Grayout
I have a new game out! It’s called Grayout. It’s a prequel to Blackbar. Get it now! »
Moishe's Blog - Lowering the bar
In which @moishel proves the lie of the "hiring bar" fallacy. »
Men Explain Lolita to Me | Literary Hub
"But seriously, you know who can’t take a joke? White guys." Ah, Solnit. »
Netflix socks
Via @Finn78 , Netflix socks, right up my alley in all ways »
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! »
Star Wars Minus Star Wars - Between the Lines - YouTube
This is the best Star Wars video essay ever: @KyleKallgren retells A NEW HOPE using only footage from other films https://t.… »
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
Oh my god they put the best game ever, Threes, online for free. »
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 Holiday Video 2015
It’s the happiest time of the year! The @firstround Holiday Video is HERE »
Lawmakers Have Snuck CISA Into a Bill That Is Guaranteed to Become a Law | Motherboard
Remember when the Internet thought it won the battle against CISA? Washington had the last laugh, per usual »
Simplify your business
My teammates launched 3 beautiful experiences today. So proud. https://t.… »
Grow 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.… »
Amazon.com: Threes! Huggable Plush: Toys & Games
Happy Threesday! Threes for Web: Threes for Hug »
aframe.io
.@aframevr is very impressive - create VR experiences with markup »
aframe.io
This is going to be huge: Web components enabling WebGL and WebVR with HTML markup. Thanks htt… »
They Don't Want You To Win
just got off the phone, i gave the CEO of @ParseIt the ok to add the most powerful servers to handle the traffic »
Knock, Knock: Introducing Do Not Disturb | Several People Are Typing
The long-awaited, oft-requested Do Not Disturb mode is finally here! »
Do the Right Thing
I wrote about how you know you're doing the right thing for your team. »
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 »
Song Exploder | Björk
.@bjork takes apart her song "Stonemilker," and tells the story of how it was made »
An Unbelievable Story of Rape | The Marshall Project
What "women lie about rape" really looks like. If I could require every police officer to read this, I would. »
Martin Shkreli Arrested on Securities Fraud Charges
EXCLUSIVE: Pharma CEO Martin Shkreli arrested on charges of securities fraud »
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..." »
December 17
Today is December 17th, the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers—all sex workers. »
George Hotz Is Taking on Tesla by Himself
Hm, Geohot's Ubuntu self-driving car »
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 »
Clippy’s Revenge — Medium
Clippy’s Revenge - Smart #Messaging as Platform Shift [new blog post] »
New Ideas Everyday In Minutes With this One Simple Trick — Medium
I wrote a post on @Medium about creativity »
The Secret Surveillance Catalogue
this catalogue came just in time for the holidays, thanks @the_intercept »
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. h... »
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… »
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. »
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." https://t… »
Reconcilable Differences #16: Ancient Bird - Relay FM
Reconcilable Differences #16 - "Ancient Bird" Imagine if @siracusa had to hear me describe my dreams. Yep. »
Afghan Waste
(•_•) <) )╯ Newsgame / \ \(•_•) ( (> Investigative / \ Story (•_•) <) )> At the / \ Sam... »
What Tech Employees Are Last To Know — The Information
Lest you forget that most of the world is based on asymmetry of information. Be ruthless in your questions »
Mind-Expanding Reading, 2015 — Medium
Book list season: the most wonderful time of the year. Loved this one by @skamille. »
psmag.com/health-and-behavior/teachers-abusing-disabled-children
despicable. | "When Teachers Abuse Disabled Children" »
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. »
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! »
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 »
Google
Help Beethoven arrange his masterpieces in today’s #GoogleDoodle »
Why Brandon Herder Flipped His Science Class
Listen in as @gabbyh and Brandon Herder discuss the #technology he used to engage his AP biology class »
So this happened.. - Imgur
So, this happened. »
Introducing Taboola’s ‘Read More’ for Mobile Taboola Blog
Can we even talk about what a user-hostile vampire Taboola is »
nymag.com/thecut/2015/12/election-and-the-death-of-white-male-power.html#
Why the presidential election is so fraught, and so important »
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 »
Avoiding the trap of shadow narratives » Nieman Journalism Lab
.@tiffehr is the best and everyone should read her post about narratives in the news »
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 »
Support Babycastles creating Computer Feelings
. @Babycastles is a great good in our sad world! Help support joy »
The Tides of Lust — Samuel Delany reviews the first Star Wars movie,...
Samuel Delany's 1977 review of the first Star Wars movie stands head & shoulders above contemporanious reviews https://... »
My 70s
U.S. Army audiovisual tech stands at her editing station-1973 »
Watch Computer Scientists Recall Their First Computers | Mental Floss
I dig this @computer_phile video, featuring people discussing their first computers. TI-99/4A here! »
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… »
The 2015 Jealousy List
Noted for when lacking something to read during those long family engagements this holiday season »
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 »
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 »
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… »
No evidence that San Bernardino shooters posted about jihad on Facebook / Boing Boing
Still zero evidence that #SanBernardino shooters posted about jihad on Facebook »
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 »
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. »
Officer Jason Van Dyke indicted on 6 murder counts in Laquan McDonald shooting | abc7chicago.com
JUST IN: Officer Jason Van Dyke indicted on 6 murder counts in Laquan McDonald shooting: https://t… »
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 »
Blackout | A virtual glimpse into the lives of strangers by Specular — Kickstarter
Just a few hours left to support @specularstudio's BLACKOUT @kickstarter, an innovative new VR ! »
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. »
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… »
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… »
We are the folks that made Threes, a popular mobile puzzle game cloned by the even more popular 2048, AMA : IAmA
Asher and I are doing an AMA about Threes and well, anything else you want »
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. »
Martin Shkreli Arrested on Fraud Charges - The New York Times
Well deserved recognition for a greedy jerk - Martin Shkreli Arrested on Fraud Charges »
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. »
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 »
Developers trust their peers more than their partners - VisionMobile
What #developers want most out of a dev program are documentation and sample code »
Tap the Network - Fantasy Flight Games
So excited to announce I've written a fiction novella about my favorite Android:Netrunner faction, NBN »
Mistrial declared in Freddie Gray police brutality case / Boing Boing
Mistrial declared in Freddie Gray police brutality case »
"Ten Rules for Maker Businesses" by Wired's Chris Anderson — Rule #1 - Ponoko Ponoko
10 Rules for Maker Businesses by @chr1sa (via @kevin2kelly) »
EFF Publishes "Pwning Tomorrow," a Speculative Fiction Anthology | Electronic Frontier Foundation
We’re proud to announce our new, CC-licensed SF anthology, “Pwning Tomorrow: Stories from the Electronic Frontier." »
Spotify’s Discover Weekly, from Idea to Execution + Subtraction.com
Spotify’s Discover Weekly, from Idea to Execution: via @khoi »
Pwning Tomorrow: the Electronic Frontier Foundation's first science fiction anthology / Boing Boing
Pwning Tomorrow: @EFF's first science fiction anthology (featuring @doctorow @bruces + more) https:… »
Goldie on 20 years of Timeless
*Stellar* interview w/ Goldie about drum&bass, Timeless, technology, music »
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 »
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 »
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://… »
rdio.com/farewell/instructions
Guys, @Rdio has instructions on how to transfer your collection to Spotify, PHEW!! »
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 »
Amazon.com: Drawing Blood (9780062323644): Molly Crabapple: Books
Thanks to @mollycrabapple for being awesome! Check out her excellent book "Drawing Blood" »
TimesMachine: Sunday September 12, 1976 - NYTimes.com
We called Stormtroopers robots in a 1976 Star Wars review and have yet to correct in print. https:… »
Internet Archive Telethon Tickets, San Francisco | Eventbrite
Anyway, here is the link to buy tickets. We have the capacity for about 200 people. »
A tax to keep cool | The Economist
The single most effective way to curb carbon emissions? Carbon taxes. As we said in 1989 https://… »
10x15
02. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly »
What's It Like in Space?: Stories from Astronauts Who've Been There: Ariel Waldman: 9781452144764: Amazon.com: Books
What better present for the holidays than an I.O.U. from me to you? Pre-order my new book, WHAT'S IT LIKE IN SPACE? »
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! https://t.co… »
Hear Seven Hours of Women Making Electronic Music (1938- 2014) | Open Culture
Hear Seven Hours of Women Making Electronic Music (1938- 2014) »
grei skuring
.@Furmadamadam it's by Grei Skuring »
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! »