Nelson's Linkblog 2017-06

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Sexual harassment in VC

Major bombshell story, many women on the record

2017-06-30 harassment • marccanter • mcclure • sacca • sexism • startups • tech • vc

Donald Trump is not well

Sharp editorial from the Morning Joe folks

2017-06-30 politics • trump

Lisbon's history with slavery

Details of a buried history

2017-06-30 humanrights • lisbon • portugal • slavery • via:hackernews

Using Matplotlib

Excellent guide to cutting through the confusing API and making nice charts

2017-06-30 matplotlib • plotting • python • via:hackernews • visualization

Minority counties

Visualization of counties in the US where >50% are members of one racial/ethnic minority

2017-06-30 america • demographics • maps • race • us • visualization

California maternal mortality

Detailed story of how my state has worked to better health outcomes, and how terrible most of the US is

2017-06-30 america • death • healthcare • maternal • via:metafilter • women

Sacca's mea culpa

Self-criticism and action on diversity in tech

2017-06-30 diversity • sacca • startups • tech • vc • venturecapital

The Tearoom game

Gay sex in public restroom simulator

2017-06-29 games • gay • lgbt • tearoom

NRA civil war ad

Amazingly inflammatory ad for the gun lobby

2017-06-29 guns • nra • politics • trump

Infowars and Goop run the same scam

Woo fake health products sold to the gullible on both sides of the political spectrum

2017-06-29 fake • fakemedicine • goop • infowars • scam • woo

LANL nuclear safety lapses

Includes photos of 8 plutonium rods together. Add a couple more and kaboom!

2017-06-29 complacency • lanl • losalamos • nuclear • photos • safety

Sexual harassment retaliation

Binary Capital tried to punish a woman after she left the firm for its sexist environment

2017-06-29 caldbeck • sexism • venturecapital

NSA's cyberdefense failure

Our weapons are leaking and the world is suffering

2017-06-29 badtech • malware • nsa • security • virus

Particle Mirror

New interactive art by Karl Sims

2017-06-28 art • karlsims • mirror • museum • particles

Yuba River rescue

Helicopter plucks a swimmer out of dangerously fast river

2017-06-27 grassvalley • helicopter • nevadacounty • rescue • river • yuba

History of scientific publishing

Details on how we have the current ruinous system

2017-06-27 economics • elsevier • history • publishing • science • springerverlag

Gossip site makes a deal with the devil

2017-06-27 gossip • journalism • politics • tmz • trump

Alexis and Serena

Romantic, improbably relationship between the world's best tennis player and a nerdy software dude

2017-06-27 love • marriage • reddit • romance • tennis

Open source software for synchronizing two directories. Nice GUI, Windows, Mac, and Unix.

2017-06-27 backup • gui • rsync • software • sync • unison • windows

Photos of Americans celebrating the end of Ramadan

2017-06-26 america • eid • muslim • photos • ramadan

MIT switches to NAT

A bad sign for end to end networking. OTOH, an alternate take is "MIT moves to IPv6"

2017-06-26 mit • nat • network • tcpip • via:hackernews

Hyperthreading broken on Skylake and Kaby Lake processors; there is a microcode fix

2017-06-25 badtech • bug • cpu • intel • linux • microcode

Efficiency gap analysis

Another measurement of gerrymandering by the AP. /cc @migurski

2017-06-25 efficiencygap • gerrymandering • politics • voterrights • voting

Voter suppression

Argument that the election integrity commission should focus on a real issue and not something made up like voter fraud

2017-06-24 florida • politics • trump • votersuppression • voting • votingrights

Eye Tracking Overwatch

Where a gamer looks

2017-06-24 eyetracker • games • hci • overwatch • ui

A subreddit of reaction GIFs of cute cats

2017-06-24 cats • funny • gif • meme • reaction • reddit

Stencils filled with gunpowder and ignited

2017-06-24 art • gunpowder • maps • rivers • via:migurski

William C. Bradford, vile racist

Trump's appointee to the Energy Department’s Office of Indian Energy has many revolting tweets

2017-06-24 disgusting • doe • energy • indian • politics • racism • trump • twitter

Brands' Arabic Logos

How big brands translate logo into Arabic script

2017-06-24 arabic • brands • calligraphy • design • logos

The Queen's hat

Hilariously arch British editorial

2017-06-24 brexit • england • eu • funny • hat • queen • uk

2017-06-23 nyt • nytimes • politics • trump

Why is the Internet so slow?!

Latency is about 37x theoretical minimum

2017-06-23 internet • latency • network • speed

Operation Tracer

Insane WW2 plan to maintain surveillance at Gibraltar in case the Nazis took over

2017-06-23 germany • gibraltar • history • war • ww2

Best outdoor US towns

Nice writeup of places in the US

2017-06-23 america • climbing • outside • tourism • town

Obama's Russia response

Remarkably detailed story on the White House's responses to Russian election tampering

2017-06-23 badtech • hacking • obama • politics • russia • security • trump

Thuan Pham at Uber

The house is not completely cleaned

2017-06-22 hr • sexism • uber

Voter roll tampered in 2016

Voting data wasn't just stolen, it was altered

2017-06-22 election • politics • russia • trump • voting

India's Dinosaur Princess

Aaliya Sultana Babi, a remarkable woman. We visited in 2015.

2017-06-22 dinosaurs • india • paleontology

My experiment taking PrEP

Direct and honest account from a gay man

2017-06-22 aids • gay • health • hiv • lgbt • medicine • prep

Skydiving From the Edge of Space

Lovely story about Alan Eustace's recordbreaking skydive

2017-06-22 aviation • eustace • flying • google • kittinger • skydiving

Friday in SF: first big event to kick off Pride weekend

2017-06-22 gay • lgbt • pride • trans • transgender

Cubs of the Caliphate

Depressing story about child soldiers and jihadis recruited by Islamic State

2017-06-22 children • childsoldiers • is • terrorists

A collection of Trump supporter's salty tears

2017-06-22 funny • politics • trump

Trump Claims Database

WashPo tracking false claims made by Trump

2017-06-21 lies • politics • trump

katakana english font

A Japanese font designed to resemble English text

2017-06-21 chingchong • design • font • fonts • japan • language

Hilarious reads on Mattel's new diverse line

2017-06-21 barbie • dolls • funny • ken • mattel • toys • via:metafilter

Custom iOS keyboards for transcribing aviation shorthand

2017-06-21 aviation • flying • ios • keyboard

Determinism in League of Legends

Making a real time game simulation 100% reproducible

2017-06-20 clock • determinism • engineering • games • leagueoflegends • lol • programming • rng

Project Include on Erica Baker

Kickstarter's new Director of Engineering @ericajoy talks about diversity in the military and tech. Also chili.

2017-06-20 chili • diversity • engineering • ericajoy • inclusion

Very sharp parody of ethnographic films, hilarious

2017-06-20 aborigine • australia • ethnography • funny • parody

A weekly journal of all the crazy things the Trump White House has been doing

2017-06-20 authoritarianism • diary • politics • trump

Hiding from the press

Trump White House is dismantling a cornerstone of American democracy

2017-06-20 media • politics • press • trump

Trump / Russia timeline

Summary of the case so far

2017-06-19 investigation • politics • russia • scandal • trump

Cruising the Canal du Midi

Short tourist boat trip

2017-06-19 barge • canaldumidi • france • maps • tourism • travel

Massive leak of political intel on 200M American voters

2017-06-19 badtech • civilrights • gerrymandering • gop • privacy • republicans • via:reddit • voting

Supreme Court / gerrymandering

They've agreed to take the Wisconsin case

2017-06-19 democracy • gerrymandering • politics • voting • votingrights • wisconsin

Hōkūleʻa's return

Polynesian Voyaging Society's traditional canoe completes its around-the-world trip

2017-06-18 hawaii • hokulea • navigation • polynesia • pvs

Stardust vis lib

Visualization using WebGL, in Javascript

2017-06-18 d3 • javascript • via:hackernews • visualization • webgl

Senior House at MIT

University is dismantling the misfit's dorm

2017-06-17 culture • mit • seniorhaus • seniorhouse • sportdeath • university

Funeral Parade of Roses

Queer 1969 Japanese movie. /cc @strongthomas @arleavitt

2017-06-17 1960s • japan • lgbt • queer • trans • transgender

Trump's 50% poll

Amazing cherry-picking for a dismal result

2017-06-16 politics • polling • trump

Removing bug inside monitor

The article is good, but this comment is just *gold*

2017-06-16 bug • funny • magick • monitor • ritual

Hypothesis testing library

Python code to do randomized tests of software

2017-06-16 python • testing

Facebook moderation fiasco

Total security breach putting moderator's lives at risk

2017-06-16 badtech • facebook • security • terrorism

Physical Visualizations

A list of objects that visualize data

2017-06-16 art • data • via:metafilter • visualization

Email inventor fraud

An update on the lawsuit-wielding Shiva Ayyadurai

2017-06-16 copyright • email • gawker • history • lawsuit • legal • techdirt • via:metafilter

Uber deliveries

Muscling in with their monopoly power

2017-06-15 deliveries • food • jwz • uber

Maciej / Pinboard interview

Great details on how Maciej thinks of his business

2017-06-15 business • maciej • pinboard • startups

Sibierian mammoth tusking

Hunting the wilderness for ethical ivory

2017-06-15 ivory • mammoths • russia • siberia • via:reddit

Modern Falconry

“Video-game design is, to my mind, the art of creating endorphin releases in the brain within a predetermined window,” Iseppi said. “Falconry is similar.”

2017-06-15 birds • falcons • flying • games

Moonlight map style

Another very simple style for use as a base for projects

2017-06-14 mapbox • maps • toner

Mounir Mahjoubi

Macron's tech expert, fought off Russian attacks on the campaign

2017-06-14 badtech • france • macron • politics • russia • tech

Boycott the Trump Summit

Well worded editorial that tech CEOs should not collaborate with Trump

2017-06-14 amazon • apple • google • ibm • microsoft • oracle • politics • tech • trump

Uber and Lyft in SF

Excellent detailed report from the city

2017-06-13 lyft • sanfrancisco • sf • uber

Houston fake antifa denouement

Details on the fake Facebook group that led to an armed protest

2017-06-13 antifa • facebook • fakenews • fascism • houston • propaganda • texas

200,000 SF rides

Visualized data from Uber and Lyft. /cc @enf

2017-06-13 lyft • rideshare • sanfrancisco • transit • uber

More Russian vote hacks

The attacks on our election in 2016 were bigger than originally reported

2017-06-13 hacking • politics • russia • vote

Chelsea Manning profile

Detailed NYTimes article, interview, photos, etc

2017-06-13 chelseamanning • lgbt • trans • transgender • via:metafilter • wikileaks

Amazon and non-competes

Trying to prevent a former employee from working

2017-06-12 amazon • ethics • noncompete • smartsheet • washington

AWS Inter-Region Latency

Simple table of round trip times between datacenters

2017-06-12 amazon • aws • latency • ping

Russia psyops vs US military

Getting chummy online with soldiers, sharing propaganda

2017-06-12 military • politics • propaganda • russia • trump

White House leak template

Journalism as Mad Lib

2017-06-11 funny • journalism • nytimes • politics • trump

Bugis society has five gender roles

2017-06-11 bugis • gender • indonesia • lgbt • transgender

LGBT in Indonesia

Interesting report on gay rights and economics in Indonesia

2017-06-11 economics • gay • indonesia • lgbt • via:ckline

Lisa UI controls

In the days before sliders were invented

2017-06-10 controls • hci • lisa • ui

Fascist trolling

Weird series of people creating fake "antifa" groups; Houston's newspaper fell for it

2017-06-10 antifa • fascism • houston • media • texas

Houston fascist event

Suburbanites with assault weapons, a bit frightening

2017-06-10 antifa • facism • houston • texas

Apple App Store scams

Advertising enables a new wave of predatory apps

2017-06-10 apple • apps • appstore • fraud • scam

Twitter Trump replies

Inside the struggle to be the top reply visible to Trump's tweets

2017-06-09 politics • seo • spam • trump • twitter

Poppy’s World

Update on synthetic celebrity

2017-06-09 culture • music • poppy • via:waxy • youtube

Trump as predator 1

Broader theme of Trump's creepy, abusive behavior

2017-06-09 comey • politics • trump • women

Trump as predator 1

Comparing Trumps dinner with Comey to a creepy man hitting on a woman

2017-06-09 comey • politics • trump • women

Bad volume sliders

Funny bit of anti-design

2017-06-09 design • funny • hci • reddit • ui

Moffats Piano and Keyboard Masters

A remarkable website

2017-06-09 funny • html • via:reddit • web

RNC Comey talking points

The prepared response

2017-06-08 comey • politics • rnc • trump

Ads trying to discredit the former FBI director running live during news event

2017-06-08 ads • comey • politics • propaganda • trump

Pad++-like zoomable UI for Geocities archive. /cc @bederson

2017-06-08 archive • bederson • geocities • pad • pad++ • via:waxy • zoomable

Internet culture never ceases to surprise

2017-06-08 funny • gay • lgbt • meme • thicc • via:metafilter

Apple privacy breach

Employees selling user personal info

2017-06-08 apple • china • privacy • scandal • tech

Gay white nationalists

How America's most virulent racists are allying with some evil gay men

2017-06-07 altright • gay • lgbt • nazis • whitenationalism

History of a fake news story

Details of how Russian parody ended up on Fox News

2017-06-07 fakenews • foxnews • journalism • politics • propaganda • russia

1930s American Nazis

Great set of photos

2017-06-07 america • facism • history • nazis • trump

$110B Saudi deal is fake

No real new contracts

2017-06-06 politics • saudi • saudiarabia • trump

Amazing infographics with a unique look

2017-06-05 design • infographics • stats • via:metafilter

Russian attacks on US voting machines

Leaked NSA analysis

2017-06-05 government • nsa • russia • trump • voting • votingrights

Lavatory Self-Portraits in the Flemish Style

Hilarious photographs

2017-06-05 art • flemish • funny • photography • photos

Nice demo of hyperdimensional geometry

2017-06-04 geometry • ios • iphone • math • toys

2017-06-03 ascii • base64 • emoji • encoding

Real Businesses

A reflection on VC and "lifestyle businesses"

2017-06-03 business • funding • indievc • investment • startups

More Uber wage theft

Uber lied about how long they've had the problem

2017-06-02 fraud • newyork • theft • uber

Cloudflare AMP Cache

Third party AMP implementation

2017-06-02 amp • cloudflare • google • html • mobile • web

Bitcoin mine closes

Major Chinese facility has been shut down

2017-06-02 bitcoin • china • currency • mining • power

Unicorns are overvalued

Looking skeptically at abuses of preferred shares

2017-06-02 investment • startups • tech • via:hackernews

Using AWS Lambda

Notes from the field about a cloud computing model

2017-06-02 amazon • aws • lambda • programming • python

Presidential vote by district

Per-congressional district data in spreadsheet form

2017-06-01 gerrymandering • politics • vote

Delicous for $35k

Pinboard buys old bookmarking site for next to nothing

2017-06-01 blogs • bookmarks • delicious • pinboard

Make JSON greppable by translating it into a line format

2017-06-01 data • grep • jq • json • processing

Have I been pwned?

Important tool for checking your personal password security

2017-06-01 badtech • passwords • privacy • security

1890 Portland Oregon

Fanciful paper map

2017-06-01 history • maps • oregon • portland

Pro LoL franchises

Riot revamps the business model for esports teams in North America

2017-06-01 games • leagueoflegends • lol • riot

Evergreen and Race

Ugly dispute about racism at the Washington State school

2017-06-01 america • college • evergreen • freespeech • race • racism

OneLogin Breach

Password manager / identity system suffers catastrophic breach

2017-06-01 login • onelogin • passwords • security