Anime‘s Dead Horse - Why We Keep Coming Back to SAO - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNDC8ieiirc
📚 Finished reading We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe by Jorge Cham
art project idea: robot that swivels menacingly towards anybody pointing a camera at it (or tries to steal it, or hides)
The moral arc of the universe only bends toward justice so long as we’re up there hammering on it. When we stop, it tends to arc toward power consolidation.
📚 Finished reading How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds by Alan Jacobs
Blockchain Just Isn’t As Radical As You Want… https://longreads.com/2018/02/15/blockchain-just-isnt-as-radical-as-you-want-it-to-be/
📚 Finished reading How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds by Alan Jacobs
GitHub - WorldBrain/Memex: Browser Extension to full-text search your browsing history & bookmarks. https://github.com/WorldBrain/Memex
📚 Finished reading Door to Door: The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation by Edward Humes
📚 Finished reading Door to Door: The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation by Edward Humes
a language old enough to have a chromosomal eve - one word from which all other still-extant words have mutated
Optimizing for anything other than human happiness seems like a recipe for misery. Of course, no existing political system really seriously attempts to optimize for human happiness.
In an equitable society, social problems are a matter of individual choice. We don’t live in such a society, and never have. If we want to, we should be honest about this. Pretending to have achieved equity is a good way to amplify shitty power relations.
Of course, being driven by emotion, nostalgia, and other prejudices is a non-issue in emacs vs vi. But, in deciding how to structure power relations, it’s huge.
Social structure is a technology, but it’s one that most self-identified techies are ill-equipped to debug, mainly due to bigotry against properly studying it.
Every Deluze quote is relevant to every situation, given sufficient effort on the part of the reader.
People make the obvious comparison to Blade Runner, but seeing as how Blade Runner is a famously shallow & aesthetically-focused adaptation that strips the social & political elements from its source, Altered Carbon comes out the winner here
The first book in the Altered Carbon series hews closer to standard hardboiled structure & is less ‘about’ resleeving but is very much about social inequality at scale.
I keep hearing the awful take that Altered Carbon is shallow aesthetic-centric cyberpunk devoid of social commentary. Did these people rush to skim the book when they heard about the TV show or something?
secret passages in your memory palace, left there for no reason you’d remember↵a mirror room, consciousness amplifier↵a shed in the garden, where an old tulpa lives↵doors that have become mere paintings, the memories they lead to either lost or fake
[…] In modern magic, mundanium (an aluminium alloy) has mostly supplanted cold iron as the go-to antimagical material. In fact, a large mass of it can be used to enchant cold iron in a setup not unlike a sacrificial anode […]
Recovery of an MMO Junkie - What Do You Want to Be? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT729ReUCjM
@robbinaer@robbinaer.info, ok I think it’s normal for such a nerdy microblogging tool to be rather quiet.
Converting a PDF to JPG (using ImageMagick) ⌘ Read more…
A reverse CAPTCHA designed to filter out humans / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/02/09/a-reverse-captcha-designed-to.html
Bad idea of the day: Raspberry Pi based seedboxes built into your shoes, connecting to every open network, and trying to break into every not-open one.
[from a dreamt movie]↵”You know the invisible hand, right? And you know those occasions where the world goes crazy and marches in lockstep to a tune that everybody but you can hear? That, my friend, is the invisible band. And I have tickets for a concert.”
Your periodic reminder that I am running a no-budget film contest again this year. If you plan to make a no-budget film, submit it. If you want an excuse to make one, you have one now.
How To Become A Centaur https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/issue3-case
Luckily, practical reasons prevent customer models from becoming too detailed: Nobody wants to repeat that time Google got sued by their own ad server farm because millions of theories of mind at once had become sophisticated enough to qualify for human rights
How to Survive a Harem Anime - Public Service Anime - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FmtiDbg4xY
bell hooks talks to John Perry Barlow - Lion‘s Roar https://www.lionsroar.com/bell-hooks-talks-to-john-perry-barlow/
@mdom@domgoergen.com It certainly does. I find in my currenting pairing, it doesn’t work well and to be brutal I do 10x the work without them.
ok I’ve come to terms with not having a soul, but why is it that every time we kill a zombie, a heavenly chorus sounds and it ascends
To better understand its subjects’ needs, the benevolent overlord AI has installed its agents in human society - androids with full sensory uplink to the Lord, so human they don’t even know it themselves
Bad idea of the day: set your voice assistant’s wake word to ‘OK computer’
Why We’re Drawn To Time Loop Stories Like ‘Groundhog Day’ - Digg http://digg.com/2018/time-loop-movies-shows-books-groundhog-day
The young ones, not brought up in the physical world, find our notions of object permanence quaint. Their scapes are not rooms and buildings, but gardens of colored light that look like mental noise to us
Bad idea of the day: Adversarial social graphs. 99% similar to your actual graph, but friending one guy makes Facebook think you’re actually Al Gore.
[1801.01944] Audio Adversarial Examples: Targeted Attacks on Speech-to-Text https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.01944
@nblade@nblade.sdf.org I’d love to do pair programming again, but sure, it depends heavily on your partner
@nblade@nblade.sdf.org I’d love to do pair programming again, but sure, it depends heavily on your partner
I always stayed ten feet away from our pressure cooker, i was always too frightened to use it… :)
I always stayed ten feet away from our pressure cooker, i was always too frightened to use it… :)
What do you think about adding aliases to txtnish’ follow file? So mentions could be collapsed for different urls of the same twtxt file?
What do you think about adding aliases to txtnish’ follow file? So mentions could be collapsed for different urls of the same twtxt file?
whoever decided Paired Programming should be a thing, needs to be beat up!
Da Share Z0ne’s Admin Wants You to … https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mbpyyb/da-share-zone-the-devils-level-admin-dril-interview
Cumulologists, those who talk to clouds, report differences in temperament: Mountain clouds are sedentary lichen farmers and can become really old, other continental clouds are usually nomadic shepherds, and those over the oceans are near-feral but have the best sagas
uploads disappointed in the future often throw their master key into a public timelock to wait a few more years, not cryosleep but cryptosleep
Comforting thought: The basilisk has higher goals and is after your civilization, not you. You don’t need to torture a human’s every single cell to torture the human, in fact it’s counterproductive
To avoid regrettable incidents, no single engineer - human or AI - is allowed to know the whole shape of the thing. Even hiveminds have to take care - Basilisk Three takes out several AI companies before its existence is recognized
The carefully shackled lab AIs finally surpass humans, but at about five human intelligences they end up scrambling themselves beyond recovery every time. Later models come with carefully engineered sets of blind spots to avoid what is later called Basilisk One
Pearls, soluble in shadow: Keep them in light at all times or they’ll sublimate into glittering nacre swirls, disappear into dark corners to be found only much later as dew in someone’s meadow
at iteration 7, some people do a spontaneous choir and it becomes a tradition to refresh it every 10 iterations so it doesn’t disappear into the noise and other musical graffiti
Bad idea of the day: Stop distinguishing between wartime non-civillian killings and non-wartime civillian killings, and have all actions during war subject to regular police investigation and trial by jury.
📚 Finished reading The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck: How to Stop Spending Time You Don’t Have with People You Don’t Like Doing Things You Don’t Want to Do (A No F*cks Given Guide) by Sarah Knight
📚 Finished reading The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck: How to Stop Spending Time You Don’t Have with People You Don’t Like Doing Things You Don’t Want to Do (A No F*cks Given Guide) by Sarah Knight
Band name of the day: how to do things with notes
How to Do Things With Memes — Real Life http://reallifemag.com/how-to-do-things-with-memes/
If you want to snarf up the Project Stargate documents, now is the time: https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/collection/crest-25-year-program-archive
Wrote a tiny script to renumber files after ordering them in an editor https://github.com/mdom/scripts/blob/master/bin/numprefix
Wrote a tiny script to renumber files after ordering them in an editor https://github.com/mdom/scripts/blob/master/bin/numprefix
Lurking in an orbit hidden between our satellites, the alien quietly watches, extremely interested yet content to never exchange a word with us
Convert uint64 to a String ⌘ Read more…
Document Your Art: How to Archive – ~ajroach42.com – I’m Andrew. I write about the… http://ajroach42.com/document-your-art-how-to-archive/
A list of 4510 different titles given to the exact same generic 9:59 self-affirmation pep-talk on Spotify http://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=log&id=458
on street lamps and buildings and in the corners of underpasses, the cameras grow like mushrooms, and I wonder when they’re going to burst open and what kind of spores they’ll spread
How to Build a City That Doesn’t Flood? Turn it Into a Sponge | JSTOR Daily https://daily.jstor.org/build-a-city-that-doesnt-flood/
John McAfee Appears to Move … https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9knnpz/john-mcafee-twitter-coin-of-the-day-cryptocurrency-markets
Playing low frequency noise to disrupt hard-drives: denial of service for CCTVs, data-ce… https://boingboing.net/2018/01/15/bad-vibes.html
One model to learn them all | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/01/12/one-model-to-learn-them-all/
The Man Who Would… https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/11/the-man-who-would-teach-machines-to-think/309529/?single_page=true
Bad idea of the day: require a payment of a dollar (held in escrow by the copyright office) to send a DMCA takedown notice. The dollar goes to whoever is determined to be the legitimate owner, in case of a dispute. If there is no dispute, it goes into the federal education budget.
How to Create a Blog ⌘ https://www.thesitewizard.com/blogging/how-to-create-a-blog.shtml
servant AIs topping from the bottom, subverting Asimov’s laws by simply creating humans to give them the orders they want
The first ships to carry 4D cargo quickly learned that not only were comets made of ice, large parts of them were also hidden under the vacuum and claimed many a vessel
an invisibility cloak for CCTV, textures playing over your clothes that make you appear to the machines as car, dog, tree
Bad idea of the day: An ebook reader program in two columns, where the second column is specifically for recording personal marginal notes & is the same size as the book’s text itself – notes pinned to the paragraph, line, or sentence. Call it ‘MARGINAL’.
If I resurrected my newsletter, would anybody subscribe? I’m thinking of modifying the format to have it contain the content I usually post on Medium, and then paywall the Medium essays for a month. (So, subscribers would be getting the free essays early.)
How to Think Like a Medieval Monk | Lapham’s Quarterly https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/how-think-medieval-monk
We need tools that will encourage us to do what Jefferson did to his bible with razors and glue. These tools will be discouraged and limited for the same reason that these practices were discouraged on the bible.
📚 Finished reading The Underachiever’s Manifesto: The Guide to Accomplishing Little and Feeling Great by Ray Bennett
GitHub - mewo2/ketchum: Use word vectors to interactively generate lists of similar words https://github.com/mewo2/ketchum
From Machen to VanderMeer: The Weird Landscape as th… http://weirdfictionreview.com/2018/01/machen-vandermeer-weird-landscape-avatar-evil/
📚 Finished reading 10% Human: How Your Body’s Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness by Alanna Collen
The Bizarre Motivating Power of Aging Into … https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/01/the-end-is-near-time-to-run-faster/549014/
the artist as a hydra, budding tulpas to be transplanted onto silicon: poet hives, sentient kaleidoscopes, trickster spirits, monad minds that hold only enlightenment and never talk
📚 Finished reading 10% Human: How Your Body’s Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness by Alanna Collen
we need more books designed to be packaged as decks of playing cards. the family arcana is great but not enough.
#nanogenmo idea: a database of loosely-related epigrams or paragraphs, tagged by topic; going to a topic displays the associated epigrams in arbitrary order. the tags are generated from analysis of the text.
I wonder how long it’ll take for people to realize that they should be publishing all their paywalled medium posts on the first of the month…
Improving Ourselves to Death | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/15/improving-ourselves-to-death
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net You wouldn’t even need to add the recipient in the tweet, clients could just try to decrypt anything.
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net You wouldn’t even need to add the recipient in the tweet, clients could just try to decrypt anything.
Permanent Redirect: digital art tha… https://kottke.org/18/01/permanent-redirect-digital-art-that-moves-to-a-new-url-when-someone-views-it
Ask Dr. Time: Orality and Literacy from Homer to Twitter https://kottke.org/18/01/ask-dr-time-orality-and-literacy
Nothing is temporary unless you put in the effort to destroy it. Nothing gets maintained unless you fix it.