Band name of the day: hairy cabinet
Center for a Stateless Society » Review: Superintelligence — Paths, Dangers, Strategies https://c4ss.org/content/51493
Research Debt https://distill.pub/2017/research-debt/
[American Journal] by Robert Hayden - Poems | Academy of American Poets https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/american-journal
Mainframe, Interrupted https://logicmag.io/06-mainframe-interrupted/
How Diderot’s Encyclopedia Challenged the King https://longreads.com/2019/01/30/how-diderots-encyclopedia-challenged-the-king/
Book Review and Reflection: David Graeber’s “Debt: The First 5,000 Years” – The New Antique https://thenewantique.blog/2019/01/19/book-review-and-reflection-david-graebers-debt-the-first-5000-years/
Band name of the day: weak ties
List of vampire traits in folklore and fiction - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vampire_traits_in_folklore_and_fiction
Today in bot food: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/04/british-librarys-collection-of-obscene-writing-goes-online
I think the english dub might have contributed to Lain’s reputation as confusing. Rather than pacing their lines, the voice actors consistently adlibbed extra bullshit to fill time, introducing plotholes.
Model Metropolis https://logicmag.io/06-model-metropolis/
boxbase.org: Null references was a mistake, but what’s the take-away? http://boxbase.org/entries/2019/feb/4/null/
The Art of PNG Glitch http://ucnv.github.io/pnglitch/
Band name of the day: corpse taunting
Screw Standards: Why We Aren’t Happy https://tedium.co/2016/09/15/screw-history-standards/
Band name of the day: american carnage
The fascinating bromance between Steve Jobs and Ross Perot - Cake https://www.cake.co/conversations/DwwvjtB/the-fascinating-bromance-between-steve-jobs-and-ross-perot
Band name of the day: spooky snow phenomenon
Band name of the day: lowland ways
The Independant Federated Fediverse http://tilde.town/~petegozz/
Grace v. Glamour: The Duality of Sailor Moon (Anime Boston 2016 Panel) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVehcW4fC1g
Information Society - World Enough (Official Lyric Video) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlGEo3zdFgo
Tar-pit thinking http://trevorjim.com/tar-pit-thinking/
A Lever for the Mind https://codon.com/a-lever-for-the-mind
The Accidental Fascism of You’ve Got Mail: What This 90’s Rom-Com Is Really About - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRgvi_Jek-A
Band name of the day: ouchmouse
TIL that Tron was written by Alan Kay’s wife. That adds so many new dimensions to that movie, and makes ‘I fight for the users’ even more appropriate as a slogan.
party soft, party sustainable
Niklaus Wirth apparently worked on a plugin that would run JIT-compiled oberon ASTs in the browser as applets back in the mid-90s: https://github.com/berkus/Juice
What’s wrong with the Raspberry Pi – Own your bits https://ownyourbits.com/2019/02/02/whats-wrong-with-the-raspberry-pi/
The Power of Wholesome Harem Anime - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhSyKaXczGI
the accursed rideshare
Band name of the day: invasion literature
Band name of the day: the other power
Notion “ The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases. https://www.notion.so/tools-and-craft/03-ted-nelson
Digi & Geoff fighting is like Grant Morrison & Alan Moore fighting. Their criticisms of each other are accurate but comical because they make basically the exact same mistakes.
Band name of the day: empire of hair
Nadesco is a cynical mecha parody about how genuine & unironic straight mecha is good & cool actually, because exactly the things that make it cheesy make it valuable. Wholesome themes like solidarity in the face of difficult odds are cheesy because they should be obvious (but aren’t).
A small notebook for a system administrator / Habr https://habr.com/en/post/437912/
Gossip was a powerful tool for the powerless in Ancient Greece | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/gossip-was-a-powerful-tool-for-the-powerless-in-ancient-greece
Kingdom Hearts III: The Kotaku Review | Kotaku UK http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2019/01/27/kingdom-hearts-iii-the-kotaku-review
tired: XBox One X; wired: xbonks
Band name of the day: industrial noise pollution
Band name of the day: randomly selected nightmare
Mall Rats, Vidiots and Addicts: Anti Video Game Propaganda From The 80s – Retro Bitch https://retrobitch.wordpress.com/2019/01/16/mall-rats-vidiots-and-addicts-anti-video-game-propaganda-from-the-80s/
I regret to inform everybody that Data Privacy Day was actually last Monday. We all missed it. Sorry. Honorary Data Privacy Day every Monday for the next 2 years to make up for it, kay?
Band name of the day: the eyeball thief
The Lifespan of News Stories https://www.newslifespan.com/
Monday is Data Privacy Day. Celebrate by replacing your wardrobe with loose jumpsuits printed with hundreds of GAN-generated faces.