Scammers Are Uploading Tutorials on How to Fool Facebook with a False ID - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/53d5gk/scammers-are-uploading-tutorials-on-how-to-fool-facebook-with-a-false-id

Cyberpunk: The Future That Was - Chapter One | Eruditorum Press on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/posts/cyberpunk-future-22210879

Band name of the day: a long strange way home

Band name of the day: hope fading nightly

The Japanese Cult Producing 20+ Years Of Anime - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6tS14HFsmA

“Puzzles, Problems, and Programs” by Chris Martens - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT0r6-B5YHA

Is there already a term for going into a piece of media with the expectation that it won’t be a waste of time / there’s something to be gained by paying attention & thinking? (Like ‘good-faith viewership’?)

Meaning Alchemy - Jason Grinblat [PROCJAM 2018] - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvVx0l1gepM

Tarot Based Narrative Generation - Anne Sullivan [PROCJAM 2018] - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1D-r5TF36A

Bad idea of the day: The Same Oblique Strategy Card Every Day. (‘repetition is a form of change’, obv.)

“The Glitching Hour” by Amy Wibowo - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HoMsbxY9zA

Hot take: if you can ‘vote with your wallet’ that means you live in an aristocratic oligarchy, because some people inherit large numbers of extra votes & other people start out with negative votes.

“You are a Program Synthesizer” by James Koppel - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldkF-4WNZqA

“Shaping our children’s education in computing” by Simon Peyton Jones - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-xgWLYQc4g

AI and the Trolley Problem | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2018/10/17/ai-and-the-trolley-problem-pat-cadigan/

Is there a good spotify playlist of novelty covers? (By which I mean: covers of songs that diverge substantially in style from the original, not covers of novelty songs)

THE MEDIA BUSINESS: Encountering The Digital Age – An occasional look at computers in everday life.; Potboiler Springs From Computer’s Loins - The New Yor… https://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/02/us/media-business-encountering-digital-age-occasional-look-computers-everday-life.html

Enjoying High-Res Graphics on a Text-Only TRS-80 Model 4 from 1983 | Byte Cellar http://www.bytecellar.com/2018/10/17/enjoying-high-res-graphics-on-a-text-only-trs-80-model-4-from-1983/

Band name of the day: fish bulletin

Robin “Sourdough” Sloan is using a machine-learning autocomplete system to write his next novel / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/10/19/t9-for-auteurs.html

The only thing scarier than the first 90% is the last 90%

twitch plays gnomic

twitch plays the glass bead game

Band name of the day: meat vision & jacked

Band name of the day: gatorvision

Bad idea of the day: twitch plays strip poker

Bad idea of the day: twitch plays cards against humanity

Bad idea of the day: twitch plays exquisite corpse

DisneyQuest is dead, and Disney’s VR experiments are gone with it - Polygon https://www.polygon.com/features/2018/10/18/17888722/disneyquest-disney-vr-closed

What It Takes to Build an Anarchist Desert Town - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/slab-city-library-photos

Letting neural networks be weird • Neural Horror Picture Show http://aiweirdness.com/post/179211399427/neural-horror-picture-show

Band name of the day: honey & darkness

Band name of the day: passion owl

Band name of the day: the haunting of flesh show

Falsehoods Programmers Believe about Garbage Collection — Paul Bone http://paul.bone.id.au/2018/10/19/gc-falsehoods/

Staple History: Maybe Royalty Wasn’t Involved https://tedium.co/2018/10/18/stapler-history-office-supplies/

CEOs should have been the fall guys; why are they still heroes? | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/ceos-should-have-been-the-fall-guys-why-are-they-still-heroes

It’s a crime that Stephen King has a band & it’s not called Richard Bachman Turner Overdrive

This Old Lisp http://thisoldlisp.com/talks/els-2018/

Bad idea of the day: an extension that replaces ‘OK’ on every button with ‘Dolt’, like God & the original Macintosh UI team intended

Calculus Made Easy http://calculusmadeeasy.org/

Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House Finds the Beating Heart of Shirley Jackson’s Tale | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2018/10/16/netflixs-the-haunting-of-hill-house-finds-the-beating-heart-of-shirley-jacksons-tale/

Fromage Fort Is an Amazing Spread Made From Cheese Plate Scraps https://skillet.lifehacker.com/fromage-fort-is-an-amazing-spread-made-from-cheese-plat-1821052207

Why Caffeine Pills Are Better Than Coffee https://lifehacker.com/in-defense-of-caffeine-pills-1828501954

Rockstar developers speak out about “100-hour weeks” comment | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/10/red-dead-redemption-2-devs-say-quoted-100-hour-weeks-arent-the-norm/

Cops Are Set Up to Be Dangerously Bad Shots - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/cops-are-set-up-to-be-dangerously-bad-shots

Do you (mis)remember modern rock and roll radio? http://www.its-her-factory.com/2018/10/do-you-misremember-modern-rock-and-roll-radio/

The Quietus | Opinion | The Quietus Essay | Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Musical Challenges to Copyright(ed) Culture http://thequietus.com/articles/25494-music-copyright-jamaica-dub

Band name of the day: necrocracy

Bad idea of the day: serious & well-researched answers to stupid questions, as a podcast