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

Social network tarot cards / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2017/11/04/social-network-tarot-cards.html

Perl is the most hated programming language / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2017/10/31/perl-is-the-most-hated-program.html

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/28/world/europe/tuam-ireland-babies-children.html

The 20 Most Terrifying Stories on the Internet http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/10/the-20-most-terrifying-stories-on-the-internet.html

Machine learning hobbyist Janelle Shane talks about her wacky neural nets. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/08/machine_learning_hobbyist_janelle_shane_talks_about_her_wacky_neural_nets.html

The Xerox Alto, Smalltalk, and rewriting a running GUI http://www.righto.com/2017/10/the-xerox-alto-smalltalk-and-rewriting.html

Bruce Haack‘s "Electric Lucifer," the rock opera / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2017/10/24/bruce-haacks-electric-luci.html

Dymaxion: Please Stop Writing Secure Messaging Tools https://dymaxion.org/essays/pleasestop.html

Storming the Ivory Tower: So Bad It’s Good: The Inhumans http://stormingtheivorytower.blogspot.com/2017/10/so-bad-its-good-inhumans.html

UbuWeb Sound - Sound Experiments in The Russian Avant-Garde (1908-1942) http://www.ubu.com/sound/russian_avant.html

Vim: Seven habits of effective text editing http://moolenaar.net/habits.html

We Don’t Do That Here http://www.thagomizer.com/blog/2017/09/29/we-don-t-do-that-here.html

http://georgemauer.net/2017/10/07/csv-injection.html

Bread and Circuses (circumlunar version) - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2017/09/bread-and-circuses-circumlunar.html

NixOS 17.09 released
NixOS 17.09 “Hummingbird” has been released, the eigth stable release
branch. See the release\
 notes
for details. You can get NixOS 17.09 ISOs and VirtualBox
appliances from the download\
 page. For information on how to upgrade from older release
branches to 17.09, check out the manual\
 section on\
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jsdatatable: a small datatable Javascript: https://www.codemadness.org/datatable.html

Tscrape: a Twitter scraper: https://www.codemadness.org/tscrape.html

@benaiah@benaiah.me sounds a lot like why many years ago, I went with Drupal for a simple Blogging site vs Wordpress. WP was easier but Drupal allowed me as an admin to not have any filters. Which allowed me to put raw HTML in the posts to control certian that I was doing at the time

Not drinking or driving, teens increasingly put off traditional markers of adulthood - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/neither-drinking-nor-driving-more-teens-are-putting-off-traditional-markers-of-adulthood/2017/09/18/b46027a0-93f1-11e7-8754-d478688d23b4_story.html

Clocks for Software Engineers http://zipcpu.com/blog/2017/09/18/clocks-for-sw-engineers.html

Storming the Ivory Tower: A Lot Of Preps Stared At Me: My Immortal and Parafiction https://stormingtheivorytower.blogspot.com/2017/09/a-lot-of-preps-stared-at-me-my-immortal.html

A bright and shiny hell - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2017/09/a-bright-and-shiny-hell.html

How airports became temples of our national, fear-fueled psychosis. http://www.slate.com/articles/business/cover_story/2017/09/how_airports_became_temples_of_our_national_fear_fueled_psychosis.html

The Fake News Pipeline: How A Small-Time Clickbait Farmer Is Spreading the Gospel of Big Oil :: Politics :: Features :: Bayou Bridge Pipeline :: Paste https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/09/the-fake-news-pipeline-how-two-small-time-clickbai.html

When computer predictions end up shaping the future. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/09/when_computer_predictions_end_up_shaping_the_future.html

Best Dystopian Books http://www.vulture.com/article/best-dystopian-books.html

Illuminopoly http://www.gamecabinet.com/rules/Illuminopoly.html

https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html

Down the Breitbart Hole - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/16/magazine/breitbart-alt-right-steve-bannon.html?mcubz=3

Body http://www.math.cornell.edu/~dwh/papers/crochet/crochet.html

Storming the Ivory Tower: Hack Monuments: The Methods of -punk https://stormingtheivorytower.blogspot.com/2017/08/hack-monuments-methods-of-punk.html

‘Virtue Signaling’ Isn’t the Problem. Not Believing One Another Is. - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/08/magazine/virtue-signaling-isnt-the-problem-not-believing-one-another-is.html

Help Wanted at the Climate Policy Sausage Factory - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2017/08/help-wanted-at-the-climate-pol.html

Claude Shannon http://www1.ece.neu.edu/~naderi/Claude%20Shannon.html

Quackspeak ascendant: China‘s subject-changing astroturfers rule the Chinese internet / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2017/08/03/tina-for-china.html

RFC 439 - PARRY encounters the DOCTOR https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc439

Stagit-gopher: a static git page generator for gopher: https://www.codemadness.org/stagit-gopher.html

Character and Exposition are Plot: Why most pop critical terms aren’t useful to writers - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2017/07/plot-is-character.html

http://www.vulture.com/2017/08/william-gibson-archangel-apocalypses-dystopias.html

Hostility & Online Discourse, Round Two https://www.sonyaellenmann.com/2016/05/hostility-online-discourse-round-two.html

Hostility & Online Discourse https://www.sonyaellenmann.com/2016/05/hostility-online-discourse.html

Practical Nootropics; Political Brainhacking https://www.sonyaellenmann.com/2017/07/nootropics-brainhacking.html

The Pull Request Hack - Felix Geisendörfer http://felixge.de/2013/03/11/the-pull-request-hack.html

The history of calling artists “sellouts.” http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2017/07/the_history_of_calling_artists_sellouts.html?curator=MusicREDEF

lainspotting: Robert Anton Wilson on Usenet (1995-2003) http://www.lainspotting.com/2017/07/robert-anton-wilson-on-usenet-1995-2003.html

Artificial Intelligence Is Stuck. Here’s How to Move It Forward. - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/29/opinion/sunday/artificial-intelligence-is-stuck-heres-how-to-move-it-forward.html?mcubz=0&mtrref=t.co&assetType=opinion

2,000+ Cassettes from the Allen Ginsberg Audio Collection Now Streaming Online | Open Culture http://www.openculture.com/2017/07/2000-cassettes-from-the-allen-ginsberg-audio-collection-now-streaming-online.html

England’s Mental Health Experiment: No-Cost Talk Therapy - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/24/health/england-mental-health-treatment-therapy.html?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email

Paging Agent 007 - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2017/07/paging-agent-007.html

These trippy videos are designed to entice you to purchase eyewear / Boing Boing http://boingboing.net/2017/07/16/these-trippy-videos-are-design.html

A Whimsical Wordsmith Charts a Course Beyond Twitter - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/15/magazine/a-whimsical-wordsmith-charts-a-course-beyond-twitter.html##%E2%80%9CI+was+able+to+be+funny+and+natural+through+the+keyboard+and+awkward+and+quiet+and+weird+in+person%2C%E2%80%9D+he+told+me.+%E2%80%9CI+wonder+how+many+writers+of+this+generation+figured+out+how+to+write+through+chat.%E2%80%9D

Humans and machines can make beautiful music together. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/07/humans_and_machines_can_make_beautiful_music_together.html?curator=MusicREDEF

Short Story - Superiority - by Arthur C. Clarke http://www.mayofamily.com/RLM/txt_Clarke_Superiority.html

In the Ruins — Greg Egan http://www.gregegan.net/MISC/RUINS/Ruins.html

The Splintered Mind: The Social-Role Defense of Robot Rights https://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/the-social-role-defense-of-robot-rights.html

Report on Seat 14C - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2017/07/report-on-seat-14c.html

Nix-dev mailing list moved
The nix-dev mailing list has moved to
nix-devel
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Hated by the Right. Mocked by the Left. Who Wants to Be ‘Liberal’ Anymore? - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/magazine/hated-by-the-right-mocked-by-the-left-who-wants-to-be-liberal-anymore.html

HEXEN 2.0 http://www.suzannetreister.net/HEXEN2/TAROT_COL/HEXEN_2_TAROT.html

Binary file (standard input) matches http://www.suzannetreister.net/HEXEN2/HEXEN_2.html

How Mitch McConnell wins. https://slate.com/business/2017/06/how-mitch-mcconnell-wins.html

Quantifying the influence of 4chan‘s alt-right trolls on normies’ discourse / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2017/06/23/weird-raids.html

Culture - “Discovery Engine” Review http://tra38.github.io/blog/the-discovery-engine.html

NixCon 2017
We’re happy to announce that NixCon 2017, the
second Nix Conference, will take place October 28–31 2017 in Munich
For more information, see the
NixCon 2017 website.
And please consider
submitting a talk! ⌘ Read more

More science fiction can help us create a better tomorrow. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/06/more_science_fiction_can_help_us_create_a_better_tomorrow.html

Assembled Poems http://www.cmyr.net/work/assembled-poems.html

Masterprints: synthetic fingerprints that unlock up to 65% of phones (in theory) / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2017/04/14/something-you-have-2.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/10/opinion/sunday/stop-pretending-youre-not-rich.html?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/10/opinion/sunday/stop-pretending-youre-not-rich.html?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email

Saait: a boring HTML page generator: https://www.codemadness.org/saait.html

https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2016/01/14/meet-the-man-classifying-every-genre-of-music-on-spotify-all-1387-of-them.html?curator=MusicREDEF https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2016/01/14/meet-the-man-classifying-every-genre-of-music-on-spotify-all-1387-of-them.html?curator=MusicREDEF

Work in progress: Portraits of Imaginary people http://mtyka.github.io/machine/learning/2017/06/06/highres-gan-faces.html

You and Your Research http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

The World of Tomorrow - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2017/05/the-world-of-tomorrow.html

Errata Security: How The Intercept Outed Reality Winner http://blog.erratasec.com/2017/06/how-intercept-outed-reality-winner.html?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=New%20Campaign&utm_term=%2ASituation%20Report#.WTalP0opChA

THINK TANK; The Penis as Text for Serious Thinkers: Be Careful What You Wish For - The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/22/books/think-tank-the-penis-as-text-for-serious-thinkers-be-careful-what-you-wish-for.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/magazine/the-mystery-of-the-wasting-house-cats.html?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/magazine/the-mystery-of-the-wasting-house-cats.html?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email

Stagit: a static git page generator: https://www.codemadness.org/stagit.html

@trqx@0x1A4.1337.cx write a fun numpop clone https://tx.god.jp/code/cnumpop/files.html. I got 590 points with the seed 1493407649, can anyone beat that? :)

@trqx@0x1A4.1337.cx write a fun numpop clone https://tx.god.jp/code/cnumpop/files.html. I got 590 points with the seed 1493407649, can anyone beat that? :)

#txtnish supports exporting your timeline to html with –theme html since last night. See https://domgoergen.com/twtxt/timeline.html for an example.

#txtnish supports exporting your timeline to html with –theme html since last night. See https://domgoergen.com/twtxt/timeline.html for an example.

HOW TO STUDY ⌘ http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/howtostudy.html

HOW TO STUDY ⌘ http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/howtostudy.html

A linguist on Arrival’s alien language ⌘ http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/11/22/a_linguist_on_arrival_s_alien_language.html

A linguist on Arrival’s alien language ⌘ http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/11/22/a_linguist_on_arrival_s_alien_language.html

NixOS 17.03 released
NixOS 17.03 “Gorilla” has been released, the seventh stable release
branch. See the release\
 notes
for details. You can get NixOS 17.03 ISOs and VirtualBox
appliances from the download\
 page. For information on how to upgrade from older release
branches to 17.03, check out the manual\
 section on\
 upgrading. ⌘ Read more

@kas@enotty.dk If i’m reading http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3.5 correctly, the character ‘:’ is explicitly allowed

@kas@enotty.dk If i’m reading http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3.5 correctly, the character ‘:’ is explicitly allowed

@quite@lublin.se There is even a section rfc7234 about heuristic expiration times: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7234#section-4.2

@quite@lublin.se There is even a section rfc7234 about heuristic expiration times: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7234#section-4.2

@tx@0x1A4.1337.cx Is you page publicly accessable? Maybe i should add exporting to html to #txtnish, seems like a thing many users wan to to?

@tx@0x1A4.1337.cx Is you page publicly accessable? Maybe i should add exporting to html to #txtnish, seems like a thing many users wan to to?

@dave@davebucklin.com Nice! http://davebucklin.com/play/2017/03/05/setting-up-twtxt.html

@dave@davebucklin.com Nice! http://davebucklin.com/play/2017/03/05/setting-up-twtxt.html

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net https://www.earth.li/~noodles/blog/2017/03/github-tos-change.html

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net https://www.earth.li/~noodles/blog/2017/03/github-tos-change.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/business/andy-weirs-best-seller-the-martian-gets-a-classroom-friendly-makeover.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/business/andy-weirs-best-seller-the-martian-gets-a-classroom-friendly-makeover.html

Rant of the Day: https://scsh.net/docu/html/man.html