Band name of the day: too many requests

Too Many Requests https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2lvjgt/in_games_and_books_there_are_always_adventurers/

Is it gauche to name the hero of a show Yuta or does it only become gauche once a different character makes a Yuta / Yusha pun? Asking for a friend. (Gridman / Chuu2byo)

Jonestown’s Victims Have a Lesson to Teach Us, So I Listened – Mother Jones https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/11/jonestowns-victims-have-a-lesson-to-teach-us-so-i-listened-peoples-temple-anniversary-40/

The Second Half of Watergate Was Bigger, Worse, and Forgotten By the Public https://longreads.com/2018/11/20/the-second-half-of-watergate-was-bigger-worse-and-forgotten-by-the-public/

PingFS - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/pingfs-storing-your-files-in-network-traffic

High score, low pay: why the gig economy loves gamification | Business | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/nov/20/high-score-low-pay-gamification-lyft-uber-drivers-ride-hailing-gig-economy

Band name of the day: gorilla orphanage

From Satori to Silicon Valley https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/primary/docs/satori/taste.html

From Satori to Silicon Valley https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/primary/docs/satori/organic.html

Oou: The Insane Language - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/oou-the-insane-language

Code Art, Code Poetry, and Esolangs - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/code-art-code-poetry-and-esolangs

Welcome to the witch capital of Norway | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/6613/vardo-norway-halloween-steilneset-memorial

Martin Heidegger and Günther Anders on Technology: On Ray Kurzweil, Fritz Lang, and Transhumanism https://medium.com/amor-mundi/martin-heidegger-and-g%C3%BCnther-anders-on-technology-on-ray-kurzweil-fritz-lang-and-transhumanism-a48a4c123c09

Democracy Shouldn’t Be About Brand Recognition “ Member Feature Stories ” Medium https://medium.com/s/story/in-1967-a-student-known-only-as-black-bag-showed-us-all-how-democracy-would-end-3af7a526c461

Structural typing (and its integration with prototype OO) might be one way to address the platypus… https://medium.com/@/structural-typing-and-its-integration-with-prototype-oo-might-be-one-way-to-address-the-platypus-c9663c362c26

How to Internet “ World Wide WTF ” Medium https://medium.com/s/world-wide-wtf/how-to-internet-6c379e75c8e0

It is not that sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, but that anything is indistinguishable from magic from the perspective of the sufficiently ignorant. Clarke assumes we will lose the red queen’s race with polymathy.

Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html

TFW people post rhetorical questions to quora

When you think about it, all search engines are human flesh search engines, except disjointed in time. fite me

Band name of the day: the far and cold

Lovecraft is illustrative of the first half of the 20th century because he represents several seemingly mutually exclusive extremes. Recommend reading Sterling’s Pirate Utopia & Stranger Than We Can Imagine together, then Dreams in the Witch House

GitHub - boriel/zxbasic: The Sinclair ZX Spectrum BASIC compiler! https://github.com/boriel/zxbasic

Band name of the day: rhythmic rituals

Wait wait is AKB48 supposed to be a pun on AK 47?

Service Unavailable https://esoteric.codes/blog/exercises-in-programming-style

Esopo: Turing Complete Poetry - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/esopo-turing-complete-poetry

Band name of the day: mysterious by divine

Band name of the day: human flesh technology

JSTOR: Access Check https://www.jstor.org/stable/40969483?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

All HTML - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/all-html

Esolangs as an Experiential Practice - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/esolangs-as-an-experiential-practice

BodyFuck - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/bodyfuck-gestural-code

Sole and Despotic Dominion: Fiction - Reason.com https://reason.com/archives/2018/11/17/sole-and-despotic-dominion

How Tech Bros Fell in Love With Bread Baking - Eater https://www.eater.com/2018/11/19/18099127/bread-silicon-valley-sourdough-tech-bros-tartine-chad-robertson

Bad idea of the day: Sieze the amazon.com domain and point it to the wikipedia article for the Amazon river

Tiny Emulators https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit/

Null Programs and the Uninscribed - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/null-programs-and-the-uninscribed

Service Unavailable https://esoteric.codes/blog/stack-trace-art

The 128-Language Quine Relay - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/the-128-language-quine-relay

A Programming Language With Only One Command and the Anti-Imperialist Operating System Built on it - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/a-programming-language-with-only-one-command-and

The prince of the people: Machiavelli was no ‘Machiavellian’ | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-prince-of-the-people-machiavelli-was-no-machiavellian

I don’t agree with this at all, but I’ve gotta respect this level of trolling: https://wordsandbuttons.online/if_i_were_to_invent_a_programming_language_for_the_21st_century.html

I keep reading this narrative where tech backlash only really started in 2017, and… guys, do none of you remember 2010? It’s basically been downhill for tech industry PR since 2010, if not 2008.

Ritual and the Consciousness Monoculture https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/01/08/ritual-and-the-consciousness-monoculture/

Jehanne Operating System http://jehanne.io/2018/11/15/simplicity-awakes.html

Cory Doctorow: Zuck’s Empire of Oily Rags – Locus Online http://locusmag.com/2018/07/cory-doctorow-zucks-empire-of-oily-rags/

Social Media Consciousness https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/09/07/social-media-consciousness/

Alan Kay: How Simply and Understandably Could The “Personal Computing Experience” Be Programmed? on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/10260548

The Internet Needs More Friction - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/3k9q33/the-internet-needs-more-friction

programmers_are_evil() - Live at LinuxFest NW 2018 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e6BKJPnb5o

Indistinguishable From Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4

Linux Sucks. Forever. - Filmed live at Linux Fest NW - April 28, 2018 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVHcdgrqbHE

The History of Unix, Rob Pike - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2NI6t2r_Hs

Band name of the day: where birds never lingered

Tech Workers Need to Keep Organizing https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/11/tech-worker-organizing-google-union-walkout

“Production Prolog” by Michael Hendricks - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_eYTctGZw8

Lambda World 2018 - What FP can learn from Smalltalk by Aditya Siram - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baxtyeFVn3w

William Gibson: The New Cyber/Reality - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVEUWfDHqsU

William Gibson on the dawn of the Internet - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUbm9dyITCY

Band name of the day: spooky electric

Was there staff overlap between Lain and Boogiepop Phantom? There’s an awful lot of style overlap…

Bad idea of the day: transpose Pretty Hate Machine into a major key, shift every word in the lyrics to the least semantically distant word with a more positive sentiment score, and call the result Pretty Great Machine

Raildex spicy take from a magic practitioner with an engineering degree: watch Railgun all the way through and skip Magidex completely. Ignore Touma when he appears in Railgun. He has never once done anything interesting.

The Fascinating World of Index/Railgun and Why You Should Watch It - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTJKfvZmDUM

Band name of the day: axis theory

‘Worse is better’ is not a justification – it is a tragedy, and one that folks who code in their free time are thankfully immune from needing to contribute to. So, y’know, don’t. You’re not on a deadline, so make something good, instead of something you regret.

‘Worse is better’ is a very insidious way of saying ‘give up and stop caring’, and should never be used as an excuse for anything. Anything that can be defended with ‘worse is better’ is worse & shouldn’t be tolerated.

Pet peeve: when people nitpick rhetorical flourishes in my examples while completely ignoring the main point. Hint: If I bring up the web or the macintosh, that doesn’t mean my essay is specifically about the web or the macintosh.

Band name of the day: combat agate

Band name of the day: sirius moonlite

302 Found https://points.datasociety.net/you-think-you-want-media-literacy-do-you-7cad6af18ec2

SimCity, Cellular Automata, and Happy Tool for HyperLook (nee HyperNeWS (nee GoodNeWS)) https://medium.com/@donhopkins/hyperlook-nee-hypernews-nee-goodnews-99f411e58ce4

302 Found https://languageengineering.io/some-concepts-in-functional-languages-550c683a0ffa

Constructive Technology Criticism Annotated Syllabus https://medium.com/tow-center/constructive-technology-criticism-annotated-syllabus-b7b46862cd20

Why the Enlightenment was not the age of reason | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/why-the-enlightenment-was-not-the-age-of-reason

The Case Against Quantum Computing - IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/the-case-against-quantum-computing

DrKoop.com: C. Everett Koop’s Unlikely Dot-Com Play https://tedium.co/2018/11/15/c-everett-koop-drkoop-com-history/

Band name of the day: glory in defeat

Trilemma - Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilemma

Fallacies of distributed computing - Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_distributed_computing

The History of the GNU General Public License http://www.free-soft.org/gpl_history/

C Portability Lessons from Weird Machines https://begriffs.com/posts/2018-11-15-c-portability.html

Procedural Brutalism – BLDGBLOG http://www.bldgblog.com/2014/09/procedural-brutalism/

Band name of the day: wax cadavers

Band name of the day: upsettingly large fungus

Gamasutra: Florencia Minuzzi’s Blog - Restless “ Making A New Conversation UI http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/FlorenciaMinuzzi/20181114/330636/Restless__Making_A_New_Conversation_UI.php

Digital Philosophy II: Are Cellular Automata Important? https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2007/09/09/digital-philosophy-ii/

Digital Philosophy – I: The Real is Unreal https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2007/08/16/digital-philosophy-i/

Type inference - Eli Bendersky’s website https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2018/type-inference/

Plankalkül - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankalk%C3%BCl

‘Free your mind and your ass will follow’ is absurdly optimistic. Freedom of mind is necessary but not sufficient for freedom of ass. In the short term, wokeness makes your life harder because you become aware of how bad things are.

Puzzle Montage Art by Tim Klein https://puzzlemontage.crevado.com/

Box Office Bomb: The Short Life of Popcorn Prediction Markets - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/movies/2018/11/15/18091620/box-office-futures-dodd-frank-mpaa-recession

Why There’s No Place Quite Like the American Garage - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-architecture-of-garages

misc/dyk2.md at master · enkiv2/misc · GitHub https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/nanogenmo-2018/dyk2.md

ufo-poems/ufo_poems.md at master · kevinhowbrook/ufo-poems · GitHub https://github.com/kevinhowbrook/ufo-poems/blob/master/ufo_poems.md

Tutorials That Don’t Talk Down To You - Context Sensitive Design - Extra Credits - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFdEEzgc7pg

Jeanine Adkisson - Design and Prototype a Language In Clojure - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1KVwoE3n28