Unusual core features for a dream language for small computing: MUMPS-style disk persistence of otherwise normal variables indicated by sigils, go-style piping between coroutines or greenthreads, message passing & guards like erlang, parsing backtracking like icon, constraint solving like prolog
Something that people keep forgetting about GitS: in every iteration of the franchise, full-body prosthetics are extremely rare. Cyberbrains are common, but suggesting that everybody with a cyberbrain has a prosthetic body is like saying everybody with a modem has full home automation.
it seemed like the static twtfile setup i used for âmoonâ fucked with twtxt cachingâŚ
Editions https://qz.com/1533143/the-best-way-to-use-social-media-is-to-act-like-a-19th-century-parisian/
Responses to my essay âTechâs Masturbatory Historiographyâ make me think that most people reading it donât know what âhistoriographyâ means. (Itâs exactly what it sounds likeâŚ)
This is math-heavy but the idea that âkeys are meta-taxonomic dimensionsâ reminds me of ZigZag & other elements make me think of parallel prolog-likes like mycroft â should re-read carefully later: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2009002_qod.pdf
No Title: A play like No Exit by Sartre, but four strangers have to agree on how to tag a moderately complicated CD in iTunes
I kind of want to use SILE (http://sile-typesetter.org/) for something, but I need a PDF generator like I need a hole in my head.
Bad idea of the day: train chess engines to play like specific historic players
GitHub - StevenBlack/hosts: Extending and consolidating hosts files from several well-curated sources like adaway.org, mvps.org, malwaredomainlist.com, someonewhocares.org, and potentially others. You can optionally invoke extensions to bl⌠https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
What could a Clojure/LISP editor be like? - Rakhim Davletkaliyev - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edQyRJyVsUg
I ate banana pancakes and now my burps taste like banana
What Itâs Like to Be Allergic to Corn - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/what-its-like-be-allergic-corn/580594/
Why Professional Magicians Donât Like Magic Kits https://tedium.co/2019/01/17/magic-kit-controversy-history/
Live every day like you are a background character in Mob Psycho 100.
Live every day like you are a credited but unnamed character who appears in exactly one scene in a David Lynch movie.
What would a world without pushbuttons look like? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/what-would-a-world-without-pushbuttons-look-like
Can a bat know what itâs like to not know what itâs like to be Thomas Nagel?
Lately Iâve been seeing a lot of cold takes by people who think theyâre hot. Like, long-form explanations of how âyou arenât required to agree with film criticismâ and âreading should be a pleasurable, low-pressure activityâ. Am I just disconnected?
Picture of corpus collosum labelled âyou may not like it but this is what peak performance looks likeâ
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.
Party like itâs 1943. #fireworks
Periodic reminder that, by using third party trackers, you are paying somebody to grep their http access log instead of greping your own. So, like, maybe roll your own analytics if you need them?
Re: code â keep throwing it away and rewriting from memory until implementing it doesnât seem like a big deal anymore. At that point, it might be marginally OK. (Or maybe youâve just acclimated to your failures.)
Angus Scrimm looks like a guy whose name is fucking Angus Scrimm
Why Your iPhone Selfies Donât Look Like Your Face - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/12/your-iphone-selfies-dont-look-like-your-face/578353/
What would space exploration look like if it starred more women? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/what-would-space-exploration-look-like-if-it-starred-more-women
Teleconferencing is like being on IRC, if everybody was a noob, two people typing at the same time made both of their posts into gibberish, and half the channel has a cat on their keyboard the entire time.
Telekon has a piano cover of Down in the Park & it makes me laugh ever goddamn time I hear it. Itâs like having a muzak cover of Bulls On Parade.
Is there a term for absurd euphemisms constructed for censoring dialogue for television â like âmelon farmerâ and âthis is what happens when you meet a stranger in the alpsâ? Is there a database of them?
Thread by @Aelkus: âStrange Days is seriously underrated The aesthetic of the movie, like Blade Runner is, very good and timeless due to its combination of futu [âŚ]â https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1069354595527344128.html
81: normal. except, if you pop off âescâ, thereâs an actual key under it. like, metal. I think it fits this keyhole in my screen?
Hot take: like most things that are good, Cowboy Bebop is mostly good because they stopped making it before it became bad. (If you donât believe me, watch the movie or read the tie-in manga.)
Remember: if a family member asks about your politics this thanksgiving, tell them youâre an anarchist & would like to abolish the concept of money. Itâll shut them up and itâs probably even true.
Why your Netflix thumbnails donât look like mine - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axCBA3VD5dQ
Conspiracy theories are the result of the same legibilitization process described in âSeeing Like a Stateâ: it replaces actual mechanism with a simpler one & drops details that donât fit, for the sake of ease of representation
Beware parasitic spells: Drawn to conduits of mana like practitioners, they attach themselves to larger spells to hitch a free ride, force themselves into invocations as intrusive thoughts
Why Thereâs No Place Quite Like the American Garage - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-architecture-of-garages
Easy XMPP with WhatsApp like contact discovery via phone number: https://quicksy.im/ #xmpp #quicksy #conversations
We will never know what itâs like to be the person the K-Mart PA systemâs 1994 holiday playlist wants us to be.
What Itâs Like to Be a Bot â Real Life https://reallifemag.com/what-its-like-to-be-a-bot/
Amiga like OSes on QEMU http://zero.eik.bme.hu/~balaton/qemu/amiga/
Slower-than-light biosphere arks start out large but become smaller with tech level, some of the most advanced interstellar ships look like bottle gardens that just happen to travel at 0.1c
One of those cult cinema distribution companies owns an actual video store â and itâs only like an hour or two from my house. Iâll have to make a trip out there at some pointâŚ
Cesar Sayoc and others on Twitter are behaving like bots. https://slate.com/technology/2018/11/cesar-sayoc-twitter-humans-behaving-bots.html
Science Is Full of Mavericks Like My Grandfather. But Was His Physics Theory Right? - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/science-full-mavericks-like-my-grandfather-was-his-physics-theory-right/574573/
Bad idea of the day: style transfer every frame of the new suspiria to look like the old suspiria
For #NaNoGenMo I converted two of Stravinskyâs ballets to tone-poems by converting note frequencies to word frequencies. I dare somebody to do a dramatic reading of these; itâll sound like an Underworld track: https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/nanogenmo-2018/stravinsky.md https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/nanogenmo-2018/stravinsky_pg.md
In one sense, âthe computer revolution is overâ because the period of exponential growth behind the tech ended 10 years ago. In another sense, it hasnât begun: we have sheltered ourselves from the social and intellectual ramifications of computing. Documents are still simulations of paper, & capitalism still exists. So itâs like that period where printing presses existed but everybody used a faux-calligraphic font.
Acting like an extravert has benefits, but not for introverts | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/acting-like-an-extravert-has-benefits-but-not-for-introverts
Characteristic for planets in certain stages of civilization are weather patterns that look like stock markets
Isnât it great that outlook just prevents people from emailing jar files to each other? Like, itâs not as though people occasionally need to send each other internal proprietary jars that arenât conveniently hosted.
Love it we have a âcontractâ developer but he is not in the right group to push commits to the code repo. When I suggested that he be added to the right group one of the other developers was like that will give him access to everything. Iâm sorry but what is everything? Itâs not like he can pull from any of the repos as it is. Right now he just canât commit.
It really pisses me off when people use âinfiniteâ to mean âreally bigâ. If somethingâs actually infinite, adding more to it produces the same number (like in Hilbertâs hotel)
Bad idea of the day: a database of maps of conceptual spaces that are drawn like maps of physical spaces (ex., xkcdâs map of the internet & Knuppeâs map of the fields of mathematics)
Acting like a psychopath is great for male CEOs, not so much for women | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/10/acting-like-a-psychopath-is-great-for-male-ceos-not-so-much-for-women/
SisterWriter is so weirdly lazy at times. Like, just rotating a cut 90 degrees and doing a static panning shot⌠Though, the characters are constantly off model and rarely animated or properly posed, so that might be for the bestâŚ
The protagonist of Bunny-Girl-senpai is almost the Kyon-style deadpan snarker (not distinct enough to really be a variant yet, like in Denpa Onna) but I canât tell if itâs an attempt at reconstruction like in SeirenâŚ
Language is a technology & we ought to start acting like it
If the Rich Really Want To âDo Good,â They Should Become Class Traitors Like FDR https://longreads.com/2018/10/18/review-of-winners-take-all/
ways of thinking that arenât language:âľ- climbing/dancing in ideaspace, problems as shifting mazes and solutions as lines of sightâľ- letting flowers or cities grow before your inner eyeâľ- breathing in a concept so it unfolds like spiderwebs on the inside of your skull
Is there already a term for going into a piece of media with the expectation that it wonât be a waste of time / thereâs something to be gained by paying attention & thinking? (Like âgood-faith viewershipâ?)
Bad idea of the day: an extension that replaces âOKâ on every button with âDoltâ, like God & the original Macintosh UI team intended
Seminars on Long-Term Thinking are hit-or-miss (like TED talks) but the latest with Julia Galef is pretty good.
Apparently hot take: automation tools donât obviate abstract discussions about how best to think about decisions (like âshould translations be precise or should they be accurateâ or âwhat is the goodâ) but make them more important.
The Internetâs keepers? âSome call us hoardersâI like to say weâre archivistsâ | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/10/the-internets-keepers-some-call-us-hoarders-i-like-to-say-were-archivists/
Elites like Amazonâs Jeff Bezos think theyâre being philanthropic. But they could do so much more. - Recode https://www.recode.net/2018/10/3/17930990/anand-giridharadas-winners-take-all-book-changing-world-kara-swisher-decode-podcast-jeff-bezos
The network uses the latest in content generation to cover for the user when they donât feel like updating. Or havenât logged in months. Or have tried to delete their account for the seventh time now.âľThe Content must flow.âľ(belated #invisiblenetworks, day 30)
simulator arxiv is probably full of physics papers that despite titles like âan autoethnography of living in universe [kolmogorov description]â are quite serious
Computers can solve your problem. You may not like the answer. - The Boston Globe https://apps.bostonglobe.com/ideas/graphics/2018/09/equity-machine/
warnings of the end appear in the stars, in randomness streams, on the insides of banana peelsâľâľthe last day goes by, the last night, and thenâľtime freezes, stutters, the sun smears across the sky like a video glitch
Moderan reads like if dril was a battle-cyborg & tried to write his autobiography but kept on getting distracted by how COOL it is to PLASTIC-WRAP THE EARTH.
Hot take: disambiguation in symbolic AI is probably a mistake, & weâd be better off with systems that pun uncontrollably because they operate on the locus of concepts rather than on their boundaries. You know, like a person.
Can somebody with access to SciAm or Nature summarize the substance of this SciAm article âSubliminal Messages Can Cause Forgettingâ for me? Is it just something stupid like âpriming can interfere with reencoding via jamais-vuâ?
No I know theyâd like to study it harder, but now imagine something thatâs both as ravenous as life and as competent as technology hitching a ride back up and escaping onto the interstellar stage, weâd lose that whole galaxy
sculpture ideas for zero G:âľ- stones held by nothing but extremely thin threadsâľ- a magnetic orrery, without all the supports one needs in gravityâľ- lego metacrystalsâľ- like strandebeests, but they snake lazily through the air when an eddy comes their wayâľ- light chimes
Non-programmers have invaded the programming area. It wouldnât be bad except some of them wear way too much perfume or cologne. Feel like I need a gas or filter mask.
Yeah, Munich leads in the first match this season. #MUCvsBER is even the same constellation like last years final. #DEL
shooting through space in a stasis pod, awake only a millisecond every year, watching the stars whirl by like fireflies
!!Con seems looks like a fun conference: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE7tQUdRKcyYK5q1bw_YlrnqOFv6_EOF-
!!Con seems looks like a fun conference: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE7tQUdRKcyYK5q1bw_YlrnqOFv6_EOF-
Nothing says that the other room has to be static, imagine for example having your morning coffee in there, setting down your cup, and the cathedralâs pillars curl up like ferns to reveal the sky
Idea for a room: Itâs empty save for a number of mobile screens that follow you around and with a little bit of head tracking, act like windows into a completely different building.âľYou could fit a cathedral in there, if so inclined, or maybe an Escherian maze.
unicode 2040 features:âľ- amoji: emoji, but abstractified like any ideographic writing system in active usageâľ- hypermoji: animated, holographic, interactive, moody, you name itâľ- U+FFF6 á´Ęá´Ęá´á´á´á´Ę á´É´á´á´ á´ÉŞĘá´ĘĘá´ ÉŞÉ´ Ęá´á´Ę á´á´ĘÉŞsá´ ÉŞá´á´ÉŞá´É´ (usually a transparent square)
@sdk@codevoid.de you know the more I think about it, it might make sense to have it the twtxt file. It would just need to be a comment line something like â#follows sdk gopher://codevoid.de/0/tw.txtâ on a single line. That way it would be easy to parse out those follows by finding the #follows.
This book is pretty good but Alex Wright keeps calling things like codex formats & indices âliterary hypertextâ. No, thatâs just text. Yes, I get that hypertext is more text than text; thatâs why itâs hyper.
Confirming the intelligent designerâs existence, and using its intelligence to solve otherwise intractable problems by making them look like niches for life to settle
Computability theory but for telos:âľ* What can be achieved with certain overarching goals like Survive, Understand, and Profit?âľ* How would a society balance them to get off this rock?âľ* And how would you deal with something like Profit emerging?
Learning BASIC Like Itâs 1983 https://twobithistory.org/2018/09/02/learning-basic.html
In case you were wondering, indeed, Female Prisoner Scorpion is a MUCH better movie than the title makes it sound like. (It is exploitation, but it is ALSO surreal impressionistic gothic horror. Also, every frame of this damn movie is gorgeous.)
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net This is completely contrary to what people want. People donât care about how something works. They want to use something thatâs premade and that they can use without learning anything about it. Decentralization is a technical Detail, nobody cares about. Just like security or freedom. Itâs 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 do most new cool things depend on hipster tech like nodejs? sigh #dat
Hot take: there are (somehow) no /mature/ GUI toolkits, but even under that low bar, thereâs lots of variability â and webtech makes TK look like the Sagrada Familia.
When a social structure is flat (like twitter) all friction is between people & thereâs no ânaturalâ adjuticator except a powerful & unaccoutable adjutication class. When it has cliques (like mastodon) it can be broken down & adjuticators are limited in power.
This is what filter bubbles actually look like - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611807/this-is-what-filter-bubbles-actually-look-like/
Hackers figure out how to inject đ-likes and the algorithms are high on complex math for days before the networkâs developers even figure out the problemâľ#invisiblenetworks (day 20)
So, the Pseudomonarchia is like A Thing in anime, isnât it⌠Using goetic demons as comic relief characters is something I see occasionally but it wasnât until Youâre Being Summoned, Azazel! that I realized that it wasnât just like 3 guys doing it.
Translit is a little like bittorrent, if bittorrent used literally the same bytes for AMVs and trailers as for the corresponding scenes in the show/movie. Transcopyright is like assembling AMVs from your own DVD boxed set based on a list of instructions & leaving a gap if youâre missing a disk.
Hey guys any of you have an idea why the udev daemon is pinned slightly above 100% CPU like all the time now?
When you donât think cybernetically, you ask questions like âdid X cause Y or did Y cause Xâ when actually most persistent things have self-perpetuating loops and cause themselves/each other. This will mystify you because aristotlean âfirst causeâ hierarchy shit baked your brain.