Grayout
I have a new game out! It’s called Grayout. It’s a prequel to Blackbar. Get it now! »
Men Explain Lolita to Me | Literary Hub
Rebecca Solnit forever and forever and forever via @thelithub »
Moishe's Blog - Lowering the bar
Inspired by @jessnordell, I wrote this about "lowering the bar." And potatoes. »
First Round 2015 Holiday Parody Video - This Time It's Different - YouTube
Your annual reminder of the hidden costs of taking venture capital. »
Grayout on the App Store
Grayout is a game about aphasia and medical dystopia. I am very hyped for you to play it! »
Eight Sensible Gifts for Hanukkah Factory Workers' Week Off
A very mensch-y thing to do, @CAH. Well done. »
Happy birthday, Chelsea!
I just sent a birthday card to whistleblower @xychelsea Chelsea Manning! You can too »
play.threesgame.com
Happy Threesday! Threes for Web: Threes for Hug »
The Year That Was and Wasn’t - The Morning News
Oh, I always LOVE this @TheMorningNews feature. The Year That Was and Wasn't 2015, featuring the internet's finest »
First Round 2015 Holiday Parody Video - This Time It's Different - YouTube
I wonder if these companies have products I could use? But they are dancing? I guess I will never know. »
First Round Holiday Video 2015
It’s the happiest time of the year! The @firstround Holiday Video is HERE »
Netflix socks
Netflix socks detect when you've dozed off and pause your TV show. #calmtech #iot »
Amazon.com: Threes! Huggable Plush: Toys & Games
Happy Threesday! Threes for Web: Threes for Hug »
Song Exploder | Björk
.@bjork takes apart her song "Stonemilker," and tells the story of how it was made »
LAPD Investigated 1,356 Racial Profiling Complaints Against Itself, Dismissed Them All 
SHOCKER. The LAPD cleared itself of all 1356 racial profiling complaints through its own internal investigations. https://t.… »
Knock, Knock: Introducing Do Not Disturb | Several People Are Typing
The long-awaited, oft-requested Do Not Disturb mode is finally here! »
It’s Been Raining for 17 Straight Days - Willamette Week
If it feels like it's been raining forever, that's because it basically has. »
Fieldbook: Create a database, as easily as a spreadsheet
Congrats to our friends @fieldbookapp launching today! Try their API explorer, powered by Tonic »
Suiting Dennis: A family story of green funeral on Vimeo
A gorgeous short film by @anothergracelee about Dennis White: first customer for @CoeioTweets's mushroom burial suit »
The First Round Capital Holiday Train Wreck - Waxy.org
I wrote about the First Round Holiday videos, and why they creep me out so much. »
The Secret Surveillance Catalogue
Secret govt catalog has 50+ Stingray-like devices, nearly a third of which seem not to have been disclosed »
Do the Right Thing
I wrote about how you know you're doing the right thing for your team. »
Grow your business
My teammates launched 3 beautiful experiences today. So proud. https://t.… »
Simplify your business
My teammates launched 3 beautiful experiences today. So proud. https://t.… »
Start your dream business
My teammates launched 3 beautiful experiences today. So proud. https://t.… »
Martin Shkreli Arrested on Securities Fraud Charges
EXCLUSIVE: Pharma CEO Martin Shkreli arrested on charges of securities fraud »
aframe.io
.@aframevr is very impressive - create VR experiences with markup »
December 17
Today is December 17th, the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers—all sex workers. »
aframe.io
This is going to be huge: Web components enabling WebGL and WebVR with HTML markup. Thanks htt… »
fargotalksfargo.com
Gotta love that Fargo has a podcast about 'Fargo' »
P9 AiR Profile: Madeline Gannon on Vimeo
My doctoral student @madelinegannon, the robot whisperer, at @autodesk Pier 9 »
GDC 2016 | Session Scheduler | How Game Mechanics Helped Players Embody 19 Year Old Nina
I'm speaking about Cibele and designing games for embodiment/performance at the IGS during GDC this upcoming year! https://t… »
Congress Slips CISA Into a Budget Bill That's Sure to Pass | WIRED
Congress just concealed an entire surveillance law within tomorrow's must-pass budget. #CISA https://t… »
2015 Design in Review — Dear Design Student — Medium
Reviewing the year in design from the people who love you at @Dear_Designer! »
They Don't Want You To Win
Who needs the happiness app du jour (It's Koko: when you can just seek DJ Khaled's wisdom: https://t.… »
Reconcilable Differences 16: Ancient Bird — Reconcilable Differences — Overcast
Thanks a million to @viticci for making a perfect cameo on this week's @recdiffs. »
Tietra's Fall
Isometric snowy drama today! #finalfantasytactics 50 prints: walls: https://t.c… »
They Don't Want You To Win
just added some more major »
Reconcilable Differences #16: Ancient Bird - Relay FM
Reconcilable Differences #16 - "Ancient Bird" Imagine if @siracusa had to hear me describe my dreams. Yep. »
Apps: Dream on — The Activate Outlook — Medium
"In short, top app publishers are making millions of dollars, and everybody else is left to fight over the crumbs." »
Men Explain Lolita to Me | Literary Hub
Art makes the world, and it can break us: Rebecca Solnit on Lolita »
Mind-Expanding Reading, 2015 — Medium
I just published “Mind-Expanding Reading, 2015” »
Afghan Waste
(•_•) <) )╯ Newsgame / \ \(•_•) ( (> Investigative / \ Story (•_•) <) )> At the / \ Sam... »
Several People Are Making… — Making Makerbase — Medium
Finding & installing apps in Slack is now easier than finding & installing apps on an iPhone. That's interesting. »
What Tech Employees Are Last To Know — The Information
Super important for employees to know if their company's last financing round has terms »
Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Friend told me about Kohlberg's stages of moral development. Seems incredibly useful to understand fellow humans. »
They Don't Want You To Win
they never said winning was easy #majorkey #clothtalk cc @djkhaled »
psmag.com/health-and-behavior/teachers-abusing-disabled-children
@doctorow Of interest? New piece from @PacificStand - Abuse of disabled children, esp of color, in American school https:/… »
Oops I Made A Feminist Joke On The Internet — Medium
"women are expected to mold themselves to society’s expectations [and be] completely impervious to them..." »
A Year Of Living Comfortably — Medium
I stopped letting men invade my personal space for a whole year, and this is what I learned... #every… »
Superintelligence Now! — How We Get To Next — Medium
@uah @genmon I think it might be Bird/Layzell, written up here but that Pask/Cariani experiment is amazing too! »
Lawmakers Have Snuck CISA Into a Bill That Is Guaranteed to Become a Law | Motherboard
Lawmakers sneak CISA into the omnibus bill, where it is guarranteed to pass. Everything about this is terrible. »
Google
Help Beethoven arrange his masterpieces in today’s #GoogleDoodle »
Martin Shkreli Allegedly Told Investors He Had $35 Million; He Really Had $700 - BuzzFeed News
Martin Shkreli Allegedly Told Investors He Had $35 Million; He Really Had $700 via @marygeorgant @… »
Schools Closed in Virginia District After Uproar Over Arabic Calligraphy Lesson | NBC4 Washington
congratulations America, you're actually frightened of language at this point »
What "Star Wars Minus Star Wars" says about creativity / Boing Boing
What "Star Wars Minus Star Wars" says about creativity »
FOI response suggests B.C. Premier Christy Clark has basically stopped sending emails | Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment...
#ICYMI: #FOI response suggests #ChristyClark has basically stopped sending emails #bcpoli http… »
Bernie Sanders is more popular than Trump, but the press ignores him / Boing Boing
Bernie Sanders is more popular than Trump, but the press ignores him »
Happy Martin Shkreli Got Arrested Day! - YouTube
♫Happy Shkreli Got Arrested Day!♫ The song: Bye bye Martin Shkreli You go with fraud like peanut butter to jelly »
Triumph The Insult Comic Dog vs Star Wars
The best Star Wars thing is probably Triumph The Insult Comic Dog interviewing ppl queued for Attack of the Clones https://t.co… »
Finding support as a new senior (woman) leader
Good morning! I wrote this late last night: Finding support as a new senior (woman) leader »
An Unbelievable Story of Rape | The Marshall Project
Must read: An unbelievable story of rape, from @MarshallProj and @ProPublica »
The U.N. Sent 3 Foreign Women To The U.S. To Assess Gender Equality. They Were Horrified.
The U.N. Sent 3 Foreign Women To The U.S. To Assess Gender Equality. They Were Horrified. @UN #G… »
How to Swallow $200 Million Accidentally — Medium
“Because anyone who builds products at scale already knows the secret…” — @blakeross »
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Indexing HTTPS pages by default
Google will index HTTPS pages by default, even if the links it saw were to (unencrypted) HTTP »
New ten-part series on surveillance & corruption from creator of Aaron Swartz doc / Boing Boing
New TV series on surveillance and corruption from @knappB, filmmaker behind @AaronSw doc »
How did Reuters get that shot of Martin Shkreli's perp-walk? / Boing Boing
How did Reuters get that shot of Martin Shkreli's perp-walk? »
AP News : New Orleans council votes to remove Confederate monuments
YUUUUUP! Yet another reason to love New Orleans. They just voted to remove confederate statues »
Wishful thinking versus terrorism: why crypto backdoors are a dumb idea / Boing Boing
Wishful thinking versus terrorism: why crypto backdoors are a dumb idea »
LEAKED: The secret catalog American law enforcement orders cellphone-spying gear from / Boing Boing
LEAKED: The secret catalog American law enforcement orders cellphone-spying gear from »
"Tietra's Fall (Only 50!)" by orioto | Redbubble
Isometric snowy drama today! #finalfantasytactics 50 prints: walls: https://t.c… »
A Secret Catalogue of Government Gear for Spying on Your Cellphone
We just published a trove of new data on Stingray-type devices. Law enforcement can even read your deleted texts. »
Landlord calls Homeland Security to "determine the meaning of the deeply carved writings" on table / Boing Boing
Landlord calls DHS to "determine the meaning of the deeply carved writings" on table »
Star Wars medical merch from Scarfolk, the horror-town stuck in the 1970s / Boing Boing
Star Wars medical merch from Scarfolk, the horror-town stuck in the 1970s »
Silicon Valley's cash party is coming to an end
Raising investment in Silicon Valley is getting harder. Revenue matters more, so we'll see fewer consumer startups. »
“Mystery Tee” graphic designer t-shirt, pullover crewneck, pullover hoodie, and zip-up hoodie by Cotton Bureau. | Cotton Bureau: hand-pic...
Today’s the LAST day to buy mystery tees before Christmas. Come on, spin the wheel of chance. Every one’s a winner. http… »
No evidence that San Bernardino shooters posted about jihad on Facebook / Boing Boing
No evidence that San Bernardino shooters posted about jihad on Facebook »
Networked gaming is the new social media, and it's a boys' club / Offworld
Networked gaming is the new social media, and it's a boys' club »
The 2015 Jealousy List
Bloomberg’s Jealousy List is basically now my holiday reading list. »
Is Ageism In Tech An Under-The-Radar Diversity Issue?
Terrific, important—and long overdue—article on ageism in Tech. #diversity »
Congress Drops All Pretense: Quietly Turns CISA Into A Full On Surveillance Bill | Techdirt
Congress stuck Super CISA (gov’t surveillance) into the budget bill necessary to avoid a government shutdown. »
Be Amazed by People Eating 18-Inch Slices of Sizzle Pie - Eater Portland
Yes, it’s a gimmick. But yes, it’s a damn good gimmick. »
The Encryption Debate: a Way Forward | Inside BlackBerry
Blackberry CEO basically says here that its security has always been compromised -- by the company itself. »
Blackberry CEO says Apple has gone to a “dark place” with pro-privacy stance | Ars Technica
Translation: Blackberry happily gives your private data to the government and fuck encryption. »
Top Scallops by Merlin Mann and Max Temkin on iTunes
We're in. @MaxTemkin and @hotdogsladies watch and review season 13 of @BravoTopChef. https://t… »
A Secret Catalogue of Government Gear for Spying on Your Cellphone
Secret government catalog for spying on cell phones Big @jeremyscahill project beautifully rendered by @_tomconroy »
Avoiding the trap of shadow narratives » Nieman Journalism Lab
.@tiffehr is the best and everyone should read her post about narratives in the news »
nymag.com/thecut/2015/12/election-and-the-death-of-white-male-power.html#
relatedly, @rtraister: “These years represent the death throes of exclusive white male power in the United States.” »
Developers trust their peers more than their partners - VisionMobile
What #developers want most out of a dev program are documentation and sample code »
Martin Shkreli Arrested on Fraud Charges - The New York Times
The federal government is the ultimate executor of the will of the people. #taxes »
Michael Pollan on how America got so screwed up about food - Vox
Excellent interview with @michaelpollan: "Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food." https://t.c… »
Tap the Network - Fantasy Flight Games
So excited to announce I've written a fiction novella about my favorite Android:Netrunner faction, NBN »
As personalized news evolves, Prismatic is closing its apps
Zite, Circa, now Prismatic: all dead. Must be a scary time at Flipboard »
Rich Children and Poor Ones Are Raised Very Differently - The New York Times
The downwards spiral of income inequality continues »
The ‘Benefits’ of Black Physics Students - The New York Times
worst part of Justice Roberts’s Q: "the tacit implication that black students must justify their presence at all" https://… »
This Is My First Gun: A Glock 19 9mm Semi-Automatic Pistol — Ratter — "Ratter"
"This is my first gun" by @tarintowers is excellent in many ways, esp the photos »
"Ten Rules for Maker Businesses" by Wired's Chris Anderson — Rule #1 - Ponoko Ponoko
10 Rules for Maker Businesses by @chr1sa (via @kevin2kelly) »
rdio.com/farewell/instructions
Guys, @Rdio has instructions on how to transfer your collection to Spotify, PHEW!! »
Can the Feds Free Wu-Tang's Album 'Once Upon a Time in Shaolin' From Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli? - The Atlantic
I asked honest-to-God asset forfeiture experts if the feds can seize the Wu-Tang album from Martin Shkreli »
Martin Shkreli Arrested on Fraud Charges - The New York Times
Martin Shkreli Arrested on Fraud Charges, via @nytimes Rot in prison, asshole. »
Why Sci-Fi Keeps Imagining the Subjugation of White People - The Atlantic
Still relevant: Why Sci-Fi Keeps Imagining the Subjugation of White People. »
Denmark wants to seize jewelry and cash from refugees - The Washington Post
Whoa: Denmark wants to seize jewelry & cash from refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war, to pay for costs of intake »
A key under the doormat isn’t safe. Neither is an encryption backdoor. - The Washington Post
Crucial counterpoint to the bogus cliché that we just need tech's "best minds" on backdoors »
10x15
02. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly »
Internet Archive Telethon Tickets, San Francisco | Eventbrite
Anyway, here is the link to buy tickets. We have the capacity for about 200 people. »
CASH Music - Open Venue Data
And @iamkatygoodman getting launched was huge — so much more from that project and Katy about to surface in 2016. »
Hello Tokyo!
if you're traveling to japan for the holidays, here's a guide to my fav things in tokyo! »
Hear Seven Hours of Women Making Electronic Music (1938- 2014) | Open Culture
Hear Seven Hours of Women Making Electronic Music (1938- 2014) »
Twitch
☞ We are streaming Secret Hitler LIVE with @PTibz and @octodadgame »
Panopticlick
EFF's Panopticlick 2.0 launches today, with Tracker Protection Tests and improved Fingerprinting! »