Edward Gorey’s Enigmatic World | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/edward-goreys-enigmatic-world

WHAT IS TO BE DONE? – ALIENIST MANIFESTO https://alienistmanifesto.wordpress.com/2018/06/16/what-is-to-be-done/

Are aptitude tests an accurate measure of human potential? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/are-aptitude-tests-an-accurate-measure-of-human-potential

Project Troy: The Science of Cold War Psychological Warfare - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/12/project-troy-science-cold-war-psychological-warfare/576847/

We need to admit that parents sometimes hate their children | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/we-need-to-admit-that-parents-sometimes-hate-their-children

Rocko’s Modern Life: Inside the Barely Contained Chaos of a Nickelodeon Classic | Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/11/inside-rockos-modern-life-nickelodeon-cartoon

Undefined Behavior Is Really Undefined https://cryptoservices.github.io/fde/2018/11/30/undefined-behavior.html

What makes BeOS and Haiku unique – The OS Voyager https://osvoyager.wordpress.com/2018/11/30/what-makes-beos-and-haiku-unique/

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Vallee is among the most lucid of the mid-century ufologists. The modern internet does to the global mind what a close encounter does to individual minds.

I Forced an AI to Watch Santa Claus Conquers the Martians · Issue #33 · NaNoGenMo/2018 · GitHub https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2018/issues/33#issuecomment-443401950

Thread by @Aelkus: “Strange Days is seriously underrated The aesthetic of the movie, like Blade Runner is, very good and timeless due to its combination of futu […]” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1069354595527344128.html

Despite MST3K’s riffing, the thing that strikes me most about The Day Time Ended is how closely it hews to the tropes of actual close encounters (as Vallee describes). & this is why it’s a bad movie.

William Gibson: The Decline of “Cyberspace” - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVnt_Rr-TB4

Philosophy of ＡＥＳＴＨＥＴＩＣＳ: The Floating World of Ukiyo-e - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCHFjj_qr5Q

Band name of the day: a section of agghartha

Bruce Sterling: What A Feeling! - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWCdMuEjw4g

Treasure Hunting https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/11/02/treasure-hunting/

I just realized that – nevermind Wu Ming / Luther Blissett – QAnon is fanfiction of Bruce Sterling’s 2016 SXSW closing keynote

Closing Remarks: Bruce Sterling | SXSW Interactive 2016 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZaiCDogmwM

Tomorrow Now: Envisioning The Next Fifty Years | Bruce Sterling with Samit Basu - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAMxQG_buag

Welcome to CBDQ-Memegen! http://cbdq-memegen.glitch.me/

Seduced & Abandoned: The Body in the Virtual World - Bruce Sterling - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSINgf_UBS8

Bruce Sterling - Fantasy prototypes and real disruption - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7KErICTSHU

Bruce Sterling Masterclass (September 27, 2018) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO9twds_SUc

A+E 2017 - Bruce Sterling: Speculations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfjHjJ2SFLI

Band name of the day: land art in space

NEXT17 | Bruce Sterling | Live from 2027 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2O_fxmrP_Q

Alien Aesthetics | Bruce Sterling | TEDxDeakinUniversity - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkHtSBzYGWQ

Bruce Sterling | Disrupting Dystopia: The Bruce Sterling Talk | SXSW 2018 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPu_FC9F2Ck

paradise_explained/book1_complete.pdf at master · jrladd/paradise_explained · GitHub https://github.com/jrladd/paradise_explained/blob/master/book1_complete.pdf

Paradise Explained, Meaning Lost: A Nonsensically Annotated Edition of Milton’s Epic · Issue #106 · NaNoGenMo/2018 · GitHub https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2018/issues/106

transmediale 2014 | Talk by Bruce Sterling at the Opening Ceremony - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dacKWLGZklM

Ask Dr. Time: In Praise of Hope https://kottke.org/18/11/ask-dr-time-in-praise-of-hope

Band name of the day: racing lawnmowers

Maybe Not - Rich Hickey - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5WdGrpoug

Flanderizing Akihabara - Educated by Culture - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOBpJF9zQKY

Video Games In East Germany: The Stasi Played Along | ZEIT ONLINE https://www.zeit.de/digital/games/2018-11/computer-games-gdr-stasi-surveillance-gamer-crowd

Beyond “Lump”: The Presidents of the United States of America Rocked https://tedium.co/2018/11/29/presidents-of-the-united-states-of-america-band-history/

Good design for developers & good design for non-developers don’t operate by different rules. Devs aren’t happy needing to memorize manuals, and end users can & will learn things if it makes their lives easier.

.……….//: Embracing the New Flesh http://ellaguro.blogspot.com/2014/10/embracing-new-flesh.html

GitHub - LingDong-/rrpl: Describing Chinese Characters with Recursive Radical Packing Language (RRPL) https://github.com/LingDong-/rrpl

Bad idea of the day: live your life as though it is a bayesian poisoning attack on the basilisk

Band name of the day: universal adversarial perturbations

Band name of the day: robust adversarial examples

a year of watching nothing but the movies MST3K covers but without the riffing

13brane.net https://13brane.net/rants/de-facto-closed-source/

Reading capital politically - Harry Cleaver https://libcom.org/library/reading-capital-politically-cleaver

Band name of the day: known cryptonyms

What’s a useful programming language feature or concept that a lot of languages don’t have? - DEV Community ‘‍”‍’ https://dev.to/cathodion/whats-a-useful-programming-language-feature-or-concept-that-a-lot-of-languages-dont-have-2ep1

Interface usability in a nutshell: minimize how often the simplest way to do a thing the user wants to do is 1) hard to imagine before you see it, or 2) hard to understand once observed. Assume the user is more creative than you & less well-informed.