TXR Language http://nongnu.org/txr/
Alex Schroeder: 2018-01-10 Encrypted Gopher https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2018-01-10_Encrypted_Gopher
Brutalist design is the bad influence we all need https://www.imaginarycloud.com/blog/why-we-need-web-brutalism/
Are ‘Learning Styles’ Real? - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/the-myth-of-learning-styles/557687/
Band name of the day: all-purpose survival cracker
Why Does “=” Mean Assignment? ⢠Hillel Wayne https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/equals-as-assignment/
Band name of the day: apes with ape problems
Lessons Learned Reproducing a Deep Reinforcement Learning Paper http://amid.fish/reproducing-deep-rl
Code and Data for the Social Sciences:A Practitioner’s Guide http://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/CodeAndData.xhtml
Whatâs Really at Stake in the Battle for âIdeological Diversityâ at Elite Media Outlets https://theintercept.com/2018/04/10/kevin-williamson-atlantic-ideological-diversity/
Designing better file organization around tags, not hierarchies https://www.nayuki.io/page/designing-better-file-organization-around-tags-not-hierarchies
How to Make Everything Ourselves: Open Modular Hardware - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2012/12/how-to-make-everything-ourselves-open-modular-hardware.html
A Taxonomy of Tech Debt | Riot Games Engineering https://engineering.riotgames.com/news/taxonomy-tech-debt
Band name of the day: beaverduck
Your Pretty Face is Going to Sell : Open Space https://openspace.sfmoma.org/2018/04/your-pretty-face-is-going-to-sell/
Please describe the precise nature of the absurdity.
What is more terrifying – that they know something about you that you don’t know yourself, or that even though you have no self – no center other than an arithmetic mean – they can still predict your absurdities better than you can?
What is more terrifying – that know something about you that you don’t know yourself, or that even though you have no self – no center other than an arithmetic mean – can still predict your absurdities better than you can?
Pay for Your Words | Peter Pomerantsev | Granta Magazine https://granta.com/pay-for-your-words/
Band name of the day: an unorthodox guidance
Band name of the day: night shape
Band name of the day: beyond taste
The Verge Book Club 001 -‘Ubik’ - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBiHiShnhso
Ubik: apply directly to the forehead
Hive Minds, Mind Hives - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GAicTW7MGo
Headlines making you anxious? Delay reading them | Oliver Burkeman | Life and style | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/apr/06/how-to-handle-headline-anxiety-take-time-reading-news-oliver-burkeman
Hot take: authenticity is a separate issue from control. ‘Selling out’ is a matter of centralized control of media, not of compromised ‘individuality’. People are often genuinely individually awful.
How to Build a Low-tech Internet - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/10/how-to-build-a-low-tech-internet.html
dan soucy / derivejoy · GitLab https://gitlab.com/danso/derivejoy
Samin Nosrat’s ‘Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat’ and the Best Books for Learning How to Cook - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/04/the-why-of-cooking-samin-nosrat/523923/
Confessions of a fairy hunter | THE Features https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/confessions-fairy-hunter
So, which one of you are gonna fill the blockchain with anarchocommunist pamphlets?
Band name of the day: illegal anatomy
These Fortune-Telling Tea Cups Made Divination Easy - Gastro Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fortune-telling-tea-cups
The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user https://jameshfisher.com/2018/04/07/the-dots-do-matter-how-to-scam-a-gmail-user.html
Band name of the day: selfies with bears
Band name of the day: mouthbrow
Cramulus | In the future, dolphins, elephants, and several… http://cramul.us/post/172758639737/in-the-future-dolphins-elephants-and-several
Yeah, this is almost exactly what I did too: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/7/27/16035508/diy-wearable-computer-google-glass-raspberry-pi-instructions
How to keep your ISPâs nose out of your browser history with encrypted DNS | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/how-to-keep-your-isps-nose-out-of-your-browser-history-with-encrypted-dns/
Why itâs as hard to escape an echo chamber as it is to flee a cult | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/why-its-as-hard-to-escape-an-echo-chamber-as-it-is-to-flee-a-cult
A Mass of Copyrighted Works Will Soon Enter the Public Domain - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/04/copywritten-so-dont-copy-me/557420/
Molly Ringwald Revisits âThe Breakfast Clubâ in the Age of #MeToo | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/what-about-the-breakfast-club-molly-ringwald-metoo-john-hughes-pretty-in-pink
Operant Conditioning by Software Bugs – Embedded in Academia https://blog.regehr.org/archives/861
After Authenticity http://subpixel.space/entries/after-authenticity/
Band name of the day: urban foxes
Somebody on mastodon linked me to this, and it’s a fantastic syllabus. Highly recommend reading ALL of these: https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/hyperreal-VRp8uyehhIOdW3tET3O64
Hot take: if you have more than one user or you’re taking money from anybody, ‘break things’ should not be part of your motto, unless your job is literally demolition.
Strange Behavior - Cult Films Of Eurocine Studios - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C7g-KJJIFg