Hillel Wayne - Everything about distributed systems is terrible | Code Mesh LDN 18 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfnldxWlOhM
Band name of the day: intercourse with spirits
Band name of the day: the active measures
Band name of the day: citogenesis
If your website isn’t usable in w3m in offline mode, it’s not really a website
How to Backup Your Allo Conversations Before Google Shuts it Down https://lifehacker.com/how-to-backup-your-allo-conversations-before-google-shu-1830922541
Why You Should Never, Ever Use Quora – Waxy.org https://waxy.org/2018/12/why-you-should-never-ever-use-quora/
Band name of the day: amber phenomena
Band name of the day: the association of electrizers
Band name of the day: The New Motor
Band name of the day: a new and powerful god
Band name of the day: rizomorph
Band name of the day: alien fire (from the mercy seat)
Is there a term for absurd euphemisms constructed for censoring dialogue for television – like ‘melon farmer’ and ‘this is what happens when you meet a stranger in the alps’? Is there a database of them?
Internet Content Filter History: Filtering Out the Bad Stuff https://tedium.co/2018/12/06/internet-content-filters-history/
Teaching kids to code: I’m a developer and I think it doesn’t actually teach important skills. https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/12/against-teaching-kids-to-code-creativity-problem-solving.html
All this end of year stuff is coming in too quick. It’s the first week of december. Wasn’t Halloween the other day or somehting?
OSCON 2010: Rob Pike, “Public Static Void” - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kj5ApnhPAE
The Artificial Intelligence That Deleted A Century - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JlxuQ7tPgQ
mine shaft gap vs pine gap
Band name of the day: the red center
Monopoly vs. the Magic Cape https://longreads.com/2018/12/05/monopoly-vs-the-magic-cape/
John McAfee Is 73, Very Stoned, and Running for President https://breakermag.com/john-mcafee-is-73-very-stoned-and-running-for-president/
Bad idea of the day: Instead of a greatest hits album, a greatest failures album: a collection of all the tracks that made the least money and got the least attention (despite never being intended as deep cuts)
Why language might be the optimal self-regulating system | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/why-language-might-be-the-optimal-self-regulating-system
Welcome to the trip of your life: the rise of underground LSD guides | Society | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/dec/06/lsd-guides-psychedelic-assisted-psychotherapy
Band name of the day: the corpse trade
Four Days Trapped at Sea With Crypto’s Nouveau Riche https://breakermag.com/trapped-at-sea-with-cryptos-nouveau-riche/
Band name of the day: mount unpleasant
We Asked 105 Experts What Worries Them Most About the Future - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/yw755b/we-asked-105-experts-what-worries-them-most-about-the-future
Nevermind Die Hard – Strange Days is the best christmas movie
Band name of the day: the history of an error
Your Q Anon Exit Briefing – Violent metaphors https://violentmetaphors.com/2018/12/04/your-q-anon-exit-briefing/
Are smartphones bad for you? The science is still out - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/5/18126154/screen-time-smartphones-bad-health-risk-science-study-wrong-depression-anxiety
Today in recruiter spam, somebody wants me to teach Latvian in Brooklyn. Why do they think I know Latvian? Why does literally every recruiter think I can commute to NYC?
Broken Chain Restaurants: When Fast Food Franchises Go Solo https://tedium.co/2018/12/04/broken-chains-fast-food-restaurants/
Since related ideas are circulating again, here’s my freshly reheated take: making sure your criticisms of reprehensible people are on-topic (focusing on the represhensible parts of them) solves all kinds of problems.
Chicken mesh and plywood radio/wifi reflector dish. - Brute Force and Ignorance https://solarflower.blogspot.com/2011/07/chicken-mesh-and-plywood-radiowifi.html
Planning a Decentralized Mesh Wi-Fi Network http://darknetmap.zone42.ca/
Building Technology https://communitytechnology.github.io/
Bad idea of the day: a browser extention that requests the wayback machine spider whatever pages you visit as you visit them
Band name of the day: pocket symphony
GitHub - CardsAgainstCryptography/CAC: A party game for nerdy cryptographers. Shamelessly based on Cards Against Humanity. https://github.com/CardsAgainstCryptography/CAC
Band name of the day: american magic & dread
Band name of the day: death at that income level
Band name of the day: major chambers
Band name of the day: the power haunts
Band name of the day: conspiracies of the body
Band name of the day: central meat / central whip