Bad idea of the day: Raspberry Pi based seedboxes built into your shoes, connecting to every open network, and trying to break into every not-open one.

Bad idea of the day: ESP32 throwies with flash memory as store-and-forward nodes for an incrementally growing DHT

Guidelines for future hypertext systems – Rococo Modem Ba… https://medium.com/@/guidelines-for-future-hypertext-systems-647b6a10f7dd

Bad idea of the day: a claw machine except it’s a fishing pole with a hook on the end

Band name of the day: thanatosis

Announcing the 2018 No-Budget Film Contest – Rococo Mo… https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2018-no-budget-film-contest-e023a922fadd

Your periodic reminder that I am running a no-budget film contest again this year. If you plan to make a no-budget film, submit it. If you want an excuse to make one, you have one now.

Bad idea of the day: at a wedding, the bride, groom, bridesmaids, and best man all wear identical suits and photorealistic masks of Richard K. James

Band name of the day: the parasite brood

Band name of the day: the brood parasites

Band name of the day: the enforcement specialists

How To Become A Centaur https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/issue3-case

[1511.04206] Quantum algorithms: an overview https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.04206

How to Survive a Harem Anime - Public Service Anime - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FmtiDbg4xY

Beating Film Censorship in China: Online Big Movies - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyj7A6iD9Nk

The Cult of Debt Forgiveness - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ec2WLyUtbA

Band name of the day: international orbit

Band name of the day: an explosion was audible within each toad

When Amazon Opens Warehouses - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/02/amazon-warehouses-poor-cities/552020/

Meet the pirate queen making aca… https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/8/16985666/alexandra-elbakyan-sci-hub-open-access-science-papers-lawsuit

I Spent Tw… https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/i-spent-two-years-trying-to-fix-the-gender-imbalance-in-my-stories/552404/

You can now play with Spotify’s rec… https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2018/2/5/16974194/spotify-recommendation-algorithm-playlist-hack-nelson

GitHub - automerge/automerge: A JSON-like data structure that can be modified concurrently by diff… https://github.com/automerge/automerge

Labouring in the digital economy: The people making content (in)visible o… https://www.diggitmagazine.com/column/labouring-digital-economy

GitHub - chriskiehl/Gooey: Turn (almost) any Python command line program into a full GUI application … https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey

Linguistics Using Category Theory | The n-Category Caf&#… https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2018/02/linguistics_using_category_the.html

Why the Culture Wins: An Appreciation of Iain M. Banks &#8… http://sciphijournal.org/why-the-culture-wins-an-appreciation-of-iain-m-banks/

Band name of the day: a sleeping suit for air-raid nights

bell hooks talks to John Perry Barlow - Lion‘s Roar https://www.lionsroar.com/bell-hooks-talks-to-john-perry-barlow/

The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences: Symmetries… https://qualiacomputing.com/2016/12/12/the-hyperbolic-geometry-of-dmt-experiences/

The House That Spied on Me https://gizmodo.com/the-house-that-spied-on-me-1822429852

Band name of the day: let them eat art

Longbox History: The Compact Disc‘s Wasteful Container https://tedium.co/2018/02/06/compact-disc-longbox-history/

Bad idea of the day: spaghetti and cakeballs in a cinnamon-sugar-butter sauce

Dog World Pilot Animatic on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/48994457

Blue men of the Minch - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_men_of_the_Minch

Doki Doki Literature Club (Zero Punctuation) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krq6-1ht_kk

Early Legal Streaming Services: Why Pressplay and MusicNet … https://tedium.co/2018/01/30/legal-music-streaming-history/?utm_source=Tedium

Tools, substitutes or compani… https://cyberselves.org/2018/02/05/tools-substitutes-or-companions-metaphors-for-thinking-about-technology/

Bad idea of the day: playing cards with oblique strategies on tghem

Rather than sending advertisements into outer space, it would be really nice if we made it so that Facebook and Twitter would run reasonably on six month old mid-market desktop computers. These JS timeouts are annoying.

Jordan Peterson’s Bullshit https://jacobinmag.com/2018/02/jordan-peterson-enlightenment-nietzsche-alt-right

The Darkness Before the Right - The Awl https://www.theawl.com/2015/09/the-darkness-before-the-right/

Why I barely read SF these days - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/02/why-i-barely-read-sf-these-day.html

The Age of Creativity · The Walrus https://thewalrus.ca/the-age-of-creativity/

Band name of the day: the mysterious night visitor

Manifesto Jam - itch.io https://itch.io/jam/manifesto-jam

The Social Dynamics of Programming Together in Dynamicland https://dynamicland.org/research-notes/social-dynamics-of-programming-together/

Linguistic bots explain why big gr… https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/02/linguistic-bots-explain-why-big-groups-produce-simple-grammar/

GitHub - Zulko/moviepy: Video editing with Python https://github.com/Zulko/moviepy