Semi-autonomous agents: What are they, exactly? - Mondo 2000 http://www.mondo2000.com/2017/11/01/semi-autonomous-agents-exactly/

Josh Millard - Keeping Web Communities Healthy in a Dark Timeline - DonutJS October 2017 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhun8OzAmfg

The Greatest Computer Network You’ve Never Heard Of - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pa3vvg/the-greatest-computer-network-youve-never-heard-of

The Computer Scientist Who Prefers Paper - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/guardian-of-the-vote/544155/

Consciousness Began When the Gods Stopped Speaking: Julian Jaynes’ Famous 1970s Theory http://nautil.us/issue/54/the-unspoken/consciousness-began-when-the-gods-stopped-speaking-rp

Unusual experiment reveals the power of non-mainstream media | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/11/unusual-experiment-reveals-the-power-of-non-mainstream-media/

IBM pitched Watson as a revolution in cancer care. It‘s nowhere close https://www.statnews.com/2017/09/05/watson-ibm-cancer/

How Generative Music Works https://teropa.info/loop/

Inside the Business of Body Brokering in the United States - Pacific Standard https://psmag.com/magazine/arms-dealers

GANZEER - 1,000,000 A.D. PART II[[MORE]] By Ganzeer Adapted… http://www.ganzeer.com/post/167295499974/1000000-ad-part-iimore-by-ganzeer-adapted

What a new U.S. civil war might look like – Foreign Policy http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/10/10/what-a-new-u-s-civil-war-might-look-like/

https://www.wired.com/story/giving-open-source-projects-life-after-a-developers-death/

ROCStories and the Story Cloze Test http://cs.rochester.edu/nlp/rocstories/

The only job a robot couldn’t do | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/2393/the-only-job-a-robot-couldn-t-do

Why philosophy is so important in science education | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/why-philosophy-is-so-important-in-science-education

Is Universal Beauty a Mirage? http://nautil.us/blog/why-beauty-is-not-universal

Antarctica: a place of wide horizons and fragile selves | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/antarctica-a-place-of-wide-horizons-and-fragile-selves

Russian Money in Silicon Valley - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/545483/

Postscript on the Societies of Control - Gilles Deleuze https://libcom.org/library/postscript-on-the-societies-of-control-gilles-deleuze

J. Posadas: Flying saucers … and the socialist future of mankind (26 June 1968) https://www.marxists.org/archive/posadas/1968/06/flyingsaucers.html

Wavepaths App Guides Users Through Therapeutic Trips - Rolling Stone http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/wavepaths-app-guides-users-through-therapeutic-trips-w511245

Language Log » Headlessness in North Korean propaganda http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=35170

» A Net Before the Web, Part 3: Content and Competition The Digital Antiquarian http://www.filfre.net/2017/11/a-net-before-the-web-part-3-content-and-competition/

» A Net Before the Web, Part 2: Service to Community The Digital Antiquarian http://www.filfre.net/2017/11/a-net-before-the-web-part-2-service-to-community/

» A Net Before the Web, Part 1: The Establishment Man and the Magnificent Rogue The Digital Antiquarian http://www.filfre.net/2017/10/a-net-before-the-web-part-1-the-establishment-man-and-the-magnificent-rogue/

Human Mini-Brains Growing Inside Rat Bodies Are Starting To Integrate - Slashdot https://science.slashdot.org/story/17/11/09/2314220/human-mini-brains-growing-inside-rat-bodies-are-starting-to-integrate

Burn The Programmer! - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2017/11/burn-the-programmer.html

Hidden Tracks: Nowhere Left To Hide https://tedium.co/2017/11/09/hidden-tracks-album-history/

Crispin’s Model | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2017/10/04/crispins-model/

The Dead Man Fund https://longreads.com/2017/11/09/ameritor-dead-mans-fund-charles-steadman/

The Ghost Story Behind a Bucolic Catholic Retreat Center - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/wizard-clip-west-virginia-priest-field

Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy : A Series of Steaks by Vina Jie-Min Prasad http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/prasad_01_17/

How an Amateur Astronomer Became One of History‘s Greatest Solar Observers - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/sunspots-japanese-amateur-astronomer-sun-science

WikiLeaks - Vault 8 https://wikileaks.org/vault8/

This World Is Full of Monsters | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2017/11/08/this-world-is-full-of-monsters/

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/9/16614672/ideology-liberal-conservatives

Cheap Tricks: The Low Cost of Internet Harassment — ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/cheap-tricks-the-low-cost-of-internet-harassment

Cory Doctorow: How to Do Everything (Lifehacking Considered Harmful) – Locus Online http://locusmag.com/2017/11/cory-doctorow-how-to-do-everything-lifehacking-considered-harmful/

Frownland by Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band: Analysis - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FhhB9teHqU

How to sell a country: the booming business of nation branding | News | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/07/nation-branding-industry-how-to-sell-a-country

webGL shader was supposed to fade from one image to another, over a number of frames. It did this instead. : glitch_art https://www.reddit.com/r/glitch_art/comments/78zn6l/webgl_shader_was_supposed_to_fade_from_one_image/

webGL shader was supposed to fade from one image to another, over a number of frames. It did this instead. : glitch_art https://www.reddit.com/r/glitch_art/comments/78zn6l/webgl_shader_was_supposed_to_fade_from_one_image/

Perpetual Motion Machines — Real Life http://reallifemag.com/perpetual-motion-machines/

The Booming Japanese Rent-a-Friend Business - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/11/paying-for-fake-friends-and-family/545060/?single_page=true

GitHub - k88hudson/git-flight-rules: Flight rules for git https://github.com/k88hudson/git-flight-rules

Ars Longa, Vita Brevis | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/09/ars-longa-vita-brevis/

Diminishing Returns — Real Life http://reallifemag.com/diminishing-returns/

Eating people is wrong – but it’s also widespread and sacred | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/eating-people-is-wrong-but-its-also-widespread-and-sacred

All Ears — Real Life http://reallifemag.com/all-ears/

This is why cognitive behavioural therapy works so well | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/this-is-why-cognitive-behavioural-therapy-works-so-well