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Advertising is obsolete “ here’s why it’s time to end it https://theconversation.com/advertising-is-obsolete-heres-why-its-time-to-end-it-101639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