Every Deluze quote is relevant to every situation, given sufficient effort on the part of the reader.
People make the obvious comparison to Blade Runner, but seeing as how Blade Runner is a famously shallow & aesthetically-focused adaptation that strips the social & political elements from its source, Altered Carbon comes out the winner here
The first book in the Altered Carbon series hews closer to standard hardboiled structure & is less ‘about’ resleeving but is very much about social inequality at scale.
I keep hearing the awful take that Altered Carbon is shallow aesthetic-centric cyberpunk devoid of social commentary. Did these people rush to skim the book when they heard about the TV show or something?
Recovery of an MMO Junkie - What Do You Want to Be? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT729ReUCjM
@robbinaer@robbinaer.info, ok I think it’s normal for such a nerdy microblogging tool to be rather quiet.
Converting a PDF to JPG (using ImageMagick) ⌘ Read more…
A reverse CAPTCHA designed to filter out humans / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/02/09/a-reverse-captcha-designed-to.html
Bad idea of the day: Raspberry Pi based seedboxes built into your shoes, connecting to every open network, and trying to break into every not-open one.
Your periodic reminder that I am running a no-budget film contest again this year. If you plan to make a no-budget film, submit it. If you want an excuse to make one, you have one now.
How To Become A Centaur https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/issue3-case
How to Survive a Harem Anime - Public Service Anime - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FmtiDbg4xY
I Spent Tw… https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/i-spent-two-years-trying-to-fix-the-gender-imbalance-in-my-stories/552404/
bell hooks talks to John Perry Barlow - Lion‘s Roar https://www.lionsroar.com/bell-hooks-talks-to-john-perry-barlow/
@mdom@domgoergen.com It certainly does. I find in my currenting pairing, it doesn’t work well and to be brutal I do 10x the work without them.
Bad idea of the day: set your voice assistant’s wake word to ‘OK computer’
Why We’re Drawn To Time Loop Stories Like ‘Groundhog Day’ - Digg http://digg.com/2018/time-loop-movies-shows-books-groundhog-day
Bad idea of the day: Adversarial social graphs. 99% similar to your actual graph, but friending one guy makes Facebook think you’re actually Al Gore.
[1801.01944] Audio Adversarial Examples: Targeted Attacks on Speech-to-Text https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.01944
@nblade@nblade.sdf.org I’d love to do pair programming again, but sure, it depends heavily on your partner
@nblade@nblade.sdf.org I’d love to do pair programming again, but sure, it depends heavily on your partner
I always stayed ten feet away from our pressure cooker, i was always too frightened to use it… :)
I always stayed ten feet away from our pressure cooker, i was always too frightened to use it… :)
What do you think about adding aliases to txtnish’ follow file? So mentions could be collapsed for different urls of the same twtxt file?
What do you think about adding aliases to txtnish’ follow file? So mentions could be collapsed for different urls of the same twtxt file?
whoever decided Paired Programming should be a thing, needs to be beat up!
Da Share Z0ne’s Admin Wants You to … https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mbpyyb/da-share-zone-the-devils-level-admin-dril-interview
Bad idea of the day: Stop distinguishing between wartime non-civillian killings and non-wartime civillian killings, and have all actions during war subject to regular police investigation and trial by jury.
📚 Finished reading The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck: How to Stop Spending Time You Don’t Have with People You Don’t Like Doing Things You Don’t Want to Do (A No F*cks Given Guide) by Sarah Knight
📚 Finished reading The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck: How to Stop Spending Time You Don’t Have with People You Don’t Like Doing Things You Don’t Want to Do (A No F*cks Given Guide) by Sarah Knight
Band name of the day: how to do things with notes
How to Do Things With Memes — Real Life http://reallifemag.com/how-to-do-things-with-memes/
If you want to snarf up the Project Stargate documents, now is the time: https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/collection/crest-25-year-program-archive
Wrote a tiny script to renumber files after ordering them in an editor https://github.com/mdom/scripts/blob/master/bin/numprefix
Wrote a tiny script to renumber files after ordering them in an editor https://github.com/mdom/scripts/blob/master/bin/numprefix
Convert uint64 to a String ⌘ Read more…
Document Your Art: How to Archive – ~ajroach42.com – I’m Andrew. I write about the… http://ajroach42.com/document-your-art-how-to-archive/
A list of 4510 different titles given to the exact same generic 9:59 self-affirmation pep-talk on Spotify http://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=log&id=458
How to Build a City That Doesn’t Flood? Turn it Into a Sponge | JSTOR Daily https://daily.jstor.org/build-a-city-that-doesnt-flood/
John McAfee Appears to Move … https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9knnpz/john-mcafee-twitter-coin-of-the-day-cryptocurrency-markets
Playing low frequency noise to disrupt hard-drives: denial of service for CCTVs, data-ce… https://boingboing.net/2018/01/15/bad-vibes.html
One model to learn them all | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/01/12/one-model-to-learn-them-all/
The Man Who Would… https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/11/the-man-who-would-teach-machines-to-think/309529/?single_page=true
Bad idea of the day: require a payment of a dollar (held in escrow by the copyright office) to send a DMCA takedown notice. The dollar goes to whoever is determined to be the legitimate owner, in case of a dispute. If there is no dispute, it goes into the federal education budget.
Bad idea of the day: An ebook reader program in two columns, where the second column is specifically for recording personal marginal notes & is the same size as the book’s text itself – notes pinned to the paragraph, line, or sentence. Call it ‘MARGINAL’.
If I resurrected my newsletter, would anybody subscribe? I’m thinking of modifying the format to have it contain the content I usually post on Medium, and then paywall the Medium essays for a month. (So, subscribers would be getting the free essays early.)
How to Think Like a Medieval Monk | Lapham’s Quarterly https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/how-think-medieval-monk
We need tools that will encourage us to do what Jefferson did to his bible with razors and glue. These tools will be discouraged and limited for the same reason that these practices were discouraged on the bible.
📚 Finished reading The Underachiever’s Manifesto: The Guide to Accomplishing Little and Feeling Great by Ray Bennett
GitHub - mewo2/ketchum: Use word vectors to interactively generate lists of similar words https://github.com/mewo2/ketchum
From Machen to VanderMeer: The Weird Landscape as th… http://weirdfictionreview.com/2018/01/machen-vandermeer-weird-landscape-avatar-evil/
📚 Finished reading 10% Human: How Your Body’s Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness by Alanna Collen
The Bizarre Motivating Power of Aging Into … https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/01/the-end-is-near-time-to-run-faster/549014/
📚 Finished reading 10% Human: How Your Body’s Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness by Alanna Collen
we need more books designed to be packaged as decks of playing cards. the family arcana is great but not enough.
#nanogenmo idea: a database of loosely-related epigrams or paragraphs, tagged by topic; going to a topic displays the associated epigrams in arbitrary order. the tags are generated from analysis of the text.
I wonder how long it’ll take for people to realize that they should be publishing all their paywalled medium posts on the first of the month…
Improving Ourselves to Death | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/15/improving-ourselves-to-death
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net You wouldn’t even need to add the recipient in the tweet, clients could just try to decrypt anything.
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net You wouldn’t even need to add the recipient in the tweet, clients could just try to decrypt anything.
Permanent Redirect: digital art tha… https://kottke.org/18/01/permanent-redirect-digital-art-that-moves-to-a-new-url-when-someone-views-it
Ask Dr. Time: Orality and Literacy from Homer to Twitter https://kottke.org/18/01/ask-dr-time-orality-and-literacy
Nothing is temporary unless you put in the effort to destroy it. Nothing gets maintained unless you fix it.
Describing Words - Find Adjectives to Describe Things http://describingwords.io/for/adjective
Is the Mill Architecture (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill_architecture) immune to the new out-of-order-execution attacks, theoretically?
Who is Marx now and what can he say to the 21st century? |… https://aeon.co/essays/who-is-marx-now-and-what-can-he-say-to-the-21st-century
How to Read Mathematics http://www.people.vcu.edu/~dcranston/490/handouts/math-read.html
Welcome to twtxt @pkill9@pkill9.freeshell.org!
Welcome to twtxt @pkill9@pkill9.freeshell.org!
I’ve been really quite the last months … we went on 6 weeks parental leave to south africa and just returned.
I’ve been really quite the last months … we went on 6 weeks parental leave to south africa and just returned.
Web app developers: OF COURSE I DIG THESE TRAIN TUNNELS WITH A JEWEL-ENCRUSTED GOLD DECORATIVE COCKTAIL FORK. EVERYBODY DOES. WHAT DO YOU EXPECT ME TO USE, A TOOTHPICK?
SOME PEOPLE HAVE POINTED OUT THAT WRITING APPS IN POSTSCRIPT IS SANE-ISH. THIS IS TRUE. IT’S HARD TO COME UP WITH COMPARABLE SITUATIONS THAT ARE MORE ABSURD, BECAUSE WE COLLECTIVELY DID THE ABSOLUTE WORST THING AND THEN CONVINCED OURSELVES IT WAS OK.
Describing Words - Find Adjectives to Describe Things http://describingwords.io/
If you cannot use it to trivially put a pixel at an X,Y coordinate, YOU SHOULD NOT WRITE A COMPLEX UI IN IT, EXCEPT AS A JOKE.
HTML is a mistake. Generating HTML is a bigger mistake. Generating HTML at runtime as a display layer for interactive applications is the basis for modern UIs & I want to cry
It’s time for cyberpunk games to remember how to be punk … http://www.pcgamer.com/its-time-for-cyberpunk-games-to-remember-how-to-be-punk/
How I learned to program https://danluu.com/learning-to-program/
As the year draws to a close it becomes ever more clear: nothing has prepared us for the Strange Times.
Today is boxing day. Celebrate by casting to Object.
Bad idea of the day: mirror all google fonts on ipfs and then use an extension that rewrites the urls to use that version. Alternately: use an extension that downloads them via tor.
I wonder how much more effective trying to use scott/tiger as ackles for arbitrary oracle systems is than arbitrary (say) postgres systems
Dare to be Stupid: that time Weird Al tried to make fun of Devo and instead just became Devo
UFO IPO-182 – Take me to your dealer: the Pentagon UFO story, crowdfund… https://boingboing.net/2017/12/18/ufo-ipo-182-take-me-to-you.html
You know a situation is bad when the only way to prevent local monopolies on a popular service is to convince the town to run its own competitor and run cable.
André Staltz - A plan to rescue the Web from the Internet https://staltz.com/a-plan-to-rescue-the-web-from-the-internet.html
This Game Teaches You How to Build a Quantum Compu… https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3jkya/quantum-game-physics-computer-puzzle
This Code Is Remix… https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbzvad/this-code-is-remixing-translations-of-the-bible-to-find-new-meanings
Cold War propaganda: the truth belonged to no one country… https://aeon.co/essays/cold-war-propaganda-the-truth-belonged-to-no-one-country
Bad idea of the day: voting, except with a 30 year delay, to force people to actually think ahead.
Heuristic for cleaning up medium: start by unsubscribing from anybody who lists their occupation in their bio. Then, move on to anybody who posts under a name that looks real.
Amazon (Germany) sells smart Christmas trees. Smart. Christmas. Trees. http://amzn.to/2BTzfVf
@micaelwidell AliExpress has several offerings, some below $20. I found this video to be quite interesting https://t.co/mqOxGXkqua
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/
The Declaration of Independence Is Hard to Read http://nautil.us/issue/54/the-unspoken/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-english-sentence
How To Design A Comic Book Page - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dQEfL2BfUM&t=335s
Mark Blyth: Why Do People Continue To Believe Stupid Economic Ideas? - Full Talk (April 2017) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq3s-Ifx1Fo