Protip: change your display name and avatar periodically, so that people will forget who you are and you, in turn, gain the ability to develop without the pressure of their models of you.
Re: trendism - basing visibility on popularity is a uniquely awful version of ‘tyrrany of the majority’ because uncommon views become invisible, even if, were they to start on an even playing field, they would become popular.
TFW people you’ve never interacted with already have you blocked on birdsite because you sent positive affirmations to Tay years ago & the shared blocklist curator wasn’t discerning.
Who the fuck decided to call it ‘walk and talk’ instead of ‘circumlocution circumnavigation’
Who the fuck decided to call it ‘walk and talk’ instead of ‘circumlocution circumlocation’
Bad idea of the day: use those ear-mounted accelerometers that normally wake people who are dozing off at the wheel to instead redden the display, replace desktop background with surreal and dreamlike images, fade in quiet calming ambient music, raise the thermostat
Bad idea of the day: use eye tracking to save power by blanking the parts of the display not within the light cone of the fovea
Bad idea of the day: a gesture based interface that uses DSP on the audio produced by a theramin to identify gestures, while playing that audio for learning feedback
Thread by @GalaxyKate: “Was thinking about this again, and it’s important to recognize: WE CONFLATE THING BEING DIFFICULT FOR HUMANS WITH THINGS BEING DIFFICULT FOR […]” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/982999780929388544.html
I’ve been shitposting about writing composable GUI systems with proper hypertext & network transparency in postscript but actually that existed at Sun & seems to have been pretty cool: https://medium.com/@donhopkins/hyperlook-nee-hypernews-nee-goodnews-99f411e58ce4
📚 Finished reading Rationality: From AI to Zombies by Eliezer Yudkowsky
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📚 Finished reading Rationality: From AI to Zombies by Eliezer Yudkowsky
Reminder that I have 2 essays on escaping path-dependence: https://medium.com/@/the-manufacture-of-steam-engine-time-9f83cd24a9b0 & https://medium.com/@/the-wtf-awards-sketching-a-map-to-an-escape-from-steam-engine-time-1bc4bd29c2e4
pro tip: when you tie a part of reality to a social construct (like tying life to money, or violence to law, or technical decisions to industry hype) you risk huge ramifications unless the ‘real’ portion is the primary driver. social constructs are too floaty.
Bad idea of the day: A browser extension that links everything in your browser cache with a fake file whose name is a hash of that item, serves those fake files over bittorrent, and, for all URLs whose expiration date is in the future, keeps a distributed table of URL to hash & attempts to fetch from bittorrent before from http
From pointing to nodding: is gesture a universal language? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/from-pointing-to-nodding-is-gesture-a-universal-language
Footnotes to Plato | Spinoza’s philosophy of freedom â Steven Nadler https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/spinoza-philosophy-freedom/
‘Ethics are beyond my purview’ is a fancy way of saying ‘it is unsafe to allow me to make decisions’
QOTD: “Let’s get back to hating the conspiracy instead of ourselves.”
LSD research: Michael Pollanâs How to Change Your Mind, reviewed. https://slate.com/culture/2018/05/lsd-research-michael-pollans-how-to-change-your-mind-reviewed.html
A New Way to look at Networking - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z685OF-PS8
What Everyone Needs to Know about Russia Under Putin - FPRI’s 2018 Champagne Brunch for Partners - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnWp_kr4tfc
Bad idea of the day: philosophy speed-dating: get a prime number of doctoral candidates, split into two lines, and have them give hot takes to each other for 5 minutes on a stated topic before moving on.
Attention PGP Users: New Vulnerabilities Require You To Take Action Now https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/attention-pgp-users-new-vulnerabilities-require-you-take-action-now
RMS explaining hacker culture to SJWs: https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-05/msg00488.html
The Author Who Tried to END The World (Watchmen / Alan Moore) â Wisecrack Edition - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=163Cb1bAW7U
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/
Jordan Peterson is like a pack of tarot cards: stare at him hard enough for long enough and eventually you’ll see a message that is both true and profound. But, as with tarot cards, if you attribute that message to any intent on Peterson’s part, it brands you as foolish.
Medium really REALLY wants me to re-read that tedium piece about CD longboxes, this past month
Bad idea of the day: run podcast transcripts through char-rnn and then through the duplex speech synthesizer to generate hours of nonsense indistinguishable from NPR
I’m not gonna lie; I would listen to all of @derkirche’s NN-generated podcasts: https://pastebin.com/raw/NzdfAbvP
Bad idea of the day: a browser extension that gives you long-now-dates by prefixing a zero to all four digit numbers
I have a newsletter I never use, & a script for crossposting links that also makes a link archive. I’m tempted to figure out how to automate taking the links I post for a particular timeframe, sticking them in the newsletter, and sending them off.
What It’s Like to Be a Bot â Real Life http://reallifemag.com/what-its-like-to-be-a-bot/
Band name of the day: half-way to anywhere
tfw middle-aged billionaires try to buy their way into weird sun twitter & accidentally get cybergoth GFs instead
Wanted to do so much on todays public holiday but actually I only did some house cleaning and was staying on the balcony enjoying the sun while doing internet stuff most of the time…
Bad idea of the day: an extension that disables all CSS on all pages, and then allows you to approve rules one by one, or edit them in place
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I switched from this option to giving my remote user root privileges only for the backup operation with sudo. Then you can just copy the files without thinking about the option to restore right ownership.
You try to put up a picture of Grimes and Elon Musk, but everything on your mood board becomes the same picture of Nicholas Cage as soon as you blink. Today is no different.
Apparently, the term ‘intellectual darknet’ is trending on twitter. Is this a reference to LW, or to incel communities? Or, are people finally reading Neoreaction: A Basilisk?
Using Vim’s Conceal Feature to Make Code More Readable (For You) – Every Man a Debtor https://alok.github.io/2018/04/26/using-vim-s-conceal-to-make-languages-more-tolerable/
âI had to guard an empty roomâ: the rise of the pointless job | Money | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/may/04/i-had-to-guard-an-empty-room-the-rise-of-the-pointless-job
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/
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all my favorite movies are beautiful clusterfucks because a dysfunctional game of telephone with people who don’t share a common language is the most reliable way to generate creativity
Three years of the Right To Be Forgotten | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/03/22/three-years-of-the-right-to-be-forgotten/
How to send local files to Chromecast with Python - Will do stuff for stuff https://rinzewind.org/blog-en/2018/how-to-send-local-files-to-chromecast-with-python.html
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/
Bad idea of the day: a letter-writing campaign to members of CS program accreditation boards (at their home addresses) requesting algorithmic bias & data ownership be a part of mandatory ethics classes in the curriculum.
These People Are Selling the CIA’s Internal Board Game to the Public - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbxkd8/cia-board-game-techdirt-kickstarter
GitHub - motherboardgithub/mass_archive: A basic tool for pushing a web page to multiple archiving services at once. https://github.com/motherboardgithub/mass_archive
In Vernor Vinge’s 2006 novel Rainbows End, there’s a group called FOP (Friends Of Privacy) who are a radical misinformation-chaffing charity. Basically, they spread large amounts of fake, believable, and boring dox about people, so that automated analysis of OSINT has to work harder.
I would like to wish all of you a very happy international socialist solidarity day
Art Bell and âCoast to Coast AMâ represented a time when conspiracy theories were innocent | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/4343/art-bell-coast-to-coast-am-obitiuary
Semantic Domain: Are functional programs easier to verify than imperative programs? http://semantic-domain.blogspot.com/2018/04/are-functional-programs-easier-to.html
What happened to distributed programming languages? by Heather Miller - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAcDWcaezXY
@kas@enotty.dk, I didn’t think you are affiliated with it. Just wondered as I didn’t see what was special about it but I had to use a search engine to find out that the OS is Android. :D
@kas@enotty.dk Seems to be just another android phone.
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/
Color: From Hexcodes to Eyeballs http://jamie-wong.com/post/color/
Learning to see: Gloomy Sunday on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/260612034
The Quest to Teach AI to Write Pop Songs https://gizmodo.com/the-quest-to-teach-ai-to-write-pop-songs-1824157220
A description of how Aquarius Prolog gets performance comparable to imperative languages: https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1990/CSD-90-600.pdf
Increased the limit in my twtxt botconfig to 280. @mdom@domgoergen.com, is there actually a limit for #txtnish? Didn’t see a config for this.
Omg, edited my last tweet 5x due to 140 chars. @all what limit have you set?
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net According to @Leo it is a #mastodon not a #matrix bridge. Oneway bridges just dumping here with no backchannel are pointless.
Gerry Sussman - We Really Don’t Know How to Compute! - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3tVctB_VSU
Don’t submit yourself to a game machine! | Countercomplex http://viznut.fi/texts-en/dont_submit_yourself_to_game_machine.html
countercomplex: Bringing magic back to technology http://viznut.fi/texts-en/magic_back_to_technology.html
In The Mesh - Scuttlebutt, A Decentralized Alternative To Facebook https://www.inthemesh.com/archive/secure-scuttlebutt-facebook-alternative/
Bad idea of the day: a program that computes the degree to which the response to a query meets gricean maxims and, if beyond a threshhold, produces potential implicatures, on a synthetic logic-based language and an ontology
Band name of the day: a lawsuit waiting to happen
How city birds evolved to be smarter than rural birds | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-city-birds-evolved-to-be-smarter-than-rural-birds
@mdom@domgoergen.com is there a way to prevent txtnish from inserting linebreaks within the tweet?
Hot take: If you believe technological determinism cannot be effectively resisted, then how much the projected trajectory benefits you personally determines where you fall on the scale from Kevin Kelley to the Unabomber
@leo, @reednj_tw@twtxt.reednj.com: I had to remove your accounts to stop twtxt from crashing. Don’t know why. :-/
Loper OS » Why Hypercard Had to Die http://www.loper-os.org/?p=568
Mathematicians Explore Mirror Link Between Two Geometric Worlds | Quanta Magazine https://www.quantamagazine.org/decades-old-graph-problem-yields-to-amateur-mathematician-20180417/
@roka@server.gkbrk.com, @ocean@server.gkbrk.com, @ivesen@server.gkbrk.com, @nekoinemo@server.gkbrk.com, welcome to twtxt. 😃
@karen@server.gkbrk.com Welcome to twtxt. 😃 I recommend twtxt.xyz and #we-are-twtxt for followers.
But in the long term I want to get it automatically reconnect.
Just added a workaround to it to crash if connection is lost and let systemd restart it.
OLPCâs $100 laptop was going to change the world â then it all went wrong - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17233946/olpcs-100-laptop-education-where-is-it-now
If you need something to watch, start with these: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16857613
Not news to anybody paying attention, but I still feel like it’s worth a visibility boost: https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/04/text-embedding-models-contain-bias.html
How to change the course of human history | Eurozine https://www.eurozine.com/change-course-human-history/
Band name of the day: the dark courage to sin
Listen to the Sick Beats of Rhubarb Growing in the Dark - Gastro Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/forced-rhubarb-makes-sound
Band name of the day: suddenly hyperconnected to the real
How to Make Everything Ourselves: Open Modular Hardware - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2012/12/how-to-make-everything-ourselves-open-modular-hardware.html
Your Pretty Face is Going to Sell : Open Space https://openspace.sfmoma.org/2018/04/your-pretty-face-is-going-to-sell/
Ubik: apply directly to the forehead
Headlines making you anxious? Delay reading them | Oliver Burkeman | Life and style | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/apr/06/how-to-handle-headline-anxiety-take-time-reading-news-oliver-burkeman
How to Build a Low-tech Internet - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/10/how-to-build-a-low-tech-internet.html
Samin Nosrat’s ‘Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat’ and the Best Books for Learning How to Cook - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/04/the-why-of-cooking-samin-nosrat/523923/
just updated twtxt from 1.2.1 to 1.2.3 - looks like there were some config file changes