Mob Psycho 100 - My Favourite Anime - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-DyIWF0h-8

THEY LIVE who is more enslaved? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wdVpenKsto

A lot of people are going to start watching Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka, and then say ‘this looks like trash’ and stop watching it. They’re right, and it’s a shame. Higurashi had the same problem.

I really like the concept of Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka: a mahou shoujou show where the focus is firmly on the combat PTSD of child soldiers. It’s a shame that the production Quality was melting from frame 1.

Happy Death Day 2: You Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy

Has anybody digitized the tapes used in first-generation melotrons?

SCREENHOLE! https://screenhole.net/

GitHub - JoYoungjoo/SC-FEGAN: SC-FEGAN : Face Editing Generative Adversarial Network with User’s Sketch and Color https://github.com/JoYoungjoo/SC-FEGAN

GarDen House in Paddington Weekend - Guest suites for Rent http://www.thisairbnbdoesnotexist.com/

WOKE BRANDS - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06yy88tLWlg

What the #$@!% are these? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9ottUEiIm8

ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL (Escape to the Movies) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PNDmUO760w

GPT-2 As Step Toward General Intelligence | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/19/gpt-2-as-step-toward-general-intelligence/

Do Neural Nets Dream Of Electric Hobbits? | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/18/do-neural-nets-dream-of-electric-hobbits/

Scott Alexander is clearly not a neo-nazi. The fact that he considers democratic socialists to be as far to the left as neoreactionaries are to the right, however, indicates he’s in a right-wing bubble.

RIP Culture War Thread | Slate Star Codex https://web.archive.org/web/20190222094427/https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/22/rip-culture-war-thread/

Inhabit: Instructions for Autonomy https://inhabit.global/

Exploring Languages with Interpreters and Functional Programming 2018 Version https://john.cs.olemiss.edu/~hcc/csci450/ELIFP/ExploringLanguages.html

Biography of Hiroyuki Nishimura: The Father of 2channel | 256 Kilobytes https://www.256kilobytes.com/content/show/4438/biography-of-hiroyuki-nishimura-the-father-of-2channel

Lemurs are like catfoxmonkeys

Jenny Owen’s website - Gosper’s Algorithm Explained https://jennyhasahat.github.io/hashlife.html

Watch Sesame Street’s long-lost “Cracks,” resurfaced by internet sleuths (VIDEO). https://slate.com/culture/2019/02/sesame-streets-cracks-video-watch.html

It got even better: http://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/index.html (from @gwern apparently?)

Ong’s Hat: The Early Internet Conspiracy Game That Got Too Real https://gizmodo.com/ongs-hat-the-early-internet-conspiracy-game-that-got-t-1832229488

Band name of the day: becoming symmetrical

Band name of the day: quasi-deified victims of collective violence

The Scapegoating Machine – The New Inquiry https://thenewinquiry.com/the-scapegoating-machine/

Band name of the day: creative misunderstandings of the source material

Band name of the day: pan-diatonic clusters

Band name of the day: extruding the universe

Band name of the day: the surreal humanism of the future

Three Decades of Cross-Cultural Utopianism in British Music Writing https://longreads.com/2019/02/19/three-decades-of-cross-cultural-utopianism-in-british-music-writing/

The “Intellectual Dark Web” is just a bunch of whiny rich people | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/4459/the-intellectual-dark-web-is-just-a-bunch-of-whiny-rich-people

GPT-2: only slightly worse than tracery ™

Re: GPT-2 – sure, this has neural nets and all, but you get higher quality output with less CPU time writing a template for a spinner.

Periodic reminder: submissions for the No Budget Film Contest open April 20th https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2019-no-budget-film-contest-d7eb339a3ed5

4 lessons from a post-graduate course in omelettes https://thetakeout.com/4-lessons-tips-in-how-to-make-omelettes-1832765134

Band name of the day: solar monopoly

A Modern History of Satanic Panic in South Carolina | Features | Charleston City Paper https://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/a-modern-history-of-satanic-panic-in-south-carolina/Content?oid=26695975

Band name of the day: data void

Band name of the day: persistent metabolic youth

The Big Data Revolution Will Be Sampled: How ‘Big Data’ Has Come To Mean ‘Small Sampled Data’ https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2019/02/17/the-big-data-revolution-will-be-sampled-how-big-data-has-come-to-mean-small-sampled-data/

Gender-swapped and race-flipped remakes aren’t living up to their potential - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/12/18220797/what-men-want-ghostbusters-the-hustle-remakes-gender-race-flipped?curator=MediaREDEF

Emotional burnout is fueled by envy | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/7065/emotional-burnout-is-fueled-by-envy

A lot of large software projects are so bad that liking them should automatically disqualify someone from working on them, unless you like them in a masochistic semi-sexual way.

BEYOND HIGH WEIRDNESS: AN APPROACH TO THE LIMINAL – Liminal Seattle http://www.liminalseattle.com/2019/02/20/beyond-high-weirdness/

Who the fuck decided to call it The Moon is a Harsh Mistress instead of Fourth Generation Warfare With Fourth Generation Languages

The magical thinking of guys who love logic | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/7083/the-magical-thinking-of-guys-who-love-logic

The ‘paradox of tolerance’ is not a paradox, any moreso than “my car requires gas to run but if I drive too much I run out of gas” is a paradox. Abstract machines are still machines. Society is a machine for living in, & if you break it living gets harder.

A lot of ‘paradoxes’ are just the result of substituting a conditional for an absolute or treating a heuristic as axiomatic.

Media mix is interesting. You can optimize a work for adaptation but that keeps you from taking advantage of features of your medium. The best adaptations are sometimes difficult-to-adapt medium-specific forms that forced creativity (ex. Bakemonogatari)

Mutually Assured Destruction: When The Only Winning Move is Not to Play https://fs.blog/2017/06/mutually-assured-destruction/

How David Lynch brings his imagination to life - Huck Magazine https://www.huckmag.com/shorthand_story/david-lynch-interview-creative-process/

Are These Bad Habits Creeping Into Your Writing? | Literary Hub https://lithub.com/are-these-bad-habits-creeping-into-your-writing/

Richard Stallman: Talking to the Mailman. New Left Review 113, September-October 2018. https://newleftreview.org/II/113/richard-stallman-talking-to-the-mailman

1024 possible protocol plateaus

It got better: https://thiscatdoesnotexist.com/

Band name of the day: chill panic

Towards an understanding of technical debt | Kellan Elliott-McCrea https://kellanem.com/notes/towards-an-understanding-of-technical-debt

Evolutionary Futures http://histscifi.com/essays/milam/apeman.html

I have sold zero copies of my game since the launch sale ended. I’m not sure if I need to cut the original price in half or if people literally just only buy games when they are on sale.

Resolved: Debate is stupid | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/6709/debate-is-stupid

Band name of the day: break space

Dune - Plots and Plans - Extra Sci Fi - #2 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NYO7aoOOmk

Band name of the day: play architecture

Band name of the day: doctor chainsaw

The Complicated Economy of Open Source Software - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43zak3/the-internet-was-built-on-the-free-labor-of-open-source-developers-is-that-sustainable

Band name of the day: borderline content

A Green New Deal to Win Back Our Future https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/02/green-new-deal-climate-change-policy

Parallax scrolling effects are bad design. Here’s why https://www.fastcompany.com/90309395/why-parallax-scrolling-needs-to-die

our last, best hope for peeps

Hackintosh Culture: The Joy of Subverting Apple https://tedium.co/2019/02/12/hackintosh-cultural-trend/

Medium has changed their policy. Now, recommendations are controlled by curators, & anything paywalled gets submitted to them. This probably means fewer but higher-quality recommendations…

Years later, Façade’s groundbreaking AI lives on through bad YouTube jokes | PC Gamer https://www.pcgamer.com/13-years-later-facades-groundbreaking-ai-lives-on-through-bad-youtube-jokes/

Letting neural networks be weird • GPT-2: It learned on the Internet http://aiweirdness.com/post/182824715257/gpt-2-it-learned-on-the-internet

The Green New Deal’s Big Idea - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/02/green-new-deal-economic-principles/582943/

This movie is fuckin’ wild https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYeJfYso9os It’s like Contact meets The Parallax View with Charlie Sheen

Visual Cohesion and Flow in Anime - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1zhW9lAIeY

Public service announcement: markets & capitalism aren’t the same thing. You can have non-capitalist or even anti-capitalist markets (ex., cases where progressive taxes actually make rentseeking infeasible, or markets without private property). You can have capitalism without markets (like inside a corporation).

Limits of the Market: Notes on Political Economy & Externalities - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rYHhc7OsJ0

A Softer World Tarot when

Super Uplifting Friendship Simulator by Kara Stone https://karastone.itch.io/super-uplifting-friendship-simulator

MIDI CITY 2000 https://midicity-2000.glitch.me/

Reese’s Advertising History: Eat Peanut Butter Cups However You Want https://tedium.co/2019/02/14/reeses-peanut-butter-cup-marketing-history/

Band name of the day: lethal automated weapons

Band name of the day: ghosts from the future

Band name of the day: speculative negativity and the revolutionary pessimism

Virtually Authentic http://histscifi.com/essays/radin/virtually-authentic

The revolutionary idea revealing the body’s hormonal democracy | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-revolutionary-idea-revealing-the-bodys-hormonal-democracy

Sidrolz in the Rain - 50 Watts http://50watts.com/Sidrolz-in-the-Rain

Design for Death - 50 Watts http://50watts.com/Design-for-Death

Silicon Valley’s Bonfire of the Vainglorious - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/silicon-valleys-bonfire-of-the-vainglorious

The sample they chose to highlight here resembles the kind of paper a 14 year old would try & fail to bullshit after staying up all night partying right before the due date: https://blog.openai.com/better-language-models/#sample1

OpenAI Trains Language Model, Mass Hysteria Ensues – Approximately Correct http://approximatelycorrect.com/2019/02/17/openai-trains-language-model-mass-hysteria-ensues/

Freedom is ________. “ The California Sunday Magazine https://story.californiasunday.com/freedom

The case of the supersized shebang [LWN.net] https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/779997/11de2bdc8dbc0d69/

GitHub - alhassy/ElispCheatSheet: Quick reference to the core language of Emacs —Editor MACroS. https://github.com/alhassy/ElispCheatSheet

Death To Minimalism | Current Affairs https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/02/death-to-minimalism

Sapping Attention: How badly is Google Books search broken, and why? https://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2019/02/how-badly-is-google-books-search-broken.html

Society for the Promotion of Describing Social Constructs as ‘Eldrich’ and ‘Uncanny’