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Britain’s imperial dream-catchers and the truths of empi… https://aeon.co/essays/britains-imperial-dream-catchers-and-the-truths-of-empire

Bad idea of the day: voting, except with a 30 year delay, to force people to actually think ahead.

White Knight Syndrome | Niela Orr https://thebaffler.com/bread-and-circuses/white-knight-syndrome-orr

The Weaponization of Awkwardness - The… https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/12/the-weaponization-of-awkwardness/548291/

This Is How Visiting A Porn Site Can Make You A Pawn In An Ad Fraud Scheme https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/porn-runs-the-internet

How our housing choices make adult friendships more difficult - Vox https://www.vox.com/2015/10/28/9622920/housing-adult-friendship

Fu… https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/12/it-might-be-impossible-for-future-historians-to-understand-our-internet/547463/

Heuristic for cleaning up medium: start by unsubscribing from anybody who lists their occupation in their bio. Then, move on to anybody who posts under a name that looks real.

Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Myste… https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html

Millennials Are Screwed - The Huffington Post http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/poor-millennials/

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Why I love National Novel Generation Month – Liza Daly – Medium https://medium.com/@liza/why-i-love-national-novel-generation-month-b8f6e58c6422

Princess Principal‘s Hidden Details - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trOtP9n7Bu8

Dotsies http://dotsies.org/

https://www.wired.com/story/mirai-botnet-minecraft-scam-brought-down-the-internet/

https://quartzy.qz.com/1155687/botniks-human-generated-harry-potter-spoof-using-a-predictive-keyboard-has-gone-viral/

Higurashi When They Cry Abridged - Onikakushi - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UnFBtJD4x0

Announcing the 2018 No-Budget Film Contest – A pig in a cage on antibiotics – Medium https://medium.com/@enkiv2/announcing-the-2018-no-budget-film-contest-e023a922fadd

Makoto Shinkai: A Genius Hack Filmmaker - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezSdQ63phFw

The New Media‘s coming of age | Dan Carlin | TEDxMtHood - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K57kcs15DY

What Shonen Jump Was Like 30 Years Ago - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIh85_bCudk

"STRANGER THINGS: A Bad Lip Reading" - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-4rhjO6xYg

How BoJack Horseman Subverts Narrative - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7zZYnFADxk

The World Wide Web Sucks - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tefielQeHZY

Downtown Immorality Lecture Series: "THE DARK IMMORTALITY OF THE VAMPIRE" - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBmp6RONkEw

Storming the Ivory Tower: Hauntology/Headology: Carpe Jugulum and Gothic Justice https://stormingtheivorytower.blogspot.com/2017/11/hauntologyheadology-carpe-jugulum-and.html

Beatles Bible https://rawgit.com/JKirchartz/NaNoGenMo/master/2017/BeatlesBible/index.html

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_sci_fi_comic_book_story_that_inspired_they_live

How I Turned My Discarded Novel Drafts Into an AI | Literary Hub http://lithub.com/how-i-turned-my-discarded-novel-drafts-into-an-ai/

Letting neural networks be weird • The first line of a novel, by an improved neural… http://aiweirdness.com/post/168051907512/the-first-line-of-a-novel-by-an-improved-neural

KOD (Romeo and Juliet) http://kevan.org/nanogenmo/KOD-171130.html

How The Ancient Magus Bride Makes Magic Feel Real - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJLvf1-3s_8

High Tech High Life: William Gibson & Timothy Leary in Conversation (1989) - Mondo 2000 http://www.mondo2000.com/2017/11/29/high-tech-high-life-william-gibson-timothy-leary-conversation-1989/

High Tech High Life: William Gibson & Timothy Leary in Conversation (1989) - Mondo 2000 http://www.mondo2000.com/2017/11/29/high-tech-high-life-william-gibson-timothy-leary-conversation-1989/

2d Markov · Issue #125 · NaNoGenMo/2017 · GitHub https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2017/issues/125

Lossy Text Compression | Hackaday.io https://hackaday.io/project/5689-lossy-text-compression

A Library of Parallel Algorithms https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~scandal/nesl/algorithms.html

Hyperlinks in Terminal Emulators · GitHub https://gist.github.com/egmontkob/eb114294efbcd5adb1944c9f3cb5feda

AI Is Dreaming Up New Kinds of Video Games - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609482/ai-is-dreaming-up-new-kinds-of-video-games/

Vrillon: the alien voice hoax that became a legend | The Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/vrillon-hacking-alien-voice-seventies-extra-terrestrial-hoax-unexplained-mysteries-a8069926.html

Is soup a beverage or a food? | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/2513/is-soup-a-beverage-or-a-food

GitHub - s-macke/SAM: Software Automatic Mouth - Tiny Speech Synthesizer https://github.com/s-macke/SAM

Guns tend to empower white, financially unstable men—who oppose gun control | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/11/study-white-men-facing-money-trouble-tend-to-cling-to-guns-for-power-identity/

Researchers find oddities in high-profile gender studies | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/11/researchers-find-oddities-in-high-profile-gender-studies/

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Random promotion may be best, research suggests | Education | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/education/2010/nov/01/random-promotion-research