Band name of the day: crown locust
the k-means clusters of your heart
Bad idea of the day: a mandala of the names of all the people you’ve ever wronged except the names are transliterated into katakana for no reason
Bad idea of the day: supercut of every numinous image set to yakkity sax
Bad idea of the day: time lapse of just really failing to build and paint miniatures
Bad idea of the day: remove every frame of koyansiquatski that is a multiple of a fibbonacci number
Band name of the day: modern oral folklore
Band name of the day: insect of sufficient cleverness
The people vs tyranny: the secular martyrdom of John Lilburne | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/the-people-vs-tyranny-the-secular-martyrdom-of-john-lilburne
Band name of the day: manufactured spend
The Credit Card Daredevils Who Risk It All for the Points Game - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-credit-daredevils-who-risk-it-all-for-the-points-game
301 Moved Permanently https://aeon.co/essays/a-radio-play-about-radio-that-became-the-first-fake-news-story/
The End of My Year of Killer Sudoku – Popula https://popula.com/2018/11/20/the-end-of-my-year-of-killer-sudoku/
Band name of the day: pleasure in the failure to regulate
What Einstein meant by ‘God does not play dice’ | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/what-einstein-meant-by-god-does-not-play-dice
Hot take: the primary appeal of JoJo’s Bizzare Adventure is its rococo bathos
‘Detective Pikachu’ Reminds Me Of The Disastrous ‘Mario Bros.’ Movie, And That’s Good - Digg http://digg.com/2018/detective-pikachu-super-mario-bros-film-production-design
Sabrina and the Economics of Necromancy - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P90rJ0gmMOg
History of IRC (Internet Relay Chat) https://daniel.haxx.se/irchistory.html
Why we make better decisions together than we do on our own | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/why-we-make-better-decisions-together-than-we-do-on-our-own
NO VELVET REVOLUTION – ALIENIST MANIFESTO https://alienistmanifesto.wordpress.com/2018/11/17/no-velvet-revolution/
LINES FOR A MANIFESTO OF ALIENIST POETRY – ALIENIST MANIFESTO https://alienistmanifesto.wordpress.com/2017/11/24/lines-for-a-manifesto-of-alienist-poetry-2/
What universe does Marc Andressen live in, to call a group of wealthy upwardly-mobile careerists ‘extremely left-wing’ for voting Clinton? (Don’t answer that.)
Toward an Uncensored Internet | Libertarianism.org https://www.libertarianism.org/prototype/toward-uncensored-internet
Paper Summary: Enriching Word Vectors with Subword Information https://medium.com/@hyponymous/paper-summary-enriching-word-vectors-with-subword-information-e5263d0848b8
Errata Security: Some notes about HTTP/3 https://blog.erratasec.com/2018/11/some-notes-about-http3.html#.W_vnQUfav0M
Github is putting up a banner saying that the version of firefox I’m using is no longer supported. That’s fuckin’ wild to me. It’s 2018: if your website doesn’t work on Mosaic & Lynx, it’s broken.
Today is cyber monday. Celebrate by masturbating at strangers on chatroulette.
Truth as a Vehicle for Enhancing Fiction, Fiction as a Vehicle for Discovering Truth | http://dreamcafe.com/2018/11/19/truth-as-a-vehicle-for-enhancing-fiction-fiction-as-a-vehicle-for-discovering-truth/
Three-Speed Logic http://threespeedlogic.com/python-tworoutines.html
Archiving web sites [LWN.net] https://lwn.net/Articles/766374/
What was the role of MS-DOS in Windows 95? – The Old New Thing https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20071224-00/?p=24063
The Journal of Controversial Ideas”academic freedom sans responsibility is reckless | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/the-journal-of-controversial-ideas-academic-freedom-sans-responsibility-is-reckless/
The faster you unlearn OOP, the better for you and your software — Dawid Ciężarkiewicz aka dpc https://dpc.pw/the-faster-you-unlearn-oop-the-better-for-you-and-your-software
Band name of the day: the songs of a city predict its future
The Categories Were Made For Man, Not Man For The Categories | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-made-for-man-not-man-for-the-categories/
Suspiria & Cinematic Chaos | Nyx Fears - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2UzI557Lgw
Band name of the day: perfect balance perfect sleep
Band name of the day: ten thousand incomprehensible avenues
Band name of the day: timeless animals
Civility - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk8CsdxpqII
Has Joe Bob Briggs ever covered Santa Sangre?
The Most Damaging Election Disinformation Campaign Came From Donald Trump, Not Russia - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mbyg3x/the-most-damaging-election-disinformation-campaign-came-from-donald-trump-not-russia
The Story of Lenny, the Internet’s Favorite Telemarketing Troll - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d3b7na/the-story-of-lenny-the-internets-favorite-telemarketing-troll
Hometown Proud: IGA‘s Business Model Brilliance https://tedium.co/2018/11/22/independent-grocers-alliance-history-hometown-proud/
How Marketing and Lobbying Built Thanksgiving Traditions https://tedium.co/2018/11/20/thanksgiving-history-corporate-roots/
Reform or Revolution? An ASMR Guided Meditation | Philosophy Tube - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxAsNEGcgq0
Dawn OS - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlxMy_zrgAU
The Abridged History Of Having Fun With Keyboards - Marcin Wichary - btconfBER 2018 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u22w2t0DV4
Today is black friday. Celebrate with armed observation of the police from a distance of fifty feet.
Band name of the day: the crypto-embyonic hyperelectric presence
Band name of the day: girlmeat
From Leatherface’s POV, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is the story of an artist who keeps getting takeout he didn’t order
Band name of the day: satanic graffiti
Remember: if a family member asks about your politics this thanksgiving, tell them you’re an anarchist & would like to abolish the concept of money. It’ll shut them up and it’s probably even true.
Today is thanksgiving. Celebrate by determining who you don’t owe a debt to – who, in the total scheme of things, has had a net negative effect on your life – writing them a nasty letter, and setting it on fire.
Slow Software https://www.inkandswitch.com/slow-software.html
D compilation is too slow and I am forking the compiler | CyberShadow’s blog https://blog.thecybershadow.net/2018/11/18/d-compilation-is-too-slow-and-i-am-forking-the-compiler/
On Programming Language Design - ielliott.io http://blog.ielliott.io/on-programming-language-design/
GitHub - aurelg/ipfs-wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, safely. Over IPFS (which not even required to receive those things). https://github.com/aurelg/ipfs-wormhole
Why your Netflix thumbnails don’t look like mine - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axCBA3VD5dQ
Guide to Tom Hanks - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQOf_WaaJfE
Remember: breaking a wishbone is seventy years of bad luck
Remember: unless your turkey sees its shadow, you must go back underground and avoid buying anything until halloween of next year.
Today is thanksgiving. Celebrate by writing apology letters to everyone you have ever wronged.
Hot take: Cyberpunk only seems ‘prophetic’ because not enough has changed since the 80s to make it seem irrelevant, and this basically means that cyberpunk failed in its critical project by spawning insufficient praxis
“Eco Grime” Artists Blend Natural Sounds & Electronics to Depict a Polluted World « Bandcamp Daily https://daily.bandcamp.com/2018/11/13/eco-grime-music-history/
Dawn for SUBLEQ http://gerigeri.uw.hu/DawnOS/index.html
The One Book That Made Me Take the Long View of the Future: God Emperor of Dune | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2018/11/07/the-one-book-that-made-me-take-the-long-view-of-the-future-god-emperor-of-dune/
Band name of the day: funeral dj
A Stimulus Plan for the Mutual Aid Economy https://longreads.com/2018/11/20/a-stimulus-plan-for-the-mutual-aid-economy/
Idiots Scaring Themselves in the Dark https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/04/13/idiots-scaring-themselves-in-the-dark/
Band name of the day: the productively fractured
Hot take: things aren’t changing more quickly than they used to; it’s just that it is easier to become aware of distant events before they have been aggregated and summarized into the status of ‘non-event’.
Conspiracy theories are the result of the same legibilitization process described in ‘Seeing Like a State’: it replaces actual mechanism with a simpler one & drops details that don’t fit, for the sake of ease of representation
William Gibson: Technology, Science Fiction & the Apocalypse - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dlvle5YBv4
A Big Archive of Occult Recordings: Historic Audio Lets You Hear Trances, Paranormal Music, Glossolalia & Other Strange Sounds (1905-2007) | Open Culture http://www.openculture.com/2018/02/a-big-archive-of-occult-recordings.html
Band name of the day: the danish vowel horror
Bad idea of the day: furniture modeled on cray equipment, with spaces to put your own computers in
Atheists: Was Jesus a Marxist? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX9pDI9o6IQ
World States and Mega Empires in SF | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2018/11/12/world-states-and-mega-empires-in-sf/
How Turkey Got Its Name | Now I Know http://nowiknow.com/how-turkey-got-its-name/
Band name of the day: seven minutes of terror
The Well-Being Machine https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/06/12/the-well-being-machine/
Cringe and the Design of Sacred Experiences https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/01/11/cringe-and-the-design-of-sacred-experiences/
Folk Concepts https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/11/16/folk-concepts/
The World As If https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/09/07/the-world-as-if/
Band name of the day: transient hypofrontality
Band name of the day: watcher at the gates of mind
Band name of the day: abjection
GitHub - thearkadia/The_Ark: The Ark - ¿Democracy’s Favorite Device? https://github.com/thearkadia/The_Ark
Great black friday deals on exorcisms but only if you are possessed by one of the great presidents of hell or below – no goetic princes. Starts at 66.99
The Little Regulation That Will Make a Big Change in How You Do Business: Department of Commerce to Establish New Export Controls on Emerging Technologies - Lexology https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=205f4c5f-17c7-4d18-9967-a01983883706
Philip M. Parker - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_M._Parker
Rome 1990: MOST SWASHBUCKLING EVER! Ted dances and challenges nonstop - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9QvX1-SdHE
The roots of America’s democracy problem - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ySL82WbcvU
Heads up, apparently there are gonna be export restrictions on neural net, reinforcement learning, computer vision, NLP, & similar research done in the US: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/11/19/2018-25221/review-of-controls-for-certain-emerging-technologies
Conceptual Languages (Part 2) - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/conceptual-languages-part-2
Unnecessary and Kallisti: Purely Conceptual Languages - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/unnecessary-purely-conceptual-languages