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
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