Band name of the day: invaders on holiday

How Ken Layne Created a Publishing Oasis in a Desert Town of 8,000 People - Pacific Standard https://psmag.com/news/ken-layne-desert-oracle

For Me, David Bowie Lives On - GARAGE https://garage.vice.com/en_us/article/zmwap9/for-paul-gorman-david-bowie-lives-on

GitHub - kapok-lang/kapok: A Lisp on the Erlang VM https://github.com/kapok-lang/kapok

The legal battle to colonize Mars | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/3739/mars-colony-settlement-spacex-elon-musk-trump

Portable Computer Pre-History: Portable Before Laptops https://tedium.co/2018/03/15/early-portable-computer-history/

If we disagree about morality, how can we teach it? | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/if-we-disagree-about-morality-how-can-we-teach-it

Hot take: the whole ‘you need to code in your free time’ is partially justified by the way a 4 year CS degree doesn’t remotely prepare you for an entry-level code-crunching position.

Band name of the day: provisional hope

Stop Blaming Russian Bots For Everything https://www.buzzfeed.com/miriamelder/stop-blaming-russian-bots-for-everything

The Intellectual We Deserve | Current Affairs https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/03/the-intellectual-we-deserve

Today is the ides of march. Celebrate by not letting prophetic dreams get in the way of your public speaking engagements.

Today is the ides of march. Celebrate by shanking your friends.

Today is the ides of march. Celebrate by being ware.

BBC - Culture - Twenty-six words we don’t want to lose http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20171122-twenty-six-words-we-dont-want-to-lose

Band name of the day: mercury in vermigrade

How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career http://coding.derkeiler.com/Archive/Lisp/comp.lang.lisp/2006-04/msg01644.html

#nanogenmo idea: Create a pantheon with thematic names, modeled on sumerian, & sumerian-style myths around them. Ex., a god of water could be called Ena or Nina (since ‘a’ means water, & ‘en’ & ‘nin’ are prefixes for god names) & have hundreds of generated epithets based on domain

Bad idea of the day: A bot that generates not surrealistic and impossible recipes but merely strange Futurist Cookbook style recipes you could actually cook.

Book Towns Are Made for Book Lovers - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-a-book-town

The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo’s odyssey from absurdist theatre troupe to new wave octet – Night Flight http://nightflight.com/the-mystic-knights-of-the-oingo-boingos-odyssey-from-absurdist-theatre-troupe-to-new-wave-octet/

In the 1950s everybody cool was a little alienated. What changed? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/in-the-1950s-everybody-cool-was-a-little-alienated-what-changed

Bad idea of the day: An RPG whose stats are traits like alienation, shadow integration, neurosis

Oingo Boingo History: New Wave’s Oddball West-Coast Icons https://tedium.co/2018/03/13/oingo-boingo-danny-elfman-history/

How the Cold War led the CIA to promote human capital theory | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-cold-war-led-the-cia-to-promote-human-capital-theory

ed(1) is Turing-Complete – *nix Windows https://nixwindows.wordpress.com/2018/03/13/ed1-is-turing-complete/

List: What Your Bookshelf Organization Says About You - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/what-your-bookshelf-organization-says-about-you

How Psychopaths See the World - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/03/a-hidden-problem-at-the-heart-of-psychopathy/555335/

Log Ratio – an informal introduction | ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) http://cass.lancs.ac.uk/?p=1133

Hallucinated Gods | Melting Asphalt https://www.meltingasphalt.com/hallucinated-gods/

Jason Grinblat - Procedural History in Caves of Qud - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClGAApZYIvI

Practical Procedural Generation for Everyone - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WumyfLEa6bU

RustConf 2017 - Closing Keynote: Safe Systems Software and the Future of Computing by Joe Duf… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuD7SCqHB7k

GitHub - Widdershin/programmers-oath: An oath for programmers, comparable to the Hippocrat… https://github.com/Widdershin/programmers-oath

Community/Creative Commons - J Wiki http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Community/Creative_Commons

Benjamin Kovach https://www.kovach.me/posts/2018-03-07-generating-art.html

A Recipe for Sparkles https://tinyletter.com/learntocomputer/letters/a-recipe-for-sparkles

History generation in Epitaph | Affording Play https://mkremins.github.io/blog/history-generation-epitaph

All Of The Things That You Can Do With Arrays https://tinyletter.com/learntocomputer/letters/all-of-the-things-that-you-can-do-with-arrays

Writing a Simple IPFS Crawler · Gokberk Yaltirakli https://gkbrk.com/2018/03/writing-a-simple-ipfs-crawler/

Ancient Thresholds: Classical W… https://99percentinvisible.org/article/ancient-thresholds-classical-welcome-mats-dazzling-medusa-mosaics/

What an ‘infinite’ AI-generat… https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/11/17099578/ai-generated-podcast-procedural-storytelling-art-sheldon-county

Buy A Share Of Mike https://www.montag.wtf/buy-a-share-of-mike/

Four AI composition tools … https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/03/robots-composed-the-soundtrack-for-my-home-movie-they-can-help-you-too/

Band name of the day: multiple music

In The Eternal… http://www.harrowell.org.uk/blog/2018/01/31/in-the-eternal-inferno-fiends-torment-ronald-coase-with-the-fate-of-his-ideas/

Letting neural networks be weird • The Bands… http://aiweirdness.com/post/171776876562/the-bands-of-south-by-southwest-interpreted-by

Blame the Computer | Corey Pein https://thebaffler.com/salvos/blame-the-computer-pein

Telex: Anticensorship in the Network Infrastructure https://telex.cc/

Reddit and the Quest to Detoxify the Internet… https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/19/reddit-and-the-quest-to-detoxify-the-internet

Bad idea of the day: donate synthetic diamond machines to hackerspaces

Band name of the day: mega purple

Band name of the day: wraith of the name

A Messiah… https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-messiah-cum-surrogate-dad-for-gormless-dimwits-on-jordan-b-petersons-12-rules-for-life/#!

Pink Lexical Goop: The Dark Side of Autocorrect - Mondo 2000 http://www.mondo2000.com/2018/01/17/pink-lexical-goop-dark-side-autocorrect/

Smart Drugs & Nutrients in 1991 (MONDO 20… http://www.mondo2000.com/2018/03/09/smart-drugs-nutrients-1991-mondo-2000-flashback-friday/

Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader History: Useful At Certain Times https://tedium.co/2018/03/06/uncle-johns-bathroom-reader-history/

Prop Electronics History: The Art of Fakery https://tedium.co/2018/03/08/fake-prop-electronics-history/

Cory Doctorow: Let’s Get Better at Demandi… http://locusmag.com/2018/03/cory-doctorow-lets-get-better-at-demanding-better-from-tech/

Granular Audio Synthesis « The blog at the bottom of the sea https://blog.demofox.org/2018/03/05/granular-audio-synthesis/

Huge MIT Study of ‘Fake News’: Fa… https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/largest-study-ever-fake-news-mit-twitter/555104/

How Self-A… https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/03/you-dont-know-yourself-as-well-as-you-think-you-do/554612/?single_page=true

If there isn’t a bathrobe-clad Judas Priest cover band named Dudeist Priest, there should be.

The Streaming Void | Judy Berman https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-streaming-void-berman

Anton’s Research Ramblings - 2018_03_08_how_i_write_code http://antongerdelan.net/blog/formatted/2018_03_08_how_i_write_code.html

SkyKnit: How an AI Took Over an Adult Kni… https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/the-making-of-skyknit-an-ai-yarn/554894/

Gratitude for Invisible Systems - The Atla… https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/gratitude-for-invisible-systems/526344/

We have entered a period in history where Batman Returns is more culturally relevant than The Dark Knight. That scares me a bit.

Hot take: mashups & references can be powerful tools for getting your message across, but if you don’t have a message (or your message is this is my taste) it’s just masturbatory. (Fite me.)

Waiting for Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment | The Nation https://www.thenation.com/article/waiting-for-steven-pinkers-enlightenment/

Greg Young - The art of destroying software on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/108441214

Is every anime containing WcDonalds as a trademark-free McDonalds expy now retroactively progressive? Like, even SAO? (Hint: no)

QOTD: ‘The Web is the minimal concession to hypertext that a sequence-and-hierarchy chauvinist could possibly make.’ -Ted Nelson

Ted’s ComParadigm in OneLiners http://xanadu.com.au/ted/TN/WRITINGS/TCOMPARADIGM/tedCompOneLiners.html

People say that the world is getting weirder. But, the weirdness is not new: it’s always been here. It’s just not visible unless you look closely, so we see it more clearly in recent events.

TFW you have so many movies you haven’t watched yet that you have to roll a D4 once and then a D20 twice in order to pick one

Band name of the day: fraudulent fish

Dyalog17: Patterns and Anti-patterns in APL: Escaping the Beginner‘s Plateau - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xCJ3BCIudI

Programming is Forgetting: Toward a New Hacker Ethic - All… http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/programming-forgetting-new-hacker-ethic/

Tracing fake… https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/02/19/tracing-fake-news-footprints-characterizing-social-media-messages-by-how-they-propagate/

As we may think | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/02/23/as-we-may-think/

Counterintuitive Properties of High Dimensional Space… https://marckhoury.github.io/counterintuitive-properties-of-high-dimensional-space/

Reminder: submissions for the no-budget film contest begin 4/20. You have almost two months if you start now. https://medium.com/p/announcing-the-2018-no-budget-film-contest-e023a922fadd

APL Style: Patterns/Anti-patterns https://sway.com/b1pRwmzuGjqB30On

My Mondo piece on sublims is up on gopher: gopher://fuckup.solutions/1enkiv2/sublim.txt

What Ancient Sparta and Modern Small-scale Societies Have in Common http://nautil.us/blog/the-point-of-mens-cults

Band name of the day: the spaces of exception

As a software engineer, being ignorant of sociology & psychology is just as bad as being ignorant of cryptography. Treat toxic communities the way you would treat any other security vulnerability: as an emergency.

Social engineering is engineering. When you design software used by people, the community is not an externality – it’s shaped by your design, & therefore your responsibility.

Bad idea of the day: Take two movies & drop or combine frames until they are exactly the same length. Then, interpolate the two, so that in each frame, every other line is a different movie. Then, interpolate the FFT of the soundtrack so that, for some band size, every other band is the other movie.

Bad idea of the day: Rearrange the frames of a movie so that each frame is followed by the remaining frame that has the minimum (or maximum) difference, in terms first of brightness and then of color

Bad idea of the day: Sort the frames of a movie by average color & play it that way

The Case Against Retweets - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/554078/?single_page=true

Band name of the day: absurd machine

A creative multiplicity: the philosophy of Deleuze … https://aeon.co/essays/a-creative-multiplicity-the-philosophy-of-deleuze-and-guattari

The Alt-right is recruiting depres… https://theoutline.com/post/3537/alt-right-recruiters-have-infiltrated-the-online-depression-community

It Never Went Away https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/03/italy-fascism-lega-bersculoni-immigration

GitHub - erroneousboat/slack-term: Slack client for your terminal https://github.com/erroneousboat/slack-term

Understanding word vectors: A tutorial for "Reading and Writing El… https://gist.github.com/aparrish/2f562e3737544cf29aaf1af30362f469

Band name of the day: slowness in human relations