IDEA – nonverbal algorithm assembly instructions https://idea-instructions.com/
Bad idea of the day: bibliomancy by generating random sentences in toki pona
Bad idea of the day: A bot that iterates over one-syllable verbs, saying, for each verb X, ers gonna , , , , ,
The tech bias: why Silicon Valley needs social theory | Aeon I… https://aeon.co/ideas/the-tech-bias-why-silicon-valley-needs-social-theory
Samurai, spy, commando: who were the real ninja? | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/samurai-spy-commando-who-were-the-real-ninja
Why hiring the ‘best’ people produces the least crea… https://aeon.co/ideas/why-hiring-the-best-people-produces-the-least-creative-results
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 decreases the size of images based on how many copies of similar images are already in your browser cache
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: a captcha system that shows you something that should be upsetting and then determines if you’re humane by checking your computer for signs of whether or not you were upset by it
Bad idea of the day: Raspberry Pi based seedboxes built into your shoes, connecting to every open network, and trying to break into every not-open one.
Bad idea of the day: ESP32 throwies with flash memory as store-and-forward nodes for an incrementally growing DHT
Bad idea of the day: a claw machine except it’s a fishing pole with a hook on the end
Bad idea of the day: at a wedding, the bride, groom, bridesmaids, and best man all wear identical suits and photorealistic masks of Richard K. James
Bad idea of the day: spaghetti and cakeballs in a cinnamon-sugar-butter sauce
Bad idea of the day: playing cards with oblique strategies on tghem
Bad idea of the day: set your voice assistant’s wake word to ‘OK computer’
The problem with building a “fair” system - O‘Reilly Media https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/the-problem-with-building-a-fair-system
Bad idea of the day: Adversarial social graphs. 99% similar to your actual graph, but friending one guy makes Facebook think you’re actually Al Gore.
Bad idea of the day: Feed all those KMart recordings into sample-rnn and generate infinite automatic mallsoft
How Schopenhauer’s thought can illuminate a midlife crisi… https://aeon.co/ideas/how-schopenhauers-thought-can-illuminate-a-midlife-crisis
Bad idea of the day: Stop distinguishing between wartime non-civillian killings and non-wartime civillian killings, and have all actions during war subject to regular police investigation and trial by jury.
Post-work: the radical idea of a world wi… https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jan/19/post-work-the-radical-idea-of-a-world-without-jobs
Bad idea of the day: a TMBG cover band called In Those Days There Were Giants
Bad idea of the day: require a payment of a dollar (held in escrow by the copyright office) to send a DMCA takedown notice. The dollar goes to whoever is determined to be the legitimate owner, in case of a dispute. If there is no dispute, it goes into the federal education budget.
Bad idea of the day: An ebook reader program in two columns, where the second column is specifically for recording personal marginal notes & is the same size as the book’s text itself – notes pinned to the paragraph, line, or sentence. Call it ‘MARGINAL’.
Bad idea of the day: Cryptocurrency but the proof of work is unclassifiable acts of kindness toward disadvantaged strangers
Bad idea of the day: A book-length work of fiction that contains no nouns
Bad idea of the day: Cryptocurrency but the proof of work is making and serving coffee
Bad idea of the day: Cryptocurrency but the proof of work is burning dollar bills on live television
Bad idea of the day: Cryptocurrency but the proof of work is computing a giant-ass rainbow table
Bad idea of the day: Instead of ads mining bitcoins in your browser, they run IPFS nodes and pin arbitrary hashes in browser persistent storage then store them.
Bad idea of the day: Distribute a copy of Society of the Spectacle in the form of playing cards
#nanogenmo idea: a database of loosely-related epigrams or paragraphs, tagged by topic; going to a topic displays the associated epigrams in arbitrary order. the tags are generated from analysis of the text.
If you make something and you aren’t OK with the idea of a degraded, broken zombie form of it existing forever, killing it is your responsibility.
Wars are not won by military genius or decisive battles | A… https://aeon.co/ideas/wars-are-not-won-by-military-genius-or-decisive-battles
OkCupid begins e… https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/12/okcupid-begins-enforcing-real-name-rules-insists-its-a-good-idea/
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.
Bad idea of the day: a filter that eggcorn-izes test using substitutions from https://eggcorns.lascribe.net/browse-eggcorns/
The human brain’s bandwidth for visual images is s… https://aeon.co/ideas/the-human-brains-bandwidth-for-visual-images-is-severely-limited
Bad idea of the day: voting, except with a 30 year delay, to force people to actually think ahead.
Mark Blyth: Why Do People Continue To Believe Stupid Economic Ideas? - Full Talk (April 2017) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq3s-Ifx1Fo
Let’s open our sealed-off lives to semi-permeable architecture | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/lets-open-our-sealed-off-lives-to-semi-permeable-architecture
Sleepwalking is the result of a survival mechanism gone awry | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/sleepwalking-is-the-result-of-a-survival-mechanism-gone-awry
What the idea of civilisational ‘collapse’ says about history | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/what-the-idea-of-civilisational-collapse-says-about-history
How socialism helped to seed the landscape of modern religion | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/how-socialism-helped-to-seed-the-landscape-of-modern-religion
Why philosophy is so important in science education | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/why-philosophy-is-so-important-in-science-education
Eating people is wrong – but it’s also widespread and sacred | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/eating-people-is-wrong-but-its-also-widespread-and-sacred
Why the idea that the world is in terminal decline is so dangerous | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/why-the-idea-that-the-world-is-in-terminal-decline-is-so-dangerous
What songbirds could teach us about constructive tweeting | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/what-songbirds-could-teach-us-about-constructive-tweeting
The triage of truth: do not take expert opinion lying down | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/the-triage-of-truth-do-not-take-expert-opinion-lying-down
‘But you can’t do that!’ Why immoral actions seem impossible | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/but-you-cant-do-that-why-immoral-actions-seem-impossible
The 13th-century revolution that made modern poetry possible | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/the-13th-century-revolution-that-made-modern-poetry-possible
@tdemin@tdemin.github.io good points, though another that I’ve noticed is that it’s difficult to tell who in your network is actually reachable with your tweets. My HTTPS cert went unupdated for a brief while and now I have no idea who is still following me since I got it working again, so it’s difficult to tell where I can really have a conversation. A centralized service can tell who’s following who, but that’s basically impossible in twtxt.
Hyperpartisanship could destroy US democracy. - Vox https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/9/5/16227700/hyperpartisanship-identity-american-democracy-problems-solutions-doom-loop
How the Summer of Love helped give birth to the Religious Right - Vox https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/8/31/16229320/summer-of-love-jesus-people-religious-right-history
Unpopular ideas about social norms – Julia Galef https://juliagalef.com/2017/08/23/unpopular-ideas-about-social-norms/
The value of bad ideas, according to a scientist — Quartz https://qz.com/1062945/the-value-of-bad-ideas-according-to-a-scientist/
The modern state, not ideas, brought about religious freedom | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-modern-state-not-ideas-brought-about-religious-freedom
I‘m a woman in computer science. Let me ladysplain the Google memo to you. - Vox https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/8/11/16130452/google-memo-women-tech-biology-sexism
Humans are the only animals who crave oblivion through suicide | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/humans-are-the-only-animals-who-crave-oblivion-through-suicide?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=08e7309df2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_27&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-08e7309df2-68693017
People are intensely loyal to groups which abuse newcomers. Why? | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/people-are-intensely-loyal-to-groups-which-haze-newcomers-why?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=064f5afcfd-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-064f5afcfd-68693017
How the village feast paved the way to empires and economics | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/how-the-village-feast-paved-the-way-to-empires-and-economics?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=03ca3d03df-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-03ca3d03df-68693017
Cognitive dissonance helps old dogs with their new tricks | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/cognitive-dissonance-helps-old-dogs-with-their-new-tricks?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=6906942c9d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_19&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-6906942c9d-68693017
George Church ascribes his visionary ideas to narcolepsy https://www.statnews.com/2017/06/08/george-church-narcolepsy/?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email
Folding Ideas - Sam Witwicky - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNspkOjZ0ac
Folding Ideas - Enter The Void - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RJRGGOyJv0
How Cold War rivalry helped launch the Chinese computer | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/how-cold-war-rivalry-helped-launch-the-chinese-computer?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=2158247472-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_28&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-2158247472-68693017
@mdom@domgoergen.com, @dave@davebucklin.com, @kas@enotty.dk I agree with the “no max length; show at least 140chars” idea.