Hillel Wayne - Everything about distributed systems is terrible | Code Mesh LDN 18 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfnldxWlOhM
Band name of the day: intercourse with spirits
Band name of the day: the active measures
Band name of the day: citogenesis
If your website isn’t usable in w3m in offline mode, it’s not really a website
How to Backup Your Allo Conversations Before Google Shuts it Down https://lifehacker.com/how-to-backup-your-allo-conversations-before-google-shu-1830922541
Why You Should Never, Ever Use Quora – Waxy.org https://waxy.org/2018/12/why-you-should-never-ever-use-quora/
Band name of the day: amber phenomena
Band name of the day: the association of electrizers
Band name of the day: The New Motor
Band name of the day: a new and powerful god
Band name of the day: rizomorph
Band name of the day: alien fire (from the mercy seat)
Is there a term for absurd euphemisms constructed for censoring dialogue for television – like ‘melon farmer’ and ‘this is what happens when you meet a stranger in the alps’? Is there a database of them?
Internet Content Filter History: Filtering Out the Bad Stuff https://tedium.co/2018/12/06/internet-content-filters-history/
Teaching kids to code: I’m a developer and I think it doesn’t actually teach important skills. https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/12/against-teaching-kids-to-code-creativity-problem-solving.html
All this end of year stuff is coming in too quick. It’s the first week of december. Wasn’t Halloween the other day or somehting?
OSCON 2010: Rob Pike, “Public Static Void” - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kj5ApnhPAE
The Artificial Intelligence That Deleted A Century - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JlxuQ7tPgQ
mine shaft gap vs pine gap
Band name of the day: the red center
Monopoly vs. the Magic Cape https://longreads.com/2018/12/05/monopoly-vs-the-magic-cape/
John McAfee Is 73, Very Stoned, and Running for President https://breakermag.com/john-mcafee-is-73-very-stoned-and-running-for-president/
Bad idea of the day: Instead of a greatest hits album, a greatest failures album: a collection of all the tracks that made the least money and got the least attention (despite never being intended as deep cuts)
Why language might be the optimal self-regulating system | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/why-language-might-be-the-optimal-self-regulating-system
Welcome to the trip of your life: the rise of underground LSD guides | Society | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/dec/06/lsd-guides-psychedelic-assisted-psychotherapy
Band name of the day: the corpse trade
Four Days Trapped at Sea With Crypto’s Nouveau Riche https://breakermag.com/trapped-at-sea-with-cryptos-nouveau-riche/
Band name of the day: mount unpleasant
We Asked 105 Experts What Worries Them Most About the Future - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/yw755b/we-asked-105-experts-what-worries-them-most-about-the-future
Nevermind Die Hard – Strange Days is the best christmas movie
Band name of the day: the history of an error
Your Q Anon Exit Briefing – Violent metaphors https://violentmetaphors.com/2018/12/04/your-q-anon-exit-briefing/
Are smartphones bad for you? The science is still out - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/5/18126154/screen-time-smartphones-bad-health-risk-science-study-wrong-depression-anxiety
Today in recruiter spam, somebody wants me to teach Latvian in Brooklyn. Why do they think I know Latvian? Why does literally every recruiter think I can commute to NYC?
Broken Chain Restaurants: When Fast Food Franchises Go Solo https://tedium.co/2018/12/04/broken-chains-fast-food-restaurants/
Since related ideas are circulating again, here’s my freshly reheated take: making sure your criticisms of reprehensible people are on-topic (focusing on the represhensible parts of them) solves all kinds of problems.
Chicken mesh and plywood radio/wifi reflector dish. - Brute Force and Ignorance https://solarflower.blogspot.com/2011/07/chicken-mesh-and-plywood-radiowifi.html
Planning a Decentralized Mesh Wi-Fi Network http://darknetmap.zone42.ca/
Building Technology https://communitytechnology.github.io/
Bad idea of the day: a browser extention that requests the wayback machine spider whatever pages you visit as you visit them
Band name of the day: pocket symphony
GitHub - CardsAgainstCryptography/CAC: A party game for nerdy cryptographers. Shamelessly based on Cards Against Humanity. https://github.com/CardsAgainstCryptography/CAC
Band name of the day: american magic & dread
Band name of the day: death at that income level
Band name of the day: major chambers
Band name of the day: the power haunts
Band name of the day: conspiracies of the body
Band name of the day: central meat / central whip
Band name of the day: fleshcops
Band name of the day: infinite dick parade
The Friendship That Made Google Huge | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship-that-made-google-huge
Woozle effect - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woozle_effect
To a reserve a table for my new hyper-exclusive resturant, cut a potato in half, put a twenty dollar bill inside, and bury it in your back yard during a new moon; if your application is accepted, we will contact you.
Tumblr’s adult-content ban could doom it with fandom communities. https://slate.com/technology/2018/12/tumblr-fandom-adult-content-ban-livejournal.html
While we Blink, we loose the Web https://andregarzia.com/2018/12/while-we-blink-we-loose-the-web.html
The Fun Is Back in Social Media…Again! https://kottke.org/18/12/the-fun-is-back-in-social-mediaagain
MST3K creator Joel Hodgson on 30 years of making fun of movies. https://slate.com/culture/2018/12/mst3k-joel-hodgson-interview-netflix.html
Band name of the day: death banana
Band name of the day: body harm revenge & property destruction
The unbelievable tale of a fake hitman, a kill list, a darknet vigilante… and a murder | WIRED UK https://www.wired.co.uk/article/kill-list-dark-web-hitmen
Measuring the Filter Bubble: How Google is influencing what you click https://spreadprivacy.com/google-filter-bubble-study/
Save the Cat (Blake Snyder) | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2018/12/04/save-the-cat-blake-snyder/
Band name of the day: hexenhammer
Reidl on that export control on AI tech I talked about a couple weeks ago: https://medium.com/@mark_riedl/us-export-control-of-artificial-intelligence-research-considered-harmful-fb2986fb3f14
Algorithm Archive · GitBook https://www.algorithm-archive.org/
Regular Expression Matching with a Trigram Index https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp4.html
Is it normal to shut down the postal service when a former president dies?
The Amiga A1060 Sidecar Expansion - AmigaLove https://amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=818
Band name of the day: inverted yield curve
Band name of the day: snowmath
Voluntary Human Extinction Movement - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_Human_Extinction_Movement
- don’t confuse ‘the internet’ with ‘the web’; 2) don’t confuse ‘the web’ with ‘social media’; 3) don’t confuse ‘social media’ with ‘corporate social media’
Book Club 14: Fandom Unbound - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amxuDFWtJwY
Band name of the day: adversarial pornography
Fan fiction site AO3 is dealing with a free speech debate of its own - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/8/18072622/fanfic-ao3-free-speech-censorship-fandom
Let’s be real, here. Approximately zero of you on this social network are not also on tumblr. (And, I am cross-posting this to several social networks.) The culture isn’t gonna change much with a post-tumblr exodus.
The Apocalypse | ContraPoints - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6GodWn4XMM
mods are asleep post female-presenting nipples
The Satanic Temple’s Protest for First Amendment Rights - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AOX-_HdFKQ
How smooth jazz took over the ‘90s - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBDWomgRgWU
Hermann Grassmann - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Grassmann
From Satori to Silicon Valley https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/primary/docs/satori/machines.html
What the dip in US life expectancy is really about: inequality - Vox https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/1/9/16860994/life-expectancy-us-income-inequality
GitHub - nickgravgaard/windowlab: A small and simple window manager of novel design (unmaintained) https://github.com/nickgravgaard/windowlab
The Digital Maginot Line https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/11/28/the-digital-maginot-line/
Band name of the day: continuous partial conflict
Why A Fringe Idea About The Supreme Court Is Taking Over The Left | FiveThirtyEight https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-a-fringe-idea-about-the-supreme-court-is-taking-over-the-left/
Band name of the day: Hofstadter’s butterfly
Fractal structure produces fractal electrons with fractal energies | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/12/fractal-structure-produces-fractal-electrons-with-fractal-energies/
Apparently a bunch of air bud sequels are leaving netflix tomorrow so if you really want to watch air bud sequels better get on that
GUERRILLA SEMIOTIX – ALIENIST MANIFESTO https://alienistmanifesto.wordpress.com/2018/10/03/guerrilla-semiotix/
Generated Book Gallery – 60212: INTERACTIVITY & COMPUTATION http://cmuems.com/2018/60212f/deliverables/7-due-11-16/generated-book-gallery/
GitHub & BitBucket HTML Preview https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ikarth/silk/master/silk.html
Shadows: a concrete poetry zine · Issue #26 · NaNoGenMo/2018 · GitHub https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2018/issues/26
Band name of the day: keen data goober
Complex networks study ranks the most influential films of all time | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/12/study-finds-the-wizard-of-oz-is-the-most-influential-film-of-all-time/
TAWS - The Amiga Workbench Simulation is loading… http://www.taws.ch/WB.html
Truths programmers should know about case https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2018/nov/26/case/