OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world — then it all went wrong - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17233946/olpcs-100-laptop-education-where-is-it-now

If you need something to watch, start with these: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16857613

Not news to anybody paying attention, but I still feel like it’s worth a visibility boost: https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/04/text-embedding-models-contain-bias.html

Parsing timeline v3: https://jeffreykegler.github.io/personal/timeline_v3

The reason it’s a bad idea is that the kind of people who badmouth poststructuralist methods as unscientific will do so even while using them. (See: Jordon Peterson)

Bad idea of the day: quantitative poststructuralism (with corpus statistics ofc)

2017 ACM PPoPP Keynote: It’s Time for a New Old Language - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HKbjYqqPPQ

Chain Letter Evolution http://www.silcom.com/~barnowl/chain-letter/evolution.html

How to change the course of human history | Eurozine https://www.eurozine.com/change-course-human-history/

Cambridge Analytica is bad, but Palantir is fucking terrifying | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/3978/peter-thiel-knows-you-ran-that-red-light

graydon2 | programming languages and empiricism https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/259333.html

GitHub - geophile/osh: Osh (Object SHell) is a command-line and API toolkit combining cluster access, database access, and data slicing and dicing. Sort of like awk and cssh morsels wrapped up in a Python crust. https://github.com/geophile/osh

If nothing else, Peterson is really good at making people write at length about him, even when they’re not sure if he’s actually saying anything: http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/04/03/highlights-from-the-comments-on-twelve-rules/

Xanadu Basics 1a - VISIBLE CONNECTION - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMKy52Intac

Changlin Li - Moving Beyond Defensive Programming - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csj3lzsr0_I

Web 2.0 Expo NY: Clay Shirky (shirky.com) It’s Not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure. - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LabqeJEOQyI

Urasawa Naoki no Manben: Itou Junji (S4E2, 2017) [english subs] - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ44yJgPBzE&list=PL1JoX06lyHW58diQaYk_wFyCw1jVC02NH

The Web That Wasn’t - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72nfrhXroo8

How Uber Got Ahead By Breaking The Rules - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm4I93gVVP4

The Thin White Duke: David Bowie’s Darkest Character - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofeSZJJ_fxQ

Video Ethnography of “ICARUS ” on the Xerox Alto - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BauuOoB6EIU

Kyousougiga And The Nostalgia Of Home - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYLTAqMv1DM

Band name of the day: the dark courage to sin

Let’s Replace JavaScript with Something Better https://john.ankarstrom.se/english/texts/replacing-javascript/

Kaukatcr: an experiment in language design for multi-dimensional spaces http://www.lord-enki.net/medium-backup/2018-04-12_Kaukatcr–an-experiment-in-language-design-for-multi-dimensional-spaces-cc038caafff9.html

Band name of the day: powerhammer

Epistemic status: U MAD BRO?

I love Wait But Why, and so it’s a real shame that Tim Urban has transformed into Elon Musk’s personal PR guy for the past few years, rather than writing on a wider array of topics.

Oh hey this paper is making the rounds again: http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005268

Band name of the day: the teeming millions

Band name of the day: the jugglaries of the memnonium

Gödel’s Second Incompleteness Theorem for Programmers — Adventures https://dvt.name/2018/04/11/godels-second-incompleteness-theorem-programmers/

Gödel’s First Incompleteness Theorem for Programmers — Adventures https://dvt.name/2018/03/12/godels-first-incompleteness-theorem-programmers/

How American Chopper, And Other Preferential Memes, Took Over The Internet - Digg http://digg.com/2018/american-chopper-meme

I Lived Exclusively Off Doomsday Prepper Food for a Week - MUNCHIES https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/vbx399/what-does-prepper-food-taste-like-v25n1

The junhu and the art of everyday politics in imperial China | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-junhu-and-the-art-of-everyday-politics-in-imperial-china

Listen to the Sick Beats of Rhubarb Growing in the Dark - Gastro Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/forced-rhubarb-makes-sound

Band name of the day: the vocal statue

Band name of the day: seated humans with large heads

Creating Passionate Users: Is Twitter TOO good? http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2007/03/is_twitter_too_.html

PaintsChainer http://paintschainer.preferred.tech/index_en.html

Reddit redesigned its site and it could kill discussion subreddits – Change My View https://changemyview.net/2018/04/11/reddit-redesigned-its-site-and-it-could-kill-discussion-subreddits/

Center for a Stateless Society » Black Market Mutualism and the Soul of Society https://c4ss.org/content/50650

Band name of the day: suddenly hyperconnected to the real

Have you tried proving parts of the problem insoluble?

Re: TLS in Gopher https://lists.debian.org/gopher-project/2018/02/msg00038.html

The gopher onion initiative project gopher://bitreich.org/1/onion

Eromanga-Sensei: One Year Later - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4QVE87UfX8

TXR Language http://nongnu.org/txr/

TXR Language http://nongnu.org/txr/

TXR Language http://nongnu.org/txr/

Alex Schroeder: 2018-01-10 Encrypted Gopher https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2018-01-10_Encrypted_Gopher

Brutalist design is the bad influence we all need https://www.imaginarycloud.com/blog/why-we-need-web-brutalism/

Are ‘Learning Styles’ Real? - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/the-myth-of-learning-styles/557687/

Band name of the day: all-purpose survival cracker

Why Does “=” Mean Assignment? • Hillel Wayne https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/equals-as-assignment/

Band name of the day: apes with ape problems

Lessons Learned Reproducing a Deep Reinforcement Learning Paper http://amid.fish/reproducing-deep-rl

Code and Data for the Social Sciences:A Practitioner’s Guide http://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/CodeAndData.xhtml

What’s Really at Stake in the Battle for “Ideological Diversity” at Elite Media Outlets https://theintercept.com/2018/04/10/kevin-williamson-atlantic-ideological-diversity/

Ontology http://www.acutesoftware.com.au/aikif/ontology.html

Designing better file organization around tags, not hierarchies https://www.nayuki.io/page/designing-better-file-organization-around-tags-not-hierarchies

How to Make Everything Ourselves: Open Modular Hardware - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2012/12/how-to-make-everything-ourselves-open-modular-hardware.html

A Taxonomy of Tech Debt | Riot Games Engineering https://engineering.riotgames.com/news/taxonomy-tech-debt

Band name of the day: beaverduck

Your Pretty Face is Going to Sell : Open Space https://openspace.sfmoma.org/2018/04/your-pretty-face-is-going-to-sell/

Please describe the precise nature of the absurdity.

What is more terrifying – that they know something about you that you don’t know yourself, or that even though you have no self – no center other than an arithmetic mean – they can still predict your absurdities better than you can?

What is more terrifying – that know something about you that you don’t know yourself, or that even though you have no self – no center other than an arithmetic mean – can still predict your absurdities better than you can?

Pay for Your Words | Peter Pomerantsev | Granta Magazine https://granta.com/pay-for-your-words/

Band name of the day: an unorthodox guidance

Band name of the day: night shape

Band name of the day: beyond taste

The Verge Book Club 001 -‘Ubik’ - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBiHiShnhso

Ubik: apply directly to the forehead

Hive Minds, Mind Hives - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GAicTW7MGo

Headlines making you anxious? Delay reading them | Oliver Burkeman | Life and style | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/apr/06/how-to-handle-headline-anxiety-take-time-reading-news-oliver-burkeman

Hot take: authenticity is a separate issue from control. ‘Selling out’ is a matter of centralized control of media, not of compromised ‘individuality’. People are often genuinely individually awful.

How to Build a Low-tech Internet - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/10/how-to-build-a-low-tech-internet.html

dan soucy / derivejoy · GitLab https://gitlab.com/danso/derivejoy

Samin Nosrat’s ‘Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat’ and the Best Books for Learning How to Cook - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/04/the-why-of-cooking-samin-nosrat/523923/

Confessions of a fairy hunter | THE Features https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/confessions-fairy-hunter

So, which one of you are gonna fill the blockchain with anarchocommunist pamphlets?

Band name of the day: illegal anatomy

These Fortune-Telling Tea Cups Made Divination Easy - Gastro Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fortune-telling-tea-cups

The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user https://jameshfisher.com/2018/04/07/the-dots-do-matter-how-to-scam-a-gmail-user.html

Band name of the day: selfies with bears

Band name of the day: mouthbrow

Cramulus | In the future, dolphins, elephants, and several… http://cramul.us/post/172758639737/in-the-future-dolphins-elephants-and-several

Yeah, this is almost exactly what I did too: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/7/27/16035508/diy-wearable-computer-google-glass-raspberry-pi-instructions

How to keep your ISP’s nose out of your browser history with encrypted DNS | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/how-to-keep-your-isps-nose-out-of-your-browser-history-with-encrypted-dns/

Why it’s as hard to escape an echo chamber as it is to flee a cult | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/why-its-as-hard-to-escape-an-echo-chamber-as-it-is-to-flee-a-cult

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/

Molly Ringwald Revisits “The Breakfast Club” in the Age of #MeToo | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/what-about-the-breakfast-club-molly-ringwald-metoo-john-hughes-pretty-in-pink

Operant Conditioning by Software Bugs – Embedded in Academia https://blog.regehr.org/archives/861

After Authenticity http://subpixel.space/entries/after-authenticity/

Band name of the day: urban foxes

Somebody on mastodon linked me to this, and it’s a fantastic syllabus. Highly recommend reading ALL of these: https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/hyperreal-VRp8uyehhIOdW3tET3O64

Hot take: if you have more than one user or you’re taking money from anybody, ‘break things’ should not be part of your motto, unless your job is literally demolition.

Strange Behavior - Cult Films Of Eurocine Studios - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C7g-KJJIFg