Band name of the day: the discoverie of a world inside the moone
“Before it was a particular kind of story or plot, science fiction was a way of thinking about and interacting with emerging media.” https://manifold.umn.edu/read/the-perversity-of-things-hugo-gernsback-on-media-tinkering-and-scientifiction/section/71ba6e6b-b4b2-40a2-bdb1-af133fc6b93b
Unmasking the internet’s favourite novelist - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-23/unmasking-the-internets-favourite-novelist/10830116
Band name of the day: ventral surface
Band name of the day: megapode
Band name of the day: british situationist acid house collective
Band name of the day: poseidogram
It absolutely shocked me when, in a documentary about their history, Kurt refered to Information Society as ‘disco’, but in retrospect it makes perfect sense: the early 80s was right next to the late 70s, literally.
An anime being ‘big in america’ is like a punk band being ‘big in japan’: a common but rarely intentional side effect of globalization, notable mostly as trivia.
Science funding is a mess. Could grant lotteries make it better? - Vox https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/1/18/18183939/science-funding-grant-lotteries-research
Too Many People Dare Call It Conspiracy | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/01/14/too-many-people-dare-call-it-conspiracy/
Band name of the day: vegetables were shunned and feared
Cheap TVs and Exorbitant Education, Modern America in One Chart https://kottke.org/19/02/cheap-tvs-and-exorbitant-education-modern-america-in-one-chart
Distinctions in Types of Thought | Otium https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2017/10/10/distinctions-in-types-of-thought/
Overcoming Bias : Better Babblers http://www.overcomingbias.com/2017/03/better-babblers.html
Ahead of Time http://histscifi.com/essays/milburn/time.html
Band name of the day: cannibal prospector
Humans Who Are Not Concentrating Are Not General Intelligences | Otium https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2019/02/25/humans-who-are-not-concentrating-are-not-general-intelligences/
Individualism is not a sufficient foundation for social life | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/individualism-is-not-a-sufficient-foundation-for-social-life
The Secret History of Dune - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-secret-history-of-dune/
Cisco Trash Map https://placesjournal.org/article/cisco-trash-map/
Saved Game History: Battery Backups, Memory Cards, and the Cloud https://tedium.co/2019/02/21/video-game-save-state-history/
Band name of the day: super casette vision
a parade of shallow & glib essays about how all essays are shallow & glib these days
A Global Review of Public Transit Seat Cover Designs - CityLab https://www.citylab.com/design/2019/02/public-transit-design-seat-cover-textile-patterns-moquette/583045/
Intellectuals and power: A conversation between Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze https://libcom.org/library/intellectuals-power-a-conversation-between-michel-foucault-and-gilles-deleuze
American Archive of Public Broadcasting http://americanarchive.org/
The CPython Bytecode Compiler is Dumb « null program https://nullprogram.com/blog/2019/02/24/
Why Conspiracy Videos Go Viral on YouTube - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/02/reason-conspiracy-videos-work-so-well-youtube/583282/
The impossible architecture of video games • Eurogamer.net https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-02-12-the-impossible-architecture-of-video-games
Band name of the day: the magically unhinged
The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebook-content-moderator-interviews-trauma-working-conditions-arizona
In the ‘Black Guns Matter’ Movement, ‘Make Racists Afraid Again’ Is About Education, Not Violence - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/black-guns-matter-make-racists-afraid-again
Five Lessons From Seven Years of Research Into Buttons - The Crux http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2019/02/04/five-lessons-about-pressing-buttons/
China’s urban policy unit just met for the first time in 38 years. Here’s what it recommended | CityMetric https://www.citymetric.com/fabric/china-s-urban-policy-unit-just-met-first-time-38-years-here-s-what-it-recommended-1904
Cyberfeminist Index (~1990s-present) - Google Sheets https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1q_ZlbZhstBTfnZL4QP11ebivXgsvrf8shuG-QX146nw/edit#gid=1949020646
Remembering Ken Nordine https://longreads.com/2019/02/19/remembering-ken-nordine/
Normalization of Deviance | Art is Art and Water is Water https://foone.wordpress.com/2019/02/14/normalization-of-deviance/
Band name of the day: eponymous laws
DCEU Doom Patrol movie when
Band name of the day: nightmare bee
Demystifying JOIN Algorithms http://blog.felipe.rs/2019/01/29/demystifying-join-algorithms/
List of unsolved problems in computer science - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_computer_science
Bad idea of the day: One of those franchise-themed fighting games, except it’s a rap battle. You get dealt a hand of possible lines, with points for internal rhyme and novelty, & multipliers for referencing previous lines & opponent backstory. External rhymes are combo attacks
DomeKano is like the Mayoiga of harem-drama and I love it.
MLTalks with Douglas Rushkoff - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbyxFZSZZ90
Periodic reminder: submissions for the No Budget Film Contest open April 20th https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2019-no-budget-film-contest-d7eb339a3ed5
Why Our Horror Movies Are Different Now “ Wisecrack Edition - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqW_ElEnLGI
Double Standards and Diverse Media - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__ctRfI7cuM