Death To Minimalism | Current Affairs https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/02/death-to-minimalism
shout out to everybody who keeps translating ‘denpa’ as ‘microwave’ instead of ‘psychotronic’: 10/10 subtle troll, excellent work
Love Anime? You NEED to See Alita: Battle Angel - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWwHtMAj_pI
Starship Troopers: How to Make Fascism SEXY “ Wisecrack Edition - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_sZdX3tFFU
i’m happier when it’s easier for me to pick up and leave
Modern Alternatives to PGP https://blog.gtank.cc/modern-alternatives-to-pgp/
I feel like the simplified and cliched ideas about slashers that informed Scream kept me from discovering the strange and wonderful world of actually-good slashers like Sleepaway Camp, Happy Birthday to Me, Tourist Trap, etc. Like, a lot of them are surreal and moody and great.
All of the positive reviews of Alita are like “it follows the manga even when you don’t expect it to, which makes it not feel like a hollywood movie, & does the best job it possibly could fitting 4.5 volumes of manga into a 2 hour movie”
Bad idea of the day: Do a free machine-generated text class at a library (using tracery or something), self-publish the course materials as a book (with proceeds going to the library as donations), & get a couple copies for the stacks.
JIRA would be a lot more useful if it was small enough to actually load & render on my company-provided workstation.
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/
What’s the most unexpected way to use garlic in a dish? https://thetakeout.com/recipe-most-unexpected-way-to-use-garlic-in-a-dish-1832528068
@von@tilde.town your posting to the future worked for me.
How capitalism reduced diversity to a brand - Vox https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/2/11/18195868/capitalism-race-diversity-exploitation-nancy-leong
The government is using wrong data to make decisions about the internet - Recode https://www.recode.net/2019/2/8/18211794/government-data-internet
The Teens Who Listen to ‘Mallwave’ Are Nostalgic for an Experience They’ve Never Had - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-teens-who-listen-to-mallwave-are-nostalgic-for-an-experience-theyve-never-had
An AI is playing Pictionary to figure out how the world works - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612882/an-ai-is-playing-pictionary-to-figure-out-how-the-world-works/
MfoM is like Groundhog Day meets The X Files, while Happy Death Day is more like Groundhog Day meets Scream. (Actually, less like Scream than Happy Birthday to Me, but nobody’s seen that one.)
Introduction to Affect Theory: Brian Massumi & Eve Sedgwick - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeMS8QEYIQU
I’d like to play a horror game that’s lit like Suspiria is during its most extreme moments: backgrounds & characters in bright monochrome washes, a cypher of harsh shadows, as though lit by single-point neon.
Finally had cause to break open one of those Panobooks by Studio Neat. It’s so utterly pleasant to touch.
Nobel Laureate Eric Kandel Brings Neuroscience to the Neue Galerie http://nautil.us/issue/69/patterns/gustav-klimt-in-the-brain-lab
Bitcoin, Snapchat, Drugs And Death: How A Woman Followed Two “UGNazi” Hackers’ Lies To Her Tragic Killing https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/tomi-masters-down-the-rabbit-hole-i-go
Masters of Science Fiction is actually pretty good if you can get over the extremely post-9/11 vibe, the use of the Star Trek Voyager font everywhere, & the ‘hosting’ being somebody using the Hawking synth to speak a line after every episode
PC Speaker To Eleven / Habr https://habr.com/en/post/439192/
Schneier on security: “There’s no good reason to trust blockchain technology” https://www.wired.com/story/theres-no-good-reason-to-trust-blockchain-technology/
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
Are there sports video games that, RPG-like, allow a user-created character to progress by getting access to better personal trainers & medical support by winning games while in constant fear of breaking their legs?
Can a philosopher explain reality and make-believe to a child? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/can-a-philosopher-explain-reality-and-make-believe-to-a-child
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
The (Almost) Secret Algorithm Researchers Used to Break Thousands of RSA Keys – Algorithm Soup https://algorithmsoup.wordpress.com/2019/01/15/breaking-an-unbreakable-code-part-1-the-hack/
Atlas of Endangered Alphabets – Indigenous and minority writing systems, and the people who are trying to save them https://www.endangeredalphabets.net/
The Mysterious Discipline of Narratologists: Why We Need Stories to Make Sense | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2019/01/29/the-mysterious-discipline-of-narratologists/
Knife Fights, Lockpicking, and Other Things I’ve Done to Become a Better Writer | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2019/01/31/knife-fights-lockpicking-and-other-things-ive-done-to-become-a-better-writer/
I think the english dub might have contributed to Lain’s reputation as confusing. Rather than pacing their lines, the voice actors consistently adlibbed extra bullshit to fill time, introducing plotholes.
@metamurks@www.metamurks.org: Also, maybe switch to my https url: https://codevoid.de/tw.txt - txtnish can deal with gopher, but it would always fetch the full file even when nothing has changed (gopher doesn’t support HEAD requests). So https might be faster.
@metamurks@www.metamurks.org: Actually I’m running OpenBSD on APU2 routers, but that would have been to much to explain for the tweet. And OpenWRT is pretty much as good. The APU2 hardware is quite nice compared with what else is out there.
Saw a reply to one of my old posts after bypassing goatflare. I’d never heard of Balistos before. At least I don’t remember seeing it the first time around.
TIL that Tron was written by Alan Kay’s wife. That adds so many new dimensions to that movie, and makes ‘I fight for the users’ even more appropriate as a slogan.
I expected all of my leg and foot muscles to be sore after yesterday’s four-hour hike, but I didn’t expect my traps to be sore.
New repository: aquilax/img2ascii - Image to ascii converter/library
I regret to inform everybody that Data Privacy Day was actually last Monday. We all missed it. Sorry. Honorary Data Privacy Day every Monday for the next 2 years to make up for it, kay?
Monday is Data Privacy Day. Celebrate by legally changing your name to “;drop table users;
Used my first webp image today. Took me a bit to figure out that I needed to put width: 100% on the img element, not on its enclosing picture element.
Want to get away with posting fake news on Facebook? Just change your website domain. – Poynter https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2019/want-to-get-away-with-posting-fake-news-on-facebook-just-change-your-website-domain/
tired: learn to code; wired: code to learn
Nicolas Cage to Star in ‘Color Out of Space’ – Variety https://variety.com/2019/film/news/nicolas-cage-color-out-of-space-1203115589/
“Learn to Code”: The Twitter Meme Attacking Media - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/tech/2019/1/29/18201695/learn-to-code-twitter-abuse-buzzfeed-journalists
@adiabetic@www.frogorbits.com You can’t argue with math. My math told me to eat a Balisto.
@adiabetic@www.frogorbits.com You can’t argue with math. My math told me to eat a Balisto.
I did math. The math told me to eat more protein, so I had a whey-and-milk shake with vanilla extract and honey.
Editions https://qz.com/1533143/the-best-way-to-use-social-media-is-to-act-like-a-19th-century-parisian/
Almost all the content I post to social media is posted by a small shell script that simultaneously posts to several services or through IFTTT duplicating those posts to services for which I lack an API key. When facebook broke automated posting, it meant my account went dark. I didn’t notice.
Responses to my essay ‘Tech’s Masturbatory Historiography’ make me think that most people reading it don’t know what ‘historiography’ means. (It’s exactly what it sounds like…)
In case anybody wants to implement their own homebrew NeoGeo games: http://www.hardmvs.fr/manuals/NeoGeoProgrammersGuide.pdf
Forget voting “ it’s time to start choosing our leaders by lottery | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/forget-voting-it-s-time-to-start-choosing-our-leaders-by-lottery
at least most of my classes are genuinely interesting to me, that’ll help
i think it’s going to take some time before i can actually Do School again…
No Title: A play like No Exit by Sartre, but four strangers have to agree on how to tag a moderately complicated CD in iTunes
Convert Interface to Type: Type Assertion ⌘ Read more…
In the sunken and forgotten city, Senpai lies not dead but dreaming, as blissfully unaware of mankind’s rise above as that of other prior races. We have just begun to meddle in forces that may cause Senpai to notice us for the first time, and rise.
Why not apply the principles of the jury system to democracy?
Not only do we know that Democracy as we know it doesn’t work, in 1787 the man who gave us democracy here in the USA told us that it would not work, hence the second amendment. They said this is the best we have deal with it. Don’t let it get too big! What did […] ⌘ Read more
One of the ideas I was playing with in MfoM was the distinction between player & player character with a ‘possession’ metaphor, & how that relates to the time loop. I didn’t go so far with it. Maybe in Book of the Damned I’ll have the player be a possessing-spirit.
YouTube Is Still Struggling To Rein In Its Recommendation Algorithm https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/down-youtubes-recommendation-rabbithole
I kind of want to use SILE (http://sile-typesetter.org/) for something, but I need a PDF generator like I need a hole in my head.
@robbinaer@robbinaer.info Yeah, cpanm also needs libncurses-dev to compile Curses.pm. I’ll add that to the install instructions.
@robbinaer@robbinaer.info Yeah, cpanm also needs libncurses-dev to compile Curses.pm. I’ll add that to the install instructions.
The MITRE Corporation’s project to use Chomsky’s linguistics for their weapons systems — Science and Revolution http://scienceandrevolution.org/blog/2018/1/28/the-mitre-corporations-project-to-use-chomskys-linguistics-for-their-weapons-systems
Spicy take: unless you have personally vetted all the code on it, you should not allow your voice assistant to access the internet.
Nearly half of game developers want to unionize https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/24/nearly-half-of-game-developers-want-to-unionize/
Trivia: Warren Ellis was asked to play Jeff Minter’s part in Bandersnatch, which would have also been very cool.
Literature from Page to Interface: The Treatments of Text in Christophe Bruno’s Iterature http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/literature-from-page-to-interface-the-treatments-of-text-in-christophe-brunos-iterature/
Teletext graphics characters among those added to Unicode – Teletext Art http://teletextart.co.uk/teletext-graphics-characters-among-those-added-to-unicode
Notes from a 1984 trip to Xerox PARC https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2019/01/notes-from-1984-trip-to-xerox-parc.html
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
Is it okay to powernap at 08:00 in the morning? yawn
Is it okay to powernap at 08:00 in the morning? yawn
Sail to Chichijima, Japan | https://wiki.xxiivv.com/ogasawara
@kas@enotty.dk I’m not discouraged at all. I now know to choose sleep at 8 PM instead of coffee. Maybe one day I’ll get lucky and just sleep the whole night through.
@kas@enotty.dk I should have gone for the two-hour nap (to a first approximation, I can’t powernap). Ended up going to bed at 5 without having had a two-hour nap previously. Failed experiments are the price of knowledge, I guess.
@robbinaer@robbinaer.info I still have so much work to do in the renderer … but the next big goal is to jump to a chapter via the toc.
@robbinaer@robbinaer.info Did you first try to install Curses from cpan? Maybe i can clarify the install instructions?
@robbinaer@robbinaer.info I still have so much work to do in the renderer … but the next big goal is to jump to a chapter via the toc.
@robbinaer@robbinaer.info Did you first try to install Curses from cpan? Maybe i can clarify the install instructions?
Bad idea of the day: train chess engines to play like specific historic players
The new elite’s phoney crusade to save the world “ without changing anything | News | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/jan/22/the-new-elites-phoney-crusade-to-save-the-world-without-changing-anything
Welcome to anarchySF! | anarchySF https://anarchysf.com/
GitHub - StevenBlack/hosts: Extending and consolidating hosts files from several well-curated sources like adaway.org, mvps.org, malwaredomainlist.com, someonewhocares.org, and potentially others. You can optionally invoke extensions to bl… https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
Band name of the day: new ways to dream of the moon
Wow, fancy that. Web ad giant Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome. For safety, apparently • The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/22/google_chrome_browser_ad_content_block_change/
How to Fix Social Media by Injecting A Chunk of the Blogosphere https://kottke.org/19/01/how-to-fix-social-media-by-injecting-a-chunk-of-the-blogosphere
Why symmetry gets really interesting when it is broken | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/why-symmetry-gets-really-interesting-to-physics-when-it-is-broken
[Toybox] More than you really wanted to know about patch. http://lists.landley.net/pipermail/toybox-landley.net/2019-January/010049.html
Periodic reminder: submissions for the No-Budget Film Contest are open from April 20th to July 4th https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2019-no-budget-film-contest-d7eb339a3ed5
Yahoo! Games Failure: How To Checkmate Yourself https://tedium.co/2017/07/27/yahoo-games-failure-classicgames/
it did! now i can tweet from ~town without even having to install anything
Welcome to the twtxtverse @bt_tenk@tilde.town!
Welcome to the twtxtverse @bt_tenk@tilde.town!