The sad economics of being famous on the internet | Fusion
Provocative Fusion piece on the miserable economics of being a YouTube personality »
Portland’s past and future. Or: why Vanport matters. — Medium
I just published “Portland’s past and future. Or: why Vanport matters.” Thanks for your support! »
i.imgur.com/zpzvUGT.jpg
[I've put together the end message for Noby Noby Boy with screenshots for you to read, if you can't reach the game https… »
Filtron
We’ve launched! Create & share your own photo filters with Filtron for Mac & iOS! Get started now! https://t.c... »
Tracking the "Trump Is A Comment Section Running for President" Joke - Waxy.org
I wrote the definitive history of the "Donald Trump is an Internet comments section running for President" joke. »
Why I can’t stop putting dildos into the hands of powerful conservatives — Medium
Matt just can't stop putting dildos in the hands of conservatives. »
Does Obama even care?
BREAKING: Congress cuts deal to ram through #CISA cyber spying bill. Take action: @IDLtweets »
Say hello to the itch.io app: itch
Watch out Steam, here come @itchio »
The Slack Shop
Socks, stickers and more: The Slack Shop is open and supports charity! #omgslacksocks »
Silicon Valley’s Diversity Problem is Not a Myth — Inclusion Insights — Medium
This is how you cite your sources, folks. Nicely done, @clrom. (via @skamille) »
The Pen Addict #185: Don't Make Me Cry Again - Relay FM
I am so happy for one of my best friends today. @dowdyism deserves this. Great episode of The Pen Addict today. »
Lying With a Zero Axis - Waxy.org
Lying with a zero axis—on the @NRO's stupid chart: Love the replies from @sethdmichaels, @jonnysun, and @cityatlas. »
Our Favorite Podcasts by Slack Single Servings | Free Listening on SoundCloud
For the latest Slack podcast, we all did podcast recommendations! Spoiler alert: I hyped @GHRPodcast & @MagicTavern »
Goodbye ... for now.
3,104 hours of listening in the space of 4 years. Farewell, @rdio »
California Cop Guns Down Man Crawling from Car Wreckage on Video, Faces No Charges
Watch this video. No charges will be pressed against this officer. How. Is. That. Possible. »
Cottleston Pie - A web design studio in Brooklyn New York
Friends! I'm available for work in the new year. Please spread the word! Past work »
Daniel Howells
.@folkertgorter’s new project, @personadotco is very nice → (start »
Persona
.@folkertgorter’s new project, @personadotco is very nice → (start »
bit.ly/1MCxTw7
Tickets now on sale to HT members for THE HATEFUL EIGHT in 70mm! Open to public Wed 12/16: htt… »
The Slack Shop
Now you can stop bugging me about socks! And also support a rad cause... »
Etsy City Guide
the cutest etsy guides to chgo, austin, nyc, la & philly are now digital! »
Coudal Partners Verse By Voice
Poetry after the beep: a collection of answering machine recordings by @coudal »
AP: Global supermarkets selling shrimp peeled by slaves
Incredible, meticulous and devastating AP report on slavery in the shrimp industry. »
Twitch
game development stream starting now on my channel »
Ressence
Holiday wish list »
The Talk Show ✪: Ep. 139, With Special Guests Craig Federighi and John Siracusa
‘How Many Fingers Should This Baby Have?’ — new episode with special guests Craig Federighi and @siracusa »
Noby Noby Boy: Girl Reaches Earth Again! (Full Ending sequence, special letter) - YouTube
Here's full video of that Noby Noby Boy ending: (via @brandonnn) So good. »
PyDX 2015 - YouTube
All PyDX 2015 talks are now online! »
Data Analyst | Slack
Given the near certainty that @SlackHQ's data analysis team will be the world's best, if you're the best, apply now »
usv.com/blog/usv-thesis-20
Described more fully here, in USV Thesis 2.0 »
Have You Encountered the Softboy? — Life Tips. — Medium
Kind of baffled to see the ‘softboy’ discussed in a positive light when this was my introduction to the term »
How a Super Mario Bros 3 PC Port Created Id Software | USgamer
Great context on John Romero's fascinating "Super Mario Bros. 3 for PC" video upload from @AutomaticZen right here: https://… »
When simple is the only option — Instrument — Independent Digital Creative Agency in Portland, Oregon
Our Crush team @instrument built one of the most incredible static generated sites I've ever seen for @sequoia »
chris unleashed - YouTube
time to remind everyone that Kyle Mooney is the greatest man alive »
Solar Farm Rejected Amid Fears It Will 'Suck Up The Sun's Energy'
Solar farm rejected amid fears it will "suck up the sun's energy" »
College Students Are Annotating Their Campus Monuments With Notes on Slavery | Atlas Obscura
Students are annotating campus monuments, adding histories of slavery »
The Slack Sock - Slack Shop
Now you can have dope socks and also support @hackthehood! So proud of the team who made this happen! »
Fans Perform a Coordinated Dance From ‘Mary Poppins’ For Dick Van Dyke on His 90th Birthday
Happy 90th Birthday @iammrvandy! You deserve this kind of celebration and so much more. »
Our 2015 Annual Report | MailChimp
Well done @MailChimp! This is beautiful »
GovernmentCommunicationsHeadquarters/Gaffer · GitHub
@doctorow seen this? <-- GCHQ open sourcing their graph dB. Am reasonably sure it's legit. »
SMIL is dead! Long live SMIL! A Guide to Alternatives to SMIL Features | CSS-Tricks
SMIL is dead! Long live SMIL! A Guide to Alternatives to SMIL Features »
stylish-twitter.css · GitHub
Decided to Gist my Stylish sheet for collapsing media content and removing the Moments tab: (cc/hat tip: @craigcook) »
Welcome to The Elements of Focus — A free video class by Shawn Blanc
Awesome - @shawnblanc has a new—free—course for creating focus in your life »
Cybersecurity Researchers Are Hunted from All Sides | Motherboard
People related to the @torproject aren't the only people targeted for their efforts. Good work makes one a target: https://t.c… »
French teacher invented Aubervilliers school attack - BBC News
BBC: French teacher who said he had been stabbed today by a man shouting "Islamic State" made the story up »
gao.gov/assets/680/673987.pdf
Happy to learn that there's no evidence of gender disparities in funding at the NSF + recos to agencies look solid. »
Jeremy Howard - 'A.I. Is Progressing So Fast We Need a Basic Guaranteed Income' - YouTube
Jeremy Howard - 'A.I. Is Progressing So Fast We Need a Basic Guaranteed Income' »
How AT&T Execs Took Over the Red Cross and Hurt its Ability to Help People - ProPublica
“This is a brand to die for” —Red Cross CEO I have questions about your priorities »
coudal.com/qts/animals.wav
Zadie Smith reading O'hara. Oh you were the best of all my days. »
How Pitbull Conquered Facebook - BuzzFeed News
very excited to publish the inimitable @TaylorLorenz on BuzzFeed; even exciteder that the story is about *PITBULL* https://t.co… »
Files are hard
Want to write to your filesystem safely? No worries, the manpage has all the latest rumors https://t.co… »
feed.thisamericanlife.org/~r/talpodcast/~5/Nfar0Ajl9v4/573.mp3
This American Life gets into phatic communication on selfies @heathr @debs @girlziplocked »
MRA Dilbert
MRA Dilbert, 100% real Scott Adams quotes on Dilbert comics. »
Internet Archive Telethon Tickets, San Francisco | Eventbrite
Honored to be speaking during the @internetarchive telethon this coming weekend! »
Muslim Detained on a Flight: I'm Your Biggest Ally
Thanks @SouthwestAir for the cooler full of schwag, but prefer you stop detaining Muslims: https://t.c… »
Best Story - IGN's Best of 2015 - IGN
Oh my gosh...! Cibele is a nominee for best game story in @IGN's Best of 2015 »
Vincent Pham, Ph.D
Thrilled to share the news Dr. Vincent Pham will join the @WUCCM @willamette_u faculty in fall 2016! #teamrhetoric »
Crawl Space for Rent in Posh Pacific Heights
This is, I hope, satire. If not, SF might really have gotten worse than NYC in terms of housing »
Philips pushes lightbulb firmware update that locks out third-party bulbs / Boing Boing
Philips pushes lightbulb firmware update that locks out third-party bulbs »
Cybercrime 3.0: stealing whole houses / Boing Boing
Cybercrime 3.0: stealing whole houses »
Apple TV and Apple Watch SDKs are Here
Announcing new SDKs for Apple TV and Apple Watch! Start building today »
Press Release – FAA Announces Small UAS Registration Rule
FAA will begin requiring drone registration on Dec. 21st for any drone over 250 grams. Name, address + email. »
The Expert (Short Comedy Sketch) - YouTube
An excellent short video on what it feels like to be told to implement secure backdoors in cryptographic products: https://t.… »
Donald Trump Can Post Hate Speech To Facebook, But You Can't
Zuck: "We care about the future and love all races with our liberal values." FB CEO: "Awww yeah, Trump can say it!" https://t… »
Best Short Films of 2015 | Short of the Week
Short of the Week announced their picks for the year's best. Some pretty phenomenal stuff here. »
Sandy Hook Truthers are the worst / Boing Boing
Sandy Hook Truthers are the worst »
Flyer Fever - Monaco GP
Japanese arcade flyer for Sega's Monaco GP is maximally '80s, great »
The Internet Archive Telethon! December 19-20, 2015.
If I lived in SF, I'd be at the @internetarchive's Telethon. Get your tix: Livestream »
Antidepressant use by moms during pregnancy linked to increased autism risk / Boing Boing
New study links antidepressant use by moms during pregnancy to 87% autism risk increase. »
As jury deliberates in Freddie Gray death trial, Baltimore schools warn students not to protest / Boing Boing
As jury deliberates in #FreddieGray trial, Baltimore schools warn students: no protests. »
That shrimp you're eating may have been peeled and packed by slaves / Boing Boing
That shrimp you're eating may have been peeled and packed by slaves. »
Careers at NYPL | The New York Public Library
Are you/do you want to be a tech instructor? NY Public Library is hiring! Help prep New Yorkers for tech! More info: https:/… »
The sad economics of being famous on the internet | Fusion
A sobering #WTFeconomy story Famous and broke on youtube and instagram. Platforms need to help creators get paid! »
Poll: 71% believe mass shootings are now just a normal part of American life / Boing Boing
Poll: 71% believe the many mass shootings we've seen in 2015 are now a permanent and normal part of life in America »
Behind closed doors: The new social media » Nieman Journalism Lab
.@NYTLabs’ @AlexisLloyd & @MattBoggie on the shift from public to private in social media. »
Creator of "Republicans shooting dildos" blog explains himself / Boing Boing
Creator of "Republicans shooting dildos" blog explains himself »
Tor Books buys Annalee Newitz's debut novel / Boing Boing
Tor Books buys Annalee Newitz's debut novel »
UK spy agency posts data-mining software to Github / Boing Boing
UK spy agency posts data-mining software to Github »
That French kindergarten teacher stabbed by ISIS? Nope, didn't happen. / Boing Boing
That French kindergarten teacher stabbed by ISIS? Nope, didn't happen. »
nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/12/gop-billionaires-cant-seem-to-buy-this-election.html
A billionaire hedge fund manager wanted to sue Karl Rove for failing to buy him an election https:… »
Watch the new Star Trek Beyond trailer! / Boing Boing
Trailer: “#StarTrek Beyond.” Idris Elba, Chris Pine, Simon Pegg, Zach Quinto, Zoe Saldana. »
Development diary, part 12 | MAKING NOTES
hark, notation nerds! there is more from @dspreadbury! »
The Internet Archive Telethon! December 19-20, 2015.
Internet Archive Telethon in just a few more days. Get ticks and bookmark our landing page »
New Geek in Town: A look at the Redesigned BGG » The Daily Worker Placement
Check out @iheartmuseums writing about the new BGG look for @DWP_Blog! - »
US politicians, ranked by their willingness to lie / Boing Boing
US politicians, ranked by their willingness to lie »
Review: The iPad Pro is a line in the sand — 512 Pixels
Review: The iPad Pro is a line in the sand »
24 privacy tools -- not messaging apps -- that don't exist / Boing Boing
24 privacy tools -- not messaging apps -- that don't exist »
Twitter Aims to Show Advertising to Much Wider Audience - The New York Times
I'm worth $4 per year to Twitter. I'd pay 10x that to not see promoted tweets and moments. https://t… »
This simple negotiation tactic brought 195 countries to consensus - Quartz
This simple negotiation tactic brought 195 countries to consensus »
home-assistant.io/blog/2015/12/12/philips-hue-blocks-3rd-party-bulbs
Lightbulb DRM. We have nobody to blame but ourselves. »
Issue 2 is for sale now | The Recompiler
Issue 2 is for sale now »
Dear White People, You Suck At Diversity | TechCrunch
Scream it from the rooftops: "diversity" can NOT become a code word for "straight white cis women" »
blog.steinberg.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/dynamics.gif
as a composer, this gif makes me so excited. »
Ludum Dare 34 | Ludum Dare
Ok, I finished my ludum dare 34 entry : The Serpent's Shadow.#pico8 #LDJAM Check it here: https://t.c… »
Facebook will now force users to download Moments app to sync mobile photos | The Verge
Good example of Facebook’s ability to create a hit app using sheer brute force: (I really like Moments, though) »
Qubes OS will ship pre-installed on Purism’s security-focused Librem 13 laptop | Ars Technica
Qubes OS will ship pre-installed on Purism’s security-focused Librem 13 laptop »
FAA announces drone owners must register by February 19th, 2016 | The Verge
I'm expecting the 0.54 lbs and lighter drone market to… take off. (Sorry. I couldn't help it.) »
41 – Skeleton | Hello from the Magic Tavern
New @MagicTavern w/ special guest @tj_jago as a friendly skeleton. I'd classify this one "delightful." »
Serena Williams is SI's Sportsperson of the Year 2015 - Sportsperson - SI.com
The 2015 #SISportsperson of the year is... @serenawilliams! »
Trudeau Inquiry Missing, Murdered Native Women | Al Jazeera America
Trudeau launches inquiry into missing, murdered native women »
Bleeds by Roots Manuva on iTunes
In case you missed it, there's a new @rootsmanuva record and its dooooope »
Your iPhone Is Ruining Your Posture — and Your Mood - The New York Times
Hunch: bad posture. Another hunch: companies that build hardware good for our posture have major opportunity! »
This is Not a Conspiracy Theory – Store
TINACT posters are $10 off this month, and includes a free TINACT membership. »
Space Station
Soyuz TMA-19M will liftoff Tuesday at 6:03a EST/11:03 UTC bringing 3 new crew to the ISS. »
Dear White People, You Suck At Diversity | TechCrunch
“Our meritocratic utopia is welcoming to black people, you people just need to stop going to jail" – top comment »
10x15
5/10 four tet- morning/evening check em all out here! #pattern #10x15 »
James Rhodes: 'Find what you love and let it kill you' | Music | The Guardian
On being a society of mourned and misplaced creativity. // James Rhodes: 'Find what you love and let it kill you' »
Bountysource
Btw does your company need SOCKS proxy support in urllib3? Add a bounty here: I'll volunteer if it breaks $1200. »
Membership - Relay FM
If you enjoy @recdiffs and all the great shows of I'd be grateful if you considered supporting us. Thanks! »
Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace—Stephen Wolfram Blog
“Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace” »
For the first time, less than 10 percent of the world is living in extreme poverty, World Bank says - The Washington Post
For the first time, less than 10% of the world is living in extreme poverty, @WorldBank »
Jury Duty — Medium
This anonymous piece about serving on the jury of a murder trial is fucking phenomenal. https://t… »
timkadlec.com/2015/12/taking-lets-encrypt-for-a-spin
Moving to HTTPS? Well, what about taking Let's Encrypt for a spin? An article by @tkadlec. »
videodante - itch.io
I just got back from Big Gay SJW Con 2015 so if you wanna throw me some »
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@imyke @dowdyism »
Fund Club
It’s the last Fund Club of the year! Support diversity in tech starting in less than 2hrs! ♥ Can we make it to $10k? »
The Official Mystery Science Theater 3000 Website
We had a blast being part of the #BringBackMST3K telethon! Get ready for 14 new episodes »
Music | Seth Boyer
By the way, my new full-length studio record is out tomorrow »
starwars.com
It's all happening inside this tent! Wanna watch? We're live @ 5:30 PT on #TheForceAwakens »