Band name of the day: The Faceless
Band name of the day: a disco in hell
The Quietus | Features | A Quietus Interview | How Can I Light Myself On Fire To Get You To Listen? NIN Interviewed http://thequietus.com/articles/25050-nine-inch-nails-trent-reznor-interview-bad-witch
Who the heck decided that everybody who listens to podcasts is in the market for a new mattress?
Escaping the Default Future When Writing Science Fiction | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2018/08/16/escaping-the-default-future-when-writing-science-fiction/
The Secret Meanings Behind the Beasts in a Medieval Menagerie - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/medieval-bestiary-allegories
The Vintage Japanese Copy Machine Enjoying an Artistic Renaissance - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/risograph-machines
This is what filter bubbles actually look like - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611807/this-is-what-filter-bubbles-actually-look-like/
Mod and Remainder are not the Same – Rob Conery https://rob.conery.io/2018/08/21/mod-and-remainder-are-not-the-same/
Band name of the day: the potential carcasses
Hot take: when a type of work is no longer necessary, it becomes a hobby or luxury/artisinal work, & this is good for everybody involved.
- Int. Low & No Budget film-sharing Festival 2018 - FilmFreeway https://filmfreeway.com/film-sharing
Bad idea of the day: ‘twitch writes a novel’: the previous ~15 words are shown & the top ~20 next words based on a markov model of some corpus are voted on over a 2 minute period (going to the first item, if no votes are cast) until 50k words are written.
Recognition Models: Scale World War Miniatures Used to Tell Friends from Foes - 99% Invisible https://99percentinvisible.org/article/recognition-models-scale-world-war-miniatures-used-to-tell-friends-from-foes/
Bad idea of the day: disguise copies of bolo’bolo as constitution pamphlets
What algorithmic art can teach us about artificial intelligence - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/21/17761424/ai-algorithm-art-machine-vision-perception-tom-white-treachery-imagenet
Don’t Do This in Production · Stephen Mann https://stephenmann.io/post/dont-do-this-in-production/
Serial Box creates books for the age of Peak TV - Vox https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/8/6/16849756/serial-box-serialized-books-peak-tv
Stooge Story https://tedium.co/2018/08/21/three-stooges-history/
Band name of the day: the irreconcilable gap
The Problem With Anime Subtitles - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo4BrhIFcmo
Letting neural networks be weird — This AI is bad at drawing but will try anyways. http://aiweirdness.com/post/177091486527/this-ai-is-bad-at-drawing-but-will-try-anyways/amp
Bad idea of the day: Select a bunch of positions, and pay people on mechanical turk to identify the strongest arguments for & against that position they can think of.
Modern horror films are finding their scares in dead phone batteries - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/16/17675474/modern-horror-films-dead-cell-phone-trope-isolation
Karl Marx removes his gloves to reveal knuckle tattoos: THEORY on the left hand and PRAXIS on the right. He removes his shirt and two extra arms unfold from his back: THESIS on the left arm’s knuckles and ANTITHESIS on the right. ‘Time to synthesize’, he says.
On Not Being Able to Read https://longreads.com/2018/08/14/on-not-being-able-to-read/
Bad idea of the day: A movie podcast where the host double-features the Nth best-rated and Nth worst-rated movies on IMDB & compares them.
A comprehensive guide to yellow stripey things https://kottke.org/18/08/a-comprehensive-guide-to-yellow-stripey-things
Pop Songs Written by Native Speakers of Swedish https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/08/15/pop-songs-in-english-written-by-native-speakers-of-swedish/
Band name of the day: the unreal city
Band name of the day: nuclear battle mole
Odd Numbers “ Real Life http://reallifemag.com/odd-numbers/
Uncle Buddy’s Phantom Funhouse : John McDaid : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/unclebuddy
Russian Cosmism Versus Interstellar Bosses: Reclaiming Full-Throttle Luxury Space Communism - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/russian-cosmism-versus-interstellar-bosses-reclaiming-full-throttle-luxury-space-communism/
So, the Pseudomonarchia is like A Thing in anime, isn’t it… Using goetic demons as comic relief characters is something I see occasionally but it wasn’t until You’re Being Summoned, Azazel! that I realized that it wasn’t just like 3 guys doing it.
On Reading Hypertext : JMax : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/hypercard_on-reading-hypertext
Another way to talk about Maybe Logic re: map-territory confusion: a lot of people don’t put error bars on their imagination. So, they make a prediction, the universe says ‘nope’, and they’ve got no idea where to start debugging bc every inference looks equally strong
The human condition: weaker than a lever, dumber than a calculator, worse memory than a notebook, and less creative than a pair of dice
Translit is a little like bittorrent, if bittorrent used literally the same bytes for AMVs and trailers as for the corresponding scenes in the show/movie. Transcopyright is like assembling AMVs from your own DVD boxed set based on a list of instructions & leaving a gap if you’re missing a disk.
VLC logic: doubleclick toggles fullscreen but each single click in that double click still also toggles playback, so toggling fullscreen causes you play for 1/8 of a second
Take a look at pubsub on IPFS https://ipfs.io/blog/25-pubsub/
Hot take: stuff happens for a reason, but that reason is very often stupid. Before dismissing a thing, figure out the best possible reason for it & see if it’s stupid. Before defending a thing, ditto.
Band name of the day: naturally occurring-interaction of gears, levers, and pulleys
Dataspace 10: An Array Representation | Natepod http://natecull.org/wordpress/2018/08/16/dataspace-10-an-array-representation/
What’s On My Mind http://www.xanadu.com.au/ted/zigzag/xybrap.html
Hey guys any of you have an idea why the udev daemon is pinned slightly above 100% CPU like all the time now?
This is a very hot take and also not a new one but here we go: the goal of a properly functioning software engineer is to obviate themselves, not by solving the customer’s specific problems but by blurring the line between using a computer and programming one to the point where users can solve their own problems.
What Am I Worth to Advertisers? My Obsessive Quest to Put a Price on My Attention https://gizmodo.com/what-am-i-worth-to-advertisers-my-obsessive-quest-to-p-1828343202
Dataspace 9: A Tower of Nulls, And Awkward Sets | Natepod http://natecull.org/wordpress/2017/07/13/dataspace-9-a-tower-of-nulls-and-awkward-sets/
Dataspace 8: Example: Movie data | Natepod http://natecull.org/wordpress/2017/07/11/dataspace-8-example-movie-data/