You Can’t Solve The Gender Gap In Tech If You Don’t Understand Why It Exists https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/reshmasaujani/tech-gender-gap-pipeline-myth

At the end of the day, think outside the box about clichés | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/at-the-end-of-the-day-think-outside-the-box-about-cliches

MCD | Ghost Hardware https://www.mcdbooks.com/features/ghost-hardware-tim-maughan

Acne Medication History: Why Clearasil Was Marketing Gold https://tedium.co/2019/03/05/acne-medication-history-clearasil-oxy-proactiv/

Antitrust Enforcement Needs to Evolve for the 21st Century | Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/02/antitrust-enforcement-needs-evolve-21st-century

I Larped at a Drug-Fueled Cryptorave and It Ended in Tears https://breakermag.com/i-larped-at-a-drug-fueled-cryptorave-and-it-ended-in-tears/

Vector, the Journal of the British APL Association http://vector.org.uk/art10011550

Band name of the day: urinal on a plinth

Dune - Muad’dib - Extra Sci Fi - #4 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6_5dKRudiY

OFFICIAL TRAILER - IN SEARCH OF DARKNESS - THE DEFINITIVE ‘80s HORROR DOC - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AKnO2hr7b0

Mind Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Takes

Douglas Engelbart’s Symposium - Challenges in making interactive systems more useful - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqYHcvH-YZM

Douglas Engelbart’s Symposium - Bootstrapping the future: Doug’s call to action - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZfQiskDj_w

Douglas Engelbart’s Symposium - Applying lessons of the Demo: Authoring, retrieval, classification - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIa1K4vqIZg

Douglas Engelbart’s Symposium - The unifying vision - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a_AKP57zSY

In the Mouth of Madness: Who Writes Reality? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RST8VOlT9H8

Are.na / computer furniture https://www.are.na/john-michael-boling/computer-furniture

Are.na / Stoic Electronics https://www.are.na/are-na-commons/stoic-electronics

Banner Ads Considered Harmful (Here) - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Ads

Band name of the day: transneptunian objects

Richard Rorty’s hopes for liberalism and solidarity | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/richard-rortys-hopes-for-liberalism-and-solidarity

The data brokers quietly buying and selling your personal information https://www.fastcompany.com/90310803/here-are-the-data-brokers-quietly-buying-and-selling-your-personal-information

Terrorism Is Not About Terror - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Terrorism-is-not-about-Terror

The Problem With Nostalgia https://longreads.com/2019/03/05/the-problem-with-nostalgia/

Esquire’s March Cover Is a Monument to Whiteness and Toxic Masculinity - Pacific Standard https://psmag.com/ideas/why-esquires-march-cover-is-sort-of-dangerous

Bitcoin Is Worse Is Better - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Bitcoin-is-Worse-is-Better

Neon Genesis Evangelion source anthology - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/otaku

Deepfake propaganda is not a real problem - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/5/18251736/deepfake-propaganda-misinformation-troll-video-hoax

Invented here syndrome – Musing Mortoray https://mortoray.com/2019/03/06/invented-here-syndrome/

Author discovers the recentralization phenomenon, and concludes that centralization is inevitable (rather than that recentralization must be carefully avoided): https://rosenzweig.io/blog/the-federation-fallacy.html

GitHub - pcyin/tranX: A general-purpose neural semantic parser for mapping natural language queries into machine executable code https://github.com/pcyin/tranX

Dacein https://szymonkaliski.github.io/dacein/

Keeping CALM: when distributed consistency is easy | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/03/06/keeping-calm-when-distributed-consistency-is-easy/

I wrote an essay about folk horror as seen as a subgenre of speculative fiction, on May Day of 2017: https://modernmythology.net/folk-horror-as-speculative-sociology-c1e24d0c106?source=friends_link&sk=1573bafd20abaf410c71c44a472c1d85

So glad to see some fresh, new, good-looking folk-horror with Midsommar. Judging by previous work on Hereditary, it should be fantastic.

Periodic reminder: submissions for the No Budget Film Contest open April 20th https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2019-no-budget-film-contest-d7eb339a3ed5

Hafu Gender Ratios in Anime - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Hafu

Laws of Tech: Commoditize Your Complement - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Complement

In the Web’s Hyperreality, Information Is Experience | Hapgood https://hapgood.us/2018/11/20/in-the-webs-hyperreality-information-is-experience/

The Real “Dangerous” Ideas | Current Affairs https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/05/the-real-dangerous-ideas

Campus political correctness: Data paints a different picture - Vox https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/12/17100496/political-correctness-data

RFC-61 — 365 RFCs https://write.as/365-rfcs/rfc-61

Re: https://adactio.com/journal/14888 – it’s a competent reframing job, but if common behaviors require complicated hacks for literally years, you’re using the wrong tool.

Lua 5.1.4 Annotated Source https://stevedonovan.github.io/lua-5.1.4/

Big Idea Famine https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/issue3-negroponte

Systems Software Research is Irrelevant (aka utah2000 or utah2k) http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utah2000/utah2000.html

Facebook filed a patent for a ‘civil’ political debate forum - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/28/18244632/facebook-political-debate-system-digital-forum-reputation-patent-filing

Lessons learned: writing really long fiction - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2019/03/lessons-learned-writing-really.html

A community can be classified by whether the primary goal of community members is to increase the total value of the community to its members or increase their value with respect to their peers.

Status as a Service (StaaS) — Remains of the Day https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19/status-as-a-service

Cory Doctorow: Terra Nullius – Locus Online https://locusmag.com/2019/03/cory-doctorow-terra-nullius/

The People’s Republic of Walmart: how late-stage capitalism gives way to early-stage fully automated luxury communism / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/03/05/walmart-without-capitalism.html

Why intuition leaves us vulnerable to conspiracy theories - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/4/18250292/facebook-moderation-conspiracy-theory-mike-wood-psychology-interview

Delete Never: The Digital Hoarders Who Collect Tumblrs, Medieval Manuscripts, and Terabytes of Text Files https://gizmodo.com/delete-never-the-digital-hoarders-who-collect-tumblrs-1832900423

GitHub - aphyr/distsys-class: Class materials for a distributed systems lecture series https://github.com/aphyr/distsys-class

A random dungeon generator that fits on a business card · GitHub https://gist.github.com/munificent/b1bcd969063da3e6c298be070a22b604

AI won’t relieve the misery of Facebook’s human moderators - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/27/18242724/facebook-moderation-ai-artificial-intelligence-platforms

The Comment Moderator Is The Most Important Job In The World Right Now https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/the-comment-moderator-is-the-most-important-job-in-the

Why Is Customer Service So Bad? Because It’s Profitable. https://hbr.org/2019/02/why-is-customer-service-so-bad-because-its-profitable

Wikidata Card Game Generator https://cardgame.morr.cc

you can’t get an aught from a naught

Band name of the day: the repugnant transactions

Band name of the day: a market for eyes

Band name of the day: needling the somnambulists

McLuhan: come for the dad jokes, stay for the dad jokes

TIL that there’s an organization for promoting McLuhan’s work whose initialism is TMI.

Band name of the day: the dreaming mound

brand names precision-engineered as superstimuli of the noumenous and noetic flooding the used-car-market mindspace

Band name of the day: open for flogging

Update: if you buy the paperback version of my book, now you’ll be able to get the ebook for free. (Dunno why anybody would want that.) Also, the ebook now has wikipedia links for various terms via X-Ray, in case you didn’t know who Thad Starner was or something.

Theranos: How a broken patent system sustained its decade-long deception | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/03/theranos-how-a-broken-patent-system-sustained-its-decade-long-deception/

Band name of the day: let them eat exposure

ZIP is Broken, Except it’s Not, Except it Is | Internet Archive Blogs https://blog.archive.org/2019/02/13/zip-is-broken-except-its-not-except-it-is/

What “Worse is Better vs The Right Thing” is really about http://yosefk.com/blog/what-worse-is-better-vs-the-right-thing-is-really-about.html

Explaining Code using ASCII Art – Embedded in Academia https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1653

‘We Are All Responsible’: How #MeToo Rejects the Bystander Effect https://longreads.com/2019/02/22/we-are-all-responsible-how-metoo-rejects-the-bystander-effect/

Band name of the day: complicity machine

Why no-platforming is sometimes a justifiable position | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/why-no-platforming-is-sometimes-a-justifiable-position

Insert Disk https://hypercardadventures.com/

Things Found in Books | Flickr https://www.flickr.com/groups/thingsfoundinbooks/pool/

Cinematic names https://maryzam.github.io/movie-names/

glass.leaves: text manipulator and generator https://glassleaves.herokuapp.com/

The Art of the Bot « B.J. Best, Poet. https://bjbestpoet.wordpress.com/the-art-of-the-bot/

GitHub - joke2k/faker: Faker is a Python package that generates fake data for you. https://github.com/joke2k/faker

Band name of the day: police horse

Band name of the day: murderers knock

Periodic reminder: submissions for the No Budget Film Contest open April 20th https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2019-no-budget-film-contest-d7eb339a3ed5

The Emoji Movie, Adorno and the Culture Industry - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-m_7G31yh4

Band name of the day: automatic motor of a fractional operation

Band name of the day: big death

Band name of the day: secret and concealed policy

Band name of the day: monsterful

Band name of the day: big seance

Bad idea of the day: a repl for inform in inform that describes your desktop environment as a haunted house

Editions https://qz.com/1442051/colorful-architecture-is-a-symbol-of-cultural-heritage-in-bolivia/

The Kernel Programming Language http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~jshutt/kernel.html

Workplace OS History: IBM’s $2 Billion Microkernel of Failure https://tedium.co/2019/02/28/ibm-workplace-os-taligent-history/

‘Playing the victim’ is politically vital and morally serious | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/playing-the-victim-is-politically-vital-and-morally-serious

GitHub - triska/lisprolog: Interpreter for a simple Lisp. Written in Prolog. https://github.com/triska/lisprolog

The New Contours of Cyber Conflict - Lawfare https://www.lawfareblog.com/new-contours-cyber-conflict