Inertia and institutional damage in politics “ John Ohno ” Medium https://medium.com/@/inertia-and-institutional-damage-in-politics-9d9e670c182?source=friends_link&sk=8d1730ed3c394a1bc1876bd0f7a209c5
Introducing Our New and Baffling Recycling Program - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/introducing-our-new-and-baffling-recycling-program
The Social Construction of Emotions - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVQUnddM5Vg
“Don’t Get In The Damn Robot Mob!” (Evangelion, Mob Psycho 100, & learning to run away) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZsD-j8JFR8
Live on April 19th: live simultaneous cringe compilations
Live on April 19th: the professor you’re glad you don’t have and the professor you wish you had debate about something basically tangential to either’s appeal or focus, and one of them will be entertaining.
Unlocking the Full Brilliance of Ursula Le Guin’s Hainish Cycle | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2019/02/25/unlocking-the-full-brilliance-of-ursula-le-guins-hainish-cycle/
Paper: Hyperscan: A Fast Multi-pattern Regex Matcher for Modern CPUs – Branch Free https://branchfree.org/2019/02/28/paper-hyperscan-a-fast-multi-pattern-regex-matcher-for-modern-cpus/
April 19th: Shitty Campbell vs Cocaine Lacan. (It’s obvious who will win, but it’s equally obvious that the loser will just claim to have won & his fans will believe him, just like they did every other time.)
Judging People Who Don’t Exist | The Cleverest http://www.thecleverest.com/judging-people-who-dont-exist/
Heat your House with a Water Brake Windmill - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/02/heat-your-house-with-a-water-brake-windmill.html
‘The Class Ceiling’ Decodes the Cultures of Elite Workplaces - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/02/class-ceiling-laurison-friedman-elite-jobs/582175/
Conspiracy theory: the Titanic didn’t sink because it was swapped with a replica of the Titanic from the future in order to hide evidence from the Philidelphia experiment
Titanic Conspiracy Theory | Did the Titanic Really Sink? https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a26533526/olympic-titanic-conspiracy-theory/
Orc Language https://orc.csres.utexas.edu/
Project Zero: The Curious Case of Convexity Confusion https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-curious-case-of-convexity-confusion.html
Living Systems | James Grier Miller | 1978 | Systems Community of Inquiry https://stream.syscoi.com/2018/07/09/living-systems-james-grier-miller-1978/
What Nietzsche learnt from Diogenes the Cynic | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/what-nietzsche-learnt-from-diogenes-the-cynic
Band name of the day: the power of mediocrity
“SPEAK LOUDER” Asked the Aliens from Planet UMMO | Mysterious Universe https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/02/speak-louder-asked-the-aliens-from-planet-ummo/
Pistol Opera is fucking wild. I understood just enough of the symbolism to recognize that I understood almost none of the symbolism.
Periodic reminder: submissions for the No Budget Film Contest open April 20th https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2019-no-budget-film-contest-d7eb339a3ed5
There’s a tendency, when we don’t have a rational understanding of something, to classify it as only capable of IRrational understanding – i.e. pattern matching. Occasionally, this is the only practical solution in the short term.
Just because a machine’s component parts are human beings doesn’t make it any less technical: it merely grows new and interesting complexities and failure modes, a careful and accurate understanding of which is even more valuable.
Whatever happened to that film adaptation of E. H. Hoffman’s The Sandman starring Iggy Pop that Dario Argento was gonna direct? Is it still happening? Is it in production hell? (Do italian pulp flicks have production hell?)
Weezer’s Black Album Won’t Make It Easier for Them - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/music/2019/2/26/18240667/weezer-black-album-review-rivers-cuomo
Band name of the day: the social factory
Band name of the day: organization space
Band name of the day: weapons of mass production
Geoff Greer’s site: Software Rot https://geoff.greer.fm/2017/02/28/software-rot/
Band name of the day: anomalies in the soil
Pickup line of the day: ‘Tell me of the waters of your homeworld, Usul’
My Adventures in Oz - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5QO2Cqtazg
at-work-editions https://qz.com/work/1560079/maximizing-shareholder-profits-is-a-great-way-to-destroy-humanity/
How to Retire Early - VICE https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gya8bx/i-tested-the-saving-technique-that-promises-retirement-at-40
What It’s Like To Write About Race And Video Games https://kotaku.com/what-its-like-to-write-about-race-and-video-games-1832886047
Why Do Americans Love Ice Cubes So much? https://tedium.co/2019/02/26/ice-cubes-history/
Love without jealousy: consider the benefits of compersion | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/love-without-jealousy-consider-the-benefits-of-compersion
Band name of the day: courtesy telephone please
Band name of the day: the moving platform
Band name of the day: the red zone
Band name of the day: some strange lagoon
A short history of 20th century African-American horror literature | jessnevins.com http://jessnevins.com/blog/?p=842
Band name of the day: spider pit
Vegetables Don’t Exist – Popula https://popula.com/2019/02/20/vegetables-dont-exist/
Attack of the Flying Space Dwarves! | Mysterious Universe https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/02/attack-of-the-flying-space-dwarves/
dreamt I was trapped at a sleepaway camp with Slavoj Zizek during a zombie pandemic
A Short History of Italian Horror - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJCo35gX7j0
Gamasutra: Nikhil Murthy’s Blog - The Interactivity of Reading https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/NikhilMurthy/20190225/337245/The_Interactivity_of_Reading.php
Band name of the day: handicraft futures
Band name of the day: the discoverie of a world inside the moone
“Before it was a particular kind of story or plot, science fiction was a way of thinking about and interacting with emerging media.” https://manifold.umn.edu/read/the-perversity-of-things-hugo-gernsback-on-media-tinkering-and-scientifiction/section/71ba6e6b-b4b2-40a2-bdb1-af133fc6b93b
Unmasking the internet’s favourite novelist - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-23/unmasking-the-internets-favourite-novelist/10830116
Band name of the day: ventral surface
Band name of the day: megapode
Band name of the day: british situationist acid house collective
Band name of the day: poseidogram
It absolutely shocked me when, in a documentary about their history, Kurt refered to Information Society as ‘disco’, but in retrospect it makes perfect sense: the early 80s was right next to the late 70s, literally.
An anime being ‘big in america’ is like a punk band being ‘big in japan’: a common but rarely intentional side effect of globalization, notable mostly as trivia.
Science funding is a mess. Could grant lotteries make it better? - Vox https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/1/18/18183939/science-funding-grant-lotteries-research
Too Many People Dare Call It Conspiracy | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/01/14/too-many-people-dare-call-it-conspiracy/
Band name of the day: vegetables were shunned and feared
Cheap TVs and Exorbitant Education, Modern America in One Chart https://kottke.org/19/02/cheap-tvs-and-exorbitant-education-modern-america-in-one-chart
Distinctions in Types of Thought | Otium https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2017/10/10/distinctions-in-types-of-thought/
Overcoming Bias : Better Babblers http://www.overcomingbias.com/2017/03/better-babblers.html
Ahead of Time http://histscifi.com/essays/milburn/time.html
Band name of the day: cannibal prospector
Humans Who Are Not Concentrating Are Not General Intelligences | Otium https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2019/02/25/humans-who-are-not-concentrating-are-not-general-intelligences/
Individualism is not a sufficient foundation for social life | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/individualism-is-not-a-sufficient-foundation-for-social-life
The Secret History of Dune - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-secret-history-of-dune/
Cisco Trash Map https://placesjournal.org/article/cisco-trash-map/
Saved Game History: Battery Backups, Memory Cards, and the Cloud https://tedium.co/2019/02/21/video-game-save-state-history/
Band name of the day: super casette vision
a parade of shallow & glib essays about how all essays are shallow & glib these days
A Global Review of Public Transit Seat Cover Designs - CityLab https://www.citylab.com/design/2019/02/public-transit-design-seat-cover-textile-patterns-moquette/583045/
Intellectuals and power: A conversation between Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze https://libcom.org/library/intellectuals-power-a-conversation-between-michel-foucault-and-gilles-deleuze
American Archive of Public Broadcasting http://americanarchive.org/
The CPython Bytecode Compiler is Dumb « null program https://nullprogram.com/blog/2019/02/24/
Why Conspiracy Videos Go Viral on YouTube - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/02/reason-conspiracy-videos-work-so-well-youtube/583282/
The impossible architecture of video games • Eurogamer.net https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-02-12-the-impossible-architecture-of-video-games
Band name of the day: the magically unhinged
The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebook-content-moderator-interviews-trauma-working-conditions-arizona
In the ‘Black Guns Matter’ Movement, ‘Make Racists Afraid Again’ Is About Education, Not Violence - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/black-guns-matter-make-racists-afraid-again
Five Lessons From Seven Years of Research Into Buttons - The Crux http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2019/02/04/five-lessons-about-pressing-buttons/
China’s urban policy unit just met for the first time in 38 years. Here’s what it recommended | CityMetric https://www.citymetric.com/fabric/china-s-urban-policy-unit-just-met-first-time-38-years-here-s-what-it-recommended-1904
Cyberfeminist Index (~1990s-present) - Google Sheets https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1q_ZlbZhstBTfnZL4QP11ebivXgsvrf8shuG-QX146nw/edit#gid=1949020646
Remembering Ken Nordine https://longreads.com/2019/02/19/remembering-ken-nordine/
Normalization of Deviance | Art is Art and Water is Water https://foone.wordpress.com/2019/02/14/normalization-of-deviance/
Band name of the day: eponymous laws
DCEU Doom Patrol movie when
Band name of the day: nightmare bee
Demystifying JOIN Algorithms http://blog.felipe.rs/2019/01/29/demystifying-join-algorithms/
List of unsolved problems in computer science - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_computer_science
Bad idea of the day: One of those franchise-themed fighting games, except it’s a rap battle. You get dealt a hand of possible lines, with points for internal rhyme and novelty, & multipliers for referencing previous lines & opponent backstory. External rhymes are combo attacks
DomeKano is like the Mayoiga of harem-drama and I love it.
MLTalks with Douglas Rushkoff - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbyxFZSZZ90
Periodic reminder: submissions for the No Budget Film Contest open April 20th https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2019-no-budget-film-contest-d7eb339a3ed5
Why Our Horror Movies Are Different Now “ Wisecrack Edition - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqW_ElEnLGI
Double Standards and Diverse Media - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__ctRfI7cuM