Band name of the day: too many requests

Too Many Requests https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2lvjgt/in_games_and_books_there_are_always_adventurers/

Is it gauche to name the hero of a show Yuta or does it only become gauche once a different character makes a Yuta / Yusha pun? Asking for a friend. (Gridman / Chuu2byo)

Jonestown’s Victims Have a Lesson to Teach Us, So I Listened – Mother Jones https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/11/jonestowns-victims-have-a-lesson-to-teach-us-so-i-listened-peoples-temple-anniversary-40/

The Second Half of Watergate Was Bigger, Worse, and Forgotten By the Public https://longreads.com/2018/11/20/the-second-half-of-watergate-was-bigger-worse-and-forgotten-by-the-public/

PingFS - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/pingfs-storing-your-files-in-network-traffic

High score, low pay: why the gig economy loves gamification | Business | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/nov/20/high-score-low-pay-gamification-lyft-uber-drivers-ride-hailing-gig-economy

Band name of the day: gorilla orphanage

From Satori to Silicon Valley https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/primary/docs/satori/taste.html

From Satori to Silicon Valley https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/primary/docs/satori/organic.html

Oou: The Insane Language - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/oou-the-insane-language

Code Art, Code Poetry, and Esolangs - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/code-art-code-poetry-and-esolangs

Welcome to the witch capital of Norway | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/6613/vardo-norway-halloween-steilneset-memorial

Martin Heidegger and Günther Anders on Technology: On Ray Kurzweil, Fritz Lang, and Transhumanism https://medium.com/amor-mundi/martin-heidegger-and-g%C3%BCnther-anders-on-technology-on-ray-kurzweil-fritz-lang-and-transhumanism-a48a4c123c09

Democracy Shouldn’t Be About Brand Recognition “ Member Feature Stories ” Medium https://medium.com/s/story/in-1967-a-student-known-only-as-black-bag-showed-us-all-how-democracy-would-end-3af7a526c461

Structural typing (and its integration with prototype OO) might be one way to address the platypus… https://medium.com/@/structural-typing-and-its-integration-with-prototype-oo-might-be-one-way-to-address-the-platypus-c9663c362c26

How to Internet “ World Wide WTF ” Medium https://medium.com/s/world-wide-wtf/how-to-internet-6c379e75c8e0

It is not that sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, but that anything is indistinguishable from magic from the perspective of the sufficiently ignorant. Clarke assumes we will lose the red queen’s race with polymathy.

Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html

TFW people post rhetorical questions to quora

When you think about it, all search engines are human flesh search engines, except disjointed in time. fite me

Band name of the day: the far and cold

Lovecraft is illustrative of the first half of the 20th century because he represents several seemingly mutually exclusive extremes. Recommend reading Sterling’s Pirate Utopia & Stranger Than We Can Imagine together, then Dreams in the Witch House

GitHub - boriel/zxbasic: The Sinclair ZX Spectrum BASIC compiler! https://github.com/boriel/zxbasic

Band name of the day: rhythmic rituals

Wait wait is AKB48 supposed to be a pun on AK 47?

Service Unavailable https://esoteric.codes/blog/exercises-in-programming-style

Esopo: Turing Complete Poetry - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/esopo-turing-complete-poetry

Band name of the day: mysterious by divine

Band name of the day: human flesh technology

JSTOR: Access Check https://www.jstor.org/stable/40969483?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

All HTML - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/all-html

Esolangs as an Experiential Practice - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/esolangs-as-an-experiential-practice

BodyFuck - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/bodyfuck-gestural-code

Sole and Despotic Dominion: Fiction - Reason.com https://reason.com/archives/2018/11/17/sole-and-despotic-dominion

How Tech Bros Fell in Love With Bread Baking - Eater https://www.eater.com/2018/11/19/18099127/bread-silicon-valley-sourdough-tech-bros-tartine-chad-robertson

Bad idea of the day: Sieze the amazon.com domain and point it to the wikipedia article for the Amazon river

Tiny Emulators https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit/

Null Programs and the Uninscribed - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/null-programs-and-the-uninscribed

Service Unavailable https://esoteric.codes/blog/stack-trace-art

The 128-Language Quine Relay - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/the-128-language-quine-relay

A Programming Language With Only One Command and the Anti-Imperialist Operating System Built on it - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/a-programming-language-with-only-one-command-and

The prince of the people: Machiavelli was no ‘Machiavellian’ | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-prince-of-the-people-machiavelli-was-no-machiavellian

I don’t agree with this at all, but I’ve gotta respect this level of trolling: https://wordsandbuttons.online/if_i_were_to_invent_a_programming_language_for_the_21st_century.html

I keep reading this narrative where tech backlash only really started in 2017, and… guys, do none of you remember 2010? It’s basically been downhill for tech industry PR since 2010, if not 2008.

Ritual and the Consciousness Monoculture https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/01/08/ritual-and-the-consciousness-monoculture/

Jehanne Operating System http://jehanne.io/2018/11/15/simplicity-awakes.html

Cory Doctorow: Zuck’s Empire of Oily Rags – Locus Online http://locusmag.com/2018/07/cory-doctorow-zucks-empire-of-oily-rags/

Social Media Consciousness https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/09/07/social-media-consciousness/

Alan Kay: How Simply and Understandably Could The “Personal Computing Experience” Be Programmed? on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/10260548