Blood And Black Lace - The History Of Italian Horror Film - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fb_j2v_VtE

Blood and Sand All You Ever Wanted to Know About Spanish Horror Films - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYnS3P8pp9Y

ONE HIT WONDERLAND: “Pepper” by Butthole Surfers - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIjE8R_j5h4

Isekai Anime Survival Guide - Public Service Anime - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF2DzAQYw68

David Lynch: The Treachery of Language - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffllV6-aqWU

We Have Accepted Mediocrity - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHGAgE19NFE

Formatting for Gopher with GNU troff http://davebucklin.com/play/2018/03/04/gopher-groff.html

How to Gopher http://davebucklin.com/play/2018/03/31/how-to-gopher.html

Decentralization Dilemma — Molus https://www.molus.org/blog/decentralization-dilemma/

The lucid dreaming playbook: how to take charge of your dreams | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/the-lucid-dreaming-playbook-how-to-take-charge-of-your-dreams

The Scientific Paper Is Obsolete. Here’s What’s Next. - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/the-scientific-paper-is-obsolete/556676/

spaced repetition & Darwin’s golden rule – Mind Hacks https://mindhacks.com/2018/02/26/spaced-repetition-darwins-golden-rule/

A graph that is made by perceiving it – Mind Hacks https://mindhacks.com/2018/02/25/a-graph-that-is-made-by-perceiving-it/

Goodhart’s Law and Why Measurement is Hard https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/06/09/goodharts-law-and-why-measurement-is-hard/

Review: John Bargh’s “Before You Know It” – Mind Hacks https://mindhacks.com/2018/04/04/review-john-barghs-before-you-know-it/

Remembering the ’70s activist group that tried to save us from the tech industry | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/4029/computer-people-for-peace-history

Heavy Metal Magazine : Free Texts : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/heavy-metal-magazine

IF Magazine : Free Texts : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/ifmagazine

Procedural Worlds from Simple Tiles http://ijdykeman.github.io/ml/2017/10/12/wang-tile-procedural-generation.html

Mass Surveillance Memes Show Our Collective Anxiety Over Government Spying - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/zmg3ky/surveillance-memes-nsa-fbi-facebook

TL;DR version of my ‘big and small computing’ essay: amateur & pro can & should coexist, and we should expand the amateur while making sure the stuff that matters is done by pros.

In Defense of Design Thinking, Which Is Terrible + Subtraction.com https://www.subtraction.com/2018/04/02/in-defense-of-design-thinking-which-is-terrible/

GitHub - endrazine/wcc: The Witchcraft Compiler Collection https://github.com/endrazine/wcc

The Pitch https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/how-a-calypso-anthem-became-the-surreal-centerpiece-of-beetlejuice/

revolt against the prevailing heterodoxy too

Storming the Ivory Tower: Let’s Pop Together Part 2 http://www.stormingtheivorytower.com/2018/03/lets-pop-together-part-2.html

I wonder if the recent Charlie Wartzel-spawned increase in the use of the term ‘infocalypse’ will affect the popularity of the music I’ve been releasing under that name for the past eleven years…

Phoenicia: an imaginary friend to nations in need of ancestors | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/phoenicia-an-imaginary-friend-to-nations-in-need-of-ancestors

Band name of the day: The Emergency

Interview: Hideaki Anno VS. Yoshiyuki Tomino (Animage – 07/1994) | Wave Motion Cannon https://wavemotioncannon.com/2016/11/08/interview-hideaki-anno-vs-yoshiyuki-tomino-animage-071994/

My Own ‘Bad Story’: I Thought Journalism Would Make a Hero of Me https://longreads.com/2018/04/03/my-own-bad-story-i-thought-journalism-would-make-a-hero-of-me/

GitHub - stardothosting/facebook-purge: Obfuscate, poison and purge all your facebook data permanently https://github.com/stardothosting/facebook-purge

Band name of the day: tube-pork medley

Bad idea of the day: an all-robot jam band

Dungeons and Dragons, not chess and Go: why AI needs roleplay | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/dungeons-and-dragons-not-chess-and-go-why-ai-needs-roleplay

Connective disintegration – Axxon N. Horror https://axxonnhorror.wordpress.com/2018/03/24/connective-disintegration/

What we talk about when we talk about post-truth | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-post-truth

Good Game Well Played: The Story of the Staying Power of ‘StarCraft’ - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/2018/3/30/17179036/1998-video-games-starcraft-turns-20

The manufacture of steam-engine time – Rococo Modem Basilisk – Medium https://medium.com/@/the-manufacture-of-steam-engine-time-9f83cd24a9b0

Ad-tech and fatigue – Rococo Modem Basilisk – Medium https://medium.com/@/ad-tech-and-fatigue-b918bee5ee75

On tackiness – Rococo Modem Basilisk – Medium https://medium.com/@/on-tackiness-3f9a1c46ea4b

Meditations on morality – Rococo Modem Basilisk – Medium https://medium.com/@/meditations-on-morality-d6d4bb51d9e0

A design for a hypothetical undergraduate CS curriculum https://medium.com/@/a-design-for-a-hypothetical-undergraduate-cs-curriculum-1d776cc91b2c

Against trendism: how to defang the social media disinformation complex https://medium.com/@/against-trendism-how-to-defang-the-social-media-disinformation-complex-81a8e2635956

How to fail at culture jamming – Rococo Modem Basilisk – Medium https://medium.com/@/how-to-fail-at-culture-jamming-7b409abf5db5

Against UI standardization – Rococo Modem Basilisk – Medium https://medium.com/@/against-ui-standardization-791b8bbc4fbe

Software utopianism in a flawed universe – Rococo Modem Basilisk – Medium https://medium.com/@/software-utopianism-in-a-flawed-universe-20dd51cad195

Big and small computing – Rococo Modem Basilisk – Medium https://medium.com/@/big-and-small-computing-73dc49901b9a

For the first time in history, the internet makes it reasonable to expect people to already understand that nothing is unprecedented.

If You’ve Met Aliens While on DMT, These Scientists Would Like to Hear From You - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bjpjxm/dmt-aliens-study-johns-hopkins

Robert Virding, Mariano Guerra - Implementing Languages on the BEAM - Code BEAM SF 2018 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkAbwmn5Rv8

It’s Nice That | A chat with the Orwellian mastermind in charge of the UK town known as Scarfolk https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/scarfolk-graphic-design-210318

A history of the Amiga, part 12: Red vs. Blue | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/03/a-history-of-the-amiga-part-12-red-vs-blue/

GitHub - roamanalytics/mittens: A fast implementation of GloVe, with optional retrofitting https://github.com/roamanalytics/mittens

Using Ethics In Web Design — Smashing Magazine https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/03/using-ethics-in-web-design/

Letting neural networks be weird • April Fool’s pranks written by neural network http://aiweirdness.com/post/172345256807/april-fools-pranks-written-by-neural-network

Bad idea of the day: use the luma channel from one VCR and the chroma channel from a different one

Bad idea of the day: video theramin

Secret History of Silicon Valley - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo

Interview : EBN - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uYXI-5rkOo

Re: ‘architecture is fate’ – a more accurate version is ‘precedent is easily mistaken for fate’. Part of the problem is creating bad precedent; part is not looking closely enough to distinguish esence from accident.

My Cow Game Extracted Your Facebook Data - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/my-cow-game-extracted-your-facebook-data/556214/

With Musical Cryptography, Composers Can Hide Messages in Their Melodies - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/musical-cryptography-codes

Why Big Tech Needs Big Ethics — Right Now! – Lauren Weinstein’s Blog https://lauren.vortex.com/2018/03/24/why-big-tech-needs-big-ethics-right-now

Facebook Has Had Countless Privacy Scandals. But This One Is Different. https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/why-facebooks-data-scandal-just-wont-quit

Architectural Mystery: Ruin Researcher Explores Ancient Temple’s Hidden History - 99% Invisible https://99percentinvisible.org/article/architectural-mystery-ruin-researcher-explores-ancient-temples-hidden-history/

Hot take: big tech exists only as a failure to create small (human-scale) tech. Facebook & twitter represents a failure to create & publicize p2p alternatives.

Pin-Ups: David Bowie Goes to the Movies https://www.tiff.net/the-review/david-bowie-goes-to-the-movies/

Knolling - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knolling

Punding - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punding

Think Again https://thinkagain.ought.org/

Band name of the day: the submerged man

Ad Scammers Need Suckers, and Facebook Helps Find Them - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-03-27/ad-scammers-need-suckers-and-facebook-helps-find-them

Married … With Children History: How Terry Rakolta Changed Television https://tedium.co/2018/03/27/married-with-children-terry-rakolta/

Band name of the day: The Known

A practitioner’s guide to reading programming languages papers | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/01/26/a-practitioners-guide-to-reading-programming-languages-papers/

When coding style survives compilation: de-anonymizing programmers from executable binaries | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/03/16/when-coding-style-survives-compilation-de-anonymizing-programmers-from-executable-binaries/

Game of missuggestions: semantic analysis of search autocomplete manipulation | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/03/14/game-of-missuggestions-semantic-analysis-of-search-autocomplete-manipulation/

In the gap between writer and reader the novel comes to life | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/in-the-gap-between-writer-and-reader-the-novel-comes-to-life

How science fiction feeds the fuel solutions of the future | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-science-fiction-feeds-the-fuel-solutions-of-the-future

Seek permission, not forgiveness · Nick Sweeney https://nicksweeney.com/2007/09/08/seek-permission-not-forgiveness/

Band name of the day: DAG of distain

David Lynch’s Night Truths https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/03/20/david-lynchs-night-truths/

Don’t Delete Facebook. Do Something About It. - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/24/opinion/sunday/delete-facebook-does-not-fix-problem.html

The Quest for a Universal Translator for Old, Obsolete Computer Files - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-to-open-old-computer-files

Marvel at Tiny, Perfect Staircases Made by a Secret Society of French Woodworkers - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/compagnons-tiny-staircases-models

Instead of watching Pop Team Epic, just read this essay, which is more satisfying: http://www.stormingtheivorytower.com/2018/03/lets-pop-together-part-1.html

One percent of Reddit users cause 75 percent of the drama | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/3825/one-percent-of-reddit-users-ruin-everything

Privacy and Tracking on the Fediverse | Lainblog https://blog.soykaf.com/post/privacy-and-tracking-on-the-fediverse/

Section 230: A Key Legal Shield For Facebook, Google Is About To Change : All Tech Considered : NPR https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2018/03/21/591622450/section-230-a-key-legal-shield-for-facebook-google-is-about-to-change

GitHub - robey/font-problems: command-line tool for reading and writing console bitmap fonts https://github.com/robey/font-problems

The desire to fit in is the root of almost all wrongdoing | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/the-desire-to-fit-in-is-the-root-of-almost-all-wrongdoing

‘It’s old news’ doesn’t make something better – it makes it worse. If there’s a problem that’s been newsworthy several times & not addressed, it’s had more time to affect people, and people should be criticized for not addressing it.

The shady data-gathering tactics used by Cambridge Analytica were an open secret to online marketers. I know, because I was one - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/25/17161726/facebook-cambridge-analytica-data-online-marketers

Fred’s ImageMagick Scripts http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/index.php

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/

Band name of the day: the product

Justseeds | 257: Penguin Crime https://justseeds.org/257-penguin-crime/

Hot take: the web never ‘belonged to the people’ – the moment a centralized client-server model with hostnames embedded in the addressed was decided upon, the seeds of Facebook & Google were sown.

Being frugal is for the rich | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/3840/frugalwoods-frugality-millennials