Sort By Controversial | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/
fogus: Soup http://blog.fogus.me/2018/10/25/soup/
Bad idea of the day: Prevent any party from having representatives in more than 10% of the seats in congress or senate, including at the state level. If any party goes over 10% we redo the election in all affected areas.
After World War I, Horror Movies Were Invaded By an Army of Reanimated Corpses https://longreads.com/2018/10/31/after-world-war-i-horror-movies-were-invaded-by-an-army-of-reanimated-corpses/
In one sense, ‘the computer revolution is over’ because the period of exponential growth behind the tech ended 10 years ago. In another sense, it hasn’t begun: we have sheltered ourselves from the social and intellectual ramifications of computing. Documents are still simulations of paper, & capitalism still exists. So it’s like that period where printing presses existed but everybody used a faux-calligraphic font.
These Are the Bad Times – Hmm Daily https://hmmdaily.com/2018/10/30/these-are-the-bad-times/
“Fun Size” Candy Bar History: Lawsuits Were Involved https://tedium.co/2018/10/30/fun-size-candy-history/
The Draw of the Gothic https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/10/29/the-draw-of-the-gothic/
The Others: Why Women Are Shut Out of Horror https://longreads.com/2018/10/25/the-others-why-women-are-shut-out-of-horror/
The Monster Mash History: More Than a Graveyard Smash https://tedium.co/2018/10/25/monster-mash-history/
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/
Amy Winehouse’s 2019 tour: why dead celebrity holograms keep happening - Vox https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/10/23/18010274/amy-winehouse-hologram-tour-controversy-technology
iPhones are hard to use https://blog.fawny.org/2018/10/22/hardtouse/
The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/29/the-myth-of-whiteness-in-classical-sculpture
Police Training Simulator History: A Parallel Path With Gaming https://tedium.co/2018/10/23/police-training-simulator-history/
Cognitive Enhancers: Mechanisms And Tradeoffs | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/22/cognitive-enhancers-mechanisms-and-tradeoffs/
LegoOS: a disseminated, distributed OS for hardware resource disaggregation | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/10/22/legoos-a-disseminated-distributed-os-for-hardware-resource-disaggregation/
Meet the Endoterrestrials - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/10/meet-endoterrestrials/571939/
B. F. Skinner: The Most Important Theorist of the 21st Century http://hackeducation.com/2018/10/18/skinner
If the Rich Really Want To ‘Do Good,’ They Should Become Class Traitors Like FDR https://longreads.com/2018/10/18/review-of-winners-take-all/
AI and the Trolley Problem | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2018/10/17/ai-and-the-trolley-problem-pat-cadigan/
Enjoying High-Res Graphics on a Text-Only TRS-80 Model 4 from 1983 | Byte Cellar http://www.bytecellar.com/2018/10/17/enjoying-high-res-graphics-on-a-text-only-trs-80-model-4-from-1983/
Robin “Sourdough” Sloan is using a machine-learning autocomplete system to write his next novel / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/10/19/t9-for-auteurs.html
DisneyQuest is dead, and Disney’s VR experiments are gone with it - Polygon https://www.polygon.com/features/2018/10/18/17888722/disneyquest-disney-vr-closed
Falsehoods Programmers Believe about Garbage Collection — Paul Bone http://paul.bone.id.au/2018/10/19/gc-falsehoods/
Staple History: Maybe Royalty Wasn’t Involved https://tedium.co/2018/10/18/stapler-history-office-supplies/
Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House Finds the Beating Heart of Shirley Jackson’s Tale | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2018/10/16/netflixs-the-haunting-of-hill-house-finds-the-beating-heart-of-shirley-jacksons-tale/
Rockstar developers speak out about “100-hour weeks” comment | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/10/red-dead-redemption-2-devs-say-quoted-100-hour-weeks-arent-the-norm/
Do you (mis)remember modern rock and roll radio? http://www.its-her-factory.com/2018/10/do-you-misremember-modern-rock-and-roll-radio/
Mailbag: AI Research on Dialogue and Story Generation | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2018/10/16/mailbag-ai-research-on-dialogue-and-story-generation/
Vectorized Emulation: Hardware accelerated taint tracking at 2 trillion instructions per second | Gamozo Labs Blog https://gamozolabs.github.io/fuzzing/2018/10/14/vectorized_emulation.html
How Lisp Became God’s Own Programming Language https://twobithistory.org/2018/10/14/lisp.html
The Real in Weird Realism: Notes on ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ – xenogothic https://xenogothic.com/2018/10/14/the-real-in-weird-realism-notes-on-the-haunting-of-hill-house/
The firebreaks — KarlSchroeder.com http://www.kschroeder.com/weblog/archive/2011/10/27/the-firebreaks
How Does a Film Become Lost? https://tedium.co/2018/10/11/lost-and-found-film-history/
Supermicro boards were so bug ridden, why would hackers ever need implants? | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/10/supermicro-boards-were-so-bug-ridden-why-would-hackers-ever-need-implants/
Announcing a Competition for Ethics in Computer Science, with up to $3.5 Million in Prizes - The Mozilla Blog https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/10/10/announcing-a-competition-for-ethics-in-computer-science-with-up-to-3-5-million-in-prizes/
You Get What You Give: Why the New Radicals Broke Up https://tedium.co/2018/10/09/new-radicals-gregg-alexander-history/
Cheezball Rising: Opening a dialogue / fuzzy notepad https://eev.ee/blog/2018/10/09/cheezball-rising-opening-a-dialogue/
The Internet’s keepers? “Some call us hoarders”I like to say we’re archivists” | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/10/the-internets-keepers-some-call-us-hoarders-i-like-to-say-were-archivists/
Cody Wilson was Defense Distributed”so who is the organization’s new leader? | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/10/how-and-why-a-london-poet-who-never-shot-a-gun-came-to-lead-defense-distributed/
The Political Cost of the Chinese Hardware Hack - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/political-cost-chinese-hardware-hack/572383/
How Does an Intel Processor Boot? | Binary Debt https://binarydebt.wordpress.com/2018/10/06/how-does-an-x86-processor-boot/
Engine Problems vs Crime Scene Problems: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/10/engine-problems-versus-crime-scene-problems/
Elites like Amazon’s Jeff Bezos think they’re 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 Gilded Age of (Unpaid) Internet Writing https://longreads.com/2018/10/02/webzines-90s-online-media/
Crispin’s Model | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2017/10/04/crispins-model/
Inspired by ‘They Live,’ these glasses block screens / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/10/03/inspired-by-they-live-the.html
Google 20th Anniversary: How Information Changed Forever https://tedium.co/2018/10/02/google-20th-anniversary-culture-importance/
Can an AI Write a Novel? - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/automated-on-the-road/571345/
Building the Universal Archive of Source Code | October 2018 | Communications of the ACM https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/10/231366-building-the-universal-archive-of-source-code/fulltext
@mdom@domgoergen.com my own custom client I wrote, I use cron to run the update my timeline every 20 mins. My update process also processes 10 curl calls at time. I did that to save time when I poll everyone.
Why Read the Classics? | by Italo Calvino | The New York Review of Books https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1986/10/09/why-read-the-classics/
Brandon Invergo - Anti-Web-Design Manifesto http://brandon.invergo.net/news/2013-03-10-Anti-web-design-Manifesto.html
Dataspace 10: An Array Representation | Natepod http://natecull.org/wordpress/2018/08/16/dataspace-10-an-array-representation/
Dataspace 7: A Low-Level Encoding | Natepod http://natecull.org/wordpress/2017/07/10/dataspace-7-a-low-level-encoding/
Dataspace 6: Terms as Types | Natepod http://natecull.org/wordpress/2017/07/10/dataspace-6-terms-as-types/
The 10:1 rule of writing and programming https://www.ybrikman.com/writing/2018/08/12/the-10-to-1-rule-of-writing-and-programming/
Sublime Pulp: An Interview with Illustrator Les Edwards https://wearethemutants.com/2016/10/31/sublime-pulp-an-interview-with-illustrator-les-edwards/
Video: Grand Central’s Hidden Sub-Basement Has A 102-Year-Old Computer: Gothamist http://gothamist.com/2015/10/15/grand_central_computer_video.php
Different Worlds | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/02/different-worlds/
story idea: after computing the cenusus, an unexpected conclusion – about 10% of the population is gone, with no explanation
Remember when this happened with latin & it turned out lorem ipsum was being compared to political blogs, like 10 years ago? https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5npeg/why-is-google-translate-spitting-out-sinister-religious-prophecies
These ‘Paperbacks From Hell’ Reflect The Real-Life Angst Of The 1970s : NPR https://www.npr.org/2017/10/26/559522789/these-paperbacks-from-hell-reflect-the-real-life-angst-of-the-1970s
Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted To Know | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/
Plastic Straw Sustainability: Why Straws Are Problematic https://tedium.co/2018/07/10/plastic-straw-replacement-controversy/
In a thousand years, we’ll all have protruding foreheads because of the growth of the prefrontal corpus, a dunbar number of 10,000, and internet forums with polite behavior despite lack of active moderation.
How People Used to Download Games From the Radio | Kotaku UK http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2014/10/13/people-used-download-games-radio
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy : The Things by Peter Watts http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/
PostModern Jukebox demonstrates that shitty pop songs could have been awesome if their producers/arrangers had taste, on a weekly basis. 11/10 would listen again.
Writing in Collaboration with the System | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2014/10/29/writing-in-collaboration-with-the-system/
Res Obscura: The Art of Fooling the Eye https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2011/10/art-of-fooling-eye.html
Minimalist C Libraries « null program https://nullprogram.com/blog/2018/06/10/
Taco Bell Programming http://widgetsandshit.com/teddziuba/2010/10/taco-bell-programming.html
PDP-10 · GitHub https://github.com/PDP-10
Sound Blaster: How Sound Cards Took Over Computing https://tedium.co/2018/05/10/sound-blaster-history/
.……….//: Embracing the New Flesh https://ellaguro.blogspot.com.es/2014/10/embracing-new-flesh.html
Why Did Some Countercultural Types Vote For Trump? - Mondo 2000 http://www.mondo2000.com/2018/05/10/why-did-some-countercultural-types-vote-for-trump/
Twenty-First Century Victorians https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/10/victorian-values-fitness-organic-wealth-parenthood
NES Homebrew Scene: Not Necessarily Driven By Nostalgia https://tedium.co/2018/04/10/nes-homebrew-scene-history/
Observations on Modern Computing (The Last 10 Years Were a Misstep) â ~ajroach42.com â I’m Andrew. I write about the past and future of tech, music, media, culture, art, and activism. This… http://ajroach42.com/observations-on-modern-computing-the-last-10-years-were-a-misstep/
Effective Programs - 10 Years of Clojure - Rich Hickey - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V1FtfBDsLU
Oh hey this paper is making the rounds again: http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005268
Alex Schroeder: 2018-01-10 Encrypted Gopher https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2018-01-10_Encrypted_Gopher
Whatâs Really at Stake in the Battle for âIdeological Diversityâ at Elite Media Outlets https://theintercept.com/2018/04/10/kevin-williamson-atlantic-ideological-diversity/
How to Build a Low-tech Internet - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/10/how-to-build-a-low-tech-internet.html
Procedural Worlds from Simple Tiles http://ijdykeman.github.io/ml/2017/10/12/wang-tile-procedural-generation.html
Gene name errors are widespread in the scientific literature |… https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-016-1044-7
10 Essential Movies Based on H.P. Lov… https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/10/10-essential-movies-based-on-hp-lovecraft-works.html
Steve Jobs has been dead for 10 years but Apple (& the rest of us too) still hasn’t recovered from poor decisions he made in 1981. Come on guys, get with the program.
Life in UNIX® V7: an attempt at a simple task | Fun with… https://virtuallyfun.com/2018/01/10/life-in-unix-v7-an-attempt-at-a-simple-task/
How our housing choices make adult friendships more difficult - Vox https://www.vox.com/2015/10/28/9622920/housing-adult-friendship
Out Came the Girls | VQR Online http://www.vqronline.org/essays-articles/2017/10/out-came-girls
What a new U.S. civil war might look like – Foreign Policy http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/10/10/what-a-new-u-s-civil-war-might-look-like/
» A Net Before the Web, Part 1: The Establishment Man and the Magnificent Rogue The Digital Antiquarian http://www.filfre.net/2017/10/a-net-before-the-web-part-1-the-establishment-man-and-the-magnificent-rogue/
Crispin’s Model | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2017/10/04/crispins-model/
The Most Political ‘Star Trek’ Episode: ‘Past Tense,’ From ‘Deep Space Nine’ - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/10/star-trek-deep-space-nine-past-tense/542280/