Inertia and institutional damage in politics “ John Ohno ” Medium https://medium.com/@/inertia-and-institutional-damage-in-politics-9d9e670c182?source=friends_link&sk=8d1730ed3c394a1bc1876bd0f7a209c5
Introducing Our New and Baffling Recycling Program - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/introducing-our-new-and-baffling-recycling-program
The Social Construction of Emotions - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVQUnddM5Vg
“Don’t Get In The Damn Robot Mob!” (Evangelion, Mob Psycho 100, & learning to run away) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZsD-j8JFR8
Live on April 19th: live simultaneous cringe compilations
Live on April 19th: the professor you’re glad you don’t have and the professor you wish you had debate about something basically tangential to either’s appeal or focus, and one of them will be entertaining.
Unlocking the Full Brilliance of Ursula Le Guin’s Hainish Cycle | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2019/02/25/unlocking-the-full-brilliance-of-ursula-le-guins-hainish-cycle/
Paper: Hyperscan: A Fast Multi-pattern Regex Matcher for Modern CPUs – Branch Free https://branchfree.org/2019/02/28/paper-hyperscan-a-fast-multi-pattern-regex-matcher-for-modern-cpus/
April 19th: Shitty Campbell vs Cocaine Lacan. (It’s obvious who will win, but it’s equally obvious that the loser will just claim to have won & his fans will believe him, just like they did every other time.)
Judging People Who Don’t Exist | The Cleverest http://www.thecleverest.com/judging-people-who-dont-exist/
Heat your House with a Water Brake Windmill - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/02/heat-your-house-with-a-water-brake-windmill.html
‘The Class Ceiling’ Decodes the Cultures of Elite Workplaces - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/02/class-ceiling-laurison-friedman-elite-jobs/582175/
Conspiracy theory: the Titanic didn’t sink because it was swapped with a replica of the Titanic from the future in order to hide evidence from the Philidelphia experiment
Titanic Conspiracy Theory | Did the Titanic Really Sink? https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a26533526/olympic-titanic-conspiracy-theory/
Orc Language https://orc.csres.utexas.edu/
Project Zero: The Curious Case of Convexity Confusion https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-curious-case-of-convexity-confusion.html
Living Systems | James Grier Miller | 1978 | Systems Community of Inquiry https://stream.syscoi.com/2018/07/09/living-systems-james-grier-miller-1978/
What Nietzsche learnt from Diogenes the Cynic | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/what-nietzsche-learnt-from-diogenes-the-cynic
Band name of the day: the power of mediocrity
“SPEAK LOUDER” Asked the Aliens from Planet UMMO | Mysterious Universe https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/02/speak-louder-asked-the-aliens-from-planet-ummo/
Pistol Opera is fucking wild. I understood just enough of the symbolism to recognize that I understood almost none of the symbolism.
Periodic reminder: submissions for the No Budget Film Contest open April 20th https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2019-no-budget-film-contest-d7eb339a3ed5
There’s a tendency, when we don’t have a rational understanding of something, to classify it as only capable of IRrational understanding – i.e. pattern matching. Occasionally, this is the only practical solution in the short term.
Just because a machine’s component parts are human beings doesn’t make it any less technical: it merely grows new and interesting complexities and failure modes, a careful and accurate understanding of which is even more valuable.
Whatever happened to that film adaptation of E. H. Hoffman’s The Sandman starring Iggy Pop that Dario Argento was gonna direct? Is it still happening? Is it in production hell? (Do italian pulp flicks have production hell?)
Weezer’s Black Album Won’t Make It Easier for Them - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/music/2019/2/26/18240667/weezer-black-album-review-rivers-cuomo
Band name of the day: the social factory
Band name of the day: organization space
Band name of the day: weapons of mass production
Geoff Greer’s site: Software Rot https://geoff.greer.fm/2017/02/28/software-rot/
Band name of the day: anomalies in the soil
Pickup line of the day: ‘Tell me of the waters of your homeworld, Usul’
My Adventures in Oz - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5QO2Cqtazg
at-work-editions https://qz.com/work/1560079/maximizing-shareholder-profits-is-a-great-way-to-destroy-humanity/
How to Retire Early - VICE https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gya8bx/i-tested-the-saving-technique-that-promises-retirement-at-40
What It’s Like To Write About Race And Video Games https://kotaku.com/what-its-like-to-write-about-race-and-video-games-1832886047
Why Do Americans Love Ice Cubes So much? https://tedium.co/2019/02/26/ice-cubes-history/
Love without jealousy: consider the benefits of compersion | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/love-without-jealousy-consider-the-benefits-of-compersion
Band name of the day: courtesy telephone please
Band name of the day: the moving platform
Band name of the day: the red zone
Band name of the day: some strange lagoon
A short history of 20th century African-American horror literature | jessnevins.com http://jessnevins.com/blog/?p=842
Band name of the day: spider pit
Vegetables Don’t Exist – Popula https://popula.com/2019/02/20/vegetables-dont-exist/
Attack of the Flying Space Dwarves! | Mysterious Universe https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/02/attack-of-the-flying-space-dwarves/
dreamt I was trapped at a sleepaway camp with Slavoj Zizek during a zombie pandemic
A Short History of Italian Horror - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJCo35gX7j0
Gamasutra: Nikhil Murthy’s Blog - The Interactivity of Reading https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/NikhilMurthy/20190225/337245/The_Interactivity_of_Reading.php
Band name of the day: handicraft futures