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Band name of the day: cosmic watergate

Close Encounters of the Digital Kind | Emily Harnett https://thebaffler.com/latest/close-encounters-of-the-tech-kind-harnett

All worldbuilding, without exception, is political | columns | Hindustan Times https://www.hindustantimes.com/columns/all-worldbuilding-without-exception-is-political/story-iE1Gc0R4ULSq8khLaJ1dEO.html

Welcome to ‘Zombieland’: A former US Army base rots in the hands of overwhelmed Afghans - Stripes https://www.stripes.com/welcome-to-zombieland-a-former-us-army-base-rots-in-the-hands-of-overwhelmed-afghans-1.570893

Why It’s Important to Consider Whether Dune Is a White Savior Narrative | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2019/03/06/why-its-important-to-consider-whether-dune-is-a-white-savior-narrative/

happy 30th anniversary of the end of hypertext as a vital and interesting medium

Band name of the day: trial by ordeal

Band name of the day: ai murder policy

‘An unfinishable, endless house’: the untold story of Casa Sperimentale https://www.themodernhouse.com/journal/casa-sperimentale/

Touch | Poppy Sebag-Montefiore | Granta https://granta.com/touch/

This Is What It’s Like To Wake Up During Surgery - Digg http://digg.com/2019/waking-up-from-anesthsia

Weekend Poem: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/09/weekend-poem-all-watched-over-by-machines-of-loving-grace/245251/

Language in the Age of Algorithmic Reproduction: A Thesis – Linguistic Geographies https://linguisticgeographies.com/2019/03/12/language-in-the-age-of-algorithmic-reproduction-a-thesis/

How to Take a Nap When You Suck at Taking Naps - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/how-to-take-a-nap-when-you-suck-at-taking-naps

[Essay] The Story of Storytelling | Harper’s Magazine https://harpers.org/archive/2019/03/the-story-of-storytelling/

It’s time to celebrate the humanity of the communal snooze | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/its-time-to-celebrate-the-humanity-of-the-communal-snooze

A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/a-belief-in-meritocracy-is-not-only-false-its-bad-for-you

Identity by Any Other Name - ACM Queue https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3314115

Millennials Are Killing Inanna, Mesopotamian Goddess of Fertility - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/millennials-are-killing-inanna-mesopotamian-goddess-of-fertility

GitHub - pirate/ArchiveBox: $ The open source self-hosted web archive. Takes browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more… https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox

Fantasy’s Widow: The Fight Over The Legacy Of Dungeons & Dragons  https://kotaku.com/fantasys-widow-the-fight-over-the-legacy-of-dungeons-1833127876

Why I Quit Tech and Became a Therapist http://glench.com/WhyIQuitTechAndBecameATherapist/

Girl Scouts & Good Corporate Governance - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Girl-Scouts-and-good-governance

Presidential candidate Andrew Yang has a meme problem - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/9/18256622/andrew-yang-2020-president-meme-yanggang

Poor documentation is overrated as an attribute of jokes. (Some of my favorite jokes are literally humorous attempts at explaining other jokes.) The difference between standup comedy & UI design is even bad comics know this.

A good user interface is a lot like a standup routine: you take the deep knowledge of an audience and twist it in creative ways so that they now understand something they couldn’t have imagined on their own.

The typical failure mode of UX is no longer the shaggy-dog story (i.e., the turing tarpit: a lot of build-up for a disappointing conclusion); it’s bunch of shallow one-liners with no connecting thread, which are as funny as they can be for their length but don’t make the most of a set.

Other ways in which UX is like stand-up comedy: if you omit the setup, the punchline won’t land; reading the room is a vital skill

My unedited rant on slavery in isekai - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrxG0tTIqbg

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

A Beginner’s Guide to Music Theory - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2z02J4fJwg

Database as Filesystem - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN6IwNriwHc

Band name of the day: wolf fifth

Anime is a Brand - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWccr1r-H0E

Slavoj Zizek vs. Jordan Peterson: Who is the Better Christian? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-RjIaYRNq0

The only outright negative review my game has gotten thus far starts with the reviewer saying making a VN should be a crime against humanity. Like, thanks for leading with the admission that you’re not part of the target audience & your opinion doesn’t matter.

The Internet’s Most Controversial ARG | Junko Junsui - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkxi71OUckg

Suspiria (1977) - re:View - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgHNfOrislI

GitHub - emina/rosette: The Rosette solver-aided host language, sample solver-aided DSLs, and demos https://github.com/emina/rosette

Bad idea of the day: make UBI contingent only on compulsory voting

Brexit: What Is Democracy? | Philosophy Tube - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr-ZeToI4R8

People love to talk about the potential security impact of exotic state-of-the-art shit like GPT-2 and deepfakes, but they’re neither convincing nor the lowest-effort effective way to create disinfo. Spinners scale better than GPT-2.

DOOM Eternal, Counterculture, and How We Talk About Labor - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfroFmy6Z2U

Digi & Geoff are the Alan Moore & Grant Morrison of the anitube world

Patricia Lockwood: The Communal Mind - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DibRVrQhSpA

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

V Programming Language https://vlang.io/

The Man Who Questioned Everything | by Lynn Hunt | The New York Review of Books https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/03/07/diderot-man-who-questioned-everything/

Collins’ Crypt: Bad Movies Used To Be So Much Better | Birth.Movies.Death. https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2019/03/06/collins-crypt-bad-movies-used-to-be-so-much-better