White Mirror: How did Microsoft’s 2009 predictions for the world of 2019 hold up? / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/12/31/how-did-microsofts-2009-predic.html

riptide/guide.adoc at master · sagebind/riptide · GitHub https://github.com/sagebind/riptide/blob/master/docs/guide.adoc

Why conspiracy theories matter - Vox https://www.vox.com/2018/12/31/18144710/conspiracy-theories-trump-2018-qanon-soros-false-flags

Unconscious Conspiracies “ Talin ” Medium https://medium.com/@dreamertalin/unconscious-conspiracies-bd4d6b38d2d6

Nihilist Dad Jokes - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/nihilist-dad-jokes

I guess it was only a matter of time until Netflix got into the red-hot FMV Game market.

Band name of the day: night shells

GAIJIN RIDER - Yanki and Bosozoku Culture… An Outsider looks in http://gaijinrider.altervista.org/Articles/ARTICLES_Yanki_and_Bosozoku_Origins.html

Anybody have a good reference for japanese subcultures from the 60s to the 80s with images of the fashion? I’m trying to remember the name of a kind of non-bosozoku predecessor of the yanki…

On Cybernetics / Stafford Beer - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_bXlEvygHg

Dave Snowden | How not to manage complexity | State of the Net 2013 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaFQJaQTXhY

Paranoia Agent and Learned Helplessness - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkZ9-PP4HHM

Making Your Villain the Main Character - SSSS.Gridman - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuSTZx_IuhM

Dissecting Log Horizon: The Burger That Changed The World [Pt. 3] - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udB9CYNRkH8

The Craft of Text Editing https://www.finseth.com/craft/

Writing with the machine https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/writing-with-the-machine/

Expressive temperature https://www.robinsloan.com/expressive-temperature/

Dancing the flip-flop https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/flip-flop/

Very Slow Movie Player “ Bryan Boyer ” Medium https://medium.com/@bryan/very-slow-movie-player-499f76c48b62

Finally Finish Something 2019 - itch.io https://itch.io/jam/finally-finish-something-2019

Can black-footed cats interbreed with domestic cats?

Band name of the day: the viscera

Tedium Trends 2019: Copyright Law is Shifting https://tedium.co/2018/12/27/tedium-trends-2019/

Folding Ideas - End of Eva Follow Up - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTAQhgXD75I

Folding Ideas - End of Evangelion and the Audience Author Membrane - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAMAwErYRpQ

The Curse of Evangelion - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHIvs0Q-uKI

In Defense of the Elevator Scene from Evangelion - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNLA_TxBvi8

Evangelion - I feel Sick - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbK2aTrVRGs

social_media_design | How should names work in a distributed system? A suggestion for a context-aware petname approach https://social-media-design.dreamwidth.org/886.html

~alcinnz/memex - sr.ht git https://git.sr.ht/~alcinnz/memex

Folks, journalists don’t even get to write their own headlines. If I get one more person telling me it’s hypocritical to write an article criticizing tracking on a site that has cookies, I’m gonna blow. Purity is shitty praxis: if you want to stop tracking, you need to complain on a site with tracking.

Am I the only one who thought the Bumblebee trailer was a trailer for a gritty remake of Herbie the Love Bug?

35C3 - Artistic PCB Design and Fabrication - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlynweLLpOY

Band name of the day: Pronk XL

Band name of the day: power thunk

nettime-l Nov 18 https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-1811/threads.html#00094

35C3 - LibreSilicon - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZq5Ryt3Wto

Periodic reminder that, by using third party trackers, you are paying somebody to grep their http access log instead of greping your own. So, like, maybe roll your own analytics if you need them?

Daniel Kahneman and Herbert Simon on Intuition https://fs.blog/2012/03/daniel-kahneman-on-intuition/

Sins of the Mother “ Real Life https://reallifemag.com/sins-of-the-mother/

Plausible Disavowal “ Real Life https://reallifemag.com/plausible-disavowal/

Cold Discovery “ Real Life https://reallifemag.com/cold-discovery/

The Great Recession inspired minimalism in clothes, homes, and branding - Vox https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/12/27/18156431/recession-fashion-design-minimalism

Imogen Heap on digitally connecting the world’s musicians - CNET https://www.cnet.com/news/imogen-heap-on-digitally-connecting-the-worlds-musicians-q-a/

Genesis P-Orridge: fantastic transgressor or sadistic aggressor? | Music | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/dec/10/genesis-p-orridge-throbbing-gristle

Facebook and Google’s Targeted Advertising Is Ruining the Internet and Breaking the World - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xwjden/targeted-advertising-is-ruining-the-internet-and-breaking-the-world

Economists calculate the true value of Facebook to its users in new study | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/12/economists-calculate-the-true-value-of-facebook-to-its-users-in-new-study/

How Much of the Internet Is Fake? http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/how-much-of-the-internet-is-fake.html

Open source DIY ethics https://arp242.net/weblog/diy.html

Seat Belt History: The Patent That Was Given Away https://tedium.co/2018/12/25/seat-belt-history/

Hume is the amiable, modest, generous philosopher we need today | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/hume-is-the-amiable-modest-generous-philosopher-we-need-today

The Problem with Muzak | Liz Pelly https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-problem-with-muzak-pelly

Streambait Pop | Liz Pelly https://thebaffler.com/downstream/streambait-pop-pelly

Band name of the day: spidergoat

The Tangled History of Weaving with Spider Silk | JSTOR Daily https://daily.jstor.org/the-tangled-history-of-weaving-with-spider-silk/

Band name of the day: bootleg video van

Frankincense and myrrh were not only holy but heretical too | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/frankincense-and-myrrh-were-not-only-holy-but-heretical-too

Band name of the day: sneaker bots

Pessimism about parallelism | Armed and Dangerous http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8223

Learn Prolog Now! http://www.learnprolognow.org/lpnpage.php?pageid=online

Shinto shows the debt to animism of organised religions today | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/shinto-shows-the-debt-to-animism-of-organised-religions-today

WaveFunctionCollapse/README.md at master · mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse · GitHub https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse/blob/master/README.md

Band name of the day: nucleation site

Chris’s Wiki :: blog/sysadmin/TarFindingTruncateBug https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/TarFindingTruncateBug

What’s the point of year-end roundups of the most popular articles, or sales for bestsellers? They’ve already won. Better is a year-end round-up of hidden gems – stuff that didn’t do as well as expected.

Interview: Bruce Sterling Answers Your Questions - Slashdot https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/13/12/23/157257/interview-bruce-sterling-answers-your-questions

A Survey of $RANDOM « null program https://nullprogram.com/blog/2018/12/25/

Today is bochsing day. Celebrate by migrating away from vmware and qemu.

Today is boxing day. Celebrate by watching unboxing videos in reverse.

Today is boxing day. Celebrate by casting to Object.

Today is boxing day. Celebrate by picking a fight with a kangaroo.

A History of Flavoring Food With Beaver Butt Juice - MUNCHIES https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/a3m885/a-history-of-flavoring-food-with-beaver-butt-juice

The Superheterodyne Radio: No really, that’s its name - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz_mMLhUinw

Orality & Literacy: https://kottke.org/18/01/ask-dr-time-orality-and-literacy

A Map of the World Where the Sizes of Countries Are Determined by Population https://kottke.org/18/09/a-map-of-the-world-where-the-sizes-of-countries-are-determined-by-population

Strange Days is a better christmas movie than Die Hard.

Litan (1982) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UASTaTZAdO4

A Christmas Story: A Tale of Technological Nostalgia - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4PM1MFT5mk

The Corner of Lovecraft and Ballard https://placesjournal.org/article/the-corner-of-lovecraft-and-ballard/

Screw the notional Zizek vs Peterson debate. I wanna see a Zizek vs Land debate. Or Zizek and Land debating Mark Fisher through an Ouija board. (The board doesn’t need to work. Better if it doesn’t.)

Divus | Nick Land “ An Experiment in Inhumanism http://divus.cc/london/en/article/nick-land-ein-experiment-im-inhumanismus

Take Script, Add Snow https://longreads.com/2018/12/24/take-script-add-snow/

Sci-Fi Movie Brainstorm | Natalie Wood Death https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/movies/a25654064/sci-fi-movie-brainstorm-natalie-wood-final-film/

Band name of the day: unconsolidated sediment

BIG PICTURE: ABSOLUTE UNIT - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaV5DHwyJAc

The Internet of Unprofitable Things – The ongoing struggle http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2018/12/24/the-internet-of-unprofitable-things/

We tried teaching an AI to write Christmas movie plots. Hilarity ensued. Eventually. - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612644/we-tried-teaching-an-ai-to-write-christmas-movie-plots-hilarity-ensued-eventually/

Towards the Future Book https://kottke.org/18/12/towards-the-future-book

The Wavefunction Collapse Algorithm explained very clearly | Robert Heaton https://robertheaton.com/2018/12/17/wavefunction-collapse-algorithm/

Re: code – keep throwing it away and rewriting from memory until implementing it doesn’t seem like a big deal anymore. At that point, it might be marginally OK. (Or maybe you’ve just acclimated to your failures.)

[Essay] Machine Politics by Fred Turner | Harper’s Magazine https://harpers.org/archive/2019/01/machine-politics-facebook-political-polarization/

Against Peter Jackson’s “They Shall Not Grow Old” https://kottke.org/18/12/against-peter-jacksons-they-shall-not-grow-old

GitHub - orbitdb/orbit-db: Peer-to-Peer Databases for the Decentralized Web https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-db

The year social networks were no longer social – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/23/the-year-social-networks-were-no-longer-social/

Goatlarp https://thirdeyepatch.wixsite.com/goatlarp

Celebrate X-Mas by watching: X/1999, Project X, xXx, xXx II: The Return of Xander Cage, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, X: Night of Vengance, and American History X.

How BioWare’s ‘Baldur’s Gate’ Saved the Computer RPG - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/2018/12/21/18150363/baldurs-gate-bioware-1998-video-games

What to write with? Styli for clay tablets in the ancient Aegean and eastern Mediterranean https://crewsproject.wordpress.com/2018/11/25/what-to-write-with-styli-for-clay-tablets/

Band name of the day: high concept art terrorist

FUTURE SHOCK: Has legendary Scottish pop star lost the plot for building a pyramid made of 34,592 dead people? | HeraldScot… https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17316680.future-shock-has-legendary-scottish-pop-star-lost-the-plot-for-building-a-pyramid-made-of-34592-dead-people/