Cops stopped medical help

Portland guy died on the street in part because police shoved away the medics trying to help him

2020-08-31 blm • killing • medic • police • portland

Trump's crazy weekend

A deluge of insane and disturbing ideas, policy statements, retweets

2020-08-31 batshitinsane • conspiracy • crazy • politics • trump

DoJ Russia investigation was sabotaged

Since 2017 the investigation was never really doing the full job

2020-08-31 conspiracy • corruption • election • politics • russia • trump

Covid for kidz!

Significant rise in infections, hospitalizations, and deaths of children

2020-08-31 children • coronavirus • covid19 • disease • kids • politics • trump

Portland escalation in context

End of this article talks about how there's been nearly 500 fascist counter-protests this year, 6 of which resulted in shootings

2020-08-30 blm • fascism • guns • politics • protest • trump

Butch gay bottom (NSFW)

Old friend talks about the masculinity of being fucked

2020-08-30 gay • gender • lgbt • masculine • nsfw

Portland shooting (10 hour report)

Still very unclear what happened, but it appears a fascist was shot and killed a couple blocks away from the violent pro-Trump event last night

2020-08-30 fascism • killing • patriotprayer • politics • portland • trump

No more election security briefings

Intelligence briefings for Congress are stopping, right as the election heats up and we know Russia is working to get Trump re-elected

2020-08-29 congress • corruption • election • intelligence • politics • trump

USPS and 2020 election

Details of how much USPS fuckery could harm the election

2020-08-29 corruption • election • politics • trump • votebymail • voting • votingrights

How viruses shape the world

Excellent long form science journalism on what viruses are and how they work

2020-08-29 disease • pandemic • science • virus

The American Death Cult

Clearly written essay about the right wing's obsession with death in its political views

2020-08-29 america • death • deathcult • guns • politics

HUD abused by GOP

Convention video of tenants complaining about problem was acquired without their consent

2020-08-28 corruption • gop • politics • republican • trump

Melania is like her husband

New tell-all book makes Melania sound as awful as Donald

2020-08-28 melania • monster • politics • trump

The racist Rittenhouse defense

Excellent framing of discussion about the Kenosha murders

2020-08-28 kenosha • politics • racism • rittenhouse • selfdefense

Neal / Morse election

Ugly Massachusetts congressional race between two Democrats, with a progressive vs traditional bent and a homophobic smear underneath

2020-08-28 massachusetts • election • gay • homophobia • lgbt • politics

Rittenhouse murders

Eyewitness accounts of the first killing, before the video we've all seen of him lying on the ground killing other people

2020-08-28 kenosha • murder • politics • rittenhouse

Nina Compton profile

Excellent article about a New Orleans chef working to make it during Coronavirus. You may remember her from Top Chef.

2020-08-28 compton • cooking • food • stlucia • topchef

pro-Trump fake tweets

Accounts impersonating African-American people tweet a lot in support of Trump

2020-08-28 africanamerican • black • politics • spam • trump • twitter

neo-Nazi police

New report on how white supremacist groups have infiltrated the police all over the US

2020-08-27 facsism • nazis • police • politics • racism

USPS delays

Shipping service company has extensive data showing 10-20% delays in shipping packages in the last few months

2020-08-27 mail • politics • shipping • usps • via:hackernews

College Covid cases

NYTimes tracking cases as colleges reopen

2020-08-27 college • coronavirus • covid19 • disease • pandemic

Kenosha Police Chief

The problem right here; police chief identifies with the murdering militia more than the protestors or the peaceful residents of his town

2020-08-27 kenosha • police • politics • violence • whitesupremacy

Kenosha murder planned on Facebook

The militia group that killed two people in Kenosha organized on Facebook. Folks complained the militia group was dangerous, Facebook ignored it and said the group was within their policies.

2020-08-27 facebook • kenosha • militia • murder • politics

More on Kenosha murderer

Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, Trump fan, showed up at a BLM protest with an assault weapon ready to shoot people

2020-08-27 civilwar • fascism • kenosha • politics • protest • trump

FDA spokesperson unqualified

Political hack takes a job normally given to career scientist communicators

2020-08-26 coronavirus • corruption • covid19 • fda • politics • trump

Slow the testing down

CDC makes good on Trump's political demand that we slow down Covid testing in contradiction to all sensible public health policy

2020-08-26 cdc • politics • testing • trump

Kenosha cops being friendly with militia

Cops + fascist thugs acting chummy

2020-08-26 fascism • kenosha • militia • police

Kenosha shooting

Violence is escalating at the hands of armed right wing militias

2020-08-26 kenosha • militia • murder • police • politics • protest • violence

FDA being subverted

Scientists and doctors worried FDA has been manipulating medical treatment data for political purposes

2020-08-25 coronavirus • corruption • covid19 • fda • politics

The Grand Old Meltdown

The Republican party no longer has ideas or policies

2020-08-25 election • gop • politics • republicans • trump

Falwell's other boy

Benjamin Crosswhite got a sweet, sweet deal from Liberty University after years of personal service to the family

2020-08-24 falwell • fraud • liberty • religion • scandal

Stanford Internet Observatory

New-ish program researching negative impacts of tech on society

2020-08-24 culture • machinelearning • politics • research • stanford

The pool boy speaks

Granda's side of the Falwell story. Jerry likes to watch (a literal cuck), and they had some happy kink for a few years

2020-08-24 falwell • hypocrisy • religion • sex

Factorio review

An excellent summary of one of the best games of the decade

2020-08-24 factorio • games • review

It was the pool boy

Monster hypocrite Jerry Falwell Jr finally comes clean on one of his marriages' failures, but not his general pattern of hatred, grift, and hypocrisy.

2020-08-24 falwell • hypocrisy • politics • religion

Facebook corrupt to the core

Zuckerberg manipulating politics to stifle competition

2020-08-24 china • facebook • freedom • politics • tiktok • wechat

Insect Flight

Slow motion captures, really lovely

2020-08-22 flight • flying • insects • science • via:metafilter

Trump poll threats

Says he'll send law enforcement and attorneys to polls to monitor and prevent fraud. Could be a very scary move.

2020-08-22 election • politics • trump • voting • votingrights

Understanding AQI readings

Air quality measurements are not calibrated or reported well

2020-08-21 airquality • aqi • fire • maps • purple • smoke

Choosing to steal children

The moment in 2018 in the White House when the immoral monsters decided taking children away from their parents should be national policy

2020-08-21 atrocity • children • humanrights • immigration • politics • stephenmiller

Ultima IV ethics

Nice little article about the groundbreaking old computer game

2020-08-21 avatar • games • ultima • ultimaiv • via:metafilter

I Will Vote

Voting information site; how to register and vote. Run by the DNC but useful to anyone.

2020-08-21 dnc • election • politics • voting • votingrights

NAT traversal in 2020

Excellent detailed article about how to poke holes in firewalls and NAT routers to allow peer to peer communication

2020-08-21 internet • nat • peertopeer • protocol • stun • vpn

Anti-BLM thug apology

Guy arrested in Nevada City for attacking peaceful protestors apologizes

2020-08-21 blm • nevadacity • nevadacounty • politics • protest • thug • violence

Legends Never Die

Orville Peck, Shania Twain: Queer Country rides again

2020-08-20 country • lgbt • music • orvillepeck • shaniatwain

National Fire Situational Awareness

Map of current fires, seems based on satellite data

2020-08-19 california • fire • map • satellite

Trump / Russia collusion

Yet more evidence the Trump campaign was completely corrupt in 2016. Is there any reason to think this year is different?

2020-08-18 intelligence • politics • propaganda • russia • trump

California blackouts; why?

Confusion as state has plenty of reported capacity to meet demand, and yet is browning out parts of the state

2020-08-17 caiso • california • electricity • iso • pge • power

How to vote in all 50 states

Per-state info on mail in and early voting options

2020-08-17 elections • maps • politics • voting • votingrights

California ISO dashboard

Remarkably understandable data on our power grid

2020-08-16 california • dashboard • electricity • iso • power

Media Lab farewell

Ethan Zuckerman's poetic goodbye to a flawed institution

2020-08-16 funny • medialab • mit

USPS Collection Boxes

A spider for scraping the location of mailboxes from the post office's website

2020-08-16 bluebox • delivery • mail • postal • usps

Nazis attack counterprotestors

Kalamazoo; unpermitted Proud Boys rally has hundreds of counterprotestors show up. The Nazis start attacking them.

2020-08-16 kalamazoo • nazis • politics • proudboys • trump

Days of Heaven

Excellent somewhat forgotten film from 1978

2020-08-15 cinematography • film • goldenhour • movies • wyeth

DHS illegally run

The head and #2 at the Department of Homeland Security are illegal appointments

2020-08-15 corruption • dhs • legitimacy • politics • trump

Vote by mail in 2020

Details of which states allow vote by mail and how

2020-08-14 election • politics • votebymail • voting • votingrights

USPS vs voting

Detailed article about logistical problems voting by mail. Some predate DeJoy, but these are all the sorts of problems a legitimate government would be working to solve, not exacerbate

2020-08-14 coup • mail • politics • usps • voting • votingrights

Mozilla signs search deal

By far the primary source of funding for Mozilla is the search deal. Won by Google again, $400M/year or so

2020-08-14 ads • firefox • funding • google • mozilla

DJ Screw remembered

Generation X Æ A-12 discovers chopped-and-screwed music, misattributes it, swiftly corrected

2020-08-14 choppedandscrewed • djscrew • hiphop • houston • music

Music for Trans and Nonbinary kids

Sweet NPR segment on an album of kids music for gender nonconforming kids. Same folks run a summer camp.

2020-08-14 inclusion • kids • lgbt • music • npr • trans

Factorio 1.0

One of the best games of the last few years is finally out of early access and formally released.

2020-08-14 earlyaccess • factorio • games • release

Trump explicit about USPS / voter suppression

Trump directly says that not funding the USPS will sabotage mail-in voting

2020-08-13 election • politics • trump • usps • voting

USPS vandal is corrupt

Retains investments in companies that compete with the USPS, the agency he is destroying

2020-08-13 corruption • politics • trump • usps

WAP in ASL (NSFW audio)

Sign interpretation of the Cardi B hit

2020-08-12 asl • deaf • music • sign • wap

More on Nevada City assaults

Detailed writeup of video evidence of brownshirts attacking demonstrators

2020-08-12 blm • nevadacity • politics • riot • trump • violence

Brown shirts vs BLM in Nevada City

Really disturbing video from the Aug 9 protest; peaceful march got assaulted by white supremacists

2020-08-12 blm • nevadacity • politics • protest • racism • whitesupremacist

BLM protest attacked in Nevada City

Ugly confrontation in small town California; a looks like a few white supremacists showed up looking for a fight

2020-08-11 blm • grassvalley • nevadacity • nevadacounty • politics • protest

WAP song (NSFW)

The uncensored version really hits a lot harder.

2020-08-11 cardib • music • sex • wap • women

Cardi B - WAP (NSFW)

Women make sexy music video, whole world freaks out

2020-08-11 cardib • macaroni • music • sex • video • wap • women

Trump no-blanks policy

Cruel and arbitrary bureaucratic policy requires every single field in a form have *something* in it even if irrelevant. No blanks allowed.

2020-08-11 cruelty • immigration • ins • politics • trump

Dismantle the DHS

The ACLU comes out in favor of breaking up the government agency that so threatens our civil liberty

2020-08-10 aclu • dhs • fascism • politics

The Inspiring Power of Bad Ideas

Transcript of a talk about people very committed to wrong ideas

2020-08-10 badideas • folly • history • tomlee

Indie.vc Verified Scouts

Innovative VC fund keeps trying new things; now advisors that can disburse small amounts of direct funding

2020-08-10 indievc • investment • startups • venturecapital

NYTimes map population masking

Only color parts of a data map where people actually live

2020-08-10 charts • datavis • maps • population

Clay K Slider

Pop hits in the style of Animal Crossing's star electronic dog, KK Slider

2020-08-10 animalcrossing • funny • games • kkslider • music

Europe's summer raves

Illegal parties in the time of Covid-19. Sounds like fun if ill-advised. Still nowhere near as risky as what's happening in the US

2020-08-09 coronavirus • covid19 • europe • party • rave

Trump's executive orders

Details of what he actually signed into place. Much more limited than he said, and may or may not be legal.

2020-08-09 coronavirus • covid19 • executiveorder • lies • politics • stimulus • trump

Close Senate races 2020

Nice roundup of elections that are close

2020-08-09 democrats • election • politics • senate

GOP voter suppression

Details of the Republican campaign to prevent people from voting by mail

2020-08-09 election • fraud • politics • trump • usps • votebymail • voterfraud • voting • votingrights

Trump's Covid response

Another gossipy insider view from the White House of a complete failure

2020-08-09 coronavirus • covid19 • disease • politics • trump

LRAD

One weapon the US is using against its citizens

2020-08-09 crowdcontrol • lrad • politics • portland • protest • weapon

USPS price gouging on ballots

Reclassifying vote by mail ballots as first class instead of bulk, nearly tripling the price

2020-08-09 ballot • corruption • election • trump • usps • voting • votingrights

California Covid-19 strategy has failed

Strongly agree with this editorial; we should be doing better in California

2020-08-09 california • coronavirus • covid19 • politics

Garrick Fernbaugh

Mercenary accused of throwing a pipe bomb into a Portland protest

2020-08-08 mercenary • pipebomb • portland • protest • violence

Alleged bomb throwing terrorist

Protestors attacked with pipe bombs in Portland; someone very brave confronted a guy they say was one of the bombers

2020-08-08 attack • bombs • fascism • portland • terrorism

Emigration and other hedges

A story from someone who left the US for Taiwan to escape Covid

2020-08-08 americans • coronavirus • covid19 • emigration • taiwan

Bill Gates on Covid

Very frank and direct discussion of how badly the US has handled the pandemic

2020-08-08 billgates • coronavirus • covid19 • pandemic • politics • trump

USPS reorganization

Trump crony removes almost half the senior leadership of the USPS and reorganizes the rest

2020-08-08 corruption • fraud • mail • politics • trump • usps • votingrights

Trump's TikTok shakedown

More speculation on the insane and corrupt idea that TikTok should pay protection money in order to do business in the US

2020-08-08 business • corruption • tiktok • trump

Russian election meddling, 2020

Intelligence assessment indicates plenty of activity. All unchecked, since the Trump Administration refused to do anything to investigate or stop it.

2020-08-08 election • politics • propaganda • russia • trump

TikTok, WeChat, and the law

An update on how the US is taking extraordinary steps to sanction Chinese businesses

2020-08-07 america • china • politics • tiktok • trump • wechat

Trees of Ghost of Tsushima

Screenshot gallery of impressive environmental decoration

2020-08-07 bonsai • games • ghostoftsushima • trees

Gay sex clubs in Covid

Eros in San Francisco is talking about reopening with patrons wearing masks

2020-08-07 coronavirus • covid19 • gay • lgbt • sex • sexclub

Nevada City outdoor dining

Small town gets its act together to allow restaurants to open more safely during Covid

2020-08-07 california • coronavirus • covid19 • nevadacity • restaurants

2mm thick watch

Fully mechanical; Piaget designs a marvel

2020-08-07 engineering • piaget • thin • via:nat • watches

Contact tracing broken in California

Even little Nevada County is affected by a statewide "reporting glitch" in Covid tests; contact tracers never learn about cases

2020-08-07 california • contacttracing • coronavirus • covid19 • disease • fuckup

GOP vs drop boxes

More voter suppression; Republicans try to prevent the use of collection boxes for ballots, a perfectly common and ordinary thing

2020-08-07 dropbox • election • gop • republican • voting • votingrights

Twitter likes extreme tweets

Simple study by the Economist shows their algorithmic timeline boosts tweets with emotional extremity

2020-08-06 emotion • filtering • propaganda • trump • twitter

Electoral College survival

Racist Southerners' support for our bizarre way of voting in a president from 1789 through to 1970s.

2020-08-05 electoralcollege • politics • racism • south • voting • votingrights

QAnon a terrorist threat

West Point analysis suggests the wacko conspiracy theory is dangerous

2020-08-05 politics • qanon • terrorism • trump • westpoint

Jamison v McClendon

Amazing judicial ruling in a police abuse case.

2020-08-05 acab • police • politics • qualifiedimmunity • racism

How 2020 election could be stolen

Totally plausible scenario of Trump fuckery around mail order ballot counting

2020-08-04 election • politics • trump • usps • votebymail • votingrights

Census sabotage

Count is cut short by a month for no good reason

2020-08-04 census • corruption • malfeasance • politics • trump

Politics vs Vaccine

Increasingly looking like the government's vaccine development plan has one major goal: deliver something, anything, before the election

2020-08-04 coronavirus • covid19 • disease • politics • safety • trump • vaccine

Lego UI design

A look at the tiny little image that decorate panels on Legos for spaceships

2020-08-04 design • legos • spaceships • via:metafilter

TikTok and the Law

Details of how Trump has authority over a Chinese company. Turns out CFIUS gives the executive very broad powers. He's abusing them, but in a way that may be legal.

2020-08-03 bytedance • law • microsoft • politics • power • tiktok • trump

Anatomy of our Covid failure

"the United States underperformed across the board, and its errors compounded"

2020-08-03 america • coronavirus • covid19 • decline • disease • failure • politics • trump

US schools in Covid

Details on how each state is handling school reopening

2020-08-03 america • coronavirus • covid19 • education • schools • us

Trump business shakedown

Insane idea that TikTok will owe money to the US Treasury for America allowing its business to operate unimpeded

2020-08-03 corruption • microsoft • politics • tiktok • trump

Ode to Putin

Living statue protest art, quite amazing

2020-08-03 blm • politics • portland • putin • trump

Covid antibodies and vaccines

Good, readable summary of why the news about diminishing antibodies in Covid patients doesn't mean a vaccine won't work

2020-08-03 coronavirus • covid19 • disease • health • immunesystem • immunology • vaccine

Right wing fake editorials

Newsmax and Washington Examiner published editorials written by people who don't exist. Seems to be a coordinated propaganda campaign.

2020-08-03 fakenews • journalism • news • newsmax • propaganda • washingtonexaminer

LA contact tracing failures

Covid sleuths are not able to track infections in LA. This article is harsh, but the simplest explanation is the system is overwhelmed by new cases.

2020-08-03 contacttracing • coronavirus • covid19 • disease • la • losangeles • publichealth

SEALs vs Kaepernick

Navy men embarrass themselves and their military service with a racist display

2020-08-02 kaepernick • military • navy • politics • racism • seal

2016 stolen votes

Details of how Michigan didn't count 75,355 ballots; mostly in heavy Black precincts. Nearly 2M votes nationwide were thrown out.

2020-08-02 election • politics • trump • voting • votingrights

The Giving Tree- Alternate Ending

Silvertstein's creepy book rewritten so that Tree has healthy boundaries

2020-08-02 books • children • funny • givingtree • kids • teaching

Trump's baseball lie

A particularly embarrassing display of narcissism

2020-08-01 baseball • narcissism • politics • trump • yankees

Contact Tracing failure

"the virus’s pervasiveness and major lags in testing have rendered the system almost pointless"

2020-08-01 america • contacttracing • coronavirus • covid19 • health