Band name of the day: The Faceless

Band name of the day: a disco in hell

The Quietus | Features | A Quietus Interview | How Can I Light Myself On Fire To Get You To Listen? NIN Interviewed http://thequietus.com/articles/25050-nine-inch-nails-trent-reznor-interview-bad-witch

Who the heck decided that everybody who listens to podcasts is in the market for a new mattress?

Escaping the Default Future When Writing Science Fiction | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2018/08/16/escaping-the-default-future-when-writing-science-fiction/

The Secret Meanings Behind the Beasts in a Medieval Menagerie - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/medieval-bestiary-allegories

The Vintage Japanese Copy Machine Enjoying an Artistic Renaissance - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/risograph-machines

This is what filter bubbles actually look like - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611807/this-is-what-filter-bubbles-actually-look-like/

Mod and Remainder are not the Same – Rob Conery https://rob.conery.io/2018/08/21/mod-and-remainder-are-not-the-same/

Band name of the day: the potential carcasses

Hot take: when a type of work is no longer necessary, it becomes a hobby or luxury/artisinal work, & this is good for everybody involved.

1. Int. Low & No Budget film-sharing Festival 2018 - FilmFreeway https://filmfreeway.com/film-sharing

Bad idea of the day: ‘twitch writes a novel’: the previous ~15 words are shown & the top ~20 next words based on a markov model of some corpus are voted on over a 2 minute period (going to the first item, if no votes are cast) until 50k words are written.

Recognition Models: Scale World War Miniatures Used to Tell Friends from Foes - 99% Invisible https://99percentinvisible.org/article/recognition-models-scale-world-war-miniatures-used-to-tell-friends-from-foes/

Bad idea of the day: disguise copies of bolo’bolo as constitution pamphlets

What algorithmic art can teach us about artificial intelligence - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/21/17761424/ai-algorithm-art-machine-vision-perception-tom-white-treachery-imagenet

Don’t Do This in Production · Stephen Mann https://stephenmann.io/post/dont-do-this-in-production/

Serial Box creates books for the age of Peak TV - Vox https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/8/6/16849756/serial-box-serialized-books-peak-tv

Stooge Story https://tedium.co/2018/08/21/three-stooges-history/

Band name of the day: the irreconcilable gap

The Problem With Anime Subtitles - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo4BrhIFcmo

Letting neural networks be weird — This AI is bad at drawing but will try anyways. http://aiweirdness.com/post/177091486527/this-ai-is-bad-at-drawing-but-will-try-anyways/amp

Bad idea of the day: Select a bunch of positions, and pay people on mechanical turk to identify the strongest arguments for & against that position they can think of.

Modern horror films are finding their scares in dead phone batteries - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/16/17675474/modern-horror-films-dead-cell-phone-trope-isolation

Karl Marx removes his gloves to reveal knuckle tattoos: THEORY on the left hand and PRAXIS on the right. He removes his shirt and two extra arms unfold from his back: THESIS on the left arm’s knuckles and ANTITHESIS on the right. ‘Time to synthesize’, he says.

On Not Being Able to Read https://longreads.com/2018/08/14/on-not-being-able-to-read/

Bad idea of the day: A movie podcast where the host double-features the Nth best-rated and Nth worst-rated movies on IMDB & compares them.

A comprehensive guide to yellow stripey things https://kottke.org/18/08/a-comprehensive-guide-to-yellow-stripey-things

Pop Songs Written by Native Speakers of Swedish https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/08/15/pop-songs-in-english-written-by-native-speakers-of-swedish/

Band name of the day: the unreal city

Band name of the day: nuclear battle mole

Odd Numbers “ Real Life http://reallifemag.com/odd-numbers/

Uncle Buddy’s Phantom Funhouse : John McDaid : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/unclebuddy

Russian Cosmism Versus Interstellar Bosses: Reclaiming Full-Throttle Luxury Space Communism - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/russian-cosmism-versus-interstellar-bosses-reclaiming-full-throttle-luxury-space-communism/

So, the Pseudomonarchia is like A Thing in anime, isn’t it… Using goetic demons as comic relief characters is something I see occasionally but it wasn’t until You’re Being Summoned, Azazel! that I realized that it wasn’t just like 3 guys doing it.

On Reading Hypertext : JMax : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/hypercard_on-reading-hypertext

Another way to talk about Maybe Logic re: map-territory confusion: a lot of people don’t put error bars on their imagination. So, they make a prediction, the universe says ‘nope’, and they’ve got no idea where to start debugging bc every inference looks equally strong

The human condition: weaker than a lever, dumber than a calculator, worse memory than a notebook, and less creative than a pair of dice

Translit is a little like bittorrent, if bittorrent used literally the same bytes for AMVs and trailers as for the corresponding scenes in the show/movie. Transcopyright is like assembling AMVs from your own DVD boxed set based on a list of instructions & leaving a gap if you’re missing a disk.

VLC logic: doubleclick toggles fullscreen but each single click in that double click still also toggles playback, so toggling fullscreen causes you play for 1/8 of a second

Take a look at pubsub on IPFS https://ipfs.io/blog/25-pubsub/

Hot take: stuff happens for a reason, but that reason is very often stupid. Before dismissing a thing, figure out the best possible reason for it & see if it’s stupid. Before defending a thing, ditto.

Band name of the day: naturally occurring-interaction of gears, levers, and pulleys

Dataspace 10: An Array Representation | Natepod http://natecull.org/wordpress/2018/08/16/dataspace-10-an-array-representation/

What’s On My Mind http://www.xanadu.com.au/ted/zigzag/xybrap.html

Hey guys any of you have an idea why the udev daemon is pinned slightly above 100% CPU like all the time now?

This is a very hot take and also not a new one but here we go: the goal of a properly functioning software engineer is to obviate themselves, not by solving the customer’s specific problems but by blurring the line between using a computer and programming one to the point where users can solve their own problems.

What Am I Worth to Advertisers? My Obsessive Quest to Put a Price on My Attention https://gizmodo.com/what-am-i-worth-to-advertisers-my-obsessive-quest-to-p-1828343202

Dataspace 9: A Tower of Nulls, And Awkward Sets | Natepod http://natecull.org/wordpress/2017/07/13/dataspace-9-a-tower-of-nulls-and-awkward-sets/

Dataspace 8: Example: Movie data | Natepod http://natecull.org/wordpress/2017/07/11/dataspace-8-example-movie-data/

Dataspace 7: A Low-Level Encoding | Natepod http://natecull.org/wordpress/2017/07/10/dataspace-7-a-low-level-encoding/

Dataspace 6: Terms as Types | Natepod http://natecull.org/wordpress/2017/07/10/dataspace-6-terms-as-types/

Dataspace 5: Introducing /all | Natepod http://natecull.org/wordpress/2017/07/09/dataspace-5/

When you don’t think cybernetically, you ask questions like ‘did X cause Y or did Y cause X’ when actually most persistent things have self-perpetuating loops and cause themselves/each other. This will mystify you because aristotlean ‘first cause’ hierarchy shit baked your brain.

Dataspace 4: The Term-inator | Natepod http://natecull.org/wordpress/2017/07/06/dataspace-4/

Dataspace 3: It Came from the S-Expressions | Natepod http://natecull.org/wordpress/2017/07/06/dataspace-3/

Dataspace 2: Revenge of the Data Model | Natepod http://natecull.org/wordpress/2017/07/06/dataspace-2/

Band name of the day: negative limbic arousal

Dataspace 1: In Search of a Data Model | Natepod http://natecull.org/wordpress/2017/07/05/dataspace-1/

Dataspace 1: In Search of a Data Model | Natepod http://natecull.org/wordpress/2017/07/05/dataspace-1/

Portable Distributed Objects - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Distributed_Objects

Dataspace 0: Those Memex Dreams Again | Natepod http://natecull.org/wordpress/2017/06/26/dataspace-0/

So I accidentally wrote a book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1718167423?ref_=pe_870760_150889320

Band name of the day: Vengeful Piss Camel

Band name of the day: chemically peculiar

If ‘Evil Maid Attack’ doesn’t literally become the name of an anime soon what is the industry even doing? It’s right there.

tinywm http://incise.org/tinywm.html

Band name of the day: no crew for your heart

tired: refering to bitcoin as ‘fake internet money’

Mailbag: Applying Filters to Character Dialogue | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2018/05/08/mailbag-applying-filters-to-character-dialogue/

Band name of the day: the eighteen minute gap

GitHub - joukos/PaperTTY: PaperTTY - Python module to render a TTY on e-ink https://github.com/joukos/PaperTTY

Theory of Hypertext Systems: Article by Jakob Nielsen https://www.nngroup.com/articles/architectural-component-hypertext-systems/

“the Web never adopted fundamental findings from hypertext widely” YEAHH YOU TELL ‘EM Atzenback et al. (2017) (pp35-36)!

The Dying Art of Anime Music Videos - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qcuJM1H_lQ

What It’s Like to Download Your Facebook Data - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/09/download-your-facebook-data/565736/

Is This the End of the TV Writers’ Room as We Know It? | Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/08/the-end-of-the-tv-writers-room-as-we-know-it-mini-rooms

It would be a lot more interesting if, instead of Sinclair Broadcasting Corp, all our local TV stations were owned by Sir Clive Sinclair

Gary Lachman on Dark Star Rising, Trump, and the Occult - Reality Sandwich http://realitysandwich.com/323117/gary-lachman-dark-star-rising-trump-occult/

Why is Amazon adapting Strange Angel when Sex and Rockets is the clearly superior Parsons biography?

That book the protagonist of The Gernsback Continuum was doing apparently came out lol https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/most-beautiful-gas-station-design

See No Evil https://logicmag.io/04-see-no-evil/

The 10:1 rule of writing and programming https://www.ybrikman.com/writing/2018/08/12/the-10-to-1-rule-of-writing-and-programming/

The End of Internet History and the Last Ad - Rambling Space https://ramblingspace.com/posts/end-internet-history-last-ad/

Enya is always out of reach | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/5767/enya-very-intriguing-person

1/0 = 0 • Hillel Wayne https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/divide-by-zero/

Band name of the day: vintage skull imagery

it’s kind of amazing how much better Yuuna & the Haunted Onsen is than Ah My Buddha or Love Hina

Pet peeve: when people are so used to the model of defense against the strongest possible adversary that, in the case where that’s not possible, they consider smaller guarantees useless. Things don’t need to exist at google scale.

Pet peeve: when people conflate correctness with secrecy. Crypto can provide both, but the two are actually often in conflict. Please, think about the mechanisms you’re using systematically & also with respect to your actual threat model.

COMPRESS;d e c o m p r e s s - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZP_xG6yVKA

Band name of the day: angry goat terror

Abbot and Costello Meet Grave Consequences

See No Evil https://logicmag.io/04-see-no-evil/

CABINET // The Illusionistic Magic of Geometric Figuring http://cabinetmagazine.org/issues/26/wertheim.php

Hot take: smashing the state of mind (i.e., producing the mental and cultural conditions for statelessness) goes beyond class consciousness & requires almost everybody to ‘get’ social dynamics in cybernetic terms, at scale. It’s an anti-specialization; heuristics won’t suffice. Communities exist that already do this (ex., kink).

The Podcasting Puppet Master https://tedium.co/2018/08/09/mst3k-puppeteer-interview/

Somehow, http://www.lord-enki.net/medium-backup/2016-09-01_A-Qualified-Defense-of-Jargon—Other-In-Group-Signifiers-2fe2cd37b66b.html is getting a lot of hate. I thought it was pretty even-handed. Do people dislike it because I said culture fit should only matter when it impacts effectiveness, or that it’s useful at all?

What You Found In 3 Million Russian Troll Tweets | FiveThirtyEight https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-you-found-in-3-million-russian-troll-tweets/

Band name of the day: the extremely legal