Smells Like Teen Spirit but every note or chord is B flat - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUD-TrPW-V4

Spidermath - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMCu9DVizTM

Hauntology, Lost Futures and 80s Nostalgia - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSvUqhZcbVg

Kunihiko Ikuhara: A Revolutionary Director of Anime - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNNJ80N1Aoc

Bad idea of the day: Get Annals of the Perrigues style themed corpora type output in your templates by adjusting probabilities by the semantic distance between a choice & some word that is the locus of a theme, with word2vec or something

If listicles are good enough for Euclid and Ludwig von Wittgenstein, they’re good enough for me

Thread by @colmmacc: “Have you ever needed to generate a random number in code? whether it’s for rolling a dice, or shuffling a set, this tweet thread is here for […]” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1012719876706840578.html

Botnik ASMR - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBu1zatDbKI

Hot take: the ‘rule of law’ is only possible because social norms have made deviations from desired behavior rare. The policeman in your head does the heavy lifting. When norms diverge from law, norms win.

The hidden benefits of NaNoGenMo “ Rococo Modem Basilisk ” Medium https://medium.com/@/the-hidden-benefits-of-nanogenmo-dd91193bda6

Apparatus: A hybrid graphics editor and programming environment for creating interactive diagrams http://aprt.us/

Extreme Graphical Representation - TV Tropes https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ExtremeGraphicalRepresentation

Viewer-Friendly Interface - TV Tropes https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ViewerFriendlyInterface

Screenshots | vvvv https://vvvv.org/screenshots

How to Live in a Dystopian Fiction https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/06/28/how-to-live-in-a-dystopian-fiction/

Hot take: a hole isn’t the absence of a thing (outer space isn’t a hole, while the hole of a doughnut, full of air, is), but a violation of our expectation of continuity. We expect a full form & get a discontinuity in the middle.

Is a hole a real thing, or just a place where something isn’t? | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/is-a-hole-a-real-thing-or-just-a-place-where-something-isnt

Abalonia: The Island Nation That Never Was - Gastro Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cortes-bank

Why tech’s favorite color is making us all miserable https://www.fastcodesign.com/90177573/how-blue-became-techs-favorite-color-and-why-it-shouldnt-be

The Government Campaign to Get Rid of Singapore’s Unofficial Language - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/singlish-singapore-government-campaign

Tempest 4000 comes to consoles next month - Polygon https://www.polygon.com/2018/6/28/17513074/tempest-4000-launch-date-ps4-xbox-one

How much bad UI design comes from a focus on making the UI consistent with underlying code that was designed based on ease of implementation in the programmer’s language of choice?

The Case Against UI Consistency https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/the-case-against-user-interface-consistency.pdf

How Clang Compiles a Function – Embedded in Academia https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1605

Oneohtrix Point Never Interview: On ‘Age Of,’ MYRIAD, Byrne, & more - Stereogum https://www.stereogum.com/featured/oneohtrix-point-never-age-of-myriad-byrne-anohni-twigs-usher/

Inside Vaporwave’s Mini-Boom of Floppy Disk Releases - Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/vaporwave-floppy-disk-trend-w521790

Chelsea Manning traces her political roots back to rave | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/4991/chelsea-manning-traces-her-political-roots-back-to-rave

An oral history of Babylon 5: The beloved TV novel that showed a different way to tell sci-fi http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/an-oral-history-of-babylon-5-the-beloved-tv-novel-that-showed-a-different-way-to-tell-sci

Science Fiction Writer Robert J. Sawyer: WordStar: A Writer’s Word Processor https://www.sfwriter.com/wordstar.htm

Non-Performing Band Members: From Coldplay to The Grateful Dead https://tedium.co/2018/06/28/non-performing-band-members-coldplay-grateful-dead/

Hello World is a Dream – Thought Flow https://davidlebech.com/thoughtflow/hello-world-is-a-dream/

UTC is Enough for Everyone, Right? https://zachholman.com/talk/utc-is-enough-for-everyone-right

How People Used to Download Games From the Radio | Kotaku UK http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2014/10/13/people-used-download-games-radio

Software only becomes ‘enterprise grade’ if, when its behavior is described to an outsider flatly and precisely, the outsider assumes the description is some kind of elaborate joke.

Band name of the day: wet ghosts

Javascript is a just-OK language saddled with the world’s worst graphics toolkit: three distinct languages, each with specs so large that nobody has written a new implementation in 20 years, for live-editing a rich tech document to make it resemble a canvas, in ways that are not portable between the 3 implementations or minor revisions of the same implementation.

Another formulation: the best of today’s GUIs make easy things easy and hard things impossible. The best of today’s programming languages make easy things hard and hard things harder. We don’t have a system that makes easy things easy and hard things merely hard for backwards-compatibility reasons.

Band name of the day: empire of death

Revolutionary ideas always are masked as a return to older ideas or appeal to common sense ONLY because they can’t be expressed without the intellectual groundwork that makes them seem inevitable once fully comprehended.

xkcd: Attention Span https://xkcd.com/2005/

BBC Computer Literacy Project Archive https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio.co.uk/

Alex Schroeder: 2018-06-24 Capitalism https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2018-06-24_Capitalism

Letting neural networks be weird • Blue Boulders Problem 1: More rock climbing routes… http://aiweirdness.com/post/175339699997/blue-boulders-problem-1-more-rock-climbing-routes

Bad idea of the day: 72-hour osdev jam

Neighbouring Communities - ICCC 2018 Talk - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cP4X3OZcf8

Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy : The Things by Peter Watts http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/

Mike Driven Development: What I Learned Making My Own JIT Language http://www.mikedrivendevelopment.com/2018/06/what-i-learned-making-my-own-jit.html

Getting a Grip on Slavoj Zizek (with Slavoj Zizek) | JSTOR Daily https://daily.jstor.org/getting-a-grip-on-slavoj-zizek-with-slavoj-zizek/

DigiBarn Systems: Swyft information appliance http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/swyft/index.html

Encouraging individual sovereignty and a healthy commons https://0xadada.pub/2017/02/18/encourging-individual-sovereignty-and-a-healthy-commons/

Against Facebook https://0xadada.pub/2018/05/01/against-facebook/

Whoever decided to nae a government agency after a thing that sets your head on fire if you forget your password too many times should also be too self-aware to think having one of these is a good idea.

Parrigues Tarot (draft) | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2018/06/26/parrigues-tarot-draft/

I hope the five people following my ‘misc’ repo on github are happy recieving an email containing only the placeholder commit message ‘xxx’ like 30 times a day.

the interference pattern between eris and eros

The Unleashed Operating System http://unleashed-os.org/

SF For Nothing, Stories For Free - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/06/sf-for-nothing-stories-for-fre.html

“Science Fiction & Information Law” Essay Competition - IVIR https://www.ivir.nl/science-fiction-information-law-essay-competition/

The Quietus | Opinion | The Quietus Essay | How Did A Major Label Manage To Lose A John Coltrane Record? http://thequietus.com/articles/24852-john-coltrane-both-directions-at-once-the-lost-album-ted-gioia

Onegai Twins is like if David Lynch tried really hard to make an unremarkable harem anime. Everything is just slightly off about it, but not in ways that can be easily articulated.

QUBE Interactive Television History: It Came From Columbus https://tedium.co/2018/06/26/qube-cable-television-history/

Author Guest Post, “IF in pop culture and back again” by Andrew Plotkin - sub-Q Magazine https://sub-q.com/author-guest-post-if-in-pop-culture-and-back-again-by-andrew-plotkin/

‘Suffrajitsu’: How the suffragettes fought back using martial arts - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34425615

The new Suspiria, based on the trailer, appears to include Varelli, which may mean that they will try to pack 3 movies worth of story in. This may leave no time for a blind man to have his throat ripped out by his own seeing-eye dog :(

Why Perfect Blue is Terrifying - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJmK5SOeQBc

Marilyn Manson - Cry Little Sister - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca07wR75-ko

Satoshi Kon and Why Love Is All You Need: Episode 1 - Perfect Blue - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XGYr9_BiEU

Bad idea of the day: Jojo Stands but they’re all Lemon Demon / Neil Cicerega songs

My Hero Academia’s Fights Are Actually Dull - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3jjVsm99Ec

Hoax ‘devil coins’ found in Bath Abbey | World news | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/26/hoax-devil-coins-found-in-bath-abbey

Hot take: the ‘great books’ model of liberal education is insufficiently liberal, not because the ‘great books’ are insufficiently diverse but because the canons students engage with are insufficiently different from each other.

FOSS isn’t capitalism – Gullickson Laboratories https://jjg.2soc.net/2018/06/13/foss-isnt-capitalism/

The “Baccano” of Pulp Fiction: Omake | The Bugblog https://baguburagu.wordpress.com/2018/06/16/the-baccano-of-pulp-fiction-omake/

Abnormal Encephalization in the Age of Machine Learning - Journal #75 September 2016 - e-flux https://www.e-flux.com/journal/75/67133/abnormal-encephalization-in-the-age-of-machine-learning/

The creation of Missile Command and the haunting of its creator, Dave Theurer | Polygon https://www.polygon.com/features/2013/8/15/4528228/missile-command-dave-theurer

To distribute or not to distribute? Why licensing bugs matter | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/06/25/to-distribute-or-not-to-distribute-why-licensing-bugs-matter/

How China censors the net: by making sure there’s too much information | John Naughton | Opinion | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/16/how-china-censors-internet-information

Hot take: the more powerful you are, the harder people under you will work to save you from your bad choices, & the harder they’ll avoid actually addressing those problems. A perfect storm for inflated confidence: your continued success is owed to the people covering your ass, but you attribute it even more to yourself.

Docker Considered Harmful http://catern.com/posts/docker.html

A Brief History of Soy Milk, the Future Food of Yesterday | Serious Eats https://www.seriouseats.com/2018/06/a-brief-history-of-soy-milk-the-future-food-of-yesterday.html

Escaping Twitter’s Self-Consciousness Machine | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/escaping-twitters-self-consciousness-machine

‘Babylon 5’ is great, so why does it look so bad? https://www.engadget.com/2018/06/22/babylon-5-digital-video-quality/

Band name of the day: the hungry machines

Are there any movies with Matthew Lillard and Nicholas Cage?

a myth is a machine for living in

Isn’t calling your creepy ghost girl Kowai Mitsuko a bit much? Kowai Mitsuko in room 405 is like Victor Scarypants at 13 Mockingbird Lane

The best thing about Youtube’s recent ranking changes is that PMJ and Pomplamoose have a new album’s worth of covers every two weeks.

PostModern Jukebox demonstrates that shitty pop songs could have been awesome if their producers/arrangers had taste, on a weekly basis. 11/10 would listen again.

I’d watch the hell out of a Jurrassic Park movie if it was directed by Cronenberg.

Oh hey: https://worldbrain.helprace.com/i62-feature-memex-links-highlight-any-text-and-create-a-link-to-it

Band name of the day: machinic assemblage

Elon Musk Is The Donald Trump Of Silicon Valley https://www.buzzfeed.com/carolineodonovan/elon-musk-tesla-spacex-war-press-media

Today, learn a new programming language that was invented before 1980

Thinking Machine: Ramon Llull Inner Life of Advanced Technology Catholicism God Machine David Metcalfe http://www.patheos.com/blogs/theglobalcatholicreview/2018/06/gods-machine/

OBNC http://miasap.se/obnc/

Star Wars ASCII Remake: A Truly Text-Based Adventure https://tedium.co/2018/06/21/star-wars-ascii-remake/

hot take: to respond to a post without first reading all other responses is impolite. spend the small mental effort to assimilate other people’s reactions before spending the larger effort of having your own, or expect OP to be angry with you

reality is a shitty game because you can’t win. reality is a shitty movie because everything happens for no reason. reality is a shitty book because when it does happen it’s repetitive and uninteresting.

IT & The Art of Abstraction - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLoJXR9E4ws

Postmodernism vs. The Pomoid Cluster – Everything Studies https://everythingstudies.com/2018/06/21/postmodernism-vs-the-pomoid-cluster/comment-page-1/#comment-954