Bad idea of the day: A browser extension that links everything in your browser cache with a fake file whose name is a hash of that item, serves those fake files over bittorrent, and, for all URLs whose expiration date is in the future, keeps a distributed table of URL to hash & attempts to fetch from bittorrent before from http

Band name of the day: the teeth of time

What’s That Smell You’re Reading? | Science History Institute https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/magazine/whats-that-smell-youre-reading

The Blood Ritual That Lives on YouTube https://gizmodo.com/the-blood-ritual-that-lives-on-youtube-1825726446

The most interesting thing about https://www.fastly.com/blog/headers-we-dont-want is the indication that the culture of the web is a cargo-cult one where we will waste kilobytes per response on redundant headers that were deprecated 20 years ago or present possible security problems

the one true grimes and elon musk thinkpiece – emily leedham https://emilymariesarah.wordpress.com/2018/05/15/the-one-true-grimes-and-elon-musk-thinkpiece/

Cambridge Analytica whistleblower fears Facebook data was shared with Russia - CNNPolitics https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/16/politics/cambridge-analytica-congress-wylie/index.html

403 Bots Forbidden https://www.jwz.org/blog/2008/03/most-positive-bignum/

From pointing to nodding: is gesture a universal language? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/from-pointing-to-nodding-is-gesture-a-universal-language

How Gaston Bachelard gave the emotions of home a philosophy | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-gaston-bachelard-gave-the-emotions-of-home-a-philosophy

The Surprising History (and Future) of Fingerprints https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/05/15/the-surprising-history-and-future-of-fingerprints/

The Chinese Robocall Blues https://tedium.co/2018/05/15/spam-robocalls-history-comparison/

The Artful Imperfection of Medieval Manuscript Repair - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/medieval-manuscripts-embroidery

Breaking news: Person famous for saying stupid things in public says stupid thing in public. Film at 11.

Band name of the day: pocket answer machine

“HP typically priced their equipment at the cost of the material list × π (or in an especially competitive market, list × e)” NEEEEERDS

The HP-35 http://codex99.com/design/the-hp35.html

Footnotes to Plato | Spinoza’s philosophy of freedom – Steven Nadler https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/spinoza-philosophy-freedom/

Doc Searls Weblog · GDPR will pop the adtech bubble https://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2018/05/12/gdpr/

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk has Reinvented Research | JSTOR Daily https://daily.jstor.org/amazons-mechanical-turk-has-reinvented-research/

‘Ethics are beyond my purview’ is a fancy way of saying ‘it is unsafe to allow me to make decisions’

Band name of the day: hot ham water

QOTD: “Let’s get back to hating the conspiracy instead of ourselves.”

The Church of the SubGenius Finally Plays It Straight – Texas Monthly https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/the-church-of-the-subgenius-finally-plays-it-straight/

guided journalists during the 1970s media crisis of confidence - Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/the_profile/more-journalism-review.php

LSD research: Michael Pollan’s How to Change Your Mind, reviewed. https://slate.com/culture/2018/05/lsd-research-michael-pollans-how-to-change-your-mind-reviewed.html

Band name of the day: the ratio club

Habeas Data excerpt: How a mugger helped create the modern NSA surveillance program. https://slate.com/technology/2018/05/habeas-data-excerpt-how-a-mugger-helped-create-the-modern-nsa-surveillance-program.html

Band name of the day: rabbit town

“The Mess We’re In” by Joe Armstrong - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4

A New Way to look at Networking - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z685OF-PS8

Kevlin Henney - Procedural Programming: It’s Back? It Never Went Away - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otAcmD6XEEE

“Making Impossible States Impossible” by Richard Feldman - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcgmSRJHu_8

The Break Up Of Big Tech II (Scott Galloway, L2) | DLD New York 18 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92LZ9ti6tPo

What Everyone Needs to Know about Russia Under Putin - FPRI’s 2018 Champagne Brunch for Partners - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnWp_kr4tfc

Decontructing the “Unix philosophy” https://www.tedinski.com/2018/05/08/case-study-unix-philosophy.html

Band name of the day: profane human calculators

Bad idea of the day: philosophy speed-dating: get a prime number of doctoral candidates, split into two lines, and have them give hot takes to each other for 5 minutes on a stated topic before moving on.

Satanism: The Dark Alternative with Mitch Horowitz - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAXdiXNWv-E

The Author Who Tried to END The World (Watchmen / Alan Moore) – Wisecrack Edition - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=163Cb1bAW7U

Aggretsuko - A Cartoon For Children Ages 20+ - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv8kRvZ25Gs

Pretty Loud For Being So Silenced | Current Affairs https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/05/pretty-loud-for-being-so-silenced

Philip K. Dick’s VALIS and The Man Who Fell to Earth and Duncan Jones https://bowiesattva.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/philip-k-dicks-valis-and-the-man-who-fell-to-earth-and-duncan-jones/

Jordan Peterson is like a pack of tarot cards: stare at him hard enough for long enough and eventually you’ll see a message that is both true and profound. But, as with tarot cards, if you attribute that message to any intent on Peterson’s part, it brands you as foolish.

Band name of the day: the every-trichord hexachord

Mood: using the mobile version of the website on desktop because you don’t live in california

Medium really REALLY wants me to re-read that tedium piece about CD longboxes, this past month

Bad idea of the day: run podcast transcripts through char-rnn and then through the duplex speech synthesizer to generate hours of nonsense indistinguishable from NPR

I’m not gonna lie; I would listen to all of @derkirche’s NN-generated podcasts: https://pastebin.com/raw/NzdfAbvP

Underhanded C Contest - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underhanded_C_Contest

Vintage Computer Festival East – Vintage Computer Federation http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/

Java: Executing code in comments?! | Programming.Guide http://programming.guide/java/executing-code-in-comments.html

Bad idea of the day: a browser extension that gives you long-now-dates by prefixing a zero to all four digit numbers

302 Found https://hackernoon.com/kaukatcr-an-experiment-in-language-design-for-multi-dimensional-spaces-cc038caafff9

I have a newsletter I never use, & a script for crossposting links that also makes a link archive. I’m tempted to figure out how to automate taking the links I post for a particular timeframe, sticking them in the newsletter, and sending them off.

Full-body high-resolution Anime Generation with Progressive Structure-conditional Generative Adversarial Networks | DeNA Co., Ltd. http://dena.com/intl/anime-generation/

Faking It — Real Life http://reallifemag.com/faking-it/

Uncomfortable ASMR — Real Life http://reallifemag.com/uncomfortable-asmr/

Altered States — Real Life http://reallifemag.com/altered-states/

Daily Affirmations — Real Life http://reallifemag.com/daily-affirmations/

Red Pilled — Real Life http://reallifemag.com/red-pilled/

Dual inheritance theory - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_inheritance_theory

What It’s Like to Be a Bot — Real Life http://reallifemag.com/what-its-like-to-be-a-bot/

fucking ampersands

Bad idea of the day: an irc-style chat interface for mastodon, where whatever you type is posted & you just see your home timeline

Bad idea of the day: an irc-style chat interface for mastodon, where whatever you type is posted

Bad idea of the day: an irc-style chat interface for mastodon, where whatever you type is posted

Why Did Some Countercultural Types Vote For Trump? - Mondo 2000 http://www.mondo2000.com/2018/05/10/why-did-some-countercultural-types-vote-for-trump/

Band name of the day: tiny crab utopia

Band name of the day: half-way to anywhere

tfw middle-aged billionaires try to buy their way into weird sun twitter & accidentally get cybergoth GFs instead

Why you should make useless things | Simone Giertz - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0bsKc4tiuY

take a page out of the hollow earthers’ book, not the MRA’s: if you’re gonna be wrong, at least be wrong in an interesting way.

Bad idea of the day: an extension that disables all CSS on all pages, and then allows you to approve rules one by one, or edit them in place

if comcast replaces its entire tech support department with google duplex, would it still be part of the marketing branch?

New England Is Crisscrossed With Thousands of Miles of Stone Walls - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/new-england-stone-walls

Band name of the day: frost heave

Band name of the day: Shadows from the Walls of Death

Band name of the day: rock harmonicon

Bad idea of the day: a parser-based IF where the parser language is turing-complete

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

Band name of the day: non stop mystery action

Xanadu Basics 1b– INDIRECT DOCUMENT DELIVERY - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gPM3GqjMR4

Jordan Peterson | ContraPoints - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LqZdkkBDas

Voices on the left are rising in the US. Why aren’t they in mainstream media? - Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/analysis/nyt_opinion-left.php

People are jumping on Musk for ‘researching his jokes’ but, you know, if you researched your jokes you’d actually make better ones. Let’s be clear. The problem with Musk is not researching jokes. The problem with Musk is capitalism.

You try to put up a picture of Grimes and Elon Musk, but everything on your mood board becomes the same picture of Nicholas Cage as soon as you blink. Today is no different.

GANZEER - MAKING THE INTANGIBLE TACTILE Scripps College… http://www.ganzeer.com/post/172354522364/making-the-intangible-tactile-scripps-college

M. C. Escher (1898-1972). Prints and Drawings - Digital Commonwealth https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/collections/commonwealth:3r076r52x

My Brain Keeps Turning Thoughts into Memories - VICE https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3kjxpb/my-brain-keeps-turning-thoughts-into-memories

NSA Backdoor Key from Lotus-Notes http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/hacks/lotus-nsa-key.html

The Violence of Pure Reason: Neoreaction: A Basilisk, Adam Riggio « Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective https://social-epistemology.com/2016/09/23/the-violence-of-pure-reason-neoreaction-a-basilisk-adam-riggio/

Band name of the day: information weapon

Apparently, the term ‘intellectual darknet’ is trending on twitter. Is this a reference to LW, or to incel communities? Or, are people finally reading Neoreaction: A Basilisk?

Using Vim’s Conceal Feature to Make Code More Readable (For You) – Every Man a Debtor https://alok.github.io/2018/04/26/using-vim-s-conceal-to-make-languages-more-tolerable/

Book review: The puzzling empathy of debugging https://wozniak.ca/blog/2018/05/07/The-puzzling-empathy-of-debugging.html

Band name of the day: trees in time

Phase IV 1974 - Movie ending - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHWSAZ3fZsQ

A Political History of the Future: The City & The City - Lawyers, Guns & Money http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2018/05/political-history-future-city-city

Twenty-First Century Victorians https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/10/victorian-values-fitness-organic-wealth-parenthood