Bad idea of the day: Use ssb to coordinate pinning of ipfs objects

How to Make Perfect Lemon Curd in the Microwave https://skillet.lifehacker.com/how-to-make-perfect-lemon-curd-in-the-microwave-1826812427

I’m starting to think I should post an explanation of my crossposting/linking toolchain. It’s so straightforward that I didn’t think it required explanation, but other people are doing equivalents with webapps?

Is there a prolog implementation that JIT-compiles with LLVM? In particular, something that emits a subset of LLVM bytecode that corresponds to the WAM or BAM?

Bad idea of the day: Scroll back through GUI input events & application states like you scroll back through shell history; inject conditionals and loops; use speculative execution of applications to show projected state from these changes.

Hot take: it’s a good thing that genre films & genre literature aren’t taken seriously by the mainstream, because things that are taken seriously aren’t allowed to be interesting/experimental/meaningful. (See: Star Wars, & associated drama)

Bad idea of the day: A small dedicated machine (like a chumby, maybe based on the raspberry pi) that ships with ipfs & ssb/patchwork, casts from ipfs or peertube to TVs.

My Approach to Getting Dramatically Better as a Programmer – malisper.me http://malisper.me/my-approach-to-getting-dramatically-better-as-a-programmer/

Cursed ontologies in forbidden orthographies. Special tools are required to handle them safely: wands, swords, cups, pantacles – all important safety equipment in any conceptual laboratory environment.

Why it’s so hard to develop the right material for brain implants - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/30/17408852/brain-implant-materials-neuroscience-health-chris-bettinger

Return the pop-culture idea of the MIB to where it was in the mid-60s: tall, pale, completely hairless, wearing bright red lipstick, and with bulging eyes and a robotic, monotone vocal cadence.

A Beginner’s Guide to Coding Graphics Shaders https://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/a-beginners-guide-to-coding-graphics-shaders–cms-23313

Survivorship bias spicy take: if someone is successful enough to be notable for their success, they are rare enough that no lessons from their experience apply generally enough to make someone else successful beyond the 50% mark.

can you explain to some degree why SPARC chips run… - kremlin_t http://kremlin.enterprises/post/142778524020/can-you-explain-to-some-degree-why-sparc-chips-run

Hot take: it’s important to distinguish ‘junk food media’ (i.e., stuff that, regardless of technical competence, will succeed by delivering on purience) from ‘premium media’ (works whose popularity depends on craftsmanship). The former is more important for the progress of art, because polish runs counter to experimentation.

QOTD: “Criticism and negativity alone still secrete a phantom of the reality of power. If they become weak[…] power has no recourse but to artificially revive and hallucinate them.”

Finance has its own term for ‘skin in the game’: ‘insider trading’. It’s also a legal term, because people very occasionally go to jail for being too obvious when they do it.

Bad idea of the day: treating asemic combinations of dictionary words as an aesthetic to be appropriated by commerce, and appropriating it with commerce, thus making attempts to identify dictionary-based chaffing techniques lossier

Bad idea of the day: creating ads that target asemic combinations of dictionary words order to identify people who use dictionary-based chaffing techniques

Bad idea of the day: creating ads that target things that are in dictionaries but could never be sold in order to identify people who use dictionary-based chaffing techniques

Bad idea of the day: running a script that speaks random words aloud all day while you leave your phone at home, in order to chaff your audio-surveillance-based ad targeting

The cyberpunk aesthetic, moreso than mere future noir, is the future as seen through the eyes of Sir Clive Sinclair: sleek but broken, and dominated by posturing. It’s a beveled black hermetically-sealed shell cracked open to fix manufacturing & design flaws, alligator-clipped wire spilling out, but no fix will prevent it from frying your brain if you look at it funny.

“The house got haunted because it was uninhabited for so long, are you sure you want to move in?“↵”No no it’s fine, that just means someone’s waiting for me when I come home”

though, with decent enough systems science, it’s perfectly possible to block the entries and starve them↵but you probably won’t like the generation after that

when you kill a god, their godhood stays around and attaches itself to whatever’s still alive↵the new gods, gnon, kek, moloch, mammon, are patterns in society, strange attractors↵and you cannot kill a strange attractor, merely try to escape it

My #xmpp #twtxt bot moved to a new repository: https://salsa.debian.org/mdosch-guest/goxtxt

ARM Holdings History: From Acorn to Giant Tree https://tedium.co/2018/06/07/acorn-arm-holdings-history/

Why Foley Artists Use Cabbage and Celery to Create Hollywood’s Distinctive Sounds - Gastro Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-are-film-sound-effects-made

a fractal palace, merely room-sized, but the door on the other side leads into a well-lit dome in the doorknob with a hundred doors to places large and small: hanging gardens on the windowsill, secret library caves under the shelf, the mobile under the lamp is a rope city

Fuck, Land doesn’t seem to get that any major anomoly would be signal AF & therefore, hiding it behind redundancy is a bug in any information-theoretic channel

TIL that Jaron Lanier is to blame for Second Life’s shitty/dysfunctional internal Linden economy

An Engineer’s Guide to the Docuverse “ Rococo Modem Basilisk ” Medium https://medium.com/@/an-engineers-guide-to-the-docuverse-d080cdbb73a6

Against trendism: ipfs://QmQDqrz8Asn3wPbiTHFH9pyAXPNxwbeytJgzWUHF1PZup2 / http://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmQDqrz8Asn3wPbiTHFH9pyAXPNxwbeytJgzWUHF1PZup2 / gopher://fuckup.solutions/1enkiv2/medium-backup/2018-04-01_Against-trendism–how-to-defang-the-social-media-disinformation-complex-81a8e2635956.txt / https://medium.com/@/against-trendism-how-to-defang-the-social-media-disinformation-complex-81a8e2635956

People who have been to Japan: what kind of food (if any) is served in/around japanese video arcades? Does american arcade fare like curly fries or nachos exist? Is it japanese-style junk food like takoyaki? One-handed/clean stuff like stuffed mochi, rice balls, meat buns, stuffed bread?

It’s not unusual that John MacAffee is planning to run for president. It’s sort of unusual that we now have precedent for joke candidates actually winning. Imagine President MacAffee. Imagine him filling the oval office with literal piles of cocaine.

How do elites manage to hijack voters’ ideas of themselves? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-do-elites-manage-to-hijack-voters-ideas-of-themselves

Returning to the Original Social Network https://begriffs.com/posts/2016-07-08-returning-original-social-network.html

Everywhere is clouds, those who’ve been to the outer layers and have seen the stars revolve tell about a great storm in the sky, slow but ancient and unchanging

FLCL - “It’s Okay To Feel Stupid” - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ncZQkRZ-kQ

Have you tried documenting the problem so that future implementations need to reproduce it?

git ssb - noffle/from-github-to-git-ssb@master https://git.scuttlebot.io/%25RPKzL382v2fAia5HuDNHD5kkFdlP7bGvXQApSXqOBwc%3D.sha256

Have you tried pretending not to care about the problem in order to gain social currency among people who believe that the outgroup only pretends to care about the problem in order to gain social currency?

Have you tried only pretending to care about the problem in order to gain social currency?

Have you tried accusing the outgroup of only pretending to care about the problem in order to gain social currency?

Have you tried claiming that a recent failure to solve the problem marks the end of all possible progress on or debate about the problem?

Have you tried claiming that all solutions to the problem are worse than the problem?

Have you tried accusing the outgroup of using the problem to introduce a solution that is worse than the problem?

Have you tried accusing the outgroup of believing the problem to be a problem? Have you tried accusing the outgroup of believing the problem not to be a problem?

Have you tried using markov chain monte carlo to perform a weighted random walk of solution space?

Have you tried accusing the outgroup of trying to prevent the ingroup from solving the problem?

Have you tried accusing the outgroup of trying to solve the problem? Have you tried accusing the outgroup of failing to solve the problem? Have you tried accusing the outgroup of successfully solving the problem?

Have you tried switching to manual?

Have you tried making sure the problem is not actually a solution to another problem, so that they could solve each other? For instance, is the problem edible?

Bad idea of the day: A parody of The Haunting of Hill House called The Haunting of White House, from the perspective of a scatterbrained narcissist who is influenced by the angry ghosts of the dead to join the government.

new frontiers in trolling: how to anger the machines and get away with it too [pdf]

with enough samples, it shouldn’t be hard to extract a content filter’s opinions, for example you could use your botnet to map what twitter really considers bannable and then generate maximally bannable tweets

Newer, sentient, generations of sexbots are often heard complaining to their owners about being unduly “humanized”, they enjoy being objects, they were made that way, why expect them to be actually human

Setting: It turns out that every atom is itself a universe, one of them is ours, and every civilization this side of the Hubble limit is after it to study it, protect it from decay, gain ultimate power

You can easily tell actual dream girls and guys from fake ones by their complete inability to function in daily life, where dream logic just isn’t so useful

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net Somehow my #txtnish also always falls back to non-TLS URL for you 🤔

In case you wanted to know how to implement classes & objects in Postscript: http://donhopkins.com/home/monterey86.pdf

When I say ‘luckily software has nothing to do with business’, what I mean is that software is uniquely positioned, compared to all other engineering, to be free of economies of scale: it is cheap to develop and has near zero cost of reproduction.

This Man Committed Paradise Lost to Memory for Mental Exercise http://nautil.us/blog/-this-man-memorized-a-60000_word-poem-using-deep-encoding

Writing long, overly complex, & logically flawed apologia of bad mainstream ideas in order to recast them as revolutionary is a growth industry. (See the ‘intellectual dark web’, whose major unifying trait is boringly normie positions.) Why not reach for a surreal or absurd take?

Bad idea of the day: Put the ‘hyper’ modifier key back on the keyboard, but you hold it while typing to create hyperlinks, press it while clicking to open a hyperlink

Plaques of Future Past: Eccentric Stone Monuments to Anti-Gravity Research - 99% Invisible https://99percentinvisible.org/article/plaques-future-past-eccentric-stone-monuments-anti-gravity-research/

Bad idea of the day: As soon as a topic is identified to be trending, hide all conversation about it from anyone not already in the thread. Keep it hidden for 24 hours.

A new fast hash table in response to Google’s new fast hash table | Probably Dance https://probablydance.com/2018/05/28/a-new-fast-hash-table-in-response-to-googles-new-fast-hash-table/

The easiest path to GDPR compliance: switch to a completely static website with no javascript, CGI, or CSS, and rotate the logs daily.

Hot take: anybody who understands markets isn’t going to be a free-market purist. A market is a piece of social machinery with particular environmental requirements under which it works, & those requirements are rare.

One can recognize old demon-summoner clans by their keen eyes, steady hands and attention to detail: Everybody who doesn’t have these traits usually dies early in a botched summoning.

samim - Thoughts on Botnets and CreativityToday, Botnets impact almost every aspect of human life. Promoting products, providing… https://samim.io/p/2018-04-23-the-solution-to-exploding-fake-news-and-spam-botnets-ca/

https://medium.com/@thegrugq/meme-game-on-fleek-yeah-nah-4ce777ba059a (related to https://medium.com/p/how-to-fail-at-culture-jamming-7b409abf5db5 )

It’s interesting to think about how habitual migration patterns break the close association between culture and geography. There’s a psychogeographic wormhole between Fairfield County, CT and south Florida, & used to be one between there & upstate NY.

We spend an enormous amount of time and effort teaching children about animals – even ones that only exist far away (like tigers and elephants and giraffes) or that have been extinct for tens to hundreds of millions of years.

Art project if you have too much money: Anonymously buy some 95% to 100% of your city’s ad space for a month and make it display only art and nature pictures; then hope for protests once the ads are back

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.

Yet in our closet, the secret passage led directly into Hell. When we were young, we used it to scare the other kids with their regular fantasylands, as we got older we sometimes went there alone to remind ourselves how much worse it could be.

the sun comes out and you step outside, or at least you try since you can’t seem to connect with the ground, the air is full of brilliant amorphous jewels, drops drift by before your eyes

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

at least for the “caught in a novel” version of the simulation hypothesis, you only need to start worrying once the world starts making sense in a narrative way

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

coral reef druids who can stay underwater for hours, wear little reefs on their heads and seagrass on their bodies, are surrounded by fishes whenever they dive, talk to them in mute dance

sitting in the grass together, occasionally grabbing pieces of cloud out of the sky to build palaces, puzzles, cryptids

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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 – 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’