Today is black friday. Celebrate with armed observation of the police from a distance of fifty feet.
Band name of the day: the crypto-embyonic hyperelectric presence
Band name of the day: girlmeat
From Leatherface’s POV, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is the story of an artist who keeps getting takeout he didn’t order
Band name of the day: satanic graffiti
Remember: if a family member asks about your politics this thanksgiving, tell them you’re an anarchist & would like to abolish the concept of money. It’ll shut them up and it’s probably even true.
Today is thanksgiving. Celebrate by determining who you don’t owe a debt to – who, in the total scheme of things, has had a net negative effect on your life – writing them a nasty letter, and setting it on fire.
Slow Software https://www.inkandswitch.com/slow-software.html
D compilation is too slow and I am forking the compiler | CyberShadow’s blog https://blog.thecybershadow.net/2018/11/18/d-compilation-is-too-slow-and-i-am-forking-the-compiler/
On Programming Language Design - ielliott.io http://blog.ielliott.io/on-programming-language-design/
GitHub - aurelg/ipfs-wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, safely. Over IPFS (which not even required to receive those things). https://github.com/aurelg/ipfs-wormhole
Why your Netflix thumbnails don’t look like mine - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axCBA3VD5dQ
Guide to Tom Hanks - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQOf_WaaJfE
Remember: breaking a wishbone is seventy years of bad luck
Remember: unless your turkey sees its shadow, you must go back underground and avoid buying anything until halloween of next year.
Today is thanksgiving. Celebrate by writing apology letters to everyone you have ever wronged.
Hot take: Cyberpunk only seems ‘prophetic’ because not enough has changed since the 80s to make it seem irrelevant, and this basically means that cyberpunk failed in its critical project by spawning insufficient praxis
“Eco Grime” Artists Blend Natural Sounds & Electronics to Depict a Polluted World « Bandcamp Daily https://daily.bandcamp.com/2018/11/13/eco-grime-music-history/
Dawn for SUBLEQ http://gerigeri.uw.hu/DawnOS/index.html
The One Book That Made Me Take the Long View of the Future: God Emperor of Dune | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2018/11/07/the-one-book-that-made-me-take-the-long-view-of-the-future-god-emperor-of-dune/
Band name of the day: funeral dj
A Stimulus Plan for the Mutual Aid Economy https://longreads.com/2018/11/20/a-stimulus-plan-for-the-mutual-aid-economy/
Idiots Scaring Themselves in the Dark https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/04/13/idiots-scaring-themselves-in-the-dark/
Band name of the day: the productively fractured
Hot take: things aren’t changing more quickly than they used to; it’s just that it is easier to become aware of distant events before they have been aggregated and summarized into the status of ‘non-event’.
Conspiracy theories are the result of the same legibilitization process described in ‘Seeing Like a State’: it replaces actual mechanism with a simpler one & drops details that don’t fit, for the sake of ease of representation
William Gibson: Technology, Science Fiction & the Apocalypse - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dlvle5YBv4
A Big Archive of Occult Recordings: Historic Audio Lets You Hear Trances, Paranormal Music, Glossolalia & Other Strange Sounds (1905-2007) | Open Culture http://www.openculture.com/2018/02/a-big-archive-of-occult-recordings.html
Band name of the day: the danish vowel horror
Bad idea of the day: furniture modeled on cray equipment, with spaces to put your own computers in
Atheists: Was Jesus a Marxist? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX9pDI9o6IQ
World States and Mega Empires in SF | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2018/11/12/world-states-and-mega-empires-in-sf/
How Turkey Got Its Name | Now I Know http://nowiknow.com/how-turkey-got-its-name/
Band name of the day: seven minutes of terror
The Well-Being Machine https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/06/12/the-well-being-machine/
Cringe and the Design of Sacred Experiences https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/01/11/cringe-and-the-design-of-sacred-experiences/
Folk Concepts https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/11/16/folk-concepts/
The World As If https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/09/07/the-world-as-if/
Band name of the day: transient hypofrontality
Band name of the day: watcher at the gates of mind
Band name of the day: abjection
GitHub - thearkadia/The_Ark: The Ark - ¿Democracy’s Favorite Device? https://github.com/thearkadia/The_Ark
Great black friday deals on exorcisms but only if you are possessed by one of the great presidents of hell or below – no goetic princes. Starts at 66.99
The Little Regulation That Will Make a Big Change in How You Do Business: Department of Commerce to Establish New Export Controls on Emerging Technologies - Lexology https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=205f4c5f-17c7-4d18-9967-a01983883706
Philip M. Parker - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_M._Parker
Rome 1990: MOST SWASHBUCKLING EVER! Ted dances and challenges nonstop - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9QvX1-SdHE
The roots of America’s democracy problem - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ySL82WbcvU
Heads up, apparently there are gonna be export restrictions on neural net, reinforcement learning, computer vision, NLP, & similar research done in the US: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/11/19/2018-25221/review-of-controls-for-certain-emerging-technologies
Conceptual Languages (Part 2) - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/conceptual-languages-part-2
Unnecessary and Kallisti: Purely Conceptual Languages - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/unnecessary-purely-conceptual-languages