How Much of the Internet Is Fake? http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/how-much-of-the-internet-is-fake.html

Seat Belt History: The Patent That Was Given Away https://tedium.co/2018/12/25/seat-belt-history/

Interview: Bruce Sterling Answers Your Questions - Slashdot https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/13/12/23/157257/interview-bruce-sterling-answers-your-questions

A Survey of $RANDOM « null program https://nullprogram.com/blog/2018/12/25/

Take Script, Add Snow https://longreads.com/2018/12/24/take-script-add-snow/

The Internet of Unprofitable Things – The ongoing struggle http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2018/12/24/the-internet-of-unprofitable-things/

Towards the Future Book https://kottke.org/18/12/towards-the-future-book

The Wavefunction Collapse Algorithm explained very clearly | Robert Heaton https://robertheaton.com/2018/12/17/wavefunction-collapse-algorithm/

Against Peter Jackson’s “They Shall Not Grow Old” https://kottke.org/18/12/against-peter-jacksons-they-shall-not-grow-old

The year social networks were no longer social – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/23/the-year-social-networks-were-no-longer-social/

How BioWare’s ‘Baldur’s Gate’ Saved the Computer RPG - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/2018/12/21/18150363/baldurs-gate-bioware-1998-video-games

The Truth About AI: A Secular Ghost Story https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/12/20/the-truth-about-ai-a-secular-ghost-story/

Every once in a while I’m reminded that Cory Doctorow is a brilliant & deep thinker. This interview is one of those times: https://boingboing.net/2018/12/15/first-days-better-nations.html

Playing with P2P protocols and Firefox http://andregarzia.com/2018/12/playing-with-p2p-protocols-and-firefox.html

I don’t buy this at all. All the political radicals I know have incredibly elaborate meta-cognition and constantly-shifting meta-justifications, because you don’t become radical without curiosity. https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/12/radicals-dont-evaluate-their-mistakes-very-effectively/

Elon Musk is the first influencer CEO - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/21/18150813/elon-musk-influencer-ceo-social-media-tesla-spacex

I Used The Web For A Day Using A Screen Reader “ Smashing Magazine https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/12/voiceover-screen-reader-web-apps/

Facebook workers are the only people who can hold the company accountable. https://slate.com/technology/2018/12/facebook-workers-privacy-violation.html

Why Your iPhone Selfies Don’t Look Like Your Face - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/12/your-iphone-selfies-dont-look-like-your-face/578353/

Bowie Knives, Concealed Rifles, and Caning Charles Sumner https://longreads.com/2018/12/17/bowie-knives-concealed-rifles-and-caning-charles-sumner/

Star Wars is Really a Cautionary Tale About Devoting All Technological Advancements to Death | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2018/12/17/star-wars-is-really-a-cautionary-tale-about-devoting-all-technological-advancements-to-death/

The Cost of Living in Mark Zuckerberg’s Internet Empire - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/tech/2018/12/19/18148701/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-year-in-review

Mark Zuckerberg did everything in his power to avoid Facebook becoming the next MySpace “ but forgot one crucial detail… • The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/12/20/facebook_disaster/

Dirty dealing in the $175 billion Amazon Marketplace - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/19/18140799/amazon-marketplace-scams-seller-court-appeal-reinstatement

Smart Speakers and Thermostats Will Monetize Life at Home - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/12/smart-home-devices-data-privacy/578425/

Edward Gorey’s macabre tarot deck from 1966 / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/12/18/edward-goreys-macabre-tarot.html

A Professional Safecracker Reveals His Craft - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/12/professional-safecracker-reveals-his-craft/577897/

The Unlikely New Generation of Unabomber Acolytes http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/the-unabomber-ted-kaczynski-new-generation-of-acolytes.html

Google isn’t the company that we should have handed the Web over to | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/12/the-web-now-belongs-to-google-and-that-should-worry-us-all/

Aquaman pays homage to H.P. Lovecraft. It’s his worst nightmare. https://slate.com/culture/2018/12/aquaman-movie-hp-lovecraft-racism-miscegenation.html

Political tribalism in Trump’s America: what Andrew Sullivan gets wrong - Vox https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/12/11/18131370/andrew-sullivan-religion-tribalism-christianity-trump

PewDiePie vs. T-Series and Rewind 2018: the battle for YouTube, explained - Vox https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/12/14/18138916/pewdiepie-vs-t-series-youtube-rewind-2018

Rewriting Pagenode
Today I released Pagenode – a project that I started 14 years ago. Pagenode began its life as a full-fledged Content Management System and now, after countless rewrites, became a simple library. Pagenode’s journey mimics my own as a developer. Its current iteration expresses my desire for simplicity.

In 2004, after dabbling a bit with PHP and finally grasping MySQL I set out to build my own CMS. I previously looked at a lot of different CMSes on the market and found all of them to … ⌘ Read more

The Enduring American Outrage of “Network” | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/17/the-enduring-american-outrage-of-network

Rich People Are Getting Away With Not Paying Their Taxes - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/12/rich-people-are-getting-away-not-paying-their-taxes/577798/

Infomercial Dark Patterns: How the App Store Recreates TV Scams https://tedium.co/2018/12/11/infomercials-history-dark-patterns/

At the Very Least We Know the End of the World Will Have a Bright Side https://longreads.com/2018/12/12/solarpunk-review/

It’s the End of News As We Know It (and Facebook Is Feeling Fine) – Mother Jones https://www.motherjones.com/media/2018/12/facebook-propaganda-trump/

William Gibson | Part 1 | Jan. 12, 2012 | Appel Salon - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFewCiRaGiU

Reflections on DOOM’s Development — Rome.ro https://rome.ro/news/2018/12/10/reflections-on-dooms-development

Cragne Manor, an 84-room horror “exquisite corpse” text adventure that’s a tribute to the classic game Anchorhead / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/12/09/massively-multi-developer.html

JIRA is an antipattern – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/09/jira-is-an-antipattern/

Why You Should Never, Ever Use Quora – Waxy.org https://waxy.org/2018/12/why-you-should-never-ever-use-quora/

Internet Content Filter History: Filtering Out the Bad Stuff https://tedium.co/2018/12/06/internet-content-filters-history/

Teaching kids to code: I’m a developer and I think it doesn’t actually teach important skills. https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/12/against-teaching-kids-to-code-creativity-problem-solving.html

Monopoly vs. the Magic Cape https://longreads.com/2018/12/05/monopoly-vs-the-magic-cape/

Your Q Anon Exit Briefing – Violent metaphors https://violentmetaphors.com/2018/12/04/your-q-anon-exit-briefing/

Are smartphones bad for you? The science is still out - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/5/18126154/screen-time-smartphones-bad-health-risk-science-study-wrong-depression-anxiety

Broken Chain Restaurants: When Fast Food Franchises Go Solo https://tedium.co/2018/12/04/broken-chains-fast-food-restaurants/

The Friendship That Made Google Huge | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship-that-made-google-huge

Tumblr’s adult-content ban could doom it with fandom communities. https://slate.com/technology/2018/12/tumblr-fandom-adult-content-ban-livejournal.html

While we Blink, we loose the Web https://andregarzia.com/2018/12/while-we-blink-we-loose-the-web.html

The Fun Is Back in Social Media…Again! https://kottke.org/18/12/the-fun-is-back-in-social-mediaagain

MST3K creator Joel Hodgson on 30 years of making fun of movies. https://slate.com/culture/2018/12/mst3k-joel-hodgson-interview-netflix.html

Save the Cat (Blake Snyder) | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2018/12/04/save-the-cat-blake-snyder/

Fractal structure produces fractal electrons with fractal energies | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/12/fractal-structure-produces-fractal-electrons-with-fractal-energies/

Complex networks study ranks the most influential films of all time | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/12/study-finds-the-wizard-of-oz-is-the-most-influential-film-of-all-time/

Edward Gorey’s Enigmatic World | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/edward-goreys-enigmatic-world

Project Troy: The Science of Cold War Psychological Warfare - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/12/project-troy-science-cold-war-psychological-warfare/576847/

World States and Mega Empires in SF | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2018/11/12/world-states-and-mega-empires-in-sf/

The Well-Being Machine https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/06/12/the-well-being-machine/

The Source History of Cat https://twobithistory.org/2018/11/12/cat.html

Postmodernism Did Not Take Place: On Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life - Viewpoint Magazine https://www.viewpointmag.com/2018/01/23/postmodernism-not-take-place-jordan-petersons-12-rules-life/

Homogeneous Operating Systems Are Better https://ecc-comp.blogspot.com/2014/12/homogeneous-operating-systems-are-better.html

The Forth Methodology of Charles Moore by Jeff Fox 12/09/01 http://www.ultratechnology.com/method.htm

Why Doctors Hate Their Computers | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/why-doctors-hate-their-computers

Are.na / Blog “ Women in Hypertext: On Judy Malloy and Cathy Marshall’s Forward Anywhere https://www.are.na/blog/case%20study/2018/06/12/women-in-hypertext.html

David Bunch’s Prophetic Dystopia | by Jeff VanderMeer | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/09/12/david-bunchs-prophetic-dystopia/

Homogeneous Operating Systems Are Better https://ecc-comp.blogspot.com/2014/12/homogeneous-operating-systems-are-better.html

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I thought so too. Color me surprised when I surveyed my follow programmers in my dept and only 3 out 12 knew what I was talking about.

Taking note: Luhmann’s Zettelkasten http://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/2007/12/luhmanns-zettelkasten.html

The 10:1 rule of writing and programming https://www.ybrikman.com/writing/2018/08/12/the-10-to-1-rule-of-writing-and-programming/

So you bought a ghost town | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/5605/ghost-town-owners-12-million

Peterson’s Complaint https://longreads.com/2018/07/12/petersons-complaint/

Flexi Disc History: Vinyl‘s Thinner Cousin https://tedium.co/2018/06/12/flexi-disc-history/

Myths programmers believe | Átila on Code https://atilanevesoncode.wordpress.com/2018/06/12/myths-programmers-believe/

How hunters paved the way for the American environmental movement - Vox https://www.vox.com/conversations/2018/6/12/17449154/hunting-culture-shaped-masculinity-the-nra-and-environmentalism

Seeing into the True Nature: Have You Tried Solving the Problem? http://grognor.blogspot.com/2016/12/have-you-tried-solving-problem.html

There is only one OS, and it’s been obsolete for decades – Programming, Made Complicated https://programmingmadecomplicated.wordpress.com/2017/08/12/there-is-only-one-os-and-its-been-obsolete-for-decades/

Review: 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson | Kate Manne https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/jordan-peterson-12-rules-kate-manne-review/

Doc Searls Weblog · GDPR will pop the adtech bubble https://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2018/05/12/gdpr/

Oracle’s Network Computer: Larry Ellison’s Too-Early Idea https://tedium.co/2018/04/12/larry-ellison-network-computer-history/

Kaukatcr: an experiment in language design for multi-dimensional spaces http://www.lord-enki.net/medium-backup/2018-04-12_Kaukatcr–an-experiment-in-language-design-for-multi-dimensional-spaces-cc038caafff9.html

Gödel’s First Incompleteness Theorem for Programmers — Adventures https://dvt.name/2018/03/12/godels-first-incompleteness-theorem-programmers/

How to Make Everything Ourselves: Open Modular Hardware - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2012/12/how-to-make-everything-ourselves-open-modular-hardware.html

Procedural Worlds from Simple Tiles http://ijdykeman.github.io/ml/2017/10/12/wang-tile-procedural-generation.html

A history of the Amiga, part 12: Red vs. Blue | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/03/a-history-of-the-amiga-part-12-red-vs-blue/

Deleuze & Guattari; Capitalism: A Very Special Delirium – palmermethode https://palmermethode.com/2017/12/21/deleuze-guattari-capitalism-a-very-special-delirium/

A Messiah… https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-messiah-cum-surrogate-dad-for-gormless-dimwits-on-jordan-b-petersons-12-rules-for-life/#!

End of the Line: Jeff VanderMeer and the Southern Re… https://www.tor.com/2014/12/15/interview-jeff-vandermeer-the-southern-reach-trilogy/

JLOUIS Ramblings: Some Epigrams https://jlouisramblings.blogspot.com/2012/12/some-epigrams.html

My Friend, The Bot https://vector-bsfa.com/2017/12/16/my-friend-the-bot/

Absurdist Dialogues with Siri https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/02/12/absurdist-dialogues-siri/

How Protein Conquered America - Eater https://www.eater.com/2018/2/12/16991634/muscle-milk-protein-culture

Why Paper Jams Persist | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/12/why-paper-jams-persist

The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences: Symmetries… https://qualiacomputing.com/2016/12/12/the-hyperbolic-geometry-of-dmt-experiences/

Universal adversarial perturbations | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/09/12/universal-adversarial-perturbations/

ffwd: delegation is (much) faster than you think | the… https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/12/04/ffwd-delegation-is-much-faster-than-you-think/

Y2K Pop Culture: The New Millennium Blues https://tedium.co/2017/12/27/y2k-pop-culture-oddities/

One model to learn them all | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/01/12/one-model-to-learn-them-all/