Hot take: the ‘with AI’ part of the ‘Making X do Y with AI’ is redundant when X is a computing device and Y is a task associated with intelligence, since anything doing that would be called AI
Why horror movies are now more important than ever in Hollywood https://www.fastcompany.com/90199673/why-horror-movies-are-now-more-important-than-ever-in-hollywood
Band name of the day: slausen’s lost oasis
Band name of the day: vicious attack dolls
Band name of the day: the west-german sex-comedy
Letting neural networks be weird • A neural net tries writing Burma-Shave jingles http://aiweirdness.com/post/176056635992/a-neural-net-tries-writing-burma-shave-jingles
These ‘Paperbacks From Hell’ Reflect The Real-Life Angst Of The 1970s : NPR https://www.npr.org/2017/10/26/559522789/these-paperbacks-from-hell-reflect-the-real-life-angst-of-the-1970s
Evil Children And Overachieving Skeletons: Welcome To The World Of Paperback Horror : NPR https://www.npr.org/2018/07/07/626546622/evil-children-and-overachieving-skeletons-welcome-to-the-world-of-paperback-horr
Band name of the day: our miserable end
Penti Chorded Keyboard https://software-lab.de/penti.html
Band name of the day: exodus to an uninhabitable earth
Band name of the day: ice harvester
Unsustainable Interstellar Civilization, Hotspot Colonies, and Dwarf Culture - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/07/unsustainable-interstellar-civ.html
365 tomorrows : A New Flash of Science Fiction Every Day https://365tomorrows.com/
Canned Monkeys Don’t Ship Well, the Remix Version - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/07/canned-monkeys-dont-ship-well-.html
I’ve lost control of my life 🌸🌸 - an entomologist rates ant emojis http://curlicuecal.tumblr.com/post/175362924100/an-entomologist-rates-ant-emojis
The Creativity Driving DOS Nostalgia https://tedium.co/2018/07/17/dos-nostalgia-squirrel-monkey-interview/
How to build an npm worm https://jamie.build/how-to-build-an-npm-worm
Calendar house - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_house
DAW - Penguin Books USA http://www.penguin.com/publishers/daw/
The roots of writing lie in hopes and dreams, not in accounting | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-roots-of-writing-lie-in-hopes-and-dreams-not-in-accounting
Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted To Know | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/
Band name of the day: process s
Scripting News: What became of the blogosphere? http://scripting.com/2018/06/26/114410.html
Band name of the day: brain garbage
Band name of the day: horizontal transcendence
Is psychedelics research closer to theology than to science? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/is-psychedelics-research-closer-to-theology-than-to-science
“After Posadas’s death, Minazzoli began to focus exclusively on political readings of the great scientific Ufologists like Hynek and Vallee.” Yesss
Band name of the day: the alien world of objects
The secret history of Marxist alien hunters | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/5384/the-secret-history-of-marxist-alien-hunters
Band name of the day: nudge unit
Memoir in a Melody: The Tragic Disappearance Behind Fastball’s ‘The Way’ http://www.signature-reads.com/2014/04/memoir-in-a-melody-the-tragic-disappearance-behind-fastballs-the-way/
Digital ads are starting to feel psychic | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/5380/targeted-ad-creepy-surveillance-facebook-instagram-google-listening-not-alone
Band name of the day: instant trash
Unfollowing Everybody https://anildash.com/2018/07/13/unfollowing-everybody/
There are live performances of Ultimate Care II, Matmos’s washing machine album, apparently.
Amiga like OSes on QEMU http://zero.eik.bme.hu/~balaton/qemu/amiga/
The key to creating gorgeous, glitchy YouTube images: anticipation and deletion - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/15/17564588/datamosh-youtubeartifacts-glitch-art-kraftsow
E. W. Dijkstra Archive: A parable. (EWD 594) https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD05xx/EWD594.html
How a cabal of romance writers cashed in on Amazon Kindle Unlimited - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/16/17566276/cockygate-amazon-kindle-unlimited-algorithm-self-published-romance-novel-cabal
The Twitch streamers who spend years broadcasting to no one - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/16/17569520/twitch-streamers-zero-viewers-motivation-community
George Hotz is on a hacker crusade against the ‘scam’ of self-driving cars - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/13/17561484/george-hotz-comma-ai-self-driving-car-scam-diy-kit
“All medias are propagandic” “ Of Bowie, Mishima, Memewar: Jamie Curcio Interviewed https://medium.com/@StealThisSingul/all-medias-are-propagandic-of-bowie-mishima-memewar-jamie-curcio-interviewed-fba0245075bc
It Was Raining in the Data Center “ Member Feature Stories ” Medium https://medium.com/s/story/it-was-raining-in-the-data-center-9e1525c37cc3
Band name of the day: boomtime for deathcults
Band name of the day: die in complete surprise
How many news articles could be retitled ‘Dude with PhD has Weird Opinion His Colleagues Openly Mock Him For’? (Not that weird opinions aren’t inherently interesting & all)
Band name of the day: aphelion
Bad idea of the day: a movie review show where you review imaginary movies that you wish were coming out but never will, and you give them bad reviews
The Bizarre Story of the Seattle Mystery Vending Machine http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2018/07/the-bizarre-story-of-the-seattle-mystery-vending-machine/
A Compendium of Tides by Warren Ellis: http://spiritsofplace.com/files/Compendium-of-Tides.pdf
The Allure of Gothic Horror | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2018/07/09/the-allure-of-gothic-horror/
JavaCard: The execution environment you didn’t know you were using – Bentham’s Gaze https://www.benthamsgaze.org/2018/07/13/javacard-the-execution-environment-you-didnt-know-you-were-using/
Independence Day: Why the Fourth of July? Why Not July 2nd? https://tedium.co/2018/07/03/independence-day-why-july-4/
Band name of the day: seven days without light
Band name of the day: burnt maps emanating from a dead moon
Band name of the day: burnt maps
Band name of the day: emanating from a dead moon
Hot Chili Peppers, War, and Sichuan Cuisine http://nautil.us/issue/62/systems/why-revolutionaries-love-spicy-food-rp
mapping the cartography of the nickland-scape
Band name of the day: fridge poetry for Roman Emperors
Peterson’s Complaint https://longreads.com/2018/07/12/petersons-complaint/
William Gibson’s Alien 3 Is Becoming a Comic Book https://io9.gizmodo.com/dark-horse-is-turning-william-gibsons-alien-3-script-in-1827548457
So, I’m going on a 6 hour road trip on Friday the 13th, starting after work on a day when I woke up at 5am. Wish me luck.
It is Friday the 13th. Celebrate by being struck by lightning, twice.
- Running Through My Back Brain (Messages) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Robv-yAvWMY
Products aren’t for people yet - Rakhim.org https://rakhim.org/2017/02/by_devs
We shouldn’t let people get used to the idea that software fails - Rakhim.org https://rakhim.org/2018/07/software-shouldnt-fail
You have the right to a wheel. If you do not have a wheel, one will be provided for you. Please use METAL – not ORGANIC – limbs. We disclaim all liability if you use your own limbs during a sonic attack!
Hunting the Con Queen of Hollywood | Hollywood Reporter https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/hunting-con-queen-hollywood-1125932
squeakland : resources : books : reading list http://www.squeakland.org/resources/books/readingList.jsp
Toward an exploratory medium for mathematics http://cognitivemedium.com/emm/emm.html
» minimal web mnmlist http://mnmlist.com/w/
Bad idea of the day: replace your planner with a planchette and let DEAD GHOSTS set your daily schedule, remind you of appointments, etc.
The biology of disinformation: http://www.iftf.org/fileadmin/user_upload/images/DigIntel/SR-2002_IFTF_Biology_of_disinformation_tk_042618.pdf
sub-Q Magazine - About https://sub-q.com/about/
Hot take: it’s not ‘technical debt’ but ‘technical hoarding’
Hot take: the big problem in generative art is not that computers aren’t creative but that computers don’t have taste. We’ve solved that problem by building taste into the mechanisms of generation instead of building filters.
Thought as a Technology http://cognitivemedium.com/tat/
302 Moved Temporarily http://memex.link/-ctFQPkhz/distill.pub/2017/aia
Bad idea of the day: 9p/scuttlebutt bridge
Bad idea of the day: 9p/activitypub bridge
Critics of toxic open source culture be like https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-noisy-males-control-gnus-cycle-180969596/
Conspiracy theory: the Sonic The Hedgehog franchise is elaborate fanfiction for the Hawkwind track Sonic Attack, from the perspective of the antagonist. The VO in that track is Dr Robotnik.
Dune - just the whispered voiceover lines - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBNsDi6jI5M
The only good online fandom left is Dune | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/5333/dune-revival-2018-david-lynch
Band name of the day: other landscapes are possible
Band name of the day: whirly girl
Band name of the day: the delaware of reasoning
Come to think of it, gluing some unrelated poem to some unrelated tune was all over the place before the 20th century, wasn’t it? Ode to Joy, Jerusalem… Maybe we just stopped because of tin pan alley copyright expansion?
National anthems are weird. They’re usually an already-old poem glued to an unrelated foreign folk-tune, and then the poem is about, like, whatever. (Exceptions: Deuchland Uber Alles is actually about Germany)
Using Artificial Intelligence to Augment Human Intelligence https://distill.pub/2017/aia/
The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/the-beos-filesystem/
Reinventing Explanation http://michaelnielsen.org/reinventing_explanation/index.html
Striking user interfaces http://cognitivemedium.com/striking_ui/striking_ui.html
Band name of the day: consolation in numbers
Band name of the day: massed practice
Band name of the day: the forgetting curve