For the Wealthiest, a Private Tax System That Saves Them Billions
http://nytimes.com/2015/12/30/business/economy/for-the-wealthiest-private-tax-system-saves-them-billions.html?_r=0
The Great Republican Revolt
http://theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/01/the-great-republican-revolt/419118
Iran's blogfather: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are killing the web
http://theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/29/irans-blogfather-facebook-instagram-and-twitter-are-killing-the-web
The end of capitalism has begun
http://theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/17/postcapitalism-end-of-capitalism-begun
Stop Writing Dystopian Sci-Fi—It's Making Us All Fear Technology
http://wired.com/2014/08/stop-writing-dystopian-sci-fiits-making-us-all-fear-technology
How the Internet of Things Got Hacked
http://wired.com/2015/12/2015-the-year-the-internet-of-things-got-hacked
The Aftershocks
https://medium.com/matter/the-aftershocks-7966d0cdec66#.g31ooio99
Neon: Node + Rust = 💖
http://calculist.org/blog/2015/12/23/neon-node-rust/
I’ve been working on Neon, a set of APIs and tools for making it super easy to write native Node modules in Rust.
Neon: Node + Rust = 💖
http://calculist.org/blog/2015/12/23/neon-node-rust
I’ve been working on Neon, a set of APIs and tools for making it super easy to write native Node modules in Rust.
Medium CEO Ev Williams Podcast Interview With Re/code’s Peter Kafka : Re/code : Linkis.com
http://linkis.com/recode.net/2015/12/2/mzkdd
Instant Loading Web Apps With An Application Shell Architecture — Google Developers — Medium
https://medium.com/google-developers/instant-loading-web-apps-with-an-application-shell-architecture-7c0c2f10c73#.va996c4w9
I'm fucking sick and tired of racism and sexism on reddit. : offmychest
https://www.reddit.com/r/offmychest/comments/3xpwns/im_fucking_sick_and_tired_of_racism_and_sexism_on/
I'm fucking sick and tired of racism and sexism on reddit. : offmychest
https://www.reddit.com/r/offmychest/comments/3xpwns/im_fucking_sick_and_tired_of_racism_and_sexism_on
Your Star Wars spoiler zone: Ars fully discusses The [REDACTED] Awakens
http://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2015/12/your-star-wars-spoiler-zone-ars-fully-discusses-the-redacted-awakens
My Reddit Utopia
http://slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2015/07/reddit_as_feminist_utopia_what_the_front_page_of_the_internet_looks_like.html
What Alzheimer’s Feels Like from the Inside
http://nautil.us/issue/31/stress/what-alzheimers-feels-like-from-the-inside
When the Internet of Things Starts to Feel Like the Internet of Shit
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/when-the-internet-of-things-starts-to-feel-like-the-internet-of-shit
Secret Code Found in Juniper's Firewalls Shows Risk of Government Backdoors
http://wired.com/2015/12/juniper-networks-hidden-backdoors-show-the-risk-of-government-backdoors
Is your brain really a computer, or is it a quantum orchestra tuned to the universe?
http://interaliamag.org/articles/stuart-hameroff-is-your-brain-really-a-computer-or-is-it-a-quantum-orchestra-tuned-to-the-universe
Are Americans losing faith in democracy?
http://vox.com/polyarchy/2015/12/18/9360663/is-democracy-in-trouble
The Long-Awaited SPELLBREAKER Completes Blake Charlton’s SPELLWRIGHT TRILOGY
http://sfsignal.com/archives/2015/12/131064
Meditations On Moloch
http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch
Amazon’s War on Bigfoot Erotica
http://onthemedia.org/story/amazons-war-bigfoot-erotica
Beneath the Silent Stars
http://lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/beneath-the-silent-stars
The Future of the Web Looks a Lot Like Bitcoin
http://spectrum.ieee.stfi.re/computing/networks/the-future-of-the-web-looks-a-lot-like-bitcoin?sf=jxnlvy
Proposal: keep the nuclear launch codes in an innocent volunteer's chest-cavity / Boing Boing
http://boingboing.net/2015/12/11/proposal-keep-the-nuclear-lau.html
what if the codes to launch nuclear war were kept inside the chest-cavity of a young volunteer, and the President would have to hack them out of this young man's chest before he could commence armageddon?
Tech and Banking Giants Ditch Bitcoin for Their Own Blockchain
http://wired.com/2015/12/big-tech-joins-big-banks-to-create-alternative-to-bitcoins-blockchain
Editor Is Fired, But Not Silenced, Over The NRA
http://nationalmemo.com/editor-is-fired-but-not-silenced-over-the-nra
How Rogue Techies Armed the Predator, Almost Stopped 9/11, and Accidentally Invented Remote War
http://wired.com/2015/12/how-rogue-techies-armed-the-predator-almost-stopped-911-and-accidentally-invented-remote-war
Dog DNA study reveals the incredible journey of man's best friend
http://theguardian.com/science/2015/dec/15/dog-dna-study-reveals-the-extraordinary-journey-of-mans-best-friend
Scientists are trying to understand cephalopods’ behavior and molecular makeup.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura/2015/12/16/scientists_are_trying_to_understand_cephalopods_behavior_and_molecular_make.html
Last Call
https://medium.com/@cshirky/last-call-c682f6471c70#.tqr9w55ec
Speechbros, Concern Trolls, and the Free-Speech Fraud
http://thenation.com/article/speechbros-concern-trolls-and-the-free-speech-fraud
The GOP on the Eve of Destruction
http://billmoyers.com/story/the-gop-on-the-eve-of-destruction
WebAssembly/binaryen · GitHub
https://github.com/WebAssembly/binaryen
lmorchard starred WebAssembly/binaryen
Donald Trump Really Doesn’t Want Me to Tell You This, But …
http://vanityfair.com/news/2015/12/donald-trump-mark-bowden-playboy-profile#7
Tech That Tracks Your Every Move Can Be Convenient, Not Creepy
http://wired.com/2014/03/designers-tracking-tradeoffs
How to Be an Anticapitalist Today | Jacobin
https://jacobinmag.com/2015/12/erik-olin-wright-real-utopias-anticapitalism-democracy
End the Gun Epidemic in America
http://nytimes.com/2015/12/05/opinion/end-the-gun-epidemic-in-america.html
mobile.nytimes.com
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/07/19/magazine/how-privilege-became-a-provocation.html?_r=1
This spring, the novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie put a new spin on the commencement speech, that most staid of genres. Speaking at Wellesley College, she didn’t emphasize how the graduates had been helped by their education, but how they had been hindered by it. via Pocket
nathancahill/Split.js · GitHub
https://github.com/nathancahill/Split.js
lmorchard starred nathancahill/Split.js
twitter/labella.js · GitHub
https://github.com/twitter/labella.js
lmorchard starred twitter/labella.js
The Fall and Rise of SVG
http://blog.siliconpublishing.com/2015/12/the-fall-and-rise-of-svg/
Now that SVG is widely supported and native to browsers, the art of using it is more connected to the surrounding web technologies that it can now interoperate with in HTML5
The Fall and Rise of SVG
http://blog.siliconpublishing.com/2015/12/the-fall-and-rise-of-svg
Now that SVG is widely supported and native to browsers, the art of using it is more connected to the surrounding web technologies that it can now interoperate with in HTML5
How one of the deadliest police forces in America stopped shooting people
http://qz.com/565011/how-one-of-the-largest-police-forces-in-america-stopped-shooting-people
niftylettuce/frisbee · GitHub
https://github.com/niftylettuce/frisbee
lmorchard starred niftylettuce/frisbee
Meet the man who wants to be president, and then live forever
http://theverge.com/a/transhumanism-2015
This is the best game : nekoatsume
https://www.reddit.com/r/nekoatsume/comments/3v74lv/this_is_the_best_game/
This is the best game : nekoatsume
https://www.reddit.com/r/nekoatsume/comments/3v74lv/this_is_the_best_game
The False Promise of Meritocracy
http://theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/12/meritocracy/418074
nolanlawson/pokedex.org · GitHub
https://github.com/nolanlawson/pokedex.org
lmorchard starred nolanlawson/pokedex.org
The New Gene-Editing Technique That Reveals Cancer’s Weaknesses
http://theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/11/a-revolutionary-gene-editing-technique-reveals-cancers-weaknesses/417495
Vote all you want. The secret government won’t change.
http://bostonglobe.com/ideas/2014/10/18/vote-all-you-want-the-secret-government-won-change/jVSkXrENQlu8vNcBfMn9sL/story.html?event=event25
Essay: Anatomy of the Deep State
http://billmoyers.com/2014/02/21/anatomy-of-the-deep-state
The Wal-Mart Slayer: How Publix's People-First Culture Is Winning The Grocer War
http://forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2013/07/24/the-wal-mart-slayer-how-publixs-people-first-culture-is-winning-the-grocer-war
Inside China's Memefacturing Factories, Where The Hottest New Gadgets Are Made
http://buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/how-to-make-millions-of-hoverboards-almost-overnight#.itZmdERA8