Revolt Against the Rich - Scientific American Blog Network https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/revolt-against-the-rich/

Email icon https://www.topic.com/the-hidden-history-of-holocaust-money

Kali Linux Cheat Sheet for Penetration Testers - blackMORE Ops https://www.blackmoreops.com/2016/12/20/kali-linux-cheat-sheet-for-penetration-testers/

Networking Cheatsheet http://gnulinux.guru/networking_cheatsheet.html

The Untapped Promise of LSD | The Walrus https://thewalrus.ca/the-untapped-promise-of-lsd/

Band name of the day: subversive populist vulgarity

Visible connection (AKA transpointing windows) makes explicit the implicit rhizomaticity of text.

The Soviet Matrix: On the Strugatsky Brothers’ “The Doomed City” - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-soviet-matrix-on-the-strugatsky-brothers-the-doomed-city

shout out to everybody who keeps translating ‘denpa’ as ‘microwave’ instead of ‘psychotronic’: 10/10 subtle troll, excellent work

underground comix -> subway comix -> metro comix -> densha comix -> denpa comix

‘Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse’ Ignored the Rules – Variety https://variety.com/2019/film/awards/spider-man-into-the-spiderverse-colored-outside-the-lines-1203141617/

Recording of David Bowie and Brian Eno’s jam session with Devo has been found by Mark Mothersbaugh | Consequence of Sound https://consequenceofsound.net/2017/12/recording-of-david-bowie-and-brian-enos-jam-session-with-devo-has-been-found-by-mark-mothersbaugh/

Anita Sarkeesian and the People Who Hate Her - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKaiq1rnSMw

Kaguya-sama: A Marxist Analysis - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2F4eu6oKhk

Alita- Battle Angel Is More Important than You Think (Movie Review) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCiefCg1z-w

My Alita review: 10/10 some of the decapitations are very romantic

Too Many Requests https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/comments/aqsej3/errors_of_scale_in_social_media_design_thinking/

We’ve Wanted This Kind of Horror Movie from Edgar Wright for a Long Time https://filmschoolrejects.com/edgar-wright-horror-movie-2019/

Alita: Battle Angel - Review - Anime News Network https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/alita/battle-angel/.143043

Love Anime? You NEED to See Alita: Battle Angel - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWwHtMAj_pI

Starship Troopers: How to Make Fascism SEXY “ Wisecrack Edition - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_sZdX3tFFU

More Than Just Fingering Your Robot Girlfriend: Pandora In The Crimson Shell - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbCrpeA4HfI

FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY (Feat. Jimmy Urine) - Rock Me Amadeus - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwQBt85Jmp8

Hollywood blockbuster Lupin III movie when

Modern Alternatives to PGP https://blog.gtank.cc/modern-alternatives-to-pgp/

Band name of the day: the thin place

I feel like the simplified and cliched ideas about slashers that informed Scream kept me from discovering the strange and wonderful world of actually-good slashers like Sleepaway Camp, Happy Birthday to Me, Tourist Trap, etc. Like, a lot of them are surreal and moody and great.

The reason there are so many furries online is the long tail

Alita: Battle Angel - Escapist Magazine https://www.escapistmagazine.com/v2/2019/02/15/alita-battle-angel/

All of the negative reviews of Alita are like “it follows the manga even when it shouldn’t, which makes it not feel like a hollywood movie, & it fits 4.5 volumes of manga into a 2 hour movie”

All of the positive reviews of Alita are like “it follows the manga even when you don’t expect it to, which makes it not feel like a hollywood movie, & does the best job it possibly could fitting 4.5 volumes of manga into a 2 hour movie”

The Evil of Dracula is the best movie about face-stealing vampires created by 18th century japanese foreign policy at a girls’ boarding school I’ve ever seen.

The Empowering Gaze of Satoshi Kon’s Millennium Actress - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shtu4D4A_1w

What Is Vsauce? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKmkI0xzvHc

GitHub - lauryndbrown/Cisp: A Common Lisp Interpreter Built in COBOL https://github.com/lauryndbrown/Cisp

iftool https://iftool.surge.sh/

Bad idea of the day: Do a free machine-generated text class at a library (using tracery or something), self-publish the course materials as a book (with proceeds going to the library as donations), & get a couple copies for the stacks.

Your money can be stolen from your Uber account with dodgy Uber code texts - unlike kinds https://unlikekinds.com/article/uber-code-text

Somebody’s streaming my game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_ugVRvbdY4

Is the #Resistance Just a Branding Exercise? | The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/153063/passive-resistance-trump-opposition-exercise-branding

Who can forget those scenes in Count Zero where they all stand around eating soup? / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/02/14/cream-of-panther-modern.html

Triple feature: E. V. van Odle’s The Clockwork Man, David R. Bunch’s Moderan, & Charlie Stross’s Accelerando

Posthumanism for Regular Humans Trapped in an Inhuman World: On “The Human Reimagined” - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/posthumanism-for-regular-humans-trapped-in-an-inhuman-world-on-the-human-reimagined/

It looks like OpenAI has announced their marginal progress on the coherence problem in narrative prose generation in the most clickbaity possible way again: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47249163 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/14/elon-musk-backed-ai-writes-convincing-news-fiction

Band name of the day: Xtreme Witchcraft

Band name of the day: theraputic extinction

The Grim, Depression-Era Origins of Dance Marathons - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/depression-era-dance-marathons

Avoiding the tendency toward recentralization is a (if not the) primary concern of anarchocommunist & left-libertarian political philosophy, so the association between ancaps & ‘decentralizaiton’ seems strange.

POSSE - IndieWeb https://indieweb.org/POSSE

The ‘writing criticism’ curator wrote a review of MfoM where they claimed that the characters were flat but the plot was engaging. I consider this a success, since I was worried about plot (since I don’t ‘get’ it).