You Called for Me: Masculine Pain and Isolation in Akira – VRV Blog https://vrvblog.co/felker-martin/2555/akira-boys/

Amy Winehouse’s 2019 tour: why dead celebrity holograms keep happening - Vox https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/10/23/18010274/amy-winehouse-hologram-tour-controversy-technology

The Quietus | Opinion | Black Sky Thinking | Music For Algorithms: In Search Of Eno’s Ambient Vision In A Spotify Era http://thequietus.com/articles/25532-brian-eno-ambient-music

The Original Master of Ghost Stories | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-original-master-of-ghost-stories

Prolog DCG Primer https://www.metalevel.at/prolog/dcg

Thinking in States https://www.metalevel.at/tist/

CLP(FD): Prolog Integer Arithmetic https://www.metalevel.at/prolog/clpfd

Two Hundred Fifty Things an Architect Should Know — R / D https://www.readingdesign.org/250-things

303 See Other https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07118-1

SisterWriter is so weirdly lazy at times. Like, just rotating a cut 90 degrees and doing a static panning shot… Though, the characters are constantly off model and rarely animated or properly posed, so that might be for the best…

The protagonist of Bunny-Girl-senpai is almost the Kyon-style deadpan snarker (not distinct enough to really be a variant yet, like in Denpa Onna) but I can’t tell if it’s an attempt at reconstruction like in Seiren…

Bad idea of the day: a NOT operation on types, such that a type can be define as the failure to qualify as some other combination of types or some other boolean type expression

Anime Has A S3xual Harassment Problem - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0G1jvz0khQ

The Final Days of ‘Netrunner’ - Waypoint https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/zm9989/the-final-days-of-netrunner

“The Daemon Lover” by Shirley Jackson | Literary Fictions https://literaryfictions.com/fiction-1/the-daemon-lover-by-shirley-jackson/

The Hounds of Tindalos - Wikisource, the free online library https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Hounds_of_Tindalos

Distance Fields https://prideout.net/blog/distance_fields/

Nudging the Lexicon | Sophie Haigney https://thebaffler.com/latest/nudging-the-lexicon-haigney

Error 406 - Not Acceptable https://www.board-db.org/

Bad idea of the day: deep fried peanut butter and mayonaise sandwiches

iPhones are hard to use https://blog.fawny.org/2018/10/22/hardtouse/

Here Lies E. Coli - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cemetery-soil-human-remains

Band name of the day: necroleachate

Endowment effect - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endowment_effect

The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/29/the-myth-of-whiteness-in-classical-sculpture

Bad idea of the day: aromatherapy vapes

Bad idea of the day: A vibrator implanted in the pelvis that is controlled by reports of earthquake severity

Police Training Simulator History: A Parallel Path With Gaming https://tedium.co/2018/10/23/police-training-simulator-history/

Some snark: https://medium.com/@/a-short-glossary-of-tech-industry-terms-4b5f9fef8db3?source=friends_link&sk=f5251057ed9dd53ec78960456e0ef08f

Every slack channel ever: the topic says ‘Don’t use @here or @channel’; nevertheless, ~100% of notifications are from @here or @channel

I wrote a thing about Hill House: https://medium.com/@/hill-house-vs-hill-house-two-different-kinds-of-hauntings-8b535d8e667c?source=friends_link&sk=fe06a7f590cd8391e0205918c5299b34

God Help Us, Let’s Try To Understand Friston On Free Energy | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/03/04/god-help-us-lets-try-to-understand-friston-on-free-energy/

Cognitive Enhancers: Mechanisms And Tradeoffs | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/22/cognitive-enhancers-mechanisms-and-tradeoffs/

INTERFACE LOVE. – Researching UI in Games, Cinema and anything else thats interesting. https://ilikeinterfaces.com/

LegoOS: a disseminated, distributed OS for hardware resource disaggregation | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/10/22/legoos-a-disseminated-distributed-os-for-hardware-resource-disaggregation/

Bad idea of the day: plan 9 from whitespace, a full implementation of plan9 in an extended version of the whitespace programming language, which ships with a printed copy of the source code (a blank notebook)

Dialectics of Darkness | Articles | Inference: International Review of Science https://inference-review.com/article/dialectics-of-darkness

Why You Should Read Fiction http://nautil.us/issue/65/in-plain-sight/why-doesnt-ancient-fiction-talk-about-feelings-rp

Protocol | An ASCII Header Generator for Network Protocols http://www.luismg.com/protocol/

Meet the Endoterrestrials - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/10/meet-endoterrestrials/571939/

Bad idea of the day: a minikanren in prolog

I updated my list of story pitches: http://enki2.tumblr.com/stories

Language is a technology & we ought to start acting like it

Past Masters of the Postmodern | Articles | Inference: International Review of Science https://inference-review.com/article/past-masters-of-the-postmodern

Erlang by Example http://erlangbyexample.org/

Marketpiece Theater https://thebaffler.com/salvos/marketpiece-theater

B. F. Skinner: The Most Important Theorist of the 21st Century http://hackeducation.com/2018/10/18/skinner

Hardware Interrupts | Writing an OS in Rust https://os.phil-opp.com/hardware-interrupts/

How to Troll a Troll https://lifehacker.com/how-to-troll-a-troll-1819880278

If the Rich Really Want To ‘Do Good,’ They Should Become Class Traitors Like FDR https://longreads.com/2018/10/18/review-of-winners-take-all/

Scammers Are Uploading Tutorials on How to Fool Facebook with a False ID - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/53d5gk/scammers-are-uploading-tutorials-on-how-to-fool-facebook-with-a-false-id

Cyberpunk: The Future That Was - Chapter One | Eruditorum Press on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/posts/cyberpunk-future-22210879

Band name of the day: a long strange way home

Band name of the day: hope fading nightly

The Japanese Cult Producing 20+ Years Of Anime - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6tS14HFsmA

“Puzzles, Problems, and Programs” by Chris Martens - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT0r6-B5YHA

Is there already a term for going into a piece of media with the expectation that it won’t be a waste of time / there’s something to be gained by paying attention & thinking? (Like ‘good-faith viewership’?)

Meaning Alchemy - Jason Grinblat [PROCJAM 2018] - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvVx0l1gepM

Tarot Based Narrative Generation - Anne Sullivan [PROCJAM 2018] - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1D-r5TF36A

Bad idea of the day: The Same Oblique Strategy Card Every Day. (‘repetition is a form of change’, obv.)

“The Glitching Hour” by Amy Wibowo - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HoMsbxY9zA

Hot take: if you can ‘vote with your wallet’ that means you live in an aristocratic oligarchy, because some people inherit large numbers of extra votes & other people start out with negative votes.

“You are a Program Synthesizer” by James Koppel - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldkF-4WNZqA

“Shaping our children’s education in computing” by Simon Peyton Jones - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-xgWLYQc4g

AI and the Trolley Problem | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2018/10/17/ai-and-the-trolley-problem-pat-cadigan/

Is there a good spotify playlist of novelty covers? (By which I mean: covers of songs that diverge substantially in style from the original, not covers of novelty songs)

THE MEDIA BUSINESS: Encountering The Digital Age – An occasional look at computers in everday life.; Potboiler Springs From Computer’s Loins - The New Yor… https://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/02/us/media-business-encountering-digital-age-occasional-look-computers-everday-life.html

Enjoying High-Res Graphics on a Text-Only TRS-80 Model 4 from 1983 | Byte Cellar http://www.bytecellar.com/2018/10/17/enjoying-high-res-graphics-on-a-text-only-trs-80-model-4-from-1983/

Band name of the day: fish bulletin

Robin “Sourdough” Sloan is using a machine-learning autocomplete system to write his next novel / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/10/19/t9-for-auteurs.html

The only thing scarier than the first 90% is the last 90%

twitch plays gnomic

twitch plays the glass bead game

Band name of the day: meat vision & jacked

Band name of the day: gatorvision

Bad idea of the day: twitch plays strip poker

Bad idea of the day: twitch plays cards against humanity

Bad idea of the day: twitch plays exquisite corpse

DisneyQuest is dead, and Disney’s VR experiments are gone with it - Polygon https://www.polygon.com/features/2018/10/18/17888722/disneyquest-disney-vr-closed

What It Takes to Build an Anarchist Desert Town - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/slab-city-library-photos

Letting neural networks be weird • Neural Horror Picture Show http://aiweirdness.com/post/179211399427/neural-horror-picture-show

Band name of the day: honey & darkness

Band name of the day: passion owl

Band name of the day: the haunting of flesh show

Falsehoods Programmers Believe about Garbage Collection — Paul Bone http://paul.bone.id.au/2018/10/19/gc-falsehoods/

Staple History: Maybe Royalty Wasn’t Involved https://tedium.co/2018/10/18/stapler-history-office-supplies/

CEOs should have been the fall guys; why are they still heroes? | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/ceos-should-have-been-the-fall-guys-why-are-they-still-heroes

It’s a crime that Stephen King has a band & it’s not called Richard Bachman Turner Overdrive

This Old Lisp http://thisoldlisp.com/talks/els-2018/

Bad idea of the day: an extension that replaces ‘OK’ on every button with ‘Dolt’, like God & the original Macintosh UI team intended

Calculus Made Easy http://calculusmadeeasy.org/

Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House Finds the Beating Heart of Shirley Jackson’s Tale | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2018/10/16/netflixs-the-haunting-of-hill-house-finds-the-beating-heart-of-shirley-jacksons-tale/

Fromage Fort Is an Amazing Spread Made From Cheese Plate Scraps https://skillet.lifehacker.com/fromage-fort-is-an-amazing-spread-made-from-cheese-plat-1821052207

Why Caffeine Pills Are Better Than Coffee https://lifehacker.com/in-defense-of-caffeine-pills-1828501954

Rockstar developers speak out about “100-hour weeks” comment | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/10/red-dead-redemption-2-devs-say-quoted-100-hour-weeks-arent-the-norm/

Cops Are Set Up to Be Dangerously Bad Shots - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/cops-are-set-up-to-be-dangerously-bad-shots

Do you (mis)remember modern rock and roll radio? http://www.its-her-factory.com/2018/10/do-you-misremember-modern-rock-and-roll-radio/

The Quietus | Opinion | The Quietus Essay | Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Musical Challenges to Copyright(ed) Culture http://thequietus.com/articles/25494-music-copyright-jamaica-dub

Band name of the day: necrocracy

Bad idea of the day: serious & well-researched answers to stupid questions, as a podcast