Life hack: find the video in your youtube recommendations you’re least interested in watching, click on it, turn off your speakers, and leave your house for a week.

Internet traffic chaffing: http://makeinternetnoise.com/index.html

Bad idea of the day: the melophone – it plays a tape loop on the line if you pick up the handset

Band name of the day: telecomputer man

Band name of the day: WE HAVE MEAT

Why Everyone Loves Macaroni and Cheese | Essay | Zócalo Public Square http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2018/05/24/everyone-loves-macaroni-cheese/ideas/essay/

Webring History: Social Media Before Social Media https://tedium.co/2018/05/31/webring-history/

Itertools in Python 3, By Example “ Real Python https://realpython.com/python-itertools/

Binary file (standard input) matches

Band name of the day: tin whiskers

Bitcoin As Explained by A.I. - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBRWJzAjkjk

Quantum::Entanglement https://www.perl.com/pub/2001/08/08/quantum.html/

Bad idea of the day: Use eliza as your therapist for an hour a day for years, then train a markov bot on the logs.

The existential paranoia fueling Elon Musk’s fear of AI | Document Journal http://www.documentjournal.com/2018/04/the-existential-paranoia-fueling-elon-musks-fear-of-ai/

Go is a much stranger language than I initially understood. Anyhow, this is my work thus far on an implementation of the Io language in it: https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/kamui/senketsu.go

Happy Syaday, in some sense

The parallelization of logic languages: https://cliplab.org/papers/partut-toplas.pdf

In case you wanted to know how to implement classes & objects in Postscript: http://donhopkins.com/home/monterey86.pdf

PSA: skepticism != disbelief; criticism != insult. If a ‘skeptic’ ‘criticizes’ something, that means actual intellectual effort is going into examination.

What caused Elon Musk’s Twitter meltdown? He’s enraged people stopped believing his tall tales. - Vox https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2018/5/30/17405922/elon-musk-twitter-meltdown-tesla-valuation-bubble-model-3-promises-reality

Bad idea of the day: A fediverse node that only federates over packet radio via moon bounce

Is there a mastodon/scuttlebutt bridge?

Periodic reminder: submissions for the 2018 No Budget Film Contest CLOSE on July 4th; submit your entries now: https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2018-no-budget-film-contest-e023a922fadd

When I say ‘luckily software has nothing to do with business’, what I mean is that software is uniquely positioned, compared to all other engineering, to be free of economies of scale: it is cheap to develop and has near zero cost of reproduction.

GitHub - microcai/llvm-qbasic: llvm based QBASIC Compiler https://github.com/microcai/llvm-qbasic

A few words on Doug Engelbart http://worrydream.com/Engelbart/

The shining moment when Russian revolutionary women reinvented sex | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-shining-moment-when-russian-revolutionary-women-reinvented-sex

This Man Committed Paradise Lost to Memory for Mental Exercise http://nautil.us/blog/-this-man-memorized-a-60000_word-poem-using-deep-encoding

Areas of transience – the hyperspace of psychogeography – are not ‘non-places’ with ‘non-culture’. They have a uniquely warped kind of culture, in the same way tourist-dependent places do, except some people spend their lives in it (long haul truckers or jet-setting businessmen).

Periodic reminder: entries for the 2018 No-Budget Film Contest end July 4th. https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2018-no-budget-film-contest-e023a922fadd

Familiar Vampires: Michio Yamamoto’s BLOODTHIRSTY TRILOGY (1970 - 1974) | Birth.Movies.Death. https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2018/05/29/michio-yamamotos-bloodthirsty-trilogy-1970-1974

Why Beans Were an Ancient Emblem of Death - Gastro Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/favism-fava-beans

Writing long, overly complex, & logically flawed apologia of bad mainstream ideas in order to recast them as revolutionary is a growth industry. (See the ‘intellectual dark web’, whose major unifying trait is boringly normie positions.) Why not reach for a surreal or absurd take?

Same Name Movie Review: Andrew Egan on Andrew Egan https://tedium.co/2018/05/29/same-name-movie-review-locus-of-control/

Band name of the day: the super-marginal

Ep. 2: Elizabeth Sandifer on Neoreaction: A Basilisk https://parallaxviews.podbean.com/e/ep-2-elizabeth-sandifer-on-neoreaction-a-basilisk/

Bad idea of the day: Put the ‘hyper’ modifier key back on the keyboard, but you hold it while typing to create hyperlinks, press it while clicking to open a hyperlink

If your NN produced yacht rock, would you call it Steely GAN?

What It’s Like When Elon Musk’s Twitter Mob Comes After You https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-its-like-when-elon-musks-twitter-mob-comes-after-you

Bad idea of the day: altcoin where the proof of work is correctly decoding messages from extraterrestrial civilizations

ERR! 418 I’m a teapot (this is not a joke) · Issue #20791 · npm/npm · GitHub https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/20791

Plaques of Future Past: Eccentric Stone Monuments to Anti-Gravity Research - 99% Invisible https://99percentinvisible.org/article/plaques-future-past-eccentric-stone-monuments-anti-gravity-research/

The Early History of Smalltalk http://gagne.homedns.org/~tgagne/contrib/EarlyHistoryST.html

Bad idea of the day: As soon as a topic is identified to be trending, hide all conversation about it from anyone not already in the thread. Keep it hidden for 24 hours.

Bad idea of the day: Take advertising jingles and slow them down by 8x or more, remix them together, add infrasound and 19hz binaural beats.

A new fast hash table in response to Google’s new fast hash table | Probably Dance https://probablydance.com/2018/05/28/a-new-fast-hash-table-in-response-to-googles-new-fast-hash-table/

Bill, Ted, and the End of History | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2018/05/22/bill-ted-and-the-end-of-history/

On Deadpool 2 and the “Art” of Fridging | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2018/05/21/on-deadpool-2-and-the-art-of-fridging/

The Power of Prolog https://www.metalevel.at/prolog

Introduction · mostly-adequate-guide https://mostly-adequate.gitbooks.io/mostly-adequate-guide/

Teaching Programming Languages by Experimental and Adversarial Thinking http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/pkf-teach-pl-exp-adv-think/

Probability Theory (For Scientists and Engineers) https://betanalpha.github.io/assets/case_studies/probability_theory.html

APL deserves its renaissance too http://wordsandbuttons.online/apl_deserves_its_renaissance_too.html

Band name of the day: the unofficial capacity

Bad idea of the day: Replace each word with another with maximum delta in word vector space but minimum edit distance, or vice versa. Tune weights until result is interesting.

Flying Saucerers: The Role of Science Fiction and the Occult in the Birth of the UFO Era – The Daily Grail https://www.dailygrail.com/2018/05/flying-saucerers-the-role-of-science-fiction-and-the-occult-in-the-birth-of-the-ufo-era/

Jordan Peterson doesn’t understand postmodernism - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU1LhcEh8Ms

Fate/Zero’s Infamous Spinning Scene Is Genius - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efJ3fmm98ww

Did the Sokal affair “destroy postmodernism”? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnmfe6qskRY

American Psycho, Baudrillard and the Postmodern Condition - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJfurfb5_kw

Band name of the day: sign value

The easiest path to GDPR compliance: switch to a completely static website with no javascript, CGI, or CSS, and rotate the logs daily.

Survival of the Mediocre Mediocre https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/04/24/survival-of-the-mediocre-mediocre/

Basic Income, Not Basic Jobs: Against Hijacking Utopia | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/05/16/basic-income-not-basic-jobs-against-hijacking-utopia/

Band name of the day: no hay banda

This skate punk album was created by artificial intelligence | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/3567/this-skate-punk-album-was-created-by-artificial-inteliigence

Bad idea of the day: MC Eliza, who rephrases your diss track in the form of a question. “How does that make you feel? Tell me more. Perhaps in your fantasies my flow is basic.”

DadaBots: Socially Automated Dadaist Music Remix Bots on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/72277348

Hot take: anybody who understands markets isn’t going to be a free-market purist. A market is a piece of social machinery with particular environmental requirements under which it works, & those requirements are rare.

Band name of the day: the lifestyle taxonomists

samim - Thoughts on Botnets and CreativityToday, Botnets impact almost every aspect of human life. Promoting products, providing… https://samim.io/p/2018-04-23-the-solution-to-exploding-fake-news-and-spam-botnets-ca/

https://medium.com/@thegrugq/meme-game-on-fleek-yeah-nah-4ce777ba059a (related to https://medium.com/p/how-to-fail-at-culture-jamming-7b409abf5db5 )

Binary file (standard input) matches

Hints for writing Unix tools https://monkey.org/~marius/unix-tools-hints.html

It’s interesting to think about how habitual migration patterns break the close association between culture and geography. There’s a psychogeographic wormhole between Fairfield County, CT and south Florida, & used to be one between there & upstate NY.

If it was developed in the 70s & you understand it, you can write a crappy version of it in an afternoon. If it wasn’t developed in the 70s, you have never heard of it.

We spend an enormous amount of time and effort teaching children about animals – even ones that only exist far away (like tigers and elephants and giraffes) or that have been extinct for tens to hundreds of millions of years.

Stealth Cell Tower https://julianoliver.com/output/stealth-cell-tower

Visual Programming Languages - Snapshots http://blog.interfacevision.com/design/design-visual-progarmming-languages-snapshots/

Oh man remember these? Only 90s kids had their neural networks in hardware ICs. https://www.sigarch.org/neurochips-from-the-90s/

GitHub - classilla/overbitenx: Because Firefox isn’t complete without Gopherspace. https://github.com/classilla/overbitenx

Protip: change your display name and avatar periodically, so that people will forget who you are and you, in turn, gain the ability to develop without the pressure of their models of you.

This is some kind of a e s t h e t i c I can’t classify https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KfeHNIXYUc

Re: trendism - basing visibility on popularity is a uniquely awful version of ‘tyrrany of the majority’ because uncommon views become invisible, even if, were they to start on an even playing field, they would become popular.

Xanadu Basics 2 - Five working Xanadu Systems (four usable) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_o8q4Sp-w0

Band name of the day: the hidden & unwelcome impulses

Band name of the day: community vibrancy index

Band name of the day: immortal replicator

Review: 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson | Kate Manne https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/jordan-peterson-12-rules-kate-manne-review/

America’s Brand of Capitalism Is Incompatible With Democracy https://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/americas-brand-of-capitalism-is-incompatible-with-democracy.html

Band name of the day: the private horror

Band name of the day: radical lesbian nuns

TFW people you’ve never interacted with already have you blocked on birdsite because you sent positive affirmations to Tay years ago & the shared blocklist curator wasn’t discerning.

Band name of the day: the inner directives

Tourist Trap is apparently on Shudder now. Even though it’s not Giallo, I recommend Giallo fans give it a watch: much like Profundo Russo & other pre-Suspiria Argento, it combines messy storytelling with some beautiful, surreal, and terrifying shot composition.

The Quietus | Opinion | Black Sky Thinking | Why AI Pop Stars Are Even More Real Than The Real Thing http://thequietus.com/articles/24629-lil-miquela-poppy-ai-pop-stars

Audacious Fox: The UX of Hidden Game Mechanics https://audaciousfox.net/linked/2018/hidden-game-mechanics

Band name of the day: these new selves

If William Gibson is so prophetic then why hasn’t Bono married Hatsune Miku yet?! /s

Band name of the day: empty prosperity