Where Vim Came From https://twobithistory.org/2018/08/05/where-vim-came-from.html

Notes from Dynamicland: Geokit https://rsnous.com/posts/notes-from-dynamicland-geokit/

Center for a Stateless Society » Long Live Anarchy: An Interview With Robert Anton Wilson (Part 2) https://c4ss.org/content/46540

Center for a Stateless Society » Long Live Anarchy: An Interview with Robert Anton Wilson (Part 1) https://c4ss.org/content/46524

An Interactive Introduction to Attractor Landscapes https://ncase.me/attractors/

If you need stock background footage of nukes, you could do worse than https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvGO_dWo8VfcmG166wKRy5z-GlJ_OQND5 which I think are probably public domain since they’re government-recorded

Band name of the day: the most powerful living cat

Let Me Tell You - Uncanny Magazine https://uncannymagazine.com/article/let-me-tell-you/

It’s not just that press coverage of things you already know about is bad. You only notice it when you know more about it than the journalist – who is a professional outsider. Question is: when the author knows slightly more than you do, would you like them to dive deeper?

Band name of the day: the century of the exploding everything

Pet peeve: the 6+ news outlets that titled their coverage of OXU in 2014 as ‘Software project gets release after 54 years’ as though there wasn’t a release in 1999, another in 2007, one in 2014, and one in 2016 (and this is just the translit & just the stuff you can download now)

The thing that worries me about MovieBob’s ‘man thought’ pilot is that up until the last few minutes poe’s law is in effect way too much and it’s just indistinguishable from the shit he’s making fun of

If I ever make a horror move, its tagline will be ‘All the gore, none of the plot’ even if it has a plot.

Twitter’s new developer guidelines might end fun bot accounts. https://slate.com/technology/2018/08/twitters-new-developer-guidelines-might-end-fun-bot-accounts.html

CASTLE FREAK - Remote Residency for Generative Literature | inside the castle http://www.insidethecastle.org/castle-freak/

How to make your own Xanadu demo · GitHub https://gist.github.com/ldodds/a7f901c7f0118e83a645

mods are a sleep and you know what that means: exactly one (1) sleep

Hot take: the existence of garden path sentences tells us that: 1) language isn’t so much a representation of meaning as a way of representing constraints for possible intepretation, and 2) we start processing before all the constraints have arrived

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

Why an interface with only one implementation? https://www.tedinski.com/2018/07/31/interfaces-cutting-dependencies.html

NetZero, Juno: How Free Dial-Up Defined the Early Internet https://tedium.co/2018/08/07/juno-netzero-free-dialup-internet-history/

Sublime Pulp: An Interview with Illustrator Les Edwards https://wearethemutants.com/2016/10/31/sublime-pulp-an-interview-with-illustrator-les-edwards/

The Crack Squad of Librarians Who Track Down Half-Forgotten Books - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/librarian-detectives-forgotten-books

Beckett “ Videogame as Literary Artefact - 3:AM Magazine https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/beckett-videogame-as-literary-artefact/

STEAL THIS SNOWCLONE

How long until somebody starts mining this for lawsuits? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17692005

Band name of the day: duck the momentum

Halloween Special: C. G. Jung’s Spine-Chilling Nights in a ‘Haunted House’ | Forbidden Histories http://www.forbiddenhistories.com/c-g-jung-haunted-house/

Band name of the day: an invitation to bad ideas

How many hackerspaces are selling hats that say ‘MAKE AGAIN’ & thinking they’re clever and the only ones who came up with it?

303 See Other https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05773-y

Forget prophecy: the I Ching is an uncertainty machine | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/forget-prophecy-the-i-ching-is-an-uncertainty-machine

Meet Sphinx: The 30-Year-Old Soviet Smart Home Concept - Soviet Visuals http://sovietvisuals.com/sphinx-soviet-smart-home-concept/

Decentralising the web: Maintaining the momentum https://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/3036546/decentralising-the-web-maintaining-the-momentum

A Couple of Meta-interpreters in Prolog https://www.metalevel.at/acomip/

It‘s Looking Extremely Likely That QAnon Is A Leftist Prank On Trump Supporters https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/its-looking-extremely-likely-that-qanon-is-probably-a

Haskell Works Blog - Introduction to the rank-select bit-string https://haskell-works.github.io/posts/2018-08-01-introduction-to-rank-select-bit-string.html

So you bought a ghost town | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/5605/ghost-town-owners-12-million

Japanese ghost stories dwell in the spirit of their times | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/japanese-ghost-stories-dwell-in-the-spirit-of-their-times

Freeing the Web from the Browser | reinterpretcast.com https://www.reinterpretcast.com/open-hypermedia

Shuffling algorithms and randomization to improve algorithm‘s runtime. - DEV Community ‘‍”‍’ https://dev.to/s_awdesh/everyday-im-shuffling-im-a-card–fire-1f8b

The Victorian Occultist Accused of Killing Men With Her Mind - Broadly https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/mbp7pb/the-victorian-occultist-accused-of-killing-men-with-her-mind

Reasons to shave your head #89492685203: you can obtain a cheesy 70s wig and a knife, and reenact scenes from Blue Sunshine in public

Art by Subtraction. Eat, Consume and Devour: An Essay on How & Why I Wrote Lonely Men Club http://thefanzine.com/art-by-subtraction-eat-consume-and-devour-an-essay-on-how-why-i-wrote-lonely-men-club/

‘Both sides’ implies there are only two sides. There are never only two sides.

Letting neural networks be weird • The first line of a novel, by an improved neural… http://aiweirdness.com/post/168051907512/the-first-line-of-a-novel-by-an-improved-neural

You👏Don’t👏Need👏To👏Avoid👏Repetition👏If👏You👏Can👏Justify👏It👏As👏A👏Rhetorical👏Device👏 #botally #nanogenmo

Episode 1: A Nothing Place by James Ryan | Free Listening on SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/james-ryan-887346009/episode-1-a-nothing-place

Campus free speech problem: left-wingers being fired for their opinions - Vox https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/policy-and-politics/2018/8/3/17644180/political-correctness-free-speech-liberal-data-georgetown

Fate/I Got News For You Bub: We’re Gonna Get A Lot More Extra In Here Starting Now

Fate/Extra? More like, What? You Thought Fate Was Already / Extra

Interview with Fred Turner https://032c.com/fred-turner-silicon-valley-thinks-politics-doesnt-exist

Cool, There’s Water on Mars. But Does It Make Good Pickles? - Gastro Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mars-pickles

“In the World of Film, We’ve Edited out All Rebellion” https://jacobinmag.com/2018/08/sorry-to-bother-you-boots-riley-interview

The internet fuels conspiracy theories “ but not in the way you might imagine https://theconversation.com/amp/the-internet-fuels-conspiracy-theories-but-not-in-the-way-you-might-imagine-98037

Teenager Finds Classical Alternative to Quantum Recommendation Algorithm | Quanta Magazine https://www.quantamagazine.org/teenager-finds-classical-alternative-to-quantum-recommendation-algorithm-20180731/

Sound Design: How Movie-Makers Create The Sound of Violence https://tedium.co/2018/07/31/indiana-jones-sound-design-history/

Disposable Ballpoint Pen History: Pennies on the Dollar https://tedium.co/2018/08/02/disposable-ballpoint-pen-history/

Espionage and the western occult tradition have a LOT of overlap so it’d be a little weird if there weren’t controls & contacts that were practicing mages.

Greenfield maintains the MIB are just really good practicioners of enochian magick. We know from Lachman that sometimes secret chiefs have been enemy spies & occultists ‘useful idiots’ like Bennowitz. What if both?

hey kid wanna buy an infohazard

Feel Good Inc but every word is reversed, yet the melody is still the same - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi5-yi-q2Cs

Band name of the day: harmonious grays

Welcome to SICP Distilled http://www.sicpdistilled.com/

Forget Nick Land; Rigorous Intuition is still my favorite infohazard

Meet the Semionauts – HILOBROW http://hilobrow.com/2010/11/03/meet-the-semionauts/

Band name of the day: carceral archipelago

mnot’s blog: How to Read an RFC https://www.mnot.net/blog/2018/07/31/read_rfc

Video: Grand Central’s Hidden Sub-Basement Has A 102-Year-Old Computer: Gothamist http://gothamist.com/2015/10/15/grand_central_computer_video.php

Mouth Analysis: The Surprising Way Neil Cicierega Navigates Culture - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D-iWeD4SVM

Push Meme To The Edge; All My Faves Are Dead - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G51D51f_WPo

Xanadu Basics 3 - Browser Law - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV_vYkSmkxk

My Hero Academia & The Quest For the Perfect Shounen Anime - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAV1uv3lPBQ

Bad idea of the day: a foot pedal for bold and a second foot pedal for italic

Information Civics https://infocivics.com/

Different Worlds | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/02/different-worlds/

Reality Apathy is like Reality Winner’s depressing mirror-universe counterpart

Band name of the day: condemned to hope forever

Band name of the day: the spirit of gain

The Black Iron Prison – HILOBROW http://hilobrow.com/2011/07/13/the-black-iron-prison/

The slacktivism of Richard Linklater. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/summer_movies/2006/06/watching_the_detectives.html

Band name of the day: Callisto cuddle sponge

Band name of the day: A Romance of Entropy

Band name of the day: the disaster that everted

Band name of the day: the Forgotten Works

New Wave Sci-Fi: 75 Best Novels of 1964”1983 – HILOBROW https://hilobrow.com/new-wave-sci-fi/

Hot take: cybernetics is an extremely powerful model if you understand the feedback mechanisms in place & game theory is an extremely powerful model if you understand the incentives, but you don’t, so be careful & check your work

Donald Glover’s ‘Community’ Exit And The Evolution Of The End Tags https://uproxx.com/tv/donald-glover-end-tags-giant-hand-dan-harmon/

It seems like every time I reboot, Ubuntu manages to forget about another piece of hardware I have. First it was the USB controller, then the wifi (still not fixed), and now it’s my sound card.

Slack as group mind https://abe-winter.github.io/2018/07/31/group-mind.html

Prospecting for Hash Functions « null program https://nullprogram.com/blog/2018/07/31/

Just Randomness? “ Real Life http://reallifemag.com/just-randomness/

Hot take: in a system where both success and failure compound themselves & affect later likelihood of success & failure respectively, even extreme outcome variation is best explained by random fluctuations early in the process

Bo Burnham and the Illusion of Meritocracy - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus http://nautil.us/blog/bo-burnham-and-the-illusion-of-meritocracy

Why Hostility Can Bring People Closer Together - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-hostility-can-bring-people-closer-together/

Ready Player One is the roadmap to digital dystopia - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/19/17250892/ready-player-one-book-facebook-internet-dystopia

The Bullshit Web — Pixel Envy https://pxlnv.com/blog/bullshit-web/

The Environment is Not a System | a peer-reviewed journal about_ http://www.aprja.net/the-environment-is-not-a-system/

Bad idea of the day: pay a million-account botnet to all change their display names to Elon Musk simultaneously

Ringer Top 100 TV Episodes: When Do TV Shows Peak? - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/7/31/17628494/when-do-tv-shows-peak