Cory Doctorow: Terra Nullius – Locus Online https://locusmag.com/2019/03/cory-doctorow-terra-nullius/
The People’s Republic of Walmart: how late-stage capitalism gives way to early-stage fully automated luxury communism / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/03/05/walmart-without-capitalism.html
Why intuition leaves us vulnerable to conspiracy theories - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/4/18250292/facebook-moderation-conspiracy-theory-mike-wood-psychology-interview
Delete Never: The Digital Hoarders Who Collect Tumblrs, Medieval Manuscripts, and Terabytes of Text Files https://gizmodo.com/delete-never-the-digital-hoarders-who-collect-tumblrs-1832900423
GitHub - aphyr/distsys-class: Class materials for a distributed systems lecture series https://github.com/aphyr/distsys-class
A random dungeon generator that fits on a business card · GitHub https://gist.github.com/munificent/b1bcd969063da3e6c298be070a22b604
AI won’t relieve the misery of Facebook’s human moderators - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/27/18242724/facebook-moderation-ai-artificial-intelligence-platforms
The Comment Moderator Is The Most Important Job In The World Right Now https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/the-comment-moderator-is-the-most-important-job-in-the
Why Is Customer Service So Bad? Because It’s Profitable. https://hbr.org/2019/02/why-is-customer-service-so-bad-because-its-profitable
Wikidata Card Game Generator https://cardgame.morr.cc
you can’t get an aught from a naught
Band name of the day: the repugnant transactions
Band name of the day: a market for eyes
Band name of the day: needling the somnambulists
McLuhan: come for the dad jokes, stay for the dad jokes
TIL that there’s an organization for promoting McLuhan’s work whose initialism is TMI.
Band name of the day: the dreaming mound
brand names precision-engineered as superstimuli of the noumenous and noetic flooding the used-car-market mindspace
Band name of the day: open for flogging
Update: if you buy the paperback version of my book, now you’ll be able to get the ebook for free. (Dunno why anybody would want that.) Also, the ebook now has wikipedia links for various terms via X-Ray, in case you didn’t know who Thad Starner was or something.
Theranos: How a broken patent system sustained its decade-long deception | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/03/theranos-how-a-broken-patent-system-sustained-its-decade-long-deception/
Band name of the day: let them eat exposure
ZIP is Broken, Except it’s Not, Except it Is | Internet Archive Blogs https://blog.archive.org/2019/02/13/zip-is-broken-except-its-not-except-it-is/
What “Worse is Better vs The Right Thing” is really about http://yosefk.com/blog/what-worse-is-better-vs-the-right-thing-is-really-about.html
Explaining Code using ASCII Art – Embedded in Academia https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1653
‘We Are All Responsible’: How #MeToo Rejects the Bystander Effect https://longreads.com/2019/02/22/we-are-all-responsible-how-metoo-rejects-the-bystander-effect/
Band name of the day: complicity machine
Why no-platforming is sometimes a justifiable position | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/why-no-platforming-is-sometimes-a-justifiable-position
Insert Disk https://hypercardadventures.com/
Things Found in Books | Flickr https://www.flickr.com/groups/thingsfoundinbooks/pool/
Cinematic names https://maryzam.github.io/movie-names/
glass.leaves: text manipulator and generator https://glassleaves.herokuapp.com/
The Art of the Bot « B.J. Best, Poet. https://bjbestpoet.wordpress.com/the-art-of-the-bot/
GitHub - joke2k/faker: Faker is a Python package that generates fake data for you. https://github.com/joke2k/faker
Band name of the day: police horse
Band name of the day: murderers knock
Periodic reminder: submissions for the No Budget Film Contest open April 20th https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2019-no-budget-film-contest-d7eb339a3ed5
The Emoji Movie, Adorno and the Culture Industry - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-m_7G31yh4
Band name of the day: automatic motor of a fractional operation
Band name of the day: big death
Band name of the day: secret and concealed policy
Band name of the day: monsterful
Band name of the day: big seance
Bad idea of the day: a repl for inform in inform that describes your desktop environment as a haunted house
The Kernel Programming Language http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~jshutt/kernel.html
Workplace OS History: IBM’s $2 Billion Microkernel of Failure https://tedium.co/2019/02/28/ibm-workplace-os-taligent-history/
‘Playing the victim’ is politically vital and morally serious | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/playing-the-victim-is-politically-vital-and-morally-serious
GitHub - triska/lisprolog: Interpreter for a simple Lisp. Written in Prolog. https://github.com/triska/lisprolog
The New Contours of Cyber Conflict - Lawfare https://www.lawfareblog.com/new-contours-cyber-conflict