Nothing in Capitalism is Clean: On Making Art in Empire http://www.thorncoyle.com/nothing-in-capitalism-is-clean-on-making-art-in-empire/

Curveship: Interactive Fiction + Interactive Narrating https://curveship.com/

Trust and Complex Technology: The Cyborg’s Modern Bargain - Cyborgology https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2011/11/23/trust-in-complex-technology-the-cyborgs-modern-bargain/

Band name of the day: involuntary parks

Bruce Sterling & Benjamin Bratton in Conversation - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0__x5SG8WY

Bad idea of the day: replace whitespace with color changes

Running a Gopher Server in 2018 https://prgmr.com/blog/gopher/2018/11/09/setting-up-gopherserver.html

Band name of the day: a new leader in murder tech

Personal Panopticons “ Real Life https://reallifemag.com/personal-panopticons/

Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods – Something Similar https://www.somethingsimilar.com/2013/01/14/notes-on-distributed-systems-for-young-bloods/

A radical pessimist’s guide to the next 10 years - The Globe and Mail https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/a-radical-pessimists-guide-to-the-next-10-years/article1321040/

Assert yourself - The Boston Diaries - Captain Napalm http://boston.conman.org/2018/11/06.1

Electronic Tolling History: RFID Keeps Things Moving https://tedium.co/2018/11/08/electronic-toll-collection-history/

Berners-Lee takes flak for ‘hippie manifesto’ that only Google and Facebook could love • The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/09/berners_lee_criticism/

Download Music From the Free Music Archive Before It Shuts Down https://lifehacker.com/download-the-music-you-want-from-the-free-music-archive-1830320515

One of those cult cinema distribution companies owns an actual video store – and it’s only like an hour or two from my house. I’ll have to make a trip out there at some point…

Specification gaming examples in AI - master list https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vRPiprOaC3HsCf5Tuum8bRfzYUiKLRqJmbOoC-32JorNdfyTiRRsR7Ea5eWtvsWzuxo8bjOxCG84dAg/pubhtml

Movies whose names begin with the letter ’s’ are the names of… snakes! ssss

Logic, Explainability and the Future of Understanding—Stephen Wolfram Blog http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2018/11/logic-explainability-and-the-future-of-understanding/

Goddess save us from ‘sensible business decisions’. Business is not the appropriate framework for evaluating decisions.

I wonder if the reason why the average quality of writing-advice articles is so much lower than other types is that it’s dominated by folks who are trying to write a certain number of words every day & have decided to publish all of them…

Band name of the day: interdisciplinary placebo studies

Band name of the day: intercellular pods

GitHub - daviddao/awful-ai: 😈Awful AI is a curated list to track current scary usages of AI - hoping to raise awareness https://github.com/daviddao/awful-ai

Bad idea of the day: sort r/all by controversial

Simple Feed Ranking Algorithm http://datagenetics.com/blog/october32018/index.html

Search https://qz.com/1398398/the-internet-is-a-manifestation-of-our-psyches-neither-better-nor-worse/

How YouTube’s Recommendation Algorithm Really Works - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/11/how-youtubes-algorithm-really-works/575212/

Search https://qz.com/1454785/a-millionaire-couple-is-threatening-to-create-a-magic-mushroom-monopoly/

The ‘As you know, Bob’ technique for infodumps gets a lot of flak, but all my internal corporate emails from upper management begin with ‘As you know,’, so I think there might be room to make it verisimilitudinous.

Bad idea of the day: A full performance of Smoke on the Water built by remixing clips of people at Guitar Center failing to perform Smoke on the Water & random words spoken by people in Guitar Center

Yes, technically everything with nested directories is UNIX-inspired. No, that’s not interesting.

My attempt at mapping the flow of influence in UI development thus far:

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Hot take: social constructs are notoriously difficult to build universal theories about, because belief is fickle and eldrich. Talking or thinking about social constructs is liable to make them change

Bad idea of the day: a smartphone with a full-sized model m keyboard and a full-sized bell handset but a regular smartphone sized screen that is also e-ink

Bad idea of the day: a smartphone with a full-sized model m keyboard and a full-sized bell handset but a regular smartphone sized screen

Resources for A Survey Of Alternatives http://www.lord-enki.net/resources-survey-of-alternatives.html

I’m going to be periodically posting research resources for the new book here, as I find them: http://www.lord-enki.net/resources-survey-of-alternatives.html

The Haunting of Hill House: The Ghosts No One Is Talking About “ Wisecrack Quick Take - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBa59EL-axk

I’m in this weird situation with the new book where, of the systems I’m planning to cover, the one I’m most familiar with is menuet. Imagine being in a position where, for any set of things, the most familiar item is menuet.

Apparently, the Bell Labs ‘squeak’ UI language is unrelated to the Smalltalk dialect of the same name, despite both being message-passing systems with strong GUI support http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/squeak/squeak.pdf

http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/1st_edition/designing_plan_9

Nix Language Primer | binary.phile http://www.binaryphile.com/nix/2018/07/22/nix-language-primer.html

The Programming Language Oberon https://miasap.se/obnc/oberon-report.html

Band name of the day: prestige cannibalism

Bad idea of the day: drawing a unicursal hexagram in the center of the Magic Roundabout in Hartfordshire

Deny and become: the radical ethos of negative capability | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/deny-and-become-the-radical-ethos-of-negative-capability

Schrödinger’s Capital: How Marxists erased Marx’s prediction of capitalist collapse | The Real Movement https://therealmovement.wordpress.com/2016/03/31/schrodingers-capital-how-marxists-erased-marxs-prediction-of-capitalist-collapse/

An OCR cliche: Into his/her anus | Fill His Head First with a Thousand Questions https://wraabe.wordpress.com/2009/03/07/an-ocr-cliche-into-hisher-anus/

Sci-Fi Writer Greg Egan and Anonymous Math Whiz Advance Permutation Problem | Quanta Magazine https://www.quantamagazine.org/sci-fi-writer-greg-egan-and-anonymous-math-whiz-advance-permutation-problem-20181105/