Ironically, Alanis Morissette never got enough credit | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/4400/alanis-morissette-very-intriguing-person

What should you do when Google gets into bed with the US military? | WIRED UK http://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-microsoft-amazon-us-military-ai-conflict

Bad idea of the day: a system for sharing playlists of things that aren’t audio or online video, like themed triple-features or reading lists, so you can curate or browse that kind of human recommendation

Band name of the day: the new all-human cerebellum

Band name of the day: that mad chemistry

200 years later, we can say that Marx was very often right – but in a much more literal way than he intended | The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/karl-marx-200-years-uk-politics-elections-working-class-slavoj-zizek-a8335931.html

AWAKEN AKIRA - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY1QHpp6iEE

The Impact of Akira: The Film that Changed Everything - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqVoEpRIaKg

Dada and Surrealism: Europe After the Rain documentary (1978) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdBaS8fgwNs

Band name of the day: against action

Why Silicon Valley can’t fix itself | News | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/may/03/why-silicon-valley-cant-fix-itself-tech-humanism

‘I had to guard an empty room’: the rise of the pointless job | Money | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/may/04/i-had-to-guard-an-empty-room-the-rise-of-the-pointless-job

Cambridge Analytica dismantled for good? Nope: It just changed its name to Emerdata • The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/02/cambridge_analytica_shutdown/

all my favorite movies are beautiful clusterfucks because a dysfunctional game of telephone with people who don’t share a common language is the most reliable way to generate creativity

This reminds me of the @swaim_corp / smallbeans George Lucas v Disney skit: http://aiweirdness.com/post/163491778652/darth-net-star-wars-characters-invented-by-neural

Social Anarchist Futures – Solarpunk Anarchist https://solarpunkanarchists.com/2018/05/02/social-anarchist-futures/

Three years of the Right To Be Forgotten | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/03/22/three-years-of-the-right-to-be-forgotten/

Information flow reveals prediction limits in online social activity | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/03/26/information-flow-reveals-prediction-limits-in-online-social-activity/

NES Homebrew Scene: Not Necessarily Driven By Nostalgia https://tedium.co/2018/04/10/nes-homebrew-scene-history/

Oracle’s Network Computer: Larry Ellison’s Too-Early Idea https://tedium.co/2018/04/12/larry-ellison-network-computer-history/

REMINDER: Entries for the 2018 No-Budget Film Conest are OPEN NOW, but will close on July 4th: https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2018-no-budget-film-contest-e023a922fadd

How to send local files to Chromecast with Python - Will do stuff for stuff https://rinzewind.org/blog-en/2018/how-to-send-local-files-to-chromecast-with-python.html

eBay, Organized Crime, and Evangelical Christians: The Ethical Minefield of Studying Ancient Civ… https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kgxjp/ebay-organized-crime-and-evangelical-christians-the-ethical-minefield-of-studying-ancient-civilizations-hobby-lobby-irisagrig-iraq

Goodbye, Cold War | Issue 30 | n+1 https://nplusonemag.com/issue-30/politics/goodbye-cold-war/

In the future when people tell me the web stack is an acceptable GUI layer I should just show them this: https://www.vox.com/2018/5/3/17309078/digital-art-diana-a-smith-francine-coded-browser-art ; if drawing a picture is impressive with your tools, your tools are shit

The False Allure of Hashing for Anonymization https://gravitational.com/blog/hashing-for-anonymization/

An Algorithmic Investigation of the Highfalutin ‘Poet Voice’ - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cultural-analysis-poet-voice

Ribbon Cutting Ceremony History: Why Are The Scissors So Big? https://tedium.co/2018/05/01/ribbon-cuttings-ceremonial-scissors-history/

Searching for a Future Beyond Facebook https://longreads.com/2018/05/01/searching-for-a-future-beyond-facebook/

Band name of the day: reciprocation dingle-arm

Band name of the day: nameless assemblage

GANZEER - The year is 1812. Mr. Smith of Huddersfield walks… http://www.ganzeer.com/post/173232122769/the-year-is-1812-mr-smith-of-huddersfield-walks

Band name of the day: calming slaughterbox

A Theory of Information Warfare http://www.iwar.org.uk/iwar/resources/airchronicles/szfran.htm

Band name of the day: night of the corpse whales

Band name of the day: the rich and gullible of europe

The Art of the 1960s Paris Riots http://www.messynessychic.com/2016/05/18/the-art-of-the-1960s-paris-riots/

Quatermass and the Pit: 50 Years On | Mysterious Universe http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/05/quatermass-and-the-pit-50-years-on/

The toxic legacy of Canada’s CIA brainwashing experiments: ‘They strip you of your soul’ | World news | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/03/montreal-brainwashing-allan-memorial-institute

Band name of the day: internet hole

How to Write Personalities for the AI Around Us https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/05/02/how-to-write-personalities-for-the-ai-around-us/

Send Anarchists, Guns, and Money | Jacob Siegel https://thebaffler.com/salvos/anarchists-guns-and-money-siegel

Band name of the day: the apparatus as a break

I Dream of Content-Trash | Zach Webb https://thebaffler.com/latest/i-dream-of-content-trash-webb

Band name of the day: the ends of sleep

Bad idea of the day: a letter-writing campaign to members of CS program accreditation boards (at their home addresses) requesting algorithmic bias & data ownership be a part of mandatory ethics classes in the curriculum.

GitHub - hellerve/cspfuck: Brainfuck with Actors https://github.com/hellerve/cspfuck

Bad idea of the day: an emoji moon but it renders as whatever phase the moon is actually in

BBC - Capital - These fake start-ups highlight tech firms’ silly name trends http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180425-why-do-startup-company-names-all-sound-alike

Band name of the day: automatic uncontrollable giving

Band name of the day: the words of conjunction

Band name of the day: the stinking rose of mirth

The Strange World of 1950s Propaganda | Video Essay - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPdP80BnZfE

What’s So Great About Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure (500k Special!) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PFagLd6Jh4

C Is Not a Low-level Language - ACM Queue https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479

“UYA” notices and face-saving in moderation systems | MetaFilter https://www.metafilter.com/173881/UYA-notices-and-face-saving-in-moderation-systems#inline-7389802

Band name of the day: ULTRA HAND

Band name of the day: Machine-Like Men Are Still Toddlers

Robotic Arm History: The Industrial Era’s Defining Innovation https://tedium.co/2018/04/19/robotic-arm-history-unimate-versatran/

Two Things Together https://tinyletter.com/learntocomputer/letters/two-things-together

The Enduring Irony of May Day – Brett S. Morris – Medium https://medium.com/@brettsmorris/the-enduring-irony-of-may-day-e13a1851e3f6

Bad idea of the day: creepypasta in the form of a walkthrough for a nonexistent game from an alternate universe where a game like that described is normal

The rise of the ambient video game | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/4181/ambient-video-game-legend-of-zelda

The Robin Hood You Love is A Lie | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2018/04/18/the-robin-hood-you-love-is-a-lie/

eBook History: Life Before There Was Kindle https://tedium.co/2018/04/26/ebook-history-before-kindle/

These People Are Selling the CIA’s Internal Board Game to the Public - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbxkd8/cia-board-game-techdirt-kickstarter

Disrupting the Commons: Dockless Bikes and Scooters Create Layers of Community Instability - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ne9gxd/electric-scooters-san-francisco-limebike-the-commons

GitHub - motherboardgithub/mass_archive: A basic tool for pushing a web page to multiple archiving services at once. https://github.com/motherboardgithub/mass_archive

In Vernor Vinge’s 2006 novel Rainbows End, there’s a group called FOP (Friends Of Privacy) who are a radical misinformation-chaffing charity. Basically, they spread large amounts of fake, believable, and boring dox about people, so that automated analysis of OSINT has to work harder.

Is Your Job Lynchian, or Is It More Kafkaesque? https://longreads.com/2018/04/26/is-your-job-lynchian-or-is-it-more-kafkaesque/

The protest songs that drove the Wobblies a century ago are still lighting fires | Music Feature | Chicago Reader https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/little-red-songbook-iww-wobblies-joe-hill-may-day/Content?oid=46456670

Band name of the day: struck by flying items

I would like to wish all of you a very happy international socialist solidarity day

First IC :) – Sam Zeloof http://sam.zeloof.xyz/first-ic/

Band name of the day: perceptual snake machine

About “Real UFO Stories” and more broadly, typologies https://medium.com/@midboss/about-real-ufo-stories-and-more-broadly-typologies-cd8be21db40f

my friend pokey — note dump, dump notes http://myfriendpokey.tumblr.com/post/171904353715/note-dump-dump-notes

The Dream and Promise of Multimedia, Regained… – Midboss (Em) – Medium https://medium.com/@midboss/the-dream-and-promise-of-multimedia-regained-e515e99b36ad

Art Bell and ‘Coast to Coast AM’ represented a time when conspiracy theories were innocent | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/4343/art-bell-coast-to-coast-am-obitiuary

Zsh Native Scripting Handbook http://zdharma.org/Zsh-100-Commits-Club/Zsh-Native-Scripting-Handbook.html

Band name of the day: bundle of sleep

A Mass of Copyrighted Works Will Soon Enter the Public Domain - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/04/copywritten-so-dont-copy-me/557420/

On word embeddings - Part 1 http://ruder.io/word-embeddings-1/

Imperfect Uncertainty | endless state machine https://endless-state-machine.bandcamp.com/album/imperfect-uncertainty

Barbara Kruger - 52 Artworks, Bio & Shows on Artsy https://www.artsy.net/artist/barbara-kruger

NOW THATS WHAT I CALL FUCK | fuckcore https://fuckcore.bandcamp.com/album/now-thats-what-i-call-fuck

Capitalism and Art - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwJBI6lWmpQ

An MSG Convert Visits the High Church of Umami | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/an-msg-convert-visits-the-high-church-of-umami

Why Cars Intentionally Ramming Into Crowds Is A Relatively New Problem https://jalopnik.com/why-cars-intentionally-ramming-into-crowds-is-a-relativ-1797817536

GitHub - xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator: The single instruction C compiler https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator

Lost in Math: Beauty != truth | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/04/lost-in-math-beauty-truth/

I tried leaving Facebook. I couldn’t - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/28/17293056/facebook-deletefacebook-social-network-monopoly

Mathematical Illustrations http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/graphics/manual/

Dao De Jing Translations http://www.daoisopen.com/ddjtranslations.html

A History of APL in 50 Functions http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/50/

Language Log » Reconstructing deconstruction http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=37876

Mathematicians Measure Infinities, Find They’re Equal | Quanta Magazine https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-measure-infinities-find-theyre-equal-20170912/

Semantic Domain: Are functional programs easier to verify than imperative programs? http://semantic-domain.blogspot.com/2018/04/are-functional-programs-easier-to.html

Language Design: Unified Condition Syntax https://soc.github.io/languages/unified-condition-syntax

Are you really Facebook’s product? The history of a dangerous idea. https://slate.com/technology/2018/04/are-you-really-facebooks-product-the-history-of-a-dangerous-idea.html