QOTD: “Let’s get back to hating the conspiracy instead of ourselves.”
LSD research: Michael Pollanâs How to Change Your Mind, reviewed. https://slate.com/culture/2018/05/lsd-research-michael-pollans-how-to-change-your-mind-reviewed.html
A New Way to look at Networking - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z685OF-PS8
What Everyone Needs to Know about Russia Under Putin - FPRI’s 2018 Champagne Brunch for Partners - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnWp_kr4tfc
Bad idea of the day: philosophy speed-dating: get a prime number of doctoral candidates, split into two lines, and have them give hot takes to each other for 5 minutes on a stated topic before moving on.
Attention PGP Users: New Vulnerabilities Require You To Take Action Now https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/attention-pgp-users-new-vulnerabilities-require-you-take-action-now
RMS explaining hacker culture to SJWs: https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-05/msg00488.html
The Author Who Tried to END The World (Watchmen / Alan Moore) â Wisecrack Edition - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=163Cb1bAW7U
transhuman art for which you have to install experimental or proprietary senses, new senses that are themselves art
Enough of art for the material senses? Even gustatory-kinetic sculptures bore you? Try art for the 6th sense: Eyes hidden behind walls to make your back crawl, ghost choirs, rooms where the ceiling may drop on you at every moment
Philip K. Dick’s VALIS and The Man Who Fell to Earth and Duncan Jones https://bowiesattva.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/philip-k-dicks-valis-and-the-man-who-fell-to-earth-and-duncan-jones/
Jordan Peterson is like a pack of tarot cards: stare at him hard enough for long enough and eventually you’ll see a message that is both true and profound. But, as with tarot cards, if you attribute that message to any intent on Peterson’s part, it brands you as foolish.
Medium really REALLY wants me to re-read that tedium piece about CD longboxes, this past month
Bad idea of the day: run podcast transcripts through char-rnn and then through the duplex speech synthesizer to generate hours of nonsense indistinguishable from NPR
I’m not gonna lie; I would listen to all of @derkirche’s NN-generated podcasts: https://pastebin.com/raw/NzdfAbvP
Bad idea of the day: a browser extension that gives you long-now-dates by prefixing a zero to all four digit numbers
I have a newsletter I never use, & a script for crossposting links that also makes a link archive. I’m tempted to figure out how to automate taking the links I post for a particular timeframe, sticking them in the newsletter, and sending them off.
What It’s Like to Be a Bot â Real Life http://reallifemag.com/what-its-like-to-be-a-bot/
Band name of the day: half-way to anywhere
tfw middle-aged billionaires try to buy their way into weird sun twitter & accidentally get cybergoth GFs instead
Wanted to do so much on todays public holiday but actually I only did some house cleaning and was staying on the balcony enjoying the sun while doing internet stuff most of the time…
Bad idea of the day: an extension that disables all CSS on all pages, and then allows you to approve rules one by one, or edit them in place
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I switched from this option to giving my remote user root privileges only for the backup operation with sudo. Then you can just copy the files without thinking about the option to restore right ownership.
You try to put up a picture of Grimes and Elon Musk, but everything on your mood board becomes the same picture of Nicholas Cage as soon as you blink. Today is no different.
Apparently, the term ‘intellectual darknet’ is trending on twitter. Is this a reference to LW, or to incel communities? Or, are people finally reading Neoreaction: A Basilisk?
Using Vim’s Conceal Feature to Make Code More Readable (For You) – Every Man a Debtor https://alok.github.io/2018/04/26/using-vim-s-conceal-to-make-languages-more-tolerable/
Another theory holds that there’s a fixed amount of humanity and since there were fewer people in ancient times, they were bigger compared to the gods than they are now
idea: medication for highly resistant infections laced with (carefully tuned) mood improvers so that people remember to take it regularly
After he lost his face to fire, he didn’t bother with skin grafts, instead covered it in screens that now display randomly generated faces, abstract renderings of brain waves, webcam feeds, pirated movies
âI had to guard an empty roomâ: the rise of the pointless job | Money | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/may/04/i-had-to-guard-an-empty-room-the-rise-of-the-pointless-job
Cambridge Analytica dismantled for good? Nope: It just changed its name to Emerdata ⢠The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/02/cambridge_analytica_shutdown/
Substring: How to Split a String ⌘ Read more…
To summon a demon together with its counter-aspect, use a lemniscate. Or rather, don’t, or have a plan for separating them very quickly, since they will try to annihilate each other with extreme prejudice.
all my favorite movies are beautiful clusterfucks because a dysfunctional game of telephone with people who don’t share a common language is the most reliable way to generate creativity
Three years of the Right To Be Forgotten | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/03/22/three-years-of-the-right-to-be-forgotten/
How to send local files to Chromecast with Python - Will do stuff for stuff https://rinzewind.org/blog-en/2018/how-to-send-local-files-to-chromecast-with-python.html
To most effectively contain a demon, a summoning circle is drawn along equipotential lines. These are specific to each demon - if you know the demonic field equations, you can reconstruct a circle from a sigil and vice versa.
How to Write Personalities for the AI Around Us https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/05/02/how-to-write-personalities-for-the-ai-around-us/
Bad idea of the day: a letter-writing campaign to members of CS program accreditation boards (at their home addresses) requesting algorithmic bias & data ownership be a part of mandatory ethics classes in the curriculum.
if you know what to look for you may find touch-chameleons here, they feel like stone or clay when still on the ground but if lifted up, feel like another hand
These People Are Selling the CIA’s Internal Board Game to the Public - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbxkd8/cia-board-game-techdirt-kickstarter
GitHub - motherboardgithub/mass_archive: A basic tool for pushing a web page to multiple archiving services at once. https://github.com/motherboardgithub/mass_archive
In Vernor Vinge’s 2006 novel Rainbows End, there’s a group called FOP (Friends Of Privacy) who are a radical misinformation-chaffing charity. Basically, they spread large amounts of fake, believable, and boring dox about people, so that automated analysis of OSINT has to work harder.
I would like to wish all of you a very happy international socialist solidarity day
Art Bell and âCoast to Coast AMâ represented a time when conspiracy theories were innocent | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/4343/art-bell-coast-to-coast-am-obitiuary
She becomes an angry cloud of body parts and many in the front rows recoil from what looks about to devour them, but then the rhythm begins to click into place again, as does her body, and in a few smooth motions she↵recoalesces,↵pauses,↵bows
Neural speech synthesizers are noise, pressed into form: Meta-Raudive devices that live in your phone, channel the voices of the dead to tell you dinner’s ready
Semantic Domain: Are functional programs easier to verify than imperative programs? http://semantic-domain.blogspot.com/2018/04/are-functional-programs-easier-to.html
visible only through closed eyes, two red dots lurk just outside of your mind’s light, close in as you drift off to sleep
How to get access to timeline travel tech:↵1. Create a unique and valuable piece of information, e.g. be Satoshi↵2. Quantum-suicide yourself and the data into one timeline, in all the other timelines leave proof that this happened↵3. Wait for timeline travelers to try and rob you
Cthulhu was due to happen around this time, but its decryption failed because humans had put too many of their own stars into the sky
The memetic panspermia hypothesis: Encrypted in constellations, consciousness and other concepts lurk, waiting to imprint themselves onto unsuspecting sapients when the stars are right
What happened to distributed programming languages? by Heather Miller - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAcDWcaezXY
It’s demons who were the first to be displaced by robots: Summoning circles replaced by circuit diagrams, Laplacian and Cartesian demon’s light stolen by Multivac, Newcomb’s decider and the paperclip maximizer, even god usurped by the simulation
@kas@enotty.dk, I didn’t think you are affiliated with it. Just wondered as I didn’t see what was special about it but I had to use a search engine to find out that the OS is Android. :D
@kas@enotty.dk Seems to be just another android phone.
If you go to the scrapyard at night, you will often meet goth androids: Trying to cannibalize dead machines, or silently brooding, or standing in circles with flickering eyes, chanting in infrared
403 You are banned from this site. Please contact via a different client configuration if you believe that this is a mistake. http://freakonomics.com/2013/02/20/how-to-game-a-grading-curve/
Color: From Hexcodes to Eyeballs http://jamie-wong.com/post/color/
I then passed an empty bus. Even its display said empty. I was too tired but I feel like if I had boarded it, it would’ve taken me to those quarters where they don’t render the matrix and it would’ve been just me, gray nothingness, and the sound of my footsteps on default texture
Learning to see: Gloomy Sunday on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/260612034
The Quest to Teach AI to Write Pop Songs https://gizmodo.com/the-quest-to-teach-ai-to-write-pop-songs-1824157220
A description of how Aquarius Prolog gets performance comparable to imperative languages: https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1990/CSD-90-600.pdf
To birds, airships and planes are dumb and rude the way they interrupt conversations with their droning, however they often wonder what these large birds would tell them if they ever spoke
two approaches to cyborg love: shut down the silicon and rely only on your monkey wetware, or open all senses at once and commune at maximum bandwidth
Increased the limit in my twtxt botconfig to 280. @mdom@domgoergen.com, is there actually a limit for #txtnish? Didn’t see a config for this.
Omg, edited my last tweet 5x due to 140 chars. @all what limit have you set?
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net According to @Leo it is a #mastodon not a #matrix bridge. Oneway bridges just dumping here with no backchannel are pointless.
Gerry Sussman - We Really Don’t Know How to Compute! - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3tVctB_VSU
Don’t submit yourself to a game machine! | Countercomplex http://viznut.fi/texts-en/dont_submit_yourself_to_game_machine.html
countercomplex: Bringing magic back to technology http://viznut.fi/texts-en/magic_back_to_technology.html
In The Mesh - Scuttlebutt, A Decentralized Alternative To Facebook https://www.inthemesh.com/archive/secure-scuttlebutt-facebook-alternative/
Bad idea of the day: a program that computes the degree to which the response to a query meets gricean maxims and, if beyond a threshhold, produces potential implicatures, on a synthetic logic-based language and an ontology
Band name of the day: a lawsuit waiting to happen
How city birds evolved to be smarter than rural birds | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-city-birds-evolved-to-be-smarter-than-rural-birds
@mdom@domgoergen.com is there a way to prevent txtnish from inserting linebreaks within the tweet?
Hot take: If you believe technological determinism cannot be effectively resisted, then how much the projected trajectory benefits you personally determines where you fall on the scale from Kevin Kelley to the Unabomber
@leo, @reednj_tw@twtxt.reednj.com: I had to remove your accounts to stop twtxt from crashing. Don’t know why. :-/
non-sterile dice have a 22nd eye in the middle and will grow into die bushes in the right soil, but casinos are fiercely protective of those; for example the actual reason they inspect dice is to prevent cross-pollination
Sometimes, during breeding season, a swarm of densely inscribed paper cranes will descend on the city, the flying library they call it↵↵Usually shy, when rain comes, they seek refuge in citizen’s homes and will allow themselves to be read
Loper OS » Why Hypercard Had to Die http://www.loper-os.org/?p=568
Mathematicians Explore Mirror Link Between Two Geometric Worlds | Quanta Magazine https://www.quantamagazine.org/decades-old-graph-problem-yields-to-amateur-mathematician-20180417/
@roka@server.gkbrk.com, @ocean@server.gkbrk.com, @ivesen@server.gkbrk.com, @nekoinemo@server.gkbrk.com, welcome to twtxt. 😃
@karen@server.gkbrk.com Welcome to twtxt. 😃 I recommend twtxt.xyz and #we-are-twtxt for followers.
But in the long term I want to get it automatically reconnect.
Just added a workaround to it to crash if connection is lost and let systemd restart it.
OLPCâs $100 laptop was going to change the world â then it all went wrong - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17233946/olpcs-100-laptop-education-where-is-it-now
If you need something to watch, start with these: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16857613
Not news to anybody paying attention, but I still feel like it’s worth a visibility boost: https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/04/text-embedding-models-contain-bias.html
How to change the course of human history | Eurozine https://www.eurozine.com/change-course-human-history/
and that evening, in the subway and too wasted to care, you could finally see those who the loons were always talking to
encode a speech synthesizer in your tomb’s maze to scare off would-be grave robbers↵https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03860
Band name of the day: the dark courage to sin
Listen to the Sick Beats of Rhubarb Growing in the Dark - Gastro Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/forced-rhubarb-makes-sound
Band name of the day: suddenly hyperconnected to the real
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
One of those metamaterial invisibility cloaks, but as superstructure around Earth: Mountains and pillars and struts and webs and microscopic fogs, constantly shifting to account for the movement of humans in the structure
Your Pretty Face is Going to Sell : Open Space https://openspace.sfmoma.org/2018/04/your-pretty-face-is-going-to-sell/