What Cafés Did for Liberalism | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/24/what-cafes-did-for-liberalism

The World’s Writing Systems http://www.worldswritingsystems.org/

There is a bot for that | Search engine for bots https://thereisabotforthat.com/

Band name of the day: vanish those turds

Band name of the day: process s

Band name of the day: abyssal hole

Band name of the day: fetid wave of reeking death

My mother’s work in the news: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/its-ben-franklins-birthday-here-are-all-his-papers-180949400/

Band name of the day: sodden rot

A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesign/

Out of the inventions to come out of Xerox PARC, which were the most grossly caricatured by others and which were t… https://www.quora.com/Out-of-the-inventions-to-come-out-of-Xerox-PARC-which-were-the-most-grossly-caricatured-by-others-and-which-were-the-most-thoughtfully-done

To what extent did the Xerox PARC Alto inspire the Apple Macintosh? - Quora https://www.quora.com/To-what-extent-did-the-Xerox-PARC-Alto-inspire-the-Apple-Macintosh

Alan Kay’s answer to Was the Xerox Alto a prototype or a finished product? - Quora https://www.quora.com/Was-the-Xerox-Alto-a-prototype-or-a-finished-product-1/answer/Alan-Kay-11?share=1

Band name of the day: making strange

Interactive Fiction http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/interactive-fiction/

Band name of the day: resident monitor

Band name of the day: joy sparks

It’s probably a mistake to believe we know what ‘human nature’ entails & how consistent or flexible it is.

The WELL: State of the World 2019 https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/506/State-of-the-World-2019-page03.html#post52

The Agile Labor Union http://www.metareader.org/post/agile-labor-union.html

Resisting Reduction: A Manifesto https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/resisting-reduction

[FoR&AI] The Seven Deadly Sins of Predicting the Future of AI – Rodney Brooks http://rodneybrooks.com/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-predicting-the-future-of-ai/

Technology and The Worker // Notes From Below https://notesfrombelow.org/article/technology-and-the-worker

Psychometric Profiling: Persuasion by Personality in Elections - Our Data Our Selves https://ourdataourselves.tacticaltech.org/posts/psychometric-profiling/

Evolution of the x86 context switch in Linux – MaiZure’s Projects http://www.maizure.org/projects/evolution_x86_context_switch_linux/index.html

GitHub - colinmorris/reddit-dubious-spelling: Analyzing words Redditors aren’t sure how to spell https://github.com/colinmorris/reddit-dubious-spelling

Live every day like you are a background character in Mob Psycho 100.

Live every day like you are a credited but unnamed character who appears in exactly one scene in a David Lynch movie.

Sublime Latency and Viral Premediation http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/sublime-latency-and-viral-premediation/

Band name of the day: research on the artificial production of monstrosity

Band name of the day: the ice disk phenomenon

The Route of a Text Message – the scottbot irregular https://scottbot.net/the-route-of-a-text-message/

Band name of the day: touch slop

Cybertext Killed the Hypertext Star http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/cybertext-killed-the-hypertext-star/

Band name of the day: hot ergodic cybertext

Band name of the day: penetrating sounds

I Wrote 100 Terrible Stories That I’m Glad You’ll Never Read https://io9.gizmodo.com/5870146/i-wrote-100-terrible-short-stories-that-im-glad-youll-never-read

What would a world without pushbuttons look like? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/what-would-a-world-without-pushbuttons-look-like

Band name of the day: the new margarine

Introduction https://www.inferentialthinking.com/chapters/intro.html

Facebook Algorithms and Personal Data | Pew Research Center http://www.pewinternet.org/2019/01/16/facebook-algorithms-and-personal-data/

Band name of the day: embodied logic

When YouTube Red-Pills the Love of Your Life - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/youtube-red-pill-men-right-wing-hate-radicalization

Consolation Prizes | Alex Pareene https://thebaffler.com/salvos/consolation-prizes-pareene

Band name of the day: the impossible screw

Putting Your Worst Foot Forward: Why You Should Play to Your Weaknesses as an Author | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2019/01/09/putting-your-worst-foot-forward-why-you-should-play-to-your-weaknesses-as-an-author/

Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/thieves-of-experience-how-google-and-facebook-corrupted-capitalism/

Band name of the day: easy watch

A thing I’ve learned: if you’re submitting a game to steam & you’re not sure if it should count as ‘mature content’, err on the side of ‘no’, because if you describe the content & they don’t think it’s mature enough they’ll assume there’s unmentioned/hidden nudity & won’t let you release it

GitHub - Ghadjeres/Anticipation-RNN: Code of the Anticipation-RNN paper by Hadjeres and Nielsen https://github.com/Ghadjeres/Anticipation-RNN