Which Side Are They On? | David A. Banks https://thebaffler.com/latest/which-side-are-they-on-banks
Same Difference “ Real Life http://reallifemag.com/same-difference/
Slow movement (culture) - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_movement_(culture)
Censorship Project + A Brief History of Book Burning – Ex Urbe https://www.exurbe.com/censorship-project-a-brief-history-of-book-burning/
Band name of the day: rivers of pitch
Band name of the day: the monstrous burst
Maybe the difficulty in describing the hounds of tindalos is that all those sharp angles prevent them from being… differentiated. badum-tish
Band name of the day: the bottom of creation
Band name of the day: the lean and athirst
Common Cyborg | Jillian Weise | Granta https://granta.com/common-cyborg/
Announcing Hyperswarm https://pfrazee.hashbase.io/blog/hyperswarm
miniKanren: an interactive Tutorial http://io.livecode.ch/learn/webyrd/webmk
The design and implementation of modern column-oriented database systems | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/09/26/the-design-and-implementation-of-modern-column-oriented-database-systems/
Why targeted Facebook ads are so weirdly personal - Vox https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/9/25/17887796/facebook-ad-targeted-algorithm
The Problem With APLs • Hillel Wayne https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/the-problem-with-apls/
OPENSTEP Installation Guide http://openstep.bfx.re/
TextWorld (Inform 7 & machine learning) | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2018/09/25/textworld-inform-7-machine-learning/
LOW←TECH MAGAZINE https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/09/how-to-build-a-lowtech-website/
Band name of the day: pure duration
Band name of the day: the deadly silences
Band name of the day: dead instrument
They used Saint Pepsi as hold music, not Macintosh Plus. No one noticed.
Band name of the day: london after midnight
Hot take: only buy video games made by personal friends.
With his new all-red-meat diet, Jordan Peterson can no longer consume the flesh of the lobster and thus, by showing his dominance over it, gain its immortality.
Computers can solve your problem. You may not like the answer. - The Boston Globe https://apps.bostonglobe.com/ideas/graphics/2018/09/equity-machine/
The Great Mortality “ Real Life http://reallifemag.com/the-great-mortality/
Moderan reads like if dril was a battle-cyborg & tried to write his autobiography but kept on getting distracted by how COOL it is to PLASTIC-WRAP THE EARTH.
Neoliberalism, World Music and Corporate Aesthetics - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sCRcfYRslg
PARALLEL HISTORY! (A text in Japanese.) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDD3amMV25g
Why the high-tech ideas of ‘Bucky’ Fuller are back in vogue | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/why-the-high-tech-ideas-of-bucky-fuller-are-back-in-vogue
Why does keeping a bird in a cage make people happy? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/why-does-keeping-a-bird-in-a-cage-make-people-happy
Think Entangled, Act Spooky https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/09/11/think-entangled-act-spooky/
A Response to Yuval Harari’s ‘Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind’ > C. R. Hallpike https://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm?sec_id=189085
The Scent of Bad Psychology – Put A Number On It! https://putanumonit.com/2018/09/07/the-scent-of-bad-psychology/
Dodo Thoughts https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/09/20/dodo-thoughts/
Gutenberg:The History and Philosophy of Project Gutenberg by Michael Hart - Gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:The_History_and_Philosophy_of_Project_Gutenberg_by_Michael_Hart
The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-deliberate-awfulness-of-social-media
Band name of the day: extremely normal website
Making bad puns and then learning hidden truths by taking them too seriously is, basically, the most human form of human intelligence. That’s why we make fun of people for doing it. Dad jokes are the foundation of cognition.
Hot take: disambiguation in symbolic AI is probably a mistake, & we’d be better off with systems that pun uncontrollably because they operate on the locus of concepts rather than on their boundaries. You know, like a person.
Does philosophy still need mathematics and vice versa? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/does-philosophy-still-need-mathematics-and-vice-versa
Robert Venturi and Learning From Las Vegas: his legacy. https://slate.com/business/2018/09/robert-venturi-architect-las-vegas-lessons-obituary.html
Do my Homework - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/09/do-my-homework.html
Can somebody with access to SciAm or Nature summarize the substance of this SciAm article ‘Subliminal Messages Can Cause Forgetting’ for me? Is it just something stupid like ‘priming can interfere with reencoding via jamais-vu’?
OLIVE: a system for emulating old OSes on old processors that saves old data from extinction / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/09/22/preserving-digital-heritage.html
Concurrent and Distributed Programming in Web Prolog https://bluishcoder.co.nz/2018/09/24/concurrent-and-distributed-programming-in-web-prolog.html
GUIdebook > Articles > “Inventing the Lisa User Interface” https://guidebookgallery.org/articles/inventingthelisauserinterface
How to Suffer Well: Sympathetic Characterization in Madoka and Magical Girl Site - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kmaba2TopE
GitHub - mewo2/elovitz: Rule-based pronunciation for English https://github.com/mewo2/elovitz
Band name of the day: a creeping naturalism
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Paradox - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlkt5Q9a9Ek
Anime SHOULD BE(and is) POLITICAL - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDQkf-0ke9o
Error 406 - Not Acceptable http://www.iedu.com/Solar/Panels/index.html
Ep. 20: Yasha Levine on Right-Wing Dark Money & the Electronic Frontier Foundation https://parallaxviews.podbean.com/e/ep-20-yasha-levine-on-right-wing-dark-money-the-electronic-frontier-foundation/
exocortex-halo/paywall_breaker at master · virtadpt/exocortex-halo · GitHub https://github.com/virtadpt/exocortex-halo/tree/master/paywall_breaker
In the grim dark future of 2020, nobody goes outside without first applying temporary tattoos of additional eyes to their face. Positioning of these additional eyes must be rotated every few hours for security purposes.
Despite a really crappy title, this is a good article: https://medium.com/s/story/were-primed-to-be-addicted-to-social-media-b6b31cfc4099
Band name of the day: rebound tenderness
Band name of the day: assault on society
DSHR’s Blog: It Isn’t About The Technology https://blog.dshr.org/2018/01/it-isnt-about-technology.html
bootstrapping https://bootstrapping.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page
The Joe Rogan Experience Is a Safe Space to Launder Bad Ideas - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kv9qd/the-joe-rogan-experience-is-a-safe-space-to-launder-bad-ideas
Nitpicker / The Humane Interface http://nitpicker.pbworks.com/w/page/12451253/The%20Humane%20Interface
Band name of the day: the abyssal zone
On Generative Algorithms: Introduction · inconvergent https://inconvergent.net/generative/
Canon Cat Emulation : Jef Raskin : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/canoncat
David Patterson Says It’s Time for New Computer Architectures and Software Languages - IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/computing/hardware/david-patterson-says-its-time-for-new-computer-architectures-and-software-languages
Constraint Solver https://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/constraints/
The Harriet Tubman $20 Stamp https://kottke.org/18/09/the-harriet-tubman-20-stamp
Tell Me It’s Going to be OK | Miya Tokumitsu https://thebaffler.com/salvos/tell-me-its-going-to-be-ok-tokumitsu
A Symposium on The Point of Art - Believer Magazine https://believermag.com/the-point-of-art/
Ghost in a Box: The Haunting History of Television Broadcast Intrusions - The Daily Grail https://www.dailygrail.com/2017/11/ghost-in-a-box-the-haunting-history-of-television-broadcast-intrusions/
Why Bob Vila Left “This Old House” https://tedium.co/2018/09/18/bob-vila-this-old-house-departure/
Unix is not an acceptable Unix | Affording Play http://mkremins.github.io/blog/unix-not-acceptable-unix/
Horror is a dark and piercing reflection of our anxious times | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/horror-is-a-dark-and-piercing-reflection-of-our-anxious-times
On The Road To Chaos In East Berlin (published MONDO 2000 1991) - Mondo 2000 http://www.mondo2000.com/2018/09/17/on-the-road-to-chaos-in-east-berlin-published-mondo-2000-1991/
Media Piracy and Unpronounceable Names - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/09/media-piracy-and-unpronounceab.html
If you mixed human ashes into concrete (say, to make a cornerstone for a building) would the concrete still set properly? How much corpse-ash would you need to add before it started to compromise structural integrity?
How To Kill Your Tech Industry https://logicmag.io/05-how-to-kill-your-tech-industry/
Whatever Happened to the Semantic Web? https://twobithistory.org/2018/05/27/semantic-web.html
The global economy: gamblers betting on the effectiveness of bad assumptions made based on wide but shallow surveillance in influencing the distribution of ads that don’t work for products that nobody wants and nobody can afford to people who are using adblock.
Newton Storage History | Dadhacker http://www.dadhacker.com/blog/?p=948
Why You Should Buy Into the Emacs Platform https://two-wrongs.com/why-you-should-buy-into-the-emacs-platform
The Rise and Demise of RSS https://twobithistory.org/2018/09/16/the-rise-and-demise-of-rss.html
The TTY demystified http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/index.php
iridakos - Creating a bash completion script https://iridakos.com/tutorials/2018/03/01/bash-programmable-completion-tutorial
I’m ambivalent about CloudFlare doing the IPFS gateways, but a lot of IPFS nodes are already running on AWS so I guess the ship has sailed on avoiding corporate data center creep in our p2p systems.
Band name of the day: FLESHCAKE
ZigZag: the BZZ project declares victory, 2010 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUN2DUc5hnk
Hot take: a thick skin is a really useful skill to develop, but having it isn’t really correlated with other useful skills, so we shouldn’t use it as a proxy for who gets to contribute to things.
Pet peeve: folks who identify the neoliberal techno-utopian california-ideology currents with cyberpunk. To the extent that the cyberpunk literary movement had consistent politics, they were critical of Regan-flavored capitalism.
Bad idea of the day: univocalipogram.social
Insufficiently known POSIX shell features - apenwarr https://apenwarr.ca/log/20110228
Band name of the day: a study in confusion and misery
Hot take: the profit motive is incompatible with goals of social equity simply because those who can afford to pay for their services will always be privileged by a profit-motivated organization
Proposal for a book to be adapted into a movie starring Dwayne The Rock Johnson https://www.robinsloan.com/proposal-for-a-book/
Piet Mondrian | Generative Artistry https://generativeartistry.com/tutorials/piet-mondrian/
The Tyranny of Personality Testing | The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/151098/personality-brokers-book-review-invention-myers-briggs-type-indicator