The Draw of the Gothic https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/10/29/the-draw-of-the-gothic/
Band name of the day: deformed malediction
A Look at the Design of Lua | November 2018 | Communications of the ACM https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/11/232214-a-look-at-the-design-of-lua/fulltext
Instant Archetypes: A New Tarot For The New Normal by Superflux —Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2093788053/instant-archetypes-a-new-tarot-for-the-new-normal
How to get rich quick, apparently: rephrase the obvious as though it is the revolutionary for the benefit of the stupid, and pepper it with the wrong to drum up ‘controversy’. (Worked for Peterson)
Shades of ‘monkey mind’: http://yokai.com/satori/
Band name of the day: telepathic impactive impingement
Shockwaves ep #119 has a great Song Exploder-style breakdown of the Ghostbusters theme song. Highly recommended.
Hellraiser, Bataille and Limit Experiences - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ge0P8z_q1M
Information Society “Beautiful World” Halloween visual Mix - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PdVW75kdJQ
Isn’t it great that outlook just prevents people from emailing jar files to each other? Like, it’s not as though people occasionally need to send each other internal proprietary jars that aren’t conveniently hosted.
Band name of the day: acceptable meat creaminess
Band name of the day: Porcine encephalon
Hot take: the existence of entrepreneurship is an argument against rational economic actors, because most new businesses fail & the primary factor in that failure is luck.
Popcorn Culture: Census Bloodbath http://jiffypopculture.blogspot.com/p/census-bloodbath.html
GitHub - opencog/link-grammar: The CMU Link Grammar natural language parser https://github.com/opencog/link-grammar
GitHub - ojahnn/NaNoLiPo2018: This is the repository for 2018’s collaborative NaNoLiPo project. https://github.com/ojahnn/NaNoLiPo2018
GitHub - ChrisKnott/Algojammer: An experimental code editor for writing algorithms https://github.com/ChrisKnott/Algojammer
Linus Torvalds Shows His New Polite Side While Pointing Out Bad Kernel Code - Phoronix https://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linus-Torvalds-New-Politeness
turtle.audio http://turtle.audio/
Better metaphors for community management than ‘social engineering’: ‘social gardening’, ‘social pickling’, ‘social brewing’, ‘social stewing’, ‘social mixtaping’
If Halloween 3 had been Halloween 2 (i.e., if Michael Meyers was a one-off & there was never the expectation set that he’d come back) we could have had a great yearly horror anthology series for the past 40 years.
“Mill vs. Spectre: Performance and Security” by Ivan Godard - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E4qs2irmpc
“The Hard Parts of Open Source” by Evan Czaplicki - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_4EX4dPppA
Q: Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajGX7odA87k
On Weaponised Design - Radical Networks - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG_z8jyREgk
Because of the use of ‘rune’ to refer to unicode codepoints in go, a fulthark transliteration program might have somewhat confusing source…
Lexical Scanning in Go - Rob Pike - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxaD_trXwRE
Is Panos Cosmatos a pen name? The guy who directed Beyond the Black Rainbow being literally named ‘space bread’ is a bit too perfect.
”“It’s Just Matrix Multiplication”: Notation for Weaving” by Lea Albaugh - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMOSiag3dxg
Dan Bentley on The Connection Machine [PWL NYC] - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD-UYbm8Ksg
Discussing Isekai, Part 1: Overlord, Isekai Maou, and Isekai Smartphone as Communicative Images - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMtHFGK0hm4
Witchcraft, Gender, & Marxism | Philosophy Tube - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmk47kh7fiE
Top 5 Anti-Capitalist Horror Movies – Halloween 2018 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByESrVvuWkc
Band name of the day: crew expendable
The Others: Why Women Are Shut Out of Horror https://longreads.com/2018/10/25/the-others-why-women-are-shut-out-of-horror/
Abstract Heresies: Not Lisp again…. https://funcall.blogspot.com/2009/03/not-lisp-again.html
The Monster Mash History: More Than a Graveyard Smash https://tedium.co/2018/10/25/monster-mash-history/
It really pisses me off when people use ‘infinite’ to mean ‘really big’. If something’s actually infinite, adding more to it produces the same number (like in Hilbert’s hotel)
An invitation to category theory - Chalkdust http://chalkdustmagazine.com/features/an-invitation-to-category-theory/
Bad idea of the day: a database of maps of conceptual spaces that are drawn like maps of physical spaces (ex., xkcd’s map of the internet & Knuppe’s map of the fields of mathematics)
Acting like a psychopath is great for male CEOs, not so much for women | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/10/acting-like-a-psychopath-is-great-for-male-ceos-not-so-much-for-women/
GNU Kind Communications Guidelines https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/kind-communication.html
The Giant Robot Series That’s a Civics Lesson in Disguise – VRV Blog https://vrvblog.co/spacetwinks/2463/patlabor-civics/
post-N235 Prolog prologue (Working draft) https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/ulrich/iso-prolog/prologue
Made from the Red Soil: Fantasies of Misery in Neon Genesis Evangelion – VRV Blog https://vrvblog.co/felker-martin/3178/made-from-the-red-soil-fantasies-of-misery-in-neon-genesis-evangelion/
“A Little Taste of Dependent Types” by David Christiansen - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxINoKFm-S4
ITT 2016 - Kevlin Henney - Seven Ineffective Coding Habits of Many Programmers - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsHMHukIlJY
Bad idea of the day: a self-adhesive battery-powered white noise generator & speaker, which can be affixed to the microphone on your laptop