A Global Review of Public Transit Seat Cover Designs - CityLab https://www.citylab.com/design/2019/02/public-transit-design-seat-cover-textile-patterns-moquette/583045/
The CPython Bytecode Compiler is Dumb « null program https://nullprogram.com/blog/2019/02/24/
Why Conspiracy Videos Go Viral on YouTube - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/02/reason-conspiracy-videos-work-so-well-youtube/583282/
The impossible architecture of video games • Eurogamer.net https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-02-12-the-impossible-architecture-of-video-games
Five Lessons From Seven Years of Research Into Buttons - The Crux http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2019/02/04/five-lessons-about-pressing-buttons/
Remembering Ken Nordine https://longreads.com/2019/02/19/remembering-ken-nordine/
Normalization of Deviance | Art is Art and Water is Water https://foone.wordpress.com/2019/02/14/normalization-of-deviance/
GPT-2 As Step Toward General Intelligence | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/19/gpt-2-as-step-toward-general-intelligence/
Do Neural Nets Dream Of Electric Hobbits? | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/18/do-neural-nets-dream-of-electric-hobbits/
RIP Culture War Thread | Slate Star Codex https://web.archive.org/web/20190222094427/https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/22/rip-culture-war-thread/
Watch Sesame Street’s long-lost “Cracks,” resurfaced by internet sleuths (VIDEO). https://slate.com/culture/2019/02/sesame-streets-cracks-video-watch.html
Three Decades of Cross-Cultural Utopianism in British Music Writing https://longreads.com/2019/02/19/three-decades-of-cross-cultural-utopianism-in-british-music-writing/
The Big Data Revolution Will Be Sampled: How ‘Big Data’ Has Come To Mean ‘Small Sampled Data’ https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2019/02/17/the-big-data-revolution-will-be-sampled-how-big-data-has-come-to-mean-small-sampled-data/
BEYOND HIGH WEIRDNESS: AN APPROACH TO THE LIMINAL – Liminal Seattle http://www.liminalseattle.com/2019/02/20/beyond-high-weirdness/
A Green New Deal to Win Back Our Future https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/02/green-new-deal-climate-change-policy
Hackintosh Culture: The Joy of Subverting Apple https://tedium.co/2019/02/12/hackintosh-cultural-trend/
The Green New Deal’s Big Idea - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/02/green-new-deal-economic-principles/582943/
Reese’s Advertising History: Eat Peanut Butter Cups However You Want https://tedium.co/2019/02/14/reeses-peanut-butter-cup-marketing-history/
OpenAI Trains Language Model, Mass Hysteria Ensues – Approximately Correct http://approximatelycorrect.com/2019/02/17/openai-trains-language-model-mass-hysteria-ensues/
Death To Minimalism | Current Affairs https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/02/death-to-minimalism
Sapping Attention: How badly is Google Books search broken, and why? https://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2019/02/how-badly-is-google-books-search-broken.html
Alita: Battle Angel - Escapist Magazine https://www.escapistmagazine.com/v2/2019/02/15/alita-battle-angel/
Who can forget those scenes in Count Zero where they all stand around eating soup? / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/02/14/cream-of-panther-modern.html
The Caviar Con https://longreads.com/2019/02/12/the-caviar-con/
Danish haunted-house studies seek to reveal the seductive appeal of horror | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/02/danish-haunted-house-studies-seek-to-reveal-the-seductive-appeal-of-horror/
Why Freelancing Creates Anxiety About Money https://www.thecut.com/2019/02/why-freelancing-creates-anxiety-about-money.html
Suburban Mystique: Bic Drawings by Kevin Lucbert “ SOCKS http://socks-studio.com/2015/02/11/suburban-mystique-bic-drawings-by-kevin-lucbert/
The Aesthetics of Taxonomy: Hokusai’s Manga (1814-1878) “ SOCKS http://socks-studio.com/2019/02/10/the-aesthetics-of-taxonomy-hokusais-manga-1814-1878/
The Observation Deck » Reflecting on The Soul of a New Machine http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2019/02/10/reflecting-on-the-soul-of-a-new-machine/
Stalin’s Scheherazade https://longreads.com/2019/02/06/stalins-scheherazade/
Retro-Tinged Game Controllers: BX Foundry’s Handmade Joysticks https://tedium.co/2019/02/07/bx-foundry-video-game-controllers/
Code Director - Daily Nutmeg http://dailynutmeg.com/2019/02/08/dan-gries-art-code-director/
Amazon is using purchase data to sell targeted ads, which is creepy, but not because they’ve invented a mind-control ray / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/02/06/trivial-insights.html
’60s Children’s Music: The Appeal for Early Electronic Musicians https://tedium.co/2019/02/05/60s-electronic-music-childrens-music-history/
Roomful of Teeth Is Revolutionizing Choral Music | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/02/11/roomful-of-teeth-is-revolutionizing-choral-music
What’s wrong with the Raspberry Pi – Own your bits https://ownyourbits.com/2019/02/02/whats-wrong-with-the-raspberry-pi/
Hackers hijack thousands of Chromecasts to warn of latest security bug – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/02/chromecast-bug-hackers-havoc/
USA Wants to Restrict AI Exports: A Stupid and Dangerous Idea – Lauren Weinstein’s Blog https://lauren.vortex.com/2019/01/02/usa-wants-to-restrict-ai-exports-a-stupid-and-dangerous-idea
How the Marber grid was made | Penguin Series Design https://penguinseriesdesign.com/2017/02/15/how-the-marber-grid-was-made/
An Incomplete List of Things I’d Need to Know In Order Not to Be A Total Impostor | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2018/09/02/an-incomplete-list-of-things-id-need-to-know-in-order-not-to-be-a-complete-impostor/
Treasure Hunting https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/11/02/treasure-hunting/
A Big Archive of Occult Recordings: Historic Audio Lets You Hear Trances, Paranormal Music, Glossolalia & Other Strange Sounds (1905-2007) | Open Culture http://www.openculture.com/2018/02/a-big-archive-of-occult-recordings.html
Moved Temporarily http://allendowney.blogspot.co.nz/2018/02/learning-to-program-is-getting-harder.html
P21Forth 1.02 User’s Manual http://www.ultratechnology.com/p21intro.html
Vietnam’s Low-tech Food System Takes Advantage of Decay | LOW←TECH MAGAZINE https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2017/02/vietnams-low-tech-fermentation-food-system-takes-advantage-of-decay.html
THE MEDIA BUSINESS: Encountering The Digital Age – An occasional look at computers in everday life.; Potboiler Springs From Computer’s Loins - The New Yor… https://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/02/us/media-business-encountering-digital-age-occasional-look-computers-everday-life.html
The Gilded Age of (Unpaid) Internet Writing https://longreads.com/2018/10/02/webzines-90s-online-media/
Google 20th Anniversary: How Information Changed Forever https://tedium.co/2018/10/02/google-20th-anniversary-culture-importance/
Learning BASIC Like It’s 1983 https://twobithistory.org/2018/09/02/learning-basic.html
Disposable Ballpoint Pen History: Pennies on the Dollar https://tedium.co/2018/08/02/disposable-ballpoint-pen-history/
Different Worlds | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/02/different-worlds/
THIS: The Gathering Brainstorm – HILOBROW http://hilobrow.com/2017/02/20/this-the-gathering-brainstorm/
Products aren’t for people yet - Rakhim.org https://rakhim.org/2017/02/by_devs
Encouraging individual sovereignty and a healthy commons https://0xadada.pub/2017/02/18/encourging-individual-sovereignty-and-a-healthy-commons/
My long strange winter trip with John Perry Barlow, a legend in the making | Salon.com https://www.salon.com/2018/06/02/1969-my-long-strange-winter-trip-with-john-perry-barlow-a-legend-in-the-making/?curator=MusicREDEF
Any Sufficiently Advanced Civilization is Indistinguishable from Nature https://www.nextnature.net/2012/02/any-sufficiently-advanced-civilization-is-indistinguishable-from-nature/
Philip K. Dick’s VALIS and The Man Who Fell to Earth and Duncan Jones https://bowiesattva.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/philip-k-dicks-valis-and-the-man-who-fell-to-earth-and-duncan-jones/
Cambridge Analytica dismantled for good? Nope: It just changed its name to Emerdata ⢠The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/02/cambridge_analytica_shutdown/
Social Anarchist Futures – Solarpunk Anarchist https://solarpunkanarchists.com/2018/05/02/social-anarchist-futures/
How to Write Personalities for the AI Around Us https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/05/02/how-to-write-personalities-for-the-ai-around-us/
403 You are banned from this site. Please contact via a different client configuration if you believe that this is a mistake. http://freakonomics.com/2013/02/20/how-to-game-a-grading-curve/
mikeash.com: Friday Q&A 2009-02-20: The Good and Bad of Distributed Objects https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2009-02-20-the-good-and-bad-of-distributed-objects.html
Re: TLS in Gopher https://lists.debian.org/gopher-project/2018/02/msg00038.html
spaced repetition & Darwin’s golden rule – Mind Hacks https://mindhacks.com/2018/02/26/spaced-repetition-darwins-golden-rule/
A graph that is made by perceiving it – Mind Hacks https://mindhacks.com/2018/02/25/a-graph-that-is-made-by-perceiving-it/
In Defense of Design Thinking, Which Is Terrible + Subtraction.com https://www.subtraction.com/2018/04/02/in-defense-of-design-thinking-which-is-terrible/
The Signal has run my short story “She Awaited the Turkeys” as part of the episode called “Intermission 02”. (Doesn’t seem to be posted on the website yet.)
Tracing fake… https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/02/19/tracing-fake-news-footprints-characterizing-social-media-messages-by-how-they-propagate/
As we may think | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/02/23/as-we-may-think/
The Rise of Virtual Citizenship - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/02/virtual-citizenship-for-sale/553733/
The Nakamoto Variations - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/02/the-nakamoto-variations.html
A Winter Olympics wrap-up written with a predi… https://kottke.org/18/02/a-winter-olympics-wrap-up-written-with-a-predictive-text-keyboard
How Lenders Are Turning Low-Level Courts Into Dicke… https://theintercept.com/2018/02/28/criminalization-of-debt-imprisonment-aclu-report/
Quinn Norton: The New York Times … https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/02/the-new-york-times-fired-my-doppelganger/554402/
John Perry Barlow gav… https://slate.com/technology/2018/02/john-perry-barlow-gave-internet-activists-only-half-the-mission-they-need.html
Beauty and Terror Collide in Alex Garland’s An… https://www.tor.com/2018/02/23/annihilation-jeff-vandermeer-adaptation-movie-review/
Let Them Eat Experience https://jacobinmag.com/2018/02/trump-unpaid-internships-labor-department
Some free short stories from Soviet-era science fiction author Anat… https://boingboing.net/2018/02/22/some-free-short-stories-from-s.html
Money Laundering Via Author Impersonation on Ama… https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/02/money-laundering-via-author-impersonation-on-amazon/
Building a backup bee - Food and Environment Reporting Network https://thefern.org/2018/02/building-backup-bee/
Found at a thrift shop: the last record of a doomed Apple DRM effort from 1979 / Boin… https://boingboing.net/2017/02/23/fools-errand.html
Storia di Gino… http://bologna.repubblica.it/cronaca/2018/02/20/news/storia_di_gino_l_aristogatto_con_seimila_amici_su_facebook-189282512/
Storia di Gino… http://bologna.repubblica.it/cronaca/2018/02/20/news/storia_di_gino_l_aristogatto_con_seimila_amici_su_facebook-189282512/
Deleting the Human Clause, Damien Williams « … https://social-epistemology.com/2018/02/13/deleting-the-human-clause-damien-williams/
Conspiracies and "The Wrong Room" Phenomenon … http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/02/conspiracies-and-the-wrong-room-phenomenon/
Lud‘s Church: Lollards & the Green Chapel of Arthuri… https://www.urbanghostsmedia.com/2018/02/luds-church-lollards-green-chapel/
How not to replace email https://jamey.thesharps.us/2018/02/16/how-not-to-replace-email/
Fake news ‘vaccine’: Online game may ‘inoculate’ by simulating propagand… https://phys.org/news/2018-02-fake-news-vaccine-online-game.html
Notes on Visual Snow – Axxon N. Horror https://axxonnhorror.wordpress.com/2018/02/19/notes-on-visual-snow/
Probably Overthinking It: Learning to program is get… http://allendowney.blogspot.co.nz/2018/02/learning-to-program-is-getting-harder.html
Consumer Reports History: How a Union Battle Birthed a Magazine https://tedium.co/2018/02/15/consumer-reports-history-origin/
Blockchain Just Isn’t As Radical As You Want… https://longreads.com/2018/02/15/blockchain-just-isnt-as-radical-as-you-want-it-to-be/
The Great Stink https://longreads.com/2018/02/14/the-great-stink/
In Leaked Chats, WikiLeaks Discusses Preference for … https://theintercept.com/2018/02/14/julian-assange-wikileaks-election-clinton-trump/
Neural network AI is simple. So… Stop pretending you are a… https://www.kdnuggets.com/2018/02/neural-network-ai-simple-genius.html
Deep Reinforcement Learning Doesn’t Work Yet https://www.alexirpan.com/2018/02/14/rl-hard.html
Absurdist Dialogues with Siri https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/02/12/absurdist-dialogues-siri/