Robert Virding, Mariano Guerra - Implementing Languages on the BEAM - Code BEAM SF 2018 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkAbwmn5Rv8
It’s Nice That | A chat with the Orwellian mastermind in charge of the UK town known as Scarfolk https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/scarfolk-graphic-design-210318
A history of the Amiga, part 12: Red vs. Blue | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/03/a-history-of-the-amiga-part-12-red-vs-blue/
GitHub - roamanalytics/mittens: A fast implementation of GloVe, with optional retrofitting https://github.com/roamanalytics/mittens
Using Ethics In Web Design — Smashing Magazine https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/03/using-ethics-in-web-design/
Letting neural networks be weird • April Fool’s pranks written by neural network http://aiweirdness.com/post/172345256807/april-fools-pranks-written-by-neural-network
Bad idea of the day: use the luma channel from one VCR and the chroma channel from a different one
Bad idea of the day: video theramin
Secret History of Silicon Valley - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo
Interview : EBN - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uYXI-5rkOo
Re: ‘architecture is fate’ – a more accurate version is ‘precedent is easily mistaken for fate’. Part of the problem is creating bad precedent; part is not looking closely enough to distinguish esence from accident.
My Cow Game Extracted Your Facebook Data - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/my-cow-game-extracted-your-facebook-data/556214/
With Musical Cryptography, Composers Can Hide Messages in Their Melodies - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/musical-cryptography-codes
Why Big Tech Needs Big Ethics — Right Now! – Lauren Weinstein’s Blog https://lauren.vortex.com/2018/03/24/why-big-tech-needs-big-ethics-right-now
Facebook Has Had Countless Privacy Scandals. But This One Is Different. https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/why-facebooks-data-scandal-just-wont-quit
Architectural Mystery: Ruin Researcher Explores Ancient Temple’s Hidden History - 99% Invisible https://99percentinvisible.org/article/architectural-mystery-ruin-researcher-explores-ancient-temples-hidden-history/
Hot take: big tech exists only as a failure to create small (human-scale) tech. Facebook & twitter represents a failure to create & publicize p2p alternatives.
Pin-Ups: David Bowie Goes to the Movies https://www.tiff.net/the-review/david-bowie-goes-to-the-movies/
Knolling - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knolling
Punding - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punding
Think Again https://thinkagain.ought.org/
Band name of the day: the submerged man
Ad Scammers Need Suckers, and Facebook Helps Find Them - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-03-27/ad-scammers-need-suckers-and-facebook-helps-find-them
Married … With Children History: How Terry Rakolta Changed Television https://tedium.co/2018/03/27/married-with-children-terry-rakolta/
Band name of the day: The Known
A practitioner’s guide to reading programming languages papers | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/01/26/a-practitioners-guide-to-reading-programming-languages-papers/
When coding style survives compilation: de-anonymizing programmers from executable binaries | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/03/16/when-coding-style-survives-compilation-de-anonymizing-programmers-from-executable-binaries/
Game of missuggestions: semantic analysis of search autocomplete manipulation | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/03/14/game-of-missuggestions-semantic-analysis-of-search-autocomplete-manipulation/
In the gap between writer and reader the novel comes to life | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/in-the-gap-between-writer-and-reader-the-novel-comes-to-life
How science fiction feeds the fuel solutions of the future | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-science-fiction-feeds-the-fuel-solutions-of-the-future
Seek permission, not forgiveness · Nick Sweeney https://nicksweeney.com/2007/09/08/seek-permission-not-forgiveness/
Band name of the day: DAG of distain
David Lynch’s Night Truths https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/03/20/david-lynchs-night-truths/
Don’t Delete Facebook. Do Something About It. - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/24/opinion/sunday/delete-facebook-does-not-fix-problem.html
The Quest for a Universal Translator for Old, Obsolete Computer Files - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-to-open-old-computer-files
Marvel at Tiny, Perfect Staircases Made by a Secret Society of French Woodworkers - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/compagnons-tiny-staircases-models
Instead of watching Pop Team Epic, just read this essay, which is more satisfying: http://www.stormingtheivorytower.com/2018/03/lets-pop-together-part-1.html
One percent of Reddit users cause 75 percent of the drama | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/3825/one-percent-of-reddit-users-ruin-everything
Privacy and Tracking on the Fediverse | Lainblog https://blog.soykaf.com/post/privacy-and-tracking-on-the-fediverse/
Section 230: A Key Legal Shield For Facebook, Google Is About To Change : All Tech Considered : NPR https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2018/03/21/591622450/section-230-a-key-legal-shield-for-facebook-google-is-about-to-change
GitHub - robey/font-problems: command-line tool for reading and writing console bitmap fonts https://github.com/robey/font-problems
The desire to fit in is the root of almost all wrongdoing | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/the-desire-to-fit-in-is-the-root-of-almost-all-wrongdoing
‘It’s old news’ doesn’t make something better – it makes it worse. If there’s a problem that’s been newsworthy several times & not addressed, it’s had more time to affect people, and people should be criticized for not addressing it.
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
Fred’s ImageMagick Scripts http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/index.php
Information flow reveals prediction limits in online social activity | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/03/26/information-flow-reveals-prediction-limits-in-online-social-activity/
Band name of the day: the product
Justseeds | 257: Penguin Crime https://justseeds.org/257-penguin-crime/
Hot take: the web never ‘belonged to the people’ – the moment a centralized client-server model with hostnames embedded in the addressed was decided upon, the seeds of Facebook & Google were sown.
Being frugal is for the rich | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/3840/frugalwoods-frugality-millennials