Lithium in ground-water and well-being - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Lithium

Melatonin - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Melatonin

Band name of the day: generally regarded as sludge

Time travel in The Peripheral @ Things Of Interest https://qntm.org/peripheral

Email icon https://www.topic.com/the-accidental-crime-novelist

The web we broke. “ Ethan Marcotte https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/the-web-we-broke/

Trendism is a complicated inversion of the aphorism ‘mediocre minds talk about people, and great minds talk about ideas’: we value most those who talk about whether or not people are talking about an idea.

Trendism is the logic of the Spectacle applied recursively: the image doesn’t matter, but whether or not the appearance of its appearance appears is worth arbitrary millions.

Trendism is the logic of financialized speculative capitalism extended to the realm of takes: information about information about information (even if it’s false) exceeds the value of the baseline information.

Trendism is the idea that, in Dellio’s White Noise, when people photograph the Most Photographed Barn In America, they are not acting absurdly but creating net value for society.

Always On “ Real Life https://reallifemag.com/always-on/

Band name of the day: noonday devil

Why I still use medium: https://lobste.rs/s/bykzkm/hide_medium_com_as_personal_filter_on#c_v6frxz

Redditors Say They’re Seeing Coordinated Chinese Propaganda On The Site https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/reddit-coordinated-chinese-propaganda-trolls

invention is the discovery of a path through possibility space. it doesn’t have to be a good path.

Spaced Repetition - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Spaced-repetition

Five Principles for Thinking Like a Futurist | EDUCAUSE https://er.educause.edu/articles/2019/3/five-principles-for-thinking-like-a-futurist

if you water-cooled ram would you have… tanks for the memories?

Nootropics - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Nootropics

Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Umeshisms https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=40

12 Ways Airports Are Secretly Manipulating You | Mental Floss http://mentalfloss.com/article/64808/12-behind-scenes-secrets-airports

Black Metal Is Sublime – The New Inquiry https://thenewinquiry.com/black-metal-is-sublime/

Band name of the day: a rebellious and sinister dandyism

I can’t believe I have to say this, but ‘polarization’ and ‘diversity’ are not synonyms.

Band name of the day: global hum

The Algernon Argument - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Drug-heuristics

Bighorn-Sheep Migration Routes Form Ancestral Knowledge - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/09/to-save-animals-we-need-to-save-their-knowledge-too/569503/

π day | cormullion https://cormullion.github.io/blog/2019/03/13/piday.html

UFOs: Fact, Fantasy, and Hyperreality | Mysterious Universe https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/03/ufos-fact-fantasy-and-hyperreality/

Chimpanzee Traditions Are Disappearing - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/03/we-are-destroying-chimpanzee-cultures/584146/

GitHub - lunarlang/lunar: Lunar is a superset programming language of Lua 5.1, inspired by TypeScript and Ruby. https://github.com/lunarlang/lunar

Silicon Valley’s Latest Bizarre Craze Is ‘Organized Intimacy’ - VICE https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7xnmme/sf-bay-area-scene-intimacy-party

Ken Anger, Ken Russel, and Ken Burns codirecting a Ken Thomson biopic. Soundtrack by Thomas Dolby and Steve Reich.

Cybernetics Conference Library https://cybernetics.social/

Stick To The Script!!! [SORRY TO BOTHER YOU film analysis] - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGnQLgpaupU

TIL: the guy who invented the toilet wasn’t named ‘crapper’, but he WAS named ‘cummings’.

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

Adobe Antitrust Concerns: Is the Photoshop-Maker Too Big? https://tedium.co/2019/03/12/adobe-history-antitrust-concerns/

DSHR’s Blog: Techno-hype part 2.5 https://blog.dshr.org/2018/03/techno-hype-part-25.html

Deep Listening at the Recurse Center http://glench.com/DeepListeningAtTheRecurseCenter/

The Data Sublime – The New Inquiry https://thenewinquiry.com/the-data-sublime/

:r4 programing languaje | phreda4.github.io https://phreda4.github.io/

Radicle 🌱 http://www.radicle.xyz/

An Interview with Nick Harkaway: Algorithmic Futures, Literary Fractals, and Mimetic Immortality - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-interview-with-nick-harkaway-algorithmic-futures-literary-fractals-and-mimetic-immortality/

Emotional Mechanics | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2019/03/12/39385/

List: Revolutionary Quotes From Centrist History - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/revolutionary-quotes-from-centrist-history

The Pitch https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1463-the-unlikely-making-of-the-velvet-underground-nico/

The Selective Laziness of Reasoning - Neuroskeptic http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2015/10/21/the-selective-laziness-of-reasoning/#.XIjqJkfav0M

Dual N-Back FAQ - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/DNB-FAQ

It’s a cliche to say that technical advances are making the world change faster, but the more the products of time binding become available & silos collapsed the more obviously slow everything is.