-02-20 language • politics • wilhoit • conservatism • hypocrisy
Jeremy Zawodny leaves Craigslist
Old school engineer at an old school Internet company, leaves after 15+ years.
2024-02-20 craigslist • yahoo • zawodny • engineer • internet
Shaarli
A self-hosted bookmark manager like Pinboard or Raindrop
2024-02-19 bookmarks • linkblog • selfhosted • pinboard
Numberbarn
An Internet-centric solution for when you need a phone number but don't want a landline or cell contract. An alternative to Google Voice
2024-02-19 phone • landline • call • phonenumber • parking
htmz
A trivial version of a web page that loads dynamic content from a server. Sort of a troll, sort of a real demo of the power of the modern web platform.
2024-02-19 html • htmx • via:hackernews • web • development • javascript
GoAccess
A simple web access log visualizer
2024-02-19 apache • web • analytics • access.log
Dark Bombadil
2011 essay with an alternate perspective on one of Tolkien's most perplexing characters.
2024-02-19 tolkien • lotr • bombadil • fantasy • books
Sea Ranch Connect
Community fiber ISP in a wealthy California development
2024-02-18 internet • isp • searanch • california • fiber
USGS Topo maps
Nice collection of historical maps
2024-02-18 maps • topomaps • history • us • usgs • topography
Exploding face
"Every Time We Meet for Ice Cream Your Whole F*cking Face Explodes", a sci-fi short of adolescent love (gorey)
2024-02-18 funny • shortfilm • scifi • adolescence
Diversi-Dial
DDial was a 1980s dialup chat system, a little like IRC but for 7 (or later 12) users
2024-02-17 bbs • history • computing • apple2 • applecat • chat • socialmedia