Band name of the day: we regret the error
thread(3) - Plan 9 from User Space https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/man/man3/thread.html
Flow-based Programming :: Comparison http://www.jpaulmorrison.com/fbp/noflo.html
Goodbye Facebook https://jasongullickson.com/posts/goodbye-facebook/
Looking at 1995’s Netiquette… in 2019. - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YMbyuO8x4A
Democratize the Internet Now! | The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/133889/reboot-world
The LaTeX fetish (Or: Don’t write in LaTeX! It’s just for typesetting) – Daniel Allington http://www.danielallington.net/2016/09/the-latex-fetish/
Cory Doctorow: Disruption for Thee, But Not for Me – Locus Online http://locusmag.com/2019/01/cory-doctorow-disruption-for-thee-but-not-for-me/
Senrio Blog - Senrio https://blog.senr.io/blog/impervious-implants-splintery-supply-chains
Modchips - Trammell Hudson’s Projects https://trmm.net/Modchips
GitHub - sharkdp/hexyl: A command-line hex viewer https://github.com/sharkdp/hexyl
Band name of the day: new-metal class
Band name of the day: false and defamatory
Band name of the day: unreasonably dangerous
Graphs are to categories as lists are to monoids https://alhassy.github.io/PathCat/
Brannock Device History: A Machine That Measures Feet https://tedium.co/2019/01/08/brannock-device-history-foot-measurement/
Band name of the day: science weekends
Band name of the day: bespoke ennui
We can try to define intellectual constructs as having ‘nothing but essence’ but maybe we should take a page out of Guy Debord’s book and say they are ‘nothing but appearance’. They can appear in contradictory ways because there’s no underlying structure.
Band name of the day: rejecting the natural
Band name of the day: the becoming-electron
Band name of the day: a politics for alienation
Band name of the day: small crimes
SUN RA: NEVER A PART OF THIS PLANET https://pleasekillme.com/sun-ra/
Of Predictive Algorithms and Emojis | A Future Worth Thinking About http://www.afutureworththinkingabout.com/?p=5345
An Alternative Taxonomy for Interactive Stories | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2011/05/03/an-alternative-taxonomy-for-interactive-stories/
Vurt (Core Rulebook) – The Rat Hole http://therathole.ca/vurt-core-rulebook/
Plot-shaped Level Design | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2016/05/18/plot-shaped-level-design/
Beyond Branching: Quality-Based, Salience-Based, and Waypoint Narrative Structures | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2016/04/12/beyond-branching-quality-based-and-salience-based-narrative-structures/
Card-Deck Narratives | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2016/05/03/card-deck-narratives/
An Incomplete List of Things I’d Need to Know In Order Not to Be A Total Impostor | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2018/09/02/an-incomplete-list-of-things-id-need-to-know-in-order-not-to-be-a-complete-impostor/
Successful Reflective Choices in Interactive Narrative – catacalypto https://catacalypto.wordpress.com/2018/06/19/successful-reflective-choices-in-interactive-narrative/
Success criteria for the PC 2.0 era “ Aral Balkan https://ar.al/2019/01/09/success-criteria-for-the-pc-2.0-era/
The post-Web is single tenant “ Aral Balkan https://ar.al/2019/01/09/the-post-web-is-single-tenant/
Mailbag: Self-Training in Narrative Design | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2019/01/08/mailbag-self-training-in-narrative-design/
Band name of the day: adorable ice cream crisis
Do You Want Typography or Do You Want The Truth https://walkerart.org/magazine/erik-carter-op-ed-do-you-want-typography-or-do-you-want-the-truth
J.G. Ballard’s Experimental Text Collages: His 1958 Foray into Avant-Garde Literature | Open Culture http://www.openculture.com/2016/09/j-g-ballards-experimental-text-collages.html
People have said to me that an electron is a probability distribution. Is this true, a simplification, an artifact of measurement, misleading, a nomenclature issue, or what?
Band name of the day: the ends of sleep
”[The internet] never made it [to] Stage C […]. A truly networked cosmopolitanism needs to be more distributed. It can be local without being parochial” - James Bridle in https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/506/State-of-the-World-2019-page02.html#post30
Periodic reminder: I’m running a no-budget film contest again this year https://medium.com/p/announcing-the-2019-no-budget-film-contest-d7eb339a3ed5
The ‘if Y is every X then Y is no X’ snowclone is rarely true, and when it is true, there’s often nothing wrong with the resulting state…
I love books about the history of tech, but no matter how well-researched, they’re typically mostly a documentation of tech’s mythology (or some countermythology). I prefer the countermythographies.
404 Page Not Found | Kate Wagner https://thebaffler.com/salvos/404-page-not-found-wagner
We need an ‘AI sidekick’ to fight malicious AI https://thenextweb.com/syndication/2019/01/08/we-need-an-ai-sidekick-to-fight-malicious-ai/
Another take on the ‘user agent’: https://thenextweb.com/syndication/2019/01/08/we-need-an-ai-sidekick-to-fight-malicious-ai/
18th-century business women – trade cards – All Things Georgian https://georgianera.wordpress.com/2018/07/26/18th-century-business-women-trade-cards/
So, I’m working on a fediverse client based on https://web.archive.org/web/20190101185657/https://jfm.carcosa.net/blog/computing/usenet/ ; it’s here: https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/fern . It is currently read-only, but it has read history.