Today's links

Clearview AI's customer database leaks: Sic semper grifter.
The Internet of Anal Things: Recreating Stelarc's "Amplified Body" with an IoT butt-plug.
Oakland's vintage Space Burger/Giant Burger building needs a home! Adopt a googie today.
Fan-made reproduction of the Tower of Terror: Even has a deepfaked Serling.
Drawing the Simpsons with pure CSS: Impractical, but so impressive.
Let's Encrypt issues its billionth cert: 89% of the web is now encrypted.
AI Dungeon Master: A work in progress, for sure.
How to lie with (coronavirus) maps: Lies, damned lies, and epidemiological data-visualizations.
This day in history: 2019, 2015
Colophon: Recent publications, current writing projects, upcoming appearances, current reading

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Today's links

Brave autolinks 404s to the Wayback Machine: The internet's time-traveling, privacy respecting, ad-busting browser.
Clarence Thomas admits he blew it on Brand X: A very safe mea culpa from the man who helped kill Net Neutrality.
Medicare for All would be the biggest take-home pay increase in a generation: Even if my taxes went up by six figures (!), I'd still save money.
The Smithsonian publishes 2.8m hi-rez images into the public domain: Tired: "It belongs in a museum!" Wired: "It belongs to the world!"
McMansion Hell visits 1971: Before "lawyer foyers" there were "paralegal foyers."
This day in history: 2005, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, current writing projects, upcoming appearances, current reading

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