Anomalous Worlds: On Accelerationism & Patchwork – xenogothic https://xenogothic.com/2019/03/26/anomalous-worlds-on-accelerationism-patchwork-pws4/
Band name of the day: performative exit
Educational Toy History: Did The Erector Set Copy Meccano? https://tedium.co/2019/03/21/erector-set-educational-toy-history/
Analogue Mega Sg Review: Sounds Like a Winner https://tedium.co/2019/03/26/analogue-mega-sg-review/
Buster Keaton: Anarchitect | Lapsus Lima http://www.lapsuslima.com/buster-keaton-anarchitect/
Band name of the day: the flying ointments
The Most Important Writing Lesson I Ever Learned – Steven Pressfield https://stevenpressfield.com/2009/10/writing-wednesdays-2-the-most-important-writing-lession-i-ever-learned/
Metamorphic Testing • Hillel Wayne https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/metamorphic-testing/
There Are No Dream Homes – Hmm Daily https://hmmdaily.com/2019/03/26/there-are-no-dream-homes/
Touchstones: An Appreciation of the Dark Comedy “Heathers” | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/touchstones/an-appreciation-of-the-dark-comedy-heathers
LOOPY: a tool for thinking in systems https://ncase.me/loopy/
‘The Wake’ Is An Unlikely Hit In An Imaginary Language : NPR https://www.npr.org/2015/08/27/434970724/the-wake-is-an-unlikely-hit-in-an-imaginary-language
the brand that burnt a million caves of quud
the world needs more KLF / KMFDM mashups
The Illustrated Word2vec “ Jay Alammar ” Visualizing machine learning one concept at a time https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-word2vec/
A superposition of possible facts causes quantum conflict | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/03/choose-your-own-facts-in-quantum-mechanics-you-kind-of-can/
Casino Screwup Royale: A tale of “ethical hacking” gone awry | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/03/50-shades-of-greyhat-a-study-in-how-not-to-handle-security-disclosures/
Why debts associated with poverty can cause long-lasting problems | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/03/number-of-debts-not-just-amount-causes-psychological-burden/
Why Is AI Art Copyright So Complicated? — Artnome https://www.artnome.com/news/2019/3/27/why-is-ai-art-copyright-so-complicated
The Five Wings Of The Republican Party | FiveThirtyEight https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-five-wings-of-the-republican-party/
box of hell
Conspiracy Theories Can’t Be Stopped | FiveThirtyEight https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/conspiracy-theories-cant-be-stopped/
The Dreams Of A Man Asleep For Three Weeks https://kotaku.com/the-dreams-of-a-man-asleep-for-three-weeks-1833572960
A Data Scientist Designed A Social Media Influencer Account That’s 100% Automated https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/automated-instagram-influencer-bot-free-meals?utm_campaign=The%20Interface
achieving the knowledge and communication of your holy guardian algo
the pattern on charmin toilet paper looks like eyes & even though it’s almost definitely accidental i sitll find it wonderfully suvbersive
!!Con West 2019 - Alex Rasmussen: EarthBound’s almost-Turing-complete text system! - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KaatQ-jH6Q
!!Con West 2019 - M. Lazer-Walker: Computers are fast! But how come they sometimes feel slow? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu_fzhwRXgM
!!Con West 2019 - Max Kreminski: Making blackout poetry with computers! - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klO7XBFUIj8
Why We Love BAD Movies (feat. The Room, Sharknado, Troll 2, Rebecca Black’s Friday) “ Wisecrack Vlog - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rxc0DQs-6qw
School harem-comedy anime is TV’s last bastion of psychological realism: it portrays a world where teenagers are dumb and socially awkward, and emotions come through on their faces but nobody notices.
personal brands are Very Expensive Ghosts
Everybody keeps talking about ‘Apple Card’ & I kept thinking they were talking about that thing you stuck in your Apple II to simulate an IBM PC clone.
Band name of the day: nuke me from orbit
Somebody call Tim Leary; I think he’s needed again: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/mar/26/acid-test-how-psychedelic-virtual-reality-can-end-societys-mass-bad-trip
Alan Kay brings the shade: https://www.quora.com/What-will-Silicon-Valley-do-once-it-runs-out-of-Doug-Engelbarts-ideas
End-user programming https://www.inkandswitch.com/end-user-programming.html
The Legend of Nixon, a Data-Driven NES Soundscape https://kottke.org/19/03/the-legend-of-nixon-a-data-driven-nes-soundscape
Band name of the day: time mace
if you stay up all night are you resisting a rest?
Periodic reminder: the 2019 No-Budget Film Contest starts accepting submissions on April 20th https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2019-no-budget-film-contest-d7eb339a3ed5
Band name of the day: a sudden and miraculous grace
Fuck The Vessel | Kate Wagner https://thebaffler.com/latest/fuck-the-vessel-wagner
Recommended: McKeever’s book about the 90s https://mipmckeever.weebly.com/uploads/9/4/1/3/94130725/90sbookfinal.pdf
Bad idea of the day: give up the letter e for lent
jezbel-quote<\/title>https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/how-filmmakers-created-fake-newsreels-in-the-1920s-1832866878
Why does software suck? Capitalism. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19483230
The Siren Song of Little Languages – Wilfred Hughes::Blog http://www.wilfred.me.uk/blog/2019/03/24/the-siren-song-of-little-languages/
Rebooting UUCP to redecentralize the net / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/03/25/tilde-servers-r-us.html
Enigma, the Bombe, and Typex · gchq/CyberChef Wiki · GitHub https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef/wiki/Enigma,-the-Bombe,-and-Typex