Nothing in Capitalism is Clean: On Making Art in Empire http://www.thorncoyle.com/nothing-in-capitalism-is-clean-on-making-art-in-empire/
Curveship: Interactive Fiction + Interactive Narrating https://curveship.com/
Trust and Complex Technology: The Cyborg’s Modern Bargain - Cyborgology https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2011/11/23/trust-in-complex-technology-the-cyborgs-modern-bargain/
Band name of the day: involuntary parks
Bruce Sterling & Benjamin Bratton in Conversation - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0__x5SG8WY
Bad idea of the day: replace whitespace with color changes
Running a Gopher Server in 2018 https://prgmr.com/blog/gopher/2018/11/09/setting-up-gopherserver.html
Band name of the day: a new leader in murder tech
Personal Panopticons “ Real Life https://reallifemag.com/personal-panopticons/
Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods – Something Similar https://www.somethingsimilar.com/2013/01/14/notes-on-distributed-systems-for-young-bloods/
A radical pessimist’s guide to the next 10 years - The Globe and Mail https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/a-radical-pessimists-guide-to-the-next-10-years/article1321040/
Assert yourself - The Boston Diaries - Captain Napalm http://boston.conman.org/2018/11/06.1
Electronic Tolling History: RFID Keeps Things Moving https://tedium.co/2018/11/08/electronic-toll-collection-history/
Berners-Lee takes flak for ‘hippie manifesto’ that only Google and Facebook could love • The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/09/berners_lee_criticism/
Download Music From the Free Music Archive Before It Shuts Down https://lifehacker.com/download-the-music-you-want-from-the-free-music-archive-1830320515
One of those cult cinema distribution companies owns an actual video store – and it’s only like an hour or two from my house. I’ll have to make a trip out there at some point…
Specification gaming examples in AI - master list https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vRPiprOaC3HsCf5Tuum8bRfzYUiKLRqJmbOoC-32JorNdfyTiRRsR7Ea5eWtvsWzuxo8bjOxCG84dAg/pubhtml
Movies whose names begin with the letter ’s’ are the names of… snakes! ssss
Logic, Explainability and the Future of Understanding—Stephen Wolfram Blog http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2018/11/logic-explainability-and-the-future-of-understanding/
Goddess save us from ‘sensible business decisions’. Business is not the appropriate framework for evaluating decisions.
I wonder if the reason why the average quality of writing-advice articles is so much lower than other types is that it’s dominated by folks who are trying to write a certain number of words every day & have decided to publish all of them…
Band name of the day: interdisciplinary placebo studies
Band name of the day: intercellular pods
GitHub - daviddao/awful-ai: 😈Awful AI is a curated list to track current scary usages of AI - hoping to raise awareness https://github.com/daviddao/awful-ai
Bad idea of the day: sort r/all by controversial
Simple Feed Ranking Algorithm http://datagenetics.com/blog/october32018/index.html
Search https://qz.com/1398398/the-internet-is-a-manifestation-of-our-psyches-neither-better-nor-worse/
How YouTube’s Recommendation Algorithm Really Works - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/11/how-youtubes-algorithm-really-works/575212/
Search https://qz.com/1454785/a-millionaire-couple-is-threatening-to-create-a-magic-mushroom-monopoly/
The ‘As you know, Bob’ technique for infodumps gets a lot of flak, but all my internal corporate emails from upper management begin with ‘As you know,’, so I think there might be room to make it verisimilitudinous.
Bad idea of the day: A full performance of Smoke on the Water built by remixing clips of people at Guitar Center failing to perform Smoke on the Water & random words spoken by people in Guitar Center
Yes, technically everything with nested directories is UNIX-inspired. No, that’s not interesting.
My attempt at mapping the flow of influence in UI development thus far: http://www.lord-enki.net/gui_evolution2.png
Hot take: social constructs are notoriously difficult to build universal theories about, because belief is fickle and eldrich. Talking or thinking about social constructs is liable to make them change
Bad idea of the day: a smartphone with a full-sized model m keyboard and a full-sized bell handset but a regular smartphone sized screen that is also e-ink
Bad idea of the day: a smartphone with a full-sized model m keyboard and a full-sized bell handset but a regular smartphone sized screen
Resources for A Survey Of Alternatives http://www.lord-enki.net/resources-survey-of-alternatives.html
I’m going to be periodically posting research resources for the new book here, as I find them: http://www.lord-enki.net/resources-survey-of-alternatives.html
The Haunting of Hill House: The Ghosts No One Is Talking About “ Wisecrack Quick Take - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBa59EL-axk
I’m in this weird situation with the new book where, of the systems I’m planning to cover, the one I’m most familiar with is menuet. Imagine being in a position where, for any set of things, the most familiar item is menuet.
Apparently, the Bell Labs ‘squeak’ UI language is unrelated to the Smalltalk dialect of the same name, despite both being message-passing systems with strong GUI support http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/squeak/squeak.pdf
Nix Language Primer | binary.phile http://www.binaryphile.com/nix/2018/07/22/nix-language-primer.html
The Programming Language Oberon https://miasap.se/obnc/oberon-report.html
Band name of the day: prestige cannibalism
Bad idea of the day: drawing a unicursal hexagram in the center of the Magic Roundabout in Hartfordshire
Deny and become: the radical ethos of negative capability | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/deny-and-become-the-radical-ethos-of-negative-capability
Schrödinger’s Capital: How Marxists erased Marx’s prediction of capitalist collapse | The Real Movement https://therealmovement.wordpress.com/2016/03/31/schrodingers-capital-how-marxists-erased-marxs-prediction-of-capitalist-collapse/
An OCR cliche: Into his/her anus | Fill His Head First with a Thousand Questions https://wraabe.wordpress.com/2009/03/07/an-ocr-cliche-into-hisher-anus/
Sci-Fi Writer Greg Egan and Anonymous Math Whiz Advance Permutation Problem | Quanta Magazine https://www.quantamagazine.org/sci-fi-writer-greg-egan-and-anonymous-math-whiz-advance-permutation-problem-20181105/
The Universe of Discourse : Design patterns of 1972 https://blog.plover.com/2006/09/11/
If-statements in Smalltalk - Beware of the Train https://pozorvlak.livejournal.com/94558.html
Bad idea of the day: A gritty reboot of Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In starring Rowan Atkinson and Dmitri Martin
Larry “Wild Man” Fischer: An Outsider Icon https://tedium.co/2018/11/06/larry-wild-man-fischer-history/
Scheme Macros V: Conditionals | Veit’s Blog https://blog.veitheller.de/Scheme_Macros_V:_Conditionals.html
Band name of the day: fossil ape
Band name of the day: a motley assortment of screaming machines
David Bowie on Death, Violence and Chaos in “Outside” - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R9W2fUddiE
Band name of the day: art crimes unit
Mindstorms https://mindstorms.media.mit.edu/
Programming Quotes http://quotes.cat-v.org/programming/
On the path to improvement, follow the jester, not the sage | Aeon Classics https://aeon.co/classics/on-the-path-to-improvement-follow-the-jester-not-the-sage
Cory Doctorow: What the Internet Is For – Locus Online https://locusmag.com/2018/11/cory-doctorow-what-the-internet-is-for/
Dystopias Now • Commune https://communemag.com/dystopias-now/
What Is The Morning Writing Effect? - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Morning-writing
Band name of the day: my odious handiwork
Nick Land’s Philosophy of Capital is Anti-Capitalist – DI Research Zone 22 https://disubunit22.wordpress.com/2018/08/23/nick-lands-philosophy-of-capital-is-anti-capitalist/
Nick Land’s Philosophy of Capital is Anti-Capitalist (2) – DI Research Zone 22 https://disubunit22.wordpress.com/2018/11/05/nick-lands-philosophy-of-capital-is-anti-capitalist-2/
Why every election gets its own crisis - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln61AksUCjY
GitHub - paul90/wiki-client-dat-variant: A dat based variant of the Federated Wiki client https://github.com/paul90/wiki-client-dat-variant
GitHub - schierlm/oberon-risc-emu-enhanced: Emulator for the Oberon RISC machine, with enhanced features (not supported by the original design by N. Wirth) https://github.com/schierlm/oberon-risc-emu-enhanced
Apparently there are a LOT of bands named ‘blackmail’. I’m sure all of them think they’re very clever and original.
Are.na / Blog “ Women in Hypertext: On Judy Malloy and Cathy Marshall’s Forward Anywhere https://www.are.na/blog/case%20study/2018/06/12/women-in-hypertext.html
Vietnam’s Low-tech Food System Takes Advantage of Decay | LOW←TECH MAGAZINE https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2017/02/vietnams-low-tech-fermentation-food-system-takes-advantage-of-decay.html
Bad idea of the day: run deOldify on manga pages, consider the new color schemes canon, move to a surreal universe of floating pastels
PRINCIPLES OF ANARCHITECTURE – ALIENIST MANIFESTO https://alienistmanifesto.wordpress.com/2018/04/20/principles-of-architecture/
Soft Machine-Why Are We Sleeping? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwc_gosvQ_A
The Quietus | Features | Anniversary | The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades: 30 Years Of They Live http://thequietus.com/articles/25613-john-carpenter-they-live-review-anniversary
Band name of the day: active denial system
Today is Guy Fawkes Day. Celebrate by setting something on fire.
Metadata: Judoing the Dunning-Kruger effect: the “surprisingly-popular option” strategy for crowdsourcing https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/11/judoing-dunning-kruger-effect.html
Cesar Sayoc and others on Twitter are behaving like bots. https://slate.com/technology/2018/11/cesar-sayoc-twitter-humans-behaving-bots.html
The ‘Loss of Confidence Project’ Offers Scientists a Place to Confess https://undark.org/article/loss-of-confidence-project-replication-crisis/
The presumption that current popularity is a predictor of value – or even of future popularity – prevents us from doing interesting things.
Band name of the day: the active measures
Band name of the day: condensation nucleus
Band name of the day: theicide
Gopherfest 2017: Upspin (Rob Pike) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENLWEfi0Tkg
Breaking the x86 Instruction Set - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrksBdWcZgQ
Four Languages from Forty Years Ago - Scott Wlaschin - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fpDlAEQio4
How to Do Cyberpunk Right - The Yuri You Need - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfSuUicLdcg
Proposed data privacy law could send company execs to prison for 20 years | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/11/proposed-data-privacy-law-could-send-company-execs-to-prison-for-20-years/
The Acme Readme http://acme.cat-v.org/readme
Mouse Shortcuts in Acme http://acme.cat-v.org/mouse
Science Fiction Is Not Social Reality - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43pxjd/science-fiction-is-not-social-reality
Bad idea of the day: a social network where post literally fade because the contrast is computed with the inverse of time. A spinoff where bugs slowly eat away at posts.
Probably Overthinking It: The Inspection Paradox is Everywhere http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-inspection-paradox-is-everywhere.html
Science Is Full of Mavericks Like My Grandfather. But Was His Physics Theory Right? - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/science-full-mavericks-like-my-grandfather-was-his-physics-theory-right/574573/