Which Side Are They On? | David A. Banks https://thebaffler.com/latest/which-side-are-they-on-banks
Same Difference “ Real Life http://reallifemag.com/same-difference/
Slow movement (culture) - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_movement_(culture)
Censorship Project + A Brief History of Book Burning – Ex Urbe https://www.exurbe.com/censorship-project-a-brief-history-of-book-burning/
Band name of the day: rivers of pitch
Band name of the day: the monstrous burst
Maybe the difficulty in describing the hounds of tindalos is that all those sharp angles prevent them from being… differentiated. badum-tish
Band name of the day: the bottom of creation
Band name of the day: the lean and athirst
Common Cyborg | Jillian Weise | Granta https://granta.com/common-cyborg/
Announcing Hyperswarm https://pfrazee.hashbase.io/blog/hyperswarm
miniKanren: an interactive Tutorial http://io.livecode.ch/learn/webyrd/webmk
The design and implementation of modern column-oriented database systems | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/09/26/the-design-and-implementation-of-modern-column-oriented-database-systems/
Why targeted Facebook ads are so weirdly personal - Vox https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/9/25/17887796/facebook-ad-targeted-algorithm
The Problem With APLs • Hillel Wayne https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/the-problem-with-apls/
OPENSTEP Installation Guide http://openstep.bfx.re/
TextWorld (Inform 7 & machine learning) | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2018/09/25/textworld-inform-7-machine-learning/
LOW←TECH MAGAZINE https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/09/how-to-build-a-lowtech-website/
Band name of the day: pure duration
Band name of the day: the deadly silences
Band name of the day: dead instrument
They used Saint Pepsi as hold music, not Macintosh Plus. No one noticed.
Band name of the day: london after midnight
Hot take: only buy video games made by personal friends.
With his new all-red-meat diet, Jordan Peterson can no longer consume the flesh of the lobster and thus, by showing his dominance over it, gain its immortality.
Computers can solve your problem. You may not like the answer. - The Boston Globe https://apps.bostonglobe.com/ideas/graphics/2018/09/equity-machine/
The Great Mortality “ Real Life http://reallifemag.com/the-great-mortality/
Moderan reads like if dril was a battle-cyborg & tried to write his autobiography but kept on getting distracted by how COOL it is to PLASTIC-WRAP THE EARTH.
Neoliberalism, World Music and Corporate Aesthetics - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sCRcfYRslg
PARALLEL HISTORY! (A text in Japanese.) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDD3amMV25g
Why the high-tech ideas of ‘Bucky’ Fuller are back in vogue | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/why-the-high-tech-ideas-of-bucky-fuller-are-back-in-vogue
Why does keeping a bird in a cage make people happy? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/why-does-keeping-a-bird-in-a-cage-make-people-happy
Think Entangled, Act Spooky https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/09/11/think-entangled-act-spooky/
A Response to Yuval Harari’s ‘Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind’ > C. R. Hallpike https://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm?sec_id=189085
The Scent of Bad Psychology – Put A Number On It! https://putanumonit.com/2018/09/07/the-scent-of-bad-psychology/
Dodo Thoughts https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/09/20/dodo-thoughts/
Gutenberg:The History and Philosophy of Project Gutenberg by Michael Hart - Gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:The_History_and_Philosophy_of_Project_Gutenberg_by_Michael_Hart
The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-deliberate-awfulness-of-social-media
Band name of the day: extremely normal website
Making bad puns and then learning hidden truths by taking them too seriously is, basically, the most human form of human intelligence. That’s why we make fun of people for doing it. Dad jokes are the foundation of cognition.
Hot take: disambiguation in symbolic AI is probably a mistake, & we’d be better off with systems that pun uncontrollably because they operate on the locus of concepts rather than on their boundaries. You know, like a person.
Does philosophy still need mathematics and vice versa? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/does-philosophy-still-need-mathematics-and-vice-versa
Robert Venturi and Learning From Las Vegas: his legacy. https://slate.com/business/2018/09/robert-venturi-architect-las-vegas-lessons-obituary.html
Do my Homework - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/09/do-my-homework.html
Can somebody with access to SciAm or Nature summarize the substance of this SciAm article ‘Subliminal Messages Can Cause Forgetting’ for me? Is it just something stupid like ‘priming can interfere with reencoding via jamais-vu’?
OLIVE: a system for emulating old OSes on old processors that saves old data from extinction / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/09/22/preserving-digital-heritage.html
Concurrent and Distributed Programming in Web Prolog https://bluishcoder.co.nz/2018/09/24/concurrent-and-distributed-programming-in-web-prolog.html
GUIdebook > Articles > “Inventing the Lisa User Interface” https://guidebookgallery.org/articles/inventingthelisauserinterface
How to Suffer Well: Sympathetic Characterization in Madoka and Magical Girl Site - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kmaba2TopE