One of the reasons I’m so hard on the original macintosh is that the team appropriated fantastic ideas from better projects that they were totally unprepared to do justice to, then delivered warped & broken versions of them.

Mark Fisher’s “K-Punk” and the Futures That Have Never Arrived | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/mark-fishers-k-punk-and-the-futures-that-have-never-arrived

Band name of the day: parts world

See No Evil “ Real Life https://reallifemag.com/guided-tours-see-no-evil/

Vampire Reviews: Dracula, Pages from a Virgin’s Diary - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP83GS8jBJc

Stack Exchange Simulator https://se-simulator.lw1.at/

Announcing the 2019 No-Budget Film Contest “ John Ohno ” Medium https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2019-no-budget-film-contest-d7eb339a3ed5

Loper OS » Engelbart’s Violin http://www.loper-os.org/?p=861

Tech’s Masturbatory Historiography | Lobsters https://lobste.rs/s/o6x9b3/tech_s_masturbatory_historiography#c_l1snl2

Every time I complain about how computers can be made better (if we work together) I get a bunch of people criticizing me for being insufficiently grateful. Bitch, I’m a programmer. I know how much effort somebody put into this shit, & it’s not enough.

Tech’s Masturbatory Historiography “ John Ohno ” Medium https://medium.com/@/techs-masturbatory-historiography-6d7ae12abf1f?source=friends_link&sk=c07e60d820ba1909520584c094f37876

It’s the End of News As We Know It (and Facebook Is Feeling Fine) – Mother Jones https://www.motherjones.com/media/2018/12/facebook-propaganda-trump/

The Internet Doesn’t Need Civility, It Needs Ethics - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pa5gxn/the-internet-doesnt-need-civility-it-needs-ethics

William Gibson | Part 1 | Jan. 12, 2012 | Appel Salon - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFewCiRaGiU

William Gibson: The Uncut Interview - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEXIqKRdz9A

Reflections on DOOM’s Development — Rome.ro https://rome.ro/news/2018/12/10/reflections-on-dooms-development

There’s this approach to computing history where we focus on work that looks shallowly similar to current norms, claim that work was ‘prophetic’ or ‘ahead of its time’, & mostly ignore differences & intent except as quirks. Fuck that.

has anybody registered luke-usethe.horse yet?

Band name of the day: mechanized death

Bad idea of the day: a campaign to ensure all life extension therapies are completely covered by medicare, medicaid, & ACA-compatible insurance

Hey, maybe now that microsoft is pushing chrome, things will get bad enough that electron will be dropped & developers will remember that cross-platform GUI toolkits exist that don’t involve spamming HTML

Band name of the day: rural edgelands

Command-Line Options10.Configuration”/>http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch10s05.html

Prions, Nearly Indestructible and Universally Lethal, Seed the Eyes of Victims - Scientific American Blog Network https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/prions-nearly-indestructible-and-universally-lethal-seed-the-eyes-of-victims/

Cragne Manor, an 84-room horror “exquisite corpse” text adventure that’s a tribute to the classic game Anchorhead / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/12/09/massively-multi-developer.html

The best argument against the idea that AI will replace programmers wholesale is the relative unpopularity of prolog. As an industry, we don’t take advantage of fantastic automation tech from the 70s, and instead write Java.

Teleconferencing is like being on IRC, if everybody was a noob, two people typing at the same time made both of their posts into gibberish, and half the channel has a cat on their keyboard the entire time.

We all know about social constructs vs reality, but there are levels of spookiness (and no upper bound). We can define them as how far a lie can go before the truth gets its boots on. Spookiness level one – money – already goes basically perpetually.

Telekon has a piano cover of Down in the Park & it makes me laugh ever goddamn time I hear it. It’s like having a muzak cover of Bulls On Parade.

Band name of the day: synners in the grasp of an angry gnon

2019 Open Call | Now Play This http://nowplaythis.net/2019-open-call/

Rhizomes 31 * Ali Sperling * H.P. Lovecraft’s Weird Body http://www.rhizomes.net/issue31/sperling.html

Unflattening Hobbes https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/10/18/unflattening-hobbes/

The Economic Perspective On Moral Standards | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/11/16/the-economic-perspective-on-moral-standards/

Is Science Slowing Down? | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/11/26/is-science-slowing-down-2/

Gary Lachman “The Lost Knowledge of the Imagination” - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLlLCVO3H28

JIRA is an antipattern – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/09/jira-is-an-antipattern/

Today, on the 50th anniversary of Englebart’s Mother of All Demos, is a great opportunity to introspect about why personal computers still basically don’t exist & the needs nLS was intended to fulfill still aren’t fulfilled.

Hedonic Audit https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/07/13/hedonic-audit/

Would we be worse off if we chose presidents by lottery? We’d probably be better off. If there was nothing someone could do to increase their odds of being president, it wouldn’t attract the mercenery & power-hungry.

Band name of the day: unforseen movements

Grand Old Paranoia | The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/152195/grand-old-paranoia-republican-conspiracy-theories-warp-washington

https://eroganous.tumblr.com/

Bruce Sterling Mirrorshades - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGFMxGDUWpM

Band name of the day: the movement

YouTube: Art or Reality? | Philosophy Tube - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVav1ri65Ws

FLATLINE: How The Amiga Languished - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB_UZsJUbwQ

Introduction to Deleuze: Difference and Repetition - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUQTYlCTfek

William Gibson in conversation | SCI-FI-LONDON - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye78SZ4g_jo

The Black Cauldron - Disney’s Halloween Masterpiece - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rzWdJ4vB8s