From Guerrilla Open Archives - Laurie Allen http://laurieallen.org/radical-oa2-guerrilllas/#
even rats laugh, but Boogiepop never does
How capitalism reduced diversity to a brand - Vox https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/2/11/18195868/capitalism-race-diversity-exploitation-nancy-leong
The government is using wrong data to make decisions about the internet - Recode https://www.recode.net/2019/2/8/18211794/government-data-internet
An enormous presence, like the shimmer of heat in air | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/an-enormous-presence-like-the-shimmer-of-heat-in-air
Triple feature: Jacob’s Ladder, The Good Son, and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
The Teens Who Listen to ‘Mallwave’ Are Nostalgic for an Experience They’ve Never Had - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-teens-who-listen-to-mallwave-are-nostalgic-for-an-experience-theyve-never-had
Misbehaving: being clever and wicked is a form of creativity | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/misbehaving-being-clever-and-wicked-is-a-form-of-creativity
An AI is playing Pictionary to figure out how the world works - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612882/an-ai-is-playing-pictionary-to-figure-out-how-the-world-works/
Vocabulary - software-crisis https://softwarecrisis.miraheze.org/wiki/Vocabulary
he Eats Planets: On ‘Mandy,’ Grief, and Mandy | Bright Wall/Dark Room https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2019/01/29/she-eats-planets-mandy-2018/
The Aesthetics of Taxonomy: Hokusai’s Manga (1814-1878) “ SOCKS http://socks-studio.com/2019/02/10/the-aesthetics-of-taxonomy-hokusais-manga-1814-1878/
Betamaxed https://doriantaylor.com/betamaxed
MfoM is like Groundhog Day meets The X Files, while Happy Death Day is more like Groundhog Day meets Scream. (Actually, less like Scream than Happy Birthday to Me, but nobody’s seen that one.)
Make it Simple: A Tale about Robert Dewar https://dwheeler.com/essays/make-it-simple-dewar.html
boxbase.org: Dialogical logic programming http://boxbase.org/entries/2019/feb/11/dialogical-logic-programming/
A Retrospective on PAIP http://www.norvig.com/Lisp-retro.html
Notes on structured concurrency, or: Go statement considered harmful — njs blog https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-go-statement-considered-harmful/
The Observation Deck » Reflecting on The Soul of a New Machine http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2019/02/10/reflecting-on-the-soul-of-a-new-machine/
Hey! You! Buy my game. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1013580/Manna_for_our_Malices/
David Bowie & Nine Inch Nails: Dissonance, live 1995 (HD) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4sP1CTuIjs
Ted Fierce, Fast and Immoderate, 1995 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67BcHR-qyvE
Introduction to Affect Theory: Brian Massumi & Eve Sedgwick - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeMS8QEYIQU
Join the Cult of Bill Murray? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq98oSOl5n0
The Avengers - Short Skirt, Long Jacket [Emma Peel] - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idtYckLIZnI
Fedor Il’in’s The Valley of New Life (1928) http://histscifi.com/essays/krementsov/valley
If you thought Quora’s anime tag was bad, wait until you see their The Beatles tag. If you think that’s bad, wait until you get on the automatic recommendation list for answering questions in ‘acronyms’.
I’d like to play a horror game that’s lit like Suspiria is during its most extreme moments: backgrounds & characters in bright monochrome washes, a cypher of harsh shadows, as though lit by single-point neon.
When Our Bodies Are Not Our Homes: ‘Annihilation’ & ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2019/01/25/annihilation-haunting-hill-house-2018/
Halloween III: Season of the Witch is still the best movie in the Halloween franchise. Fite me.
Band name of the day: human power bouncy unit
How the Talking Heads wrote “Once in a Lifetime” - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_siGG35f7Y
COOKING TIP: if you are frying literally anything, fry it in a lot of butter and then add like a sip of beer (preferably dark beer, like a tripel or a double-ipa). It makes the flavor a lot more complex
Stalin’s Scheherazade https://longreads.com/2019/02/06/stalins-scheherazade/
All of the World’s Money and Markets in One Visualization http://money.visualcapitalist.com/worlds-money-markets-one-visualization-2017/
If you live in Mad Max: The Road Warrior, bitcoin makes a lot of sense. If you live in Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, it makes a lot less sense. If you live in Fury Road, it makes no sense at all.
21 ‘Ugly’ Buildings That Aren’t Ugly at All - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/best-ugly-buildings
The Future of Thinking: http://histscifi.com/essays/dick/thinking.html
Strongly recommend ‘Horror Noire’ for folks who are interested in the history of horror on film. It filled in some big gaps in the timeline for me. It’s available on Shudder, which is also streaming some flicks covered.
Nobel Laureate Eric Kandel Brings Neuroscience to the Neue Galerie http://nautil.us/issue/69/patterns/gustav-klimt-in-the-brain-lab
Family spaghetti of programming languages https://erkin.party/blog/190208/spaghetti/
Retro-Tinged Game Controllers: BX Foundry’s Handmade Joysticks https://tedium.co/2019/02/07/bx-foundry-video-game-controllers/
I Blocked Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-the-big-five-tech-giants-from-my-life-it-was-hel-1831304194
Code Director - Daily Nutmeg http://dailynutmeg.com/2019/02/08/dan-gries-art-code-director/
Bitcoin, Snapchat, Drugs And Death: How A Woman Followed Two “UGNazi” Hackers’ Lies To Her Tragic Killing https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/tomi-masters-down-the-rabbit-hole-i-go
Shades of Fyodorov https://www.newsweek.com/quantum-archaeology-quest-3d-bioprint-every-dead-person-back-life-837967
Michael Crichton, Science Studies, and the Technothriller http://histscifi.com/essays/radin/technothriller
Masters of Science Fiction is actually pretty good if you can get over the extremely post-9/11 vibe, the use of the Star Trek Voyager font everywhere, & the ‘hosting’ being somebody using the Hawking synth to speak a line after every episode
If your website is not static, it is not a website: it is an application, & should be distributed as an executable. If your website contains javascript, it is not a website: it is an application & should be distributed as an executable.
GitHub - TheBerkin/rant: Rant “ The all-purpose procedural text library https://github.com/TheBerkin/rant
PC Speaker To Eleven / Habr https://habr.com/en/post/439192/
Is The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Heinlein’s All-Time Greatest Work? | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2019/01/31/is-the-moon-is-a-harsh-mistress-heinleins-all-time-greatest-work/
Schneier on security: “There’s no good reason to trust blockchain technology” https://www.wired.com/story/theres-no-good-reason-to-trust-blockchain-technology/
GitHub - hrvach/fpg1: PDP-1 FPGA implementation in Verilog, with CRT, Teletype and Console. https://github.com/hrvach/fpg1
Amazon is using purchase data to sell targeted ads, which is creepy, but not because they’ve invented a mind-control ray / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/02/06/trivial-insights.html
List of stories set in a future now past - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stories_set_in_a_future_now_past
Band name of the day: lonely black holes
Reading computer history reminds me that there was a time in the 1950s and 1960s when ‘person does thing with computer’ was a standard slow-news-day template item instead of a business plan
Are there sports video games that, RPG-like, allow a user-created character to progress by getting access to better personal trainers & medical support by winning games while in constant fear of breaking their legs?
Can a philosopher explain reality and make-believe to a child? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/can-a-philosopher-explain-reality-and-make-believe-to-a-child
Editions https://qz.com/1540608/the-problem-with-silicon-valleys-obsession-with-blitzscaling-growth/
Band name of the day: user illusion
Parser types | rain-1.github.io https://rain-1.github.io/scheme-parse
256 Kilobytes | Biography of Terry A. Davis - The greatest programmer to ever live. https://www.256kilobytes.com/index.php/content/show/1939/biography-of-terry-a-davis-the-greatest-programmer-to-ever-live
GitHub - combinatorylogic/mbase: Metaprogramming framework for .net https://github.com/combinatorylogic/mbase
Was Umineko influenced by The Colonel’s Bequest?
boom mike appears in the shot David Lynch: OK, so the boom mike the the protagonist of this movie now
Periodic reminder that the links I post here also get collected at http://www.lord-enki.net/links.html (including stuff that didn’t post because title fetching failed)
Programming Z3 https://theory.stanford.edu/~nikolaj/programmingz3.html
If Software Is Funded from a Public Source, Its Code Should Be Open Source | Linux Journal https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/if-software-funded-public-source-its-code-should-be-open-source
Capitalism’s New Clothes | Evgeny Morozov https://thebaffler.com/latest/capitalisms-new-clothes-morozov
Con-Culture Experts On the History and Future of Scamming - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/con-culture-experts-on-the-history-and-future-of-scamming
Tying Architecture Together: How Metal Star Bolts Bolster Old Brick Buildings - 99% Invisible https://99percentinvisible.org/article/tying-architecture-together-how-metal-star-bolts-bolster-old-brick-buildings/
Band name of the day: covington doom
Why isn’t there a King Crimson / HP Lovecraft cover band called King Saffron yet?
The (Almost) Secret Algorithm Researchers Used to Break Thousands of RSA Keys – Algorithm Soup https://algorithmsoup.wordpress.com/2019/01/15/breaking-an-unbreakable-code-part-1-the-hack/
opsec and beauty - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiRGEkFnRSvYf6gV8cncih_8W1sAoEBTH
Can’t Unsee https://cantunsee.space/
Atlas of Endangered Alphabets – Indigenous and minority writing systems, and the people who are trying to save them https://www.endangeredalphabets.net/
The Orthogonality Thesis & Ontological Crises http://humaniterations.net/2016/05/16/the-orthogonality-thesis-ontological-crises/
In the beginning was the word, and the word was embodied | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/in-the-beginning-was-the-word-and-the-word-was-embodied
’60s Children’s Music: The Appeal for Early Electronic Musicians https://tedium.co/2019/02/05/60s-electronic-music-childrens-music-history/
The Decline of Historical Thinking | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-decline-of-historical-thinking
Band name of the day: love scales
Band name of the day: his smile was the nightmare in my back pocket
Declarative Programming Pros And Cons | Toptal https://www.toptal.com/software/declarative-programming
GitHub - p-e-w/ternimal: Simulate a lifeform in the terminal https://github.com/p-e-w/ternimal
Smalltalk performance and Moore’s Law https://www.mail-archive.com/kragen-tol@canonical.org/msg00185.html
Groundhog Day “ An Inescapable Premise - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSQZvAKfwvA
Roleplay, Interplay, Powerplay https://logicmag.io/06-roleplay-interplay-powerplay/
City Planning Heaven Sent - e-flux Architecture - e-flux https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/becoming-digital/248075/city-planning-heaven-sent/
The Mysterious Discipline of Narratologists: Why We Need Stories to Make Sense | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2019/01/29/the-mysterious-discipline-of-narratologists/
What a brandless brand is selling you | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/6698/brandless-brands-instagram-ads-capitalism
Knife Fights, Lockpicking, and Other Things I’ve Done to Become a Better Writer | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2019/01/31/knife-fights-lockpicking-and-other-things-ive-done-to-become-a-better-writer/
Band name of the day: aryepiglottic folds five
Band name of the day: supraglottal laryngeal constriction
Roomful of Teeth Is Revolutionizing Choral Music | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/02/11/roomful-of-teeth-is-revolutionizing-choral-music