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Kissinger's legacy
A reflection on his war crimes and debasement of American politics
2023-11-30 america • cambodia • kissinger • politics • uspol • warcrime
Musk video: "Go Fuck Yourself"
Recording of Musk telling advertisers to go fuck themselves
2023-11-29 adderall • ads • advertising • elonmusk • musk • tirefire • twitter
Bridgy Fed
Ryan's project to make it easy to share blog posts to the Fediverse, etc
2023-11-29 blogs • bridgy • fediverse • interoperability • mastodon • rss
Jason Rohrer
Home page of the creative game developer
2023-11-28 art • games • jasonrohrer • passage
Fallout TV show
Game adapted to TV, stills look great
2023-11-28 fallout • games • television • tv
uBlock Origin Lite
Version of the popular ad blocker that will work in Chrome Manifest v3. Said to work well despite the limitations of the new API
2023-11-28 adblocker • ads • chrome • extensions • google • privacy • web
Video Privacy Protection Act
American privacy law created in the wake of someone obtaining Robert Bork's video rental history without permission
2023-11-27 america • bork • library • politics • privacy • vppa
Plex privacy mess
Company opted its customers in to broadcasting to friends what TV and movies you are watching
2023-11-27 lgbt • media • plex • porn • privacy • tv • via:waxy
ripgrep
2016 post introducing a new Unix file searching tool, talking about why it is so fast. 7 years later and it is still great
2023-11-26 code • linux • rg • ripgrep • search • text • unix
Bear 100 retro
Sean Gillies on attempting to run a 100 mile ultra marathon in under 36 hours. Remarkable athleticism.
2023-11-25 body • fitness • running • ultramarathon
Common Expression Language
Simple math expressions (think a * b + c) that you can then use in systems. A standard to allow for interoperability
2023-11-23 cel • code • expressions • google • math • programming • sandbox
R. Crumb / P.K. Dick
Comic about a religious experience
2023-11-22 art • comics • crumb • dick • religion • schizophrenia • scifi
The Dream House
Account of hearing La Monte Young play his unique American minimalism in New York
2023-11-22 dream • house • lamonteyoung • minimalism • music
Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein
In the 2010s the new OpenAI board member was buddy buddy with the convicted sex trafficker and raised money from him.
2023-11-22 epstein • openai • scandal • sex • summers
Z-machine source found
Code for Infocom's original game engine found and published
2023-11-22 games • infocom • retrocomputing • zip • zmachine
Tesla culpability
Judge rules Tesla and Musk knew their so-called autopilot could kill people and marketed it as full self driving anyway
2023-11-22 ai • autopilot • cars • elonmusk • fsd • legal • tesla
Not the usual Yada Yada
Screenshot of Google Toolbar disclosure in 2007 to get truly informed user consent
2023-11-21 consent • google • history • privacy • toolbar • tracking
The Australian Ballot
Secret ballots are called "Australian" because Australia had them before the US or the UK
2023-11-21 australia • election • history • politics • voting
Ads opt out
Automated industry tool to opt you out of 100+ surveillance sites
2023-11-21 adblocker • ads • internet • privacy • surveillance
Del Harvey on Twitter trust & safety
She was in charge of trust & safety at Twitter for many years and doesn't talk often. Interview takes a bit to get going but has a lot of interesting detail.
2023-11-21 del • delharvey • moderation • trump • trustandsafety • twitter
YouTube delays
Company is now deliberately sabotaging their video experience for people using ad blockers
2023-11-21 adblock • adsense • google • youtube
Electricity Map
Live map of carbon impact of energy usage broken up by region
2023-11-21 carbon • climatechange • co2 • electricity • emissions • power
Understanding TESCREAL
A quick guide to the various problematic technoreligions that influence some in the tech industry
2023-11-19 ai • politics • siliconvalley • tescreal • tirefire
LoL Worlds Viewership
Historical stats for viewership of the big esports event
2023-11-19 china • esports • games • leagueoflegends • lol • ratings • riotgames
Pretty Maps interview
Excellent comments from Marcelo Prates on his artistic map making software and his career in general
2023-11-19 art • generative • maps • prettymaps • programming
break_infinity.js
Library for working with approximations of very large numbers, used in incremental games
2023-11-19 exponential • games • idle • incremental • infinity • javascript • logarithm • programming
Apple to support RCS
Finally, unified open text messaging across Android and iOS
2023-11-16 apple • google • imessage • ios • messaging • rcs • sms
I'm A Fairy Xmas ornaments
Gay up your Christmas tree
2023-11-16 christmas • gay • kitsch • lgbt • ornament
NEMA connector
A guide to all the various AC electrical plugs we use in the US. NEMA 5-15 is the standard we know and love.
2023-11-16 ac • electricity • ev • northamerica • plug • power
HTML Web Components
Easy to understand example of using Javasript and web components to enhance vanilla HTML
2023-11-15 html • javascript • webcomponents • webdevelopment
The Bars are Ours
New book on the history of gay bars
2023-11-14 bars • community • culture • gay • history • lgbt • losangeles
Mastodon critique
Useful roundup of various cultural and technical problems. It's all correct but doesn't stop me from enjoying the community
2023-11-13 fediverse • mastodon • socialmedia • via:metafilter
Noe Koi
SF Street Artist paints giant fish in intersection at beginning of our pedestrianized street
2023-11-11 koi • noevalley • novy • sanchez • sanfrancisco • slowstreets • streetart
Autocracy: Rules for Survival
2016 essay about how autocracies normalize extreme politics, after Trump's election. Much of Trump's extremism is now normalized and shapes 2023 politics.
2023-11-10 autocracy • normal • politics • russia • trump • uspol
Jill Stein, Moscow's candidate
2018 report on how the Green party candidate's 2016 run was aided by Russian propaganda spending
2023-11-09 greenparty • jillstein • politics • putin • russia • uspol
SF Mission burrito considered
A reflection on our signature food
2023-11-08 burrito • food • mission • sanfrancisco
Drug Emoji Codes
DEA panic flyer about the Kids These Days using emoji to talk about drugs. ❄️🍁🏈❤️
2023-11-08 dea • drugs • emoji • funny • panic • reddit
Perfect San Francisco Days
A surprisingly good tourist site by the SF government, focused on what to do in particular neighborhoods
2023-11-08 neighborhoods • sanfrancisco • sf • tourism
Starlink fraud
Last month or so Starlink accounts are getting stolen and saved payment info is used to order equipment for resale
2023-11-07 creditcard • fraud • scam • starlink
Android 14 upgrade disaster
Some fraction of phones haven't worked for a month and may have permanent data loss because Google screwed up an update
2023-11-07 android • dataloss • google • malfeasance
Trump's revenge plans
Plans to corrupt the Justice Department to get back at various people the former President doesn't like.
2023-11-06 barr • corruption • doj • justice • politics • trump • uspol
Overwatch League to end?
End of one of the biggest western esports efforts. Reports are the teams will vote to dissolve the league and take a refund from Microsoft.
2023-11-06 blizzard • esports • games • microsoft • overwatch • owl
Teeth falling out dreams
Apparently a cultural universal
2023-11-06 anxiety • dreams • psychology • teeth
Ten Guardians of SF
Funny pictures of SF landmarks as giant mechas (AI generated?)
2023-11-05 art • kaiju • mecha • sanfrancisco
Git Notes
When working on a code project you can add annotations to old commits with "git notes".
2023-11-05 comments • git • notes • programming
Rewind dot AI
A personal assistant that watches everything you see and hear and summarizes it for you.
2023-11-03 ai • assistant • lifestreams • via:tmcw
Zero Width Shortener
Hilarious link shortener that produces URLs that look empty, by using zero width Unicode
2023-11-03 bookmarks • linkshortener • web • zws
LibreHardwareMonitor
An active fork of OpenHardwareMonitor, a good Windows open source program for monitoring system sensors
2023-11-02 fan • hardware • monitoring • temperature • windows
de Young Museum cruelty
Awful story of the museum not offering a defibrillator to save someone's life.
2023-11-02 defibrillator • deyoung • health • museum • sanfrancisco
Queer Country Music
A short history
2023-11-01 country • cw • gay • lgbt • music • queer
Phanpy
An excellent Mastodon client
2023-11-01 client • mastodon • socialmedia