Who the heck decided to call it ThisWaifuDoesNotExist and not SenpAI?
King Crimson to Stream All Studio Albums on Spotify – Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/king-crimson-albums-streaming-spotify-818686/
How Did Conspiracy Theories Come to Dominate American Culture? | Literary Hub https://lithub.com/how-did-conspiracy-theories-come-to-dominate-american-culture/
The best part about Dare To Be Stupid is that it’s not a parody of a DEVO song, but a legit DEVO song that just so happens to be made by Weird Al instead of Gerald Casale.
Periodic reminder: From April 15 to the 22nd, Manna for our Malices will be 80% off to celebrate being done with filing taxes. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1013580/Manna_for_our_Malices/
How to Do Nothing: Jenny Odell’s case for resisting “The Attention Economy” / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/04/09/resisting-attention-economy.html
DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/5/1/000091/000091.html
Twilight Zone theme: How the theme song for Jordan Peele’s reboot stacks up to versions by Korn, the Grateful Dead,… https://slate.com/culture/2019/04/twilight-zone-theme-jordan-peele-grateful-dead-korn-marius-constant-bernard-herrmann-manhattan-transfer.html?curator=MusicREDEF
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Hello world: Shining a light onto the culture of computer programmers | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/how-the-new-art-form-of-coding-came-to-shape-our-modern-world/
There isn’t an end. We’re just gonna have to put a lot of work into becoming incrementally better forever, knowing that if we stop, it’s a failure and we’re letting people down. (That’s what we get for Killing God.)
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New repository: aquilax/md2html - Markdown to HTML command line tool (wraps Blackfriday)
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bellingcat - Bellingcat’s Invitation Is Waiting For Your Response: An Investigative Guide To LinkedIn - bellingcat https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2019/03/21/bellingcats-invitation-is-waiting-for-your-response-an-investigative-guide-to-linkedin/
What Does It Mean To Player Character? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKY1ORCSICY
Space Cartoons to Space Psychedelia: How Sci-Fi Book Covers Evolved - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/01/space-cartoons-to-space-psychedelia-how-sci-fi-book-covers-evolved/263952/
It’s one thing to admit that desired behaviors need to be incentivized, & another not to treat this necessity as a problem. We incentivize children’s deeds with the expectation that they will grow up to have their own moral compass.
Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science: index https://introtcs.org/public/index.html
A Comprehensive Introduction to Quantum Computing - code(love) https://code-love.com/2019/02/25/intro-to-quantum-computing/
a wolfman to know
My buddy Dan Comstock went on a podcast to promote his upcoming GOAT LARP, a LARP where you LARP as the people running a LARP for goats (who are being RP’d by actual goats) http://www.onarollpodcast.com/211
@kas@enotty.dk re:hyphenation That article motivated me to add hyphenation to termpub. Though i’m using the greedy algorithm currently.
@kas@enotty.dk re:hyphenation That article motivated me to add hyphenation to termpub. Though i’m using the greedy algorithm currently.
Hot take: every product or service Google cancels, they should open source. If Google doesn’t want to run it, they shouldn’t keep anybody else from running it instead.
Give the Nobel Prize in Literature to Dril | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/7245/give-the-nobel-prize-to-dril
The moment I decide to get serious about something, that’s when all progress on it stops :(
A depiction, if rich enough to be interesting, is bound to have internally contradictory potential interpretations. You control the frame, but the frame can’t be as tight as in (say) an essay.
If one intends to be understood, one must be careful not to be too clever: a reader will calibrate their cleverness based on their expectation of yours, & any mismatch is liable to produce misunderstanding.
What’s the difference between poetry and prose? I’d say that with prose, one aims to constrain the set of possible meanings as tightly as possible to minimize misunderstanding. Poetry has the richness of possible meanings that direct experience has.
If you’re a writer & you don’t read, your readers will notice (even if you don’t). And those of them who read will start to dwindle away…
Day by day I get closer and closer to being the guy who sea-lions strangers about how the USSR wasn’t communist. I don’t want to be this guy. Please help me not be this guy, by learning it on your own.
going without was fun and all, but i’m glad to have something to use again
Russia wants to cut itself off from the global internet. Here’s what that really means. - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613138/russia-wants-to-cut-itself-off-from-the-global-internet-heres-what-that-really-means/
Why Tool AIs Want to Be Agent AIs: The Power of Agency - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Tool-AI
Where to begin with Japanese cyberpunk | BFI https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/where-begin-japanese-cyberpunk
How to self-publish your novel as an ebook - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/1/18285875/self-publishing-ebook-amazon-kindle-epub-book-how-to-editing-art-sales-strategy
The most effective april fool’s day joke is now to say things you mean without sounding sarcastic.
April Fool’s Joke Recalled After Accidentally Causing Reader To Question Consumer Culture – Point & Clickbait https://www.pointandclickbait.com/2016/04/april-fools-joke-recalled/
I art-directed a website. The end boss was finding out how to make the black parts of a black-on-transparent image a light gray after finding out that CSS can’t do this itself yet.
People whose dating profile consists entirely of their nationality are incomprehensible to me, but not quite as incomprehensible as the ones that are blank or have some useless placeholder like ‘ask’. The point of a dating site is that you get to see compatibility before starting a convo, y’know
CS programs encourage the idea (already common among students) that software engineers are professionals. First contact with the industry demonstrates that to the extent that folks have grown since graduation, its in their ability to delay the inevitable collapse of ugly hacks.
i think my personal wellbeing is starting to slip… piles of laundry need to be done and dishes crowd my desk
Milk Crate History: Too Well-Made Not to Steal https://tedium.co/2019/03/19/milk-crate-theft-history/
Casino Screwup Royale: A tale of “ethical hacking” gone awry | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/03/50-shades-of-greyhat-a-study-in-how-not-to-handle-security-disclosures/
Everybody keeps talking about ‘Apple Card’ & I kept thinking they were talking about that thing you stuck in your Apple II to simulate an IBM PC clone.
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net Ok, switched to txtnish, and I can see your posts :)
my no-laptop experiment is still going alright… although i’m kind of just excited to start messing around with my new one when it comes
Rebooting UUCP to redecentralize the net / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/03/25/tilde-servers-r-us.html
to make the world worth living in requires conspiracy
Sort of unexpectedly, DC’s Captain Marvel movie ended up being substantially better than Marvel’s Captain Marvel movie, because DC decided to make a PG-13 Deadpool movie while Marvel tried to make a Superman movie.
Ghost stories are about return of the repressed, & to have the return you need the repression, so ghost stories are actually about trauma & reintegration. (Again, probably obvious, but shit feels more original when you’ve been awake for 30 hours)
The function of genre tropes is to provide a promise of certain kinds of things – enjoyable to genre fans – happening to make the thing enjoyable even if there’s no other engagement. (Y’all probably know this but everything feels more original when you’ve been awake for 30 hours.)
Dusk Maiden of Amnesia managed to be both a satisfying school harem comedy & a satisfying gothic ghost story. Highly recommend. Why the heck don’t people talk more about this show?
I wasn’t expecting Dusk Maiden of Amnesia to be this similar to Yuuna and the Haunted Onsen. I approve.
TFW you give yourself low-grade caffeine toxicity expecting to be productive at work but instead end up writing long twitter threads about strategic subculture destablization
I tried really hard to give The Amityville Horror another chance but all I can think is: how the hell is a movie starring Margot Kidder this bad and this boring? Steven King came around on it but I guess I won’t.
Never mistake your inability to richly imagine the outgroup for an actual general consensus among them. No matter how wrong they might be about the things they agree on, they define themselves by their minor internal schisms.
I want to like exa, but its default color choices are hot garbage. Don’t these people who use purple ever try using a terminal with a black background?
i was less productive today. i’m trying not to internalize it as “i’m not doing good enough today”
This, except unironically: https://makefrontendshitagain.party/ ; interfaces ought to be rich & individual representations of the underlying models, unless people are required/forced to use them, in which case all formatting should be able to be stripped automatically.
One thing the DomeKano manga has over the anime is that it plays up how much of a lovable dork Hina is. Anime Hina comes off to me as somebody you’d want to stay away from on the grounds of emotional instability, & is only shallowly charming.
@kas@enotty.dk now that I understand fish enough to port over the contents of my .bashrc and .bash_profile, I’m starting to get used to it. How’s having different shell preferences for login/interactive treating you?
I wanted to feel productive this evening, but I didn’t want to do any useful work. In related news, I’ve switched to https://fishshell.com/ from GPLv2 bash.
today was the day of the triennual trying of the fish shell only to go back to bash within an hour or two
A lot of disagreements seem to come down to a gap wherein, when commercial success and apparent human flourishing conflict, some folks privilege the former over the latter. I’m wondering how much of this is about legibility / discounting self-reporting in favor of numbers.
Ok, everything is back on my tilde.town homepage. Thanks to web.archive.org ^^ I’m just sad I couldn’t retrieve my twtxt.txt file :/
“Great repository names are short and memorable. Need inspiration? How about supreme-couscous?” — I hadn’t heard about this particular Supreme collab, but then again I haven’t been subscribed to Hypebeast in a while…
so far i’ve devoted a lot more time to reading…
A generalised solution to distributed consensus | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/03/08/a-generalised-solution-to-distributed-consensus/
How the nineties are coming back to haunt us - The Globe and Mail https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-how-the-nineties-are-coming-back-to-haunt-us/
modern mobile development cons: the absence of hardware keyboards leads to a culture of passivity. modern mobile dev pros: nobody assumes you are running a supercomputer with a fiber connection directly to the data center no more than 5 ft long
Is there a convenient way to make your desktop browser pretend to be a mobile browser so sites don’t try to allocate twenty gigs of memory for goddamned css animations?
Is a mission to Mars morally defensible given today’s real needs? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/is-a-mission-to-mars-morally-defensible-given-todays-real-needs
We ought to be suspicious of business plans that resemble manifest destiny: expansion into supposedly-unclaimed regions, turning inhabitants into tools & discarding the resistant (who now have nowhere to go) or worse.
Hill House has stood for 80 years and might for 80 more. Inside, floors lay straight, doors sensibly shut, but why is there a dormer window RIGHT NEXT TO a stained glass one, and why don’t the bottoms line up??
History is the time-inverse of science fiction: While coming from different directions, both write fictional accounts that converge on the present, and both are inspired by facts but usually not true to them.
Trendism is the logic of financialized speculative capitalism extended to the realm of takes: information about information about information (even if it’s false) exceeds the value of the baseline information.
invention is the discovery of a path through possibility space. it doesn’t have to be a good path.
I can’t believe I have to say this, but ‘polarization’ and ‘diversity’ are not synonyms.
Bighorn-Sheep Migration Routes Form Ancestral Knowledge - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/09/to-save-animals-we-need-to-save-their-knowledge-too/569503/
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.