Trump immigration incompetence

The hateful rule was very poorly implemented

2017-01-31 immigration • politics • trump

Interpreting Trump

Excellent essay on how hard it is to read the Trump Administration's actions and plans

2017-01-30 politics • trump

Rules for a constitutional crisis

Calm and rational Lessig essay, I hope he's right

2017-01-30 america • consitution • lessig • politics • republic • trump

NTP pool server costs

Some exploration on what it costs to provide a public service

2017-01-30 cloud • hosting • ntp

Immigration malevolance

Forceful editorial that Trump's intent was to cause harm to Muslim refugees

2017-01-29 immigration • muslims • politics • refugees • trump

Reichstag fire

The singular event that allowed Hitler to cement power in Germany

2017-01-29 germany • history • nazis • politics • trump

Operation Northwoods

1960s plan to create a pretense to go to war in Cuba

2017-01-29 cuba • politics • reichstagfire • trump

Trump constitutional crisis

Border patrol seems to be ignoring federal court order

2017-01-29 border • cbp • immigration • politics • trump

Mapzen bans Trump

Internet mapping service denies service for "promotions of hate"

2017-01-29 maps • mapzen • osm • trump

Trump team confusion

Details of the sloppy chaos caused by Trump's rushing an immigration ban

2017-01-29 immigration • politics • trump

Immigration airport protests

List of all the protests taking place this weekend

2017-01-29 airport • civilrights • immigration • protest • trump

Time to Take a Stand

Y Combinator leader speaks out

2017-01-29 immigration • politics • trump

Holocaust rememberance details

Spiteful and ignorant Trump communications

2017-01-29 holocaust • jews • nazis • politics • trump

GamerGate FBI dossier

173 page report on harassment, etc

2017-01-28 fbi • gamergate • games • harassment • trolling

Refugees detained at the border

Trump's executive order goes immediately in to force; excellent article

2017-01-28 humanrights • iraq • nytimes • politics • refugees • trump

Baylor rape culture

Texas Baptist college sued for an alleged 52 rapes by the football team

2017-01-28 baptist • baylor • football • rape • texas

Trump’s Immigration Ban Is Illegal

Clear, forthright editorial

2017-01-28 immigration • politics • trump

Wikimedia anti-harassment funding

$500,000 for safer community

2017-01-26 craignewmark • harassment • trolls • via:hackernews • wikipedia

D.Va association

Feminist activist group in South Korea takes game character as mascot

2017-01-26 dva • gaming • korea • politics

Emergency Puppy

Dealing with the age of horrors

2017-01-26 politics • puppy • trump • twitter

Voter fraud facts

There is no meaningful voter fraud. Some thoughtful details.

2017-01-25 civilrights • fraud • politics • trump • voterfraud • voting

Rules of Machine Learning

Some best practices

2017-01-25 ai • coding • machinelearning • ml • via:juliaevans

State of BGP

A New Year's reflection on Internet routing

2017-01-25 bgp • internet • networks • routing

Spicer / Obey

Sunglasses reveal the truth

2017-01-25 obey • politics • spicer • theylive • trump

Still no voting fraud

More rebuttal of Trump lies

2017-01-25 politics • trump • voterfraud • voting

Inauguration 2017 timelapse

PBS video of the Mall

2017-01-24 inauguration • politics • trump

Zuckerberg in Kauai

More reporting on his real estate lawsuits

2017-01-24 hawaii • land • property • zuckerberg

USDA gag order

Trump administration taking control of agency communications

2017-01-24 politics • science • usda

Trump internal drama

Behind the insane Spicer briefing

2017-01-24 politics • press • spicer • trump

Discord and hate

Hate groups use the popular Slack-like system

2017-01-24 discord • hatespeech • moderation • slack

French election chanops

Trump memesters turn their attention to France

2017-01-24 discord • france • politics • propaganda • trump

Pink Floyd - Echoes

Crazy cover by an 18 year old playing all instruments and doing his own Live at Pompeii-esque video

2017-01-24 music • pinkfloyd • via:metafilter

Why Trump's Staff Is Lying

Another media political critique

2017-01-23 lies • politics • propaganda • trump

Trump press strategy

Original source of a popular media critique

2017-01-23 politics • propaganda • trump

Alternative Facts

Trump administration start early redefining truth

2017-01-23 america • facts • journalism • politics • trump

Women's march photos

Global protests against Trump

2017-01-22 protest • trump • womensmarch

Space Claw charging

Lighting at Sutro tower /cc @thisisaaronland

2017-01-22 sanfrancisco • spaceclaw • sutro

Ian McKellen protest sign

Picard facepalm, hilarious

2017-01-21 actor • mckellen • picard • politics • protest

Trump's conflict of interests

WSJ visualization of 500+ entities that threaten his presidency

2017-01-20 ethics • politics • trump • visualization

Suspend Trump from Twitter?

Strongly made case

2017-01-20 politics • trump • twitter

POTUS digital transition

Very thoughtful plan on how to hand over the Twitter account, etc.

2017-01-20 goldman • politics • potus • twitter

Zuckerberg in Kauai

Bullying his way through the courts to claim land

2017-01-19 facebook • hawai'i • hawaii • property • zuckerberg

Skittles spill mystery solved!

Your moment of levity for the day

2017-01-19 skittles • via:reddit • wisconsin

Mendeley

Bibliography management software for academics

2017-01-19 academics • bibliography • citation • writing

Alt right forum drama

Hilarious historical account of how the neo-Nazi movement is going down the same Internet rabbit hole other online communities have

2017-01-19 altright • forum • meme • politics • trump

Cops Lie

Detailed investigation of how police cameras show how cops sometimes lie

2017-01-18 lie • police • safety

Tinder coder

Funny essay about guys using coding as a pickup line, or maybe hookups as a recruiting tool

2017-01-18 dating • funny • gender • programming • tinder

Demand Protest!

Weird fake site about paying protestors

2017-01-18 politics • propaganda • protest

Tent Cities of SF

Editorial from last month about the state of homelessness in San Francisco

2017-01-17 compassion • homelessness • mentalillness • sanfrancisco • sf

Homeless mother, dead baby

Heartbreaking story of mental illness and homelessness in Portland

2017-01-17 homeless • mentalhealth • portland

The Problem With AMP

Well written essay about Google's new mobile walled garden

2017-01-17 amp • google • lockin • mobile • via:hackernews

Astronaut

Snippets of random Youtube videos with zero views

2017-01-17 cutup • random • via:metafilter • video • youtube

Lakoff on Trump

Some thoughts from cognitive science

2017-01-16 cognitivescience • linguistics • politics • propaganda • trump

Abstract geoart

Nice feature on Bill Morris' neat satellite photo / machine learning art

2017-01-16 art • geography • machinelearning • maps

Alt-Right vs Jews

Prominent online white supremacist has a Jewish wife, alt-right community freaks out

2017-01-16 altright • hate • jews • politics • racism

The Stench of Torture

Torture only works to dehumanize the torturer

2017-01-14 civilrights • humanrights • politics • torture • trump

Pushover

A simple, unified notifications system

2017-01-14 messages • notifications • sms

On "fake news"

Excellent analysis of how the term "fake news" has been robbed of meaning, and broader propaganda goals

2017-01-14 journalism • politics • propaganda

Super Mario Run onboarding

Devastating critique of the new Nintendo iPhone game

2017-01-13 games • nintendo • ui • userinterface

Shadow Brokers quit

Hacker group likely to be Russian government is quitting, or lulzing, or something

2017-01-13 hacking • politics • russia

Cartography Comparison

O'Beirne's map analysis collected

2017-01-13 apple • cartography • google • maps • via:hackernews

USDS Report to Congress

Group doing modern Internet development for government

2017-01-13 government • politics • usds

Calling Bullshit

A college course about falsehoods in statistical research, big data, and rhetoric

2017-01-13 bullshit • datascience • machinelearning • statistics

Video Game Luck

Probability and perception manipulated for fun

2017-01-13 games • luck • probability

Trump insanity with National Guard

Firing the head of DC National Guard literally the moment he is sworn in, during the inauguration event

2017-01-13 nationalguard • politics • trump • washingtondc

Condom effectiveness for gay men

A look at differing opinions

2017-01-13 aids • condoms • gay • health • hiv • lgbt • sex

BitTorrent's collapse

Weirdness for a doomed startup

2017-01-11 bittorrent • failure • startups

Trump dossier details

Information on motives of the source

2017-01-11 dossier • politics • trump

Software repeatability

Problems of doing science with software that you can't reliably re-run

2017-01-11 repeatability • science • software

Trump / Russia allegations

Full intelligence dossier, uncorroborated and suspicious, but lots of detail that seems plausible

2017-01-10 manafort • politics • russia • trump

Trump compromised by Russia?

FBI has intelligence from multiple sources that the Russians have personal and financial leverage over Trump

2017-01-10 fbi • gop • politics • trump

Forth Worth subway

A weird private short subway for a parking garage. /cc @enf

2017-01-10 dallas • fortworth • subway • texas • transit

VC Reserves

Details on how venture capital reinvests in portfolio companies

2017-01-10 funding • reserve • startups • vc

Swedish SIGINT

Details of cyberwarfare from Scandanavia

2017-01-09 america • nsa • politics • privacy • sweden

1.5 million gamer records

Hacker / leak, but some interesting data

2017-01-09 badtech • esea • esl • esports • games • gaming • hacker

Patreon: $100M

Direct payment to creative people is working!

2017-01-09 art • financing • games • patreon • startups

Jeff Sessions and 1980s voter suppression

Ugly case in Alabama

2017-01-09 alabama • politics • racism • trump • votingrights

Keras

Higher level neural network library

2017-01-09 ai • machinelearning • python • tensorflow • theano

Visual Studio Code

Yet another Javascript code editor, cross platform

2017-01-08 atom • coding • editor • javascript • sublime

Brackets editor

Another editor built in Javascript

2017-01-08 atom • coding • editor • sublime

Geek Squad informants

National chain of computer support people had a side business selling customers out to the FBI

2017-01-08 bestbuy • childporn • fbi • geeksquad • privacy

Trump loves Wikileaks

Details of how Trump was happy to have the Russian hack influence the election

2017-01-08 clinton • lies • politics • russia • trump • wikileaks

Kushner's conflicts

More corruption at the center of the Trump family

2017-01-07 business • china • corruption • ethics • politics • trump

Russian election influence

News article summarizing the declassified intelligence report

2017-01-07 election • politics • propaganda • russia • trump

Noncombatant uniformed services

In addition to the military, the US has NOAA and public health uniformed officers

2017-01-07 america • dhs • noaa • uniform

NextBus broken

Muni's bus notification system relied on AT&T 2G cellular

2017-01-07 att • badtech • cellular • muni • nextbus • sanfrancisco • transit

Yugoslavian computer pinups

1980s Eastern European computer magazine had cheesecake photos of women

2017-01-07 cheese • computer • funny • sexism • soviet • yugoslavia

SF Historical Creek Map

Better rendering than I've seen of this before

2017-01-07 history • maps • rivers • sanfrancisco • water

Russian hacking and election security

Voting machine expert weighs in on the report

2017-01-07 badtech • election • hacking • politics • putin • russia • security • trump

Russian election influence

Public report from the US intelligence community

2017-01-07 election • hacking • politics • putin • russia • trump

Aggretsuko

A Sanrio character for office alcoholic rage

2017-01-07 anger • animation • funny • japan • rage • sanrio

Ghostcrawler on abuse

Famous game designer talks about dealing with hostile gamer fans

2017-01-06 abuse • blizzard • games • riot • riotgames

Russian hacking intel

Some hints at what's in the classified briefing

2017-01-06 hacking • politics • putin • russia • trump

TQ in Public Policy

Statement from White House CTO about need for more tech capability in government positions

2017-01-05 amac • politics • tech

Obama metrics

Nice set of numbers that make the Obama administration look good

2017-01-05 economics • obama • politics • president

The Agency

Report from Russia's online propaganda arm

2017-01-05 politics • propaganda • russia • trump

NTP Pool vs Great Firewall

Chinese citizen wants to serve time on the Internet; thwarted by UDP firewall

2017-01-04 china • firewall • internet • ntp

Padme needed an ob/gyn

Darth Vader was created because the Empire lacked prenatal health care

2017-01-04 feminism • funny • obgyn • starwars • via:metafilter

Isotypes

1920s infographic language

2017-01-04 design • graphics • isotype • vienna • visualization

Secureworks on Podesta

The June 2016 report that confirmed Russian hacking of Clinton campaign emails, including Podesta

2017-01-04 badtech • clinton • hacking • podesta • russia

Tech employee advice

Details on evaluating an equity package

2017-01-03 business • equity • startups • stock

Vermont utility hack update

Probably not a directed Russian attack, also details on malware chatter

2017-01-03 badtech • hacking • malware • russia • security • vermont

Leap second postmortem

Cloudflare code failed when time went backwards

2017-01-02 cloudflare • leapsecond • ntp • time

Leap second in Redhat

Details of Linux options for leap seconds

2017-01-01 leapsecond • linux • ntp • redhat • time

Facebook 2016 Year in Review

A roundup of user-hostile things Facebook has done

2017-01-01 badtech • facebook • privacy