Thread by @Nick_Hanover: “more and more people are bringing up the Gilded Age lately so it’s probably important to remember how laborers gained victories back then be […]” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1009574091865690115.html

Bad idea of the day: a physical crank for rolling back commits

The geneology of Eliza: http://elizagen.org/index.html

Band name of the day: convalescence quilts

Bad idea of the day: a fuzzer disguised as a usb charger

Band name of the day: the international committee of robot arms

Ecological “law” turns out to just be the result of us fishing | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/06/ecological-law-turns-out-to-just-be-the-result-of-us-fishing/

JSON as configuration files: please don’t https://arp242.net/weblog/json_as_configuration_files-_please_dont

YAML: probably not so great after all https://arp242.net/weblog/yaml_probably_not_so_great_after_all.html

What can depersonalisation disorder say about the self? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/what-can-depersonalisation-disorder-say-about-the-self

The Texas Instruments 99/4: World’s First 16-Bit Home Computer - IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/heroic-failures/the-texas-instruments-994-worlds-first-16bit-computer

Unsolved Mysteries: Still Being Updated After All These Years https://tedium.co/2018/06/19/unsolved-mysteries-modern-updates/

Band name of the day: nonstop necropolis

if there is not a parody of TOPPS trading cards called BOTTOMS featuring butts… something is very wrong with the world

Band name of the day: chrome rotation

Periodic reminder that the state exists at the pleasure of the people who compose it, and should be dissolved when it ceases to benefit them. This means all of us, not just politicians or billionaires.

Band name of the day: starscum

Making Interactive Fiction: Using Generative Prose - sub-Q Magazine https://sub-q.com/making-interactive-fiction-using-generative-prose/

Rob Martin - Teaching functional programming to noobs (Lambda Days 2016) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmFKEewRRQg

Writing in Collaboration with the System | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2014/10/29/writing-in-collaboration-with-the-system/

302 Found https://worldwritable.com/https-worldwritable-com-natural-language-processing-for-programmers-world-models-b01943959830

World Models Rendered in Text | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2018/06/19/world-models-rendered-in-text/

Speak & Spell History: Texas Instruments‘ Greatest Product https://tedium.co/2018/06/19/speak-and-spell-history/

Literate Programming http://www.literateprogramming.com/

periodic reminder that weapons in of themselves don’t have a moral valence & we should think materially about whether or not their use is appropriate to our goals, instead of vaguely about accidental associations. this includes social/memetic weaponry like protest techniques

28c3: The Science of Insecurity - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEfedtQVOY

Bad idea of the day: A lootbox service for public-domain work – every month you get a hardcover of a PD book & a vinyl of a PD recording

life hex: is your company’s marketing falling flat? Before spending millions on a re-branding effort, try charging your existing logo by staring at it during orgasm and then reproducing it in seminal fluid

life hex: leash-training your dog can be a pain. Instead, make an effigy of your dog, and wrap around it twine made from his own hair, while chanting ‘I bind you to this image’. Pop the poppet in your pocket and off you go

life hex: sick of dating sites? Instead of trusting a pickup artist, trust Furfur, Earl of Hell. Just remember to put him inside a magic triangle before asking him for relationship advice

life hex: for financial planning advice, summon Foras, Great President of Hell

A Gentle Intro to PLT https://mpc.sh/blog/a-gentle-intro-to-plt/

Res Obscura: The Art of Fooling the Eye https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2011/10/art-of-fooling-eye.html

x86 assembly doesn’t have to be scary (interactive) https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/interactive-x86-bootloader-tutorial

The DEC 340 Monitor – ENGBLG http://engblg.livingcomputers.org/index.php/2018/06/07/the-dec-340-monitor/

the sceptical futuryst: An Experiential Futures Interview https://futuryst.blogspot.com/2018/06/an-experiential-futures-interview.html

Ghost Writer: The Story of Patience Worth, the Posthumous Author https://longreads.com/2018/06/13/ghost-writer-the-story-of-patience-worth-the-posthumous-author/

Designing a Programming Language for the Desert | Futhark - A High Performance Functional Array Language https://futhark-lang.org/blog/2018-06-18-designing-a-programming-language-for-the-desert.html

’Ndrangheta mafia: more powerful, and scarier, than it’s ever been. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/ndrangheta-mafia-more-powerful-and-scarier-than-its-ever-been.html?utm_source=nextdraft

Why I Taught My Son to Speak Russian | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/why-did-i-teach-my-son-to-speak-russian

Hot take: ‘truth sandwich’ is a terrible name because sandwiches are named after what’s on the inside of them instead of what’s on the outside. Instead, call it ‘stuffed truth’, by analogy to ‘stuffed bread’.

Designing to Facilitate Browsing: A Look Back at the Hyperties Workstation Browser | Don Hopkins http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/node/102

HyperLook (aka HyperNeWS (aka GoodNeWS)) http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/hyperlook/

The difficulty in translating ‘dokidoki’ for non-otaku audiences is a great example of why conceptual frames are a useful idea. You can literally translate it as ‘badump’ because it’s the heartbeat sfx, but you lose something.

Fibonacci Hashing: The Optimization that the World Forgot (or: a Better Alternative to Integer Modulo) | Probably Dance https://probablydance.com/2018/06/16/fibonacci-hashing-the-optimization-that-the-world-forgot-or-a-better-alternative-to-integer-modulo/

Elvis is Everywhere - Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knc9LKjukSQ

Attention knitters: (n) the ad-tech people who make sure your recommended youtube videos smoothly transition from lets-plays to people who are very angry that the lizard people refuse to inflate the flat earth with ghosts

GitHub - jvburnes/node9: A portable hybrid distributed OS based on Inferno, LuaJIT and Libuv https://github.com/jvburnes/node9

GitHub - nickolas360/markov-complete: A hackathon project written with ~bobbybee. Inspired by code written by ~hardmath123 and me. https://github.com/nickolas360/markov-complete

Conspiracy theory: ‘spaghetti carbonara’ is so named for the Carbonari, the italian pseudo-rosicrucian secret society also known as ‘coal-burners’, who popularized various pasta dishes as an edible encoding of their philosophy

403 Forbidden http://www.os2museum.com/wp/a-brief-history-of-unreal-mode/

“The Scale Is Just Unfathomable” https://logicmag.io/04-the-scale-is-just-unfathomable/

Making maps with noise functions https://www.redblobgames.com/maps/terrain-from-noise/

Any list of dangerous infohazards that doesn’t include cartesian dualism & platonic forms is disinformation.

Band name of the day: big real mode

The Shuffle interface is so strange. Everything is HUGE and there’s not much of it. It’s web 2.0 af. Was this a VN trend I missed?

Re: generalism vs specialism & polymathy – BREADTH IS DEPTH because knowledge is a web, not a tree. It only looks like a tree if you SPECIALIZE.

Bad idea of the day: Use ssb to coordinate pinning of ipfs objects

Band name of the day: every now

Exploring the Amiga - Part 1 - The Digital Cat http://blog.thedigitalcatonline.com/blog/2018/05/28/exploring-the-amiga-1/

Inside the calming communities of YouTube’s lo-fi hip hop scene | Dazed http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/40366/1/youtube-lo-fi-hip-hop-study-relax-24-7-livestream-scene

Codemasters History: The NES’ Best Unlicensed Developer https://tedium.co/2018/06/15/codemasters-history-nes-nintendo/

Eggs Benedict with grilled cheese and tomato soup hollandaise is the mashup of dreams https://thetakeout.com/eggs-benedict-with-grilled-cheese-and-tomato-soup-holla-1825280982

How to Make Perfect Lemon Curd in the Microwave https://skillet.lifehacker.com/how-to-make-perfect-lemon-curd-in-the-microwave-1826812427

Generative Artistry https://generativeartistry.com/

I’m starting to think I should post an explanation of my crossposting/linking toolchain. It’s so straightforward that I didn’t think it required explanation, but other people are doing equivalents with webapps?

deathmtn https://smidgeo.com/notes/deathmtn/deathmtn-BpGYoJnF.html

Is there a prolog implementation that JIT-compiles with LLVM? In particular, something that emits a subset of LLVM bytecode that corresponds to the WAM or BAM?

Bad idea of the day: Scroll back through GUI input events & application states like you scroll back through shell history; inject conditionals and loops; use speculative execution of applications to show projected state from these changes.

Building the Commodore that should have existed, an interview with Stefany Allaire - SnapEDA Blog http://blog.snapeda.com/2018/06/06/building-the-commodore-computer-that-should-have-existed-an-interview-with-stefany-allaire/

Hot take: it’s a good thing that genre films & genre literature aren’t taken seriously by the mainstream, because things that are taken seriously aren’t allowed to be interesting/experimental/meaningful. (See: Star Wars, & associated drama)

Reading about Web Prolog & it reminds me a lot of the work I did on Mycroft. I wonder: how will routing work here? If fully-qualified predicates have an explicit hostname component, Web Prolog can go fuk.

Bad idea of the day: A language with APL-style syntax and PROLOG-style semantics

Bad idea of the day: A small dedicated machine (like a chumby, maybe based on the raspberry pi) that ships with ipfs & ssb/patchwork, casts from ipfs or peertube to TVs.

Sects Education: Cults in Film - CrookedMarquee https://crookedmarquee.com/sects-education-cults-in-movies/

My Approach to Getting Dramatically Better as a Programmer – malisper.me http://malisper.me/my-approach-to-getting-dramatically-better-as-a-programmer/

Rosemary’s Baby: Blueprint for Satanic Panic - CrookedMarquee https://crookedmarquee.com/rosemarys-baby-blueprint-for-satanic-panic/

Thinkpiece formula: in the age of

Band name of the day: the unlimited stick

Hot take: if you can’t write a feature-complete proof of concept implementation of it in 100 lines, then there will never be a stable implementation, but if you can, then even 10k line implementations can be made stable.

Iain M. Banks’ Culture Series: Caledonian Antisyzygy and the Principle of Charity – Heradas http://heradas.com/2018/06/iain-m-banks-culture-series-caledonian-antisyzygy-and-the-principle-of-charity/

Band name of the day: villiage of witches

Blood Will Out | Rachel Riederer https://thebaffler.com/latest/shark-tankification-riederer

Band name of the day: the fulfillment centre

Band name of the day: revenge of the cyranoids

Browsers are big. ($1724353) · Snippets · GitLab https://gitlab.com/snippets/1724353

Effective Standards Work, Part 1: The Lay Of The Land | Infrequently Noted https://infrequently.org/2018/06/effective-standards-work-part-1-the-lay-of-the-land/

The Erotically Charged Technophilia of Cyberpunk Paintings https://hyperallergic.com/446862/agustin-fernandez-paris-cyberpunk/

Band name of the day: horrible clown violence

Band name of the day: weather station in a dead universe

The Democratic Surround: A Conversation Between Fred Turner and Clay Shirky | Public Books http://www.publicbooks.org/the-democratic-surround-a-conversation-between-fred-turner-and-clay-shirky/

Designing apps for the E Ink Kindle https://kevinlynagh.com/kindle-games/

The khipu code: the knotty mystery of the Inkas’ 3D records | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/the-khipu-code-the-knotty-mystery-of-the-inkas-3d-records

Band name of the day: power tool massacre

Bad idea of the day: A tarot deck formatted like a set of business cards, one for the egregore of each arcanum (major and minor – not just trumps)

Cursed ontologies in forbidden orthographies. Special tools are required to handle them safely: wands, swords, cups, pantacles – all important safety equipment in any conceptual laboratory environment.

Russian Censorship of Telegram - Schneier on Security https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/06/russian_censors.html

Don‘t Be Evil https://logicmag.io/03-dont-be-evil/

Bad idea of the day: Distort text so that, from a distance, it will be read as a QR code containing the same text – a typographical pseudo-quine

Why it’s so hard to develop the right material for brain implants - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/30/17408852/brain-implant-materials-neuroscience-health-chris-bettinger