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Mawaru Kappadrum
Kunihiko Ikuhara gave you mice. He gave you penguins. He gave you bears. And now, in spring of 2019, he’s bringing you kappa.
From April 15 to the 22nd, Manna for our Malices will be 80% off to celebrate being done with filing taxes. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1013580/Manna_for_our_Malices/
bellingcat - Bellingcat’s Invitation Is Waiting For Your Response: An Investigative Guide To LinkedIn - bellingcat https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2019/03/21/bellingcats-invitation-is-waiting-for-your-response-an-investigative-guide-to-linkedin/
Science Fiction | Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/mickythepixel/sets/72157616819585543
List of Physical Visualizations http://dataphys.org/list/
Animal Photo Art References Search https://x6ud.github.io/
Greg Tatum http://gregtatum.com/
Have they faked me? https://havetheyfaked.me/
Band name of the day: care control
Band name of the day: the human anus controversy
Band name of the day: gratiutous gargoyle cinematography
Because it won’t work with chromecast, Shudder TV is ironically the only Shudder feature that you can’t use on a TV
What Does It Mean To Player Character? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKY1ORCSICY
Princess Melty Mallomar should be fighting Alita Queen of Mars alongside her platonic childhood friend Chip Nougat for control over the Nestleflowne
fogus: Notes on Interactive Computing Environments http://blog.fogus.me/2019/04/03/notes-on-interactive-computing-environments/
This Very Serious grimdark fantasy about the war for monarchical succession between sisters checks notes Malty and Melty Melomarc. You sure you weren’t just hungry for a candy bar bro?
Why the Web is Communist - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdgjljQSbj0
Band name of the day: home taping
Space Cartoons to Space Psychedelia: How Sci-Fi Book Covers Evolved - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/01/space-cartoons-to-space-psychedelia-how-sci-fi-book-covers-evolved/263952/
The Revenge of Margaret Brundage, ‘The Queen of the Pulps’ - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/01/the-revenge-of-margaret-brundage-the-queen-of-the-pulps/272715/
It’s one thing to admit that desired behaviors need to be incentivized, & another not to treat this necessity as a problem. We incentivize children’s deeds with the expectation that they will grow up to have their own moral compass.
Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science: index https://introtcs.org/public/index.html
Introduction · GitBook https://dweb-primer.ipfs.io/
A Comprehensive Introduction to Quantum Computing - code(love) https://code-love.com/2019/02/25/intro-to-quantum-computing/
The essays I’m considering writing are all somewhat clickbaity: “A libertarian case for social justice”, “Anarchy needs rules”…
a wolfman to know
Knowledgeable Creatures | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2019/03/06/knowledgeable-creatures-christopher-rowe/
An Appalachian Trail https://placesjournal.org/article/an-appalachian-trail-a-project-in-regional-planning/
My buddy Dan Comstock went on a podcast to promote his upcoming GOAT LARP, a LARP where you LARP as the people running a LARP for goats (who are being RP’d by actual goats) http://www.onarollpodcast.com/211
Cyborg sentiments | Red Pepper https://www.redpepper.org.uk/cyborg-sentiments/
Inside David Lynch’s scariest scene | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/7272/lost-highway-mystery-man-robert-blake-david-lynch
the blood-spattered lede
PSA History: It’s 10 p.m. Do You Know Where Your Children Are? https://tedium.co/2019/04/04/public-service-announcement-psa-history/
The unveiling of the new era name should be a meme template: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/0*WX6E0XsTfTkUiwx4.jpg
Rhapsody in Blue - Walter Murphy - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmNBqqBI02Q
Band name of the day: meat would mac
SIGBOVIK - Colin McMillen http://colinm.org/sigbovik/
Facebook Ad Algorithm Is a Race and Gender Stereotyping Machine https://theintercept.com/2019/04/03/facebook-ad-algorithm-race-gender/
Hot take: every product or service Google cancels, they should open source. If Google doesn’t want to run it, they shouldn’t keep anybody else from running it instead.
Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/googles-constant-product-shutdowns-are-damaging-its-brand/
Your periodic reminder that disco is fantastic & overblown anti-disco sentiment is mostly thinly-veiled homophobia
Today in Shield Hero: Magical Deepfake
The new anime season is so weird. A bunch of harem shit (yay) but all of it is short episodes (wut)
The Alt-Right Playbook: Always a Bigger Fish - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agzNANfNlTs
disinfo never dies. I ran into somebody the other day who thought LSD stayed in your spinal fluid permanently & caused flashbacks – despite definitely not being alive when that BS was last seriously floated.
Brutalism And Music - Exploring Brutalist Architecture & Sound https://thespoonsterspouts.com/music/brutalism-and-music/
Give the Nobel Prize in Literature to Dril | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/7245/give-the-nobel-prize-to-dril
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The problem with AI ethics - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/3/18293410/ai-artificial-intelligence-ethics-boards-charters-problem-big-tech
Baba Is You review: one of the best puzzle games in years - Polygon https://www.polygon.com/reviews/2019/3/13/18263824/baba-is-you-review-nintendo-switch-pc
Band name of the day: spitehouse
The Deep Social Justice Roots of The Twilight Zone | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2019/03/28/the-deep-social-justice-roots-of-the-twilight-zone/
Band name of the day: horse dope sensation
Don’t Be Afraid is a fantastic album, & it’s not hurt by the fact that every track other than Ozar Midrashim & The White Roses sounds the same – instead this is thematically appropriate.
Information Society “Growing Up With Shiva” Live - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Iw6TfwdDSs
Ragel State Machine Compiler http://www.colm.net/open-source/ragel/
The Guys Seeking DIY Chemical Castration - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-guys-seeking-diy-chemical-castration
Band name of the day: cockroach milk
Band name of the day: mystic eyes of death perception
SnackWell’s History: Eat More, They’re Healthy https://tedium.co/2019/04/02/snackwells-history-low-fat-cookies/
The moment I decide to get serious about something, that’s when all progress on it stops :(
Periodic reminder: the 2019 No-Budget Film Contest starts accepting submissions on April 20th https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2019-no-budget-film-contest-d7eb339a3ed5
trance humanism
Band name of the day: temple of sleep
A depiction, if rich enough to be interesting, is bound to have internally contradictory potential interpretations. You control the frame, but the frame can’t be as tight as in (say) an essay.
If one intends to be understood, one must be careful not to be too clever: a reader will calibrate their cleverness based on their expectation of yours, & any mismatch is liable to produce misunderstanding.
What’s the difference between poetry and prose? I’d say that with prose, one aims to constrain the set of possible meanings as tightly as possible to minimize misunderstanding. Poetry has the richness of possible meanings that direct experience has.
GitHub - scipr-lab/zexe: Rust library for decentralized private computation https://github.com/scipr-lab/zexe
Hot take: language is like sculpture, in that each word acts as a constraint that cleaves off parts of the infinite space of possible meaning.
The Corporations Devouring American Colleges - The Huffington Post https://www.huffpost.com/highline/article/capitalist-takeover-college/
Band name of the day: tubed meats
If you’re a writer & you don’t read, your readers will notice (even if you don’t). And those of them who read will start to dwindle away…
Day by day I get closer and closer to being the guy who sea-lions strangers about how the USSR wasn’t communist. I don’t want to be this guy. Please help me not be this guy, by learning it on your own.
Bad idea of the day: a soap opera that is also a space opera AND a rock opera
Gwern’s AI-Generated Poetry | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/03/14/gwerns-ai-generated-poetry/
Genetics and Eugenics in Frank Herbert’s Dune - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Dune-genetics
Book Review: Inventing The Future | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/03/18/book-review-inventing-the-future/
Space Exploration History: The Space Shuttle and the Horse’s Rear End http://www.astrodigital.org/space/stshorse.html
Russia wants to cut itself off from the global internet. Here’s what that really means. - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613138/russia-wants-to-cut-itself-off-from-the-global-internet-heres-what-that-really-means/
hot take: any apparent non-agent capable of outside revision is, implicitly, part of an agentitive system whose goal is its continued existence
Why Tool AIs Want to Be Agent AIs: The Power of Agency - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Tool-AI
Bad idea of the day: vending machine art project that takes bills & sets them on fire as you watch through a little window
‘Scanners Live in Vain’ as realistic SF - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Scanners
Big Rural - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kp4bv/big-rural
The Neural Net Tank Urban Legend - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Tanks
Million Short - What haven’t you found? https://www.millionshort.com/
Internet Search Tips - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Search
Band name of the day: mechanical sympathy
I’m only making business card sized games now | Killed By A Pixel http://frankforce.com/?p=5826
GitHub - bacook17/acronym: ACRONYM (Acronym CReatiON for You and Me) https://github.com/bacook17/acronym
Band name of the day: special information advantage
Even if Bigfoot isn’t real, we still need him “ High Country News https://www.hcn.org/articles/essays-even-if-bigfoot-isnt-real-we-still-need-him
Ads Written By the Guy From Your Poetry MFA Who’s In Marketing Now - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ads-written-by-the-guy-from-your-poetry-mfa-whos-in-marketing-now
Band name of the day: Harry Humanoid
We need a third Captain Marvel who’s literally just Jack Parsons.