A guerilla documentary about the Bay Area Rapid Transit system filmed from a GoPro attached to the front of a BART train takes you from SFO to far eastern Contra Costa County.
SpaceX's Starship, with its 33 1st stage engines, is often compared to Sergey Korlev's N1 Moon Rocket. Tim Dodd has a recent video talking about that comparison, and where it does and doesn't fit.
Oakland's department of transportation proposes an expensive project to address street safety that doesn't address the actual problem of speeding, creates privacy risks, and puts Black lives in more danger
Four(!) links and a song: Metallica socially distances, the IETF centers users, community mutual-aid and self-reliance in uncertain times, a resource management game about preparing people for the afterlife, and Big Joanie covers Solange
The plot of the latest of Mary Robinette Kowal's Lady Astronaut books is driven by a the same sort of failure of the American liberal imagination that prevents a just response to the COVID-19 crisis
It's the summer of questioning, not disrupting, things. We're asking "why policing," "why that ugly statue celebrating a genocidal saint," and "why 1MB of gzipped JavaScript just to display a tweet?"
Some links about the late mathematician John H Conway and the 'game' he'll be associated with, a song made by a cellular automata, and an app co-created by Brian Eno for making your own generative music
Last month some Mozillians got together to source a reading and watching list for White people wanting to educate themselves during Black History Month.
Isabel Fall's short story is a warning that the state could exploit the end of the binary to advance its imperialist projects. The post has been updated to include more responses and concerns about the story.
The patchwork implementation of trans healthcare practices worldwide looks like Mozilla's bug-handling practices before 2016, it's time to bring consistency and responsibility to trans healthcare.
The compromise of the flatmap-stream package highlights two problems in tech culture: the get-rich quick scam of Bitcoin, and our lack of support and planning around maintenance of critical software.