Random link from the archives: https://worldwritable.com/https-worldwritable-com-natural-language-processing-for-programmers-world-models-b01943959830 originally archived Wed Jun 20 10:37:12 EDT 2018

I think DEVO might have got their math wrong in We’re Through Being Cool. Have I met 2 dozen members of any social group? That’s like 20% of my dunbar allocation.

Brian Eno is MORE DARK THAN SHARK http://www.moredarkthanshark.org/eno_int_nme-jul79.html

Untold History of AI: When Charles Babbage Played Chess With the Original Mechanical Turk - IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/tech-history/dawn-of-electronics/untold-history-of-ai-charles-babbage-and-the-turk

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Random link from the archives: http://codex99.com/design/the-hp35.html originally archived Tue May 15 12:43:08 EDT 2018

Band name of the day: in the shadow of the destruction machine

Hyperprehistory | the urban prehistorian https://theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2019/03/31/hyperprehistory/

Disability, Humanity, and Assistive Technology in the “Cybernauts” Cycle | Feather Dusters at 400 Yards https://therealavengers.wordpress.com/2019/04/08/disability-humanity-and-assistive-technology-in-the-cybernauts-cycle/

Xanadu Basics 5 - PARALLEL EFFORTS (including one that I missed) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsbrEOxVPcg

Band name of the day: industry plant

Random link from the archives: http://letters.temporarystate.net/entry/4/ originally archived Tue Apr 2 08:29:02 EDT 2019

The Return of Philip K. Dick | RAWilsonFans.org http://rawilsonfans.org/the-return-of-philip-k-dick/

3D Animation | Anime Has A Bright Digital Future - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRA8N0R81fc

Let’s Discuss Horror | CRISWELL | Cinema Cartography - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cryX-ZU1h0

Capitalism, Cultural Disintegration, and Buzzfeed - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9srhgHzUFd4

Machine (機械) Sakuga MAD - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9lT5MshbXI

Band name of the day: gore files

An immutable operating system (August Lilleaas’ blog) https://augustl.com/blog/2014/an_immutable_operating_system/

The thing about FMV is that it’s a lot tougher to make a full FMV game all by yourself than it is to make a VN that way. To make a VN on your own, you just need to be a programmer, musician, author, and visual artist.

Pickman’s Model, except it’s about pitman shorthand, and the demons are all also lawyers

Foxconn is confusing the hell out of Wisconsin - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/10/18296793/foxconn-wisconsin-location-factory-innovation-centers-technology-hub-no-news

SAID: mental pens

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Base Culture | Issue 33 | n+1 https://nplusonemag.com/issue-33/essays/base-culture/

Go Left Dems, The ‘Center’ Is Just GOP-Lite https://peterdaou.com/go-left-dems/

GitHub - dsw/proquint: Proquints: Identifiers that are Readable, Spellable, and Pronounceable. https://github.com/dsw/proquint

Random link from the archives: https://tedium.co/2017/10/24/public-domain-film-history-copyright/ originally archived Thu Oct 26 08:16:35 EDT 2017

The American Worth Ethic https://longreads.com/2019/04/08/the-american-worth-ethic/

pen computing (computing with stylus input) vs pen computing (computing while fenced into a small space)

Apple Has Been Struggling with the Stylus for 20 Years - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xw8pgn/apple-has-been-struggling-with-the-stylus-for-20-years

Windows 3.1 Obscurities: Tandy’s Greatest Flop, Commodore’s Zombie https://tedium.co/2019/04/09/windows-3.1-obscurities

Apparently, not only is Netflix making more FMV VNs, but Youtube Red is going to produce some too? As a VN author I can’t complain too much but jesus are we in 1993 again? The return to forgotten history in the tech industry gives me whiplash

Org-Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only/

foglet swarms IN SPACE

Don’t trust the locals: investigating the prevalence of persistent client-side cross-site scripting in the wild | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/04/10/dont-trust-the-locals:-investigating-the-prevalence-of-persistent-client-side-cross-site-scripting-in-the-wild/

Dario Argento’s Dreadful Bond by Clod Studio — Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dreadfulbond/dario-argentos-dreadful-bond

One of the things that’s striking about Netflix’s Sabrina is how good it is compared to how good it really needed to be to turn a profit.

Random link from the archives: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezSdQ63phFw originally archived Sun Dec 10 18:49:17 EST 2017

Periodic reminder: the 2019 No-Budget Film Contest starts accepting submissions on April 20th https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2019-no-budget-film-contest-d7eb339a3ed5

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Random link from the archives: http://www.forbiddenhistories.com/c-g-jung-haunted-house/ originally archived Tue Aug 7 10:25:26 EDT 2018

Electric Velomobiles: as Fast and Comfortable as Automobiles, but 80 times more Efficient | LOW←TECH MAGAZINE https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2012/10/electric-velomobiles.html

Devo - Growing Pains - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmz_xrjV1MQ

The 4G Mobile Internet That’s Already There | LOW←TECH MAGAZINE https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/10/the-4g-mobile-internet-thats-already-there.html

for somebody with no interest in actually making movies, I sure do read a lot of books about how to write screenplays

Random link from the archives: https://aeon.co/ideas/gossip-was-a-powerful-tool-for-the-powerless-in-ancient-greece originally archived Fri Feb 1 12:13:36 EST 2019

Philosophical writing should read like a letter written to oneself | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/philosophical-writing-should-read-like-a-letter-written-to-oneself

Band name of the day: the salmon street satans

The future of news is conversation in small groups with trusted voices – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/07/stuck-at-the-sushi-boat-bar-of-news/

On the Existence of Powerful Natural Languages - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Language

Littlewood’s Law and the Global Media - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Littlewood

Medieval people were surprisingly clean (apart from the clergy) | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/medieval-people-were-surprisingly-clean-apart-from-the-clergy

GPT-2 Neural Network Poetry - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/GPT-2

Who the heck decided to call it ThisWaifuDoesNotExist and not SenpAI?

Making Anime Faces With StyleGAN - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Faces

Learn more programming languages, even if you won’t use them - Thorsten Ball https://thorstenball.com/blog/2019/04/09/learn-more-programming-languages/

Shenmue’s Much-Hated Forklifts Feel Revolutionary Today https://kotaku.com/shenmues-much-hated-forklifts-feel-revolutionary-today-1833817433

Building the System/360 Mainframe Nearly Destroyed IBM - IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/silicon-revolution/building-the-system360-mainframe-nearly-destroyed-ibm

Why Correlation Usually ≠ Causation: Causal Nets Cause Common Confounding - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Causality

Everything Is Correlated - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Everything

DEVO - Booji Boy’s Funeral - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os5uqOsRmBA

Band name of the day: filth as sign of devotion

GitHub - NARKOZ/hacker-scripts: Based on a true story https://github.com/NARKOZ/hacker-scripts

Monte Carlo Compiler Collection (MCCC)

OOP Before OOP with Simula https://twobithistory.org/2019/01/31/simula.html

King Crimson to Stream All Studio Albums on Spotify – Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/king-crimson-albums-streaming-spotify-818686/

How Did Conspiracy Theories Come to Dominate American Culture? | Literary Hub https://lithub.com/how-did-conspiracy-theories-come-to-dominate-american-culture/

demystify before you remystify, so that it doesn’t just remain mysterious forever for no reason

The best part about Dare To Be Stupid is that it’s not a parody of a DEVO song, but a legit DEVO song that just so happens to be made by Weird Al instead of Gerald Casale.

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Codecademy vs. The BBC Micro https://twobithistory.org/2019/03/31/bbc-micro.html

How to Do Nothing: Jenny Odell’s case for resisting “The Attention Economy” / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/04/09/resisting-attention-economy.html

DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/5/1/000091/000091.html

Band name of the day: maximizing the supernormal

Band name of the day: the age of immaterials

Band name of the day: uncharted spaces of stimulation

Tuple ordering and deep comparisons in Python - Trey Hunner https://treyhunner.com/2019/03/python-deep-comparisons-and-code-readability/

Devo - Later Is Now - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlrdGwikrjY

The Myspace Dragon Hoard (2008-2010) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/myspace_dragon_hoard_2010

Twilight Zone theme: How the theme song for Jordan Peele’s reboot stacks up to versions by Korn, the Grateful Dead,… https://slate.com/culture/2019/04/twilight-zone-theme-jordan-peele-grateful-dead-korn-marius-constant-bernard-herrmann-manhattan-transfer.html?curator=MusicREDEF

Random link from the archives: https://vimeo.com/36579366 originally archived Tue Nov 13 10:44:08 EST 2018

Random link from the archives: http://zachwhalen.net/pg/pres/elo18/ originally archived Thu Oct 11 14:15:40 EDT 2018

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Random link from the archives: http://www.digibarn.com/friends/butler-lampson/index.html originally archived Mon Nov 12 14:43:37 EST 2018

A Tale Of Two Suburbs | FiveThirtyEight https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-tale-of-two-suburbs/

A Good Place: When Shazam fails you, this Facebook group comes through | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/7282/when-you-can-t-find-the-song-on-shazam

%23-quote-bottom<\/title><\/linearGradient><\/defs>… https://jezebel.com/pizzagate-satanic-panic-and-the-power-of-conspiracy-t-1833551416

How Does a Database Work? | Let’s Build a Simple Database https://cstack.github.io/db_tutorial/

I Let a Stranger Watch Me Work for a Day “ And I’ve Never Been More Productive - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/focusmate-review-productivity-work-hack

Webcomics: an oral history - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/5/18295369/webcomics-xkcd-questionable-content-dinosaur-comics-90s-internet-social-media

Hello world: Shining a light onto the culture of computer programmers | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/how-the-new-art-form-of-coding-came-to-shape-our-modern-world/

GitHub - Flaque/quirk: ✨🐙 A GPL Licensed Cognitive Behavioral Therapy app for iOS and Android https://github.com/flaque/quirk

The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/04/the-robocall-crisis-will-never-totally-be-fixed/

VPN - a Very Precarious Narrative - Dennis Schubert https://schub.io/blog/2019/04/08/very-precarious-narrative.html

The Unreliable Reader https://longreads.com/2019/04/04/the-unreliable-reader/

Random link from the archives: https://tinyletter.com/learntocomputer/letters/all-of-the-things-that-you-can-do-with-arrays originally archived Mon Mar 12 11:57:46 EDT 2018

There isn’t an end. We’re just gonna have to put a lot of work into becoming incrementally better forever, knowing that if we stop, it’s a failure and we’re letting people down. (That’s what we get for Killing God.)

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