David Byrne on True Stories, American Utopia, and his unofficial American triptych. https://slate.com/culture/2018/11/david-byrne-true-stories-american-utopia-interview.html

Blob Blob Blobby: Towards a New Blobjectivity – xenogothic https://xenogothic.com/2018/11/27/blob-blob-blobby-towards-a-new-blobjectivity/

All Hallmark Christmas movies are horror films in disguise | Salon.com https://www.salon.com/2018/11/19/all-hallmark-christmas-movies-are-horror-films-in-disguise/

Processor Socket History: The Upgrade Path is Shrinking https://tedium.co/2018/11/27/processor-socket-history/

The Snowden Legacy, part one: What’s changed, really? | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/11/the-snowden-legacy-part-one-whats-changed-really/

Alien Capital – Vast Abrupt https://vastabrupt.com/2018/07/11/alien-capital/

The End of My Year of Killer Sudoku – Popula https://popula.com/2018/11/20/the-end-of-my-year-of-killer-sudoku/

NO VELVET REVOLUTION – ALIENIST MANIFESTO https://alienistmanifesto.wordpress.com/2018/11/17/no-velvet-revolution/

LINES FOR A MANIFESTO OF ALIENIST POETRY – ALIENIST MANIFESTO https://alienistmanifesto.wordpress.com/2017/11/24/lines-for-a-manifesto-of-alienist-poetry-2/

Errata Security: Some notes about HTTP/3 https://blog.erratasec.com/2018/11/some-notes-about-http3.html#.W_vnQUfav0M

Truth as a Vehicle for Enhancing Fiction, Fiction as a Vehicle for Discovering Truth | http://dreamcafe.com/2018/11/19/truth-as-a-vehicle-for-enhancing-fiction-fiction-as-a-vehicle-for-discovering-truth/

The Journal of Controversial Ideas”academic freedom sans responsibility is reckless | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/the-journal-of-controversial-ideas-academic-freedom-sans-responsibility-is-reckless/

The Categories Were Made For Man, Not Man For The Categories | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-made-for-man-not-man-for-the-categories/

Hometown Proud: IGA‘s Business Model Brilliance https://tedium.co/2018/11/22/independent-grocers-alliance-history-hometown-proud/

How Marketing and Lobbying Built Thanksgiving Traditions https://tedium.co/2018/11/20/thanksgiving-history-corporate-roots/

D compilation is too slow and I am forking the compiler | CyberShadow’s blog https://blog.thecybershadow.net/2018/11/18/d-compilation-is-too-slow-and-i-am-forking-the-compiler/

“Eco Grime” Artists Blend Natural Sounds & Electronics to Depict a Polluted World « Bandcamp Daily https://daily.bandcamp.com/2018/11/13/eco-grime-music-history/

The One Book That Made Me Take the Long View of the Future: God Emperor of Dune | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2018/11/07/the-one-book-that-made-me-take-the-long-view-of-the-future-god-emperor-of-dune/

A Stimulus Plan for the Mutual Aid Economy https://longreads.com/2018/11/20/a-stimulus-plan-for-the-mutual-aid-economy/

World States and Mega Empires in SF | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2018/11/12/world-states-and-mega-empires-in-sf/

Cringe and the Design of Sacred Experiences https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/01/11/cringe-and-the-design-of-sacred-experiences/

Folk Concepts https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/11/16/folk-concepts/

Heads up, apparently there are gonna be export restrictions on neural net, reinforcement learning, computer vision, NLP, & similar research done in the US: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/11/19/2018-25221/review-of-controls-for-certain-emerging-technologies

Jonestown’s Victims Have a Lesson to Teach Us, So I Listened – Mother Jones https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/11/jonestowns-victims-have-a-lesson-to-teach-us-so-i-listened-peoples-temple-anniversary-40/

The Second Half of Watergate Was Bigger, Worse, and Forgotten By the Public https://longreads.com/2018/11/20/the-second-half-of-watergate-was-bigger-worse-and-forgotten-by-the-public/

Sole and Despotic Dominion: Fiction - Reason.com https://reason.com/archives/2018/11/17/sole-and-despotic-dominion

How Tech Bros Fell in Love With Bread Baking - Eater https://www.eater.com/2018/11/19/18099127/bread-silicon-valley-sourdough-tech-bros-tartine-chad-robertson

Jehanne Operating System http://jehanne.io/2018/11/15/simplicity-awakes.html

Tech Workers Need to Keep Organizing https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/11/tech-worker-organizing-google-union-walkout

DrKoop.com: C. Everett Koop’s Unlikely Dot-Com Play https://tedium.co/2018/11/15/c-everett-koop-drkoop-com-history/

C Portability Lessons from Weird Machines https://begriffs.com/posts/2018-11-15-c-portability.html

Box Office Bomb: The Short Life of Popcorn Prediction Markets - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/movies/2018/11/15/18091620/box-office-futures-dodd-frank-mpaa-recession

The Vacuum Tube’s Many Modern-Day Uses https://tedium.co/2018/11/13/vacuum-tubes-modern-day/

“Let us Calculate!”: Leibniz, Llull, and the Computational Imagination – The Public Domain Review https://publicdomainreview.org/2016/11/10/let-us-calculate-leibniz-llull-and-computational-imagination/

PRINCIPLES OF ANARCHITECTURE 3 – ALIENIST MANIFESTO https://alienistmanifesto.wordpress.com/2018/11/06/principles-of-anarchitecture-3/

The Source History of Cat https://twobithistory.org/2018/11/12/cat.html

The Haunting of 657 Boulevard in Westfield, New Jersey https://www.thecut.com/2018/11/the-haunting-of-657-boulevard-in-westfield-new-jersey.html

‘Toward a Unified Metaphysics of Fucking the Flag’, Johnson & Stein. Journal of @dril Studies, volume 11, issue 388. pp 69-2501

Scripting the GUI with ‘hey’ | Haiku Project https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/humdinger/2017-11-05_scripting_the_gui_with_hey/

The Evolution Of Open – blarg? http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2018/11/09/the-evolution-of-open/

Dataspace 8: Example: Movie data | Natepod http://natecull.org/wordpress/2017/07/11/dataspace-8-example-movie-data/

The Animated Guide to Paredit http://danmidwood.com/content/2014/11/21/animated-paredit.html

Why Doctors Hate Their Computers | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/why-doctors-hate-their-computers

Trust and Complex Technology: The Cyborg’s Modern Bargain - Cyborgology https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2011/11/23/trust-in-complex-technology-the-cyborgs-modern-bargain/

Running a Gopher Server in 2018 https://prgmr.com/blog/gopher/2018/11/09/setting-up-gopherserver.html

Assert yourself - The Boston Diaries - Captain Napalm http://boston.conman.org/2018/11/06.1

Electronic Tolling History: RFID Keeps Things Moving https://tedium.co/2018/11/08/electronic-toll-collection-history/

Berners-Lee takes flak for ‘hippie manifesto’ that only Google and Facebook could love • The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/09/berners_lee_criticism/

Logic, Explainability and the Future of Understanding—Stephen Wolfram Blog http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2018/11/logic-explainability-and-the-future-of-understanding/

How YouTube’s Recommendation Algorithm Really Works - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/11/how-youtubes-algorithm-really-works/575212/

The Universe of Discourse : Design patterns of 1972 https://blog.plover.com/2006/09/11/

Larry “Wild Man” Fischer: An Outsider Icon https://tedium.co/2018/11/06/larry-wild-man-fischer-history/

Cory Doctorow: What the Internet Is For – Locus Online https://locusmag.com/2018/11/cory-doctorow-what-the-internet-is-for/

Nick Land’s Philosophy of Capital is Anti-Capitalist (2) – DI Research Zone 22 https://disubunit22.wordpress.com/2018/11/05/nick-lands-philosophy-of-capital-is-anti-capitalist-2/

Metadata: Judoing the Dunning-Kruger effect: the “surprisingly-popular option” strategy for crowdsourcing https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/11/judoing-dunning-kruger-effect.html

Cesar Sayoc and others on Twitter are behaving like bots. https://slate.com/technology/2018/11/cesar-sayoc-twitter-humans-behaving-bots.html

Proposed data privacy law could send company execs to prison for 20 years | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/11/proposed-data-privacy-law-could-send-company-execs-to-prison-for-20-years/

Science Is Full of Mavericks Like My Grandfather. But Was His Physics Theory Right? - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/science-full-mavericks-like-my-grandfather-was-his-physics-theory-right/574573/

A Look at the Design of Lua | November 2018 | Communications of the ACM https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/11/232214-a-look-at-the-design-of-lua/fulltext

How Does a Film Become Lost? https://tedium.co/2018/10/11/lost-and-found-film-history/

Think Entangled, Act Spooky https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/09/11/think-entangled-act-spooky/

Ghost in a Box: The Haunting History of Television Broadcast Intrusions - The Daily Grail https://www.dailygrail.com/2017/11/ghost-in-a-box-the-haunting-history-of-television-broadcast-intrusions/

Dataspace 8: Example: Movie data | Natepod http://natecull.org/wordpress/2017/07/11/dataspace-8-example-movie-data/

Meet the Semionauts – HILOBROW http://hilobrow.com/2010/11/03/meet-the-semionauts/

PostModern Jukebox demonstrates that shitty pop songs could have been awesome if their producers/arrangers had taste, on a weekly basis. 11/10 would listen again.

The Pressures Of Being An Interpreter At A High-Stakes Summit : NPR https://www.npr.org/2018/06/11/611734103/the-pressures-of-being-an-interpreter-at-a-high-stakes-summit

The Avant-Garde Adventures of Yeah Yeah Yeahs Drummer Brian Chase « Bandcamp Daily https://daily.bandcamp.com/2018/06/11/brian-chase-yeah-yeah-yeahs-interview/

Breaking news: Person famous for saying stupid things in public says stupid thing in public. Film at 11.

Gödel’s Second Incompleteness Theorem for Programmers — Adventures https://dvt.name/2018/04/11/godels-second-incompleteness-theorem-programmers/

Reddit redesigned its site and it could kill discussion subreddits – Change My View https://changemyview.net/2018/04/11/reddit-redesigned-its-site-and-it-could-kill-discussion-subreddits/

Interview: Hideaki Anno VS. Yoshiyuki Tomino (Animage – 07/1994) | Wave Motion Cannon https://wavemotioncannon.com/2016/11/08/interview-hideaki-anno-vs-yoshiyuki-tomino-animage-071994/

The Leaning Tower of Morality https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/11/28/the-leaning-tower-of-morality/

What an ‘infinite’ AI-generat… https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/11/17099578/ai-generated-podcast-procedural-storytelling-art-sheldon-county

Let‘s talk about usernames https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2018/feb/11/usernames/

Slack is the opposite of organizational memory https://abe-winter.github.io/plea%27s/help/2018/02/11/slack.html

Cringe and the Design of Sacred Experiences https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/01/11/cringe-and-the-design-of-sacred-experiences/

GPS History: The Evolution of Global Positioning https://tedium.co/2018/01/11/gps-history-evolution/

The Man Who Would… https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/11/the-man-who-would-teach-machines-to-think/309529/?single_page=true

spectre and the end of langsec – wingolog https://wingolog.org/archives/2018/01/11/spectre-and-the-end-of-langsec

Bad Behavioural Science: Failures, bias and fa… https://jasoncollins.org/2016/05/11/bad-behavioural-science-failures-bias-and-fairy-tales/

Storming the Ivory Tower: Hauntology/Headology: Carpe Jugulum and Gothic Justice https://stormingtheivorytower.blogspot.com/2017/11/hauntologyheadology-carpe-jugulum-and.html

High Tech High Life: William Gibson & Timothy Leary in Conversation (1989) - Mondo 2000 http://www.mondo2000.com/2017/11/29/high-tech-high-life-william-gibson-timothy-leary-conversation-1989/

High Tech High Life: William Gibson & Timothy Leary in Conversation (1989) - Mondo 2000 http://www.mondo2000.com/2017/11/29/high-tech-high-life-william-gibson-timothy-leary-conversation-1989/

Guns tend to empower white, financially unstable men—who oppose gun control | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/11/study-white-men-facing-money-trouble-tend-to-cling-to-guns-for-power-identity/

Researchers find oddities in high-profile gender studies | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/11/researchers-find-oddities-in-high-profile-gender-studies/

http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/11/vocoder-instrumental-instruments

Novels "Written" for NaNoGenMo https://bookriot.com/2017/11/27/novels-written-nanogenmo/

Unforeseen Consequences and that 1929 vibe - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2017/11/unforseen-consequences-and-tha.html

The Revolutionary Optimism of Iain M. Banks’ Culture Novels | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2017/11/24/the-revolutionary-optimism-of-iain-m-banks-culture-novels/

The Soviet Hippies https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/11/soviet-hippies-antiwar-film

LKML: Linus Torvalds: Re: [GIT PULL] usercopy whitelisting for v4.15-rc1 https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/21/356

Mashed Potatoes History: The Long, Hard Road to Instant https://tedium.co/2017/11/21/mashed-potato-history/

A Beginner‘s Guide To Robert Anton Wilson Part II: Prometheus Rising - disinformation http://disinfo.com/2017/11/beginners-guide-robert-anton-wilson-part-ii-prometheus-rising/

New York Radical Women Feminist Collective: An Oral History https://www.thecut.com/2017/11/an-oral-history-of-feminist-group-new-york-radical-women.html

The Serial-Killer Detector | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/27/the-serial-killer-detector

How many colours were there in a medieval rainbow? – For the Wynn https://forthewynnblog.wordpress.com/2017/11/20/how-many-colours-were-there-in-a-medieval-rainbow/

Julian Assange’s Hatred of Hillary Clinton Was No Secret. His Advice to Donald Trump Was. https://theintercept.com/2017/11/15/wikileaks-julian-assange-donald-trump-jr-hillary-clinton/

Who Filters Your News? Why we built gobo.social | … My heart’s in Accra http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2017/11/16/who-filters-your-news-why-we-built-gobo-social/

Why written languages look alike the world over | Science | AAAS http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/11/why-written-languages-look-alike-world-over

McMansion, USA https://jacobinmag.com/2017/11/mcmansions-housing-architecture-rich-people/