Gates 2018 letter

Bill & Melinda Gates answe their 10 toughest questions

2018-02-25 gates • philanthropy • gatesfoundation

Twitter verified scam

Blue checkmark for a phishing fraud

2018-02-24 twitter • verified • scam • fraud • cryptocurrency

Omar Souleyman

Syrian techno wedding singer

2018-02-24 music • via:metafilter • syria • omarsouleyman

AR-15 wounds

High powered rifle shatters bodies in a way normal handguns don't

2018-02-22 guns • politics • ar15 • guncontrol • medicine

MapBox hillshading

Dynamic hillshading in a style editor; remembering Migurski laboriously doing this by hand with code years ago

2018-02-22 maps • terrain • migurski • mapbox • stamen

America Is Under Attack and the President Doesn't Care

Clearly written editorial

2018-02-22 america • trump • politics • russia • electionhacking • elections

All Star but it's a TED talk

Smash Mouth never sounded so smart

2018-02-22 music • funny • parody • ted • smashmouth • allstar • via:metafilter

Former Jehovah's Witness

Reddit AMA with someone who left the cult

2018-02-21 religion • jehovahswitnesses • cult • reddit

Pennsylvania redistricting

Details on the impact of the new plan

2018-02-21 politics • pennsylvania • redistricting • planscore

maps.me

Continues to be an excellent offline mode mobile map

2018-02-21 maps • openstreetmap • osm • mapsme • mapswithme

JupyterLab

Evolution of notebook computing

2018-02-21 jupyter • notebook • ipython • python • programming

Shit and Needles

A report on San Francisco

2018-02-21 sanfrancisco • health • poverty • homelessness

Merikins

African-Americans who fought for the British in the War of 1812 and were relocated to Trinidad

2018-02-20 trinidad • america • history • merikin • africanamerican • 1812

Bots vs Al Franken

Sexual harassment allegations amplified with digital propaganda

2018-02-20 alfranken • politics • franken • twitter • bots • sexualharassment

Twitter abuse management

Details about bad leadership possibly being part of Twitter's abuse problem

2018-02-20 twitter • abuse • spam • delharvey • jackdorsey • jack • trustandsafety

Taxes and charitable donations

An economic argument that charitable donations should not be tax deductible

2018-02-20 taxes • charity • politics • economist • economics • philanthropy

Chimerical colors

Fun color illusion; fatigue the eye and it can see impossible colors

2018-02-19 color • impossiblecolor • stygianblue

“Black Panther” and the Invention of “Africa”

Thoughts on colonialism from an African-American perspective

2018-02-19 movies • blackpanther • wakanda

Africans on Black Panther

Some thoughts from Kenya on the American movie

2018-02-18 movies • africanamerican • africa • blackpanther

Killmonger was right

A nice exploration of the central ethical quandry of Black Panther

2018-02-18 blackpanther • killmonger • movies • black • africanamerican

Russian troll protest

Both sides of a Houston protest over nothing was organized by Russian trolls

2018-02-18 russia • trump • politics • facebook • houston • texas

Film Crit Hulk on Black Panther

Very insightful essay

2018-02-18 blackpanther • movies • black • africanamerican • culture • film

Black versions of movies

Cultural history from Hollywood

2018-02-17 black • history • movies • films • africanamericans • culture

Black Panther's importance

Excellent essay on Black pride in America

2018-02-17 movies • blackpanther • black • africanamerican • race

OpenStreetMap critique

Thoughtful list of organizational problems

2018-02-17 maps • openstreetmap • osm • serge • emacsen

Kottke.org at 20

Thoughtful interview with Jason Kottke about old school blogging and Internet media

2018-02-17 internet • culture • blogging • kottke

Space is the Place

Sun Ra's 1974 afrofuturist film

2018-02-17 movies • film • sunra • blackpanther

Trump and Karen McDougal

Detailed account of his affair with yet another woman

2018-02-16 trump • politics • sex • scandal • mcdougal

New Zealand apocalypse prep

Story about the bizarre obsession Thiel and other Silicon Valley people have with New Zealand

2018-02-15 newzealand • apocalypse • tech • thiel • via:metafilter

VA Corruption

Random Trump administrator spending public money for a European vacation for him and his wife

2018-02-15 trump • corruption • politics • veterans • va

Usernames

Challenges of building a login system for Internet software

2018-02-15 internet • login • django • username • name • security

CoinHive - Demo

A web page showing a Javascript cryptocurrency miner (Monero)

2018-02-14 bitcoin • cryptocurrency • coinhive • monero

Blocklists in practice

Study of how lists of accounts to block work for protecting against harassment and implications on free speech

2018-02-14 blocklists • twitter • censorship • socialmedia

KotakuInAction study

Acacdemic work looking at the GamerGate community on Reddit

2018-02-14 gamergate • reddit • kotakuinaction • community • freespeech • hategroups • feminism

Evolving a Decompiler

A sort of insane project in generating algorithms

2018-02-14 geneticalgorithms • evolution • computing • decompiling • machinelearning • ai

China on AI

Chinese government investing heavily in AI research

2018-02-13 ai • china • unitedstates • america • trump • politics • computerscience

The Bittersweet Beauty of Adam Rippon

Sweet essay on what it means to have an out gay athlete in the Olympics

2018-02-13 olympics • gay • lgbt • comingout

PlanScore

New data journalism website about partisan gerrymandering

2018-02-13 gerrymandering • politics • data • journalism • migurski

matplotlib.pyplot.xkcd

Give your Python plots a hand-drawn feel

2018-02-13 xkcd • python • matplotlib • visualization • funny

Alternatives to censorship

EFF's ideas for fighting hate speech on the Internet. Not sure I agree with this position any more, but it's thoughtful

2018-02-13 eff • freespeech • censorship • twitter • politics

Erlang racism in package name

Stupid debate about whether to name a package after a racist slur

2018-02-13 software • erland • racism • tirefire

Out LGBT Olympians

Medal results so far for openly LGBT athletes

2018-02-12 lgbt • sports • olympics • gay

Genderbending Overwatch cosplay

Fun set of fan photos

2018-02-12 games • transgender • lgbt • genderbending • overwatch • cosplay • via:reddit

Intersections of San Francisco

Fun selection of odd angles

2018-02-12 sanfrancisco • maps • streets • intersections

Harassment of women developer

Young woman publishes a crypto app; hideous misogynists try to tear her down

2018-02-11 crypto • reddit • programming • sexism • toxicmasculinity

Kumbaya

Gullah Geechee origins of a folk song / spiritual

2018-02-10 music • blackhistory • gullah • geechee • kumbaya

CHP + Nazis

California state police working with Nazi groups to pursue Antifa

2018-02-09 antifa • nazis • california • police • facism

The Alt-Right is Killing People

Details of how Internet hate culture leads to murders

2018-02-09 murder • nazis • racism • misogyny • via:metafilter • pepe • altright • trump

Russian probing voter lists

This story continues to be muddled; how much did Russian espionage target US election systems?

2018-02-08 elections • votingrights • russia • trump • politics • badtech

Photos from Assassin’s Creed Origins

Nice travelogue from an astonishingly beautiful videogame

2018-02-07 games • assassinscreed • egypt • screenshots

Coining "open source"

Etymology of the phrase that changed an entire industry

2018-02-07 software • opensource • timoreilly • freesoftware

FEMA Puerto Rico failures

Republicans aren't very good at hurricane relief

2018-02-07 hurricane • fema • puertorico • trump • politics

Citizen Thiel

Details on Peter Thiel's New Zealand citizenship

2018-02-07 peterthiel • newzealand • billionaires • wealth

New hillshading map

MapBox releases client-side hill shaded relief / terrain maps

2018-02-06 maps • terrain • relief • hillshading • mapbox

"Reply-To" Munging Still Considered Harmful

A very old debate about mailing lists and spam

2018-02-05 mail • email • rfc822 • rfc2822 • replyto • replyall

Gerrymandering and the courts

The long difficult legal road for having fair elections in the US

2018-02-05 gerrymandering • politics • courts • supremecourt • votingrights

#ReleaseTheMemo propaganda campaign

Details on how information warfare works on Twitter

2018-02-04 twitter • politics • trump • propaganda • releasethememo

"What Time Does The Super Bowl Start?"

A roundup of when websites started spamming the popular query

2018-02-04 superbowl • seo • google • funny

Chrome adblocking

Details on the new feature Feb 15; will default to on

2018-02-03 google • ads • blocking • browser

Deep learning math

All the multivariable calculus required for neural networks. Truthfully you can hack the code without understanding this stuff

2018-02-03 math • programming • machinelearning • ai • matrix

Moon Museum

Art smuggled on Apollo 12 to the moon. Includes a Warhol scribble of a p enis

2018-02-02 warhol • art • funny • nasa • moon

4chan's cryptocurrency

Ponzi scheme riddled with bugs, all the money stolen

2018-02-01 4chan • ponzi • bitcoin • blockchain

PyFilesystem

Python library that lets you access many resources as if they were a filesystem

2018-02-01 python • filesystem • fuse • sshfs • ftp

The Bayeux Tapestry

A silly but engaging tour of the famous 11th century graphic novel

2018-02-01 bayeuxtapestry • history • hastings • 1066 • bayeux • tapestry