Edward Gorey’s Enigmatic World | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/edward-goreys-enigmatic-world

WHAT IS TO BE DONE? – ALIENIST MANIFESTO https://alienistmanifesto.wordpress.com/2018/06/16/what-is-to-be-done/

Are aptitude tests an accurate measure of human potential? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/are-aptitude-tests-an-accurate-measure-of-human-potential

Project Troy: The Science of Cold War Psychological Warfare - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/12/project-troy-science-cold-war-psychological-warfare/576847/

We need to admit that parents sometimes hate their children | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/we-need-to-admit-that-parents-sometimes-hate-their-children

Rocko’s Modern Life: Inside the Barely Contained Chaos of a Nickelodeon Classic | Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/11/inside-rockos-modern-life-nickelodeon-cartoon

Undefined Behavior Is Really Undefined https://cryptoservices.github.io/fde/2018/11/30/undefined-behavior.html

What makes BeOS and Haiku unique – The OS Voyager https://osvoyager.wordpress.com/2018/11/30/what-makes-beos-and-haiku-unique/

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Vallee is among the most lucid of the mid-century ufologists. The modern internet does to the global mind what a close encounter does to individual minds.

I Forced an AI to Watch Santa Claus Conquers the Martians · Issue #33 · NaNoGenMo/2018 · GitHub https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2018/issues/33#issuecomment-443401950

Thread by @Aelkus: “Strange Days is seriously underrated The aesthetic of the movie, like Blade Runner is, very good and timeless due to its combination of futu […]” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1069354595527344128.html

Despite MST3K’s riffing, the thing that strikes me most about The Day Time Ended is how closely it hews to the tropes of actual close encounters (as Vallee describes). & this is why it’s a bad movie.

William Gibson: The Decline of “Cyberspace” - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVnt_Rr-TB4

Philosophy of ＡＥＳＴＨＥＴＩＣＳ: The Floating World of Ukiyo-e - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCHFjj_qr5Q

Band name of the day: a section of agghartha

Bruce Sterling: What A Feeling! - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWCdMuEjw4g

Treasure Hunting https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/11/02/treasure-hunting/

I just realized that – nevermind Wu Ming / Luther Blissett – QAnon is fanfiction of Bruce Sterling’s 2016 SXSW closing keynote

Closing Remarks: Bruce Sterling | SXSW Interactive 2016 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZaiCDogmwM

Tomorrow Now: Envisioning The Next Fifty Years | Bruce Sterling with Samit Basu - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAMxQG_buag

Welcome to CBDQ-Memegen! http://cbdq-memegen.glitch.me/

Seduced & Abandoned: The Body in the Virtual World - Bruce Sterling - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSINgf_UBS8

Bruce Sterling - Fantasy prototypes and real disruption - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7KErICTSHU

Bruce Sterling Masterclass (September 27, 2018) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO9twds_SUc

A+E 2017 - Bruce Sterling: Speculations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfjHjJ2SFLI

Band name of the day: land art in space

NEXT17 | Bruce Sterling | Live from 2027 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2O_fxmrP_Q

Alien Aesthetics | Bruce Sterling | TEDxDeakinUniversity - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkHtSBzYGWQ

Bruce Sterling | Disrupting Dystopia: The Bruce Sterling Talk | SXSW 2018 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPu_FC9F2Ck

paradise_explained/book1_complete.pdf at master · jrladd/paradise_explained · GitHub https://github.com/jrladd/paradise_explained/blob/master/book1_complete.pdf

Paradise Explained, Meaning Lost: A Nonsensically Annotated Edition of Milton’s Epic · Issue #106 · NaNoGenMo/2018 · GitHub https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2018/issues/106

transmediale 2014 | Talk by Bruce Sterling at the Opening Ceremony - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dacKWLGZklM

Ask Dr. Time: In Praise of Hope https://kottke.org/18/11/ask-dr-time-in-praise-of-hope

Band name of the day: racing lawnmowers

Maybe Not - Rich Hickey - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5WdGrpoug

Flanderizing Akihabara - Educated by Culture - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOBpJF9zQKY

Video Games In East Germany: The Stasi Played Along | ZEIT ONLINE https://www.zeit.de/digital/games/2018-11/computer-games-gdr-stasi-surveillance-gamer-crowd

Beyond “Lump”: The Presidents of the United States of America Rocked https://tedium.co/2018/11/29/presidents-of-the-united-states-of-america-band-history/

Good design for developers & good design for non-developers don’t operate by different rules. Devs aren’t happy needing to memorize manuals, and end users can & will learn things if it makes their lives easier.

.……….//: Embracing the New Flesh http://ellaguro.blogspot.com/2014/10/embracing-new-flesh.html

GitHub - LingDong-/rrpl: Describing Chinese Characters with Recursive Radical Packing Language (RRPL) https://github.com/LingDong-/rrpl

Bad idea of the day: live your life as though it is a bayesian poisoning attack on the basilisk

Band name of the day: universal adversarial perturbations

Band name of the day: robust adversarial examples

a year of watching nothing but the movies MST3K covers but without the riffing

13brane.net https://13brane.net/rants/de-facto-closed-source/

Reading capital politically - Harry Cleaver https://libcom.org/library/reading-capital-politically-cleaver

Band name of the day: known cryptonyms

What’s a useful programming language feature or concept that a lot of languages don’t have? - DEV Community ‘‍”‍’ https://dev.to/cathodion/whats-a-useful-programming-language-feature-or-concept-that-a-lot-of-languages-dont-have-2ep1

Interface usability in a nutshell: minimize how often the simplest way to do a thing the user wants to do is 1) hard to imagine before you see it, or 2) hard to understand once observed. Assume the user is more creative than you & less well-informed.

dotGo 2015 - Rob Pike - Simplicity is Complicated - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFejpH_tAHM

Notes on the Anti-Praxis of Nietzsche’s Postcapitalist “Will” – xenogothic https://xenogothic.com/2018/10/18/notes-on-the-anti-praxis-of-nietzsches-postcapitalist-will/

The Anarchist Case Against Borders – A response to Angela Nagle’s ahistoric revisionism | Self Certified https://selfcertified.wordpress.com/2018/11/28/the-anarchist-case-against-borders-a-response-to-angela-nagles-ahistorical-revisionism/

Book Review: The Mind Illuminated | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/11/28/book-review-the-mind-illuminated/

Patterns of personal knowledge base · zadam/trilium Wiki · GitHub https://github.com/zadam/trilium/wiki/Patterns-of-personal-knowledge-base

David Byrne on True Stories, American Utopia, and his unofficial American triptych. https://slate.com/culture/2018/11/david-byrne-true-stories-american-utopia-interview.html

Do you know your stuff? The ethics of the material world | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/do-you-know-your-stuff-the-ethics-of-the-material-world

Fairly reliable indicator of a bad/naive post or project: the title or short description contains the name of the implementation language, but that language is conventional, commonly-used, or ‘general-purpose’.

Build your own time server with a GPS receiver. “ The Doctor ” Medium https://medium.com/@VirtualAdept/build-your-own-time-server-with-a-gps-receiver-a99d4819f634

Bad idea of the day: require all ‘tech’ companies to be registered nonprofits – make them prove that they are putting their revenue into ‘changing the world’ instead of just saying it

NaNoGenMo/book.md at master · JKirchartz/NaNoGenMo · GitHub https://github.com/JKirchartz/NaNoGenMo/blob/master/2018/SherlockShuffle/output/book.md

NaNoGenMo/AndHaveHeDayItselfTheGreaterMean.md at master · JKirchartz/NaNoGenMo · GitHub https://github.com/JKirchartz/NaNoGenMo/blob/master/2018/vocabularyclept/output/AndHaveHeDayItselfTheGreaterMean.md

Protip: leave recordings of old public access TV in languages you don’t speak on youtube on in the background, in order to encourage incorrect inferences & poorly targeted ads

How We Frame the Value of “Experimental” Art Badly – Carcinisation https://carcinisation.com/2014/07/20/how-we-frame-the-value-of-experimental-art-badly/

Girlfriend Roleplay videos are racking up millions of views on YouTube, here’s why - i-D https://i-d.vice.com/en_us/article/gy7v9w/meet-the-whispering-girls-of-youtube-who-pretend-to-be-your-girlfriend?utm_source=idtwitter

Beating hash tables with trees? The ART-ful radix trie https://www.the-paper-trail.org/post/art-paper-notes/

Are there enough shared answers in the jeopardy questions & answers database to make a ‘Ladies, if he X, then he’s not your man, he’s Y’ bot from that corpus? Assume 4 questions per answer.

Band name of the day: knife angel

Nostalghia Critique - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnwARGVh7ec

Fight Club: Cultural Fascism & The Colonization of Victimhood [Film Analysis] - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjLOFLE4JRw

When the Internet Archive Forgets https://gizmodo.com/when-the-internet-archive-forgets-1830462131

Open Source is Not About You · GitHub https://gist.github.com/richhickey/1563cddea1002958f96e7ba9519972d9

Hot take: until there is a convenient way to express regular expressions to a conversational voice interface, use of such interfaces will remain limited to mere consumtion

The 2020 election is the perfect opportunity for visual acuity themed political slogans

I think the scene in Inferno where the antique shop owner is killed by a hot dog stand owner while being eaten by rats is the key that ties the entire Three Mothers Trilogy together.

Band name of the day: a manifest degenerate entity for which wholeness is but a superficial distraction.

Blob Blob Blobby: Towards a New Blobjectivity – xenogothic https://xenogothic.com/2018/11/27/blob-blob-blobby-towards-a-new-blobjectivity/

Luigi Russolo: How The Art of Noise Revolutionized 20th Century Music | hydramag https://hydramag.wordpress.com/2010/08/27/luigi-russolo-how-the-art-of-noise-revolutionized-20th-century-music/

All Hallmark Christmas movies are horror films in disguise | Salon.com https://www.salon.com/2018/11/19/all-hallmark-christmas-movies-are-horror-films-in-disguise/

Hot take: like most things that are good, Cowboy Bebop is mostly good because they stopped making it before it became bad. (If you don’t believe me, watch the movie or read the tie-in manga.)

Processor Socket History: The Upgrade Path is Shrinking https://tedium.co/2018/11/27/processor-socket-history/

Band name of the day: the historic and inadequate

The Snowden Legacy, part one: What’s changed, really? | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/11/the-snowden-legacy-part-one-whats-changed-really/

GAN Paint http://gandissect.res.ibm.com/ganpaint.html?project=churchoutdoor&layer=layer4

“Everybody‘s Brain Knows How to Run a Tail” https://logicmag.io/05-everybodys-brain-knows-how-to-run-a-tail/

Glenn Branca and Elliott Sharp: “We are the Reality of this Cyberpunk Fantasy” 1991 - Mondo 2000 https://www.mondo2000.com/2018/05/17/glenn-branca-and-elliott-sharp-we-are-the-reality-of-this-cyberpunk-fantasy/

Dropping Acid https://logicmag.io/06-dropping-acid/

Band name of the day: your needs grow teeth

A Symposium on Monsters - Believer Magazine https://believermag.com/monsters/

Alien Capital – Vast Abrupt https://vastabrupt.com/2018/07/11/alien-capital/

I’ve seen a couple folks independently say ‘ubiquitous’ when they mean ‘indicative’. Is there some high-profile youtuber who confuses the two or something? It’s such a strange mistake that it can’t be popping up totally independently.

GitHub - tiniuclx/CommentCPP: add confusing comments to an existing source file https://github.com/tiniuclx/CommentCPP

What If Bacteria Designed Computers? on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/858385

Yes, progressive enhancement is a fucking moral argument - sonniesedge.co.uk https://www.sonniesedge.co.uk/posts/progressive-enhancement

Hey guys, Evangelion is coming to Netflix in 2019. This will be the first time it’s been available on streaming services afaik

A Postmodernism FAQ: Part I - Introduction - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmYegIGhwtc

Erik Davis Ozora Aug 2018 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op5IMDp4nyw

Bad idea of the day: get commit access to leftpad and make it so that it spawns a thread that loads amazon.com in an infinite loop for every injected space

Band name of the day: particle explosion future systems

Bad idea of the day: The Medium Is The Massage, dubstep edition