Band name of the day: ornament and crime

Band name of the day: the oddly satisfying

Kilo LISP - T3X.ORG http://t3x.org/klisp/index.html

keep throwing ‘em away until throwing ‘em away isn’t scary anymore

What would a floating sheep map? http://manifesto.floatingsheep.org/

Band name of the day: emotion mind

ImageNet Roulette https://imagenet-roulette.paglen.com/

TwoTone https://app.twotone.io/

The Gendered Project https://genderedproject.org/

Hot take: Mondo 2000 should do what Fangoria did & release a very fancy very thick periodical like once a year for about a hundred bucks.

A lot of disagreements seem to come down to a gap wherein, when commercial success and apparent human flourishing conflict, some folks privilege the former over the latter. I’m wondering how much of this is about legibility / discounting self-reporting in favor of numbers.

if you’re a wizard then all your hats are wizard hats

The Witches’ Insurrection Tarot by Kit Snicket — Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/antifatarot/the-witches-insurrection-tarot

Viewing Matrices & Probability as Graphs https://www.math3ma.com/blog/matrices-probability-graphs

Read Lisp Hackers | Leanpub https://leanpub.com/lisphackers/read

A generalised solution to distributed consensus | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/03/08/a-generalised-solution-to-distributed-consensus/

Dr. Alan Kay on the Meaning of “Object-Oriented Programming” http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht81Ht/doc_kay_oop_en

The Latest ASMR Craze Involves Tales of Crime and Murder - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-latest-asmr-craze-involves-tales-of-crime-and-murder

This Guy Is Vlogging His Entire Midlife Crisis - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/karl-meszaros-midlife-crisis-youtube-vlog

Errata Security: A basic question about TCP https://blog.erratasec.com/2019/02/a-basic-question-about-tcp.html

Fertility Doctor Donald Cline’s Secret Children - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/04/fertility-doctor-donald-cline-secret-children/583249/

How the nineties are coming back to haunt us - The Globe and Mail https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-how-the-nineties-are-coming-back-to-haunt-us/

The Perfect Irony That ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ Film Was Also a Real-Life Scam - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-perfect-irony-that-the-wolf-of-wall-street-was-also-a-real-life-scam

The Other Kind of Climate Denialism | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-other-kind-of-climate-denialism

The Software That Shapes Workers’ Lives | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-software-that-shapes-workers-lives

How Wattpad Is Rewriting the Rules of Hollywood https://www.vulture.com/2018/07/how-wattpad-is-rewriting-the-rules-of-hollywood.html

modern mobile development cons: the absence of hardware keyboards leads to a culture of passivity. modern mobile dev pros: nobody assumes you are running a supercomputer with a fiber connection directly to the data center no more than 5 ft long

Is there a convenient way to make your desktop browser pretend to be a mobile browser so sites don’t try to allocate twenty gigs of memory for goddamned css animations?

i’m feeling nmesh more than oneatrix point never lately and i don’t know why

Band name of the day: spectacular optical

We aren’t really in control so why worry about neurointerventions? | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/we-arent-really-in-control-so-why-worry-about-neurointerventions

Descartes was wrong: ‘a person is a person through other persons’ | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/descartes-was-wrong-a-person-is-a-person-through-other-persons

Is a mission to Mars morally defensible given today’s real needs? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/is-a-mission-to-mars-morally-defensible-given-todays-real-needs

why did they call it ‘Web Prolog’ instead of ‘PlanNET’? was it just so that people couldn’t say ‘hack the PlanNET’ every time a vuln was found? that’s a bad reason.

How Telegraphs and Teletypes Influenced the Computer https://tedium.co/2019/03/14/teletype-computer-evolution-history/

We ought to be suspicious of business plans that resemble manifest destiny: expansion into supposedly-unclaimed regions, turning inhabitants into tools & discarding the resistant (who now have nowhere to go) or worse.

Jill the Ripper https://longreads.com/2019/03/12/jill-the-ripper/

America’s Post-Frontier Hangover https://longreads.com/2019/03/14/americas-post-frontier-hangover/

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by filling a truck with snakes and driving

William Gibson Talks ‘Archangel,’ Apocalypses, and Dystopias https://www.vulture.com/2017/08/william-gibson-archangel-apocalypses-dystopias.html

Robert Fludd and His Images of The Divine – The Public Domain Review https://publicdomainreview.org/2011/09/13/robert-fludd-and-his-images-of-the-divine/

UFO Programming, TTSA, Techgnosis & Hyperreality - The Daily Grail https://www.dailygrail.com/2019/03/ufo-programming-ttsa-techgnosis-hyperreality/

Dead Precedents by Roy Christopher review: how hip-hop and cyberpunk hijacked culture | Books | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/17/dead-precedents-how-hip-hop-defines-future-roy-christopher-review-cyberpunk

Band name of the day: cloaca maxima

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

There are three kinds of haunted houses: the return of the repressed (the history-haunted house), the dressing room for werewolves (the house that just makes people crappier), & the house-that-is-monstrous (the amateur architect’s place)

Hill House has stood for 80 years and might for 80 more. Inside, floors lay straight, doors sensibly shut, but why is there a dormer window RIGHT NEXT TO a stained glass one, and why don’t the bottoms line up??

‘hill house is the mcmansion hell of the soul’ - shirley jackson, probably

Today is the ides of march. Celebrate by being ware.

Stages, Structures, and the Work of Being Yourself | L.M. Sacasas https://thefrailestthing.com/2019/03/14/carnival-of-the-self/