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github GitHub fired Jewish employee who said 'stay safe homies, Nazis are about' on Slack amid Capitol riot, 200 staff sign letter asking Microsoft-owned biz to denounce Nazis Xeni Jardin
github Github restores youtube-dl Rob Beschizza
recursion Trippy demonstration of recursively rotating images Andrea James
restorations Watch how AI accessing a huge face database can create better restorations Andrea James
JPMorgan Some organizations to retire non-inclusive tech terms like "master drive" and "slave drive" Andrea James
abbott labs Abbott Labs kills free tool that lets you own the blood-sugar data from your glucose monitor, saying it violates copyright law Cory Doctorow
engagement maximization A plugin to force Twitter to respect your settings and stop showing you "top" tweets Cory Doctorow
sql SQL Murder Mystery: teaching SQL concepts with a mystery game Cory Doctorow
name and shame A list of companies that contract with ICE Cory Doctorow
differential privacy Google releases a free/open differential privacy library Cory Doctorow
rooked CHESSES: chess variants for nonexperts, nonplayers, and the very playful Cory Doctorow
yellow-thing-eats-pills-and-chased-by-ghosts game Pacman in 512 bytes Cory Doctorow
roguelike Rogess: chess with roguelike combat Cory Doctorow
branching narrative Read the source code for every classic Infocom text-adventure game! Cory Doctorow
996 A rapidly proliferating software license bars use by companies with poor labor practices Cory Doctorow
street-level surveillance Rise of the Surveillance Scooters? Albert Fox Cahn
freedomev Freedom EV: free/open replacement firmware for your electric vehicle — including a Tesla Cory Doctorow
the purloined letter Hide and seek: A catalog of useful steganography tools Cory Doctorow
bypass paywalls Mozilla pulls a popular paywall circumvention tool from Firefox add-ons store Cory Doctorow
event-stream Malware vector: become an admin on dormant, widely-used open source projects Cory Doctorow