story idea: a fringe political party backed by organized crime controls a network of seemingly-independent roadside palmistry shops & new-age stores – organizing fortunes & stocking books in a plan to manipulate voters
story idea: after computing the cenusus, an unexpected conclusion – about 10% of the population is gone, with no explanation
Band name of the day: the psychic-industrial complex
The Practice of Change - Joi Ito Home https://joi.ito.com/the-practice-of-change.html
Hot take: really strongly associating anime with japanese-ness is weird in the same way as immediately associating westerns with italian-ness, & marks casuals/outsiders to fandom. It’s a syncretic medium with a hotbed in japan.
An Anarchist Critique of Democracy https://libcom.org/library/anarchist-critique-democracy
Bad idea of the day: a twitter bot that responds to messages by paying mechanical turk five cents to produce a response – and in the absence of mentions, pays mechanical turk five cents to produce one tweet per day
Demo Preview “ Fake News Horror Show https://www.fakenewshorrorshow.org/demo-expo/
Neodymium – Popula https://popula.com/2018/07/30/neodymium/
Re: https://www.fastcompany.com/90208681/the-myth-of-human-centered-design – good design encourages symbiosis, while bad design encourages parasitism. (Go read your Engelbart & Licklider again.)
Joel Simon http://www.joelsimon.net/evo_floorplans.html
For weeks I’ve been getting 400 trying to load any youtube page on one machine (on chrome), and starting last week another machine started having the same problem. Any idea what’s happening?
Lonely Men Club (Mike Kleine) | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2018/06/28/lonely-men-club-mike-kleine/
alias grpe=‘sleep 5m’
So you want to invent your own currency | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/so-you-want-to-invent-your-own-currency
Double Faults | Writing an OS in Rust https://os.phil-opp.com/double-fault-exceptions/
Band name of the day: square and stationary earth
A Spectre is Haunting Unicode https://www.dampfkraft.com/ghost-characters.html
I’m half-convinced that the new popular trolling tactic with the youths is to respond to screencaps of popular anime asking what show it is when they already know the answer.
The Conversations that Cryptocurrency Killed – Jacobite https://jacobitemag.com/2018/07/27/the-conversations-that-cryptocurrency-kills/
Imagine if Marvel’s Captain Marvel movie was out at the same time as Shazaam (DC’s Captain Marvel). And then imagine if there was also a Marvelman (one of the other Captain Marvels) movies.
Why didn’t Carnival of Souls spawn a whole genre the way Night of the Living Dead did?
Band name of the day: a most extraordinary something
How Silicon Valley Became a Den of Spies - POLITICO Magazine https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/07/27/silicon-valley-spies-china-russia-219071
Band name of the day: the central premonitions registry
Too Many Requests https://www.reddit.com/r/SignalHorrorFiction/comments/92gvwj/the_house_on_foulness/
Why Are There So Many Anime Elitists? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY6XMBRM6A4
Band name of the day: mechanical violator
Imagine This: A Web Without Servers - Tara Vancil - JSConf EU 2018 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ_WvfF3FN8
Band name of the day: actuarial escape velocity
What Silicon Valley won’t admit about technology and progress | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/what-silicon-valley-wont-admit-about-technology-and-progress
Hot take: Everybody whose handle is the word ‘Real’ followed by a name is DEFINITELY a fake/parody account. Fite me.
ArtStation - Eric Geusz https://www.artstation.com/ericgeusz
Disposable Camera History: Point, Shoot, and Throw Away https://tedium.co/2018/07/26/disposable-camera-history/
Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-08-08/linux-load-averages.html
Meet the Anarchists Making Their Own Medicine - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43pngb/how-to-make-your-own-medicine-four-thieves-vinegar-collective
Error 406 - Not Acceptable http://www.notechmagazine.com/2018/07/fermentation-and-daily-life.html
Band name of the day: colorspace atlas
Roger Luckhurst: “Negotiating the Public and Private in The Ghost Club” - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWUDgyeN7_c
Band name of the day: the dreaded outcome
China Miéville: Marxism and Halloween - Socialism 2013 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paCqiY1jwqc
The 'Guerrilla' Wikipedia Editors Who Combat Conspiracy Theories https://www.wired.com/story/guerrilla-wikipedia-editors-who-combat-conspiracy-theories/amp?__twitter_impression=true
every thing every time — Great Exhibition of the North https://getnorth2018.com/events/every-thing-every-time/
The Spy Who Drove Me | GQ https://www.gq.com/story/spy-or-uber-driver
Band name of the day: viable system model
Thread by @JairusKhan: “I was a speaker and workshop organizer at hopeconf this year. My first 2600 meeting was over 20 years ago. I’m also an event organizer with […]” #hopeconf https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1021576113875771392.html
How Witchcraft Became A Brand https://www.buzzfeed.com/corinfaife/how-witchcraft-became-a-brand
Arnemancy : Giordano Bruno’s Art of Memory https://arnemancy.com/articles/art-of-memory/giordano-brunos-art-of-memory/
Game Studio With No Bosses Pays Everyone The Same https://kotaku.com/game-studio-with-no-bosses-pays-everyone-the-same-1827872972
Hot take: if we’re gonna have free-market boosters, we need more of the kind that will make sacrifices to ensure the conditions for the possibility of fair markets, & fewer of the kind who pretend all markets are fair.
moods are asleep; post your favorite lesser-known emotions
Mods are asleep; post your favorite unpopular/lesser-known infohazard
Marxism! | The Whole Plate Episode 9 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFMiuAtbMO0
Managing TLS connections using Lua and Lua coroutines - The Boston Diaries - Captain Napalm http://boston.conman.org/2018/07/23.1
Logical-Based Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems | Primary Objects http://www.primaryobjects.com/2018/07/23/logical-based-artificial-intelligence-and-expert-systems/
‘Hey, folks who are suffering the worst from capitalism, here’s your medicine: more capitalism, now with extra corruption’ https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesdigitalcovers/2018/07/17/an-unlikely-group-of-billionaires-and-politicians-has-created-the-most-unbelievable-tax-break-ever/
TV Programming Quirks: Why So Many Shows Have 65 Episodes https://tedium.co/2018/07/24/tv-programming-quirks-history/
Folks who don’t use medium – do they have misleading popups or something? I have an account so I never see any of this crap, but people have indicated to me that they think they need to pay for (non-paywalled) posts.
James Gunn’s firing shows the enduring power of Gamergate - Vox https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/7/24/17599132/james-gunn-fired-gamergate-guardians-of-the-galaxy
Let’s hope Shudder’s Creepshow series is more in line with Creepshow I & II than it is with Creepshow III.
No, TRIGGER’s Patreon Won’t Save Anime - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKbSzCW8fsM
Ahh, the Macintosh. The budget-Lisa that was neither.
Somebody ought to make a word2vec model trained on https://rit-public.github.io/HappyDB/ available. If I get some time, maybe it’ll be me.
Hot take: more dangerous than centralization itself is the permanence of structures that should be temporary – particularly ones that gain inerta through their own inequity.
Webstock ‘17: Marcin Wichary - Charles Babbage’s mouse pointer on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/209179824
Simone Natale, ‘Deceitful Media and Deceitful Mediums’ by Popular Occulture 1875-1947 | Free Listening on SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/user-569807420/simone-natale-deceitful-media-and-deceitful-mediums
Hot take: even dysfunctional states are antifragile, so it requires a certain amount of planning and competence even to fuck shit up. Unaimed chaos tends to get deflected toward those already in deep shit.
The Tyranny of Stuctureless https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
Annie Lowrey on her new book, Give People Money, and how UBI could work in the U.S. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/07/annie-lowrey-on-her-new-book-give-people-money-and-how-ubi-could-work-in-the-u-s.html
Thread by @enkiv2@www.lord-enki.net: “An article I’m considering writing: the (explicit) political use of ghost stories. The idea of the ‘confederate soldier ghost’ was explicitl […]” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1021352318028087297.html
The US town ruled by an AI storyteller • Eurogamer.net https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-07-14-the-us-town-ruled-by-an-ai-storyteller
In case anybody cares, I’ve fixed up my mirror of all my medium posts. (Useful if you are a cheapskate!) As always, I prefer people with a medium account to actually go there & clap so I get a dime. http://www.lord-enki.net/medium-backup/
Why Human Speech Is Special | The Scientist Magazine® https://www.the-scientist.com/features/why-human-speech-is-special–64351
THIS: The Gathering Brainstorm – HILOBROW http://hilobrow.com/2017/02/20/this-the-gathering-brainstorm/
Hot take: politics is normal interpersonal drama writ large. Anything done in public is political, and anything done in private is political if it’s repeated often enough, by one person or by many independently.
A statistical analysis of WikiLeaks publications – Emma Best http://emma.best/2018/07/22/statistical-analysis-of-wikileaks-publications/
Band name of the day: midnight wimp bowling league
Band name of the day: charming bed & breakfast nightmare
He was the kind of guy whose programs always had one label, and it was always called ConsideredHarmful, regardless of what it did.
Almost every coverage of NaNoGenMo is spun around commercial applications of prose-generating tech or the lack thereof, but nobody involved (AFAIK) sees it as a business venture. They just want to do quantitative experiments on literature.
I’d like to see less tech journalism that’s PR or PR-teardowns for companies, and more tech journalism that’s about strange technically-interesting things people do for fun that could never conceviably be productized.
Remember when this happened with latin & it turned out lorem ipsum was being compared to political blogs, like 10 years ago? https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5npeg/why-is-google-translate-spitting-out-sinister-religious-prophecies
Bad idea of the day: a reality tv show where Stephen King and Joe Hill move into a cramped apartment together while both trying to write new novels, confusingly titled King of the Hill
Bad idea of the day: an anthology of human-selected machine-generated fiction and poetry from various codebases, with introductions explaining the generation method, selected on the same lines as a literary anthology
PERIPHERALS; It’s, Well, HyperCard - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/18/science/peripherals-it-s-well-hypercard.html
The Policeman’s Beard is Algorithmically Constructed - 3:AM Magazine https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/the-policemans-beard-is-algorithmically-constructed/
QOTD: “Being a god is no guarantee of adult behaviour.”
Band name of the day: wet dirt appreciation society
A Mansion Filled With Hidden Worlds: When the Internet Was Young https://undark.org/article/wilo-evans-broad-band/
The Maze and the Other in Interactive Fiction – samplereality http://www.samplereality.com/2018/07/17/the-maze-and-the-other-in-interactive-fiction/
Why Google‘s Material Design is a political choice | Imaginary Cloud https://www.imaginarycloud.com/blog/material-design-is-a-political-choice/
Wiki Inversions – Adam Croom’s Wikity http://acroom.wikity.cc/wiki-inversions/?cardbox=&t=Wiki%20Inversions
My old HyperCard stack (Phil Gyford’s website) https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2017/08/16/hypercard-tea/
Wiki Wiki Hypercard – Adam Croom’s Wikity http://acroom.wikity.cc/wiki-wiki-hypercard/
Band name of the day: the ten thousand moon-brains of the Solid State Entity
BIG DUMB OBJECTS AND COSMIC ENIGMAS | GREGORY BENFORD http://www.gregorybenford.com/extra/big-dumb-objects-and-cosmic-enigmas/
Quiver Doodles https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/07/19/quiver-doodles/
Band name of the day: entropic ruin