Recognition Models: Scale World War Miniatures Used to Tell Friends from Foes - 99% Invisible https://99percentinvisible.org/article/recognition-models-scale-world-war-miniatures-used-to-tell-friends-from-foes/

What algorithmic art can teach us about artificial intelligence - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/21/17761424/ai-algorithm-art-machine-vision-perception-tom-white-treachery-imagenet

So, the Pseudomonarchia is like A Thing in anime, isn’t it… Using goetic demons as comic relief characters is something I see occasionally but it wasn’t until You’re Being Summoned, Azazel! that I realized that it wasn’t just like 3 guys doing it.

Not using the vi(m) editor is a lifestyle.

I never really felt familiar with #vim or #emacs everytime I tried and always fell back to #nano but it seems I could really get used to #spacemacs http://spacemacs.org/

Translit is a little like bittorrent, if bittorrent used literally the same bytes for AMVs and trailers as for the corresponding scenes in the show/movie. Transcopyright is like assembling AMVs from your own DVD boxed set based on a list of instructions & leaving a gap if you’re missing a disk.

This is a very hot take and also not a new one but here we go: the goal of a properly functioning software engineer is to obviate themselves, not by solving the customer’s specific problems but by blurring the line between using a computer and programming one to the point where users can solve their own problems.

Pet peeve: when people are so used to the model of defense against the strongest possible adversary that, in the case where that’s not possible, they consider smaller guarantees useless. Things don’t need to exist at google scale.

Pet peeve: when people conflate correctness with secrecy. Crypto can provide both, but the two are actually often in conflict. Please, think about the mechanisms you’re using systematically & also with respect to your actual threat model.

> when your thoughts are regularly interrupted by captchas because your implant’s subscription expired a month ago and you have to use the ratelimited public APIs

Somehow, http://www.lord-enki.net/medium-backup/2016-09-01_A-Qualified-Defense-of-Jargon—Other-In-Group-Signifiers-2fe2cd37b66b.html is getting a lot of hate. I thought it was pretty even-handed. Do people dislike it because I said culture fit should only matter when it impacts effectiveness, or that it’s useful at all?

Anyone using sendxmpp wants to try go-sendxmpp. It should already cover the most important use cases and I would be interested if it was compatible in your use case. https://salsa.debian.org/mdosch-guest/go-sendxmpp #xmpp #golang

@metamurks@www.metamurks.org Also you can still MITM https with a locally trusted cert for the mitming instance like McAffe does in a lot of company proxies. I think this could also be used for caching proxies.

Hot take: the existence of garden path sentences tells us that: 1) language isn’t so much a representation of meaning as a way of representing constraints for possible intepretation, and 2) we start processing before all the constraints have arrived

@kas@enotty.dk Have you done something with nncp? I like the idea, but somehow i don’t find a use case for it… :)

@kas@enotty.dk Have you done something with nncp? I like the idea, but somehow i don’t find a use case for it… :)

The Victorian Occultist Accused of Killing Men With Her Mind - Broadly https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/mbp7pb/the-victorian-occultist-accused-of-killing-men-with-her-mind

The gods have profiles just like us, except when they retweet stuff, it comes true and we both eagerly await and dread these moments↵#invisiblenetworks (day 3)

Greenfield maintains the MIB are just really good practicioners of enochian magick. We know from Lachman that sometimes secret chiefs have been enemy spies & occultists ‘useful idiots’ like Bennowitz. What if both?

@metamurks@www.metamurks.org I use to but I downgraded this account, since I had two MetaArpa acconts and I really only needed one.

Bo Burnham and the Illusion of Meritocracy - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus http://nautil.us/blog/bo-burnham-and-the-illusion-of-meritocracy

Meet the Anarchists Making Their Own Medicine - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43pngb/how-to-make-your-own-medicine-four-thieves-vinegar-collective

Managing TLS connections using Lua and Lua coroutines - The Boston Diaries - Captain Napalm http://boston.conman.org/2018/07/23.1

Folks who don’t use medium – do they have misleading popups or something? I have an account so I never see any of this crap, but people have indicated to me that they think they need to pay for (non-paywalled) posts.

Thread by @enkiv2@www.lord-enki.net: “An article I’m considering writing: the (explicit) political use of ghost stories. The idea of the ‘confederate soldier ghost’ was explicitl […]” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1021352318028087297.html

The US town ruled by an AI storyteller • Eurogamer.net https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-07-14-the-us-town-ruled-by-an-ai-storyteller

In case anybody cares, I’ve fixed up my mirror of all my medium posts. (Useful if you are a cheapskate!) As always, I prefer people with a medium account to actually go there & clap so I get a dime. http://www.lord-enki.net/medium-backup/

The more I use acme and sam, the more I notice that I start editor wars on Twitter. At least it’s Rob Pike’s fault.

Remember when this happened with latin & it turned out lorem ipsum was being compared to political blogs, like 10 years ago? https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5npeg/why-is-google-translate-spitting-out-sinister-religious-prophecies

JavaCard: The execution environment you didn’t know you were using – Bentham’s Gaze https://www.benthamsgaze.org/2018/07/13/javacard-the-execution-environment-you-didnt-know-you-were-using/

Hot Chili Peppers, War, and Sichuan Cuisine http://nautil.us/issue/62/systems/why-revolutionaries-love-spicy-food-rp

We shouldn’t let people get used to the idea that software fails - Rakhim.org https://rakhim.org/2018/07/software-shouldnt-fail

You have the right to a wheel. If you do not have a wheel, one will be provided for you. Please use METAL – not ORGANIC – limbs. We disclaim all liability if you use your own limbs during a sonic attack!

Using Artificial Intelligence to Augment Human Intelligence https://distill.pub/2017/aia/

Pro tip: avoiding the signifiers of commonly-understood identity constellations both allows you to shape your identity beyond cliche & jams the signal used by advertisers to classify you.

The Company That Makes Mechanical Keyboards Clack - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3qzy5/the-company-that-makes-mechanical-keyboards-clack

I feel like I’m repeating myself when I say: knowing the ideological diversity of your enemy is TACTICALLY USEFUL because, when observed closely, any group large enough to be politically powerful is full of hidden fault lines and tense cease-fires

do not attempt to use your own limbs

@kas@enotty.dk I’d love to have a ‘real’ Linux in my phone. The closest was when I was using #SailfishOS.

Why the US national anthem is terrible “ and perfect - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdl8p9akJJw

Glossary of Commonly Used Terms in the Western Mystery Tradition - Introduction to the Western Mystery Tradition - Journal of the Western Mystery Tradition - Hermetic Library https://hermetic.com/jwmt/v1n0/glossary2

Encode and Decode Strings using Base 64 ⌘ Read more…

Apparatus: A hybrid graphics editor and programming environment for creating interactive diagrams http://aprt.us/

Why tech’s favorite color is making us all miserable https://www.fastcodesign.com/90177573/how-blue-became-techs-favorite-color-and-why-it-shouldnt-be

The Case Against UI Consistency https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/the-case-against-user-interface-consistency.pdf

How People Used to Download Games From the Radio | Kotaku UK http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2014/10/13/people-used-download-games-radio

@kas@enotty.dk nice. 😎 Let’s see if this addon works: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hooktubeify/

‘Suffrajitsu’: How the suffragettes fought back using martial arts - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34425615

I’m not used to a second match in a tournament already being a ‘do or die’ match. Go #Germany! #GERvsSWE #WorldCup2018

Ecological “law” turns out to just be the result of us fishing | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/06/ecological-law-turns-out-to-just-be-the-result-of-us-fishing/

Periodic reminder that the state exists at the pleasure of the people who compose it, and should be dissolved when it ceases to benefit them. This means all of us, not just politicians or billionaires.

Making Interactive Fiction: Using Generative Prose - sub-Q Magazine https://sub-q.com/making-interactive-fiction-using-generative-prose/

periodic reminder that weapons in of themselves don’t have a moral valence & we should think materially about whether or not their use is appropriate to our goals, instead of vaguely about accidental associations. this includes social/memetic weaponry like protest techniques

The difficulty in translating ‘dokidoki’ for non-otaku audiences is a great example of why conceptual frames are a useful idea. You can literally translate it as ‘badump’ because it’s the heartbeat sfx, but you lose something.

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net you’ll probably have a lot of 404 on /wp-admin if you don’t use WordPress. 😂

Bad idea of the day: Use ssb to coordinate pinning of ipfs objects

Bad idea of the day: Scroll back through GUI input events & application states like you scroll back through shell history; inject conditionals and loops; use speculative execution of applications to show projected state from these changes.

Bad idea of the day: creating ads that target asemic combinations of dictionary words order to identify people who use dictionary-based chaffing techniques

Bad idea of the day: creating ads that target things that are in dictionaries but could never be sold in order to identify people who use dictionary-based chaffing techniques

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

Hey, remember using twtxt? I still like the idea.

Why Foley Artists Use Cabbage and Celery to Create Hollywood’s Distinctive Sounds - Gastro Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-are-film-sound-effects-made

The NSA Just Released 136 Historical Propaganda Posters - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43548d/nsa-historical-propaganda-posters-foia

70 Long-Lost Japanese Video Games Have Been Discovered in a 67GB Folder of ROMs on a Private Forum - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3anja/labyrinthe-japanese-game-discovered-on-private-forum

Have you tried accusing the outgroup of using the problem to introduce a solution that is worse than the problem?

Have you tried using markov chain monte carlo to perform a weighted random walk of solution space?

Have you tried reframing acceptance of the problem as a form of costly signalling, and using the problem as a gatekeeping mechanism?

with enough samples, it shouldn’t be hard to extract a content filter’s opinions, for example you could use your botnet to map what twitter really considers bannable and then generate maximally bannable tweets

You can easily tell actual dream girls and guys from fake ones by their complete inability to function in daily life, where dream logic just isn’t so useful

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I always throw YouTube URLs on MPV for watching. It makes use of YouTube-DL and let you choose audio lang and subtitles.

Bad idea of the day: Use eliza as your therapist for an hour a day for years, then train a markov bot on the logs.

This Man Committed Paradise Lost to Memory for Mental Exercise http://nautil.us/blog/-this-man-memorized-a-60000_word-poem-using-deep-encoding

Rarely do tidally bound worlds invent the lightbulb. The day side does not need it, the evening side evolves architecture that makes the most efficient use of light, the near night side (only recently colonized) is lit by gargantuan mirror arrays

It’s interesting to think about how habitual migration patterns break the close association between culture and geography. There’s a psychogeographic wormhole between Fairfield County, CT and south Florida, & used to be one between there & upstate NY.

Yet in our closet, the secret passage led directly into Hell. When we were young, we used it to scare the other kids with their regular fantasylands, as we got older we sometimes went there alone to remind ourselves how much worse it could be.

embots: like sexbots, but instead a superstimulus for empathy; often used on the streets as beggars or political activists (which is why sometimes, the cute animal rights girl in front of you explodes in a shower of sparks and broken parts as yet another victim of anthropol)

Bad idea of the day: use those ear-mounted accelerometers that normally wake people who are dozing off at the wheel to instead redden the display, replace desktop background with surreal and dreamlike images, fade in quiet calming ambient music, raise the thermostat

Bad idea of the day: use eye tracking to save power by blanking the parts of the display not within the light cone of the fovea

Bad idea of the day: a dual-layer LCD (like the 3d TVs from a few years ago) that uses the top layer exclusively for hover behavior

Bad idea of the day: a gesture based interface that uses DSP on the audio produced by a theramin to identify gestures, while playing that audio for learning feedback

This Twitter Bot Is Generating Jokes and It’s Funnier Than You - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5kmzy/headlinetron-comedy-twitter-bot

This Twitter Bot Is Generating Jokes and It‘s Funnier Than You - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5kmzy/headlinetron-comedy-twitter-bot

‘It’s an Anime Titty Holocaust:’ Steam Is Cracking Down on Visual Novels - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/evkxdk/steam-banning-adult-anime-visual-novel-huniepop

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 aren’t 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!”