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Rendered Twitter archive
A tool to make a simple static HTML of a Twitter archive. Browseable and searchable
2023-06-30 archive • data • selfpublishing • socialmedia • twitter
Fake plaintiff in gay case
Most recent Supreme Court ruling against LGBTQ rights is apparently based on a faked case from the plaintiff
2023-06-30 civilrights • fraud • lgbt • politics • supremecourt
Google Reader history
Interview with various folk who worked on the beloved, doomed social media project
2023-06-30 atom • feedreader • google • googlereader • rss • socialmedia
Power Outage map
An aggregation of outage data from many US electric companies
2023-06-30 electricity • infrastructure • outage • pge • power • poweroutage
ERC scam
New US tax scam, I'm getting several junk calls a week from very professional sounding scammers offering me this credit
2023-06-29 covid • erc • fraud • irs • scam • taxes • telemarketing
Technically Optimistic podcast
A friend has a new podcast about AI big picture, first one has a great interview with the journalist John Markoff
2023-06-28 ai • machinelearning • markoff • podcast • raffi
US elite slave history
Reuters investigates slave ownership of the families of 100 American political leaders
2023-06-27 genealogy • history • politics • slavery • via:metafilter
Penis enlargement surgery
Horror stories from a surgical procedure
2023-06-27 men • penis • penuma • surgery • urology
Operation Midnight Climax
A 1950s CIA brothel dosed people with acid in San Francisco
2023-06-25 1950s • abuse • cia • drugs • history • lsd • police • politics • prostitution • sanfrancisco
Radio Beach
An odd forgotten beach just at the Bay Bridge toll plaza
2023-06-25 bayarea • baybridge • beach • oakland • sanfrancisco
Fake real photos
Simulating a camera in Blender
2023-06-24 blender • camera • graphics • photography • photos • raytracing • rendering
Meteor reporting
Website for collecting observations of a fireball or meteor
2023-06-24 astronomy • fireball • meteor • space
Meow: Mastodon export viewer
Handy browser based tool for searching your own toots, etc using an archive
2023-06-23 archive • fediverse • javascript • mastodon • webapp
</> htmx - high power tools for html
HTML framework that lets you do more dynamic things with a lightweight bit of code
2023-06-23 browser • frontend • html • javascript • webapp
Justice Alito corruption
A second Supreme Court judge caught taking luxury gifts from people with business before the court, not disclosing it
2023-06-21 alito • corruption • justice • politics • supremecourt
Cleaning laptop viruses
A clip from an Indian soap opera
2023-06-20 funny • india • laptop • security • soapopera • tv • via:metafilter • virus
The Matrix at 60fps
A particularly bad example of the soap opera effect
2023-06-20 60fps • cinematography • film • interpolation • movies • soapopera • upscaling
NACS car charging
Details on the Tesla connector that other car companies are adopting in North America. The connector is smaller.
2023-06-20 charging • ev • northamerica • standards • supercharger • tesla
Muon positioning system
Navigation using cosmic rays instead of radio
2023-06-20 gps • location • muon • navigation • physics • underwater
OLED & subpixel fonts
Very detailed tech description of adapting a text rendering algorithm to newer types of displays
2023-06-19 antialiasing • cleartype • fonts • oled • rendering • typography
Zelda mods
Folks are already modding Tears of the Kingdom
2023-06-18 games • hacking • mods • nintendo • totk • zelda
Reddit pirated /r/piracy
Moderator coup by Reddit to force a closed subreddit open
2023-06-18 moderation • policy • reddit • spez • tirefire
India Stack / DPI
Overview of Indian government working to export its national infrastructure for identity and payments
2023-06-16 government • identity • india • payments • politics • tech
Reddark
Current state of the reddit protest; about half the subreddits are continuing the protest
2023-06-16 community • internet • labor • moderation • reddit
Super preemption
New trend of Republican state legislatures stripping power from cities
2023-06-15 cities • gop • government • politics • republicans • states
Archiving your father
Paul Ford on compressing his father's works to 7GB for the Internet Archive
2023-06-15 archive • library • mourning • obituary • paulford • poetry • writing
Link's fashion debut
Legend of Zelda Zonai machines used to make Link slay
2023-06-15 fashion • games • gay • link • totk • zonai
Click languages
Short sample of someone pronouncing four click consonants used in southeastern Bantu languages like Zulu and Xhosa
2023-06-14 click • khosa • language • phonemes • phonology • southafrica • zulu • zunda
LGBTQ+ flags
A comprehensive list of various pride flags. We do love our diversity.
2023-06-14 flags • gay • lgbtq • politics • pride
Starlink Action Figure
Show off your love for Space Internet with a 1:4 scale model of Dishy
2023-06-14 dishy • doll • funny • spacex • starlink
Trump supporter violence
Scary fascist language in response to a legal indictment
2023-06-11 escalationism • fascism • politics • trump
Tesla Autopilot: 17 kills so far
The dangerous not actually full self driving feature is lethal
2023-06-10 ai • autopilot • cars • elonmusk • tesla
California home insurance
Details about the FAIR plan and the slow collapse of California's home insurance market
2023-06-03 california • climatechange • fair • fire • insurance • politics • realestate
NY Senate Bill S6686
Proposed law that would require social media companies have APIs to let third parties write code to benefit users
2023-06-03 api • facebook • newyork • politics • reddit • twitter
Chotiner, Koppel, Kissinger
New Yorker journalist famous for skewering morally compromised people skewers Ted Koppel for befriending a war criminal
2023-06-03 chotiner • journalism • kissinger • koppel • politics
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
A short history of the drag nuns that have been in the news recently
2023-06-02 catholic • drag • lgbtq • politics • sisters
CA power bill change
Detailed explanation of work on significantly changing how most Californians pay for electricity
2023-06-02 california • climatechange • electrify • pge • politics
Lisa Sue of AMD
Profile of the CEO who has been leading the company in its recent successful era
2023-06-02 amd • cpu • executive • tech
Zelda open world
How Breath of the Wild's game design works and makes for a really satisfying open world experience. (No ToTK discussion, although many design principles still apply.)
2023-06-01 design • games • narrative • openworld