Sort By Controversial | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/

No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons » The Adorable Optimism of the IPCC. https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=8433

Bad idea of the day: style transfer every frame of the new suspiria to look like the old suspiria

Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/twitchnovel/

This Artist’s Personalized AI Horror Movie Is Messing With His Head https://breakermag.com/kevin-aboschs-is-being-manipulated-by-his-own-ai/

My goal in life is to create the perfect bowl of ramen https://thetakeout.com/ramen-lord-perfect-bowl-of-ramen-mike-satinover-1830128673

fogus: Soup http://blog.fogus.me/2018/10/25/soup/

Bad idea of the day: Prevent any party from having representatives in more than 10% of the seats in congress or senate, including at the state level. If any party goes over 10% we redo the election in all affected areas.

You’ve heard about ghost kanji, but what about yokai kanji – hapax legomemna that, if they don’t occur enough times in the modern corpus, come to life and play tricks on us, drinking lamp oil & jumping backwards over corpses to ressurect them.

Band name of the day: the secret weapons

For #NaNoGenMo I converted two of Stravinsky’s ballets to tone-poems by converting note frequencies to word frequencies. I dare somebody to do a dramatic reading of these; it’ll sound like an Underworld track: https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/nanogenmo-2018/stravinsky.md https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/nanogenmo-2018/stravinsky_pg.md

Band name of the day: homesick for nowhere

Band name of the day: dread risks

How to Teach Computer Ethics through Science Fiction | August 2018 | Communications of the ACM https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/8/229765-how-to-teach-computer-ethics-through-science-fiction/fulltext

Band name of the day: conspiracy to riot

Band name of the day: the waiting mortuary

Band name of the day: safety coffin

Hot take: the primary function of a horror movie is not to be scary, but to be /creepy/. If you don’t know the difference, watch better horror movies.

Slate is complaining that the witches in Suspiria (2018) aren’t scary. Has the author seen Suspiria (1977)? It’s a wonderful film but the scariest thing about it is the sound track.

Today is All Hallow’s Day. Celebrate by having way too many disappointing sequels

Bunny-Girl Senpai is an interesting show. It seems to be going for a theme with the various arcs: each one seems to be about how communications media change our behavior & self-image by exerting social pressure with expectations.

In the grim dark future of 2019, all stores are halloween stores because every day is halloween.

Ministry: “Everyday Is Halloween” - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0r2xpGT4fQ

Nasu announces a new entry in the Fate franchise, Fate/F For, starring a genderswapped Orson Welles who pummels enemies with a film camera on the end of a pole arm.

After World War I, Horror Movies Were Invaded By an Army of Reanimated Corpses https://longreads.com/2018/10/31/after-world-war-i-horror-movies-were-invaded-by-an-army-of-reanimated-corpses/

In one sense, ‘the computer revolution is over’ because the period of exponential growth behind the tech ended 10 years ago. In another sense, it hasn’t begun: we have sheltered ourselves from the social and intellectual ramifications of computing. Documents are still simulations of paper, & capitalism still exists. So it’s like that period where printing presses existed but everybody used a faux-calligraphic font.

‘Do you prefer horror movies or comedy movies’ is a good way of phrasing ‘with what degree of intensity are you comfortable having your mental constructs challenged’. ‘Hausu is my favorite movie’ is a valid & illuminating response.

Circles Sines and Signals - Introduction https://jackschaedler.github.io/circles-sines-signals/

So, watching Halloween (1978) is free on shudder today, in case you want to. Not really sure why they only told current subscribers…

Trithemius Redivivus | Steganographia-English http://trithemius.com/steganographia-english/

View of Bring on The Real Computer Revolution http://ojs.stanford.edu/ojs/index.php/intersect/article/view/703/617

Periodic reminder: nothing has prepared us for The Strange Times

These Are the Bad Times – Hmm Daily https://hmmdaily.com/2018/10/30/these-are-the-bad-times/

There be monsters: from cabinets of curiosity to demons within | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/there-be-monsters-from-cabinets-of-curiosity-to-demons-within

The holy trinity: Save Ferris, Kill Ziggy, and End User

Band name of the day: end user digest

“Fun Size” Candy Bar History: Lawsuits Were Involved https://tedium.co/2018/10/30/fun-size-candy-history/

Acting like an extravert has benefits, but not for introverts | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/acting-like-an-extravert-has-benefits-but-not-for-introverts

Botnik presents Goosebumps: Welcome to Sand Hands! https://botnik.org/goosebumps/

Band name of the day: darker when wet

Band name of the day: skeleton jazz wizard

The Shining has apparently forever turned Midnight with the Stars and You into a ‘horror song’. I’m sure some flapper ghosts are very unhappy with that categorization. They can’t do anything about it, though: ghosts are weak.

A possible future: SSSS.Gridman’s popularity causes a bunch of mecha-inspired toku adaptations to be greenlit & ‘tokusatsu remake’ becomes the new ‘isekai light novel adaptation’ for about 5 years.

Hot take: moral hazard is an information problem with its roots in systematic overconfidence & optimism bias. Either important domains of risk are ignored or the effectiveness of mitigations is overestimated.

Hot take: in the absence of full information, provide reasonable defaults that are easily overridden. Making users repeat normally-identical pieces of information several times just because they CAN differ in a corner case is bad design.

Hot take: any command that a user might want to use regularly should be short, memorable, and built-in; any command that a user might really NEED to use should be documented & included in the examples in built-in documentation.

I sort of can’t believe this, considering Maven’s bloat, but there appears to be no build-in command for taking a package name specified on the command line, searching maven-central for it, & installing the latest version from the command line…

Band name of the day: nameless food

Five Star Songs https://5-star-songs.tumblr.com/post/179554319224/take-me-to-the-river-talking-heads-warning

Bad idea of the day: write poems, one a day, each on the back side of a tile, cementing it into place after you write it. your bathroom wall becomes a hidden book. tell no one.