The Book No One Read - Issue 28: 2050 - Nautilus http://nautil.us/issue/28/2050/the-book-no-one-read
Sorry, for being quite noisy now but it is really fun using #twtxt over #xmpp, am very proud it somehow works even when I’m no programmer.
TIL that the technology for viewing US census data summaries is called DADS: https://factfinder.census.gov/help/en/data_access_and_dissemination_system_dads.htm
The reason it’s a bad idea is that the kind of people who badmouth poststructuralist methods as unscientific will do so even while using them. (See: Jordon Peterson)
I Lived Exclusively Off Doomsday Prepper Food for a Week - MUNCHIES https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/vbx399/what-does-prepper-food-taste-like-v25n1
Cramulus | In the future, dolphins, elephants, and several… http://cramul.us/post/172758639737/in-the-future-dolphins-elephants-and-several
Remembering the ’70s activist group that tried to save us from the tech industry | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/4029/computer-people-for-peace-history
Mass Surveillance Memes Show Our Collective Anxiety Over Government Spying - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/zmg3ky/surveillance-memes-nsa-fbi-facebook
I wonder if the recent Charlie Wartzel-spawned increase in the use of the term ‘infocalypse’ will affect the popularity of the music I’ve been releasing under that name for the past eleven years…
If You’ve Met Aliens While on DMT, These Scientists Would Like to Hear From You - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bjpjxm/dmt-aliens-study-johns-hopkins
Using Ethics In Web Design — Smashing Magazine https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/03/using-ethics-in-web-design/
Finally I can use twtxt from my mobile. :)
Bad idea of the day: use the luma channel from one VCR and the chroma channel from a different one
The shady data-gathering tactics used by Cambridge Analytica were an open secret to online marketers. I know, because I was one - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/25/17161726/facebook-cambridge-analytica-data-online-marketers
Thursday is the appropriate day to make sacrifices to Compound Interest. Use a gold altar cloth. Compound Interest prefers sacrifices in the form of burning dollar bills, but twenties will work in a pinch. If you cannot make money, store-bought is fine.
Hot take: mere exposure & availability bias have ramifications for action – the more we do a thing or see it done, the easier it is for us to imagine doing it when planning. Cuts both ways: we could open up possibilities, but we should be careful with which we open.
laurie anderson is the original radical american artist - i-D https://i-d.vice.com/en_us/article/qvx887/laurie-anderson-is-the-original-radical-american-artist
White Supremacy, Black Liberation, and the Power Dynamics of Gun Violence - Waypoint https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/kzxevx/white-supremacy-black-liberation-and-the-power-dynamics-of-gun-violence
Never Use a Warning When you Mean Undo · An A List Apart Article https://alistapart.com/article/neveruseawarning
For Me, David Bowie Lives On - GARAGE https://garage.vice.com/en_us/article/zmwap9/for-paul-gorman-david-bowie-lives-on
Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader History: Useful At Certain Times https://tedium.co/2018/03/06/uncle-johns-bathroom-reader-history/
What Ancient Sparta and Modern Small-scale Societies Have in Common http://nautil.us/blog/the-point-of-mens-cults
Social engineering is engineering. When you design software used by people, the community is not an externality – it’s shaped by your design, & therefore your responsibility.
The Radical Left-Wing Theory That the Government Has Unlimited… https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a34n54/modern-monetary-theory-explained
An experiment in two-way direct linking using Hy… https://timsherratt.org/research-notebook/historic-hansard/notes/two-way-direct-linking/
Cloudflare Terminates Servic… https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/59kgv5/cloudflare-terminates-service-to-the-pirate-bay-of-science
How We Make Gods - Issue 57: Communities - Nautilus http://nautil.us/issue/57/communities/how-we-make-gods–
How not to replace email https://jamey.thesharps.us/2018/02/16/how-not-to-replace-email/
‘Doki Doki Literature Club’ Fits i… https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/kzp7gy/doki-doki-literature-club-history-visual-novels
Google, please don’t! (although I’m not using gmail) https://www.blog.google/products/g-suite/bringing-power-amp-gmail/
@leveck@leveck.us, I just use the standard client (wrapped in a local script for tweeting).
@leveck@leveck.us, I often use twtxt.xyz but when I am at my laptop at home I use the client as I have my terminator always opened.
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Linguistics Using Category Theory | The n-Category Caf&#… https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2018/02/linguistics_using_category_the.html
I always stayed ten feet away from our pressure cooker, i was always too frightened to use it… :)
I always stayed ten feet away from our pressure cooker, i was always too frightened to use it… :)
Da Share Z0ne’s Admin Wants You to … https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mbpyyb/da-share-zone-the-devils-level-admin-dril-interview
More Than 750 American Communities Have Built Their Own Int… https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3np4a/new-municipal-broadband-map
The Story of ‘Hyperch… https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bjyav3/the-story-of-hyperchess-a-3d-chess-game-inspired-by-star-trek
A Demented Trading Bot Tweets Absurdist Marke… https://creators.vice.com/en_us/article/59p9nd/demented-trading-bot-absurdist-market-advice
GitHub - yaronn/blessed-contrib: Build terminal dashboards using ascii/ansi art and javascript https://github.com/yaronn/blessed-contrib
Visualizing Data Using t-SNE - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJVL80Gg3lA
John McAfee Appears to Move … https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9knnpz/john-mcafee-twitter-coin-of-the-day-cryptocurrency-markets
How the Modern City Disadvantages Women http://nautil.us/issue/56/perspective/your-city-has-a-gender-and-its-male
A look at Barbara Kruger and Jenny … https://catnormoyle.com/2011/02/02/a-look-at-barbara-kruger-and-jenny-holzers-use-of-typographic-art/
We need tools that will encourage us to do what Jefferson did to his bible with razors and glue. These tools will be discouraged and limited for the same reason that these practices were discouraged on the bible.
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.
GitHub - mewo2/ketchum: Use word vectors to interactively generate lists of similar words https://github.com/mewo2/ketchum
This Is the Most Important Fallacy You’ve Never Heard Of http://nautil.us/issue/55/trust/the-resulting-fallacy-is-ruining-your-decisions
Web app developers: OF COURSE I DIG THESE TRAIN TUNNELS WITH A JEWEL-ENCRUSTED GOLD DECORATIVE COCKTAIL FORK. EVERYBODY DOES. WHAT DO YOU EXPECT ME TO USE, A TOOTHPICK?
If you cannot use it to trivially put a pixel at an X,Y coordinate, YOU SHOULD NOT WRITE A COMPLEX UI IN IT, EXCEPT AS A JOKE.
As the year draws to a close it becomes ever more clear: nothing has prepared us for the Strange Times.
Bad idea of the day: mirror all google fonts on ipfs and then use an extension that rewrites the urls to use that version. Alternately: use an extension that downloads them via tor.
I wonder how much more effective trying to use scott/tiger as ackles for arbitrary oracle systems is than arbitrary (say) postgres systems
Bad idea of the day: a filter that eggcorn-izes test using substitutions from https://eggcorns.lascribe.net/browse-eggcorns/
This Game Teaches You How to Build a Quantum Compu… https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3jkya/quantum-game-physics-computer-puzzle
This Code Is Remix… https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbzvad/this-code-is-remixing-translations-of-the-bible-to-find-new-meanings
Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Myste… https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html
Watch This Doc on Alien Gangsters and the ‘Biggest Story Never Told’ - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43nzng/roger-leir-alien-implant-ufo-abduction
The Obscure 4chan Religion That Promises a Cyberpunk Afterlife - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ne3p9z/the-obscure-4chan-religion-that-promises-a-cyberpunk-afterlife
The Obscure 4chan Religion That Promises a Cyberpunk Afterlife - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ne3p9z/the-obscure-4chan-religion-that-promises-a-cyberpunk-afterlife^
The Declaration of Independence Is Hard to Read http://nautil.us/issue/54/the-unspoken/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-english-sentence
I Unknowingly Went to a Trump Protest Organized by Russian Agents - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywb9kx/nyc-trump-election-protest-hack-russian-agents-trolls-government
​The Game Theory of Thanksgiving - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/nze49g/the-game-theory-of-thanksgiving
To Save Net Neutrality, We Must Build Our Own Internet - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/7x4y8a/net-neutrality-fcc-community-networks
@leveck@leveck.us I really want to use mastodon, but I just can’t seem to come up with a use case for me. Guess I don’t really do much Social Media type stuff
The Story of Jud Jud, the World’s Only A Capella, Straight-Edge Hardcore Band - Noisey https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/j5gbwy/the-story-of-jud-jud-the-worlds-only-a-capella-straight-edge-hardcore-band
If you tax the rich, they won’t leave: US data contradicts millionaires’ threats | Inequality | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/nov/20/if-you-tax-the-rich-they-wont-leave-us-data-contradicts-millionaires-threats
You Can Now Mine Cryptocurrency to Bail People Out of Jail - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vb3j93/you-can-now-mine-cryptocurrency-to-bail-people-out-of-jail-bail-bloc
This Algorithm Can Tell What You‘ve Learned Before Going to Sleep - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywbka5/algorithm-sleep-eeg-learning-memories
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I’d really like to know how you managed to use twtxt via XMPP. 🙂
@benaiah@benaiah.me thx for tw. Very useful, but for tt I just used ‘twtxt timeline’, increased ‘limit_timeline’ and activated ‘use_pager’ in config.
Usually I smash them using my crowbar, but this one looks tasty: https://imgur.com/XAjqhEy
Let’s see if I will really use this as I never was into microblogging so far…
The Greatest Computer Network You’ve Never Heard Of - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pa3vvg/the-greatest-computer-network-youve-never-heard-of
Consciousness Began When the Gods Stopped Speaking: Julian Jaynes’ Famous 1970s Theory http://nautil.us/issue/54/the-unspoken/consciousness-began-when-the-gods-stopped-speaking-rp
Is Universal Beauty a Mirage? http://nautil.us/blog/why-beauty-is-not-universal
When Spies Come Home - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/topic/when-spies-come-home
The Wartime Spies Who Used Knitting as an Espionage Tool - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/knitting-spies-wwi-wwii
The Creepy, Insane, and Undeniably Romantic World of Cryonics - Tonic https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/gv78my/the-creepy-insane-and-undeniably-romantic-world-of-cryonics
Social Media Experts Say the Russian Trolls Suck at Facebook - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43n4pn/were-the-facebook-russian-ads-effective-good
How America’s National Parks Became Hotbeds of Paranormal Activity - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gyjvdx/missing-persons-national-parks-paranormal-bigfoot-aliens
Copyright Law Makes Artificial Intelligence Bias Worse - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/59ydmx/copyright-law-artificial-intelligence-bias
Why Is the U.S. So Susceptible to Social-Media Distortion? | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/why-is-the-us-so-susceptible-to-social-media-distortion
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The Flirtbot Condition - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vb7a59/the-flirtbot-condition
MIT used data from Reddit to train an AI algorithm to tell horror stories — Quartz https://qz.com/1115179/mit-used-data-from-reddit-to-train-an-ai-to-tell-horror-stories/
@micaelwidell I’ve heard good things about toggl, but haven’t used it myself.
@kas@enotty.dk DST ends here in the US on Sunday. I’m lucky enough to live an area of the US were we don’t do that sort of thing. Although it makes dealing with people that do a little tough.
Facebook’s ‘Free Emotional Labor Club’ Is Ready for Your Questions - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/7x4beb/facebooks-free-emotional-labor-club-is-ready-for-your-question
Some dead bodies donated to research in US end up in warehouses of horrors | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/10/how-much-for-your-head-unregulated-us-brokers-make-killing-on-donated-bodies/
Ads don’t work so websites are using your electricity to pay the bills | Technology | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/27/pirate-bay-showtime-ads-websites-electricity-pay-bills-cryptocurrency-bitcoin
How I Socially Engineer Myself Into High Security Facilities - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qv34zb/how-i-socially-engineer-myself-into-high-security-facilities
Alienation Is Killing Americans and Japanese - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus http://nautil.us/blog/-alienation-is-killing-americans-and-japanese
GitHub - saitogroup/Website_Phrase_Prompter: This script allows a user to scrape a website and then uses that website‘s language in order to influence an author’s text. https://github.com/saitogroup/Website_Phrase_Prompter
A Former Clickhole Writer Made a ‘Content Bot’ That Will Probably Become My Boss - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wjxmzx/former-clickhole-writer-content-botnik-jamie-brew-bob-mankoff-ai-robot-take-my-job
What it Means to Be an ‘Experimental Computer Poet’ - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8x8ppp/poetry-twitter-bots-best-twitter-bots-art-allison-parrish-everyword
The Story of NESticle, the Ambitious Emulator That Redefined Retro Gaming - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9a48z3/the-story-of-nesticle-the-ambitious-emulator-that-redefined-retro-gaming