Band name of the day: total exoneration

serving size: one eighth of a cookie

Three protocols and a future of the decentralized internet https://blog.datproject.org/2019/03/22/three-protocols-and-a-future-of-the-decentralized-internet/

Habitat Chronicles: A Lost Treasure of Xanadu http://habitatchronicles.com/2019/03/a-lost-treasure-of-xanadu/

Is there a language that actually stores booleans as offsets into a bitfield, instead of wasting 7 bits (or more)?

Lazyweb: do japanese buildings have basements? If not, why not? (For instance, water table, or soil quality?)

to make the world worth living in requires conspiracy

In case you haven’t read the Oshiete Galko-chan manga & have only heard about it: it’s gorgeous, in a really innovative style, heartwarming & funny, & also people’s tshirts say things like ‘camel toe ’ and ‘snowman porno’

holy shit did the domekano anime cut like most of the literature club shit? i don’t remember them going camping & hina getting stung by a wasp

“You like horror movies, huh? What are your favorite genres?” “Well, mostly gothic & art deco, but Burnt Offerings was a fantastic greek revival flick”

more movies about food and buildings

everybody get your fog machines and neon lights, we’re gonna film buildings

hollywood: let’s make horror movies about freemasonry; dario argento: DID SOMEBODY SAY MASONRY?? I LOVE STONEWORK

a supercut of italian-directed tracking shots of pretty houses with prog rock in the background and vaseline on the lens

Sort of unexpectedly, DC’s Captain Marvel movie ended up being substantially better than Marvel’s Captain Marvel movie, because DC decided to make a PG-13 Deadpool movie while Marvel tried to make a Superman movie.

Did the anime adaptation completely get rid of chapter 22 of DomeKano? I don’t remember that whole sequence being in there…

Ghost stories are about return of the repressed, & to have the return you need the repression, so ghost stories are actually about trauma & reintegration. (Again, probably obvious, but shit feels more original when you’ve been awake for 30 hours)

The function of genre tropes is to provide a promise of certain kinds of things – enjoyable to genre fans – happening to make the thing enjoyable even if there’s no other engagement. (Y’all probably know this but everything feels more original when you’ve been awake for 30 hours.)

I fixed my now-year-long semi-intermittent sound problem, & the explanation is compellingly stupid: sometimes when ubuntu upgrades sound driver modules it doesn’t make the /dev/snd tree user-writable, & pulse runs as the logged-in user.

Dusk Maiden of Amnesia managed to be both a satisfying school harem comedy & a satisfying gothic ghost story. Highly recommend. Why the heck don’t people talk more about this show?

I wasn’t expecting Dusk Maiden of Amnesia to be this similar to Yuuna and the Haunted Onsen. I approve.

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

My online friends are very sweet & thinking about it fills me with joy <3

TFW you give yourself low-grade caffeine toxicity expecting to be productive at work but instead end up writing long twitter threads about strategic subculture destablization

The Famous ‘NESticle’ Emulator’s Stolen Source Code Has Been Preserved - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43ze39/the-famous-nesticle-emulators-stolen-source-code-has-been-preserved

I mean, ‘quietly’ is a bit misleading since this has been in the news every few years for more than a decade, but you all might need a reminder: https://qz.com/1002927/computer-printers-have-been-quietly-embedding-tracking-codes-in-documents-for-decades/

GCU Very Important Heartburn

GitHub - mholt/timeliner: All your digital life on a single timeline, stored locally https://github.com/mholt/timeliner

Committee for Supporting the Booking of Chapo Trap House on Joe Rogan

I tried really hard to give The Amityville Horror another chance but all I can think is: how the hell is a movie starring Margot Kidder this bad and this boring? Steven King came around on it but I guess I won’t.

Some essays I wrote about engineering healthy community norms: https://medium.com/@/punk-cosplay-3005b5703c31?source=friends_link&sk=60b608b1bc983be2dbfa99ec0663a309 https://medium.com/@/on-communities-cf4ad1b6ce3?source=friends_link&sk=c1f309edbf7c6a010c746ca112459ac0 https://medium.com/@/context-centric-cultures-call-out-cultures-3da5e87015f1?source=friends_link&sk=44b692b40ec3ecd5ecbb918087bfb761

Joe Rogan’s podcast is an essential platform for freethinkers who hate the left. https://slate.com/culture/2019/03/joe-rogans-podcast-is-an-essential-platform-for-freethinkers-who-hate-the-left.html

Never mistake your inability to richly imagine the outgroup for an actual general consensus among them. No matter how wrong they might be about the things they agree on, they define themselves by their minor internal schisms.

nothing is irrefutable for the sufficiently motivated

OK so one thing I don’t like about the DomeKano manga is the way the plaid bottoms in their school uniform are so clearly done with a single sheet of overlay per frame (or maybe even per page). It’s distracting, the way they don’t match the fabric folds.

Who are the Public? Public Sphere, Opinions, Moods & History - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1Yv0FamjCw

Hyperloops for our minds – Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programmers https://www.sicpers.info/2019/03/hyperloops-for-the-mind/

The Revolutionary Discovery of a Distributed Virus - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/03/the-revolutionary-discovery-of-a-distributed-virus/584884/

Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years — Krebs on Security https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/03/facebook-stored-hundreds-of-millions-of-user-passwords-in-plain-text-for-years/

This, except unironically: https://makefrontendshitagain.party/ ; interfaces ought to be rich & individual representations of the underlying models, unless people are required/forced to use them, in which case all formatting should be able to be stripped automatically.

Lazyweb: please recommend me haunted house movies you think I haven’t seen. It’s for research. Good or bad doesn’t matter, but I prefer original over derivative.

What Happens When You Stop Speaking? https://www.thecut.com/2019/03/what-happens-when-you-stop-speaking.html

GitHub - howerj/forth-cpu: A Forth CPU and System on a Chip, based on the J1, written in VHDL https://github.com/howerj/forth-cpu

One thing the DomeKano manga has over the anime is that it plays up how much of a lovable dork Hina is. Anime Hina comes off to me as somebody you’d want to stay away from on the grounds of emotional instability, & is only shallowly charming.

Newsletter #10 - John Higgs http://johnhiggs.com/newsletter-10/

Robert Heinlein and the Harsh Politics of Science Fiction | Leaping Robot Blog | Patrick McCray http://www.patrickmccray.com/2013/09/12/robert-heinlein-and-the-harsh-politics-of-science-fiction/

Introducing Weird Machines: ROP Differently Explaining part 1 - bin 0x29 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dcj19KGKWM

Zombies, Slashers, Ghosts and Extreme Gore: Ranking All 21 of Lucio Fulci’s Horror Films - Bloody Disgusting https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3550177/zombies-slashers-ghosts-extreme-gore-ranking-21-lucio-fulcis-horror-films/

Eco-fascism is undergoing a revival in the fetid culture of the extreme right | Jason Wilson | World news | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2019/mar/20/eco-fascism-is-undergoing-a-revival-in-the-fetid-culture-of-the-extreme-right

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: ornament and crime

Band name of the day: the oddly satisfying

Kilo LISP - T3X.ORG http://t3x.org/klisp/index.html

keep throwing ‘em away until throwing ‘em away isn’t scary anymore

What would a floating sheep map? http://manifesto.floatingsheep.org/

Band name of the day: emotion mind

ImageNet Roulette https://imagenet-roulette.paglen.com/

TwoTone https://app.twotone.io/

The Gendered Project https://genderedproject.org/

Hot take: Mondo 2000 should do what Fangoria did & release a very fancy very thick periodical like once a year for about a hundred bucks.

A lot of disagreements seem to come down to a gap wherein, when commercial success and apparent human flourishing conflict, some folks privilege the former over the latter. I’m wondering how much of this is about legibility / discounting self-reporting in favor of numbers.

if you’re a wizard then all your hats are wizard hats

The Witches’ Insurrection Tarot by Kit Snicket — Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/antifatarot/the-witches-insurrection-tarot

Viewing Matrices & Probability as Graphs https://www.math3ma.com/blog/matrices-probability-graphs

Read Lisp Hackers | Leanpub https://leanpub.com/lisphackers/read

A generalised solution to distributed consensus | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/03/08/a-generalised-solution-to-distributed-consensus/

Dr. Alan Kay on the Meaning of “Object-Oriented Programming” http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht81Ht/doc_kay_oop_en

The Latest ASMR Craze Involves Tales of Crime and Murder - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-latest-asmr-craze-involves-tales-of-crime-and-murder

This Guy Is Vlogging His Entire Midlife Crisis - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/karl-meszaros-midlife-crisis-youtube-vlog

Errata Security: A basic question about TCP https://blog.erratasec.com/2019/02/a-basic-question-about-tcp.html

Fertility Doctor Donald Cline’s Secret Children - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/04/fertility-doctor-donald-cline-secret-children/583249/

How the nineties are coming back to haunt us - The Globe and Mail https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-how-the-nineties-are-coming-back-to-haunt-us/

The Perfect Irony That ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ Film Was Also a Real-Life Scam - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-perfect-irony-that-the-wolf-of-wall-street-was-also-a-real-life-scam

The Other Kind of Climate Denialism | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-other-kind-of-climate-denialism

The Software That Shapes Workers’ Lives | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-software-that-shapes-workers-lives

How Wattpad Is Rewriting the Rules of Hollywood https://www.vulture.com/2018/07/how-wattpad-is-rewriting-the-rules-of-hollywood.html

modern mobile development cons: the absence of hardware keyboards leads to a culture of passivity. modern mobile dev pros: nobody assumes you are running a supercomputer with a fiber connection directly to the data center no more than 5 ft long

Is there a convenient way to make your desktop browser pretend to be a mobile browser so sites don’t try to allocate twenty gigs of memory for goddamned css animations?

i’m feeling nmesh more than oneatrix point never lately and i don’t know why

Band name of the day: spectacular optical

We aren’t really in control so why worry about neurointerventions? | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/we-arent-really-in-control-so-why-worry-about-neurointerventions

Descartes was wrong: ‘a person is a person through other persons’ | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/descartes-was-wrong-a-person-is-a-person-through-other-persons

Is a mission to Mars morally defensible given today’s real needs? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/is-a-mission-to-mars-morally-defensible-given-todays-real-needs

why did they call it ‘Web Prolog’ instead of ‘PlanNET’? was it just so that people couldn’t say ‘hack the PlanNET’ every time a vuln was found? that’s a bad reason.

How Telegraphs and Teletypes Influenced the Computer https://tedium.co/2019/03/14/teletype-computer-evolution-history/

We ought to be suspicious of business plans that resemble manifest destiny: expansion into supposedly-unclaimed regions, turning inhabitants into tools & discarding the resistant (who now have nowhere to go) or worse.

Jill the Ripper https://longreads.com/2019/03/12/jill-the-ripper/

America’s Post-Frontier Hangover https://longreads.com/2019/03/14/americas-post-frontier-hangover/

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by filling a truck with snakes and driving

William Gibson Talks ‘Archangel,’ Apocalypses, and Dystopias https://www.vulture.com/2017/08/william-gibson-archangel-apocalypses-dystopias.html

Robert Fludd and His Images of The Divine – The Public Domain Review https://publicdomainreview.org/2011/09/13/robert-fludd-and-his-images-of-the-divine/

UFO Programming, TTSA, Techgnosis & Hyperreality - The Daily Grail https://www.dailygrail.com/2019/03/ufo-programming-ttsa-techgnosis-hyperreality/

Dead Precedents by Roy Christopher review: how hip-hop and cyberpunk hijacked culture | Books | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/17/dead-precedents-how-hip-hop-defines-future-roy-christopher-review-cyberpunk

Band name of the day: cloaca maxima

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

There are three kinds of haunted houses: the return of the repressed (the history-haunted house), the dressing room for werewolves (the house that just makes people crappier), & the house-that-is-monstrous (the amateur architect’s place)

Hill House has stood for 80 years and might for 80 more. Inside, floors lay straight, doors sensibly shut, but why is there a dormer window RIGHT NEXT TO a stained glass one, and why don’t the bottoms line up??

‘hill house is the mcmansion hell of the soul’ - shirley jackson, probably

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

Stages, Structures, and the Work of Being Yourself | L.M. Sacasas https://thefrailestthing.com/2019/03/14/carnival-of-the-self/