Revolt Against the Rich - Scientific American Blog Network https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/revolt-against-the-rich/
Kali Linux Cheat Sheet for Penetration Testers - blackMORE Ops https://www.blackmoreops.com/2016/12/20/kali-linux-cheat-sheet-for-penetration-testers/
Networking Cheatsheet http://gnulinux.guru/networking_cheatsheet.html
The Untapped Promise of LSD | The Walrus https://thewalrus.ca/the-untapped-promise-of-lsd/
Band name of the day: subversive populist vulgarity
Visible connection (AKA transpointing windows) makes explicit the implicit rhizomaticity of text.
The Soviet Matrix: On the Strugatsky Brothers’ “The Doomed City” - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-soviet-matrix-on-the-strugatsky-brothers-the-doomed-city
shout out to everybody who keeps translating ‘denpa’ as ‘microwave’ instead of ‘psychotronic’: 10/10 subtle troll, excellent work
underground comix -> subway comix -> metro comix -> densha comix -> denpa comix
‘Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse’ Ignored the Rules – Variety https://variety.com/2019/film/awards/spider-man-into-the-spiderverse-colored-outside-the-lines-1203141617/
Recording of David Bowie and Brian Eno’s jam session with Devo has been found by Mark Mothersbaugh | Consequence of Sound https://consequenceofsound.net/2017/12/recording-of-david-bowie-and-brian-enos-jam-session-with-devo-has-been-found-by-mark-mothersbaugh/
Anita Sarkeesian and the People Who Hate Her - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKaiq1rnSMw
Kaguya-sama: A Marxist Analysis - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2F4eu6oKhk
Alita- Battle Angel Is More Important than You Think (Movie Review) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCiefCg1z-w
My Alita review: 10/10 some of the decapitations are very romantic
Too Many Requests https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/comments/aqsej3/errors_of_scale_in_social_media_design_thinking/
We’ve Wanted This Kind of Horror Movie from Edgar Wright for a Long Time https://filmschoolrejects.com/edgar-wright-horror-movie-2019/
Alita: Battle Angel - Review - Anime News Network https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/alita/battle-angel/.143043
Love Anime? You NEED to See Alita: Battle Angel - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWwHtMAj_pI
Starship Troopers: How to Make Fascism SEXY “ Wisecrack Edition - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_sZdX3tFFU
More Than Just Fingering Your Robot Girlfriend: Pandora In The Crimson Shell - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbCrpeA4HfI
FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY (Feat. Jimmy Urine) - Rock Me Amadeus - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwQBt85Jmp8
Hollywood blockbuster Lupin III movie when
Modern Alternatives to PGP https://blog.gtank.cc/modern-alternatives-to-pgp/
Band name of the day: the thin place
I feel like the simplified and cliched ideas about slashers that informed Scream kept me from discovering the strange and wonderful world of actually-good slashers like Sleepaway Camp, Happy Birthday to Me, Tourist Trap, etc. Like, a lot of them are surreal and moody and great.
The reason there are so many furries online is the long tail
Alita: Battle Angel - Escapist Magazine https://www.escapistmagazine.com/v2/2019/02/15/alita-battle-angel/
All of the negative reviews of Alita are like “it follows the manga even when it shouldn’t, which makes it not feel like a hollywood movie, & it fits 4.5 volumes of manga into a 2 hour movie”
All of the positive reviews of Alita are like “it follows the manga even when you don’t expect it to, which makes it not feel like a hollywood movie, & does the best job it possibly could fitting 4.5 volumes of manga into a 2 hour movie”
The Evil of Dracula is the best movie about face-stealing vampires created by 18th century japanese foreign policy at a girls’ boarding school I’ve ever seen.
The Empowering Gaze of Satoshi Kon’s Millennium Actress - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shtu4D4A_1w
What Is Vsauce? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKmkI0xzvHc
GitHub - lauryndbrown/Cisp: A Common Lisp Interpreter Built in COBOL https://github.com/lauryndbrown/Cisp
iftool https://iftool.surge.sh/
Bad idea of the day: Do a free machine-generated text class at a library (using tracery or something), self-publish the course materials as a book (with proceeds going to the library as donations), & get a couple copies for the stacks.
Your money can be stolen from your Uber account with dodgy Uber code texts - unlike kinds https://unlikekinds.com/article/uber-code-text
Somebody’s streaming my game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_ugVRvbdY4
Is the #Resistance Just a Branding Exercise? | The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/153063/passive-resistance-trump-opposition-exercise-branding
Who can forget those scenes in Count Zero where they all stand around eating soup? / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/02/14/cream-of-panther-modern.html
Triple feature: E. V. van Odle’s The Clockwork Man, David R. Bunch’s Moderan, & Charlie Stross’s Accelerando
Posthumanism for Regular Humans Trapped in an Inhuman World: On “The Human Reimagined” - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/posthumanism-for-regular-humans-trapped-in-an-inhuman-world-on-the-human-reimagined/
It looks like OpenAI has announced their marginal progress on the coherence problem in narrative prose generation in the most clickbaity possible way again: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47249163 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/14/elon-musk-backed-ai-writes-convincing-news-fiction
Band name of the day: Xtreme Witchcraft
Band name of the day: theraputic extinction
The Grim, Depression-Era Origins of Dance Marathons - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/depression-era-dance-marathons
Avoiding the tendency toward recentralization is a (if not the) primary concern of anarchocommunist & left-libertarian political philosophy, so the association between ancaps & ‘decentralizaiton’ seems strange.
POSSE - IndieWeb https://indieweb.org/POSSE
The ‘writing criticism’ curator wrote a review of MfoM where they claimed that the characters were flat but the plot was engaging. I consider this a success, since I was worried about plot (since I don’t ‘get’ it).
The ineffectiveness of lonely… | Matt Wilcox, Web Developer & Tinkerer https://mattwilcox.net/musing/the-ineffectiveness-of-icons
The most important operation in QNX is MsgSend, which works like an interprocess… | Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9872640
What Language Do People Speak in the Balkans, Anyway? - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-language-is-spoken-in-the-balkans
Band name of the day: the obligation choclettes
roses are red / violets are red / i’m all out of blood / i need more blood
roses are blue / violets are blue / dabba-dee dabba-die
Artificial intelligence, algorithmic pricing, and collusion | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal https://voxeu.org/article/artificial-intelligence-algorithmic-pricing-and-collusion
The Caviar Con https://longreads.com/2019/02/12/the-caviar-con/
Japan’s Most Interesting Newspaper Is for Recluses, by Recluses - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/japanese-men-who-dont-leave-home
JIRA would be a lot more useful if it was small enough to actually load & render on my company-provided workstation.
Gigaom | Quantum Computing, Capabilities and Limits: An Interview with Scott Aaronson https://gigaom.com/2019/01/17/quantum-computing-capabilities-and-limits-an-interview-with-scott-aaronson/
Band name of the day: worm from heaven
Giallo title of the day: The Spider With Ten Legs
The Rude, Cruel, and Insulting ‘Vinegar Valentines’ of the Victorian Era - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/vinegar-valentines-victorian
Band name of the day: air disaster
patience diffing algorithm https://https.www.google.com.tedunangst.com/flak/post/patience-diffing-algorithm
Band name of the day: ubiquitous movement practices
Band name of the day: occasional intrusions from a strange reality
Happy day-before-deep-discounts-on-chocolate day
Today is St. Valentine’s day. Celebrate by ressurecting vats of minced and pickled children, like St Valentine is most famous for doing
GitHub - postlight/mercury-parser: “ Extracting content from the chaos of the web. https://github.com/postlight/mercury-parser
Band name of the day: new evidence for the strange geometry of thought
Band name of the day: different forms of play
Danish haunted-house studies seek to reveal the seductive appeal of horror | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/02/danish-haunted-house-studies-seek-to-reveal-the-seductive-appeal-of-horror/
Band name of the day: dysphoric rituals
Why the heck don’t phone keyboards have arrow keys?
Band name of the day: the hedonic reversal
What’s the most unexpected way to use garlic in a dish? https://thetakeout.com/recipe-most-unexpected-way-to-use-garlic-in-a-dish-1832528068
”[A] post-work future nobody outside of silicon valley asked for” dude, I think everybody who has ever worked is asking for a post-work future…
I think maybe the reason I’m not impressed by DeepFakes is that I can’t identify people by their faces reliably anyway, while I’m very good at identifying when something is horribly dithered, so it seems pointless.
The Putrid, Repulsive, Unparalleled Romance of Peter Jackson’s ‘Braindead’ https://filmschoolrejects.com/braindead-romance/
Best Anime Dance 2019!!! (Kaguya-sama: Love Is War) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Egy6_y7Vb9U
Kaguya-sama Love is War OP / Opening HD + Lyrics - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gChTHeHp3wQ
The Claypool Lennon Delirium - Blood And Rockets: Movement I, Saga Of Jack Parsons - Mo… - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcOHiGonWwU
How sex censorship killed the internet we love https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/31/sex-censorship-killed-internet-fosta-sesta/
Inside the larps that let human players experience AI life - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/1/18185945/live-action-roleplaying-larp-game-design-artificial-intelligence-ethics-issues
Forget privacy: you’re terrible at targeting anyway - apenwarr https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190201
Inside the Secret Facebook War For Mormon Hearts and Minds https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-secret-facebook-war-for-mormon-hearts-and-minds
Why Freelancing Creates Anxiety About Money https://www.thecut.com/2019/02/why-freelancing-creates-anxiety-about-money.html
Band name of the day: mind, stamina, muscle, & feet
Philosopher and digital artist Mat Dryhurst on redesigning the system “ The Creative Independent https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/philosopher-and-digital-artist-mat-dryhurst-on-redesigning-the-system/
Band name of the day: faulty language selection
Suburban Mystique: Bic Drawings by Kevin Lucbert “ SOCKS http://socks-studio.com/2015/02/11/suburban-mystique-bic-drawings-by-kevin-lucbert/
Fragments of a Dream-like City: Collages by Tali Bayer “ SOCKS http://socks-studio.com/2015/11/28/fragments-of-a-dream-like-city-collages-by-tali-bayer/
Wei Shao’s Blank City (2014) “ SOCKS http://socks-studio.com/2016/05/25/wei-shaos-blank-city-2014/
The Mechanical-Architectural World of Stijn Jonckheere “ SOCKS http://socks-studio.com/2017/01/16/the-mechanical-architectural-world-of-stijn-jonckheere/
Space Colony Art from the 1970s – The Public Domain Review https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/space-colony-art-from-the-1970s/
“The Architecture of Madness”: León Ferrari’s Héliographias “ SOCKS http://socks-studio.com/2014/01/31/the-architecture-of-madness-leon-ferraris-heliographias/
Cedric Price ‘Housing Research’ (1971) and the ‘Steel House’ (1967) “ SOCKS http://socks-studio.com/2016/04/14/cedric-price-housing-research-1971-and-the-steel-house-1967/
The Narkomfin Building in Moscow (1928-29): a Built Experiment on Everyday Life “ SOCKS http://socks-studio.com/2016/12/04/the-narkomfin-building-in-moscow-1928-29-a-built-experiment-on-everyday-life/