Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Bicker Progress - First (Belated) Mensiversary https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/02/17/bicker-live.html #ruby #rails #programming #project #devjournal #bicker
next to your bed, your pet ocean sleeps in its bowl, the occasional flash of lightning indicating lively dreams
Live long and prosper 🖖
yeah yeah but hear me out: We plant those forests not where anybody lives, but on giant rafts in the South Pacific Desert, and then we retire to there to tend to trees and worship Cthulhu
Can one use nerd tools to live-blog an internet outage (without tethering)? Let’s find out.
📚 Finished reading The Existentialist’s Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age by Gordon Marino
📚 Finished reading The Existentialist’s Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age by Gordon Marino
hello I’m an intrusive thought, I have a right to live too, please do not stop thinking me
Apparently the Peterson/Zizek debate went about as I expected: Peterson said nothing interesting, and Zizek said nothing on-topic. I’ll have to watch it later, because it sounds entertaining. https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/04/live-commentary-on-the-zizek-peterson-debate
They Live, The Matrix, and Our Uncertain Future - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7y7DK_DsYg
when you no longer need to make a living in order to continue living, a lot of things become possible
Information Society “Growing Up With Shiva” Live - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Iw6TfwdDSs
‘Scanners Live in Vain’ as realistic SF - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Scanners
to make the world worth living in requires conspiracy
The Software That Shapes Workers’ Lives | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-software-that-shapes-workers-lives
Live on April 19th: live simultaneous cringe compilations
Live on April 19th: the professor you’re glad you don’t have and the professor you wish you had debate about something basically tangential to either’s appeal or focus, and one of them will be entertaining.
Living Systems | James Grier Miller | 1978 | Systems Community of Inquiry https://stream.syscoi.com/2018/07/09/living-systems-james-grier-miller-1978/
The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebook-content-moderator-interviews-trauma-working-conditions-arizona
THEY LIVE who is more enslaved? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wdVpenKsto
Gender-swapped and race-flipped remakes aren’t living up to their potential - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/12/18220797/what-men-want-ghostbusters-the-hustle-remakes-gender-race-flipped?curator=MediaREDEF
The ‘paradox of tolerance’ is not a paradox, any moreso than “my car requires gas to run but if I drive too much I run out of gas” is a paradox. Abstract machines are still machines. Society is a machine for living in, & if you break it living gets harder.
Years later, Façade’s groundbreaking AI lives on through bad YouTube jokes | PC Gamer https://www.pcgamer.com/13-years-later-facades-groundbreaking-ai-lives-on-through-bad-youtube-jokes/
Inside the larps that let human players experience AI life - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/1/18185945/live-action-roleplaying-larp-game-design-artificial-intelligence-ethics-issues
David Bowie & Nine Inch Nails: Dissonance, live 1995 (HD) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4sP1CTuIjs
If you live in Mad Max: The Road Warrior, bitcoin makes a lot of sense. If you live in Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, it makes a lot less sense. If you live in Fury Road, it makes no sense at all.
256 Kilobytes | Biography of Terry A. Davis - The greatest programmer to ever live. https://www.256kilobytes.com/index.php/content/show/1939/biography-of-terry-a-davis-the-greatest-programmer-to-ever-live
Starship crews, immortal for their job, don’t just die on arrival unless they choose to. Some become living gods to their mortal colonies, others hermits who return to the soothing familiarity of deep space or learn the language of the trees
I would watch the living fuck out of ‘Cheerleader Samurai vs Megaton Shark’ tbh
In the deeper layers of the abyss live shadows so dark, their afterimages are radiant angels
living wicker dyson spheres made of vine networks
Live every day like you are a background character in Mob Psycho 100.
Live every day like you are a credited but unnamed character who appears in exactly one scene in a David Lynch movie.
Band name of the day: how to grow living skyscrapers
Bad idea of the day: A shuffle-novel in the form of an oracle deck, with strange or absurd predictions & the premise that it is describing the life of the parallel version of the reader who lives in the world described by the deck.
Spreadsheets are dead, long live reactive programming environments! : Stencila https://stenci.la/blog/introducing-sheets/
I’d love to see Trigger do a Geobreeders series. The premise had so much potential: a multi-generational war between chuunibyos with computer sigils and shape-shifting cats made of radio waves who live on the internet.
What are the aethyric ramifications of a live Joe Bob marathon on the solstice? I imagine it must be really fucking up the ley lines.
The Cost of Living in Mark Zuckerberg’s Internet Empire - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/tech/2018/12/19/18148701/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-year-in-review
NEXT17 | Bruce Sterling | Live from 2027 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2O_fxmrP_Q
Good design for developers & good design for non-developers don’t operate by different rules. Devs aren’t happy needing to memorize manuals, and end users can & will learn things if it makes their lives easier.
Bad idea of the day: live your life as though it is a bayesian poisoning attack on the basilisk
What universe does Marc Andressen live in, to call a group of wealthy upwardly-mobile careerists ‘extremely left-wing’ for voting Clinton? (Don’t answer that.)
programmers_are_evil() - Live at LinuxFest NW 2018 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e6BKJPnb5o
Linux Sucks. Forever. - Filmed live at Linux Fest NW - April 28, 2018 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVHcdgrqbHE
GitHub - livingcomputermuseum/ContrAlto: This repository contains the source code for Living Computers: Museum+Labs’s Xerox Alto emulator, ContrAlto. https://github.com/livingcomputermuseum/ContrAlto
We still live in the long shadow cast by the idea of Man-the-Hunter | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/we-still-live-in-the-long-shadow-cast-by-the-idea-of-man-the-hunter
The Quietus | Features | Anniversary | The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades: 30 Years Of They Live http://thequietus.com/articles/25613-john-carpenter-they-live-review-anniversary
The project I’m working on went “live” this morning. Even though most us developers think we shouldn’t have.
Hot take: if you can ‘vote with your wallet’ that means you live in an aristocratic oligarchy, because some people inherit large numbers of extra votes & other people start out with negative votes.
“Running With Scissors: Live Coding With Data” by Stuart Halloway - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx0-pViyIDU
A house is a machine for living in, & a haunted house (after Jackson) is a machine for dreaming in. Hill House is architectural LSD: it reflects psychic energy inward, causing people to haunt themselves.
Hey what’s the likelyhood that the world we live in now is a punishment from the Basilisk?
Inspired by ‘They Live,’ these glasses block screens / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/10/03/inspired-by-they-live-the.html
simulator arxiv is probably full of physics papers that despite titles like “an autoethnography of living in universe [kolmogorov description]” are quite serious
We live in a world where both Guy Madden’s The Heart of the World & Matmos’s Ultimate Care II exist, and that has to count for something.
@metamurks@www.metamurks.org It’s not really live. Check my ‘File Storage’ on gopher :-)
DJ-SDKs Programming Music - rtmp://codevoid.de/live
Bursting stovepipes creates an intellectual explosion, but it’s short-lived. You don’t get scenius without tribes, but you also don’t get it without potlatches. The periodic nature of the potlatch is necessary, & so is the discarding of material work.
Bad idea of the day: Expand citizenship: you are automatically a citizen of a state if you were born there, if either parent is from there, if you have lived there for more than 6 months, or if you own or rent any land there.
“maddening beating of vile drums” - heart, check.↵”thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes” - breath, check.↵”outside the ordered universe” - past heat death, check.↵Conclusion: Live long enough and you get to be Azathoth.
Center for a Stateless Society » Long Live Anarchy: An Interview With Robert Anton Wilson (Part 2) https://c4ss.org/content/46540
Center for a Stateless Society » Long Live Anarchy: An Interview with Robert Anton Wilson (Part 1) https://c4ss.org/content/46524
Band name of the day: the most powerful living cat
a world in which homunculus theory is true and you can swap bodies by exchanging homunculi, be a robot or live directly inside dataspace with the right body prosthesis
Why didn’t Carnival of Souls spawn a whole genre the way Night of the Living Dead did?
There are live performances of Ultimate Care II, Matmos’s washing machine album, apparently.
Give your house that Escher look with antigravity generators and more: Let your plants tie themselves into knots, build impossibly labyrinthine pillow forts, wrap yourself in a blanket and read a book while in orbit around your living room lamp
How to Live in a Dystopian Fiction https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/06/28/how-to-live-in-a-dystopian-fiction/
Javascript is a just-OK language saddled with the world’s worst graphics toolkit: three distinct languages, each with specs so large that nobody has written a new implementation in 20 years, for live-editing a rich tech document to make it resemble a canvas, in ways that are not portable between the 3 implementations or minor revisions of the same implementation.
a myth is a machine for living in
the hypodrive, a device for covering arbitrarily small distances so you can hide inside a mandelbrot, or hunt what lives within (generally a bad idea though, whoever can hide inside a mandelbrot has bigger threats to deal with than you)
The people of that tribe make up for their lack of dreams with a rich mythology about between-lives, for example they make sure that at least one member is always awake and another asleep, lest the world vanish or fall over and into the void
For the kind of immortal who remembers all of their lives, it’s rare to fear death, birth and the years that follow however are a different matter
Knowing that half of The Buggles became The Art of Noise makes me feel like maybe we do live in a comprehensible and ordered universe. But then I look at literally anything else.
Inside the Songs of Our Lives: ‘Video Killed The Radio Star’ http://www.realclearlife.com/music/video-killed-the-radio-star/
Days after jokingly asking when someone will do an american live action adaptation of Kite, I find that Anchor Bay already has.
Areas of transience – the hyperspace of psychogeography – are not ‘non-places’ with ‘non-culture’. They have a uniquely warped kind of culture, in the same way tourist-dependent places do, except some people spend their lives in it (long haul truckers or jet-setting businessmen).
Why reliable, unchanging, boring, mechanical interfaces are important in big-computing contexts: https://medium.com/@caseorganic/why-do-we-keep-building-cars-with-touchscreens-alt-the-hidden-lives-of-touchscreens-55faf92799bf
The Blood Ritual That Lives on YouTube https://gizmodo.com/the-blood-ritual-that-lives-on-youtube-1825726446
Mood: using the mobile version of the website on desktop because you don’t live in california
Neural speech synthesizers are noise, pressed into form: Meta-Raudive devices that live in your phone, channel the voices of the dead to tell you dinner’s ready
countercomplex: Reaching for the blocks of the living world http://viznut.fi/texts-en/reaching_for_the_blocks.html
I Lived Exclusively Off Doomsday Prepper Food for a Week - MUNCHIES https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/vbx399/what-does-prepper-food-taste-like-v25n1
Pixie tribes live on and in the raindrops, occasionally migrate when their home is nearing the ground, or wait until it splashes to hitch a ride on a droplet
Botnik - Live Procedurally Generated Comedy - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IujSOW1OMWk
For Me, David Bowie Lives On - GARAGE https://garage.vice.com/en_us/article/zmwap9/for-paul-gorman-david-bowie-lives-on
In an equitable society, social problems are a matter of individual choice. We don’t live in such a society, and never have. If we want to, we should be honest about this. Pretending to have achieved equity is a good way to amplify shitty power relations.
secret passages in your memory palace, left there for no reason you’d remember↵a mirror room, consciousness amplifier↵a shed in the garden, where an old tulpa lives↵doors that have become mere paintings, the memories they lead to either lost or fake
a recording of 4’33” played live, a recording of that recording played live, and so on
Getting down and medieval: the sex lives of the Middle … https://aeon.co/essays/getting-down-and-medieval-the-sex-lives-of-the-middle-ages
Bad idea of the day: Cryptocurrency but the proof of work is burning dollar bills on live television
We don’t even live in a cyberpunk dystopia. We live in one of those early-90s cyberpunk ripoff stories by an author who half-read Neuromancer & missed the point.
a comet strikes but does so so slowly that birds settle on the bolide, grass grows on the shockwave, generations live and trade on what they call the traveling mountains
Let’s open our sealed-off lives to semi-permeable architecture | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/lets-open-our-sealed-off-lives-to-semi-permeable-architecture
BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: THE GHOSTS IN THE LIVING ROOM http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2011/12/the_ghosts_in_the_living_room.html
The Modern Lives of Medieval Monster Scholars - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mearcstapa-medieval-monster-scholars