An empirical analysis of anonymity in Zcash | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/09/14/an-empirical-analysis-of-anonymity-in-zcash/

Band name of the day: the banana nightcap

Advertising is obsolete “ here’s why it’s time to end it https://theconversation.com/advertising-is-obsolete-heres-why-its-time-to-end-it-101639

Band name of the day: the diseased

Band name of the day: counterfeit infinity

Bad idea of the day: Current prisoners have mandatory voting while non-prisoners (including ex-prisoners) have the option to vote

Aquarius Rising | by Jackson Lears | The New York Review of Books https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/09/27/1968-aquarius-rising/

Marx Part 1: Labour & Class Conflict | Philosophy Tube - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWF_0lkBhjY&list=PLvoAL-KSZ32f2WAqejJdLM2ByZWKpREt8

Under the Influence: Joachim Trier on DON’T LOOK NOW - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASj2ZCezQi8

Let’s bring back the Sabbath as a radical act against ‘total work’ | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/lets-bring-back-the-sabbath-as-a-radical-act-against-total-work

Should People in Prison have a Right to Vote? | Philosophy Tube - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXXZucuS7s4

Band name of the day: radical pro-crime agenda

LGR Tech Tales - The First Robot Ever Arrested: DC-2 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdjzmmcJgDM

When Will Security Go Back to Normal? | Philosophy Tube - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyzd_a6vLWY

The (De-)Evolution of Tsundere - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIN1CS0Ixwo

TFW you’re trying to balance your desire to recommend a long list of books on some subject with your distaste for the concept of a canon, and then realize that it’s probably OK because you don’t have enough power to impact what people actually read

The Wild, Baffling, and Sometimes Terrifying History of Crypto-Anarchy https://breakermag.com/the-wild-baffling-and-sometimes-terrifying-history-of-crypto-anarchy/

Splain it to Me | Status 451 https://status451.com/2016/01/06/splain-it-to-me/

VCR Board Games: Only One Way This Will End https://tedium.co/2018/09/13/vcr-board-games-history/

Peer-to https://peer-to.peer-to-peer-web.com/

Cicada 3301: An Internet Mystery - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2O7blSSzpI

Band name of the day: domestication syndrome

David Bunch’s Prophetic Dystopia | by Jeff VanderMeer | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/09/12/david-bunchs-prophetic-dystopia/

Band name of the day: conspiracy to riot

Since homing pigeons are extinct, I guess we will need to distribute our SSB micro flash cards via trained falcon.

The Philosophy of Antifa | Philosophy Tube - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgwS_FMZ3nQ

A Critique of Stephen Hicks’ “Explaining Postmodernism” - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHtvTGaPzF4

Elon Musk | Philosophy Tube - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gnlhmaM-dM

Deconstruction - Stanley Fish - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkvdxS4d0yY

YouTube: Manufacturing Authenticity (For Fun and Profit!) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FJEtCvb2Kw

“I doubt me an it be commercial.” - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/09/i-doubt-me-an-it-be-commercial.html

Sergei Skripal and the Russian disinformation game - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45454142

How Money Affects Elections | FiveThirtyEight https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/money-and-elections-a-complicated-love-story/

un-real.fun http://un-real.fun/

Lisa Hanawalt of BoJack Horseman Talks to Heather Havrilesky https://www.thecut.com/2018/09/lisa-hanawalt-of-bojack-horseman-talks-to-heather-havrilesky.html

What happens when you set foot on absofreakinglutely nothing? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/what-happens-when-you-set-foot-on-absofreakinglutely-nothing

Gaia: why some scientists think it’s a nonsensical fantasy | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/gaia-why-some-scientists-think-it-s-a-nonsensical-fantasy

How psychoanalysis came to Japan and was turned on its head | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-psychoanalysis-came-to-japan-and-was-turned-on-its-head

Intro to Hegel (& Progressive Politics) | Philosophy Tube - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgNt1C72B_4

A Time-Twisting Visit to the Museum of Capitalism - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/museum-of-capitalism-boston

Hyperstition: MEGALITHIC ASTROPUNK http://hyperstition.abstractdynamics.org/archives/004932.html

Film Composition: The Subtle Art of Cinematic Scores https://tedium.co/2018/09/06/film-composition-subtle-art/

Inauthentic Behavior https://longreads.com/2018/09/04/inauthentic-behavior/

Band name of the day: invasive reptiles

Hack everything without fear | Drew DeVault’s Blog https://drewdevault.com/2018/03/17/Hack-everything-without-fear.html

Bitcoin Bodice Rippers Are Romance’s Most Sizzling New Subgenre https://breakermag.com/bitcoin-bodice-rippers-are-romances-most-sizzling-new-subgenre/

Generative Art Finds Its Prodigy “ Artnome https://www.artnome.com/news/2018/8/8/generative-art-finds-its-prodigy

SUSPIRIA - 40th Anniversary 4K Restoration Trailer (2017) | HD - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y0EEqtWrJI

Satoshi Kon and Why Love Is All You Need: Ep. 2 - Millennium Actress - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dfn-yMmvis

Anatomy of an AI System https://anatomyof.ai/

Book idea (high effort, dunno if I’ll do it): a survey of alternative computing systems in the style of Seven Languages in Seven Weeks. What should I include other than smalltalk, colorforth, oberon, templeos, and menuet?

The Technicolor Nightmares of Suspiria - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrcqxqsJSD4

The Servers Are Burning https://logicmag.io/05-the-servers-are-burning/

GitHub - dominictarr/your-web-app-is-bloated: measuring memory usage of popular webapps https://github.com/dominictarr/your-web-app-is-bloated

Dear Ranma, maybe if you have sudden traumatic gender transformations when wet don’t travel primarily by running along the top of a fence by a riverbank.

Band name of the day: ownership of the dead

QOTD: ‘The web is broken because it is a half-hearted, incomplete implementation of Xanadu.’ (Source: https://dev.to/tux0r/comment/586n)

QOTD: ‘I am now at work on an apparatus by means of which, when it is perfected, I hope to manifest in their essential purity the radiations of malign force.’

Who Are the Forgotten Greats of Science Fiction? | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2018/09/04/who-are-the-forgotten-greats-of-science-fiction/

It’s not that anonymity produces bad behavior, but that the absence of the ability to ignore or remove bad actors makes it difficult to prevent bad behavior, and persistent names assigned to persistent identities provides a convenient handle for dealing with individual bad actors.

The Coral Project Notes https://frnsys.com/coral/

Le Corbusier’s Special Measuring Tape Is Making a Comeback - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/le-corbusiers-modulor-rule

Software Rot and Classes of Rot Resistance · InductiveComputerScience/progsbase Wiki · GitHub https://github.com/InductiveComputerScience/progsbase/wiki/Software-Rot-and-Classes-of-Rot-Resistance

Cowards and Trolls Log Off: Dril’s New Book Is Awesome - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qvmqew/dril-new-book-tweets-interview

Researchers show Alexa “skill squatting” could hijack voice commands | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/08/researchers-show-alexa-skill-squatting-could-hijack-voice-commands/

Post-apocalyptic Weaving on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/258513340

Valve: ‘It Really Does Seem Bad Games Are Made by Bad People’ - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kmej7/valve-it-really-does-seem-bad-games-are-made-by-bad-people

Deep Laziness https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/04/06/deep-laziness/

Numbers Every Programmer Should Know By Year https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~rcs/research/interactive_latency.html

Suffering-oriented programming - thoughts from the red planet - thoughts from the red planet http://nathanmarz.com/blog/suffering-oriented-programming.html

GitHub - ThoughtRiver/lmdb-embeddings: Fast word vectors with little memory usage in Python https://github.com/ThoughtRiver/lmdb-embeddings

The Surreal Joys Of The Beautiful Book Of Exquisite Corpses / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/09/05/the-surreal-joys-of-the-beauti.html

This book is pretty good but Alex Wright keeps calling things like codex formats & indices ‘literary hypertext’. No, that’s just text. Yes, I get that hypertext is more text than text; that’s why it’s hyper.

Kabbalah | Pushing Ahead of the Dame https://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/tag/kabbalah/

Band name of the day: scavenger omnivore

Design Justice, A.I., and Escape from the Matrix of Domination https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/costanza-chock

Hot take: the most annoying thing about anti-spoiler behavior is that it protects the kind of bad, shallow media that spoilers actually affect from serious criticism until they have already been consumed.

The Color of Pomegranates: A Failed Video Essay - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MXjUf05HVE

The Art of Good Ecchi - How Not to Summon a Demon Lord - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC6wit4Epeo

Homogeneous Operating Systems Are Better https://ecc-comp.blogspot.com/2014/12/homogeneous-operating-systems-are-better.html

GitHub - flipcoder/textbeat: text music sequencer and midi shell with vim playback https://github.com/flipcoder/textbeat

Disk Compressor History: A Microsoft Antitrust Prelude https://tedium.co/2018/09/04/disk-compression-stacker-doublespace-history/

All It Takes to Create a Ghost Is a Good Story - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/true-ghost-stories-portland-oregon

Decoding the Unusual Shape of the Nepali Flag - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/nepal-flag-shape

The Thunder Child: Vertlieb’s Views: Dracula in the 1970s: Prints of Darkness http://thethunderchild.com/VertliebsViews/Dracua-PrintsofDarkness.html

Bad idea of the day: a movie musical called Greece, for extra confusion

a stationary bicycle for the mind. (stationery?)

a bicycle for the mind / tanks for the memories

mind over matter works a lot better if you use a hammer

Alejandro Jodorowsky - The Mystic Theatre - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZsAP8VyoO4

Band name of the day: massive bubble phenomenon

Mood:

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Silicon Valley’s attempts to self-police are anti-democratic. They’re also not new. -… https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/silicon-valleys-attempts-to-self-police-are-anti-democratic-theyre-also-not-new/2018/08/17/cd44fb22-9b1d-11e8-843b-36e177f3081c_story.html?noredirect=on

Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy http://www.shirky.com/writings/herecomeseverybody/group_enemy.html

#FolkloreAgainstFascism - The Daily Grail https://www.dailygrail.com/2018/08/folkloreagainstfascism/

♥️ danhon ♥️: “Jurassic Park Common User Interface 1.1b24 https:…” - mastodon.cloud https://mastodon.cloud/@Danhon/100618546995610700

OK, so the next 22 people who click on this link get my book: https://www.amazon.com/ga/p/9035fb092fa86187?ref_=pe_1771210_134854370#ln-en (The two previous giveaways only gave out one book, which is stupid.)

The Paradox of Karl Popper - Scientific American Blog Network https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/the-paradox-of-karl-popper/

Band name of the day: feathered death garlands

403 Forbidden http://www.os2museum.com/wp/the-history-of-a-security-hole/