Log In - The New York Times
Times piece written with a delightfully contemptuous style toward anti-vac dumbshits, largely just by quoting them http://t.c… »
Brianna Wu tried to assassinate me via street racing - YouTube
The man who was threatening to shoot @Spacekatgal and driving to her residence was 'street racing' there & crashed... »
mobile.nytimes.com/2015/01/31/us/vaccine-critics-turn-defensive-over-measles.html
"It's gotten so vicious," says poor shocked person being attacked for making hundreds of children sick »
xkcd: Super Bowl
XKCD is as usual frighteningly dead-on »
scumbag data scientist memes | quickmeme
Equally awesome: fellow ex-Etsian @stevemardenfeld is joining Stripe. I look forward to seeing his meme evolve... »
The Last Relevant Blogger | Motherboard
Andrew Sullivan, our greatest public intellectual: Hipster Runoff, the last relevant blogger »
RoaldDahlFans.com - Articles/Interviews - "MEASLES: A Dangerous Illness"
Roald Dahl lost one of his daughters to measles. He wrote a letter urging parents to vaccinate: (via @Tim_Org) »
Uber Expectations As We Grow | Uber Blog
Quite interesting data from Uber on the interplay between convenience and expectations/patience »
An American Uses Britain's NHS - Business Insider
I still don't understand why people are afraid of socialized medicine. It's way better. »
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In David Duchovny's favorite "X-Files" fan fiction, he and his nemesis are lovers »
The Gamergate Decision Shows Exactly What's Broken About Wikipedia
Gamergate Decision Shows Exactly Whats Broken @ Wikipedia similar reasoning re diversity :( »
THE KINSPIRACY
@truittigoe ? »
Yes and Yes Yes | YxYY003- Eventbrite
Pre-sale tickets are live for #YxYY! General sale goes live tomorrow (Feb 1st) at noon (no pw needed then). »
Block by Block — The Message — Medium
“There are plenty of non-hostile reasons to [block someone]. You aren’t entitled to another person’s time & energy.” »
Immunization | Child Trends
Vaccination rates in US haven’t gone down; they stalled. Pockets of anti-vax increase risk. »
kennethreitz/autoenv · GitHub
TIL: autoenv. automatically export env variables whenever you cd into a dir w an .env file. thx… »
Should I Be a Poorly Paid Writer or a Better-Paid Publicist? - The Awl
hard horrible important truth: "In New York City, the difference between $50K and $75K is essentially meaningless." http://… »
How-to make your iPhone Dimmer than Dim — Medium
Low light mode should be a first class iOS setting because screens are way too bright at night. How to enable it »
Facebook just taught us all how to build websites — Medium
Facebook just taught us all how to build websites »
Uber Office │ Design office space in London
"His aggressive and daring style is revolutionary, radicalising the way business is achieved in London..." »
The End Isn’t the End - The Morning News
"When insomnia and technological convenience collide, a lifetime of binge reading reaches its full potential." »
Today, It’s the New York ‘Shack’ Exchange, With Free Burgers for All - WSJ
This is my America: Shake Shack has turned the New York Stock Exchange into the New York “Shack” Exchange. »
What the Sharing Economy Takes | The Nation
"The sharing economy is a nice way for rapacious capitalists to monetize the desperation of people" & sound generous! »
saved by the bell hooks
Saved By The bell hooks. »
Drones Are Now Appearing on Afghan Rugs - The Atlantic
Afghan weavers have started incorporating drones into their rugs »
Thoughts from the Edge - YouTube
Less of a video essay than a meditation: @hankgreen on "thoughts from the edge" hit me just right today. Thanks Hank! »
Fire rips through Brooklyn warehouse Saturday morning - NY Daily News
Brooklyn warehouse fire now 7 alarms; fueled by 4 MILLION boxes of NYC/NYS gov’t records. »
Photos, Videos: 7-Alarm Fire Rages In Williamsburg Warehouse [Updates]: Gothamist
Firefighters battling Williamsburg warehouse fire since 6:28 a.m. (photo: R.A. Mercado) »
Uber’s New BHAG: UberPool — Medium
It's bigger than you think. “Uber’s New BHAG: UberPool” by @bgurley »
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Improve your game of Go (or just keep playing) with this collection of apps | Macworld
iOS apps for learning and playing go (the game): (@Stripe has both #gogame and #golang @SlackHQ channels, ftw.) »
Instagram
All set. See you in a week! #indianpandaale »
Advisors | Ada Initiative
Incredibly proud to announce that I've joined the @adainitiative advisory board! I have a lot of heroes on this list https:… »
Even though I found a way to keep reading, it was...
...[love this quote in particular from that article though »
Cultivated Disinterest in Professional Sports | copyrighteous
tl;dr version: "Pretending to like sports allows you to talk to muggles" »
Several People Are Typing — Introducing the magnificent new @channel alert
Sometimes you need everyone's attention. New! An alert just checkin’ you're sure »
Solidarity—and the Seattle Seahawks—Forever | The Nation
2 interesting (and very different) #NFL reads »
Instagram
"I rubbed myself in something dead so now I'm invisible!" "No, Bug. You just smell bad." "Invisible!" »
Capital One Fraud Researchers May Also Have Done Some Fraud - Bloomberg View
This article is too amazing to sum up. Proprietary databases, burritos, and insider trading: #thegu… »
Documentary on 50 years of The Phantom Tollbooth - Boing Boing
Documentary on 50 years of The Phantom Tollbooth »
Seattle police pepper sprayed a teacher who was walking and talking to his mom
Hard to imagine ANY justification for this use of pepper spray by Seattle cop. »
Dorophone: Duckspeak Vs Smalltalk
The Decline of Xerox Parc philosophy at Apple »
Sheldon® Comic Strip: Daily webcomic by Dave Kellett
@mariancall Wherein @davekellett discusses Facebook's cruller filtering »
The NFL wants you to think these things are illegal | Ars Technica
The NFL wants you to think saying "Super Bowl" or talking about the game requires their permission, but that's bunk »
Prosecutors Trace $13.4M in Bitcoins From the Silk Road to Ulbricht's Laptop | WIRED
I'm telling ya, blockchain technology will be mandated by governments in order to have a fully accounted economy. »
My Post Cyberpunk Indentured Servitude - The Daily Beast
In addition to having lost the “right to link” journalists have also now lost the “right to quote.” »
Uber’s New BHAG: UberPool | Above the Crowd | By Bill Gurley
Uber reminds me a lot of Amazon. Driven by math, always moving towards efficient frontier »
Shadowrun: Hong Kong by Harebrained Schemes LLC — Kickstarter
The creation of the night market in Shadowrun: Hong Kong in gif form »
Before Uber revolutionizes labor, it's going to have to explain these embarrassing emails | The Verge
Before Uber revolutionizes labor, it's going to have to explain these embarrassing emails »
Never trust a corporation to do a library’s job — The Message — Medium
“[Google’s] desire to preserve the past died along with 20% time, Labs, & the spirit of haphazard experimentation.” »
ignore the code: Windows 10: Re-Crappifying Windows 8
I love a good Microsoft UI takedown! Less and less common these days »
San Francisco setting a new record -- a January with not a drop of rainfall - CNN.com
For the first time in recorded history, San Francisco had no rain in January »
Petition · Pardon all of the estimated 49,000 men who, like Alan Turing, were convicted of consenting same-sex relations under the Britis...
We have 45k need 100k pls RT petition #convictions @MrGrahamMoore @mortentyldum @tschwarzman htt… »
What (Some) Silicon Valley Women Think Of Newsweek | TechCrunch
Spot-on. Preach it Alexia! RT @alexia: What (Some) Silicon Valley Women Think Of Newsweek »
Six Colors: The eight stock photos you meet in heaven
"Let Them Eat McIntoshes: 10 Apples You Can Eat While Using Apple Products" stock photos, man »
Join the Battle for Net Neutrality
26 days left until FCC votes on #NetNeutrality! Join the #InternetCountdown here and retweet. http://t.… »
‘Google Now’ Will Suck In Outside App Data - Digits - WSJ
Google Now adds over 40 cards, fed by data from 30+ third party apps like Airbnb, eBay, Lyft http://t.… »
People With Bad Credit Can Buy Cars, But They Are Tracked And Have Remote-Kill Switches - Forbes
when Tesla can “text some code” to your car—the wealthy get faster cars, and the poor… »
California's drought is now even more horrible.
How bad is the drought in California? Zero drops of rain in San Francisco in the month of January. »
Improving SSL warnings [APF talk Jan 2015] - Google Slides
This @__apf__ presentation has a great (and useful!) picture of how Chrome sees the internet. http://… »
nytimes.com/2015/02/01/opinion/sunday/frank-bruni-disneyland-measles-and-madness.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share
Anti vax Jenny McCarthy also shows "concern for good health by working as a pitchwoman for e-cigarettes" @FrankBruni http:… »
The world’s nurseries: Getting ‘em young | The Economist
America's provision of pre-school for 3-to-5-year-olds is the worst in the developed world http://… »
Obituaries for Men - The Washington Post
Obituaries for Men. Good stuff @petridishes as @washingtonpost has a shot at the @australian over #myozobituary http://t… »
Why Internet journalists don’t organize - The Washington Post
Great piece by @lydiadepillis on why online journos don't join unions and sometimes imprint on management »
The Effect of Childhood Vaccine Exemptions on Disease Outbreaks | Center for American Progress
Vaccination rates in US haven’t gone down; they stalled. Pockets of anti-vax increase risk. »
An editor’s farewell: The case for liberal optimism | The Economist
"In the end, free markets and free minds will win" Editor John Micklethwait's parting thoughts htt… »
Barrett Brown’s sentence is unjust, but it may become the norm for journalists - Boing Boing
Have a gander at @trevortimm's piece on @BoingBoing about how the Whitehouse is about to hogtie journalism. »
20x200: The Relaunch
The semi-annual sitewide sale is on over @20x200: 20% off prints AND framing. »
True Pablove | The Pablove Foundation
Get down here for one of a kind hand drawn vans. »