The Selective Laziness of Reasoning - Neuroskeptic http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2015/10/21/the-selective-laziness-of-reasoning/#.XIjqJkfav0M

Author discovers the recentralization phenomenon, and concludes that centralization is inevitable (rather than that recentralization must be carefully avoided): https://rosenzweig.io/blog/the-federation-fallacy.html

Keeping CALM: when distributed consistency is easy | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/03/06/keeping-calm-when-distributed-consistency-is-easy/

Lessons learned: writing really long fiction - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2019/03/lessons-learned-writing-really.html

Status as a Service (StaaS) — Remains of the Day https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19/status-as-a-service

ZIP is Broken, Except it’s Not, Except it Is | Internet Archive Blogs https://blog.archive.org/2019/02/13/zip-is-broken-except-its-not-except-it-is/

What “Worse is Better vs The Right Thing” is really about http://yosefk.com/blog/what-worse-is-better-vs-the-right-thing-is-really-about.html

Explaining Code using ASCII Art – Embedded in Academia https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1653

A short history of 20th century African-American horror literature | jessnevins.com http://jessnevins.com/blog/?p=842

Gamasutra: Nikhil Murthy’s Blog - The Interactivity of Reading https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/NikhilMurthy/20190225/337245/The_Interactivity_of_Reading.php

The CPython Bytecode Compiler is Dumb « null program https://nullprogram.com/blog/2019/02/24/

Hier & Jetzt – Open Web 1: Wo das Open Web heute steht ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/a/52H

Five Lessons From Seven Years of Research Into Buttons - The Crux http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2019/02/04/five-lessons-about-pressing-buttons/

Demystifying JOIN Algorithms http://blog.felipe.rs/2019/01/29/demystifying-join-algorithms/

Untitled ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/b/51P

Mutually Assured Destruction: When The Only Winning Move is Not to Play https://fs.blog/2017/06/mutually-assured-destruction/

The sample they chose to highlight here resembles the kind of paper a 14 year old would try & fail to bullshit after staying up all night partying right before the due date: https://blog.openai.com/better-language-models/#sample1

Revolt Against the Rich - Scientific American Blog Network https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/revolt-against-the-rich/

Modern Alternatives to PGP https://blog.gtank.cc/modern-alternatives-to-pgp/

An Incident Post-mortem ⌘ https://blog.oxplot.com/an-incident-post-mortem/

Notes on structured concurrency, or: Go statement considered harmful — njs blog https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-go-statement-considered-harmful/

The Observation Deck » Reflecting on The Soul of a New Machine http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2019/02/10/reflecting-on-the-soul-of-a-new-machine/

Redirecting https://victorzhou.com/blog/better-profanity-detection-with-scikit-learn

Family spaghetti of programming languages https://erkin.party/blog/190208/spaghetti/

Book Review and Reflection: David Graeber’s “Debt: The First 5,000 Years” – The New Antique https://thenewantique.blog/2019/01/19/book-review-and-reflection-david-graebers-debt-the-first-5000-years/

There is No Nature-Nurture War - Scientific American Blog Network https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/in-the-nature-nurture-war-robert-plomin-is-fighting-a-losing-battle/

Building A “Simple” Distributed System - Formal Verification — Jack Vanlightly https://jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2019/1/27/building-a-simple-distributed-system-formal-verification

Programming paradigms for dummies: what every programmer should know | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/01/25/programming-paradigms-for-dummies-what-every-programmer-should-know/

Extremist Programming : Inside 245-5D http://blog.ezyang.com/2012/11/extremist-programming/

Farewell Screenguide ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/b/4dR

I reduced (sorry (not sorry)) an entire blog post into my previous twtxt post and I’m not sure if I should be happy or not. It might’ve been a perfectly adequate blog post.

Why not apply the principles of the jury system to democracy?
Not only do we know that Democracy as we know it doesn’t work, in 1787 the man who gave us democracy here in the USA told us that it would not work, hence the second amendment. They said this is the best we have deal with it. Don’t let it get too big! What did […] ⌘ Read more

The MITRE Corporation’s project to use Chomsky’s linguistics for their weapons systems — Science and Revolution http://scienceandrevolution.org/blog/2018/1/28/the-mitre-corporations-project-to-use-chomskys-linguistics-for-their-weapons-systems

USA Wants to Restrict AI Exports: A Stupid and Dangerous Idea – Lauren Weinstein’s Blog https://lauren.vortex.com/2019/01/02/usa-wants-to-restrict-ai-exports-a-stupid-and-dangerous-idea

Why I use old hardware | Drew DeVault’s Blog https://drewdevault.com/2019/01/23/Why-I-use-old-hardware.html

Let’s stop copying C / fuzzy notepad https://eev.ee/blog/2016/12/01/lets-stop-copying-c/

Fancy Tree Traversals • Sinistersnare’s Blog https://drs.is/post/fancy-tree-traversals/

Uncertainty propagation in data processing systems | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/11/23/uncertainty-propagation-in-data-processing-systems/

Towards a theory of software development expertise | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/12/21/towards-a-theory-of-software-development-expertise/

Twenty-Five Useful Thinking Tools | Scott H Young https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2018/12/04/25-thinking-tools/

fogus: Some Lisp books (and then some) http://blog.fogus.me/2012/07/25/some-lisp-books-and-then-some/

Not All Choice Interfaces Are Alike | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2016/05/25/not-all-choice-interfaces-are-alike/

Understanding Generic Cell Rate Limiting - cat /dev/brain https://blog.ian.stapletoncordasco.com/2018/12/understanding-generic-cell-rate-limiting.html

The three-page paper that shook philosophy”a hacker’s perspective « the jsomers.net blog http://jsomers.net/blog/gettiers

C+J Slep https://cjslep.com/c/blog/an-activitypub-philosophy

Not Exactly Mailbag: Worldbuilding from a Mechanic | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2018/03/13/not-exactly-mailbag-worldbuilding-from-a-mechanic/

Senrio Blog - Senrio https://blog.senr.io/blog/impervious-implants-splintery-supply-chains

An Alternative Taxonomy for Interactive Stories | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2011/05/03/an-alternative-taxonomy-for-interactive-stories/

Plot-shaped Level Design | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2016/05/18/plot-shaped-level-design/

Beyond Branching: Quality-Based, Salience-Based, and Waypoint Narrative Structures | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2016/04/12/beyond-branching-quality-based-and-salience-based-narrative-structures/

Card-Deck Narratives | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2016/05/03/card-deck-narratives/

An Incomplete List of Things I’d Need to Know In Order Not to Be A Total Impostor | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2018/09/02/an-incomplete-list-of-things-id-need-to-know-in-order-not-to-be-a-complete-impostor/

Mailbag: Self-Training in Narrative Design | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2019/01/08/mailbag-self-training-in-narrative-design/

zwanzigachtzehn ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/b/4x5

So, I’m working on a fediverse client based on https://web.archive.org/web/20190101185657/https://jfm.carcosa.net/blog/computing/usenet/ ; it’s here: https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/fern . It is currently read-only, but it has read history.

Proto-internet trolls’: Johann Friedrich Struensee and freedom of expression in 18th century Denmark - European studies blog https://blogs.bl.uk/european/2018/06/johann-friedrich-struensee.html

Spreadsheets are dead, long live reactive programming environments! : Stencila https://stenci.la/blog/introducing-sheets/

Homebrew Website Club – Karlsruhe ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/b/4wq

Why You Should Start A Blog In 2019 https://tedium.co/2019/01/01/2019-independent-blogging-trends/

The Genius Person Has Always Been Sort of an Illusion http://nautil.us/blog/-the-case-against-geniuses

Daniel Kahneman and Herbert Simon on Intuition https://fs.blog/2012/03/daniel-kahneman-on-intuition/

Chris’s Wiki :: blog/sysadmin/TarFindingTruncateBug https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/TarFindingTruncateBug

A Survey of $RANDOM « null program https://nullprogram.com/blog/2018/12/25/

The Internet of Unprofitable Things – The ongoing struggle http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2018/12/24/the-internet-of-unprofitable-things/

The Truth About AI: A Secular Ghost Story https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/12/20/the-truth-about-ai-a-secular-ghost-story/

The Climate Event That Helped Create ‘Frankenstein’ and the Bicycle https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/10/25/year-without-summer/

Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Lecture notes! Intro to Quantum Information Science https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3943

GitHub - trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge: A collection of awesome lists, manuals, blogs, hacks, one-liners, cli/web tools and more. Especially for System and Network Administrators, DevOps, Pentesters or Security… https://github.com/trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge

The Norse Mythology Blog | norsemyth.org: Questioning Loki, Part One | Articles & Interviews on Myth & Religion https://www.norsemyth.org/2013/01/questioning-loki-part-one.html

Prions, Nearly Indestructible and Universally Lethal, Seed the Eyes of Victims - Scientific American Blog Network https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/prions-nearly-indestructible-and-universally-lethal-seed-the-eyes-of-victims/

13 ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/b/4w0

W O R D S https://garbados.github.io/my-blog/browsers-are-a-mess.html

Save the Cat (Blake Snyder) | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2018/12/04/save-the-cat-blake-snyder/

Errata Security: Some notes about HTTP/3 https://blog.erratasec.com/2018/11/some-notes-about-http3.html#.W_vnQUfav0M

What was the role of MS-DOS in Windows 95? – The Old New Thing https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20071224-00/?p=24063

D compilation is too slow and I am forking the compiler | CyberShadow’s blog https://blog.thecybershadow.net/2018/11/18/d-compilation-is-too-slow-and-i-am-forking-the-compiler/

On Programming Language Design - ielliott.io http://blog.ielliott.io/on-programming-language-design/

facebook ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/b/4uV

Conceptual Languages (Part 2) - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/conceptual-languages-part-2

Unnecessary and Kallisti: Purely Conceptual Languages - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/unnecessary-purely-conceptual-languages

PingFS - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/pingfs-storing-your-files-in-network-traffic

Oou: The Insane Language - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/oou-the-insane-language

Code Art, Code Poetry, and Esolangs - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/code-art-code-poetry-and-esolangs

Service Unavailable https://esoteric.codes/blog/exercises-in-programming-style

Esopo: Turing Complete Poetry - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/esopo-turing-complete-poetry

All HTML - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/all-html

Esolangs as an Experiential Practice - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/esolangs-as-an-experiential-practice

BodyFuck - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/bodyfuck-gestural-code

Null Programs and the Uninscribed - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/null-programs-and-the-uninscribed

Service Unavailable https://esoteric.codes/blog/stack-trace-art

The 128-Language Quine Relay - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/the-128-language-quine-relay

A Programming Language With Only One Command and the Anti-Imperialist Operating System Built on it - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/a-programming-language-with-only-one-command-and

Gamasutra: Florencia Minuzzi’s Blog - Restless “ Making A New Conversation UI http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/FlorenciaMinuzzi/20181114/330636/Restless__Making_A_New_Conversation_UI.php

Unix is not an acceptable Unix | Affording Play https://mkremins.github.io/blog/unix-not-acceptable-unix/

Visual Programming Languages - Snapshots http://blog.interfacevision.com/design/design-visual-progarmming-languages-snapshots/

Scripting the GUI with ‘hey’ | Haiku Project https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/humdinger/2017-11-05_scripting_the_gui_with_hey/

Exploring the Amiga - Part 1 - The Digital Cat http://blog.thedigitalcatonline.com/blog/2018/05/28/exploring-the-amiga-1/

TempleOS: an educational tool for programming experiments - TechRepublic https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/software-engineer/templeos-an-educational-tool-for-programming-experiments/

Xerox Alto Source Code | @CHM Blog | Computer History Museum http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/xerox-alto-source-code/

Scheme Macros V: Conditionals | Veit’s Blog https://blog.veitheller.de/Scheme_Macros_V:_Conditionals.html