The Art of Decision-Making | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/21/the-art-of-decision-making

Band name of the day: the awful swish

The uncanny familiar: can we ever really know a cat? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-uncanny-familiar-can-we-ever-really-know-a-cat

Why a market model is destroying the safeguards of the professions | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/why-a-market-model-is-destroying-the-safeguards-of-the-professions

Band name of the day: fish repairs

Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of cold takes by people who think they’re hot. Like, long-form explanations of how “you aren’t required to agree with film criticism” and “reading should be a pleasurable, low-pressure activity”. Am I just disconnected?

Visualising Networks of Electronic Literature: Dissertations and the Creative Works They Cite http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/visualising-networks-of-electronic-literature-dissertations-and-the-creative-works-they-cite/

Materiality and Matter and Stuff: What Electronic Texts Are Made Of http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/materiality-and-matter-and-stuff-what-electronic-texts-are-made-of/

Telling the China Story: The Rise and Rise of Chinese Science Fiction | FactorDaily https://factordaily.com/china-science-fiction/

SCROLL / NETWORK / HACK: A Poetics of ASCII Literature (1983-1989) : Joel Katelnikoff : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/Katelnikoff_Joel_Fall-202013

Band name of the day: electric gremlin

302 Found https://towardsdatascience.com/neural-networks-and-philosophy-of-language-31c34c0796da

Bad idea of the day: Evangelion fanfiction in the form of Kaji’s hand-annotated copy of a Fire in the Valley style popular history of the development of Tokyo-3, casting Gendo as an Elon Musk type figure.

At long last, it’s done! Manna for our Malices is available on a pay-what-you-want basis until early February (to coincide with the planned Steam launch): https://enkiv2.itch.io/manna-for-our-malices

I’m finishing development on Manna for our Malices now, streaming on http://twitch.tv/enkiv2

I’m currently streaming the last push on developing Manna for our Malices, the game I’ve been working on for 1.5 years: https://www.twitch.tv/enkiv2

Ever notice how the opening theme to Space Battleship Yamato has the same plot as The Final Countdown.

Cutie Honey opening (1973) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCX77Je16fk

Crafted Logic | Irene PoschIrene Posch http://www.ireneposch.net/crafted-logic/

LET THE CORPSES TAN is a Dizzying Bit of Sun-Baked Surrealism (Review) | Nerdist https://nerdist.com/let-the-corpses-tan-is-a-dizzying-bit-of-sun-baked-surrealism-review/

The History of Italian Thrillers’ Ridiculously Twisted Plots | Nerdist https://nerdist.com/giallo-italian-thrillers-ridiculously-twisted-plots/

Tooling (in progress) | Irene PoschIrene Posch http://www.ireneposch.net/tooling/

Giallo Is the Horror Subgenre You Need to Explore | Nerdist https://nerdist.com/giallo-horror-subgenre-need-to-explore/

The Embroidered Computer | Irene PoschIrene Posch http://www.ireneposch.net/the-embroidered-computer/

QOTD: “No notation without denotation”

Controlled natural language - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_natural_language

Band name of the day: swegdropa

Old English Computer Glossary http://www.u.arizona.edu/~ctb/wordhord.html

josef: “biggest problem with computers is they’re still d…” - Mastodon https://mastodon.social/@jk/593197

Dr. Edward Morbius ⭕: “TIL: You can run a crude-and-simple Internet Arc…” - mastodon.cloud https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/101391501109425841

Rain 🚱: “#rust iterators are sooo much nicer to write than…” - Cybrespace https://cybre.space/@grainloom/101379206180624438

Modernist Microfiche Minotaur : “‘User agent’ is a great idea that has been weirdl…” - Eldritch Café https://eldritch.cafe/@/101360959314313478

Band name of the day: endless expansion of wants

C+J Slep https://cjslep.com/c/blog/an-activitypub-philosophy

Social networks, the old way - enpo.no https://enpo.no/2019/2019-01-10-social-networks-the-old-way.html

Giles Bowkett: How Vim Shaped My Writing http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2016/10/how-vim-shaped-my-writing.html

Band name of the day: the wonderful game of vomit

Band name of the day: wondersnake

Since it’s friday, if I have the energy, after work I’ll stream my final push on finishing implementing MfoM. Y’know, in case anybody wants to watch me write ‘code’ that’s actually mostly dialogue.

Band name of the day: meat scientists

The best anime of 2018 have something in common: they take something already done, & do it confidently, with craft, and in a more laid-back & less frenetic way.

At the risk of opening 20 year old wounds, the academic flamewar this article is part of is fascinating & educational, & I wish I understood it better: http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/cybertext-theory-what-an-english-professor-should-know-before-trying/

A Bestiary of Player Agency | These Heterogenous Tasks https://heterogenoustasks.wordpress.com/2014/09/22/a-bestiary-of-player-agency/

Erik Kwakkel • Six books, one binding http://erikkwakkel.tumblr.com/post/74300240443/six-books-one-binding-heres-something-special

The good news about elderly people sharing so much fake news - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/10/18176162/fake-news-old-people-nyu-study-silver-lining

automate capitalists out of a job

Bad idea of the day: A shuffle-novel in the form of an oracle deck, with strange or absurd predictions & the premise that it is describing the life of the parallel version of the reader who lives in the world described by the deck.

Shuffle Literature and the Hand of Fate http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/shuffle-literature-and-the-hand-of-fate/

Why Can’t We Tip Amazon Warehouse Workers? http://www.miraclejones.com/essays/why-cant-we-tip-amazon-warehouse-workers.html

Not Exactly Mailbag: Worldbuilding from a Mechanic | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2018/03/13/not-exactly-mailbag-worldbuilding-from-a-mechanic/

Band name of the day: we regret the error

thread(3) - Plan 9 from User Space https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/man/man3/thread.html

Flow-based Programming :: Comparison http://www.jpaulmorrison.com/fbp/noflo.html

Goodbye Facebook https://jasongullickson.com/posts/goodbye-facebook/

Looking at 1995’s Netiquette… in 2019. - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YMbyuO8x4A

Democratize the Internet Now! | The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/133889/reboot-world

Native talk https://via.hypothes.is/https://gozala.hashbase.io/posts/Native%20talk.html

The LaTeX fetish (Or: Don’t write in LaTeX! It’s just for typesetting) – Daniel Allington http://www.danielallington.net/2016/09/the-latex-fetish/

Cory Doctorow: Disruption for Thee, But Not for Me – Locus Online http://locusmag.com/2019/01/cory-doctorow-disruption-for-thee-but-not-for-me/

Senrio Blog - Senrio https://blog.senr.io/blog/impervious-implants-splintery-supply-chains

Modchips - Trammell Hudson’s Projects https://trmm.net/Modchips

GitHub - sharkdp/hexyl: A command-line hex viewer https://github.com/sharkdp/hexyl

Band name of the day: new-metal class

Band name of the day: false and defamatory

Band name of the day: unreasonably dangerous

Graphs are to categories as lists are to monoids https://alhassy.github.io/PathCat/

Brannock Device History: A Machine That Measures Feet https://tedium.co/2019/01/08/brannock-device-history-foot-measurement/

Band name of the day: science weekends

Band name of the day: bespoke ennui

We can try to define intellectual constructs as having ‘nothing but essence’ but maybe we should take a page out of Guy Debord’s book and say they are ‘nothing but appearance’. They can appear in contradictory ways because there’s no underlying structure.

Band name of the day: rejecting the natural

Band name of the day: the becoming-electron

Band name of the day: a politics for alienation

Band name of the day: small crimes

SUN RA: NEVER A PART OF THIS PLANET https://pleasekillme.com/sun-ra/

Of Predictive Algorithms and Emojis | A Future Worth Thinking About http://www.afutureworththinkingabout.com/?p=5345

An Alternative Taxonomy for Interactive Stories | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2011/05/03/an-alternative-taxonomy-for-interactive-stories/

Vurt (Core Rulebook) – The Rat Hole http://therathole.ca/vurt-core-rulebook/

Plot-shaped Level Design | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2016/05/18/plot-shaped-level-design/

Beyond Branching: Quality-Based, Salience-Based, and Waypoint Narrative Structures | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2016/04/12/beyond-branching-quality-based-and-salience-based-narrative-structures/

Card-Deck Narratives | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2016/05/03/card-deck-narratives/

An Incomplete List of Things I’d Need to Know In Order Not to Be A Total Impostor | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2018/09/02/an-incomplete-list-of-things-id-need-to-know-in-order-not-to-be-a-complete-impostor/

Successful Reflective Choices in Interactive Narrative – catacalypto https://catacalypto.wordpress.com/2018/06/19/successful-reflective-choices-in-interactive-narrative/

Success criteria for the PC 2.0 era “ Aral Balkan https://ar.al/2019/01/09/success-criteria-for-the-pc-2.0-era/

The post-Web is single tenant “ Aral Balkan https://ar.al/2019/01/09/the-post-web-is-single-tenant/

Mailbag: Self-Training in Narrative Design | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2019/01/08/mailbag-self-training-in-narrative-design/

Band name of the day: adorable ice cream crisis

Do You Want Typography or Do You Want The Truth https://walkerart.org/magazine/erik-carter-op-ed-do-you-want-typography-or-do-you-want-the-truth

J.G. Ballard’s Experimental Text Collages: His 1958 Foray into Avant-Garde Literature | Open Culture http://www.openculture.com/2016/09/j-g-ballards-experimental-text-collages.html

People have said to me that an electron is a probability distribution. Is this true, a simplification, an artifact of measurement, misleading, a nomenclature issue, or what?

Band name of the day: the ends of sleep

”[The internet] never made it [to] Stage C […]. A truly networked cosmopolitanism needs to be more distributed. It can be local without being parochial” - James Bridle in https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/506/State-of-the-World-2019-page02.html#post30

Periodic reminder: I’m running a no-budget film contest again this year https://medium.com/p/announcing-the-2019-no-budget-film-contest-d7eb339a3ed5

The ‘if Y is every X then Y is no X’ snowclone is rarely true, and when it is true, there’s often nothing wrong with the resulting state…

I love books about the history of tech, but no matter how well-researched, they’re typically mostly a documentation of tech’s mythology (or some countermythology). I prefer the countermythographies.

404 Page Not Found | Kate Wagner https://thebaffler.com/salvos/404-page-not-found-wagner

We need an ‘AI sidekick’ to fight malicious AI https://thenextweb.com/syndication/2019/01/08/we-need-an-ai-sidekick-to-fight-malicious-ai/

Another take on the ‘user agent’: https://thenextweb.com/syndication/2019/01/08/we-need-an-ai-sidekick-to-fight-malicious-ai/

18th-century business women – trade cards – All Things Georgian https://georgianera.wordpress.com/2018/07/26/18th-century-business-women-trade-cards/

So, I’m working on a fediverse client based on https://web.archive.org/web/20190101185657/https://jfm.carcosa.net/blog/computing/usenet/ ; it’s here: https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/fern . It is currently read-only, but it has read history.