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/
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