The interesting ideas in Datasette https://simonwillison.net/2018/Oct/4/datasette-ideas/

Band name of the day: kill ziggy

If imports from China suddenly dropped substantially (say, due to tariffs), would enough manufacturing business go back to S. Korea & Japan to affect Japan’s almost-30-year economic stagnation?

Band name of the day: penumbras of emanation

GitHub - aparrish/seaduck: A bare-bones simulation-driven narrative framework https://github.com/aparrish/seaduck

Crispin’s Model | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2017/10/04/crispins-model/

You guys think the halloween store across the street will have metal teeth?

Inspired by ‘They Live,’ these glasses block screens / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/10/03/inspired-by-they-live-the.html

Google 20th Anniversary: How Information Changed Forever https://tedium.co/2018/10/02/google-20th-anniversary-culture-importance/

In the grim dark future of 2019, the president forwards all his tweets through the Wireless Emergency Alert System. While some have moved to small communes surrounded by mountains, increasingly journalists have been puncturing their eardrums with sharp objects.

No Cash Needed At This Cafe. Students Pay The Tab With Their Personal Data : The Salt : NPR https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/09/29/643386327/no-cash-needed-at-this-cafe-students-pay-the-tab-with-their-personal-data

Bad idea of the day: a machine that uses oscillators to manufacture high-quality sand

Band name of the day: iconic meat factory

Band name of the day: spiritual insulation from the Outer Monstrosities

Botnik feat. The Strokes - I Don’t Want To Be There - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07dUOrktTQ4

Band name of the day: aggressively punctuated

Bad idea of the day: inform7 repl as command shell

Inform: Past, Present, Future http://www.emshort.com/ifmu/inform.html

Can an AI Write a Novel? - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/automated-on-the-road/571345/

This recipe for 3-ingredient carnitas makes taco night easy https://thetakeout.com/recipe-3-ingredient-carnitas-1828956318

Bad idea of the day: surreal and disturbing powerpoint presentations as public performance art

on terminal control http://xn–rpa.cc/essays/term

Psychologists Shouldn’t Cite That Famous Hungry Judge Study http://nautil.us/blog/impossibly-hungry-judges

Band name of the day: moth drinking tears of a sleeping bird

How the English Failed to Stamp Out the Scots Language - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/scots-language

BadCode.rocks https://badcode.rocks/

Letting neural networks be weird • Imaginary worlds dreamed by BigGAN http://aiweirdness.com/post/178619746932/imaginary-worlds-dreamed-by-biggan

Building the Universal Archive of Source Code | October 2018 | Communications of the ACM https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/10/231366-building-the-universal-archive-of-source-code/fulltext

start [Chaosnet wiki] https://aosnet.ch/

A Short History of Chaosnet https://twobithistory.org/2018/09/30/chaosnet.html

Scale Modeling History: After the Postwar Boom in Tiny Designs https://tedium.co/2018/09/27/scale-model-hobby-history/

Colour Clash: The Engineering Miracle of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/2018/09/29/loading-ready-run-sinclair-edition-the-zx-spectrum/

Band name of the day: the uncorrelated targets

RE: Software disenchantment - Rakhim.org https://rakhim.org/2018/09/re-software-disenchantment/

Software disenchantment @ tonsky.me http://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/

Dril’s book of tweets shows he’s the best chronicler of the internet - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/27/17907568/dril-book-official-mr-ten-years-anniversary-collection-review-tweets-twitter

Meet the Community Keeping Obsolete Supercomputers Alive - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qvajn7/meet-the-community-keeping-obsolete-supercomputers-alive

Dave Rubin and the rise of YouTube’s reactionary right - Vox https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/9/24/17883330/dave-rubin-ben-shapiro-youtube-reactionary-right-peterson

How to tell the difference between persuasion and manipulation | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/how-to-tell-the-difference-between-persuasion-and-manipulation

My career as an international blood smuggler | Society | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/sep/27/my-career-as-an-international-blood-smuggler

Band name of the day: imported blood products

Regarding Theory as Technology - Cyborgology https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2018/09/17/regarding-theory-as-technology/

Toward a Critical Technical Practice https://web.archive.org/web/20051221192206/http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/critical.html

Instagram’s in love with bare-faced brutalism “ and so am I | Steve Rose | Opinion | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/25/instagram-love-brutalist-stark-architecture

Band name of the day: xtreme witchcraft

Readme Driven Development http://tom.preston-werner.com/2010/08/23/readme-driven-development.html

GitHub - minexew/Shrine: A TempleOS distro for heretics https://github.com/minexew/Shrine

Recreational Programming With LoseThos http://www.osnews.com/story/23796/Recreational_Programming_With_LoseThos

TempleOS: an educational tool for programming experiments - TechRepublic https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/software-engineer/templeos-an-educational-tool-for-programming-experiments/

The Socialist YouTuber Using Cities: Skylines To Explain Politics https://kotaku.com/the-socialist-youtuber-using-cities-skylines-to-explai-1829245653