What Cafés Did for Liberalism | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/24/what-cafes-did-for-liberalism
The World’s Writing Systems http://www.worldswritingsystems.org/
There is a bot for that | Search engine for bots https://thereisabotforthat.com/
Band name of the day: vanish those turds
Band name of the day: process s
Band name of the day: abyssal hole
Band name of the day: fetid wave of reeking death
My mother’s work in the news: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/its-ben-franklins-birthday-here-are-all-his-papers-180949400/
Band name of the day: sodden rot
A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesign/
Out of the inventions to come out of Xerox PARC, which were the most grossly caricatured by others and which were t… https://www.quora.com/Out-of-the-inventions-to-come-out-of-Xerox-PARC-which-were-the-most-grossly-caricatured-by-others-and-which-were-the-most-thoughtfully-done
To what extent did the Xerox PARC Alto inspire the Apple Macintosh? - Quora https://www.quora.com/To-what-extent-did-the-Xerox-PARC-Alto-inspire-the-Apple-Macintosh
Alan Kay’s answer to Was the Xerox Alto a prototype or a finished product? - Quora https://www.quora.com/Was-the-Xerox-Alto-a-prototype-or-a-finished-product-1/answer/Alan-Kay-11?share=1
Band name of the day: making strange
Interactive Fiction http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/interactive-fiction/
Band name of the day: resident monitor
Band name of the day: joy sparks
It’s probably a mistake to believe we know what ‘human nature’ entails & how consistent or flexible it is.
The WELL: State of the World 2019 https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/506/State-of-the-World-2019-page03.html#post52
The Agile Labor Union http://www.metareader.org/post/agile-labor-union.html
Resisting Reduction: A Manifesto https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/resisting-reduction
[FoR&AI] The Seven Deadly Sins of Predicting the Future of AI – Rodney Brooks http://rodneybrooks.com/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-predicting-the-future-of-ai/
Technology and The Worker // Notes From Below https://notesfrombelow.org/article/technology-and-the-worker
Psychometric Profiling: Persuasion by Personality in Elections - Our Data Our Selves https://ourdataourselves.tacticaltech.org/posts/psychometric-profiling/
Evolution of the x86 context switch in Linux – MaiZure’s Projects http://www.maizure.org/projects/evolution_x86_context_switch_linux/index.html
GitHub - colinmorris/reddit-dubious-spelling: Analyzing words Redditors aren’t sure how to spell https://github.com/colinmorris/reddit-dubious-spelling
Live every day like you are a background character in Mob Psycho 100.
Live every day like you are a credited but unnamed character who appears in exactly one scene in a David Lynch movie.
Sublime Latency and Viral Premediation http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/sublime-latency-and-viral-premediation/
Band name of the day: research on the artificial production of monstrosity
Band name of the day: the ice disk phenomenon
The Route of a Text Message – the scottbot irregular https://scottbot.net/the-route-of-a-text-message/
Band name of the day: touch slop
Cybertext Killed the Hypertext Star http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/cybertext-killed-the-hypertext-star/
Band name of the day: hot ergodic cybertext
Band name of the day: penetrating sounds
I Wrote 100 Terrible Stories That I’m Glad You’ll Never Read https://io9.gizmodo.com/5870146/i-wrote-100-terrible-short-stories-that-im-glad-youll-never-read
What would a world without pushbuttons look like? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/what-would-a-world-without-pushbuttons-look-like
Band name of the day: the new margarine
Facebook Algorithms and Personal Data | Pew Research Center http://www.pewinternet.org/2019/01/16/facebook-algorithms-and-personal-data/
Band name of the day: embodied logic
When YouTube Red-Pills the Love of Your Life - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/youtube-red-pill-men-right-wing-hate-radicalization
Consolation Prizes | Alex Pareene https://thebaffler.com/salvos/consolation-prizes-pareene
Band name of the day: the impossible screw
Putting Your Worst Foot Forward: Why You Should Play to Your Weaknesses as an Author | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2019/01/09/putting-your-worst-foot-forward-why-you-should-play-to-your-weaknesses-as-an-author/
Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/thieves-of-experience-how-google-and-facebook-corrupted-capitalism/
Band name of the day: easy watch
A thing I’ve learned: if you’re submitting a game to steam & you’re not sure if it should count as ‘mature content’, err on the side of ‘no’, because if you describe the content & they don’t think it’s mature enough they’ll assume there’s unmentioned/hidden nudity & won’t let you release it
GitHub - Ghadjeres/Anticipation-RNN: Code of the Anticipation-RNN paper by Hadjeres and Nielsen https://github.com/Ghadjeres/Anticipation-RNN
AdvX 2018 - Jon Ingold - Sparkling Dialogue: A Masterclass - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vRfNtvFVRo
Band name of the day: the ultimate power in controlled telepathy
Discussing Isekai, Part 2: How Isekai Imagine Power - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCJesuBHR-g
The Great Chlorophyll Fad of 1952 https://tedium.co/2019/01/15/1950s-chlorophyll-fad-history/
Band name of the day: experiments upon vegetables
Exposing Floating Point “ Bartosz Ciechanowski https://ciechanow.ski/exposing-floating-point/
Band name of the day: how to grow living skyscrapers
The Rise and Demise of RSS - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3mm4z/the-rise-and-demise-of-rss
Elsevier journal editors resign, start rival open-access journal https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/01/14/elsevier-journal-editors-resign-start-rival-open-access-journal
The WELL: State of the World 2019 https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/506/State-of-the-World-2019-page02.html#post46
Cultural Criticism and The Politics of Selling Out http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/cultural-criticism-and-the-politics-of-selling-out/
Histories of the Present http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/histories-of-the-present/
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The Hope In Dystopia – MORNING, COMPUTER http://morning.computer/2019/01/the-hope-in-dystopia/
Band name of the day: flame photometer
Band name of the day: rot appeared betwitching
Band name of the day: the coffee brake
E-Literary Text in the Nomadic Cockpit http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/e-literary-text-in-the-nomadic-cockpit/
Literary Texts as Cognitive Assemblages: The Case of Electronic Literature http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/literary-texts-as-cognitive-assemblages-the-case-of-electronic-literature/
The Assimilation of Text by Image http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/the-assimilation-of-text-by-image/
Engineering Cyborg Ideology http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/engineering-cyborg-ideology/
Loper OS » The Book http://www.loper-os.org/?p=13
Functional programming books overview http://alexott.net/en/fp/books/#sec12
fogus: Some Lisp books (and then some) http://blog.fogus.me/2012/07/25/some-lisp-books-and-then-some/
Band name of the day: the incitements of friendship
How experimental psychology can help us understand art | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-experimental-psychology-can-help-us-understand-art
Band name of the day: invented forgeries
Not All Choice Interfaces Are Alike | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2016/05/25/not-all-choice-interfaces-are-alike/
Making Interactive Fiction: Branching Choices - sub-Q Magazine https://sub-q.com/making-interactive-fiction-branching-choices/
Understanding Generic Cell Rate Limiting - cat /dev/brain https://blog.ian.stapletoncordasco.com/2018/12/understanding-generic-cell-rate-limiting.html
Designing Our Disciplines in a Postmodern Age – and Academy http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/designing-our-disciplines-in-a-postmodern-age-and-academy/
Search https://qz.com/1519774/amazon-became-the-most-valuable-company-in-the-world-by-standing-for-nothing/
The internet, but not as we know it: life online in China, Russia, Cuba and India | Technology | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2019/jan/11/the-internet-but-not-as-we-know-it-life-online-in-china-russia-cuba-and-india
Can Scientists Do TV? http://nautil.us/issue/68/context/how-well-forget-john-lennon
Cyberpunk derivatives - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk_derivatives
Hopepunk can’t fix our broken science fiction. https://slate.com/technology/2019/01/hopepunk-cyberpunk-solarpunk-science-fiction-broken.html
Band name of the day: central dust control
Band name of the day: beat beta
Band name of the day: lewd weld
A benefit of the OPA this article doesn’t mention: being government-made IP, OPA reports are in the public domain – and having high-quality serious PD summaries of scientific material is great. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2019/01/11/feature/why-is-congress-so-dumb/
Nice to see TBL admits DNS is centralized; I’m still skeptical that SOLID can address aspects of web tech that encourage recentralization. https://ruben.verborgh.org/articles/redecentralizing-the-web/
Getting an IBM AS/400 Midrange computer on the internet | jaeblog https://justanotherelectronicsblog.com/?p=503
The three-page paper that shook philosophy”a hacker’s perspective « the jsomers.net blog http://jsomers.net/blog/gettiers
Band name of the day: sex raft mutiny
I Tracked My Whole Life In A Google Sheet For A Year “ Here’s What I Learned - Digg http://digg.com/2019/google-sheet-personal-organization-lifehack
Band name of the day: chamber of arts and wonders
Band name of the day: rage of taste
The Ethics of Web Performance - TimKadlec.com https://timkadlec.com/remembers/2019-01-09-the-ethics-of-performance/
Manna for our Malices was accepted to Steam, & will be available on the 12th of February.
Can a bat know what it’s like to not know what it’s like to be Thomas Nagel?