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Cory Doctorow on The Daily Show
Local boy makes good on national teevee!
2025-12-12 cory • doctorow • internet • culture • enshittification • dailyshow • comedy
Hardcode feature flags
In praise of a simple system for a useful and prod-sensitive feature. Complex feature flag systems often fail.
2025-12-12 programming • simplicity • featureflags
Oliver Sacks and homophobia
Heartbreaking story of the famous writer's personal demons
2025-12-09 oliversacks • neuroscience • psychology • gay • lgbt • closet • homophobia
Trans health protest
Bay Area protest against Sutter Health which has capitulated and is saying they won't offer gender affirming healthcare to kids anymore
2025-12-09 protest • trans • transgender • civilrights • lgbt • health • sutterhealth • bayarea
Kennedy Center Honors
Hilarious skewering of the corrupted arts awards
2025-12-09 uspol • trump • corruption • kennedycenter • arts • awards
Burkhard Mangold
Swiss Poster artist from the 1910s
2025-12-08 art • switzerland • poster • herrenwasche
Twitter.New
Some lawyer who formerly worked at Twitter is claiming to create a new Twitter and filing to cancel the old trademarks. Scam? Crazy idea? Weird.
2025-12-08 twitter • trademark • startup • legal
NanoKVM microphone
Small computer management system comes with bugs and a microphone hidden on the circuitboard
2025-12-07 badtech • china • espionage • security • nanokvm • kvm
Straight to Hell (NSFW)
Anthologies of the important gay porn zine are available as scans on Internet Archive.
2025-12-07 gay • lgbt • porn • history
The Land of Giants
Sculpture proposal to turn power line towers into human figures
2025-12-05 via:kottke • art • sculpture • iceland • infrastructure
Kalmyks
The only long-established Buddhist ethnic group in Europe, descendants of Mongols
2025-12-05 history • russia • kalmyk • buddhism • mongols
Typewriter Plotters
A collection of bizarre 80s and 90s printers. Pen plotters with keyboards attached, or other odd hybrids
2025-12-05 plotting • plotterart • cool • via:lobsters • art • graphics • typewriter
Ultracube
A Factorio mod that totally overhauls the game and centers logistical problems, making mass scaling impossible
2025-12-05 games • factorio • mods
Migrations between US states
Visualizations of census data. Texans stay put more than any other state.
2025-12-04 usa • america • census • migration • states
Pluribus ad vs. mental health
Report someone's schizophrenic sister checked herself into a hospital because she thought she was having an episode. Instead, it was an ad for a TV show on her fridge display
2025-12-04 ads • pluribus • mentalhealth • dystopia
AI DA followup
My county prosecutor got caught filing AI slop with the court. Here's the milquetoast response about how they pinkie-swear to do better
2025-12-04 ai • slop • legal • civilrights • nevadacounty • grassvalley • scandal
Public Suffix List
A list of domain names that should not be considered as private to one organization but are instead generally used by many people
2025-12-04 mozilla • security • cookies • spam • web
Gay fantasy novels
A list of fun reading
2025-12-04 gay • fantasy • lgbt • novel
Rasam Varieties
Recipes for the South Indian thin soup
2025-12-03 food • rasam • india • spice • broth • soup
Heap of sand
Interesting probing at how LLMs "think". Read their comment about running the model at temperature 0 to get raw logits
2025-12-01 ai • llm • benchmark