Death Note: L, Anonymity & Eluding Entropy - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Death-Note-Anonymity
Mr. ZIP - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._ZIP
The many counterfactual histories of Nazi Britain | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-many-counterfactual-histories-of-nazi-britain
Metcalf sniper attack - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack
GitHub - mthom/scryer-prolog: A modern Prolog implementation written mostly in Rust. https://github.com/mthom/scryer-prolog
Game Boys “ Real Life https://reallifemag.com/well-played-game-boys/
Gopher - Commons Host https://gopher.commons.host/
Where to begin with Japanese cyberpunk | BFI https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/where-begin-japanese-cyberpunk
How to self-publish your novel as an ebook - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/1/18285875/self-publishing-ebook-amazon-kindle-epub-book-how-to-editing-art-sales-strategy
Scam or Die – The New Inquiry https://thenewinquiry.com/scam-or-die/
Inside Scientology’s Secret Propaganda Museum Blaming 9/11 and the Holocaust on Psychiatry https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-scientologys-secret-propaganda-museum-blaming-911-and-the-holocaust-on-psychiatry
How does Tor really work? https://skerritt.blog/how-does-tor-really-work/
Garfield phones beach mystery finally solved after 35 years - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47732553
Rebuild of Evangelion: This Is (not) A Prank
On Flooding: Drowning the Culture in Sameness https://longreads.com/2019/03/29/on-flooding-drowning-the-culture-in-sameness/
The Programming Language Conundrum http://evrl.com/programming/2019/03/28/the-language-conundrum.html
The most effective april fool’s day joke is now to say things you mean without sounding sarcastic.
GitHub - awesomekling/serenity: Serenity Operating System (x86) https://github.com/awesomekling/serenity
TypeTalk http://cowlark.com/typetalk/
April Fool’s Joke Recalled After Accidentally Causing Reader To Question Consumer Culture – Point & Clickbait https://www.pointandclickbait.com/2016/04/april-fools-joke-recalled/
Remember when Google’s april fool’s day pranks were fun, instead of being getting-rid-of-inbox-forever?
Periodic reminder: the 2019 No-Budget Film Contest starts accepting submissions on April 20th https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2019-no-budget-film-contest-d7eb339a3ed5
OK I can’t fault the DomeKano anime for dropping a younger girl who looks almost exactly like Hina & is tsundere from a scene that would be in the last episode but if she doesn’t become a repeat character I will be shocked
The most unrealistic part of Super Dimension Fortress Macross is the way that the translated ancient pop song could be broadcast on the radio. All the ancient sumerian pop songs are shit like ‘let’s cover each other in honey and lick it off’
I think I’ve figured out what makes My Roommate Is A Cat satisfying: it’s the standard romance-comedy formula (i.e., a comedy of errors where gags are caused by miscommunication) but misunderstandings are justified by the fact that they’re different species.
The Web’s Sickest Perverts Are Lurking on r/Handholding - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/r-handholding-reddit-4chan-meme
Imagine a world in which Doctor Phibes got the same expanded universe treatment that Captain Nemo got. The sequels we could have: Phibes The Immortal, The Clockwork Army of Doctor Phibes, Phibes Five, Doctor Phibes in the 28th Century, Phibes and the Lost Continent
conspiracy theory: all of Rob Liefeld’s characters are canonically yuurei, because they don’t have feet
It’s a real shame most people will be turned off by the low production quality & drop Maho Shojo Spec-Ops Asuka early. Despite being extremely flawed (including in the plot dept), it’s an interesting take on the edgy magical girl genre (usually filled with Madoka clones)
People whose dating profile consists entirely of their nationality are incomprehensible to me, but not quite as incomprehensible as the ones that are blank or have some useless placeholder like ‘ask’. The point of a dating site is that you get to see compatibility before starting a convo, y’know
Reading the DomeKano manga, I keep running into stuff where it’s like, I don’t remember them happening in the anime but they must have, but at the same time I would have thought I would have remembered them. Maybe the constant bombshells produced twist fatigue.
WTF I guess Shudder forgot that daylight savings time is a thing? So, the Last Drive-In is actually at 10 PM ET instead of 9 PM?
Forget Your Middle-Class Dreams https://jacobinmag.com/2019/03/middle-class-white-collar-unions-kickstarter
CS programs encourage the idea (already common among students) that software engineers are professionals. First contact with the industry demonstrates that to the extent that folks have grown since graduation, its in their ability to delay the inevitable collapse of ugly hacks.
“hey did you hear the one about…” “yea the pink laser told me that back in ‘73… or last week… or maybe 50 AD….”
terrorforming mars (the god, not the planet)
all the jokes you remember whose origins you don’t recall were precision engineered by cosmic coincidence control for the purpose of nooforming the mankind biocomputer change my mind
Why Eating Meat Was Banned in Japan for Centuries - Gastro Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/japan-meat-ban
Endlessh: an SSH Tarpit « null program https://nullprogram.com/blog/2019/03/22/
beef crime
otaku-essay - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/otaku-essay
Moondog History: Part Viking, All Musical Icon https://tedium.co/2019/03/28/moondog-musician-history/
Periodic reminder: the 2019 No-Budget Film Contest starts accepting submissions on April 20th https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2019-no-budget-film-contest-d7eb339a3ed5
Bad idea of the day: a professional wrestler whose persona is a thinly veiled version of Slajov Zizek
Jordan Peterson Takedown with Ben Burgis (Now in HD!) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_sEPK9krzQ
Milk Crate History: Too Well-Made Not to Steal https://tedium.co/2019/03/19/milk-crate-theft-history/
Litherum: Addition Font https://litherum.blogspot.com/2019/03/addition-font.html
Briefings: Reciprocal radicalisation | Radicalisation Research https://www.radicalisationresearch.org/debate/briefings-reciprocal-radicalisation/
More Than This: Notes on Acid Communism – The Wasted World https://thewastedworld.wordpress.com/2018/12/16/notes-on-acid-communism/
the shambling revenant of old money / the monstrous chimera of new money / the eldrich and ungraspable nature of financialized money, an alien invader from outside, whose gifts become leaves in the sunlight. Do not eat in their house.
Anomalous Worlds: On Accelerationism & Patchwork – xenogothic https://xenogothic.com/2019/03/26/anomalous-worlds-on-accelerationism-patchwork-pws4/
Band name of the day: performative exit
Educational Toy History: Did The Erector Set Copy Meccano? https://tedium.co/2019/03/21/erector-set-educational-toy-history/
Analogue Mega Sg Review: Sounds Like a Winner https://tedium.co/2019/03/26/analogue-mega-sg-review/
Buster Keaton: Anarchitect | Lapsus Lima http://www.lapsuslima.com/buster-keaton-anarchitect/
Band name of the day: the flying ointments
The Most Important Writing Lesson I Ever Learned – Steven Pressfield https://stevenpressfield.com/2009/10/writing-wednesdays-2-the-most-important-writing-lession-i-ever-learned/
Metamorphic Testing • Hillel Wayne https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/metamorphic-testing/
There Are No Dream Homes – Hmm Daily https://hmmdaily.com/2019/03/26/there-are-no-dream-homes/
Touchstones: An Appreciation of the Dark Comedy “Heathers” | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/touchstones/an-appreciation-of-the-dark-comedy-heathers
LOOPY: a tool for thinking in systems https://ncase.me/loopy/
‘The Wake’ Is An Unlikely Hit In An Imaginary Language : NPR https://www.npr.org/2015/08/27/434970724/the-wake-is-an-unlikely-hit-in-an-imaginary-language
the brand that burnt a million caves of quud
the world needs more KLF / KMFDM mashups
The Illustrated Word2vec “ Jay Alammar ” Visualizing machine learning one concept at a time https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-word2vec/
A superposition of possible facts causes quantum conflict | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/03/choose-your-own-facts-in-quantum-mechanics-you-kind-of-can/
Casino Screwup Royale: A tale of “ethical hacking” gone awry | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/03/50-shades-of-greyhat-a-study-in-how-not-to-handle-security-disclosures/
Why debts associated with poverty can cause long-lasting problems | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/03/number-of-debts-not-just-amount-causes-psychological-burden/
Why Is AI Art Copyright So Complicated? — Artnome https://www.artnome.com/news/2019/3/27/why-is-ai-art-copyright-so-complicated
The Five Wings Of The Republican Party | FiveThirtyEight https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-five-wings-of-the-republican-party/
box of hell
Conspiracy Theories Can’t Be Stopped | FiveThirtyEight https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/conspiracy-theories-cant-be-stopped/
The Dreams Of A Man Asleep For Three Weeks https://kotaku.com/the-dreams-of-a-man-asleep-for-three-weeks-1833572960
A Data Scientist Designed A Social Media Influencer Account That’s 100% Automated https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/automated-instagram-influencer-bot-free-meals?utm_campaign=The%20Interface
achieving the knowledge and communication of your holy guardian algo
the pattern on charmin toilet paper looks like eyes & even though it’s almost definitely accidental i sitll find it wonderfully suvbersive
!!Con West 2019 - Alex Rasmussen: EarthBound’s almost-Turing-complete text system! - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KaatQ-jH6Q
!!Con West 2019 - M. Lazer-Walker: Computers are fast! But how come they sometimes feel slow? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu_fzhwRXgM
!!Con West 2019 - Max Kreminski: Making blackout poetry with computers! - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klO7XBFUIj8
Why We Love BAD Movies (feat. The Room, Sharknado, Troll 2, Rebecca Black’s Friday) “ Wisecrack Vlog - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rxc0DQs-6qw
School harem-comedy anime is TV’s last bastion of psychological realism: it portrays a world where teenagers are dumb and socially awkward, and emotions come through on their faces but nobody notices.
personal brands are Very Expensive Ghosts
Everybody keeps talking about ‘Apple Card’ & I kept thinking they were talking about that thing you stuck in your Apple II to simulate an IBM PC clone.
Band name of the day: nuke me from orbit
Somebody call Tim Leary; I think he’s needed again: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/mar/26/acid-test-how-psychedelic-virtual-reality-can-end-societys-mass-bad-trip
Alan Kay brings the shade: https://www.quora.com/What-will-Silicon-Valley-do-once-it-runs-out-of-Doug-Engelbarts-ideas
End-user programming https://www.inkandswitch.com/end-user-programming.html
The Legend of Nixon, a Data-Driven NES Soundscape https://kottke.org/19/03/the-legend-of-nixon-a-data-driven-nes-soundscape
Band name of the day: time mace
if you stay up all night are you resisting a rest?
Periodic reminder: the 2019 No-Budget Film Contest starts accepting submissions on April 20th https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2019-no-budget-film-contest-d7eb339a3ed5
Band name of the day: a sudden and miraculous grace
Fuck The Vessel | Kate Wagner https://thebaffler.com/latest/fuck-the-vessel-wagner
Recommended: McKeever’s book about the 90s https://mipmckeever.weebly.com/uploads/9/4/1/3/94130725/90sbookfinal.pdf
Bad idea of the day: give up the letter e for lent
jezbel-quote<\/title>https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/how-filmmakers-created-fake-newsreels-in-the-1920s-1832866878
Why does software suck? Capitalism. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19483230
The Siren Song of Little Languages – Wilfred Hughes::Blog http://www.wilfred.me.uk/blog/2019/03/24/the-siren-song-of-little-languages/
Rebooting UUCP to redecentralize the net / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/03/25/tilde-servers-r-us.html
Enigma, the Bombe, and Typex · gchq/CyberChef Wiki · GitHub https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef/wiki/Enigma,-the-Bombe,-and-Typex