Stages, Structures, and the Work of Being Yourself | L.M. Sacasas https://thefrailestthing.com/2019/03/14/carnival-of-the-self/

So glad to see some fresh, new, good-looking folk-horror with Midsommar. Judging by previous work on Hereditary, it should be fantastic.

TIL that there’s an organization for promoting McLuhan’s work whose initialism is TMI.

at-work-editions https://qz.com/work/1560079/maximizing-shareholder-profits-is-a-great-way-to-destroy-humanity/

Why Conspiracy Videos Go Viral on YouTube - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/02/reason-conspiracy-videos-work-so-well-youtube/583282/

The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebook-content-moderator-interviews-trauma-working-conditions-arizona

A lot of large software projects are so bad that liking them should automatically disqualify someone from working on them, unless you like them in a masochistic semi-sexual way.

Media mix is interesting. You can optimize a work for adaptation but that keeps you from taking advantage of features of your medium. The best adaptations are sometimes difficult-to-adapt medium-specific forms that forced creativity (ex. Bakemonogatari)

why are there so many decentralized social media projects that aren’t well known and haven’t been worked on in a few years

shout out to everybody who keeps translating ‘denpa’ as ‘microwave’ instead of ‘psychotronic’: 10/10 subtle troll, excellent work

The most important operation in QNX is MsgSend, which works like an interprocess… | Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9872640

”[A] post-work future nobody outside of silicon valley asked for” dude, I think everybody who has ever worked is asking for a post-work future…

@metamurks@www.metamurks.org that sucks. Hope the USB Dongle works out for you.

@von@tilde.town your posting to the future worked for me.

An AI is playing Pictionary to figure out how the world works - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612882/an-ai-is-playing-pictionary-to-figure-out-how-the-world-works/

Is The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Heinlein’s All-Time Greatest Work? | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2019/01/31/is-the-moon-is-a-harsh-mistress-heinleins-all-time-greatest-work/

Niklaus Wirth apparently worked on a plugin that would run JIT-compiled oberon ASTs in the browser as applets back in the mid-90s: https://github.com/berkus/Juice

I work in IT, which is the reason our house has: mechanical locks, mechanical windows, routers using OpenWRT, no smart home crap, no Alexa/Google Assistant/…, no internet connected thermostats

Apparently, when I pitched the idea of replacing backtracking with forking (with lazy side effecting of course) a ~year ago, I was reinventing STEPS work from 2008: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/rn2008003_john.pdf

Why not apply the principles of the jury system to democracy?
Not only do we know that Democracy as we know it doesn’t work, in 1787 the man who gave us democracy here in the USA told us that it would not work, hence the second amendment. They said this is the best we have deal with it. Don’t let it get too big! What did […] ⌘ Read more

@robbinaer@robbinaer.info I still have so much work to do in the renderer … but the next big goal is to jump to a chapter via the toc.

@robbinaer@robbinaer.info I still have so much work to do in the renderer … but the next big goal is to jump to a chapter via the toc.

okay let’s see if this works

How Dat Works https://datprotocol.github.io/how-dat-works/

let’s see if this function thing works

How tax brackets actually work - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJhsjUPDulw

Can Conspiracy Thrillers Work Under a Conspiracy Presidency? https://www.vulture.com/2019/01/can-conspiracy-thrillers-work-under-a-conspiracy-presidency.html

My mother’s work in the news: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/its-ben-franklins-birthday-here-are-all-his-papers-180949400/

Visualising Networks of Electronic Literature: Dissertations and the Creative Works They Cite http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/visualising-networks-of-electronic-literature-dissertations-and-the-creative-works-they-cite/

I’m currently streaming the last push on developing Manna for our Malices, the game I’ve been working on for 1.5 years: https://www.twitch.tv/enkiv2

Since it’s friday, if I have the energy, after work I’ll stream my final push on finishing implementing MfoM. Y’know, in case anybody wants to watch me write ‘code’ that’s actually mostly dialogue.

So, I’m working on a fediverse client based on https://web.archive.org/web/20190101185657/https://jfm.carcosa.net/blog/computing/usenet/ ; it’s here: https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/fern . It is currently read-only, but it has read history.

Trendism follows the logic of capital. The more capital you have, the less risk any investment is & the more you stand to gain from it. Given a diverse portfolio, a large investment will grow while a small one disappears: capital’s gravity at work.

Enlightenment can be yours for just $10 | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/6889/school-of-practical-philosophy-philosophy-works-new-york-subway-ad

Walt Disney’s Public Domain Works https://tedium.co/2019/01/03/public-domain-disney/

Watching these featurettes about Bandersnatch & the bits that they’re making out to be a big deal or super difficult are the ones I (and every other VN dev) do all the time. Meanwhile, they barely mention working with actors & shit.

Progress report: the current build of Manna for our Malices should actually be playable to completion. Gotta double-check, but in theory everything should be reachable. Remaining work: fill in fluff like the rest of the school day.

social_media_design | How should names work in a distributed system? A suggestion for a context-aware petname approach https://social-media-design.dreamwidth.org/886.html

Screw the notional Zizek vs Peterson debate. I wanna see a Zizek vs Land debate. Or Zizek and Land debating Mark Fisher through an Ouija board. (The board doesn’t need to work. Better if it doesn’t.)

If it doesn’t work properly with javascript turned off, it’s not really a website. If it doesn’t work properly with css turned off, it’s not really a website. If it doesn’t work properly in a text-only environment, it’s not really a website.

Every time I complain about how computers can be made better (if we work together) I get a bunch of people criticizing me for being insufficiently grateful. Bitch, I’m a programmer. I know how much effort somebody put into this shit, & it’s not enough.

There’s this approach to computing history where we focus on work that looks shallowly similar to current norms, claim that work was ‘prophetic’ or ‘ahead of its time’, & mostly ignore differences & intent except as quirks. Fuck that.

Github is putting up a banner saying that the version of firefox I’m using is no longer supported. That’s fuckin’ wild to me. It’s 2018: if your website doesn’t work on Mosaic & Lynx, it’s broken.

Short work week and about half the office is out.

Just created my first proper document in Scribus. It worked better than I expected.

Every computer program is also a persuasive essay & a work of interactive performance art, and if you don’t consider it through those lenses when writing it you run the risk of persuading people of something you don’t agree with.

Xanadu Basics 2 - Five working Xanadu Systems (four usable) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_o8q4Sp-w0

Cat Work Processor : David T. Craig : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/CatWorkProcessor

Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today’s http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_workweek.html

How YouTube’s Recommendation Algorithm Really Works - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/11/how-youtubes-algorithm-really-works/575212/

How to get rich quick, apparently: rephrase the obvious as though it is the revolutionary for the benefit of the stupid, and pepper it with the wrong to drum up ‘controversy’. (Worked for Peterson)

The project I’m working on went “live” this morning. Even though most us developers think we shouldn’t have.

post-N235 Prolog prologue (Working draft) https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/ulrich/iso-prolog/prologue

At work for only 70 min and I already want to go home.

Having a fun day trying to sort out why my code isn’t working. Only to find out the API server I’m calling is borked.

There are days I don’t know why I come into work.

Sam Raimi - How Does Horror Comedy Work? (video essay) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwcjToDEsUY

Pet peeve: on my work computer, 80% of my lobste.rs comments double-post because of some kind of missing deduplication logic. Then, I have to periodically go through all my threads to delete the duplicates. Sometimes one copy of the post will have 2 upvotes & the other 3.

I don’t know why but Openconnect no longer will connect to my work VPN.

@sdk@codevoid.de Why doesn’t that shock me. Hell I’ve worked places where they had a strong firewall that blocked a lot of sites and yet I was allowed to SSH out, setup a tunnel, and bypass the firewall.

I’m getting used to OpenBSD rather fast. I’s really very consistent and joyful to work with. #openbsd

The global economy: gamblers betting on the effectiveness of bad assumptions made based on wide but shallow surveillance in influencing the distribution of ads that don’t work for products that nobody wants and nobody can afford to people who are using adblock.

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net: As long as they are dimmable or relate to the screen brightness. I’m often working in the dark with 1% screen brightness.

Let’s bring back the Sabbath as a radical act against ‘total work’ | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/lets-bring-back-the-sabbath-as-a-radical-act-against-total-work

As much as I love photography… working on the pictures for hours afterwards wears me out. But ususally the result rewards for everything. So I just keep working…

@sdk@codevoid.de I see as I am reading your tweet. Just tried to add you and it works. 😃

QOTD: ‘I am now at work on an apparatus by means of which, when it is perfected, I hope to manifest in their essential purity the radiations of malign force.’

mind over matter works a lot better if you use a hammer

@sdk@codevoid.de I have to admit that’s true. While I don’t call myself an expert, I almost always wore several hats at places I’ve worked. Programmer, Server Admin, Network Admin, Cable Puller, Telephone Admin, PBX installer, Database Admin, etc

One thing for sure on this project I’m working on, being able to run multiple CURL requests at once has been a real time saver.

Bursting stovepipes creates an intellectual explosion, but it’s short-lived. You don’t get scenius without tribes, but you also don’t get it without potlatches. The periodic nature of the potlatch is necessary, & so is the discarding of material work.

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net This is completely contrary to what people want. People don’t care about how something works. They want to use something that’s premade and that they can use without learning anything about it. Decentralization is a technical Detail, nobody cares about. Just like security or freedom. It’s all nice to have if it comes for free, no time investment and no convenience cuts. So the only way to establich decentralization is by making it better, cheaper and easier to use than centralized services. #sadtruth

Why Folklorists Hate Joseph Campbell’s Work | Jeana Jorgensen http://www.patheos.com/blogs/foxyfolklorist/why-folklorists-hate-joseph-campbells-work/

What (Else) Cells At Work Can Teach Us - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u2Uh4SWGd8

@metamurks@www.metamurks.org Thanks! Programming gopher://taz.de was the most fun i had in ages. And it was for work! Kind of. :)

@metamurks@www.metamurks.org Thanks! Programming gopher://taz.de was the most fun i had in ages. And it was for work! Kind of. :)

Hot take: when a type of work is no longer necessary, it becomes a hobby or luxury/artisinal work, & this is good for everybody involved.

I love working with 3rd Party software. When you have an issue you get to put in a ticket and then wait weeks for a response.

I’m always amazed at how many people I work with go out to eat each day. I don’t know how they afford to that.

It’s tough to be motiviated to work on a project that has no real plan.

@derkirch@derkirche.blinkenshell.org Am curious how this experiment will work. 😃

Damn, colors are not working on openbsd! #txtnish

Damn, colors are not working on openbsd! #txtnish

Haskell Works Blog - Introduction to the rank-select bit-string https://haskell-works.github.io/posts/2018-08-01-introduction-to-rank-select-bit-string.html

Band name of the day: the Forgotten Works

Hot take: cybernetics is an extremely powerful model if you understand the feedback mechanisms in place & game theory is an extremely powerful model if you understand the incentives, but you don’t, so be careful & check your work

Annie Lowrey on her new book, Give People Money, and how UBI could work in the U.S. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/07/annie-lowrey-on-her-new-book-give-people-money-and-how-ubi-could-work-in-the-u-s.html

It is probably an evil hack, but it is working: I created a #XMPP bot which monitors news feeds for updates and posts them to a MUC. https://salsa.debian.org/mdosch-guest/feed-to-muc

So, I’m going on a 6 hour road trip on Friday the 13th, starting after work on a day when I woke up at 5am. Wish me luck.

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net yeah, seems like it works again today. Yesterday they had no more quieries left.

@kas@enotty.dk nice. 😎 Let’s see if this addon works: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hooktubeify/

Hot take: the more powerful you are, the harder people under you will work to save you from your bad choices, & the harder they’ll avoid actually addressing those problems. A perfect storm for inflated confidence: your continued success is owed to the people covering your ass, but you attribute it even more to yourself.

Bad idea of the day: A lootbox service for public-domain work – every month you get a hardcover of a PD book & a vinyl of a PD recording

Reading about Web Prolog & it reminds me a lot of the work I did on Mycroft. I wonder: how will routing work here? If fully-qualified predicates have an explicit hostname component, Web Prolog can go fuk.

Effective Standards Work, Part 1: The Lay Of The Land | Infrequently Noted https://infrequently.org/2018/06/effective-standards-work-part-1-the-lay-of-the-land/

Hot take: it’s important to distinguish ‘junk food media’ (i.e., stuff that, regardless of technical competence, will succeed by delivering on purience) from ‘premium media’ (works whose popularity depends on craftsmanship). The former is more important for the progress of art, because polish runs counter to experimentation.

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net It works now. 😀

Go is a much stranger language than I initially understood. Anyhow, this is my work thus far on an implementation of the Io language in it: https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/kamui/senketsu.go

Bad idea of the day: altcoin where the proof of work is correctly decoding messages from extraterrestrial civilizations

Hot take: anybody who understands markets isn’t going to be a free-market purist. A market is a piece of social machinery with particular environmental requirements under which it works, & those requirements are rare.