Ubik: apply directly to the forehead
Headlines making you anxious? Delay reading them | Oliver Burkeman | Life and style | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/apr/06/how-to-handle-headline-anxiety-take-time-reading-news-oliver-burkeman
How to Build a Low-tech Internet - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/10/how-to-build-a-low-tech-internet.html
Samin Nosrat’s ‘Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat’ and the Best Books for Learning How to Cook - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/04/the-why-of-cooking-samin-nosrat/523923/
just updated twtxt from 1.2.1 to 1.2.3 - looks like there were some config file changes
The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user https://jameshfisher.com/2018/04/07/the-dots-do-matter-how-to-scam-a-gmail-user.html
How to keep your ISPâs nose out of your browser history with encrypted DNS | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/how-to-keep-your-isps-nose-out-of-your-browser-history-with-encrypted-dns/
Why itâs as hard to escape an echo chamber as it is to flee a cult | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/why-its-as-hard-to-escape-an-echo-chamber-as-it-is-to-flee-a-cult
Somebody on mastodon linked me to this, and it’s a fantastic syllabus. Highly recommend reading ALL of these: https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/hyperreal-VRp8uyehhIOdW3tET3O64
Blood and Sand All You Ever Wanted to Know About Spanish Horror Films - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYnS3P8pp9Y
@kas@enotty.dk, @freemor@freemor.homelinux.net (re: Matrix/TOX/P2P): Uh, never heard of #rumble or #scuttlebutt. Will have to look into it at some time.
@demifiend@www.matthewgraybosch.com @freemor@freemor.homelinux.net If it is a problem on other platforms to be bullied by William Shatner we should market #twtxt with #NoWilliamShatner
Dead pixels are known to go to heaven and when a screen dies, a million of them ascend at once, a flame of soul and twinkling static
@demifiend@www.matthewgraybosch.com welcome to #twtxt
The lucid dreaming playbook: how to take charge of your dreams | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/the-lucid-dreaming-playbook-how-to-take-charge-of-your-dreams
Remembering the â70s activist group that tried to save us from the tech industry | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/4029/computer-people-for-peace-history
Phoenicia: an imaginary friend to nations in need of ancestors | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/phoenicia-an-imaginary-friend-to-nations-in-need-of-ancestors
Seems my bot works more stablesince switching #xmpp lib from github.com/processone/gox/xmpp to more active fluux.io/xmpp
Meanwhile, the weather reports seemed to have fallen into a different timeline entirely. They hadn’t matched reality in weeks, yet one only discussed the topic when the evenings became late and the beers empty
NixOS 18.03 released
NixOS 18.03 “Impala” has been released, the ninth stable release branch.
See the release notes
for details. You can get NixOS 18.03 ISOs and VirtualBox appliances
from the download page.
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Against trendism: how to defang the social media disinformation complex https://medium.com/@/against-trendism-how-to-defang-the-social-media-disinformation-complex-81a8e2635956
How to fail at culture jamming â Rococo Modem Basilisk â Medium https://medium.com/@/how-to-fail-at-culture-jamming-7b409abf5db5
Pixie tribes live on and in the raindrops, occasionally migrate when their home is nearing the ground, or wait until it splashes to hitch a ride on a droplet
That stag you saw, it wasn’t the forest god, in fact the forest god cursed it to never be safe under the canopy again, which is why the trees wither before it and grow again behind it
For the first time in history, the internet makes it reasonable to expect people to already understand that nothing is unprecedented.
Pushed my #xmpp #twtxt bot written in #go to Github: https://github.com/mdosch/goxtxt
If Youâve Met Aliens While on DMT, These Scientists Would Like to Hear From You - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bjpjxm/dmt-aliens-study-johns-hopkins
Uh, thought I made a mistake while adding more functions to my bot but actually it is the default twtxt client crashing when doing a unfollow. :-/
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net @dave@davebucklin.com thanks. :) But now I have to investigate why the bot refused to work yesterday evening till I restarted it. ^^
Apply Middleware to Your Route Handlers ⌘ Read more…
If anyone wants to have a look (and suggest a good name :D): https://files.mdosch.de/2018-03/goxtxt.go
If you can read this I made my first twtxt post by sending a message to a xmpp bot. :)
Re: ‘architecture is fate’ – a more accurate version is ‘precedent is easily mistaken for fate’. Part of the problem is creating bad precedent; part is not looking closely enough to distinguish esence from accident.
Hot take: big tech exists only as a failure to create small (human-scale) tech. Facebook & twitter represents a failure to create & publicize p2p alternatives.
Pin-Ups: David Bowie Goes to the Movies https://www.tiff.net/the-review/david-bowie-goes-to-the-movies/
A practitionerâs guide to reading programming languages papers | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/01/26/a-practitioners-guide-to-reading-programming-languages-papers/
In the gap between writer and reader the novel comes to life | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/in-the-gap-between-writer-and-reader-the-novel-comes-to-life
The Quest for a Universal Translator for Old, Obsolete Computer Files - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-to-open-old-computer-files
Section 230: A Key Legal Shield For Facebook, Google Is About To Change : All Tech Considered : NPR https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2018/03/21/591622450/section-230-a-key-legal-shield-for-facebook-google-is-about-to-change
The desire to fit in is the root of almost all wrongdoing | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/the-desire-to-fit-in-is-the-root-of-almost-all-wrongdoing
‘It’s old news’ doesn’t make something better – it makes it worse. If there’s a problem that’s been newsworthy several times & not addressed, it’s had more time to affect people, and people should be criticized for not addressing it.
The shady data-gathering tactics used by Cambridge Analytica were an open secret to online marketers. I know, because I was one - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/25/17161726/facebook-cambridge-analytica-data-online-marketers
Hot take: the web never ‘belonged to the people’ – the moment a centralized client-server model with hostnames embedded in the addressed was decided upon, the seeds of Facebook & Google were sown.
The man who coined the DunningâKruger effect says we’re most gullible to ourselves â Quartz https://qz.com/1231534/the-person-whos-best-at-lying-to-you-is-you/
Doc Searls Weblog · Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica problems are nothing compared to what’s coming for all of online publishing https://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2018/03/23/nothing/
Daniel Dennett on Tools To Transform Our Thinking - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJsD-3jtXz0
Thursday is the appropriate day to make sacrifices to Compound Interest. Use a gold altar cloth. Compound Interest prefers sacrifices in the form of burning dollar bills, but twenties will work in a pinch. If you cannot make money, store-bought is fine.
Hot take: mere exposure & availability bias have ramifications for action – the more we do a thing or see it done, the easier it is for us to imagine doing it when planning. Cuts both ways: we could open up possibilities, but we should be careful with which we open.
The Signal has run my short story “She Awaited the Turkeys” as part of the episode called “Intermission 02”. (Doesn’t seem to be posted on the website yet.)
How to Hack an Engineer https://www.nemil.com/musings/hack-an-engineer.html
Hot take: the lack of targetting effectiveness in Cambridge Analytica & Google Ads doesn’t excuse it. There are 4 sins here: taking the data, trying to target with it, targetting poorly, and overselling targetting accuracy. They compound.
Attn Evangelion fans: this is the appropriate response to the hedgehog’s dilemma: https://imgur.com/DcZYJoi
13 Reasons to Believe Aliens Are Real http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/03/13-reasons-to-believe-aliens-are-real.html
Pete Corey - J’s Low-level Obfuscation Leads to Higher Levels of Clarity http://www.petecorey.com/blog/2018/03/19/js-low-level-obfuscation-leads-to-higher-levels-of-clarity/
Thanks to the CIA, Issues of the Agency’s Most-Hated Magazine Are Now Online https://gizmodo.com/thanks-to-the-cia-issues-of-the-agencys-most-hated-mag-1823659934
TAM 2014 - Julia Galef - How to Change Your Mind - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDePmv6h3II
I notice there is an update to twtxt
The legal battle to colonize Mars | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/3739/mars-colony-settlement-spacex-elon-musk-trump
Hot take: the whole ‘you need to code in your free time’ is partially justified by the way a 4 year CS degree doesn’t remotely prepare you for an entry-level code-crunching position.
BBC - Culture - Twenty-six words we donât want to lose http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20171122-twenty-six-words-we-dont-want-to-lose
The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo’s odyssey from absurdist theatre troupe to new wave octet – Night Flight http://nightflight.com/the-mystic-knights-of-the-oingo-boingos-odyssey-from-absurdist-theatre-troupe-to-new-wave-octet/
How the Cold War led the CIA to promote human capital theory | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-cold-war-led-the-cia-to-promote-human-capital-theory
I have a new project! Podite >https://github.com/mdom/podite>, a cli podcatcher for users who want to choose which podcast to download :)
I have a new project! Podite >https://github.com/mdom/podite>, a cli podcatcher for users who want to choose which podcast to download :)
Log Ratio – an informal introduction | ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) http://cass.lancs.ac.uk/?p=1133
GitHub - Widdershin/programmers-oath: An oath for programmers, comparable to the Hippocrat… https://github.com/Widdershin/programmers-oath
Reddit and the Quest to Detoxify the Internet… https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/19/reddit-and-the-quest-to-detoxify-the-internet
Bad idea of the day: donate synthetic diamond machines to hackerspaces
QOTD: ‘The Web is the minimal concession to hypertext that a sequence-and-hierarchy chauvinist could possibly make.’ -Ted Nelson
TFW you have so many movies you haven’t watched yet that you have to roll a D4 once and then a D20 twice in order to pick one
In the last two weeks the company laid off two of the programmers. Which is crazy since we are just about to embark on a huge system conversion.
GitHub - tuhdo/os01: Bootstrap yourself to write an OS from scratch. A book for self-learner. https://github.com/tuhdo/os01
AdBlock Adds Feature to Cache … https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/adblock-adds-feature-to-cache-popular-javascript-libraries/
Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself - Silly Bits https://mtlynch.io/why-i-quit-google/
To the Point — Real Life http://reallifemag.com/to-the-point/
Bad idea of the day: A voice assistant specifically designed to answer toddlers when they ask ‘why’.
I also have a Mastodon account if ya want to follow me there. It’s also a mirror of my tweets. https://im-in.space/@kdy
Still trying to get it working right tho. txtnish is great.
Protip: if your ingroup is of size 1, nobody will spend too much effort to manipulate it.
Letting neural networks be weird • A neural net… http://aiweirdness.com/post/165373096197/a-neural-network-learns-to-create-better-dd
Letting neural networks be weird • New ways t… http://aiweirdness.com/post/171200336312/new-ways-to-market-your-self-affirmation-talk
📚 Finished reading The New Human Rights Movement: Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression by Peter Joseph
Unbelievable! Germany beats Canada and goes to the finals! #Miracle of #Pyeongchang! Go for gold!
Anthropic physical laws: Actually just endless chains of coincidences, but return to the norm instantly kills all sentient observers
📚 Finished reading The New Human Rights Movement: Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression by Peter Joseph
We need to an internet of unmonetisable enthusiasms | WIRED UK http://www.wired.co.uk/article/obsessive-depth-of-the-internet
It‘s Hard to Reason About Systems • Hillel Wayne https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/reasoning-about-systems/
A great thread about how to pronounce shibboleth: https://twitter.com/leftoblique/status/966353872502456321
It is written here that the ancients wrote their books in hyper-ink on pages of spidersilk that they assembled into webs. One word of this ink, my friend, could contain a book, but sadly, most of their works fell victim to inkrot
Cloudflare Terminates Servic… https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/59kgv5/cloudflare-terminates-service-to-the-pirate-bay-of-science
Philosophy has a lot to learn from film | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/philosophers-have-much-to-learn-from-the-great-filmmakers
How not to replace email https://jamey.thesharps.us/2018/02/16/how-not-to-replace-email/
Probably Overthinking It: Learning to program is get… http://allendowney.blogspot.co.nz/2018/02/learning-to-program-is-getting-harder.html
One day we may figure out not just genetics but wholesale biosphere design, and then it won’t be “What does it mean to be human” but “Should there be a place for humans”, “What if we used another type of chemistry”, “Why should it be our native biosphere that survives”
Two Fans‘ Obsessive Quest To Redeem The Super M… https://kotaku.com/two-fans-obsessive-quest-to-redeem-the-super-mario-bros-1823073769
*goes up to couple*↵so who of you is the prophet and who is the mountain
📚 Finished reading We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe by Jorge Cham