Bad idea of the day: donate synthetic diamond machines to hackerspaces
Band name of the day: mega purple
Band name of the day: wraith of the name
Pink Lexical Goop: The Dark Side of Autocorrect - Mondo 2000 http://www.mondo2000.com/2018/01/17/pink-lexical-goop-dark-side-autocorrect/
Smart Drugs & Nutrients in 1991 (MONDO 20… http://www.mondo2000.com/2018/03/09/smart-drugs-nutrients-1991-mondo-2000-flashback-friday/
Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader History: Useful At Certain Times https://tedium.co/2018/03/06/uncle-johns-bathroom-reader-history/
Prop Electronics History: The Art of Fakery https://tedium.co/2018/03/08/fake-prop-electronics-history/
Cory Doctorow: Let’s Get Better at Demandi… http://locusmag.com/2018/03/cory-doctorow-lets-get-better-at-demanding-better-from-tech/
Granular Audio Synthesis « The blog at the bottom of the sea https://blog.demofox.org/2018/03/05/granular-audio-synthesis/
Huge MIT Study of ‘Fake News’: Fa… https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/largest-study-ever-fake-news-mit-twitter/555104/
How Self-A… https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/03/you-dont-know-yourself-as-well-as-you-think-you-do/554612/?single_page=true
If there isn’t a bathrobe-clad Judas Priest cover band named Dudeist Priest, there should be.
The Streaming Void | Judy Berman https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-streaming-void-berman
Anton’s Research Ramblings - 2018_03_08_how_i_write_code http://antongerdelan.net/blog/formatted/2018_03_08_how_i_write_code.html
SkyKnit: How an AI Took Over an Adult Kni… https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/the-making-of-skyknit-an-ai-yarn/554894/
Gratitude for Invisible Systems - The Atla… https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/gratitude-for-invisible-systems/526344/
We have entered a period in history where Batman Returns is more culturally relevant than The Dark Knight. That scares me a bit.
Hot take: mashups & references can be powerful tools for getting your message across, but if you don’t have a message (or your message is this is my taste) it’s just masturbatory. (Fite me.)
Waiting for Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment | The Nation https://www.thenation.com/article/waiting-for-steven-pinkers-enlightenment/
Greg Young - The art of destroying software on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/108441214
Is every anime containing WcDonalds as a trademark-free McDonalds expy now retroactively progressive? Like, even SAO? (Hint: no)
QOTD: ‘The Web is the minimal concession to hypertext that a sequence-and-hierarchy chauvinist could possibly make.’ -Ted Nelson
Ted’s ComParadigm in OneLiners http://xanadu.com.au/ted/TN/WRITINGS/TCOMPARADIGM/tedCompOneLiners.html
People say that the world is getting weirder. But, the weirdness is not new: it’s always been here. It’s just not visible unless you look closely, so we see it more clearly in recent events.
TFW you have so many movies you haven’t watched yet that you have to roll a D4 once and then a D20 twice in order to pick one
Band name of the day: fraudulent fish
Dyalog17: Patterns and Anti-patterns in APL: Escaping the Beginner‘s Plateau - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xCJ3BCIudI
Programming is Forgetting: Toward a New Hacker Ethic - All… http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/programming-forgetting-new-hacker-ethic/
Tracing fake… https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/02/19/tracing-fake-news-footprints-characterizing-social-media-messages-by-how-they-propagate/
As we may think | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/02/23/as-we-may-think/
Counterintuitive Properties of High Dimensional Space… https://marckhoury.github.io/counterintuitive-properties-of-high-dimensional-space/
Reminder: submissions for the no-budget film contest begin 4/20. You have almost two months if you start now. https://medium.com/p/announcing-the-2018-no-budget-film-contest-e023a922fadd
APL Style: Patterns/Anti-patterns https://sway.com/b1pRwmzuGjqB30On
My Mondo piece on sublims is up on gopher: gopher://fuckup.solutions/1enkiv2/sublim.txt
What Ancient Sparta and Modern Small-scale Societies Have in Common http://nautil.us/blog/the-point-of-mens-cults
Band name of the day: the spaces of exception
As a software engineer, being ignorant of sociology & psychology is just as bad as being ignorant of cryptography. Treat toxic communities the way you would treat any other security vulnerability: as an emergency.
Social engineering is engineering. When you design software used by people, the community is not an externality – it’s shaped by your design, & therefore your responsibility.
Bad idea of the day: Take two movies & drop or combine frames until they are exactly the same length. Then, interpolate the two, so that in each frame, every other line is a different movie. Then, interpolate the FFT of the soundtrack so that, for some band size, every other band is the other movie.
Bad idea of the day: Rearrange the frames of a movie so that each frame is followed by the remaining frame that has the minimum (or maximum) difference, in terms first of brightness and then of color
Bad idea of the day: Sort the frames of a movie by average color & play it that way
The Case Against Retweets - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/554078/?single_page=true
Band name of the day: absurd machine
A creative multiplicity: the philosophy of Deleuze … https://aeon.co/essays/a-creative-multiplicity-the-philosophy-of-deleuze-and-guattari
The Alt-right is recruiting depres… https://theoutline.com/post/3537/alt-right-recruiters-have-infiltrated-the-online-depression-community
It Never Went Away https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/03/italy-fascism-lega-bersculoni-immigration
GitHub - erroneousboat/slack-term: Slack client for your terminal https://github.com/erroneousboat/slack-term
Understanding word vectors: A tutorial for "Reading and Writing El… https://gist.github.com/aparrish/2f562e3737544cf29aaf1af30362f469
Band name of the day: slowness in human relations