Mood: using the mobile version of the website on desktop because you don’t live in california
I have a newsletter I never use, & a script for crossposting links that also makes a link archive. I’m tempted to figure out how to automate taking the links I post for a particular timeframe, sticking them in the newsletter, and sending them off.
Making Interactive Fiction: Using Generative Prose - sub-Q Magazine https://sub-q.com/making-interactive-fiction-using-generative-prose/
Voices on the left are rising in the US. Why arenât they in mainstream media? - Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/analysis/nyt_opinion-left.php
My Brain Keeps Turning Thoughts into Memories - VICE https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3kjxpb/my-brain-keeps-turning-thoughts-into-memories
Using Vim’s Conceal Feature to Make Code More Readable (For You) – Every Man a Debtor https://alok.github.io/2018/04/26/using-vim-s-conceal-to-make-languages-more-tolerable/
What should you do when Google gets into bed with the US military? | WIRED UK http://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-microsoft-amazon-us-military-ai-conflict
To summon a demon together with its counter-aspect, use a lemniscate. Or rather, don’t, or have a plan for separating them very quickly, since they will try to annihilate each other with extreme prejudice.
eBay, Organized Crime, and Evangelical Christians: The Ethical Minefield of Studying Ancient Civ… https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kgxjp/ebay-organized-crime-and-evangelical-christians-the-ethical-minefield-of-studying-ancient-civilizations-hobby-lobby-irisagrig-iraq
How to Write Personalities for the AI Around Us https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/05/02/how-to-write-personalities-for-the-ai-around-us/
As the bombs fall, we retrace our steps backwards so that when they play recordings from our time, they’ll think that around us, cities were falling out of the clouds and crystallizing on the ground
These People Are Selling the CIA’s Internal Board Game to the Public - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbxkd8/cia-board-game-techdirt-kickstarter
Disrupting the Commons: Dockless Bikes and Scooters Create Layers of Community Instability - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ne9gxd/electric-scooters-san-francisco-limebike-the-commons
@kas@enotty.dk, I didn’t think you are affiliated with it. Just wondered as I didn’t see what was special about it but I had to use a search engine to find out that the OS is Android. :D
Memetics does provide a useful way of understanding cultural evolution - Dr Susan Blackmore https://www.susanblackmore.uk/chapters/memetics-does-provide-a-useful-way-of-understanding-cultural-evolution/
The Book No One Read - Issue 28: 2050 - Nautilus http://nautil.us/issue/28/2050/the-book-no-one-read
“Look at how large they are, they must be so old! Maybe their drone is just an extremely slow chirp, and if a few of us followed one for a few years, we could decipher it!”
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 â70s 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…
Post-textual ideologies disseminated as games that build subtle intuitions not expressible in language, rearrange your worldview in a few hours of immersion, leave you with “Did you like being this person? Join us for more”
If Youâve 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 â 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/
One day we may figure out not just genetics but wholesale biosphere design, and then it won’t be “What does it mean to be human” but “Should there be a place for humans”, “What if we used another type of chemistry”, “Why should it be our native biosphere that survives”
‘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.
[…] In modern magic, mundanium (an aluminium alloy) has mostly supplanted cold iron as the go-to antimagical material. In fact, a large mass of it can be used to enchant cold iron in a setup not unlike a sacrificial anode […]
Converting a PDF to JPG (using ImageMagick) ⌘ Read more…
[Updated] BlueGriffon Tutorial: Design a website using the open source BlueGriffon web editor ⌘ https://www.thesitewizard.com/bluegriffon/bluegriffon-2-tutorial-1.shtml
Linguistics Using Category Theory | The n-Category Caf&#… https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2018/02/linguistics_using_category_the.html
The young ones, not brought up in the physical world, find our notions of object permanence quaint. Their scapes are not rooms and buildings, but gardens of colored light that look like mental noise to us
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
Lurking in an orbit hidden between our satellites, the alien quietly watches, extremely interested yet content to never exchange a word with us
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
physics is a scheme by the simulators to make us figure out optimizations for the simulation
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
- humanity both outpaced and too poor to be useful anymore, non-symbiotic humans reduced to vermin, forced out of more and more habitats↵6. eventually exterminated as a side thought during some house cleaning
- wealth continuously extracted from human economy into machine economy, human economy shrinks, wars among humans over what’s left↵4. humans still occasionally useful as sources of telos, will organelles inside corporations, or maybe gut bacteria
one night ~ the distance your mind could wander in a full night’s worth of REM sleep↵↵a useful unit in dreamtime, though large, think “lightday”
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