I wrote a proposal for a high-performance OSMIC backend: https://medium.com/@/proposal-for-a-high-performance-storage-system-for-osmic-branching-histories-7cb324c7df2d?source=friends_link&sk=40fc22e94810bd20995286d1f8815a6c but it occurs to me that I don’t have a good intro to OSMIC so that’s next.
RFC-5 — 365 RFCs https://write.as/365-rfcs/rfc-5
People become what they can imagine becoming, & access to tools has as much to do with this as representation. If it’s easy to fall into programming accidentally, then it’s easy to imagine yourself programming regularly.
Trendism follows the logic of capital. The more capital you have, the less risk any investment is & the more you stand to gain from it. Given a diverse portfolio, a large investment will grow while a small one disappears: capital’s gravity at work.
A flat landscape (i.e., one where connection between any two people is as easy as any two other people) breaks the limiters on preferential attachment, expanding the head on the popularity distribution. Trendism accelerates this.
Bad idea of the day: International ‘journalist exchange’ agreements – newspapers in different countries have an arrangement where they’ll trade journalists periodically & reprint each other’s stories in translation, by entering into clubs.
cassette girls video project - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf5-xRIekkU
★ Ｃａ”“ｅ”“ｅ Ｇｉ’ｌ ★ - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjJtb9HxmwU
So there is a ‘Thing on the Fourbleboard’ anime, sort of: Wasurenagumo.
ArtStation - Tim Razumovsky https://www.artstation.com/timrazumovsky
‘Q’ the end credits for the internet’s lamest conspiracy theory | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/6883/qanon-conspiracy-theory-end-times
Subpixel Text Encoding - msarnoff.org http://www.msarnoff.org/millitext/
The great Lisp and Smalltalk systems are designed from the ground up with the as… | Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16586347
Constructing Exocortices with Huginn and Halo https://drwho.virtadpt.net/files/HOPE_XI-constructing_exocortices.html#slide4
About Hyperscope - Doug Engelbart Institute http://dougengelbart.org/content/view/154/86/
35C3 - Scuttlebutt - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSWWkzsHhjk
Rhizomes, Why Artists and Activists Should Care about Crabgrass | Blue Stool #19 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou_yikwW15o
Literate Programming in the Large - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av0PQDVTP4A
Underclocking the ESP8266 Leads To WiFi Weirdness | Hackaday https://hackaday.com/2019/01/04/underclocking-the-esp8266-leads-to-wifi-weirdness/
Notes on Floppy Disks https://extrapages.de/archives/20190102-Floppy-notes.html
Handmade Computer · Avant.org http://avant.org/thread/handmade-computer/
Questioning the Logic of Capital: A Conversation With Richard D. Wolff https://truthout.org/articles/questioning-the-logic-of-capital-a-conversation-with-richard-d-wolff/
Neal Stephenson: “Anathem” | Talks at Google - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnq-2BJwatE
Bruce Sterling - The dark side impacts of IT on society - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndU_WQOj0_k
Bruce Sterling. Lecture “The epic struggle of the internet of things” - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2QcsPi1uX4
3 of 3 - A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari - Illustrated Audiobook - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws2b5aOhrdA
2 - A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari - Illustrated Audiobook - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7ZQ5HRntHo
Band name of the day: flaylord
Write your Own Virtual Machine https://justinmeiners.github.io/lc3-vm/
Vintage Tech: Learn While You Sleep (Hypnopaedia) - Believer Magazine https://believermag.com/logger/vintage-tech-3/
Band name of the day: murdermap
This is an interesting take, but the author fails to note that the primary result of speculation is fantasy – i.e., price deviation from ‘natural’ value: https://meltingasphalt.com/wealth-the-toxic-byproduct/
Proto-internet trolls’: Johann Friedrich Struensee and freedom of expression in 18th century Denmark - European studies blog https://blogs.bl.uk/european/2018/06/johann-friedrich-struensee.html
Band name of the day: machinic assemblages
Band name of the day: the only way out is grass
Band name of the day: rank growth
Email icon https://www.topic.com/giant-mirrors-ocean-whitening-here-s-how-exxon-wanted-to-save-the-planet
Here’s the Dark Enlightenment Explainer You Never Wanted https://breakermag.com/heres-the-dark-enlightenment-explainer-you-never-wanted/
Your Ideal Therapist Might Not Be Human | Outside Online https://www.outsideonline.com/2377756/woebot-therapy-artificial-emotional-intelligence
Enlightenment can be yours for just $10 | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/6889/school-of-practical-philosophy-philosophy-works-new-york-subway-ad
The YouTube Algorithm’s Strange, Soothing Power | SPIN https://www.spin.com/featured/youtube-algorithm-music-essay-ambient-hiroshi-yoshimura-midori-takada/
Band name of the day: oat milk shortage
Slaying the Snark: what nonsense verse tells us about reality | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/slaying-the-snark-what-nonsense-verse-tells-us-about-reality
Walt Disney’s Public Domain Works https://tedium.co/2019/01/03/public-domain-disney/
The real story behind Margot Robbie’s wild Queen Elizabeth I makeup. https://slate.com/technology/2018/12/queen-elizabeth-makeup-margot-robbie-mary-queen-of-scots-real-story.html
The World through the Eyes of the US https://pudding.cool/2018/12/countries/
Spreadsheets are dead, long live reactive programming environments! : Stencila https://stenci.la/blog/introducing-sheets/
Pickup™ turns romance into a commodity for male consumption | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/pickuptm-turns-romance-into-a-commodity-for-male-consumption
The Rand Corporation: The Think Tank That Controls America | Mental Floss http://mentalfloss.com/article/22120/rand-corporation-think-tank-controls-america
Atheists vs religious belief, with Wittgenstein on the stand | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/atheists-vs-religious-belief-with-wittgenstein-on-the-stand
Annual Bibliography of Anime and Manga Studies “ 2019 | Anime and Manga Studies https://animemangastudies.wordpress.com/bibliographies/2019-bibliography/
The Most Expensive One-byte Mistake - ACM Queue https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2010365
The Changeling & Don’t Look Now are on shudder now so it’s your opportunity to see ‘em. They’re both great & long out of print.
1 - A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari - Illustrated Audiobook - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XYc2scuJrI
Cruel Angel Thesis (No lead Vocals) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq4xkHNSuYQ
Watching these featurettes about Bandersnatch & the bits that they’re making out to be a big deal or super difficult are the ones I (and every other VN dev) do all the time. Meanwhile, they barely mention working with actors & shit.
Donald Knuth: “The Art of Computer Programming: Satisfiability and Combinatorics” - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4lhrVPDUG0
Introduction to PROLOG - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHLfeGN5OMk
Feel It Still - Portugal The Man (‘60s “Mr. Postman” Style Cover) ft. Joey, Adanna, Nina Ann - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoBlp6qvFqg
Artist Profile: Jakob Kudsk Steensen | Rhizome https://rhizome.org/editorial/2018/dec/14/artist-profile-jakob-kudsk-steensen/
genart/hsh.js at master · flpvsk/genart · GitHub https://github.com/flpvsk/genart/blob/master/hsh.js
GitHub - divan/txqr: Transfer data via animated QR codes https://github.com/divan/txqr
Picture of corpus collosum labelled ‘you may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like’
Life hack: for your ‘best articles of the year’ list, just post all the articles that had the least traffic. People are gonna disagree with your ranking anyway so just flatten that curve. Finding gems in that dross is inevitable.
Improved Mitochondrial Function in Brain Aging and Alzheimer Disease “ the New Mechanism of Action of the Old Metabolic Enhancer Piracetam https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2944646/
Band name of the day: newdark hotpeace
Band name of the day: night parrots
PKD in his novels had this underground comix sensibility, which meant that even by 50s standards the tech, fashion, & language was goofy. No film adaptation has preserved this better than Total Recall.
The ABCs of Jacobin - Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/special_report/the-abcs-of-jacobin-socialist-magazine.php/
Algorithms by Jeff Erickson http://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/
Workstation History and the Augmented Knowledge Workshop - 1985 (AUGMENT,101931,) - Doug Engelbart Institute http://dougengelbart.org/content/view/112/000/
NLS/Augment - Doug Engelbart Institute http://www.dougengelbart.org/content/view/155/87/
RFC-2 — 365 RFCs https://write.as/365-rfcs/rfc-2
RFC-1 — 365 RFCs https://write.as/365-rfcs/rfc-1
How ‘Hobbit Camps’ Rebirthed Italian Fascism - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hobbit-camps-fascism-italy
Over 20 years after AUM terror, cults in Japan still seeking to recruit youths - The Mainichi https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20180727/p2a/00m/0na/022000c
The Anime Cult - The Mike Toole Show - Anime News Network https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/the-mike-toole-show/2015-12-13/.96470
How should we evaluate progress in AI? | Meaningness https://meaningness.com/metablog/artificial-intelligence-progress
Machine Learning Meets Interactive Stories “ Mark Riedl ” Medium https://medium.com/@mark_riedl/machine-learning-meets-interactive-stories-2cd74f8d6fbe
Band name of the day: meat in film
Kieron Gillen’s Comic ‘Die’ Is About A Tabletop RPG Gone Wrong https://kotaku.com/kieron-gillens-new-comic-is-about-the-sad-mess-of-rpgs-1831441119
Luigi Moretti’s Structures and Sequences of Spaces (1952) “ SOCKS http://socks-studio.com/2018/12/09/luigi-morettis-structures-and-sequences-of-spaces/
The WELL: State of the World 2019 https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/506/State-of-the-World-2019-page01.html
Is the plural of corpus collosum ‘corpora collosa’?
I documented what I’m trying to do with MfoM, so that I can write a proper postmortem later: https://medium.com/@/mfom-pre-postmortem-92683b15ff2c
Current map of the plot of MfoM: http://www.lord-enki.net/story.png
Why You Should Start A Blog In 2019 https://tedium.co/2019/01/01/2019-independent-blogging-trends/
The Men Peddling the ‘Secrets’ to Getting Rich on Amazon - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/men-peddling-secrets-getting-rich-amazon/578443/
Saving space junk, our cultural heritage in orbit https://theconversation.com/saving-space-junk-our-cultural-heritage-in-orbit-6025
I broke down my new year’s tarot spreads: http://enki2.tumblr.com/post/181624807399/a-tarot-reading-for-the-new-year
Notes on Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. https://lethain.com//notes-sicp/
Finite of Sense and Infinite of Thought:
A History of Computation, Logic and Algebra https://pron.github.io/computation-logic-algebra
Programmer as wizard, programmer as engineer https://www.tedinski.com/2018/03/20/wizarding-vs-engineering.html
An interesting alternative to my ‘big vs small computing’ distinction is the wizard vs engineer distinction discussed here: https://www.tedinski.com/2018/03/20/wizarding-vs-engineering.html
The Genius Person Has Always Been Sort of an Illusion http://nautil.us/blog/-the-case-against-geniuses
If you find the others on the road, kill them “ John Ohno ” Medium https://medium.com/@/if-you-find-the-others-on-the-road-kill-them-575c645ff8aa?source=friends_link&sk=3b4fca352a667dbd4dcde89c40028e31
Band name of the day: haunted mouse descendents
Manna for our Malices is story-complete. You can now play through to all endings. https://enkiv2.itch.io/manna-for-our-malices
Progress report: the current build of Manna for our Malices should actually be playable to completion. Gotta double-check, but in theory everything should be reachable. Remaining work: fill in fluff like the rest of the school day.