Feel Good Inc but every word is reversed, yet the melody is still the same - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi5-yi-q2Cs
an autoiconic language of words that are only themselves, spoken not because it ‘means’ anything but because it’s a joy to have on the tongue
Hot take: Everybody whose handle is the word ‘Real’ followed by a name is DEFINITELY a fake/parody account. Fite me.
Provided one can catch up, generation ships are an anthropologist’s treasure trove: Some are past societies preserved in amber, others are, for lack of a better word, highly fermented, have been invaded by aliens or entered some weird new symbiosis with stowaway mushrooms
Bad idea of the day: Get Annals of the Perrigues style themed corpora type output in your templates by adjusting probabilities by the semantic distance between a choice & some word that is the locus of a theme, with word2vec or something
Science Fiction Writer Robert J. Sawyer: WordStar: A Writer’s Word Processor https://www.sfwriter.com/wordstar.htm
Bad idea of the day: treating asemic combinations of dictionary words as an aesthetic to be appropriated by commerce, and appropriating it with commerce, thus making attempts to identify dictionary-based chaffing techniques lossier
Bad idea of the day: creating ads that target asemic combinations of dictionary words order to identify people who use dictionary-based chaffing techniques
Bad idea of the day: running a script that speaks random words aloud all day while you leave your phone at home, in order to chaff your audio-surveillance-based ad targeting
A few words on Doug Engelbart http://worrydream.com/Engelbart/
This Man Committed Paradise Lost to Memory for Mental Exercise http://nautil.us/blog/-this-man-memorized-a-60000_word-poem-using-deep-encoding
Bad idea of the day: Replace each word with another with maximum delta in word vector space but minimum edit distance, or vice versa. Tune weights until result is interesting.
Band name of the day: the words of conjunction
On word embeddings - Part 1 http://ruder.io/word-embeddings-1/
Seers are reverse wizards, their words are caused by future events instead of the other way round
Pay for Your Words | Peter Pomerantsev | Granta Magazine https://granta.com/pay-for-your-words/
BBC - Culture - Twenty-six words we donât want to lose http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20171122-twenty-six-words-we-dont-want-to-lose
Understanding word vectors: A tutorial for "Reading and Writing El… https://gist.github.com/aparrish/2f562e3737544cf29aaf1af30362f469
Sniglet History: The Art of Invented Words https://tedium.co/2018/03/01/sniglet-history-rich-hall/
It is written here that the ancients wrote their books in hyper-ink on pages of spidersilk that they assembled into webs. One word of this ink, my friend, could contain a book, but sadly, most of their works fell victim to inkrot
a language old enough to have a chromosomal eve - one word from which all other still-extant words have mutated
And still, she walks besides you but as outline now - dirt on a wall and gaps between cars, wind in grass and cloud formations, stray words from other conversations that somehow form sentences
Bad idea of the day: an extension that renders every word in a font chosen based on the hash of that word
Bad idea of the day: an extension that runs term extraction on whatever web page you’re viewing and then increases the size and contrast of words based on their computed importance ranking
Bad idea of the day: set your voice assistant’s wake word to ‘OK computer’
Lurking in an orbit hidden between our satellites, the alien quietly watches, extremely interested yet content to never exchange a word with us
Now, as you all know from Ouroboros theory 101, the unknot ouroboros is really stable. Why is that? Well, look at that word: Un-knot equals not-not equals truth - it’s self-grounding! In fact, it’s kind of a pest. However, with most other knots
GitHub - mewo2/ketchum: Use word vectors to interactively generate lists of similar words https://github.com/mewo2/ketchum
Describing Words - Find Adjectives to Describe Things http://describingwords.io/for/adjective
Describing Words - Find Adjectives to Describe Things http://describingwords.io/
New repository: aquilax/bg-words-dict - Списък с думи на български език.
Leah’s PhD: Working with Word Clouds – Leah Henrickson https://bhilluminated.wordpress.com/2017/07/18/word-clouds/
New repository: aquilax/wordgame - Word Game search library
Word embeddings in 2017: Trends and future directions http://ruder.io/word-embeddings-2017/
Etched into maternity ward doors in spectral runes, the words “memento nasci” are meant to remind ghosts of birth and their own finity
"Experimental Creative Writing with the Vectorized Word" by Allison Parrish - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3D0JEA1Jdc
How Fossil Fuel Money Made Climate Change Denial the Word of God http://splinternews.com/how-fossil-fuel-money-made-climate-denial-the-word-of-g-1797466298?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
Word Vectors and SAT Analogies http://planspace.org/20170705-word_vectors_and_sat_analogies/
Fighting Words | Laurie Penny https://thebaffler.com/war-of-nerves/fighting-words
Ghost word - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_word
I like to imagine that when people repeat letters in txtspk, their voice is being sampled to say the same word over and over again
Modeled after humans a little too closely, in the end the words that doom humanity are a lovesick AI’s “If I can’t have you, nobody will”
Words Have Discovered How to Make Love: 3 Poems by Surrealist Masters | Literary Hub http://lithub.com/words-have-discovered-how-to-make-love-3-poems-by-surrealist-masters/
Gods talk in worlds to convey meaning, not words. Pilgrims will travel them in sequence in the hope of understanding maybe one sentence
What Even Is a Word? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu3eDf4p0r0
however, these are hard to talk to, they refuse to use words and will instead wander over your screen in murmurations of pixels
TBD: Use the word “clusterfuck” at least twice as much as I already do.
idea addressed networking, a paradigm under which packets reach their destinations through social network shares and word-of-mouth
his words solidify and drift to the floor where they crack open and grow into flowers, fire-colored moss, pebble nymphs and bonsai thickets
the word syzygy describes itself and whoever smuggled that into the english language deserves a medal
@tx@0x1A4.1337.cx Hard to type and remember and to add insult to injury a dictionary word… mhhh… :)
@tx@0x1A4.1337.cx Hard to type and remember and to add insult to injury a dictionary word… mhhh… :)
one german word which doesn’t have a good translation (see its root word) https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/841732332449067012/photo/1
because words like “sublime” lose their strength after the 12th last.fm comment in a row
https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27025↵totally agree we need more words for happiness/pleasure and ways of things being nice https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/841729902055419905/photo/1
She takes off her glasses and eyes, places them on the desk, the sockets focus on you↵”In your own words now, why do you deserve a raise”
Programmers have dozens of words for mistake: error, bug, glitch, crash, race, null deref, panic, hang, deadlock, exception, programming,
clap emoji text but with silence between the words
“Time is a river and some of us can afford to pay the ferryman” are the last words he hears before the building collapses around him.
The library is burning. Words, now birds, soar through the night on wings of fire.↵↵RIP what.cd, you meant so much to me.
And on the pedestal, these words appear: “Made in China
Drink the night from my hands, speak with its voice. Wrap your words in cloaks of darkness, or make them rustle like leaves.
Hoping to tame it, you put the dragon in a cage of words. But it infuses them with fire and they fly like shrapnel through all your spells.
mind virus: words only, needs a host brain↵mind bacterium: tiny self-sufficient mind, can infect brains but is perfectly happy to eat books
magic is reverse memory: action comes from words
“Live by the word, die by the word” - Inscription on the magical criminal court’s gate
What if there’s a rich existing toolset to deal with words that have power, right in front of us?↵What if magical thinking is actually good?
the rainbow has gained an additional black, deep and brilliant, the thunder seems to be forming words, the wind feels like searching hands
Ghostfire rages in the library, leaves paper untouched but consumes all the words. They light up, utter themselves, vanish from the page,
I found a word for this (and “spoiling a joke through explanation”), but the etymology only works in German:↵zerklären (zerstören+erklären)
The ASCIImo have 128 words for ‘character’.
An immortal’s vocabulary is usually extremely broad. Each guards libraries worth of words, describing landscapes that have died before them.
A tale of elsewhere so compelling, the words themselves pack up and leave, wander from mouth to mouth to find the place they sing of
world words, holographic carriers of meaning from which you can reconstruct the entire book, language, society, universe
the mosquitoes here penetrate skulls to suck ideas↵if you swat one, it’ll leave an ink-black smear of words and images on your palm
KnowYourMeme and their ilk are the butterfly collectors of memes: pin them down with words and leave them well defined, sterile and unmoving
Mythologos:↵(n) appeal to narrative↵(n) appeal of narrative↵(n) the Word as told↵(n) narrative principle underlying history and future
Words fall to the ground behind you as you speak, every night the sidewalks are full of words and every morning, street sweepers clean up
A parasitic word jumps from sentence to sentence, disguising as other words and taking ｔｈｅｉｒ place, feeding off meaning meant for others.
The stroke stole all his words but the stories still burn in his mind. He now cooks them, talks in spices to people his subtlety is lost on.
you profess your undying love but get the word order wrong and it comes out as “I will kill you and fuck the [reanimated] body”
Android bodies are expensive, so why not take the ad financed plan? Just one minute of your time every day for words from our sponsors.
Words, conceived to be spoken only once, lost the moment after.↵Unwords, part of no language.↵Unlanguage, conveying antimeaning.
As he got old, he forgot all the words but his mind stayed sharp. Down to hundred, ten words, he became a master of ambiguity and context.
A culture in which executioner came to be the same word as barkeeper. You enter the bar and ask for a little death.
@kdave@kdave.github.io It should match the full word, but it’s currently matching the prefix as %tag is easier to implement. But it’s on my todo list.
@kdave@kdave.github.io It should match the full word, but it’s currently matching the prefix as %tag is easier to implement. But it’s on my todo list.
@allgebrah mind you the observation itself is not new at all (see: gibson’s gernsback continuum) but maybe the word is?
The tiger is patterned/blank, striped in words and spaces, to hide better in books. It preys on weak sentences and unsuspecting readers.
Find words for twt: perl -lane ‘$line=$_;s/[aeoui]//g;print $line if /twt/i’ /usr/share/dict/words – I like twitch… :)
Find words for twt: perl -lane ‘$line=$_;s/[aeoui]//g;print $line if /twt/i’ /usr/share/dict/words – I like twitch… :)
The choir begins to play, the audience finds itself speechless and indeed thoughtless at certain words. They experience only what remains.
Its honey is less dangerous, but the words are filtered through the beehive’s consciousness. Beekeepers eat it as an initiation rite.
There is an orchid that looks like a human ear. Smoke its leaves, and all words ever spoken near it will force their way out of your mouth.
It appears that I have inadvertently invented a word: Golemistics (the art and science of golems and their creation)
words like birds, they plunder↵words like swords, they sunder↵words like herds, they thunder↵words like turds, a blunder
acquired a sample of this potion that made you fly↵mixed it into ink, did not drink↵the words flew away as soon as the paper dried
Humans dance their bodies around things to infuse them with meaning, e.g. a sacrificial fire↵They do the same dance with words, around ideas
Violence is a meme that transmits itself through deed rather than word.