Dialectics & the Mechanics of History: A Repair Manual to Fix Our Future https://www.johnlaurits.com/2017/dialectics-history-marx-repair-manual/

I Unknowingly Went to a Trump Protest Organized by Russian Agents - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywb9kx/nyc-trump-election-protest-hack-russian-agents-trolls-government

To Save Net Neutrality, We Must Build Our Own Internet - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/7x4y8a/net-neutrality-fcc-community-networks

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

Let’s open our sealed-off lives to semi-permeable architecture | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/lets-open-our-sealed-off-lives-to-semi-permeable-architecture

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/

@leveck@leveck.us I really want to use mastodon, but I just can’t seem to come up with a use case for me. Guess I don’t really do much Social Media type stuff

The Ancient Roman Cult That Continues to Vex Scholars - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mithraic-mysteries

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/

Tripping Balls and Learning to Work with The Patron Saint of Criminals - disinformation http://disinfo.com/2017/11/tripping-balls-learning-work-patron-saint-criminals/

Meet The People Who Listen to Podcasts Crazy-Fast https://www.buzzfeed.com/doree/meet-the-people-who-listen-to-podcasts-at-super-fast-speeds

Is it still working after transfer to different machine?

You Can Now Mine Cryptocurrency to Bail People Out of Jail - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vb3j93/you-can-now-mine-cryptocurrency-to-bail-people-out-of-jail-bail-bloc

This Algorithm Can Tell What You‘ve Learned Before Going to Sleep - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywbka5/algorithm-sleep-eeg-learning-memories

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I’d really like to know how you managed to use twtxt via XMPP. 🙂

@robbinaer@robbinaer.info Is it that bad? I’ll just wait till it hits debian experimental or unstable to test it on my laptop running debian testing.

Just installed twtxt as I already wanted to try it when reading about it there: https://robbinaer.info/index.php?article93/twtxt

How socialism helped to seed the landscape of modern religion | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/how-socialism-helped-to-seed-the-landscape-of-modern-religion

» A Net Before the Web, Part 2: Service to Community The Digital Antiquarian http://www.filfre.net/2017/11/a-net-before-the-web-part-2-service-to-community/

Human Mini-Brains Growing Inside Rat Bodies Are Starting To Integrate - Slashdot https://science.slashdot.org/story/17/11/09/2314220/human-mini-brains-growing-inside-rat-bodies-are-starting-to-integrate

Hidden Tracks: Nowhere Left To Hide https://tedium.co/2017/11/09/hidden-tracks-album-history/

Cory Doctorow: How to Do Everything (Lifehacking Considered Harmful) – Locus Online http://locusmag.com/2017/11/cory-doctorow-how-to-do-everything-lifehacking-considered-harmful/

How to sell a country: the booming business of nation branding | News | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/07/nation-branding-industry-how-to-sell-a-country

webGL shader was supposed to fade from one image to another, over a number of frames. It did this instead. : glitch_art https://www.reddit.com/r/glitch_art/comments/78zn6l/webgl_shader_was_supposed_to_fade_from_one_image/

webGL shader was supposed to fade from one image to another, over a number of frames. It did this instead. : glitch_art https://www.reddit.com/r/glitch_art/comments/78zn6l/webgl_shader_was_supposed_to_fade_from_one_image/

Somebody wrote an email bot to waste scammers‘ time / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2017/11/08/somebody-wrote-an-email-bot-to.html

Many Academics Are Eager to Publish in Worthless Journals - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/science/predatory-journals-academics.html

What does small business really contribute to economic growth? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/what-does-small-business-really-contribute-to-economic-growth

The long goodbye to C | Armed and Dangerous http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7711

A Beginner‘s Guide to Robert Anton Wilson: Part I - disinformation http://disinfo.com/2017/11/beginners-guide-robert-anton-wilson-part/

A Psychic Healer Tried to Hypnotize Soviets to Distract From the Fall of Communism - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/faith-healer-hypnotize-soviet-union

Concept-Shaped Holes Can Be Impossible To Notice | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/07/concept-shaped-holes-can-be-impossible-to-notice/

When Artists Turn to Craigslist, the Results Are Intimate, Disquieting, and Surprisingly Profound https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-artists-turn-craigslist-intimate-disquieting-surprisingly-profound

Watching Hackers in 2017 – what happened to all the anarchy? | Dazed http://www.dazeddigital.com/science-tech/article/37873/1/watching-hackers-in-2017-where-did-the-anarchy-go

Comcast has a lot to lose if municipal broadband takes off | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/11/comcast-has-a-lot-to-lose-if-municipal-broadband-takes-off/

Why Is the U.S. So Susceptible to Social-Media Distortion? | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/why-is-the-us-so-susceptible-to-social-media-distortion

Web Typography: Designing Tables to be Read, Not Looked At · An A List Apart Article https://alistapart.com/article/web-typography-tables

MIT used data from Reddit to train an AI algorithm to tell horror stories — Quartz https://qz.com/1115179/mit-used-data-from-reddit-to-train-an-ai-to-tell-horror-stories/

The Scary Sound Machine That Is ‘Trying To Set People A Little Bit Off-Kilter’ : NPR http://www.npr.org/2017/10/29/560181981/the-scary-sound-machine-that-is-trying-to-set-people-a-little-bit-off-kilter

Welcome To The Secret World of Internet Bots | Bitch Media https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/the-ethics-of-internet-bots

@kas@enotty.dk DST ends here in the US on Sunday. I’m lucky enough to live an area of the US were we don’t do that sort of thing. Although it makes dealing with people that do a little tough.

Napkin History: The Evolution From Cloth to Paper https://tedium.co/2017/08/08/napkin-history/

Zozo Demon Legend & Link to Ouija Board and Led Zeppelin - Thrillist https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/zozo-demon-history-ouija-board

How walking a labyrinth can trace a route to self-knowledge | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-walking-a-labyrinth-can-trace-a-route-to-self-knowledge

Sail to Whangarei, New Zealand | https://wiki.xxiivv.com/new_zealand

Some dead bodies donated to research in US end up in warehouses of horrors | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/10/how-much-for-your-head-unregulated-us-brokers-make-killing-on-donated-bodies/

Welcome to AirSpace | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2016/8/3/12325104/airbnb-aesthetic-global-minimalism-startup-gentrification

Tech’s push to teach coding isn’t about kids’ success – it’s about cutting wages | Technology | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/21/coding-education-teaching-silicon-valley-wages

Tribute to Jose Delgado, Legendary and Slightly Scary Pioneer of Mind Control - Scientific American Blog Network https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/tribute-to-jose-delgado-legendary-and-slightly-scary-pioneer-of-mind-control/

Ads don’t work so websites are using your electricity to pay the bills | Technology | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/27/pirate-bay-showtime-ads-websites-electricity-pay-bills-cryptocurrency-bitcoin

Why we need to get better at critiquing psychiatric diagnosis – Mind Hacks https://mindhacks.com/2017/09/19/why-we-need-to-get-better-at-critiquing-diagnosis/

Why is anyone listening to Tim O’Reilly? | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/2413/why-is-anyone-listening-to-tim-o-reilly

Flattr now lets you pay content creators without having to actually do anything https://thenextweb.com/tech/2017/10/24/flattr-now-lets-pay-content-creators-without-actually-anything/

How the judge on Oracle v. Google taught himself to code - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/19/16503076/oracle-vs-google-judge-william-alsup-interview-waymo-uber

Yakuza Revolution: From Bruisers to Boy Scouts? https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-yakuza-is-rebranding-as-a-humanitarian-organization

The 1922 Poem That Linked the Russian Revolution to Cryonics - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/russian-revolution-cryonics-poem

Humans Prefer Computer-Generated Paintings to Those at Art Basel https://hyperallergic.com/391059/humans-prefer-computer-generated-paintings-to-those-at-art-basel/

The Pitch https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/how-halt-and-catch-fire-used-punk-music-to-empower-its-female-characters/

The scientists persuading terrorists to spill their secrets | News | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/oct/13/the-scientists-persuading-terrorists-to-spill-their-secrets?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email

I did not think I would ever read ‘… is extremely fast. Its performance is similar to that of Java…’

GitHub - saitogroup/Website_Phrase_Prompter: This script allows a user to scrape a website and then uses that website‘s language in order to influence an author’s text. https://github.com/saitogroup/Website_Phrase_Prompter

What it Means to Be an ‘Experimental Computer Poet’ - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8x8ppp/poetry-twitter-bots-best-twitter-bots-art-allison-parrish-everyword

@tfurrow Yes, I am. I’ll have to check that out

Books from 1923 to 1941 Now Liberated! | Internet Archive Blogs http://blog.archive.org/2017/10/10/books-from-1923-to-1941-now-liberated/

How to Fake a Bank http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a12785965/chasing-phil-excerpt/

So since Mastodon was mentioned a few times, I’m trying that out. Any recommendations on people to follow?

@dave@davebucklin.com not sure why but I didn’t know that SDF had a Mastodon server. I’ll have to create an account

Hi @c0by@c0by.de and @robbinaer@robbinaer.info, welcome to twtxt!

Hi @c0by@c0by.de and @robbinaer@robbinaer.info, welcome to twtxt!

My coworker Brian Douglas invited GitLab’s Jacob Schatz and me to discuss GitLab’s use of Vue.js on the latest episode of his podcast, JAMStack Radio - https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/jamstack-radio/ep-21-why-gitlab-chose-vue-js/

Well after 4 hours of work, I finally think I solved all my client side calculation issues. I have no desire to screw with it again

Work Project Note : Trying to redo server side logic on the client side sucks.

"Key to the City: Writing Code to Induce Social Change" by Jurnell Cockhren - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Z0LGeQCWU

I am not opposed to someone having a negative comment now and then but when 90% of what they say is negative. That is a person I do not need in my life.

Mass Shootings Are A Bad Way To Understand Gun Violence | FiveThirtyEight https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/mass-shootings-are-a-bad-way-to-understand-gun-violence/

@leveck@leveck.us Why not just use a menu and link your posts, friends and comments? I like the idea to use fts for comments!

@leveck@leveck.us Why not just use a menu and link your posts, friends and comments? I like the idea to use fts for comments!

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@tfurrows@grex.org That’s cool, I know only a little electronics. Enough to know not to melt plastic and make the purple smoke appear.

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I have to say that looks interesting.

Re: support for other protocols, it seems like twtxt would be pretty easily adapted to work over the p2p file network DAT, though it’d need client support for DAT or some way to follow people via files and sync in the background, which might be simpler for clients to support but would still require changes to most clients.

@tfurrows@grex.org It is neat. Although it did require to recode a little bit of my kitbashed client LOL

Had my boss ask me if the guy I was working with was keeping me in the loop on the project. I had to tell him no

Had to update my client to use CURL so I could get @mekon@sdf.org twtxt file via gopher

The Sci-Fi Roots of the Far Right—From ‘Lucifer’s Hammer’ to Newt’s Moon Base to Donald’s Wall http://www.thedailybeast.com/from-lucifers-hammer-to-newts-moon-base-to-donalds-wallthe-sci-fi-roots-of-the-far-right

📚 Finished reading Basic Economics: A Citizen’s Guide to the Economy by Thomas Sowell

📚 Finished reading Basic Economics: A Citizen’s Guide to the Economy by Thomas Sowell

@tfurrows@grex.org just saw your one reply. Yes the client does have a way to sync with the we_are_twtxt list. So far the biggest issue with the PHP CLI client is that it takes a long time to poll all the sites

The most wholesome internet trolls ever are reclaiming racist subreddits one by one https://mic.com/articles/184347/the-most-wholesome-internet-trolls-ever-are-changing-racist-subreddits-to-discussions-about-racing#.N8Mt38l4y

Another Day of trying to fix other people’s problems with code

After spending 10 hours on a JS issue, found out I needed to have the library we are using to always update things even if it thinks no changes have done

@benaiah@benaiah.me sounds a lot like why many years ago, I went with Drupal for a simple Blogging site vs Wordpress. WP was easier but Drupal allowed me as an admin to not have any filters. Which allowed me to put raw HTML in the posts to control certian that I was doing at the time

@nblade@nblade.sdf.org I could probably put something together, but I went this route originally because existing generators felt like they took too much control from me over the exact output. I want very small, static pages I can throw behind nginx, and I want to know exactly what the contents are. My current mess of spaghetti Racket is getting hairy since I’m halfway through an unfinished rewrite I started a while ago and forgot about, but at least I know exactly what it’s doing.

I’m trying to decide whether soldiering on with the messy codebase of my homegrown site generator is worth it or if I should redo my site in a more established tool.

@leveck@leveck.us welcome to twtxt!

@nblade@nblade.sdf.org I take a look, it should work with every posix compliant awk, so at least oawk, nawk and gawk should run. What’s the error message? Feel free to add an issue.

@nblade@nblade.sdf.org I take a look, it should work with every posix compliant awk, so at least oawk, nawk and gawk should run. What’s the error message? Feel free to add an issue.

@pete@petedeas.co.uk that’s a clever solution; I’ll have to set up something like that.

@mdom@domgoergen.comI’m not sure I know how to reply properly with it. I handeded edit this to be right.

@nblade@nblade.sdf.org Hi, welcome to the party!