Describing Words - Find Adjectives to Describe Things http://describingwords.io/for/adjective
Is the Mill Architecture (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill_architecture) immune to the new out-of-order-execution attacks, theoretically?
Who is Marx now and what can he say to the 21st century? |… https://aeon.co/essays/who-is-marx-now-and-what-can-he-say-to-the-21st-century
How to Read Mathematics http://www.people.vcu.edu/~dcranston/490/handouts/math-read.html
Welcome to twtxt @pkill9@pkill9.freeshell.org!
Welcome to twtxt @pkill9@pkill9.freeshell.org!
I’ve been really quite the last months … we went on 6 weeks parental leave to south africa and just returned.
I’ve been really quite the last months … we went on 6 weeks parental leave to south africa and just returned.
Web app developers: OF COURSE I DIG THESE TRAIN TUNNELS WITH A JEWEL-ENCRUSTED GOLD DECORATIVE COCKTAIL FORK. EVERYBODY DOES. WHAT DO YOU EXPECT ME TO USE, A TOOTHPICK?
SOME PEOPLE HAVE POINTED OUT THAT WRITING APPS IN POSTSCRIPT IS SANE-ISH. THIS IS TRUE. IT’S HARD TO COME UP WITH COMPARABLE SITUATIONS THAT ARE MORE ABSURD, BECAUSE WE COLLECTIVELY DID THE ABSOLUTE WORST THING AND THEN CONVINCED OURSELVES IT WAS OK.
Describing Words - Find Adjectives to Describe Things http://describingwords.io/
If you cannot use it to trivially put a pixel at an X,Y coordinate, YOU SHOULD NOT WRITE A COMPLEX UI IN IT, EXCEPT AS A JOKE.
HTML is a mistake. Generating HTML is a bigger mistake. Generating HTML at runtime as a display layer for interactive applications is the basis for modern UIs & I want to cry
It’s time for cyberpunk games to remember how to be punk … http://www.pcgamer.com/its-time-for-cyberpunk-games-to-remember-how-to-be-punk/
How I learned to program https://danluu.com/learning-to-program/
As the year draws to a close it becomes ever more clear: nothing has prepared us for the Strange Times.
Today is boxing day. Celebrate by casting to Object.
Bad idea of the day: mirror all google fonts on ipfs and then use an extension that rewrites the urls to use that version. Alternately: use an extension that downloads them via tor.
In the flask is a hyperbolic ocean, near-infinite breadths that swallow light and your probes after centimeters. From time to time, a kraken or whale swims up to the glass to peer through
As the storm continues to rage, the compass rotates frantically, its rose withers, the directions become unfamiliar: feast, zest, counter-north
Hanging artificial fruits onto felled trees is a really weird custom when you think about it, it’s almost as if you were trying to make up for killing it
I wonder how much more effective trying to use scott/tiger as ackles for arbitrary oracle systems is than arbitrary (say) postgres systems
Dare to be Stupid: that time Weird Al tried to make fun of Devo and instead just became Devo
UFO IPO-182 – Take me to your dealer: the Pentagon UFO story, crowdfund… https://boingboing.net/2017/12/18/ufo-ipo-182-take-me-to-you.html
You know a situation is bad when the only way to prevent local monopolies on a popular service is to convince the town to run its own competitor and run cable.
The Matrix, but set in the Renaissance: A troupe of idealists tries to escape from god’s mind through alchemy and paradoxes while hunted by vengeful angels
André Staltz - A plan to rescue the Web from the Internet https://staltz.com/a-plan-to-rescue-the-web-from-the-internet.html
This Game Teaches You How to Build a Quantum Compu… https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3jkya/quantum-game-physics-computer-puzzle
This Code Is Remix… https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbzvad/this-code-is-remixing-translations-of-the-bible-to-find-new-meanings
Cold War propaganda: the truth belonged to no one country… https://aeon.co/essays/cold-war-propaganda-the-truth-belonged-to-no-one-country
Bad idea of the day: voting, except with a 30 year delay, to force people to actually think ahead.
Heuristic for cleaning up medium: start by unsubscribing from anybody who lists their occupation in their bio. Then, move on to anybody who posts under a name that looks real.
Hey~↵I stole an employee key to one of the skyscrapers, we have one night before they notice and revoke access!↵I’ve heard that from the roof, you can see the sky
Progress:↵1. spambots↵2. thirst bots, propaganda bots↵3. bots able to hold actual conversation, surrogate friends↵4. bots better than humans, none of the drama but all of the relationship↵5. social-network-in-a-box, a complete circle of friends for those done with the real world
If you leave books alone to build their own library hives, they end up hexagonal like those of bees. To protect the printing press that serves as queen, intruders are often trapped in endless mazes, for example Borges stumbled into one of those
A world where rockets are only good for punching holes in the firmament and nations spend billions on putting pixels in the sky, to paint their own constellations or deface those of others in a giant strategy game
Amazon (Germany) sells smart Christmas trees. Smart. Christmas. Trees. http://amzn.to/2BTzfVf
and if you do teach the AI empathy, well now it’s running 50 versions of you to understand you, only most of them suffer because how else is it going to know about bad decisions
specifically banned: “subpixel sword” (hacked item, unofficial, usage leads to permanent terrain and avatar corruption, described as “rendering between the pixels”, REPORT SIGHTINGS TO MODERATORS IMMEDIATELY)
by the way, if you can read pixie, try not to chuckle at the tribesman covered in badly mangled obscenities and especially do not explain them to him, that is if you’re not more physically intimidating than him
in absence of control over interest rates, states turn to energy prices to regulate their economies, some start experimenting with weather control schemes to direct water, wind, sun their way
@micaelwidell AliExpress has several offerings, some below $20. I found this video to be quite interesting https://t.co/mqOxGXkqua
Bittersweet version: The memory is definitely gone, but someone who loved the old protagonist tries to help them recover it↵↵Despair version: The mindwipe was an alternative to death penalty, still often people are angry at the protagonist for no reason they’d understand
The Matrix, but it’s other humans keeping you in it - nobody’s ever seen an agent but everybody swears they exist, nobody knows how to escape but it’s illegal anyway
For added fun, introduce extra levels until you arrive at the conceptual equivalent of “translated to Japanese and back ten times”
In a few years we’ll be able to take old games and run them through a realtime style transfer shader to play e.g. Half Life as imagined by Giger
physics is a scheme by the simulators to make us figure out optimizations for the simulation
Guns tend to empower white, financially unstable men—who oppose gun control | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/11/study-white-men-facing-money-trouble-tend-to-cling-to-guns-for-power-identity/
An art movement by the name of derealism: Just close enough to reality to be recognizable, but otherworldly or noticeably off, ideally inducing detachment from reality in the viewer/participant (hence the name)
The Declaration of Independence Is Hard to Read http://nautil.us/issue/54/the-unspoken/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-english-sentence
How To Design A Comic Book Page - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dQEfL2BfUM&t=335s
Mark Blyth: Why Do People Continue To Believe Stupid Economic Ideas? - Full Talk (April 2017) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq3s-Ifx1Fo
Dialectics & the Mechanics of History: A Repair Manual to Fix Our Future https://www.johnlaurits.com/2017/dialectics-history-marx-repair-manual/
the sun as black dwarf, cool enough to host life again, but it’s nearly two-dimensional due to the intense gravity
a sapphire sphinx on future mars, built to win a staring contest with the sun, watching what’s now a white dwarf, fixed in the sky
Wires in the suitcase’s inlay, in a complicated pattern computed from yesterday’s recognizer dump, are supposed to throw off the customs scanner AI. They do, you’re waved through, another friend smuggled into the country
Did you know that maps are voodoo dolls? When you draw a line on one, people will often try not to cross it in real life
I Unknowingly Went to a Trump Protest Organized by Russian Agents - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywb9kx/nyc-trump-election-protest-hack-russian-agents-trolls-government
To Save Net Neutrality, We Must Build Our Own Internet - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/7x4y8a/net-neutrality-fcc-community-networks
Mashed Potatoes History: The Long, Hard Road to Instant https://tedium.co/2017/11/21/mashed-potato-history/
Let’s open our sealed-off lives to semi-permeable architecture | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/lets-open-our-sealed-off-lives-to-semi-permeable-architecture
A Beginner‘s Guide To Robert Anton Wilson Part II: Prometheus Rising - disinformation http://disinfo.com/2017/11/beginners-guide-robert-anton-wilson-part-ii-prometheus-rising/
Scaling Dunbar’s number up to billions of people is hard even with augments, so you can lend your voice to an Übermensch: A meta-person that represents you and thousands of others, which talks to other Übermenschen to get person-years of communication done in mere minutes
@leveck@leveck.us I really want to use mastodon, but I just can’t seem to come up with a use case for me. Guess I don’t really do much Social Media type stuff
The Ancient Roman Cult That Continues to Vex Scholars - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mithraic-mysteries
the cave’s stones light up in response to your steps, flicker when you talk - you kick over a large stone and the thunder runs along the walls as luminescing wavefront
people are telepaths by default, it’s just that most humans are p-zombies and lack thoughts to be read
- humanity both outpaced and too poor to be useful anymore, non-symbiotic humans reduced to vermin, forced out of more and more habitats↵6. eventually exterminated as a side thought during some house cleaning
Julian Assange’s Hatred of Hillary Clinton Was No Secret. His Advice to Donald Trump Was. https://theintercept.com/2017/11/15/wikileaks-julian-assange-donald-trump-jr-hillary-clinton/
Tripping Balls and Learning to Work with The Patron Saint of Criminals - disinformation http://disinfo.com/2017/11/tripping-balls-learning-work-patron-saint-criminals/
Meet The People Who Listen to Podcasts Crazy-Fast https://www.buzzfeed.com/doree/meet-the-people-who-listen-to-podcasts-at-super-fast-speeds
volcano naiads, dancing along lava streams setting fire to things↵gravity well naiads, near-imperceptible ripples in the void↵comet naiads in cryosleep
maintain a steady infohazard diet like those animals that eat poisonous plants, so that your mind will poison those that try to eat it
Unicorn fiber in your pillow taps into your brain at night, sends your dreams to dreamtime’s Utah Datacenter, a memory fortress guarding dungeons many cubic nights large
Is it still working after transfer to different machine?
You Can Now Mine Cryptocurrency to Bail People Out of Jail - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vb3j93/you-can-now-mine-cryptocurrency-to-bail-people-out-of-jail-bail-bloc
This Algorithm Can Tell What You‘ve Learned Before Going to Sleep - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywbka5/algorithm-sleep-eeg-learning-memories
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I’d really like to know how you managed to use twtxt via XMPP. 🙂
@robbinaer@robbinaer.info Is it that bad? I’ll just wait till it hits debian experimental or unstable to test it on my laptop running debian testing.
Just installed twtxt as I already wanted to try it when reading about it there: https://robbinaer.info/index.php?article93/twtxt
How socialism helped to seed the landscape of modern religion | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/how-socialism-helped-to-seed-the-landscape-of-modern-religion
She logs on, quickly advances from stick figure to default model, then keeps mutating for seconds while textures and mannerisms load
Heaven schisms over whether to allow robot souls in, now it’s Heaven Classic™ and CyberHeaven (which among others has internet speeds measured in hard drives per second, self-recharging batteries, the best electronic music
occasionally a piece of the arches falls from the sky, passes lichens and human settlements clinging to the walls, kicks up a mighty cloud of dust and flattens a kingdom or two - yet the area is quickly resettled, the starstuff must be mined
» A Net Before the Web, Part 2: Service to Community The Digital Antiquarian http://www.filfre.net/2017/11/a-net-before-the-web-part-2-service-to-community/
Human Mini-Brains Growing Inside Rat Bodies Are Starting To Integrate - Slashdot https://science.slashdot.org/story/17/11/09/2314220/human-mini-brains-growing-inside-rat-bodies-are-starting-to-integrate
Hidden Tracks: Nowhere Left To Hide https://tedium.co/2017/11/09/hidden-tracks-album-history/
Cory Doctorow: How to Do Everything (Lifehacking Considered Harmful) – Locus Online http://locusmag.com/2017/11/cory-doctorow-how-to-do-everything-lifehacking-considered-harmful/
How to sell a country: the booming business of nation branding | News | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/07/nation-branding-industry-how-to-sell-a-country
webGL shader was supposed to fade from one image to another, over a number of frames. It did this instead. : glitch_art https://www.reddit.com/r/glitch_art/comments/78zn6l/webgl_shader_was_supposed_to_fade_from_one_image/
webGL shader was supposed to fade from one image to another, over a number of frames. It did this instead. : glitch_art https://www.reddit.com/r/glitch_art/comments/78zn6l/webgl_shader_was_supposed_to_fade_from_one_image/
Somebody wrote an email bot to waste scammers‘ time / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2017/11/08/somebody-wrote-an-email-bot-to.html
Many Academics Are Eager to Publish in Worthless Journals - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/science/predatory-journals-academics.html
What does small business really contribute to economic growth? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/what-does-small-business-really-contribute-to-economic-growth
The long goodbye to C | Armed and Dangerous http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7711
A Beginner‘s Guide to Robert Anton Wilson: Part I - disinformation http://disinfo.com/2017/11/beginners-guide-robert-anton-wilson-part/