Edward Snowden Reconsidered | by Tamsin Shaw | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/09/13/edward-snowden-reconsidered/

Reality TV: Anatomy of a Genre | Video Essay - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS90rgLsb24

“Running With Scissors: Live Coding With Data” by Stuart Halloway - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx0-pViyIDU

Band name of the day: radical doubt

Yossi Appleboum Disagrees with How Bloomberg is Positioning His Research Against Supermicro https://www.servethehome.com/yossi-appleboum-disagrees-bloomberg-is-positioning-his-research-against-supermicro/

The Other Secret Twist: On the Political Philosophy of The Good Place - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/secret-twist-political-philosophy-good-place/

Bad idea of the day: turn music into text by substituting note frequency with word frequency

Scientific Research Into Pair Programming https://tuple.app/pair-programming-guide/scientific-research-into-pair-programming

Hot take: weasel words are not a form of obfuscation but a signal about confidence level. Misrepresenting your level of confidence in a proposition is tantamount to lying.

Band name of the day: baltic sea anomaly

Bad idea of the day: A video game adaptation of Lethem’s Gun With Occasional Music in the style of the Monkey Island series, with a mechanic involving mixing custom blends of forgetol/regretol/etc & replacing people’s stashes with them.

A house is a machine for living in, & a haunted house (after Jackson) is a machine for dreaming in. Hill House is architectural LSD: it reflects psychic energy inward, causing people to haunt themselves.

How Does a Film Become Lost? https://tedium.co/2018/10/11/lost-and-found-film-history/

Intro to Generative Art - DEV Community ‘‍”‍’ https://dev.to/aspittel/intro-to-generative-art-2hi7

Supermicro boards were so bug ridden, why would hackers ever need implants? | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/10/supermicro-boards-were-so-bug-ridden-why-would-hackers-ever-need-implants/

“Towards Language Support for Distributed Systems” by Heather Miller - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeBbiQZYmuY

“Generating Music From Emotion (and other experiments)” by Hannah Davis - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpiN2DZxU_4

Halloween III is the best Halloween movie. fite me

Postmodernism is not identity politics - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26fIBA7O5Ag

prim9 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7XoW2qiFUA

Dotted Canonical S-expressions - DCSexps · GitHub https://gist.github.com/rain-1/a253e47b939fc0769524d8716541c96e

Preliminary Poetics of Procedural Generation in Games by @ikarth http://www.digra.org/wp-content/uploads/digital-library/DIGRA_2018_paper_166.pdf

A Python Script that Writes 800-page Children’s Books – Zach Whalen http://www.zachwhalen.net/posts/a-python-script-that-writes-800-page-childrens-books/

Emic Automata & Thematic Automata | maetl https://maetl.net/notes/storyboard/generative-writing-with-cellular-automata

Computers Reading Computers’ Writing http://zachwhalen.net/pg/pres/elo18/

Seminars on Long-Term Thinking are hit-or-miss (like TED talks) but the latest with Julia Galef is pretty good.

Bad idea of the day: a d20 where every face is labeled 1

Band name of the day: how to deter bears

What’s a CPU to do when it has nothing to do? [LWN.net] https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/767630/594421f913c3d00a/

Band name of the day: crepuscular forces

Supporting Fast Payments for All “ and Economic Freedom | MetaFilter https://www.metafilter.com/176954/supporting-fast-payments-for-all-and-economic-freedom

Band name of the day: we are the asteroid

Announcing a Competition for Ethics in Computer Science, with up to $3.5 Million in Prizes - The Mozilla Blog https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/10/10/announcing-a-competition-for-ethics-in-computer-science-with-up-to-3-5-million-in-prizes/

Protobuffers Are Wrong :: Reasonably Polymorphic http://reasonablypolymorphic.com/blog/protos-are-wrong/index.html

GitHub - jimkang/random-internet-archive: Gets a random Internet Archive resource, in URL form with some metadata. https://github.com/jimkang/random-internet-archive

You Get What You Give: Why the New Radicals Broke Up https://tedium.co/2018/10/09/new-radicals-gregg-alexander-history/

Mary Shelley’s Obsession with the Cemetery | JSTOR Daily https://daily.jstor.org/mary-shelleys-obsession-with-the-cemetery/

Andrew W.K.: Investigating The Mystery Of Steev Mike - Stereogum https://www.stereogum.com/2015589/andrew-wk-steev-mike/franchises/sounding-board/

Sorry, but we can’t fantasize our way out of this mess https://amp.fastcompany.com/90247038/sorry-but-we-cant-fantasize-our-way-out-of-this-mess

Band name of the day: lush rot

Band name of the day: body genres

Bad idea of the day: a bot that posts random joke punchlines but not the actual joke

Cheezball Rising: Opening a dialogue / fuzzy notepad https://eev.ee/blog/2018/10/09/cheezball-rising-opening-a-dialogue/

GitHub - mit-pdos/biscuit: Biscuit research OS https://github.com/mit-pdos/biscuit

Band name of the day: the pyrotechnics of a new autumn

Hey what’s the likelyhood that the world we live in now is a punishment from the Basilisk?

Apparently hot take: automation tools don’t obviate abstract discussions about how best to think about decisions (like ‘should translations be precise or should they be accurate’ or ‘what is the good’) but make them more important.

Do people sell Superman t-shirts with the integral symbol in the place of the S?

Programming as interaction: A new perspective for programming language research - Tomas Petricek http://tomasp.net/blog/2018/programming-interaction/

You’d think that somebody writing for NME would know that ‘Daddy’s Car’ isn’t the first AI-written song. (Even if the earliest example they can think of is from Songsmith & they don’t recognize that Bach was doing generative music.)