How Early Humans Handled Aggression - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/how-humans-tamed-themselves/580447/

Patchwork Epistemologies (Part 4): Warped by Language – xenogothic https://xenogothic.com/2019/01/30/patchwork-epistemologies-part-4-warped-by-language/

Picat http://picat-lang.org/

Building A “Simple” Distributed System - Formal Verification — Jack Vanlightly https://jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2019/1/27/building-a-simple-distributed-system-formal-verification

Don’t Toss That Bulb, It Knows Your Password | Hackaday https://hackaday.com/2019/01/29/dont-toss-that-bulb-it-knows-your-password/

Band name of the day: skull cult

Eyeo 2013 - Karsten Schmidt on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/70457659

Programming paradigms for dummies: what every programmer should know | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/01/25/programming-paradigms-for-dummies-what-every-programmer-should-know/

Band name of the day: the gentle art of making enemies

Band name of the day: the entrails of a brass angel

Band name of the day: time salivating on a reed

Band name of the day: the taint of the unwashed horn

The Messy Truth About Infiltrating Computer Supply Chains https://theintercept.com/2019/01/24/computer-supply-chain-attacks/

What existentialist philosophy reveals about prejudices | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/what-existentialist-philosophy-reveals-about-prejudices

Band name of the day: mojave megaphone

Band name of the day: magma oceans

Extremist Programming : Inside 245-5D http://blog.ezyang.com/2012/11/extremist-programming/

Editions https://qz.com/1533143/the-best-way-to-use-social-media-is-to-act-like-a-19th-century-parisian/

Explorable Explanations https://explorabl.es/

Almost all the content I post to social media is posted by a small shell script that simultaneously posts to several services or through IFTTT duplicating those posts to services for which I lack an API key. When facebook broke automated posting, it meant my account went dark. I didn’t notice.

Responses to my essay ‘Tech’s Masturbatory Historiography’ make me think that most people reading it don’t know what ‘historiography’ means. (It’s exactly what it sounds like…)

This is math-heavy but the idea that ‘keys are meta-taxonomic dimensions’ reminds me of ZigZag & other elements make me think of parallel prolog-likes like mycroft – should re-read carefully later: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2009002_qod.pdf

Apparently, when I pitched the idea of replacing backtracking with forking (with lazy side effecting of course) a ~year ago, I was reinventing STEPS work from 2008: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/rn2008003_john.pdf

Some good info about Croquet: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2003001_croq_collab.pdf http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2004002_croq_men.pdf

In case anybody wants to implement their own homebrew NeoGeo games: http://www.hardmvs.fr/manuals/NeoGeoProgrammersGuide.pdf

Band name of the day: snake gym

Interesting idea: create a search-by-meaning for functions using the memoization database http://www.vpri.org/pdf/rn2017002_memoization.pdf

Viewpoints http://www.vpri.org/writings.php

Who, the People? | Astra Taylor https://thebaffler.com/salvos/who-the-people-taylor

Band name of the day: mouse studies

GitHub - joelparkerhenderson/queueing_theory: Queueing theory: an introduction for software development https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/queueing_theory

Band name of the day: dream control

Transactional memory, immediate-mode structured graphics, serialization, backtracking, and parsing — Write.as https://write.as/s7f1ywj0jh735

Outperforming everything with anything https://wordsandbuttons.online/outperforming_everything_with_anything.html

Occupy Babel! http://langsec.org/occupy/

GitHub - rain-1/single_cream: single file scheme interpreter with tail call optimization https://github.com/rain-1/single_cream

samurai bodega cats

Forget voting “ it’s time to start choosing our leaders by lottery | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/forget-voting-it-s-time-to-start-choosing-our-leaders-by-lottery

When Good Engineers Write Bad Software - IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/reviews/when-good-engineers-write-bad-software

“Something Runs Through The Whole Thread” https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/12/07/something-runs-through-the-whole-thread/

Device ‘Ownership’ Is a Civil Liberties Issue | Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01/device-ownership-civil-liberties-issue

In the sunken and forgotten city, Senpai lies not dead but dreaming, as blissfully unaware of mankind’s rise above as that of other prior races. We have just begun to meddle in forces that may cause Senpai to notice us for the first time, and rise.

Pray that Senpai will never notice you, because that way lies only disappointment

I would watch the living fuck out of ‘Cheerleader Samurai vs Megaton Shark’ tbh

Is it really conspiracy theory if it incites praxis?

Is it really conspiracy theory if p>0.05?

Is it really conspiracy theory if you don’t declare a null hypothesis?

Is it really conspiracy theory if you don’t quote Baudrillard at least once?

New Media and the Recurring Crisis of Norms | L.M. Sacasas https://thefrailestthing.com/2019/01/03/new-media-and-the-recurring-crisis-of-norms/

Band name of the day: microtargetted for cowardice

Band name of the day: fecal force fountain

In case anybody is wondering what ‘Double Mojo’ (the name I released MfoM under) means, it’s from Save the Cat, & is also called ‘black vet’. Most movies have a hook based on a juxtaposition of two elements. Double Mojo is when you juxtapose with another juxtaposition.

» Life on the Grid The Digital Antiquarian https://www.filfre.net/2019/01/life-on-the-grid/

One of the ideas I was playing with in MfoM was the distinction between player & player character with a ‘possession’ metaphor, & how that relates to the time loop. I didn’t go so far with it. Maybe in Book of the Damned I’ll have the player be a possessing-spirit.

Band name of the day: the nameless adventurer

Fretting the Player Character http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/fretting-the-player-character/

Band name of the day: plagiotropia

Legal standards invoke the ‘reasonable person’. Who is it? | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/legal-standards-invoke-the-reasonable-person-who-is-it

The Plot Against the Principality of Sealand https://narratively.com/the-plot-against-the-principality-of-sealand/

Autograms: Self-enumerating Sentences http://autograms.net/

GitHub - ktye/iv: APL interpreter and stream processor https://github.com/ktye/iv

Sad by design | Eurozine https://www.eurozine.com/sad-by-design/

Magnet Finge.rs https://magnetfinge.rs/

The Left Hemisphere http://www.shardcore.org/lh/the_left_hemisphere/

Shodan Safari, where hackers heckle the worst devices put on the internet – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/21/shodan-safari/

Concurrent objects and SCOOP – Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programmers https://www.sicpers.info/2018/11/concurrent-objects-and-scoop/

Cleanroom Software Engineering | Dr Dobb’s http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/cleanroom-software-engineering/184405405

Super-Patriotic Anime Youth Wars! – Foreign Policy https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/01/23/super-patriotic-anime-youth-wars-china-japan-pop-culture/

Punpedia – The Online Encyclopedia of Puns https://punpedia.org/

pocket spite

YouTube Is Still Struggling To Rein In Its Recommendation Algorithm https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/down-youtubes-recommendation-rabbithole

Band name of the day: trick snake radio

Band name of the day: embryonic teeth

Tracker - heropunch https://heropunch.io/Tracker

The MITRE Corporation’s project to use Chomsky’s linguistics for their weapons systems — Science and Revolution http://scienceandrevolution.org/blog/2018/1/28/the-mitre-corporations-project-to-use-chomskys-linguistics-for-their-weapons-systems

Trapped in a hoax: survivors of conspiracy theories speak out | Technology | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/23/conspiracy-theories-internet-survivors-truth

Spicy take: unless you have personally vetted all the code on it, you should not allow your voice assistant to access the internet.

Nearly half of game developers want to unionize https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/24/nearly-half-of-game-developers-want-to-unionize/

Band name of the day: teleforce

The New Social Media – nadreck.me https://nadreck.me/2019/01/the-new-social-media/

Trivia: Warren Ellis was asked to play Jeff Minter’s part in Bandersnatch, which would have also been very cool.

Literature from Page to Interface: The Treatments of Text in Christophe Bruno’s Iterature http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/literature-from-page-to-interface-the-treatments-of-text-in-christophe-brunos-iterature/

Update: scans of early RFCs — 365 RFCs https://write.as/365-rfcs/update-scans-of-early-rfcs

Band name of the day: three fisted space detective

Mathematical and Puzzle Fonts/Typefaces http://erikdemaine.org/fonts/

Band name of the day: immortal milk

Band name of the day: global seismic event

Is Spotify’s Model Wiping Out Music’s Middle Class? - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/tech/2019/1/16/18184314/spotify-music-streaming-service-royalty-payout-model

Extending Interactivity – Creatures of Thought https://technicshistory.wordpress.com/2019/01/24/extending-interactivity/

Teletext graphics characters among those added to Unicode – Teletext Art http://teletextart.co.uk/teletext-graphics-characters-among-those-added-to-unicode

The Web is Made of Edge Cases by Taylor Hunt on CodePen https://codepen.io/tigt/post/the-web-is-made-of-edge-cases

Notes from a 1984 trip to Xerox PARC https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2019/01/notes-from-1984-trip-to-xerox-parc.html

Band name of the day: the dark lottery

Band name of the day: the murder trust

Band name of the day: tame rave

What is truth? On Ramsey, Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/what-is-truth-on-ramsey-wittgenstein-and-the-vienna-circle

Arborists Have Cloned Ancient Redwoods From Their Massive Stumps - Yale E360 https://e360.yale.edu/digest/arborists-have-cloned-ancient-redwoods-from-their-massive-stumps

Hackers hijack thousands of Chromecasts to warn of latest security bug – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/02/chromecast-bug-hackers-havoc/

USA Wants to Restrict AI Exports: A Stupid and Dangerous Idea – Lauren Weinstein’s Blog https://lauren.vortex.com/2019/01/02/usa-wants-to-restrict-ai-exports-a-stupid-and-dangerous-idea

GitHub - rvanasa/funqy: FunQy - A high-level hybrid quantum programming language https://github.com/rvanasa/funqy