I wrote a proposal for a high-performance OSMIC backend: https://medium.com/@/proposal-for-a-high-performance-storage-system-for-osmic-branching-histories-7cb324c7df2d?source=friends_link&sk=40fc22e94810bd20995286d1f8815a6c but it occurs to me that I don’t have a good intro to OSMIC so that’s next.

RFC-5 — 365 RFCs https://write.as/365-rfcs/rfc-5

People become what they can imagine becoming, & access to tools has as much to do with this as representation. If it’s easy to fall into programming accidentally, then it’s easy to imagine yourself programming regularly.

Trendism follows the logic of capital. The more capital you have, the less risk any investment is & the more you stand to gain from it. Given a diverse portfolio, a large investment will grow while a small one disappears: capital’s gravity at work.

A flat landscape (i.e., one where connection between any two people is as easy as any two other people) breaks the limiters on preferential attachment, expanding the head on the popularity distribution. Trendism accelerates this.

Bad idea of the day: International ‘journalist exchange’ agreements – newspapers in different countries have an arrangement where they’ll trade journalists periodically & reprint each other’s stories in translation, by entering into clubs.

cassette girls video project - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf5-xRIekkU

★ Ｃａ”“ｅ”“ｅ Ｇｉ’ｌ ★ - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjJtb9HxmwU

So there is a ‘Thing on the Fourbleboard’ anime, sort of: Wasurenagumo.

ArtStation - Tim Razumovsky https://www.artstation.com/timrazumovsky

‘Q’ the end credits for the internet’s lamest conspiracy theory | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/6883/qanon-conspiracy-theory-end-times

Subpixel Text Encoding - msarnoff.org http://www.msarnoff.org/millitext/

The great Lisp and Smalltalk systems are designed from the ground up with the as… | Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16586347

Constructing Exocortices with Huginn and Halo https://drwho.virtadpt.net/files/HOPE_XI-constructing_exocortices.html#slide4

About Hyperscope - Doug Engelbart Institute http://dougengelbart.org/content/view/154/86/

35C3 - Scuttlebutt - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSWWkzsHhjk

Rhizomes, Why Artists and Activists Should Care about Crabgrass | Blue Stool #19 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou_yikwW15o

Literate Programming in the Large - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av0PQDVTP4A

Underclocking the ESP8266 Leads To WiFi Weirdness | Hackaday https://hackaday.com/2019/01/04/underclocking-the-esp8266-leads-to-wifi-weirdness/

Notes on Floppy Disks https://extrapages.de/archives/20190102-Floppy-notes.html

Handmade Computer · Avant.org http://avant.org/thread/handmade-computer/

Questioning the Logic of Capital: A Conversation With Richard D. Wolff https://truthout.org/articles/questioning-the-logic-of-capital-a-conversation-with-richard-d-wolff/

Neal Stephenson: “Anathem” | Talks at Google - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnq-2BJwatE

Bruce Sterling - The dark side impacts of IT on society - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndU_WQOj0_k

Bruce Sterling. Lecture “The epic struggle of the internet of things” - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2QcsPi1uX4

3 of 3 - A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari - Illustrated Audiobook - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws2b5aOhrdA

2 - A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari - Illustrated Audiobook - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7ZQ5HRntHo

Band name of the day: flaylord

Write your Own Virtual Machine https://justinmeiners.github.io/lc3-vm/

Vintage Tech: Learn While You Sleep (Hypnopaedia) - Believer Magazine https://believermag.com/logger/vintage-tech-3/

Band name of the day: murdermap

This is an interesting take, but the author fails to note that the primary result of speculation is fantasy – i.e., price deviation from ‘natural’ value: https://meltingasphalt.com/wealth-the-toxic-byproduct/

Proto-internet trolls’: Johann Friedrich Struensee and freedom of expression in 18th century Denmark - European studies blog https://blogs.bl.uk/european/2018/06/johann-friedrich-struensee.html

Band name of the day: machinic assemblages

Band name of the day: the only way out is grass

Band name of the day: rank growth

Email icon https://www.topic.com/giant-mirrors-ocean-whitening-here-s-how-exxon-wanted-to-save-the-planet

Here’s the Dark Enlightenment Explainer You Never Wanted https://breakermag.com/heres-the-dark-enlightenment-explainer-you-never-wanted/

Your Ideal Therapist Might Not Be Human | Outside Online https://www.outsideonline.com/2377756/woebot-therapy-artificial-emotional-intelligence

Enlightenment can be yours for just $10 | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/6889/school-of-practical-philosophy-philosophy-works-new-york-subway-ad

The YouTube Algorithm’s Strange, Soothing Power | SPIN https://www.spin.com/featured/youtube-algorithm-music-essay-ambient-hiroshi-yoshimura-midori-takada/

Band name of the day: oat milk shortage

Slaying the Snark: what nonsense verse tells us about reality | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/slaying-the-snark-what-nonsense-verse-tells-us-about-reality

Walt Disney’s Public Domain Works https://tedium.co/2019/01/03/public-domain-disney/

The real story behind Margot Robbie’s wild Queen Elizabeth I makeup. https://slate.com/technology/2018/12/queen-elizabeth-makeup-margot-robbie-mary-queen-of-scots-real-story.html

The World through the Eyes of the US https://pudding.cool/2018/12/countries/

Spreadsheets are dead, long live reactive programming environments! : Stencila https://stenci.la/blog/introducing-sheets/

Pickup™ turns romance into a commodity for male consumption | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/pickuptm-turns-romance-into-a-commodity-for-male-consumption

The Rand Corporation: The Think Tank That Controls America | Mental Floss http://mentalfloss.com/article/22120/rand-corporation-think-tank-controls-america

Atheists vs religious belief, with Wittgenstein on the stand | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/atheists-vs-religious-belief-with-wittgenstein-on-the-stand