Why Read the Classics? | by Italo Calvino | The New York Review of Books https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1986/10/09/why-read-the-classics/

On Emergent Centralization · Field Notes https://fieldnotes.resistant.tech/defensive-decentralization/

Unlimited Dream Country “ a review of Applied Ballardianism: Memoir from a Parallel Universe by Simon Sellars … https://minorliteratures.com/2018/06/20/unlimited-dream-country-a-review-of-applied-ballardianismmemoir-from-a-parallel-universe-by-simon-sellars-brendan-gillott/

Mastodon and the challenges of abuse in a federated system | Read the Tea Leaves https://nolanlawson.com/2018/08/31/mastodon-and-the-challenges-of-abuse-in-a-federated-system/

Why Is American Mass Transit So Bad? It’s a Long Story. - CityLab https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/08/how-america-killed-transit/568825/

A Constructive Look At TempleOS http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/a-constructive-look-at-templeos/

How to teach yourself hard things - Julia Evans https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/09/01/learning-skills-you-can-practice/

Learning BASIC Like It’s 1983 https://twobithistory.org/2018/09/02/learning-basic.html

Bad idea of the day: a sanrio-branded sentient shoelace character who is nervous about fraying named Aglets-ko

In case you were wondering, indeed, Female Prisoner Scorpion is a MUCH better movie than the title makes it sound like. (It is exploitation, but it is ALSO surreal impressionistic gothic horror. Also, every frame of this damn movie is gorgeous.)

The best vampire movies either make you ask ‘is this about vampires’ (Baba Yaga, Blood and Roses) or make you say ‘god damn this is super about vampires’ (Drink the Blood of Dracula, Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter D)

Bad idea of the day: The HOWLing: angel-headed hipsters fight werewolves whose blood is running money and whose mind is vast machinery

We live in a world where both Guy Madden’s The Heart of the World & Matmos’s Ultimate Care II exist, and that has to count for something.

Bad idea of the day: Phibes recut as a silent film

Bad idea of the day: a retelling of Dracula where Van Hellsing and Renfield are merged into the same character

Band name of the day: betrothed by a scream

Bad idea of the day: Batman (1968) vs Doctor Phibes: two rich geniuses who love gadgets and labelling things fight each other in an art-deco city with a comically incompetent police force

Haunted by a phantom timeline - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNHW4_R_xI8

Bad idea of the day: replace every word in a book with a sentence in another book that is an anagram of the NATO word-spelling of it

Bad idea of the day: replace every sentence in some book with a sentence from a different gutenberg book that is an anagram of it

Beheadings as honest communication devices – International Cognition and Culture Institute http://cognitionandculture.net/blog/radu-umbres-blog/beheadings-as-honest-communication-devices

The Secret London Exhibition for Spies’ Eyes Only - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/exhibit-for-spies-at-natural-history-museum-london

Clip Art History https://tedium.co/2018/08/30/clip-art-history/

Simplicity or style: what makes a sentence a masterpiece? | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/simplicity-or-style-what-makes-a-sentence-a-masterpiece

Zero-copy deserialization in Julia http://scattered-thoughts.net/blog/2018/08/28/zero-copy-deserialization-in-julia/

Little Languages http://staff.um.edu.mt/afra1/seminar/little-languages.pdf

Improving the Discussion Board - Lehigh University https://www.lehigh.edu/~indiscus/doc_guidelines.html

Band name of the day: the ass antlers

Hot take: anything with more than 200 people in it is necessarily too diverse and internally schismatic to be called a ‘community’ – if it has shared norms, it’s at best a ‘subculture’, & if those norms are being imposed by a corporation, it’s not even that.

QOTD: ‘Deny what you know in your bones and instill a new law of reality in them’

Socially Conscious Sci-Fi | The Smart Set https://thesmartset.com/socially-conscious-sci-fi/

Could Patreon Be “Better For The Industry” Than Crunchyroll? - Answerman - Anime News Network https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/answerman/2018-08-29/.136030

“Open” everything, and minimal financial needs: Wikipedia’s strengths https://medium.com/wiki-strategies/platform2-def60ce63a3a

How Wikipedia dodged public outcry plaguing social media platforms https://medium.com/wiki-strategies/platform-a3b8c3ce901e

Hereditary (but it’s Paddington) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20AFSVC0_LQ

Damn Cool Algorithms: Levenshtein Automata - Nick’s Blog http://blog.notdot.net/2010/07/Damn-Cool-Algorithms-Levenshtein-Automata

My hobby: Troll hugging. - 鳳 http://pugs.blogs.com/audrey/2009/08/my-hobby-troll-hugging.html

Translating HyperTalk to JavaScript http://lexnet.bravepages.com/HTMLJS.htm

C considered dangerous [LWN.net] https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/763641/c9a04da2a33af0a3/

Band name of the day: hot sleep

Band name of the day: the desperate orgies

Band name of the day: dream loss bureau

Bursting stovepipes creates an intellectual explosion, but it’s short-lived. You don’t get scenius without tribes, but you also don’t get it without potlatches. The periodic nature of the potlatch is necessary, & so is the discarding of material work.

The thing about cultural niches is that they are created by and for ‘mass media’ as a novelty… https://medium.com/@/the-thing-about-cultural-niches-is-that-they-are-created-by-and-for-mass-media-as-a-novelty-4e5853196ee3

My feed will be deader than usual for a while so I’m going to be automatically posting a medium story I clapped for every 4 hours. Set your filters accordingly.

Brandon Invergo - Anti-Web-Design Manifesto http://brandon.invergo.net/news/2013-03-10-Anti-web-design-Manifesto.html

Dr. Edward Morbius ⭕: “Agency, its lack, or what is often a sense of fal…” - mastodon.cloud https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/100629636975889255

Bad idea of the day: an anki deck of oblique strategies

Bad idea of the day: using spaced repetition software to remind yourself to meditate on open questions

Bad idea of the day: Expand citizenship: you are automatically a citizen of a state if you were born there, if either parent is from there, if you have lived there for more than 6 months, or if you own or rent any land there.