Media mix is interesting. You can optimize a work for adaptation but that keeps you from taking advantage of features of your medium. The best adaptations are sometimes difficult-to-adapt medium-specific forms that forced creativity (ex. Bakemonogatari)

Mutually Assured Destruction: When The Only Winning Move is Not to Play https://fs.blog/2017/06/mutually-assured-destruction/

How David Lynch brings his imagination to life - Huck Magazine https://www.huckmag.com/shorthand_story/david-lynch-interview-creative-process/

Are These Bad Habits Creeping Into Your Writing? | Literary Hub https://lithub.com/are-these-bad-habits-creeping-into-your-writing/

Richard Stallman: Talking to the Mailman. New Left Review 113, September-October 2018. https://newleftreview.org/II/113/richard-stallman-talking-to-the-mailman

1024 possible protocol plateaus

It got better: https://thiscatdoesnotexist.com/

Band name of the day: chill panic

Towards an understanding of technical debt | Kellan Elliott-McCrea https://kellanem.com/notes/towards-an-understanding-of-technical-debt

Evolutionary Futures http://histscifi.com/essays/milam/apeman.html

I have sold zero copies of my game since the launch sale ended. I’m not sure if I need to cut the original price in half or if people literally just only buy games when they are on sale.

Resolved: Debate is stupid | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/6709/debate-is-stupid

Band name of the day: break space

Dune - Plots and Plans - Extra Sci Fi - #2 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NYO7aoOOmk

Band name of the day: play architecture

Band name of the day: doctor chainsaw

The Complicated Economy of Open Source Software - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43zak3/the-internet-was-built-on-the-free-labor-of-open-source-developers-is-that-sustainable

Band name of the day: borderline content

A Green New Deal to Win Back Our Future https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/02/green-new-deal-climate-change-policy

Parallax scrolling effects are bad design. Here’s why https://www.fastcompany.com/90309395/why-parallax-scrolling-needs-to-die

our last, best hope for peeps

Hackintosh Culture: The Joy of Subverting Apple https://tedium.co/2019/02/12/hackintosh-cultural-trend/

Medium has changed their policy. Now, recommendations are controlled by curators, & anything paywalled gets submitted to them. This probably means fewer but higher-quality recommendations…

Years later, Façade’s groundbreaking AI lives on through bad YouTube jokes | PC Gamer https://www.pcgamer.com/13-years-later-facades-groundbreaking-ai-lives-on-through-bad-youtube-jokes/

Letting neural networks be weird • GPT-2: It learned on the Internet http://aiweirdness.com/post/182824715257/gpt-2-it-learned-on-the-internet

The Green New Deal’s Big Idea - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/02/green-new-deal-economic-principles/582943/

This movie is fuckin’ wild https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYeJfYso9os It’s like Contact meets The Parallax View with Charlie Sheen

Visual Cohesion and Flow in Anime - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1zhW9lAIeY

Public service announcement: markets & capitalism aren’t the same thing. You can have non-capitalist or even anti-capitalist markets (ex., cases where progressive taxes actually make rentseeking infeasible, or markets without private property). You can have capitalism without markets (like inside a corporation).

Limits of the Market: Notes on Political Economy & Externalities - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rYHhc7OsJ0

A Softer World Tarot when

Super Uplifting Friendship Simulator by Kara Stone https://karastone.itch.io/super-uplifting-friendship-simulator

MIDI CITY 2000 https://midicity-2000.glitch.me/

Reese’s Advertising History: Eat Peanut Butter Cups However You Want https://tedium.co/2019/02/14/reeses-peanut-butter-cup-marketing-history/

Band name of the day: lethal automated weapons

Band name of the day: ghosts from the future

Band name of the day: speculative negativity and the revolutionary pessimism

Virtually Authentic http://histscifi.com/essays/radin/virtually-authentic

The revolutionary idea revealing the body’s hormonal democracy | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-revolutionary-idea-revealing-the-bodys-hormonal-democracy

Sidrolz in the Rain - 50 Watts http://50watts.com/Sidrolz-in-the-Rain

Design for Death - 50 Watts http://50watts.com/Design-for-Death

Silicon Valley’s Bonfire of the Vainglorious - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/silicon-valleys-bonfire-of-the-vainglorious

The sample they chose to highlight here resembles the kind of paper a 14 year old would try & fail to bullshit after staying up all night partying right before the due date: https://blog.openai.com/better-language-models/#sample1

OpenAI Trains Language Model, Mass Hysteria Ensues – Approximately Correct http://approximatelycorrect.com/2019/02/17/openai-trains-language-model-mass-hysteria-ensues/

Freedom is ________. “ The California Sunday Magazine https://story.californiasunday.com/freedom

The case of the supersized shebang [LWN.net] https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/779997/11de2bdc8dbc0d69/

GitHub - alhassy/ElispCheatSheet: Quick reference to the core language of Emacs —Editor MACroS. https://github.com/alhassy/ElispCheatSheet

Death To Minimalism | Current Affairs https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/02/death-to-minimalism

Sapping Attention: How badly is Google Books search broken, and why? https://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2019/02/how-badly-is-google-books-search-broken.html

Society for the Promotion of Describing Social Constructs as ‘Eldrich’ and ‘Uncanny’