Lithium in ground-water and well-being - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Lithium

Melatonin - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Melatonin

Band name of the day: generally regarded as sludge

Time travel in The Peripheral @ Things Of Interest https://qntm.org/peripheral

Email icon https://www.topic.com/the-accidental-crime-novelist

The web we broke. “ Ethan Marcotte https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/the-web-we-broke/

Trendism is a complicated inversion of the aphorism ‘mediocre minds talk about people, and great minds talk about ideas’: we value most those who talk about whether or not people are talking about an idea.

Trendism is the logic of the Spectacle applied recursively: the image doesn’t matter, but whether or not the appearance of its appearance appears is worth arbitrary millions.

Trendism is the logic of financialized speculative capitalism extended to the realm of takes: information about information about information (even if it’s false) exceeds the value of the baseline information.

Trendism is the idea that, in Dellio’s White Noise, when people photograph the Most Photographed Barn In America, they are not acting absurdly but creating net value for society.

Always On “ Real Life https://reallifemag.com/always-on/

Band name of the day: noonday devil

Why I still use medium: https://lobste.rs/s/bykzkm/hide_medium_com_as_personal_filter_on#c_v6frxz

Redditors Say They’re Seeing Coordinated Chinese Propaganda On The Site https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/reddit-coordinated-chinese-propaganda-trolls

invention is the discovery of a path through possibility space. it doesn’t have to be a good path.

Spaced Repetition - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Spaced-repetition

Five Principles for Thinking Like a Futurist | EDUCAUSE https://er.educause.edu/articles/2019/3/five-principles-for-thinking-like-a-futurist

if you water-cooled ram would you have… tanks for the memories?

Nootropics - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Nootropics

Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Umeshisms https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=40

12 Ways Airports Are Secretly Manipulating You | Mental Floss http://mentalfloss.com/article/64808/12-behind-scenes-secrets-airports

Black Metal Is Sublime – The New Inquiry https://thenewinquiry.com/black-metal-is-sublime/

Band name of the day: a rebellious and sinister dandyism

I can’t believe I have to say this, but ‘polarization’ and ‘diversity’ are not synonyms.

Band name of the day: global hum

The Algernon Argument - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Drug-heuristics

Bighorn-Sheep Migration Routes Form Ancestral Knowledge - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/09/to-save-animals-we-need-to-save-their-knowledge-too/569503/

π day | cormullion https://cormullion.github.io/blog/2019/03/13/piday.html

UFOs: Fact, Fantasy, and Hyperreality | Mysterious Universe https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/03/ufos-fact-fantasy-and-hyperreality/

Chimpanzee Traditions Are Disappearing - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/03/we-are-destroying-chimpanzee-cultures/584146/

GitHub - lunarlang/lunar: Lunar is a superset programming language of Lua 5.1, inspired by TypeScript and Ruby. https://github.com/lunarlang/lunar

Silicon Valley’s Latest Bizarre Craze Is ‘Organized Intimacy’ - VICE https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7xnmme/sf-bay-area-scene-intimacy-party

Ken Anger, Ken Russel, and Ken Burns codirecting a Ken Thomson biopic. Soundtrack by Thomas Dolby and Steve Reich.

Cybernetics Conference Library https://cybernetics.social/

Stick To The Script!!! [SORRY TO BOTHER YOU film analysis] - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGnQLgpaupU

TIL: the guy who invented the toilet wasn’t named ‘crapper’, but he WAS named ‘cummings’.

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

Adobe Antitrust Concerns: Is the Photoshop-Maker Too Big? https://tedium.co/2019/03/12/adobe-history-antitrust-concerns/

DSHR’s Blog: Techno-hype part 2.5 https://blog.dshr.org/2018/03/techno-hype-part-25.html

Deep Listening at the Recurse Center http://glench.com/DeepListeningAtTheRecurseCenter/

The Data Sublime – The New Inquiry https://thenewinquiry.com/the-data-sublime/

:r4 programing languaje | phreda4.github.io https://phreda4.github.io/

Radicle 🌱 http://www.radicle.xyz/

An Interview with Nick Harkaway: Algorithmic Futures, Literary Fractals, and Mimetic Immortality - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-interview-with-nick-harkaway-algorithmic-futures-literary-fractals-and-mimetic-immortality/

Emotional Mechanics | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2019/03/12/39385/

List: Revolutionary Quotes From Centrist History - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/revolutionary-quotes-from-centrist-history

The Pitch https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1463-the-unlikely-making-of-the-velvet-underground-nico/

The Selective Laziness of Reasoning - Neuroskeptic http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2015/10/21/the-selective-laziness-of-reasoning/#.XIjqJkfav0M

Dual N-Back FAQ - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/DNB-FAQ

It’s a cliche to say that technical advances are making the world change faster, but the more the products of time binding become available & silos collapsed the more obviously slow everything is.

A thread written by @SarahTaber_bww https://threader.app/thread/1105256554700460032

Band name of the day: cosmic watergate

Close Encounters of the Digital Kind | Emily Harnett https://thebaffler.com/latest/close-encounters-of-the-tech-kind-harnett

All worldbuilding, without exception, is political | columns | Hindustan Times https://www.hindustantimes.com/columns/all-worldbuilding-without-exception-is-political/story-iE1Gc0R4ULSq8khLaJ1dEO.html

Welcome to ‘Zombieland’: A former US Army base rots in the hands of overwhelmed Afghans - Stripes https://www.stripes.com/welcome-to-zombieland-a-former-us-army-base-rots-in-the-hands-of-overwhelmed-afghans-1.570893

Why It’s Important to Consider Whether Dune Is a White Savior Narrative | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2019/03/06/why-its-important-to-consider-whether-dune-is-a-white-savior-narrative/

happy 30th anniversary of the end of hypertext as a vital and interesting medium

Band name of the day: trial by ordeal

Band name of the day: ai murder policy

‘An unfinishable, endless house’: the untold story of Casa Sperimentale https://www.themodernhouse.com/journal/casa-sperimentale/

Touch | Poppy Sebag-Montefiore | Granta https://granta.com/touch/

This Is What It’s Like To Wake Up During Surgery - Digg http://digg.com/2019/waking-up-from-anesthsia

Weekend Poem: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/09/weekend-poem-all-watched-over-by-machines-of-loving-grace/245251/

Language in the Age of Algorithmic Reproduction: A Thesis – Linguistic Geographies https://linguisticgeographies.com/2019/03/12/language-in-the-age-of-algorithmic-reproduction-a-thesis/

How to Take a Nap When You Suck at Taking Naps - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/how-to-take-a-nap-when-you-suck-at-taking-naps

[Essay] The Story of Storytelling | Harper’s Magazine https://harpers.org/archive/2019/03/the-story-of-storytelling/

It’s time to celebrate the humanity of the communal snooze | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/its-time-to-celebrate-the-humanity-of-the-communal-snooze

A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/a-belief-in-meritocracy-is-not-only-false-its-bad-for-you

Identity by Any Other Name - ACM Queue https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3314115

Millennials Are Killing Inanna, Mesopotamian Goddess of Fertility - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/millennials-are-killing-inanna-mesopotamian-goddess-of-fertility

GitHub - pirate/ArchiveBox: $ The open source self-hosted web archive. Takes browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more… https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox

Fantasy’s Widow: The Fight Over The Legacy Of Dungeons & Dragons  https://kotaku.com/fantasys-widow-the-fight-over-the-legacy-of-dungeons-1833127876

Why I Quit Tech and Became a Therapist http://glench.com/WhyIQuitTechAndBecameATherapist/

Girl Scouts & Good Corporate Governance - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Girl-Scouts-and-good-governance

Presidential candidate Andrew Yang has a meme problem - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/9/18256622/andrew-yang-2020-president-meme-yanggang

Poor documentation is overrated as an attribute of jokes. (Some of my favorite jokes are literally humorous attempts at explaining other jokes.) The difference between standup comedy & UI design is even bad comics know this.

A good user interface is a lot like a standup routine: you take the deep knowledge of an audience and twist it in creative ways so that they now understand something they couldn’t have imagined on their own.

The typical failure mode of UX is no longer the shaggy-dog story (i.e., the turing tarpit: a lot of build-up for a disappointing conclusion); it’s bunch of shallow one-liners with no connecting thread, which are as funny as they can be for their length but don’t make the most of a set.

Other ways in which UX is like stand-up comedy: if you omit the setup, the punchline won’t land; reading the room is a vital skill

My unedited rant on slavery in isekai - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrxG0tTIqbg

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

A Beginner’s Guide to Music Theory - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2z02J4fJwg

Database as Filesystem - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN6IwNriwHc

Band name of the day: wolf fifth

Anime is a Brand - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWccr1r-H0E

Slavoj Zizek vs. Jordan Peterson: Who is the Better Christian? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-RjIaYRNq0

The only outright negative review my game has gotten thus far starts with the reviewer saying making a VN should be a crime against humanity. Like, thanks for leading with the admission that you’re not part of the target audience & your opinion doesn’t matter.

The Internet’s Most Controversial ARG | Junko Junsui - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkxi71OUckg

Suspiria (1977) - re:View - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgHNfOrislI

GitHub - emina/rosette: The Rosette solver-aided host language, sample solver-aided DSLs, and demos https://github.com/emina/rosette

Bad idea of the day: make UBI contingent only on compulsory voting

Brexit: What Is Democracy? | Philosophy Tube - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr-ZeToI4R8

People love to talk about the potential security impact of exotic state-of-the-art shit like GPT-2 and deepfakes, but they’re neither convincing nor the lowest-effort effective way to create disinfo. Spinners scale better than GPT-2.

DOOM Eternal, Counterculture, and How We Talk About Labor - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfroFmy6Z2U

Digi & Geoff are the Alan Moore & Grant Morrison of the anitube world

Patricia Lockwood: The Communal Mind - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DibRVrQhSpA

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

V Programming Language https://vlang.io/

The Man Who Questioned Everything | by Lynn Hunt | The New York Review of Books https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/03/07/diderot-man-who-questioned-everything/

Collins’ Crypt: Bad Movies Used To Be So Much Better | Birth.Movies.Death. https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2019/03/06/collins-crypt-bad-movies-used-to-be-so-much-better