Achewood § April 15, 2016
achewood cutting to it, like DAMN »
UC Davis pepper-spray officer awarded $38,000 - SFGate
Lieutenant John Pike of #UCDavis. Awarded $38,000 for his "pain and suffering." Really. »
Facebook Employees Asked Mark Zuckerberg If They Should Try to Stop a Donald Trump Presidency 
huh. | Facebook Employees Asked Mark Zuckerberg If They Should Try to Stop a Donald Trump Presidency  »
ncjobslostfromhb2.com
@marcprecipice not heard of one, but there's a running total of jobs lost. »
‘Ghost in the Shell’ Ran Tests to Make White Actors Look Asian
Exclusive - ‘Ghost in the Shell’ producers ran VFX tests to make white actors appear Asian: ht… »
National. Liberal. White. Pick two. (with images, tweets) · cshirky · Storify
excellent @cshirky analysis of the current liberal political moment »
The Unfirm(ary)
Hey Portland! Are you quiet & groovy & looking for a temporary coworking space? @heathersabrina’s got you covered! »
Robotatertot
That moment you realize your child who draws comics is way funnier than you'll ever be: https://t… »
Twitch
We'll be streaming much of today's #Mistakes symposium #ComputerHistory »
Operational WhatsApp (on iOS) — Medium
Great summary of WhatsApp's security issues and how to deal with them, by @thegrugq (TL;DR - Turn off cloud backups) http… »
The Untold Story of the Teen Hackers Who Transformed the Early Internet
I talked with some teen hackers of the early 1980s who got busted by the FBI »
‘Dolphin Lover’: Controversial Documentary Available On Y | Indiewire
You've never seen a more shocking relationship than in short doc #DolphinLover »
The Market Fairy will not solve the problems of Uber and Lyft | Ian Welsh
The Market Fairy will not solve the problems of Uber and Lyft. »
Twitter Mute Till Election
Need to mute someone till the election? I got something for ya »
Eyebeam.org/opencall
@golan @Ogilvy @IBMWatson Or apply for the Eyebeam residency instead. We're small, non-profit and 30k more generous. https:… »
Star Simpson on designing beautiful circuit boards - O'Reilly Media
Had the best time speaking with @JonBruner @davidcranor — podcast episode is live! (much hardware very podcast!) »
pbs.twimg.com/media/CgHRiQjWwAY6EWt.jpg
It doesn’t seem necessary to put ‘An American company’ on this ad (thanks @mattblaze!) »
Ani, Are You Okay? - YouTube
“Ani Are You Okay” »
Scanning all the things | elevr
New blog post: Scanning all the things! »
How a Frozen Neutrino Observatory Grapples with Staggering Amounts of Data | Motherboard
Finding event needles in terabyte-sized haystacks of data from the IceCube neutrino observatory in Antarctica »
Report from the Front Lines | Communications Workers of America
this story has been rejected by reality as being too on-the-nose »
‘Ghost in the Shell’ Ran Tests to Make White Actors Look Asian
There is no Hollywood leak I want to see more than this Scarlett Johansson digital yellowface footage. »
The Guiding Principles of KO_OP — KO_OP Words — Medium
I wrote about the guiding principles behind @KOOPmode. Hopefully you find some interesting insight »
Barack Obama: taking money from 1 percenters compromised my politics / Boing Boing
Hillary Clinton says Obama was “not at all influenced” by millions he took from super PACs. Obama says otherwise. »
Songonauts, An Episodic Musical Podcast About a Struggling Band and Their Magical Drum Machine
Hey cool, we're featured on Laughing Squid! via @LaughingSquid »
Put a Bird on It: Why Jewelbots Aren’t a Fitness Tracker for Kids — Jewelbots Ink — Medium
ICYMI: Put a Bird On It, why @jewelbots isn’t a fitness tracker for kids. »
Seven on Seven 2016 Tickets, Sat, May 14, 2016 at 12:00 PM | Eventbrite
Seven on Seven tickets are now on sale! We're gonna sell out so make sure to pick them up soon if you wanna go »
Alpha Channel / FX The Simpsons IDs 2016
These promos are so great. »
Origin Story — Write the Docs
We just published a bit about our origins: - So grateful for the wonderful #writethedocs communit… »
Theorizing the Web - Conference Live Stream
Hello I am at Theorizing the Web and I will be tweeting on #TtW16 about it! But not too much! Livestream is »
Kindle Oasis Is a Reality Check for Design Snobs + Subtraction.com
"… the fact that these products look the way they do suggests not ineptness but rather a highly honed strategy." »
Bit and Pen - copywriting, content marketing, consulting for app shops and tech - Bit & Pen
App developers and others in tech: I’m starting my own content and consulting agency to take on larger projects: https://t.co… »
Politics - Economic Pessimism at its Highest Point This Year
Black citizens are twice as likely to say 'the country is headed in the right direction' as whites are. »
TtW16 Program
Define the “automated personality” with @tinysubversions @deedottiedot @katelosse @jomc @judithd #TtW16 »
news.vice.com/article/exclusive-canada-police-obtained-blackberrys-global-decryption-key-how?utm_source=vicenewstwitter
The next time you build a crypto system with a single, global key, shoot yourself in the face. Please. »
Ludum Dare? We're In. - YouTube
LOL this gem from #ldjam this time last year. 1 day @mikekasprzak will let @Britt_t_Brady and I d… »
Radiohead New Album Out in June, Manager Says | Pitchfork
!!! Radiohead New Album Out in June via @pitchfork »
Laura's post on Vine
I know this is 17 years late but the ending of Revolutionary Girl Utena is one of the weirdest things I've ever seen »
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@TurnbullMalcolm you are a garbage person and history will piss on your grave »
Smarttress
IoT has jumped the shark (watch the video) »
motherboard.vice.com/read/rcmp-blackberry-project-clemenza-global-encryption-key-canada
BlackBerry to Canadian court: Please don't reveal the fact that we backdoored our encryption https:/… »
How to find product content strategists — Shopify UX — Medium
Looking for product content strategists? Read this handy guide from @alainemack »
go.berniesanders.com/page/-/Bernie%20Taxes%20Full.pdf
Want to read Bernie Sanders' tax returns? Here you go. »
Clinton Is Winning The States That Look Like The Democratic Party | FiveThirtyEight
"The South" is way more representative of the Democratic Party than the places Sanders is winning. »
Instagram
He now thinks people go to work to eat pretzels and sit in swivel chairs. Which is basically right. »
Instagram
about to play this free show at emerson suites in ithaca with @sammusmusic and this place is way… »
vulture.com/2016/04/time-to-start-appreciating-melissa-mccarthy.html
YAAAS to this piece on Melissa McCarthy. Stop saying she aways plays the same role. »
Chester 5000: Isabelle and George by Jess Fink — Kickstarter
Okay, IT'S HERE! The Chester 5000 Kickstarter is now LIVE!! ✨ »
Uber and Lyft don't cover their cost of capital and rely on desperate workers / Boing Boing
Uber and Lyft are only economically viable because there are so many people desperate for work »
Instagram
A @moment macro lens and a @LumeCube play very well together. »
THE BIRTH OF A NATION: Official HD Teaser Trailer - YouTube
Birth of a Nation teaser trailer from @NateParker »
Ignite SF: Behind The Curtain Tickets, Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 7:00 PM | Eventbrite
San Francisco people: Come see me (and many others) give 5-minute Ignite talks on Tuesday, April 26! »
The Doom Movement Bible - Doomworld Forums
pretty fascinating technical exploration of doom movement, by @andrewrstine »
In a win for unions, appeals court reverses ruling that threw out teacher tenure in California - LA Times
@sarahjeong Is this the same Federalist Society Boutrous Jr. from the Uber argument? »
Petition · New York Public Radio: Pay WNYC interns a living wage · Change.org
I'd love to see @wnyc pay interns more than $12/day, would go a long way to helping make pubilc radio more diverse. »
Tim League responds to proposed Texting in the Theater | News | Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
Cinema #UX "...you lose yourself completely in the story & really fall into the magic spell of the movies." »
Tech journalist Kara Swisher plans to run for San Francisco Mayor - SFGate
Tech journalist @KaraSwisher plans to run for San Francisco Mayor via @SFGate »
Marc Bolan of T. Rex hosted a glam rock TV music show in the 1970s, and it was awesome / Boing Boing
Marc Bolan of T. Rex hosted a glam rock TV music show in the 1970s, and it was fantastic. »
A Prescription for Better Care — Medium
“A Prescription for Better Care” by @tjparker »
Apple Car Exclusive: Experts on What Could Be a Game-Changer
$5 says Motor Trend's visualizations of Apple's car are on par w/pre-2007 iPhone renderings. ht… »
Twitter Moments: The glorious inception of a mansplainer
⚡️ “The glorious inception of a mansplainer” »
Submissions Are Now Open For Fantastic Arcade 2016 | JUEGOS RANCHEROS
HEY DEVELOPERS: submit your game now for @fantasticarcade 2016! »
Welcome to The Rift Herald! - The Rift Herald
We teamed up with @SBNation to bring you a joint @LeagueOfLegends community. Come check it out! »
We will look back at cyber-harassment as a disgrace – if we act now | Danielle Citron | Opinion | The Guardian
Today in the @guardian, @daniellecitron explores what we need to do to make online harassment a thing of the past. »
I tried to warn women about Jian Ghomeshi
There is a genre of written content that works by feeding women to online mobs »
jacobinmag.com/2016/04/north-carolina-mccrory-lgbt-bias-bathroom-bill
The same companies that oppose North Carolina’s bathroom bill bankroll the politicians who passed it. »
Classic paper on economic models is secretly a masterclass in thinking, talking, writing and convincing / Boing Boing
“How to Build an Economic Model in Your Spare Time,” classic 1994 work by Hal Varian, now Google's chief economist. »
Study: Dyson hand-dryers aerosolize germs on unwashed gloves, spreading them farther than other methods / Boing Boing
Dyson hand dryers aerosolize germs and spread them farther than other methods, study says »
UC Davis spent thousands to scrub pepper-spray references from Internet | The Sacramento Bee
The story about UC Davis spending $175k to memory-hole its pepperspraying has led my most-shared two days running »
Advanced parenting with a child who loves garage-doors / Boing Boing
Advanced parenting with a child who loves garage-doors »
Uber and Lyft don't cover their cost of capital and rely on desperate workers / Boing Boing
Uber and Lyft don't cover their cost of capital and rely on desperate workers »
From beyond the grave, Terry Pratchett orders Neil Gaiman to adapt Good Omens for TV / Boing Boing
From beyond the grave, Terry Pratchett orders Neil Gaiman to adapt Good Omens for TV »
I am on the Kill List. This is what it feels like to be hunted by drones | Voices | The Independent
Amazing personal testimony. Unless refuted, this stands as a defining indictment of extrajudicial assassination: https://t.… »
Clay Bavor, Google's VP of VR, on His Plan to Make Virtual Reality Amazing for Everyone | WIRED
Inside Google’s Plan to Make VR Amazing for Absolutely, Positively Everyone »
Microsoft sues US government for the right to tell you when feds are reading your email / Boing Boing
Microsoft is suing the government for the right to tell you when the feds are reading your email »
UC Davis paid $175,000 or more to scrub police pepper spray incident from web searches / Boing Boing
UC Davis paid $175,000 or more to make you forget this photo, and the story behind it »
I See Your Value Now: Asperger’s and the Art of Allegory | Jay Edidin
Great piece by @RaeBeta. I SEE YOUR VALUE NOW: Asperger’s and the Art of Allegory »
Mysterious, unverifiable new letter surfaces: “Matthew Keys is innocent” | Ars Technica
Mysterious, unverifiable new letter surfaces: “Matthew Keys is innocent” by @cfarivar »
Negotiating the Whirlwind - The New Yorker
I can't stop thinking about this Philip Gordon quote »
Gamasutra: John Szczepaniak's Blog - Maps to the Stars (of development)
Wow. Hand drawn maps of Japanese game dev offices from the 80s/90s, drawn from memory by people who worked there »
Write the Docs NA 2016 Speakers - Write the Docs North America 2016
I'm going to speak about @18F work at @writethedocs in Portland in May: - excited to explain our eRegulations work! »
Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems | Books | The Guardian
Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems »
Typing test: The 12.9-inch iPad Pro advantage - Six Colors
Typing speeds on various iPad keyboards, and some praise for the 12.9-inch iPad Pro’s software keyboard »
Edward Snowden and Jean-Michel Jarre have made a techno track
ok so @Snowden is down with chipmusic – I did not see this one coming. »
...and slide on the ice - nntp.perl.org
Many thanks to @rjbs for all he has done as he steps down as pumpking - »
Apple stops patching QuickTime for Windows despite 2 active vulnerabilities | Ars Technica
so farewell then QuickTime For Windows - they knifed it at last @phoddie »
Gianluca Gimini - *product design & visual communication - homepage
Love it. Photorealistic renderings of people's drawing of bikes »
#atxbots 2 - Intro to Botkit: Building blocks for building bots Tickets, Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 6:30 PM | Eventbrite
The big question is, do we serve tacos or pizza while we teach you how to build bots? COME VISIT US ON MONDAY. »
How Technology Helps Creditors Control Debtors - The Atlantic
My 2nd article in the series. Kill switches, GPS, rootkits: how tech is transforming debtor/creditor relationships https://… »
Crystal Beasley's Data-Driven Antidote to Fast Fashion - The Design Issue 2016 - Portland Mercury
Many women think it's their own unruly curves or torso that makes finding a "perfect" pair of jeans so unachievable. h… »
Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14316 | Windows Experience Blog
Native Bash in Windows 10 whatever... — WIN 10 IS FINALLY GETTING SOME PROPER EMOJIS!!! »
What caused Haiti’s cholera epidemic? The CDC’s museum knows but won’t say.
Some great reporting here: "What Caused Haiti's Cholera Epidemic" »
Grimes says 'numerous' producers have demanded sex from her | Music | The Guardian
Grimes says 'numerous' producers have demanded sex from her »
Negotiating Salary with Finesse: Tips from Lawyer Katie Lane - Print Magazine
Attorney @_katie_lane shares tips on negotiating salary in this course excerpt »
Bill Nye open to criminal charges, jail time for climate-change dissenters - Washington Times
Bill Nye, the science guy, open to criminal charges, jail time for climate-change dissenters »
Intel planning for thousands of job cuts, internal sources say | OregonLive.com
Intel planning for thousands of job cuts, internal sources say »
UC Davis spent thousands to scrub pepper-spray references from Internet | The Sacramento Bee
The Streisand effect in full force: “UC Davis spent thousands to scrub pepper-spray references from Internet” »
The secret rules of the internet | The Verge
@selfmadepsyche Perhaps related, both are fascinating reads. »
Merkel allows prosecution of German comedian who mocked Turkish president - The Washington Post
"He went on to call the poem a 'serious crime against humanity'" Poetry is BACK. great job - @janboehm ! »
Sean Parker’s streaming service will change movies, and theaters can’t stop it | The Verge
Sean Parker’s streaming service will change movies, and theaters can’t stop it »
Bill Gurley doesn’t think these giant new funds are such a great idea | TechCrunch
"They found that only 4 of 30 VC funds larger than $400M outperformed a smallcap index fund" https://t.c… »
How ‘Empowerment’ Became Something for Women to Buy - The New York Times
How ‘Empowerment’ Became Something for Women to Buy »
Five Things I Won't Miss at The Times -- and Seven I Will - The New York Times
There's a mole inside NYT, and other delights, in @sulliview's column today. »
I CAN'T SLEEP / Kio Stark
Starting tomorrow, get intermittent stranger stories from me at or (same cont… »
live.theverge.com/microsoft-build-2016-live-blog
Bash on Windows. Linux on Windows. THE WORLD IS ENDING »
Municipal Archive by Kio Stark
Starting tomorrow, get intermittent stranger stories from me at or (same content) »
We’re Hiring: Outreach, Social Impact — Medium
This role at @Medium for Head of Social Impact could be truly meaningful. Underrepresented folks: Please apply! »
San Francisco, CA | AlterConf
Last night I launched a SURPRISE, Bay Area friends »
Developers can run Bash Shell and user-mode Ubuntu Linux binaries on Windows 10 - Scott Hanselman
ANNOUNCED: Developers can run Bash Shell and user-mode Ubuntu Linux binaries on Windows 10 »
xkcd: Jack and Jill
Jack and Jill »
'Mixed Reality' Technology Brings Mars to Earth | NASA
The answer, happily, is yes. And your tour guide is Buzz Aldrin. Coming this summer to Kennedy Space Center »
Citing anti-LGBT law, Portland to block employee trips to North Carolina | OregonLive.com
#Portland to block employee trips to North Carolina because of anti-LGBT law. »
How New York Gets Its Water - The New York Times
Fun working with @Rueby and @joshjcochran on this piece. »
The West Wing Weekly
Episode 2 of #TWWW is out: Bring me the finest muffins and bagels in all the land. »
Saladin Ahmed's tumblr, HIRE HUGO-NOMINATED WRITER SALADIN AHMED TO HELP...
My novel critique service is now open to new clients. Hire me to read your manuscript! »
Twitch
Stream time! Drawing a Disneyland Pickle emoji!? »
2016 Intel Level Up Game Developer Contest
Make a game and have it judged by ME (and others) in the Intel Level Up game dev contest! Deadline 5/24! Coming up! »
The House Theatre of Chicago | Performing Amazing Feats of Storytelling
There are still 3 spots to join @knightlab’s Last Defender outing Sunday 4:30. buy tix here: https… »
Design | The New York Times Company
We’re hiring a product designer to create the future to The Time’s Real Estate section, search & apps. Interested? »
Hillary Clinton’s Single-Payer Pivot Greased By Millions in Industry Speech Fees
Hillary strongly supported single payer for yrs. Changed views after taking millions in health industry $ »
Marian Call | Concert Window
What are you doing Sat 4/23 at 1pm PDT? Is it "Watching a show w/ Molly @mariancall & special guests?" It is now! https... »
Leaving Everywhere
@hotdogsladies have you seen this "Dear Iowa, I have Enjoyed Your Corn" open letter generator by @tinysubversions https://t… »
Screen shot of Boing Boing circa 1993 - Boing Boing
Screen shot of Boing Boing circa 1993 #1yrago »
Beeteeth — Home
I just updated the shop with a bunch of new products for spring. You are NOT gonna hate it. »
SimpleTax: Free Canadian Tax Return Software
@flipzagging strongly recommend that *most* Canadians check out it's free/donation and a breeze to use. »