Stick To The Script!!! [SORRY TO BOTHER YOU film analysis] - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGnQLgpaupU

It’s a cliche to say that technical advances are making the world change faster, but the more the products of time binding become available & silos collapsed the more obviously slow everything is.

Welcome to ‘Zombieland’: A former US Army base rots in the hands of overwhelmed Afghans - Stripes https://www.stripes.com/welcome-to-zombieland-a-former-us-army-base-rots-in-the-hands-of-overwhelmed-afghans-1.570893

Why It’s Important to Consider Whether Dune Is a White Savior Narrative | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2019/03/06/why-its-important-to-consider-whether-dune-is-a-white-savior-narrative/

This Is What It’s Like To Wake Up During Surgery - Digg http://digg.com/2019/waking-up-from-anesthsia

How to Take a Nap When You Suck at Taking Naps - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/how-to-take-a-nap-when-you-suck-at-taking-naps

It’s time to celebrate the humanity of the communal snooze | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/its-time-to-celebrate-the-humanity-of-the-communal-snooze

A Beginner’s Guide to Music Theory - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2z02J4fJwg

a version of vegetarianism where it’s ethical to eat animals that you’ve uploaded

@kas@enotty.dk I wanted to like Kakoune but I liked having my option key not be an alt key more. Shame, really.

People love to talk about the potential security impact of exotic state-of-the-art shit like GPT-2 and deepfakes, but they’re neither convincing nor the lowest-effort effective way to create disinfo. Spinners scale better than GPT-2.

That previous post took the total font load for Safari users from 23 MB to a mere 9 MB. Progress!

I was too lazy to look up how to write a for-loop in bash so I just ran “find . -name *.ttf -exec woff2_compress {} \;”

Collins’ Crypt: Bad Movies Used To Be So Much Better | Birth.Movies.Death. https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2019/03/06/collins-crypt-bad-movies-used-to-be-so-much-better

Antitrust Enforcement Needs to Evolve for the 21st Century | Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/02/antitrust-enforcement-needs-evolve-21st-century

Sail to Shizuoka, Japan | https://wiki.xxiivv.com/shizuoka

Douglas Engelbart’s Symposium - Bootstrapping the future: Doug’s call to action - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZfQiskDj_w

Esquire’s March Cover Is a Monument to Whiteness and Toxic Masculinity - Pacific Standard https://psmag.com/ideas/why-esquires-march-cover-is-sort-of-dangerous

So glad to see some fresh, new, good-looking folk-horror with Midsommar. Judging by previous work on Hereditary, it should be fantastic.

A community can be classified by whether the primary goal of community members is to increase the total value of the community to its members or increase their value with respect to their peers.

The People’s Republic of Walmart: how late-stage capitalism gives way to early-stage fully automated luxury communism / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/03/05/walmart-without-capitalism.html

Why intuition leaves us vulnerable to conspiracy theories - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/4/18250292/facebook-moderation-conspiracy-theory-mike-wood-psychology-interview

Update: if you buy the paperback version of my book, now you’ll be able to get the ebook for free. (Dunno why anybody would want that.) Also, the ebook now has wikipedia links for various terms via X-Ray, in case you didn’t know who Thad Starner was or something.

Setup Syncthing to mirror buku bookmark database

Usually when a starship passes settled space, it doesn’t have to worry about space pirates so much as impulse parasites, ships that rendezvous and latch onto the starship so they don’t have to carry braking fuel

“Don’t Get In The Damn Robot Mob!” (Evangelion, Mob Psycho 100, & learning to run away) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZsD-j8JFR8

Live on April 19th: the professor you’re glad you don’t have and the professor you wish you had debate about something basically tangential to either’s appeal or focus, and one of them will be entertaining.

April 19th: Shitty Campbell vs Cocaine Lacan. (It’s obvious who will win, but it’s equally obvious that the loser will just claim to have won & his fans will believe him, just like they did every other time.)

Conspiracy theory: the Titanic didn’t sink because it was swapped with a replica of the Titanic from the future in order to hide evidence from the Philidelphia experiment

Pistol Opera is fucking wild. I understood just enough of the symbolism to recognize that I understood almost none of the symbolism.

There’s a tendency, when we don’t have a rational understanding of something, to classify it as only capable of IRrational understanding – i.e. pattern matching. Occasionally, this is the only practical solution in the short term.

Whatever happened to that film adaptation of E. H. Hoffman’s The Sandman starring Iggy Pop that Dario Argento was gonna direct? Is it still happening? Is it in production hell? (Do italian pulp flicks have production hell?)

at-work-editions https://qz.com/work/1560079/maximizing-shareholder-profits-is-a-great-way-to-destroy-humanity/

How to Retire Early - VICE https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gya8bx/i-tested-the-saving-technique-that-promises-retirement-at-40

What It’s Like To Write About Race And Video Games https://kotaku.com/what-its-like-to-write-about-race-and-video-games-1832886047

The difficult part of sentient-AI ethics is not whether to grant the AIs human rights, but what to do with humans who are clearly dumber than the AIs

It absolutely shocked me when, in a documentary about their history, Kurt refered to Information Society as ‘disco’, but in retrospect it makes perfect sense: the early 80s was right next to the late 70s, literally.

A lot of people are going to start watching Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka, and then say ‘this looks like trash’ and stop watching it. They’re right, and it’s a shame. Higurashi had the same problem.

These ships think and feel: Warm light in your back, field lines in your guts and a local lyapunov conducive to clear thinking, the gong of gravitational waves, the enticing smell of fusable hydrogen and free skyrmions, the six-dimensional proprioception of one’s orbit parameters

ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL (Escape to the Movies) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PNDmUO760w

Solar flares are spaceships launched by the plasma kingdoms to explore the regions of cold order, proselytize to the feral clouds of the gas giants, trade with the Great Red Spot sometimes

i feel like i’ve been getting a lot more done with the radio station than i ever have been able to do…

Scott Alexander is clearly not a neo-nazi. The fact that he considers democratic socialists to be as far to the left as neoreactionaries are to the right, however, indicates he’s in a right-wing bubble.

4 lessons from a post-graduate course in omelettes https://thetakeout.com/4-lessons-tips-in-how-to-make-omelettes-1832765134

The Big Data Revolution Will Be Sampled: How ‘Big Data’ Has Come To Mean ‘Small Sampled Data’ https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2019/02/17/the-big-data-revolution-will-be-sampled-how-big-data-has-come-to-mean-small-sampled-data/

Gender-swapped and race-flipped remakes aren’t living up to their potential - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/12/18220797/what-men-want-ghostbusters-the-hustle-remakes-gender-race-flipped?curator=MediaREDEF

BEYOND HIGH WEIRDNESS: AN APPROACH TO THE LIMINAL – Liminal Seattle http://www.liminalseattle.com/2019/02/20/beyond-high-weirdness/

Who the fuck decided to call it The Moon is a Harsh Mistress instead of Fourth Generation Warfare With Fourth Generation Languages

The ‘paradox of tolerance’ is not a paradox, any moreso than “my car requires gas to run but if I drive too much I run out of gas” is a paradox. Abstract machines are still machines. Society is a machine for living in, & if you break it living gets harder.

Media mix is interesting. You can optimize a work for adaptation but that keeps you from taking advantage of features of your medium. The best adaptations are sometimes difficult-to-adapt medium-specific forms that forced creativity (ex. Bakemonogatari)

Mutually Assured Destruction: When The Only Winning Move is Not to Play https://fs.blog/2017/06/mutually-assured-destruction/

How David Lynch brings his imagination to life - Huck Magazine https://www.huckmag.com/shorthand_story/david-lynch-interview-creative-process/

Richard Stallman: Talking to the Mailman. New Left Review 113, September-October 2018. https://newleftreview.org/II/113/richard-stallman-talking-to-the-mailman

I have sold zero copies of my game since the launch sale ended. I’m not sure if I need to cut the original price in half or if people literally just only buy games when they are on sale.

A Green New Deal to Win Back Our Future https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/02/green-new-deal-climate-change-policy

Parallax scrolling effects are bad design. Here’s why https://www.fastcompany.com/90309395/why-parallax-scrolling-needs-to-die

Medium has changed their policy. Now, recommendations are controlled by curators, & anything paywalled gets submitted to them. This probably means fewer but higher-quality recommendations…

The sample they chose to highlight here resembles the kind of paper a 14 year old would try & fail to bullshit after staying up all night partying right before the due date: https://blog.openai.com/better-language-models/#sample1

GitHub - alhassy/ElispCheatSheet: Quick reference to the core language of Emacs —Editor MACroS. https://github.com/alhassy/ElispCheatSheet

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.

two machines wake to a spark↵and start blinking in the dark↵connected by a sine of light↵they establish line of sight↵filter bits through poisoned dust↵scribe patterns into spinning rust

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.

that thing when you think ‘aloud’ and your hands move unconsciously and you have to hide them in your sleeves

societies that discover this technology before writing and become literate along a completely different path, hold hands to communicate abstract concepts and use spoken language only to talk to children or crowds, encode philosophies as puzzle boxes

a technology like writing but for body movements: little stick-and-thread figures that show you how to dance, rope-and-pulley gloves you can wear and that guide your movements to teach knitting by example

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/

CBC Arts https://www.cbc.ca/arts/this-canadian-dial-up-art-is-older-than-the-internet-and-was-long-thought-to-be-lost-until-now-1.4662086

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.