Professor Emeritus Seymour Papert, pioneer of constructionist learning, dies at 88 | MIT News
Seymour Papert, educational-technology visionary, has passed away at 88 »
The 18th Annual Independent Games Festival
Whoa, big new changes in IGF, including new "Nuovo" definition and an "alt.ctrl.GDC" award (!!) »
A Field Guide To China's Most Indispensible Meme | Motherboard
I wrote a (way-too) in-depth field guide to a type of Chinese meme for Motherboard! »
Twitter Video
Meet another Gold Star family with some personal perspective on Donald Trump »
Farewell Kagi
I’ve used Kagi for payment processing since 1997, but they’ve just announced they’ve gone under… »
Nice Cargo Shorts! You’re Sleeping on the Sofa - WSJ
The WSJ just stippled cargo shorts »
The Retro-Daze VHS Tape Cover Collection : Retro-Daze : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
VHS Tape covers are (often) wild. Here are 1000 of them: go @internetarchive! »
Apple Removes The Gun Emoji, Replaces It With A Squirt Gun | Popular Science
Jesus, Apple, this is the epitome of good intentions trumping good actions. »
The E4F Rapid Response Fund | Emergencies & Disasters - YouCaring
Help @EqualFlatbush fight illegal evictions and police violence in Brooklyn! Every dollar helps »
rdar://26897761: "Pistol" emoji should be a toy gun
It's not pink, but it seems like is fixed in iOS 10b4 »
BumbleBear Games – vanguards of the new arcade
We finally have a website! Check out all our cool games you never knew existed. https://t.co… »
Athenaeum Theatre
Tonight, me, @MaxTemkin, @TrinAndTonic and @c_frieds are judging The Moth Grandslam!!! You can grab tickets: https://t.c… »
Nerf Herder - Sorry - YouTube
You'll be 'Sorry' if you don't get tix for the amazing @NerfHerder_band on 1st December! https://… »
3 a.m. | The SIMPSONS - YouTube
Wow. The Simpsons takes on the 3 a.m. phone call »
It’s the “Pop Life” Talkshow! — Medium
Hey! My "Pop Life" talkshow returns tomorrow at *11am EDT* on @talkshow with guest @harikondabolu! Join us then? »
A Con for Every Geek, Everybody - GeekGirlCon | Groupon
Interested in going to @GeekGirlCon in October? This Groupon offer for discounted passes ends tonight! »
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Warren Buffett challenges Trump to release his tax returns: "I'll bring my tax return, he can bring his tax return" »
Roger Stone on The Milo Show: How Trump Can Fight Voter Fraud - Breitbart
This is what the American apocalypse looks like »
An NYC street will be re-named after Phife Dawg
⚡️ "An NYC street will be re-named after Phife Dawg" »
I want to feel bad. I really do. I have a lot of journalist friends and they h... | Hacker News
Here's Reddit's first employee crowing about Denton's bankruptcy. Seems it's all about good old violentacrez »
Tickets — Open Hardware Summit 2016 | Portland | Oct 7
We have an awesome line up including @aparrish @xor @lifewinning @scanlime Get your tixs: https://t.… »
camera_as_converged_sensor
@tomcoates @BenedictEvans @atduskgreg I think this is the writeup »
Ep. 210: "Parents and Other Dingalings" - Roderick on the Line - Merlin Mann
Roderick on the Line, Ep. 210: "Parents and Other Dingalings" The Problem: You're not here to disco. »
For This Republican, Never Trump Means “I’m With Her” — Medium
Maybe Sen. McCain, who today eloquently trashed the man he's still voting for, should chat w/ his own granddaughter. htt… »
McCain slams Trump over Khan fight - POLITICO
This is an odd thing to say about the Republican Party's presidential nominee. »
Conservation of Computer-Based Art Fellowship (2016 – 2018)
Cool job alert: the @Guggenheim is hiring for a two year fellowship in the conservation of computer based artworks: https… »
Addressing Security Blindspots through Culture
"The key realization for men is that our lack of comfort isn't relevant." »
How 'Dungeons & Dragons' Embraced Twitter Bots | Inverse
We were interviewed about our Dungeons & Dragons bots we did for @neverwintergame and @Wizards_DnD! »
Hey Siri
How to talk to Siri. »
Why should we exist? — Medium
“Why should we exist?” - an introduction to @InamotoCo - »
Mathieu Tremblin Watermarks The City — Pop-Up City
Graffiti by Mathieu Tremblin resembles the 'gettyimages' stock photo watermark. »
Seymour Papert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sad: Seymour Papert died. Co-Inventor of Logo, a simple dialect of Lisp for children. Many learned turtle geometry. http… »
Google's QUIC protocol: moving the web from TCP to UDP
Google’s QUIC protocol : Moving the web from TCP to UDP : cc @mattiasgeniar »
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Democratic National Convention (HBO) - YouTube
On last night's show, we covered the DNC and Donald Trump's unfathomable response to one speaker. »
Demystifying Magic Leap: What Is it and How Does it Work?
An incredible peek into what Magic Leap's technology is like based on leaks + patents they've filed. Great read. https://t.co… »
WikiLeaks - Search the DNC email database
Interesting: Buried in the #DNCleak emails - staffer notices this popup on his Yahoo acct. htt… »
Re: Why we lost Uber as a user
TL;DR version of why Uber decided to switch to MySQL from Postgres. »
Understanding the Trump-Khan War
I highly recommend @joshtpm's 'Understanding the Trump-Khan War.' »
​‘No Man’s Sky’ Isn’t Out Until Next Week, But This Guy May Have Already Beaten It | VICE | United States
Glad ppl are enjoying the piece I wrote on NMS today You have no idea how long I've wanted to… »
Distraction, Consumption, Identity: The Neoliberal Language of Videogames | Sufficiently Human
i wrote up some thoughts about videogames as the medium of neoliberal ideology,& how we might achieve an alternative... »
The Pragmatic Bookshelf | List of Tips
Terrific stuff: "The Pragmatic Programmer's List of Tips" »
To the Go-Along Republicans - WSJ
WSJ contacted all 22 GOP senators up for re-election in November. Only one agreed to be interviewed about Trump/Kahn https… »
Teju Cole - Garis masa | Facebook
“It is not beautiful or intelligent or brave. How can it grow in strength and influence so?” »
Donald Trump Hired Me As An Attorney. Please Don't Support Him For President.
Truth tellers who know Trump coming forward. Strong piece by former Trump lawyer echoing my experiences with him. https:… »
Apple Refreshes Emoji with iOS 10 Developer Beta 4 – MacStories
Anyone have macOS Sierra handy? These emoji in B4? »
Join Kickstarter + Cards Against Humanity at Gen Con 2016 — Kickstarter
We're launching Phoenix: Dawn Command at #GenCon2016! Buy it in the Kickstarter room 143 room »
Mysterious Smiley Face Appears in Hawaiian Volcano During Eruption - ABC News
Smiley face appears in Hawaii's Kilauea volcano during eruption. »
A guide to every state's voter registration deadline
⚡️ "A guide to every state's voter registration deadline" »
Chelsea Manning, on facing life in solitary after attempting suicide / Boing Boing
Chelsea Manning, on facing life in solitary after attempting suicide »
‘Splash’ Remake: Channing Tatum, Jillian Bell to Star for Disney | Variety
THEY ARE REMAKING "SPLASH" WITH CHANNING TATUM AS THE MERMAID WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE »
YouTube Engineering and Developers Blog: YouTube's road to HTTPS
YouTube gets to 97% HTTPS support and a year-long HSTS lifetime. Good work on a huge site. »
Curiouser - Been trying to record a bit more process. Some...
.Also recorded a bit more process this time! Full version »
The history of the home pregnancy test is a microcosm of misogyny, chauvinism, and erasure / Boing Boing
The history of the home pregnancy test is a microcosm of misogyny, chauvinism, and erasure »
Acadia National Park | NASA
Acadia National Park via NASA »
The 18th Annual Independent Games Festival
Submissions open for the 19th Annual IGF, yay: (Here's @KellyWallick's 'what's new?' note »
William Caxton Fan Club • I like to work; that is a big part of who I am...
Just pre-ordered @mountain_goats' new novel Universal Harvester so fast my head is spinning »
Miss Teen USA to keep crown despite use of racial slurs / Boing Boing
Miss Teen USA to keep crown despite use of racial slurs »
N-Word Tweets Won’t Cost Miss Teen USA Her Title -- The Cut
In case you were wondering: nude photos will cost you a pageant title, tweeting the n-word repeatedly will not »
The Writer’s Almanac for August 1, 2016 | Choices We Make When We Are Too Young To Make Them | The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor
Happy birthday to Melville. Always blows my mind that MOBY-DICK basically wrecked his career »
Trump blasts New York Times: ‘They don’t write good’ - POLITICO
You can't make this shit up. Well, I mean, you *can* but no one would believe it. »
Donald Trump and the Iraq War
Trump supported the war in Iraq. »
Molly Lewis Wants You to Buy Tickets to Concert Against Humanity - YouTube
All employees are fired if you don't buy a ticket to @Molly23 notified everyone by song »
Jill Stein is a fearmongering crank who thinks Wi-Fi harms children's brains / Boing Boing
And now the Green Party candidate for president thinks WiFi harms children. »
Chicago police: Body camera didn't record cop's fatal shooting of teen in back - Chicago Tribune
Chicago police: Body camera didn't record cop's fatal shooting of teen in back »
Seymour Papert, 88, Dies; Saw Education’s Future in Computers - The New York Times
Rest in power, Seymour Papert. Your work will continue to inspire me and my work, probably for the rest of my life! »
Frank Ocean’s Long-Awaited ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ Is Due on Friday - The New York Times
Frank Ocean album is coming out Friday via Apple Music by @sisario »
Woman judge discovers that female arrestees are frequently denied pants, feminine hygiene products / Boing Boing
Woman judge discovers female arrestees frequently denied pants, feminine hygiene products »
Hilarious redubbing of Trump's voice in Stephanopoulos interview / Boing Boing
You gotta see (and hear!) @serafinowicz's hilarious upgrade of Trump's voice in this recent interview »
Instagram announces anti-harassment tools, overtaking Twitter / Boing Boing
Instagram announces anti-harassment tools, overtaking Twitter »
Millennium Tower is tilting, sinking - Curbed SF
This sounds 100% terrible: "Millennium Tower is tilting, sinking" »
Trump Gave GOP Choice of Racism or Defeat
Trump disabused Republican elites of their pretense on being a non-racist party. Almost all of them are ok with it. http… »
Elections: voterInfoQuery  |  Civic Information API  |  Google Developers
It's starting. First polling place data for the general election is live in the Google Civic Information API. »
Trump renews attack on patriotic family of Muslim American war hero / Boing Boing
Trump renews attack on patriotic family of Muslim American war hero »
Trump makes fool of himself with lack of knowledge on Ukraine / Boing Boing
Trump makes fool of himself with lack of knowledge on Ukraine »
Gamasutra - WorkStation: The spaces where 22 different game-makers build worlds
WorkStation - from Tokyo to Palestine, a peek at the desks of game-makers across the world »
What is open source? — Open Words
What is #opensource? Why is it useful? And why are only 1.5% of contributors women? #fsf #opendata #li… »
This Woman Reacted to Her New Racist Workplace Dress Code in the Best Possible Way | Mic
This Woman Reacted to Her New Racist Workplace Dress Code in the Best Possible Way via @Mic ht… »
These tweets reveal why it's so hard for conservatives to oppose Trump - Vox
I'm sympathetic to this @DouthatNYT argument. Liberals are underplaying the consequences, for GOP, in electing HRC: https://… »
Referendums, Elections and Democracy by Professor A C Grayling - New College of the Humanities
My article 'Referendums, Elections and Democracy' on why Parliament must reject #Brexit »
So, you want to work in security? — Medium
So, you want to work in (computer, information, cyber, etc.) security? Here's some advice based on my experience: https://t.… »
Hillary Clinton is now the only candidate not pandering to the anti-vaccine movement - Vox
Hillary Clinton is now the only candidate in the race not pandering to the anti-vaccine movement »
J’accuse John Manzoni Part 2 – A Digital Purge – diginomica
Disgusted by the UK civil service throwing away GDS, its greatest achievement in years: Don’t let that happen here. »
Top Jeb Bush adviser leaves GOP, will vote for Clinton if Florida close - CNNPolitics.com
Longtime Bush adviser Sally Bradshaw looking to leave the GOP. This comment here... wow. https://t.co… »
The 18th Annual Independent Games Festival
The 2017 Independent Games Festival opens calls for submissions »
Keith Chen Is Uber's Head Of Economics And Decides When Uber Surges Price : NPR
Really fun: some apps may be exploiting this – Uber found you'd accept up to 9.9x surge price if your battery's low htt… »
Letting Go Of Guilt To Grieve The Best Man I Knew
hi i wrote this about grieving and the futility of guilt and u can read it, if u want »
73 – Chunt’s Night (Live from Stage 773) – Hello from the Magic Tavern
Extra special new live @MagicTavern ep! The long-requested "Chunt's Night" w/ too many guests to mention. »
Is Donald Trump OK? Erratic behaviour raises mental health questions | Toronto Star
"Once unmentionable, questions about Trump’s mental health have started to bubble into respectable American forums" https://… »
i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2016/images/08/01/2016.post-dem.convention.pdf
really wanna know who these 12% are RT @SimonMaloy: dang »
Tumblr Ads and You | Tumblr
Tumblr's official "how to turn off ads" FAQ is unexpectedly sarcastic. (from »
Portland's Brightwork seeks beta testers - Portland Business Journal
Happy to see some great coverage for my friends at @brightwork_io, doing more faster at TechStars Chicago »
Make Algorithms Accountable - NYTimes.com
We have a legal right to challenge the data used in our credit scores - but not for other algorithms in our lives. https:… »
Critics See Efforts by Counties and Towns to Purge Minority Voters From Rolls - The New York Times
Voter intimidation. Georgia sheriffs sent out to challenge black people's right to vote. https://t… »
Reserve Your Spot - Live Art with Jessica Hische - Apple
SF! I'm doing a #TodayatApple event at the fancy Union Square store this Thursday! Come! https:/… »
Massachusetts Becomes First State Ever To Ban Employers From Asking For Salary Histories | ThinkProgress
While I'm disappointed that MA non-compete reform failed, this has the potential to have far greater impact »
Jive co-founder back in Portland with a new startup - Portland Business Journal
Jive co-founder @MattTucker is back in Portland with a new startup and a seed round. »
How Vector Space Mathematics Reveals the Hidden Sexism in Language
Super fascinating read on human gender bias examined through machine learning, and some ways to fix those a bit. »
Trump Veterans Adviser Attacks Khizr Khan As A 'Muslim Brotherhood Agent' | ThinkProgress
Official Trump adviser slowly regretting smearing the Khans as terrorists »
Only 9% of America Chose Trump and Clinton as the Nominees - The New York Times
Great data viz from @nytimes: The 9% of the country who voted for @realDonaldTrump or @HillaryClinton »
Donald Trump’s Draft Deferments: Four for College, One for Bad Feet - The New York Times
Trump, who criticized a slain Muslim soldier's parents, got 5 deferments from Vietnam, including 1 for bone spurs https://t.co… »
Apple replaces the pistol emoji with a water gun - Aug. 1, 2016
Apple is replacing the pistol emoji with a green water gun in the next version of iOS 10 »
Trump’s convention appealed to his voters. But it didn’t do much to expand his appeal. - The Washington Post
"28% of independents say the convention made them more likely to vote for Trump, while 54%...less likely to do so." https:… »
This Is Your Life, Brought to You by Private Equity - The New York Times
NEW GRAPHIC! Services you thought were provided by the government are getting sold and managed by private companies. ht… »
Penguins on world’s smelliest island in danger as volcano erupts, covering them in ash
Penguins of Zavodovski Island are in danger, but @BAS_News is on the case! #gishwhesLovesSmellyPengui… »
How the ‘Stupid Party’ Created Donald Trump - The New York Times
How the ‘Stupid Party’ Created Donald Trump: nearly every GOP candidate this year was not very bright. »
Why everyone is miserable on Tinder - The Washington Post
Which dating app lets researchers paw through people's private messages? »
Why Donald Trump's Supporters Think He'll Win - The Atlantic
Here's the David Frum article Merlin mentioned in today's episode »
Is travel insurance stacked against you?
This quote bugs me every time I see it @AmericanAir, so I finally looked up the source. »
Only 9% of America Chose Trump and Clinton as the Nominees - The New York Times
Only 9% of America Chose Trump and Clinton as the Nominees »
Tech Companies Encouraging Team to Vote on Election Day via Part/Full Time Off - Google Sheets
...119 TechCo's time off #ElectionDay. Ty @TaskRabbit @giphy @betaworks @Chartbeat @RobinhoodApp WHAT ABOUT YOURS? »
Trump: Tribune Of Poor White People | The American Conservative
More on this, with so much food for thought. “Main Streets with nothing but cash-for-gold stores and pawn shops.” »
murgaro's post on Vine
Rrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeemmmmmiiiixxxxxx »
A Book Apart, Practical SVG
Reason #1! It represents a whole bunch of work. »
projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/#plus
Current @FiveThirtyEight polls-plus prediction for a Clinton landslide is 8.9% »
Frank Ocean
If you're not seeing this on Frank Ocean's site try opening it in Safari. »
Bibliography
More summer reading ideas from #situatedsystems Thanks @lifewinning @gsvoss @debcha & @tinke... »
BuzzFeed Press Blog
Powerful statement from Buzzfeed on why it switched on HTTPS »
nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/hungry-daughters-of-starving-mothers
Read “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers” in @NightmareMag at Find more of her work »
Concert Against Humanity
Molly doesn't want us to be fired. Please buy tickets. »