Bad idea of the day: ‘twitch writes a novel’: the previous ~15 words are shown & the top ~20 next words based on a markov model of some corpus are voted on over a 2 minute period (going to the first item, if no votes are cast) until 50k words are written.
Recognition Models: Scale World War Miniatures Used to Tell Friends from Foes - 99% Invisible https://99percentinvisible.org/article/recognition-models-scale-world-war-miniatures-used-to-tell-friends-from-foes/
I love working with 3rd Party software. When you have an issue you get to put in a ticket and then wait weeks for a response.
Bad idea of the day: Select a bunch of positions, and pay people on mechanical turk to identify the strongest arguments for & against that position they can think of.
I’m always amazed at how many people I work with go out to eat each day. I don’t know how they afford to that.
Karl Marx removes his gloves to reveal knuckle tattoos: THEORY on the left hand and PRAXIS on the right. He removes his shirt and two extra arms unfold from his back: THESIS on the left arm’s knuckles and ANTITHESIS on the right. ‘Time to synthesize’, he says.
On Not Being Able to Read https://longreads.com/2018/08/14/on-not-being-able-to-read/
It’s tough to be motiviated to work on a project that has no real plan.
A comprehensive guide to yellow stripey things https://kottke.org/18/08/a-comprehensive-guide-to-yellow-stripey-things
I never really felt familiar with #vim or #emacs everytime I tried and always fell back to #nano but it seems I could really get used to #spacemacs http://spacemacs.org/
Another way to talk about Maybe Logic re: map-territory confusion: a lot of people don’t put error bars on their imagination. So, they make a prediction, the universe says ‘nope’, and they’ve got no idea where to start debugging bc every inference looks equally strong
@kas@enotty.dk Have to say the peertube is intersting. Too bad I don’t have a serveto play with it.
This is a very hot take and also not a new one but here we go: the goal of a properly functioning software engineer is to obviate themselves, not by solving the customer’s specific problems but by blurring the line between using a computer and programming one to the point where users can solve their own problems.
What Am I Worth to Advertisers? My Obsessive Quest to Put a Price on My Attention https://gizmodo.com/what-am-i-worth-to-advertisers-my-obsessive-quest-to-p-1828343202
tired: refering to bitcoin as ‘fake internet money’
Mailbag: Applying Filters to Character Dialogue | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2018/05/08/mailbag-applying-filters-to-character-dialogue/
GitHub - joukos/PaperTTY: PaperTTY - Python module to render a TTY on e-ink https://github.com/joukos/PaperTTY
📚 Finished reading Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics by Tim Marshall
What It’s Like to Download Your Facebook Data - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/09/download-your-facebook-data/565736/
📚 Finished reading Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics by Tim Marshall
The 10:1 rule of writing and programming https://www.ybrikman.com/writing/2018/08/12/the-10-to-1-rule-of-writing-and-programming/
NO MORE TESTING - LETS GET REAL - Its now possible to post to this twtxt from irc://irc.maddshark.com:7029/discord
Pet peeve: when people are so used to the model of defense against the strongest possible adversary that, in the case where that’s not possible, they consider smaller guarantees useless. Things don’t need to exist at google scale.
Pet peeve: when people conflate correctness with secrecy. Crypto can provide both, but the two are actually often in conflict. Please, think about the mechanisms you’re using systematically & also with respect to your actual threat model.
Hot take: smashing the state of mind (i.e., producing the mental and cultural conditions for statelessness) goes beyond class consciousness & requires almost everybody to ‘get’ social dynamics in cybernetic terms, at scale. It’s an anti-specialization; heuristics won’t suffice. Communities exist that already do this (ex., kink).
Anyone using sendxmpp wants to try go-sendxmpp. It should already cover the most important use cases and I would be interested if it was compatible in your use case. https://salsa.debian.org/mdosch-guest/go-sendxmpp #xmpp #golang
Hi @KatolaZ@kalos.mine.nu! Welcome to twtxt!
Hi @KatolaZ@kalos.mine.nu! Welcome to twtxt!
An Interactive Introduction to Attractor Landscapes https://ncase.me/attractors/
It’s not just that press coverage of things you already know about is bad. You only notice it when you know more about it than the journalist – who is a professional outsider. Question is: when the author knows slightly more than you do, would you like them to dive deeper?
How to make your own Xanadu demo · GitHub https://gist.github.com/ldodds/a7f901c7f0118e83a645
/me has to switch off showing the timeline after tweeting with #goxtxt as it takes 2 minutes to fetch it 😳. Too long if you have a message split into two tweets.
Band name of the day: an invitation to bad ideas
Haskell Works Blog - Introduction to the rank-select bit-string https://haskell-works.github.io/posts/2018-08-01-introduction-to-rank-select-bit-string.html
Shuffling algorithms and randomization to improve algorithm‘s runtime. - DEV Community ‘”’ https://dev.to/s_awdesh/everyday-im-shuffling-im-a-card–fire-1f8b
Reasons to shave your head #89492685203: you can obtain a cheesy 70s wig and a knife, and reenact scenes from Blue Sunshine in public
You👏Don’t👏Need👏To👏Avoid👏Repetition👏If👏You👏Can👏Justify👏It👏As👏A👏Rhetorical👏Device👏 #botally #nanogenmo
“In the World of Film, We’ve Edited out All Rebellion” https://jacobinmag.com/2018/08/sorry-to-bother-you-boots-riley-interview
Teenager Finds Classical Alternative to Quantum Recommendation Algorithm | Quanta Magazine https://www.quantamagazine.org/teenager-finds-classical-alternative-to-quantum-recommendation-algorithm-20180731/
Welcome to SICP Distilled http://www.sicpdistilled.com/
mnot’s blog: How to Read an RFC https://www.mnot.net/blog/2018/07/31/read_rfc
My feed-to-muc #XMPP bot now filters some tracking from URLs: https://salsa.debian.org/mdosch-guest/feed-to-muc/commit/4577ec34c103b0a7c40b0606602aa2f7918a403d
Push Meme To The Edge; All My Faves Are Dead - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G51D51f_WPo
Band name of the day: condemned to hope forever
It seems like every time I reboot, Ubuntu manages to forget about another piece of hardware I have. First it was the USB controller, then the wifi (still not fixed), and now it’s my sound card.
@metamurks@www.metamurks.org I use to but I downgraded this account, since I had two MetaArpa acconts and I really only needed one.
@metamurks@www.metamurks.org Well, I’m thinking of moving my twtxt to anotheurl soon.
Ready Player One is the roadmap to digital dystopia - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/19/17250892/ready-player-one-book-facebook-internet-dystopia
@metamurks@www.metamurks.org Changes to my SDF account are the issue I’m sure.
testing to see if I’m back up.
Bad idea of the day: pay a million-account botnet to all change their display names to Elon Musk simultaneously
story idea: a fringe political party backed by organized crime controls a network of seemingly-independent roadside palmistry shops & new-age stores – organizing fortunes & stocking books in a plan to manipulate voters
Hot take: really strongly associating anime with japanese-ness is weird in the same way as immediately associating westerns with italian-ness, & marks casuals/outsiders to fandom. It’s a syncretic medium with a hotbed in japan.
Bad idea of the day: a twitter bot that responds to messages by paying mechanical turk five cents to produce a response – and in the absence of mentions, pays mechanical turk five cents to produce one tweet per day
For weeks I’ve been getting 400 trying to load any youtube page on one machine (on chrome), and starting last week another machine started having the same problem. Any idea what’s happening?
So you want to invent your own currency | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/so-you-want-to-invent-your-own-currency
I’m half-convinced that the new popular trolling tactic with the youths is to respond to screencaps of popular anime asking what show it is when they already know the answer.
Meet the Anarchists Making Their Own Medicine - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43pngb/how-to-make-your-own-medicine-four-thieves-vinegar-collective
Hot take: if we’re gonna have free-market boosters, we need more of the kind that will make sacrifices to ensure the conditions for the possibility of fair markets, & fewer of the kind who pretend all markets are fair.
Folks who don’t use medium – do they have misleading popups or something? I have an account so I never see any of this crap, but people have indicated to me that they think they need to pay for (non-paywalled) posts.
Somebody ought to make a word2vec model trained on https://rit-public.github.io/HappyDB/ available. If I get some time, maybe it’ll be me.
Hot take: even dysfunctional states are antifragile, so it requires a certain amount of planning and competence even to fuck shit up. Unaimed chaos tends to get deflected toward those already in deep shit.
In case anybody cares, I’ve fixed up my mirror of all my medium posts. (Useful if you are a cheapskate!) As always, I prefer people with a medium account to actually go there & clap so I get a dime. http://www.lord-enki.net/medium-backup/
Almost every coverage of NaNoGenMo is spun around commercial applications of prose-generating tech or the lack thereof, but nobody involved (AFAIK) sees it as a business venture. They just want to do quantitative experiments on literature.
I’d like to see less tech journalism that’s PR or PR-teardowns for companies, and more tech journalism that’s about strange technically-interesting things people do for fun that could never conceviably be productized.
Remember when this happened with latin & it turned out lorem ipsum was being compared to political blogs, like 10 years ago? https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5npeg/why-is-google-translate-spitting-out-sinister-religious-prophecies
Bad idea of the day: a reality tv show where Stephen King and Joe Hill move into a cramped apartment together while both trying to write new novels, confusingly titled King of the Hill
Evil Children And Overachieving Skeletons: Welcome To The World Of Paperback Horror : NPR https://www.npr.org/2018/07/07/626546622/evil-children-and-overachieving-skeletons-welcome-to-the-world-of-paperback-horr
Band name of the day: exodus to an uninhabitable earth
How to build an npm worm https://jamie.build/how-to-build-an-npm-worm
Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted To Know | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/
Is psychedelics research closer to theology than to science? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/is-psychedelics-research-closer-to-theology-than-to-science
“After Posadas’s death, Minazzoli began to focus exclusively on political readings of the great scientific Ufologists like Hynek and Vallee.” Yesss
Digital ads are starting to feel psychic | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/5380/targeted-ad-creepy-surveillance-facebook-instagram-google-listening-not-alone
The key to creating gorgeous, glitchy YouTube images: anticipation and deletion - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/15/17564588/datamosh-youtubeartifacts-glitch-art-kraftsow
The Twitch streamers who spend years broadcasting to no one - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/16/17569520/twitch-streamers-zero-viewers-motivation-community
It is probably an evil hack, but it is working: I created a #XMPP bot which monitors news feeds for updates and posts them to a MUC. https://salsa.debian.org/mdosch-guest/feed-to-muc
We shouldn’t let people get used to the idea that software fails - Rakhim.org https://rakhim.org/2018/07/software-shouldnt-fail
You have the right to a wheel. If you do not have a wheel, one will be provided for you. Please use METAL – not ORGANIC – limbs. We disclaim all liability if you use your own limbs during a sonic attack!
Come to think of it, gluing some unrelated poem to some unrelated tune was all over the place before the 20th century, wasn’t it? Ode to Joy, Jerusalem… Maybe we just stopped because of tin pan alley copyright expansion?
National anthems are weird. They’re usually an already-old poem glued to an unrelated foreign folk-tune, and then the poem is about, like, whatever. (Exceptions: Deuchland Uber Alles is actually about Germany)
Using Artificial Intelligence to Augment Human Intelligence https://distill.pub/2017/aia/
Pro tip: avoiding the signifiers of commonly-understood identity constellations both allows you to shape your identity beyond cliche & jams the signal used by advertisers to classify you.
I feel like I’m repeating myself when I say: knowing the ideological diversity of your enemy is TACTICALLY USEFUL because, when observed closely, any group large enough to be politically powerful is full of hidden fault lines and tense cease-fires
do not attempt to use your own limbs
@kas@enotty.dk I’d love to have a ‘real’ Linux in my phone. The closest was when I was using #SailfishOS.
Creating & Writing to Temp Files ⌘ Read more…
Thread by @Foone: “You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are? OK, so there’s a physical problem with our eyes: We move them in short […]” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1014267515696922624.html
I feel like I’m late to the party in saying this but Colin Dickey’s Ghostland is really good y’all
Are there good studies on the neurochemical basis of variation in succeptibility to numinous or spiritual experiences within normal (non-clinical non-drug-induced) ranges? (I.e., not temporal lobe epilepsy)
- Introduction to Human Behavioral Biology - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g6fA
Outsiders: How To Adapt H.P. Lovecraft In the 21st Century - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8u8wZ0WvxI
Hot take: even statements about physical objects, because they are about classes of objects the definitions of which have unclear borders, are almost always ambiguous as to their truth even when tested.
Hot take: almost all ACTUAL statements encountered in daily life are untestable except in an ad-hoc & ambiguous way, because their referents don’t map well to physical reality.
Hot take: the space of all possible understandable statements is composed almost exclusively of references to complex & abstract ideas with a tenuous relationship to any physical reality & unclear test conditions
Glossary of Commonly Used Terms in the Western Mystery Tradition - Introduction to the Western Mystery Tradition - Journal of the Western Mystery Tradition - Hermetic Library https://hermetic.com/jwmt/v1n0/glossary2
How to read | Robert Heaton https://robertheaton.com/2018/06/25/how-to-read/
Chris Espinosa, quoted in the final chapter of Fire in the Valley, says that when Jobs came back to Apple his screaming fits were ‘for show’. What’s worse: a manager with no emotional control or one that fakes it for emotional manipulation?
‘It’s more fun to be a pirate than join the navy’ is accurate, but Jobs failed to mention that any BUSINESS is a navy in this metaphor. A small navy is at a disadvantage. Naval officers who act like pirates are called war criminals.
Google sponsors Linux. The Linux Foundation claims that that’s because Google loves free software. Google also continues to publish new Closed Source software. I claim that that’s because the Linux Foundation is dumb.