Cloak and Data: The Real Story Behind Cambridge Analytica’s Rise and Fall – Mother Jones https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/cloak-and-data-cambridge-analytica-robert-mercer/

The man who coined the Dunning–Kruger effect says we’re most gullible to ourselves — Quartz https://qz.com/1231534/the-person-whos-best-at-lying-to-you-is-you/

Band name of the day: big cat sancturary

Doc Searls Weblog · Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica problems are nothing compared to what’s coming for all of online publishing https://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2018/03/23/nothing/

Band name of the day: king crusher

Daniel Dennett on Tools To Transform Our Thinking - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJsD-3jtXz0

Botnik Presents: Dear Abby - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHhwxpFOtl0

Wet Sandwich 01 | adult swim - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_a17A3kNlM

Why We Believe in Aliens - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcGaolLxhpQ

Bad idea of the day: a game show with fantastic cash prizes, where contestants distinguish between real and fake headlines from the past week.

Botnik Jeopardy w/ Allison & Justin - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04MqKgHjIdo

Botnik - Live Procedurally Generated Comedy - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IujSOW1OMWk

igor wakhevitch - hathor (1973) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkz4GVkW2-o

Max Headroom 20 minutes into the future 1985 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZY-yQYVf38

Bad idea of the day: Require a 60% majority in a state-wide popular vote for congressional redistricting.

Band name of the day: ambient humanity

Jordan Peterson & Fascist Mysticism | by Pankaj Mishra | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/03/19/jordan-peterson-and-fascist-mysticism/

So tumblr emailed me and told me I had reblogged posts by kremlin psyops socks. Anybody else get this?

Thursday is the appropriate day to make sacrifices to Compound Interest. Use a gold altar cloth. Compound Interest prefers sacrifices in the form of burning dollar bills, but twenties will work in a pinch. If you cannot make money, store-bought is fine.

Bad idea of the day: Wear a rubber band on your wrist and snap it every time you say ‘technology’, ‘market’, ‘end user’, ‘standard’, ‘I’, or ‘is’.

If even the best case is bad, then please don’t do it.

Elon Musk Is a Modern Henry Ford. That’s Bad. - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-22/elon-musk-is-a-modern-henry-ford-that-s-bad

Hot take: mere exposure & availability bias have ramifications for action – the more we do a thing or see it done, the easier it is for us to imagine doing it when planning. Cuts both ways: we could open up possibilities, but we should be careful with which we open.

The Signal has run my short story “She Awaited the Turkeys” as part of the episode called “Intermission 02”. (Doesn’t seem to be posted on the website yet.)

Test Case - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/03/test-case.html

Programmer as wizard, programmer as engineer http://www.tedinski.com/2018/03/20/wizarding-vs-engineering.html

Man as a Rationalist Animal – sam[ ]zdat https://samzdat.com/2017/05/22/man-as-a-rationalist-animal/

The Clapper History: Please Clap For Home Automation https://tedium.co/2018/03/22/the-clapper-history/

Blood Donation History: Truly a Wartime Effort https://tedium.co/2018/03/20/blood-donation-bloodmobile-history/

The Jumpsuit That Will Replace All Clothes Forever https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/03/21/the-jumpsuit-that-will-replace-all-clothes-forever/

laurie anderson is the original radical american artist - i-D https://i-d.vice.com/en_us/article/qvx887/laurie-anderson-is-the-original-radical-american-artist

Bad idea of the day: ‘mastogone’ – a script that identifies people you’re following who haven’t posted in more than a year

The Leaning Tower of Morality https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/11/28/the-leaning-tower-of-morality/

How to Hack an Engineer https://www.nemil.com/musings/hack-an-engineer.html

Cambridge Analytica’s Facebook data abuse shouldn’t get credit for Trump - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/20/17138854/cambridge-analytica-facebook-data-trump-campaign-psychographic-microtargeting

Hot take: the lack of targetting effectiveness in Cambridge Analytica & Google Ads doesn’t excuse it. There are 4 sins here: taking the data, trying to target with it, targetting poorly, and overselling targetting accuracy. They compound.

Band name of the day: death benefits

Bad idea of the day: Instead of an index fund, choose stocks completely at random, and buy or sell/short them completely at random, one share at a time, once every ten minutes or so.

Band name of the day: the red-mad attacks

Band name of the day: swarming dope fortress

Band name of the day: unusable truths

Band name of the day: cheap grace

Band name of the day: an extraordinary and unexpected ruthlessness

Band name of the day: vital value

Attn Evangelion fans: this is the appropriate response to the hedgehog’s dilemma: https://imgur.com/DcZYJoi

Hall and Oates vs. The Supremes - “My World is Empty Without You, Maneater” - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCjr2EUHRuk

The Believer Midwestern Gothic https://www.believermag.com/issues/201802/?read=article_midwestern_gothic

13 Reasons to Believe Aliens Are Real http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/03/13-reasons-to-believe-aliens-are-real.html

The merits of taking an anti-anti-communism stance | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-merits-of-taking-an-anti-anti-communism-stance

White Supremacy, Black Liberation, and the Power Dynamics of Gun Violence - Waypoint https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/kzxevx/white-supremacy-black-liberation-and-the-power-dynamics-of-gun-violence