Radiohead - Burn The Witch - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI2oS2hoL0k

Band name of the day: institute of implied oneironautics

Band name of the day: institute of applied oneironautics

Bret Victor - Media for Thinking the Unthinkable - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUaOucZRlmE

IS SONIC 2 ABOUT CAPITALISM??!??!? | SERIOUS LORE ANALYSIS 3 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TebCHHCw9rY

The alt-right is drunk on bad readings of Nietzsche. The Nazis were too. - Vox https://www.vox.com/2017/8/17/16140846/alt-right-nietzsche-richard-spencer-nazism

How communist Bulgaria became a leader in tech and sci-fi | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-communist-bulgaria-became-a-leader-in-tech-and-sci-fi

The rise and fall and rise of logic | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-rise-and-fall-and-rise-of-logic

How Do Original Anime Get Made? | Anime Studio Spotlight - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIUWZcZZHqw

What happened to distributed programming languages? by Heather Miller - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAcDWcaezXY

The Kunst Saga | How the Right Wing Views Modern Art - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M5RUoNfSyI

esoteric.codes http://esoteric.codes/post/173030072108/interview-with-allison-parrish

Wolfenstein vs Call of Duty - The Need for “B” Games - Extra Credits - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42OkO9gQoQA

“Propositions as Types” by Philip Wadler - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOiZatlZtGU

Observations on Modern Computing (The Last 10 Years Were a Misstep) – ~ajroach42.com – I’m Andrew. I write about the past and future of tech, music, media, culture, art, and activism. This… http://ajroach42.com/observations-on-modern-computing-the-last-10-years-were-a-misstep/

Stop Writing Classes - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9pEzgHorH0

HäirIÖ: Human Hair as Interactive Material - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JV2D7gJ5HI

How K-pop became a propaganda tool | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/4269/k-pop-propaganda-south-korea-north-korea-demilitarized-zone

http://markallenthornton.com/blog/numerical-advantage/

Apparently, there’s an upcoming Suspiria remake scored by Thom Yorke. Why didn’t I know about this already?

Spec-ulation Keynote - Rich Hickey - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLBGkS5ICk

Monktoberfest 2016: Bryan Cantrill - Oral Tradition in Software Engineering - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PaWFYm0kEw

David Nolen on Parsing With Derivatives - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKiEsJiTMtI

403 You are banned from this site. Please contact via a different client configuration if you believe that this is a mistake. http://freakonomics.com/2013/02/20/how-to-game-a-grading-curve/

The Five Types Of Nicolas Cage Movies | FiveThirtyEight https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-five-types-of-nicolas-cage-movies/

Color: From Hexcodes to Eyeballs http://jamie-wong.com/post/color/

Null Object as identity http://blog.ploeh.dk/2018/04/23/null-object-as-identity/

Memetics does provide a useful way of understanding cultural evolution - Dr Susan Blackmore https://www.susanblackmore.uk/chapters/memetics-does-provide-a-useful-way-of-understanding-cultural-evolution/

Paper As a Substrate for Circuits « bunnie’s blog https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5259

Malcolm Harris on Glitch Capitalism and AI Logic http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/04/malcolm-harris-on-glitch-capitalism-and-ai-logic.html

Band name of the day: cosmetic computing

Is English Wikipedia’s ‘rise and decline’ typical? – copyrighteous https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/revisiting-the-rise-and-decline

General Magic is a film about the ‘90s startup that imagined the smartphone - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/22/17233362/general-magic-movie-review-documentary-silicon-valley-tribeca-2018

“Consistency without consensus in production systems” by Peter Bourgon - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em9zLzM8O7c

$uptime - Mondo 2000 http://www.mondo2000.com/2018/03/21/2096/

Reminder – entries are open for the 2018 no-budget film contest: https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2018-no-budget-film-contest-e023a922fadd

Learning to see: Gloomy Sunday on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/260612034

The Quest to Teach AI to Write Pop Songs https://gizmodo.com/the-quest-to-teach-ai-to-write-pop-songs-1824157220

Jaron Lanier Interview on What Went Wrong With the Internet http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/04/jaron-lanier-interview-on-what-went-wrong-with-the-internet.html

The Book No One Read - Issue 28: 2050 - Nautilus http://nautil.us/issue/28/2050/the-book-no-one-read

countercomplex: How I view our species and our world http://viznut.fi/texts-en/our_species_and_our_world.html

A description of how Aquarius Prolog gets performance comparable to imperative languages: https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1990/CSD-90-600.pdf

countercomplex: Reaching for the blocks of the living world http://viznut.fi/texts-en/reaching_for_the_blocks.html

Katherine Maher, Wikimedia Executive Director Interview https://nymag.com/selectall/2018/04/katherine-maher-wikimedia-executive-director-interview.html

enki2: http://enki2.tumblr.com/post/173173968844/enki2-enki2-everything-is-easier-with-a

Bret Victor The Future of Programming - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4

Band name of the day: write skew

“Uncle” Bob Martin - “The Future of Programming” - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecIWPzGEbFc

Hot take: most of the code a non-programmer end user runs should be written by that non-programmer end user, the same way most of the food a non-chef eats was cooked by that non-chef

Effective Programs - 10 Years of Clojure - Rich Hickey - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V1FtfBDsLU

Zebras All the Way Down - Bryan Cantrill, Uptime 2017 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE2KDzZaxvE

Band name of the day: redundant and degenerate

Gerry Sussman - We Really Don’t Know How to Compute! - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3tVctB_VSU

The Lebowski Theorem of machine superintelligence https://kottke.org/18/04/the-lebowski-theorem-of-machine-superintelligence

countercomplex: Slower Moore’s law wouldn’t be that bad. http://viznut.fi/texts-en/slower_moores_law.html

An interesting correspondence table: http://viznut.fi/texts-en/ancient_binary_symbolism.html

Don’t submit yourself to a game machine! | Countercomplex http://viznut.fi/texts-en/dont_submit_yourself_to_game_machine.html

International May Day » The Haymarket frame-up and the origins of May Day http://internationalmayday.org/the-haymarket-frame-up-and-the-origins-of-may-day/

countercomplex: Bringing magic back to technology http://viznut.fi/texts-en/magic_back_to_technology.html

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

Palantir Knows Everything About You https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-palantir-peter-thiel/

In The Mesh - Scuttlebutt, A Decentralized Alternative To Facebook https://www.inthemesh.com/archive/secure-scuttlebutt-facebook-alternative/

Bad idea of the day: a program that computes the degree to which the response to a query meets gricean maxims and, if beyond a threshhold, produces potential implicatures, on a synthetic logic-based language and an ontology

What lies behind the simplistic image of the happy Buddhist? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/what-lies-behind-the-simplistic-image-of-the-happy-buddhist

Bad idea of the day: a prolog repl, except pred definitions are checked in reverse definition order and all pred definitions not starting with underscore are persistent. you can export the persistent environment image as a regular prolog file.

Band name of the day: a lawsuit waiting to happen

Multics https://ban.ai/multics/

countercomplex: Counteracting alienation with technological arts and crafts http://viznut.fi/texts-en/counteracting_tech_alienation.html

How city birds evolved to be smarter than rural birds | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-city-birds-evolved-to-be-smarter-than-rural-birds

This one is good too – you know somebody’s taking it seriously when they include a book of random digits: https://medium.com/the-long-now-foundation/george-dysons-selections-for-the-manual-for-civilization-3efb5ab3db

Oh hey one of these is actually good: https://medium.com/the-long-now-foundation/megan-and-rick-prelingers-selected-books-for-the-manual-for-civilization-1853c7b93f2d

Hot take: If you believe technological determinism cannot be effectively resisted, then how much the projected trajectory benefits you personally determines where you fall on the scale from Kevin Kelley to the Unabomber

Construction grammar - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction_grammar

Eminent Philosophers Name the 43 Most Important Philosophy Books Written Between 1950-2000: Wittgenstein, Foucault, Rawls & More | Open Culture http://www.openculture.com/2018/04/eminent-philosophers-name-the-43-most-important-philosophy-books-written-between-1950-2000.html

Claire Evans’s ‘Broad Band’ Excerpt http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/04/claire-evanss-broad-band-excerpt.html

Is This Creepy Sculpture An Ad For Soylent? https://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/soylent-sculpture-girlfriend

TIL that the technology for viewing US census data summaries is called DADS: https://factfinder.census.gov/help/en/data_access_and_dissemination_system_dads.htm

My Five Discordian Rituals | Historia Discordia http://historiadiscordia.com/my-five-discordian-rituals/

Hans Holbein’s Dance of Death (1523–5) – The Public Domain Review http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/hans-holbeins-dance-of-death-1523-5/

Reminder: submissions open tomorrow for the no-budget film contest: https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2018-no-budget-film-contest-e023a922fadd

countercomplex: The resource leak bug of our civilization http://viznut.fi/texts-en/resource_leak_bug_of_our_civilization.html

Loper OS » Seven Laws of Sane Personal Computing http://www.loper-os.org/?p=284

Loper OS » Why Hypercard Had to Die http://www.loper-os.org/?p=568

Bad idea of the day: twitch plays pictionary

Mathematicians Explore Mirror Link Between Two Geometric Worlds | Quanta Magazine https://www.quantamagazine.org/decades-old-graph-problem-yields-to-amateur-mathematician-20180417/

Charting Death https://owenshen24.github.io/charting-death/

Band name of the day: it’s coming through your hands

This Must Be David Byrne | GQ https://www.gq.com/story/david-byrne-talking-heads-icon-profile

GitHub - luanfujun/deep-painterly-harmonization: Code and data for paper “Deep Painterly Harmonization”: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03189 https://github.com/luanfujun/deep-painterly-harmonization#user-content-examples

Thread by @ptychomancer: “I love maps & their promise of fractal discovery. I love procedural generation and the aesthetics of the unauthored. Where do these two […]” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/980968298002006016.html

BBC Sound Effects Archive Resource • Research & Education Space http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/

mikeash.com: Friday Q&A 2009-02-20: The Good and Bad of Distributed Objects https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2009-02-20-the-good-and-bad-of-distributed-objects.html

Oh boy: http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Incunabulum

Preface - APL and J https://crypto.stanford.edu/~blynn/c/apl.html

Band name of the day: international space crimes

Pete Corey - Writing Mandelbrot Fractals with Hooks and Forks http://www.petecorey.com/blog/2018/04/16/writing-mandelbrot-factals-with-hooks-and-forks/

Encoding data in dubstep drops https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/encoding-data-into-dubstep-drops

The Overlooked Wonders of Soviet-Era Industrial Design - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/soviet-design-history

The chemistry of William Gibson’s Neuromancer. » Chemistry Blog http://www.chemistry-blog.com/2018/04/16/the-chemistry-of-william-gibsons-neuromancer/

The citation graph is one of humankind’s most important intellectual achievements / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/04/14/open-graphs.html