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The Greatest Computer Network You’ve Never Heard Of - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pa3vvg/the-greatest-computer-network-youve-never-heard-of
The Computer Scientist Who Prefers Paper - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/guardian-of-the-vote/544155/
Consciousness Began When the Gods Stopped Speaking: Julian Jaynes’ Famous 1970s Theory http://nautil.us/issue/54/the-unspoken/consciousness-began-when-the-gods-stopped-speaking-rp
Unusual experiment reveals the power of non-mainstream media | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/11/unusual-experiment-reveals-the-power-of-non-mainstream-media/
IBM pitched Watson as a revolution in cancer care. It‘s nowhere close https://www.statnews.com/2017/09/05/watson-ibm-cancer/
How Generative Music Works https://teropa.info/loop/
Inside the Business of Body Brokering in the United States - Pacific Standard https://psmag.com/magazine/arms-dealers
GANZEER - 1,000,000 A.D. PART II[[MORE]] By Ganzeer Adapted… http://www.ganzeer.com/post/167295499974/1000000-ad-part-iimore-by-ganzeer-adapted
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ROCStories and the Story Cloze Test http://cs.rochester.edu/nlp/rocstories/
The only job a robot couldn’t do | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/2393/the-only-job-a-robot-couldn-t-do
Why philosophy is so important in science education | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/why-philosophy-is-so-important-in-science-education
Is Universal Beauty a Mirage? http://nautil.us/blog/why-beauty-is-not-universal
Antarctica: a place of wide horizons and fragile selves | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/antarctica-a-place-of-wide-horizons-and-fragile-selves
Russian Money in Silicon Valley - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/545483/
Postscript on the Societies of Control - Gilles Deleuze https://libcom.org/library/postscript-on-the-societies-of-control-gilles-deleuze
J. Posadas: Flying saucers … and the socialist future of mankind (26 June 1968) https://www.marxists.org/archive/posadas/1968/06/flyingsaucers.html
Wavepaths App Guides Users Through Therapeutic Trips - Rolling Stone http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/wavepaths-app-guides-users-through-therapeutic-trips-w511245
Language Log » Headlessness in North Korean propaganda http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=35170
» A Net Before the Web, Part 3: Content and Competition The Digital Antiquarian http://www.filfre.net/2017/11/a-net-before-the-web-part-3-content-and-competition/
» A Net Before the Web, Part 2: Service to Community The Digital Antiquarian http://www.filfre.net/2017/11/a-net-before-the-web-part-2-service-to-community/
» A Net Before the Web, Part 1: The Establishment Man and the Magnificent Rogue The Digital Antiquarian http://www.filfre.net/2017/10/a-net-before-the-web-part-1-the-establishment-man-and-the-magnificent-rogue/
Human Mini-Brains Growing Inside Rat Bodies Are Starting To Integrate - Slashdot https://science.slashdot.org/story/17/11/09/2314220/human-mini-brains-growing-inside-rat-bodies-are-starting-to-integrate
Burn The Programmer! - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2017/11/burn-the-programmer.html
Hidden Tracks: Nowhere Left To Hide https://tedium.co/2017/11/09/hidden-tracks-album-history/
Crispin’s Model | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2017/10/04/crispins-model/
The Dead Man Fund https://longreads.com/2017/11/09/ameritor-dead-mans-fund-charles-steadman/
The Ghost Story Behind a Bucolic Catholic Retreat Center - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/wizard-clip-west-virginia-priest-field
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy : A Series of Steaks by Vina Jie-Min Prasad http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/prasad_01_17/
How an Amateur Astronomer Became One of History‘s Greatest Solar Observers - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/sunspots-japanese-amateur-astronomer-sun-science
WikiLeaks - Vault 8 https://wikileaks.org/vault8/
This World Is Full of Monsters | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2017/11/08/this-world-is-full-of-monsters/
Cheap Tricks: The Low Cost of Internet Harassment — ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/cheap-tricks-the-low-cost-of-internet-harassment
Cory Doctorow: How to Do Everything (Lifehacking Considered Harmful) – Locus Online http://locusmag.com/2017/11/cory-doctorow-how-to-do-everything-lifehacking-considered-harmful/
Frownland by Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band: Analysis - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FhhB9teHqU
How to sell a country: the booming business of nation branding | News | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/07/nation-branding-industry-how-to-sell-a-country
webGL shader was supposed to fade from one image to another, over a number of frames. It did this instead. : glitch_art https://www.reddit.com/r/glitch_art/comments/78zn6l/webgl_shader_was_supposed_to_fade_from_one_image/
webGL shader was supposed to fade from one image to another, over a number of frames. It did this instead. : glitch_art https://www.reddit.com/r/glitch_art/comments/78zn6l/webgl_shader_was_supposed_to_fade_from_one_image/
Perpetual Motion Machines — Real Life http://reallifemag.com/perpetual-motion-machines/
The Booming Japanese Rent-a-Friend Business - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/11/paying-for-fake-friends-and-family/545060/?single_page=true
GitHub - k88hudson/git-flight-rules: Flight rules for git https://github.com/k88hudson/git-flight-rules
Ars Longa, Vita Brevis | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/09/ars-longa-vita-brevis/
Diminishing Returns — Real Life http://reallifemag.com/diminishing-returns/
Eating people is wrong – but it’s also widespread and sacred | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/eating-people-is-wrong-but-its-also-widespread-and-sacred
All Ears — Real Life http://reallifemag.com/all-ears/
This is why cognitive behavioural therapy works so well | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/this-is-why-cognitive-behavioural-therapy-works-so-well
Infinite Negative Utility: Proofs and Programs and Rhetoric https://blog.infinitenegativeutility.com/2017/11/proofs-and-programs-and-rhetoric
The Most Political ‘Star Trek’ Episode: ‘Past Tense,’ From ‘Deep Space Nine’ - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/10/star-trek-deep-space-nine-past-tense/542280/
In Conversation with Mark Blyth: George Bernard Shaw - Theater, Economics and… - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu5tOTcrlwQ&feature=youtu.be
Somebody wrote an email bot to waste scammers‘ time / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2017/11/08/somebody-wrote-an-email-bot-to.html
Timothy C. May - Thirty Years of Crypto Anarchy | HCPP16 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdmpAy1hI8g
Many Academics Are Eager to Publish in Worthless Journals - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/science/predatory-journals-academics.html
Meet the scientists building a library of designer drugs - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/8/16619142/designer-drugs-k2-spice-synthetic-weed-ucsf-lab-dea
Tracing the Development of the Doppelgänger - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/history-doppelganger
Does Age Bring Wisdom? | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/07/does-age-bring-wisdom/
The Misunderstood History of the Balkans‘ Surreal War Memorials - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/spomenik-memorials-yugoslavia-balkans
Asphalt History: The Evolution of the Pothole-Maker https://tedium.co/2017/11/06/asphalt-pothole-history/
What does small business really contribute to economic growth? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/what-does-small-business-really-contribute-to-economic-growth
Facebook’s fake news experiment backfires - BBC News http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41900877
How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You‘ve Ever Met https://gizmodo.com/how-facebook-figures-out-everyone-youve-ever-met-1819822691?IR=T
200 universities just launched 600 free online courses. Here’s the full list. — Quartz https://qz.com/1120344/200-universities-just-launched-600-free-online-courses-heres-the-full-list/
The long goodbye to C | Armed and Dangerous http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7711
A Beginner‘s Guide to Robert Anton Wilson: Part I - disinformation http://disinfo.com/2017/11/beginners-guide-robert-anton-wilson-part/
Feature Visualization https://distill.pub/2017/feature-visualization/
Thread Reader https://tttthreads.com/thread/927593460642615296
When Spies Come Home - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/topic/when-spies-come-home
Ghost in the Cloud | Issue 28 | n+1 https://nplusonemag.com/issue-28/essays/ghost-in-the-cloud/
The Interactive Fiction Competition https://ifcomp.org/
Why Intel Couldn‘t Trademark Numbers Anymore https://tedium.co/2017/05/18/intel-386-486-trademark-battles/
Wireless Spectrum Allocation: The Invisible Puzzle https://tedium.co/2017/05/11/wireless-spectrum-allocation-challenges/
A Psychic Healer Tried to Hypnotize Soviets to Distract From the Fall of Communism - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/faith-healer-hypnotize-soviet-union
The Wartime Spies Who Used Knitting as an Espionage Tool - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/knitting-spies-wwi-wwii
The Creepy, Insane, and Undeniably Romantic World of Cryonics - Tonic https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/gv78my/the-creepy-insane-and-undeniably-romantic-world-of-cryonics
Partially Examined Life #175: Blade Runner: Androids and Humanity (Part One) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTF7z7M-HFM
The Appeal of Arthouse - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMr-e12GMRU
How Clothing Made From Milk Became the Height of Fashion in Mussolini‘s Italy - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/lanital-milk-dress-qmilch
Join the Search for Geedis - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/geedis-ta-stickers-pin-dennison
The Tantalizing Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/toynbee-tiles
The Mischievous ‘Ghost Hoaxers’ of 19th-Century Australia - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ghost-hoaxing
The Devilish Sexploitation Films That Combined Satan and Sensuality - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/sexploitation-devil-films
The Bamboo Flutes of Japan‘s ’Monks of Emptiness‘ - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/komuso-flute-monk-japan-basket-head-zen-buddhism
GANZEER - 1,000,000 A.D. A story by Tawfik al-Hakim (1953)… http://www.ganzeer.com/post/167078472779/1000000-ad-a-story-by-tawfik-al-hakim-1953
Functional Works - Functional Programming Jargon https://functional.works-hub.com/blog/Functional-Programming-Jargon
Concept-Shaped Holes Can Be Impossible To Notice | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/07/concept-shaped-holes-can-be-impossible-to-notice/
Necessary Violence http://www.nereview.com/vol-38-no-3-2017/necessary-violence/
How the KKK Shaped Modern Comic Book Superheroes | Literary Hub http://lithub.com/how-the-kkk-shaped-modern-comic-book-superheroes/
Harvey Weinstein’s Army of Spies | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/harvey-weinsteins-army-of-spies
Neuralgae with VGG_ILSVRC - A Budget of Paradoxes https://mikelynch.org/2017/Sep/25/neuralgae-vgg/
Hillbilly Horror: B Movies of the Undead South https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/10/31/hillbilly-horror-b-movies-undead-south/
The persistent crime that connects mass shooters and terror suspects: Domestic violence - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/08/15/the-persistent-crime-that-connects-mass-shooters-and-terror-suspects-domestic-violence/
When Artists Turn to Craigslist, the Results Are Intimate, Disquieting, and Surprisingly Profound https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-artists-turn-craigslist-intimate-disquieting-surprisingly-profound
Radical Islam and the alt-Right are not so different | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/radical-islam-and-the-alt-right-are-not-so-different
Watching Hackers in 2017 – what happened to all the anarchy? | Dazed http://www.dazeddigital.com/science-tech/article/37873/1/watching-hackers-in-2017-where-did-the-anarchy-go
Meow Meow Meeeeeeoooooow: NaNoGenMo 2017 – Leah Henrickson https://bhilluminated.wordpress.com/2017/10/28/nanogenmo-2017/