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
Their message reaches us just as they slide behind the Hubble limit, a promise of contact eaten by the cosmic event horizon mid-greeting
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
The player isn’t all that interested in us, she’s somewhere underground carving out beautiful caverns and building arcologies for nobody
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
Check If a File Exists Before Using It ⌘ Read more…
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.
Sometimes I spot my twtxt file and it reminds me that I am not using it, so then I use it
@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
flirt tactics and sex positions used only by sexbots: highly effective, yet stigmatized because only traitors to humanity would know them
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
It’s been a while since I used Mutt but the keystrokes come back quickly and they feel good
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
My coworker Brian Douglas invited GitLab’s Jacob Schatz and me to discuss GitLab’s use of Vue.js on the latest episode of his podcast, JAMStack Radio - https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/jamstack-radio/ep-21-why-gitlab-chose-vue-js/
Symbolic Integration using CLIPS | Dr Dobb’s http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/symbolic-integration-using-clips/184410219
@leveck@leveck.us Why not just use a menu and link your posts, friends and comments? I like the idea to use fts for comments!
@leveck@leveck.us Why not just use a menu and link your posts, friends and comments? I like the idea to use fts for comments!
What songbirds could teach us about constructive tweeting | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/what-songbirds-could-teach-us-about-constructive-tweeting
Most of us don’t remember their last life because it was that of a bacterium - nothing bad, just the most likely place for a soul to be
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I’m cheating geting @mekon@sdf.org file by using my own kitbashed php CLI client I am playing around with
Had to update my client to use CURL so I could get @mekon@sdf.org twtxt file via gopher
@kas@enotty.dk I’m not currently using a handrolled client, but I’ve started a couple.
Rethemed my desktop using the colors from the atom-one-dark theme: https://imgur.com/a/IDunX
After spending 10 hours on a JS issue, found out I needed to have the library we are using to always update things even if it thinks no changes have done
@leveck@leveck.us for sure! Especially when you’re bad at doing frequent git commits when you’re the only one working on something.
@leveck@leveck.us welcome to twtxt!
@kas@enotty.dk I like the personal touch that we are greeting new users! Hi, @leveck@leveck.us
@kas@enotty.dk I like the personal touch that we are greeting new users! Hi, @leveck@leveck.us
@tdemin@tdemin.github.io Not quite an option for how I’m using it at the moment. That will change shortly.
@nblade@nblade.sdf.org What client are you using? Your mentions are somehow broken?
@nblade@nblade.sdf.org What client are you using? Your mentions are somehow broken?
tfurrows good luck with the Scope, I wish I knew how to use one
The Hippie-Capitalist CEO Who Wants to Win a Nobel Prize With Sober Raves - Noisey https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/4339xd/the-hippie-capitalist-ceo-who-wants-to-win-a-nobel-prize-with-sober-raves
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
Can You Get Addicted to Trolling? - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a33yq8/trolling-addiction
The end of a world of nation-states may be upon us | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-end-of-a-world-of-nation-states-may-be-upon-us
📚 Finished reading How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life by Massimo Pigliucci
📚 Finished reading How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life by Massimo Pigliucci
William Gibson: ‘I Never Expected to Be Living in an American Retro-Future’ - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bjjyn3/william-gibson-archangel-interview
This Orgasm Machine Almost Revolutionized Sex As We Know It - VICE https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/neekj7/this-orgasm-machine-almost-revolutionized-sex-as-we-know-it
We begin to get used to flood-caused Internet outages, but those bits of merfolknet that end up in search engine caches each time puzzle us
Ethereum‘s Biggest Hacking Problem Is Human Greed - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywwbvw/ethereums-biggest-hacking-problem-is-human-greed?utm_medium=email&utm_source=digg
Google‘s Anti-Bullying AI Mistakes Civility for Decency - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qvvv3p/googles-anti-bullying-ai-mistakes-civility-for-decency
- build self-driving cars that use humans for fuel↵2. make them mimic uber/lyft/etc cars↵3. release↵4. sit back, enjoy the media panic
How Claude Shannon Rebooted Information http://nautil.us/issue/51/limits/how-information-got-re_invented
Mutant Yippies, LSD, and Cyberpunks: The Story of the Space Age Newspaper ‘High Frontiers’ - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8xxajv/mutant-yuppies-lsd-and-cyberpunks-the-story-of-the-space-age-newspaper-high-frontiers
How work changed to make us all passionate quitters | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-work-changed-to-make-us-all-passionate-quitters
@micaelwidell Dropbox, Backblaze, Tarsnap, Amazon S3, Amazon Glacier all serve different use cases
Postmodernism or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/jameson.htm
This Simple Philosophical Puzzle Shows How Difficult It Is to Know Something - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus http://nautil.us/blog/-this-simple-philosophical-puzzle-shows-how-difficult-it-is-to-know-something
America’s midlife crisis: lessons from a survivalist summit | US news | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/02/preppers-survivalist-summit-constitution-americas-midlife-crisis?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
Character and Exposition are Plot: Why most pop critical terms aren’t useful to writers - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2017/07/plot-is-character.html
Used WebAssembly today. I’ll probably grow a beard and an ugly sweater until tomorrow.
The Surprising Things Statistics Tell Us About Fiction | The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-surprising-things-statistics-tell-us-about-fiction
200 Terabyte Proof Demonstrates the Potential of Brute-Force Math - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/padnvm/200-terabyte-proof-demonstrates-the-potential-of-brute-force-math
How work changed to make us all passionate quitters | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-work-changed-to-make-us-all-passionate-quitters?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=7f26aee3ac-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-7f26aee3ac-68693017
Inside the Gaming Library at Gitmo, America‘s Controversial Military Prison - Waypoint https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/a3d9jg/inside-the-gaming-library-at-gitmo-americas-most-controversial-military-prison?utm_medium=email&utm_source=digg
The US Army Funded Astral Projection and Hypnosis Research in the 80s - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pad4a9/the-us-army-funded-astral-projection-and-hypnosis-research-in-the-80s
Why Is the Internet Archive Painstakingly Preserving One Man‘s Junk Mail? - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/59p89z/why-is-the-internet-archive-painstakingly-preserving-one-mans-junk-mail
Hackers‘ Own Tools Are Full of Vulnerabilities - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/59pvp8/hackers-own-tools-are-full-of-vulnerabilities
Watch This Adorable Robot Write Poems on the Beach - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xwz78q/watch-this-adorable-robot-write-poems-on-the-beach
Ravens ignore a treat in favor of a useful tool for the future | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/07/ravens-ignore-a-treat-in-favor-of-a-useful-tool-for-the-future/
How Cold War philosophy permeates US society to this day | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-cold-war-philosophy-permeates-us-society-to-this-day?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=ba66c731ab-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-ba66c731ab-68693017
When To Trust A Story That Uses Unnamed Sources | FiveThirtyEight https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/when-to-trust-a-story-that-uses-unnamed-sources/
The Bots Beat Us. Now What? | FiveThirtyEight https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-bots-beat-us-now-what/?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email
Without our knowing, we pass a test. Every day, new stars appear in our sky as neighboring civilizations open their dark matter cloaks to us
Blind from birth, when asked to imagine colors, she makes it sound like she’s found something better than us and we don’t dare fix her eyes
Bezos and Musk Are Shaping the Worldviews of Future Space Settlements - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywzazy/jeff-bezos-elon-musk-space-settlements-overview-effect
How Apple’s Early Clone Wars Reshaped Copyright Law - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/59za4x/how-apples-early-clone-wars-reshaped-copyright-law
Hidden Features and Third Party Programs That Make Spotify Work for You - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/59z7vk/hidden-features-and-third-party-programs-that-make-spotify-work-for-you
A comet misses us and shatters the firmament instead, night and day stop their cycle and their shards won’t stop spinning through the sky
Surreal Memes Are the Last Escape the Internet Has - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xwz833/surreal-memes-are-the-last-escape-the-internet-has
Monsters, Marvels, and the Birth of Science - Issue 50: Emergence - Nautilus http://nautil.us/issue/50/emergence/monsters-marvels-and-the-birth-of-science-rp
Getting Started - Multics Wiki http://swenson.org/multics_wiki/index.php?title=Getting_Started#Using_the_Multics_QuickStart
come check out my new cryptocurrency BaCoin, using a novel algorithm called proof of steak (chosen over the more conservative proof of pork)
How post-horror movies are taking over cinema | Film | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jul/06/post-horror-films-scary-movies-ghost-story-it-comes-at-night?CMP=fb_us
Scientists crack mystery of ancient Roman concrete’s 2,000-year life span - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/07/04/ancient-romans-made-worlds-most-durable-concrete-we-might-use-it-to-stop-rising-seas/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=nextdraft&utm_term=.2b76b2885c2a
When talking to ghosts, be careful to use the right tense and mood, for many take grave offense at being mentioned in the past tense
“Sure, I’ll cast a recursive spell”, next you know that spell has used up all the universe’s magic to convert it into hot expanding space
remember when ◊ was young, weak, didn’t rule the world yet, and you used to play hide and seek in your files, leave each other surprises,
they tell us of each other’s presence↵they wouldn’t have to, we already know