Where Vim Came From https://twobithistory.org/2018/08/05/where-vim-came-from.html

Notes from Dynamicland: Geokit https://rsnous.com/posts/notes-from-dynamicland-geokit/

Center for a Stateless Society » Long Live Anarchy: An Interview With Robert Anton Wilson (Part 2) https://c4ss.org/content/46540

Center for a Stateless Society » Long Live Anarchy: An Interview with Robert Anton Wilson (Part 1) https://c4ss.org/content/46524

An Interactive Introduction to Attractor Landscapes https://ncase.me/attractors/

If you need stock background footage of nukes, you could do worse than https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvGO_dWo8VfcmG166wKRy5z-GlJ_OQND5 which I think are probably public domain since they’re government-recorded

Band name of the day: the most powerful living cat

Let Me Tell You - Uncanny Magazine https://uncannymagazine.com/article/let-me-tell-you/

It’s not just that press coverage of things you already know about is bad. You only notice it when you know more about it than the journalist – who is a professional outsider. Question is: when the author knows slightly more than you do, would you like them to dive deeper?

Band name of the day: the century of the exploding everything

Pet peeve: the 6+ news outlets that titled their coverage of OXU in 2014 as ‘Software project gets release after 54 years’ as though there wasn’t a release in 1999, another in 2007, one in 2014, and one in 2016 (and this is just the translit & just the stuff you can download now)

The thing that worries me about MovieBob’s ‘man thought’ pilot is that up until the last few minutes poe’s law is in effect way too much and it’s just indistinguishable from the shit he’s making fun of

If I ever make a horror move, its tagline will be ‘All the gore, none of the plot’ even if it has a plot.

Twitter’s new developer guidelines might end fun bot accounts. https://slate.com/technology/2018/08/twitters-new-developer-guidelines-might-end-fun-bot-accounts.html

CASTLE FREAK - Remote Residency for Generative Literature | inside the castle http://www.insidethecastle.org/castle-freak/

How to make your own Xanadu demo · GitHub https://gist.github.com/ldodds/a7f901c7f0118e83a645

mods are a sleep and you know what that means: exactly one (1) sleep

Hot take: the existence of garden path sentences tells us that: 1) language isn’t so much a representation of meaning as a way of representing constraints for possible intepretation, and 2) we start processing before all the constraints have arrived

What’s On My Mind http://www.xanadu.com.au/ted/zigzag/xybrap.html

Why an interface with only one implementation? https://www.tedinski.com/2018/07/31/interfaces-cutting-dependencies.html

NetZero, Juno: How Free Dial-Up Defined the Early Internet https://tedium.co/2018/08/07/juno-netzero-free-dialup-internet-history/

Sublime Pulp: An Interview with Illustrator Les Edwards https://wearethemutants.com/2016/10/31/sublime-pulp-an-interview-with-illustrator-les-edwards/

The Crack Squad of Librarians Who Track Down Half-Forgotten Books - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/librarian-detectives-forgotten-books

Beckett “ Videogame as Literary Artefact - 3:AM Magazine https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/beckett-videogame-as-literary-artefact/

STEAL THIS SNOWCLONE

How long until somebody starts mining this for lawsuits? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17692005

Band name of the day: duck the momentum

Halloween Special: C. G. Jung’s Spine-Chilling Nights in a ‘Haunted House’ | Forbidden Histories http://www.forbiddenhistories.com/c-g-jung-haunted-house/

Band name of the day: an invitation to bad ideas

How many hackerspaces are selling hats that say ‘MAKE AGAIN’ & thinking they’re clever and the only ones who came up with it?

303 See Other https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05773-y

Forget prophecy: the I Ching is an uncertainty machine | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/forget-prophecy-the-i-ching-is-an-uncertainty-machine

Meet Sphinx: The 30-Year-Old Soviet Smart Home Concept - Soviet Visuals http://sovietvisuals.com/sphinx-soviet-smart-home-concept/

Decentralising the web: Maintaining the momentum https://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/3036546/decentralising-the-web-maintaining-the-momentum

A Couple of Meta-interpreters in Prolog https://www.metalevel.at/acomip/

It‘s Looking Extremely Likely That QAnon Is A Leftist Prank On Trump Supporters https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/its-looking-extremely-likely-that-qanon-is-probably-a

Haskell Works Blog - Introduction to the rank-select bit-string https://haskell-works.github.io/posts/2018-08-01-introduction-to-rank-select-bit-string.html

So you bought a ghost town | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/5605/ghost-town-owners-12-million

Japanese ghost stories dwell in the spirit of their times | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/japanese-ghost-stories-dwell-in-the-spirit-of-their-times

Freeing the Web from the Browser | reinterpretcast.com https://www.reinterpretcast.com/open-hypermedia

Shuffling algorithms and randomization to improve algorithm‘s runtime. - DEV Community ‘‍”‍’ https://dev.to/s_awdesh/everyday-im-shuffling-im-a-card–fire-1f8b

The Victorian Occultist Accused of Killing Men With Her Mind - Broadly https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/mbp7pb/the-victorian-occultist-accused-of-killing-men-with-her-mind

Reasons to shave your head #89492685203: you can obtain a cheesy 70s wig and a knife, and reenact scenes from Blue Sunshine in public

Art by Subtraction. Eat, Consume and Devour: An Essay on How & Why I Wrote Lonely Men Club http://thefanzine.com/art-by-subtraction-eat-consume-and-devour-an-essay-on-how-why-i-wrote-lonely-men-club/

‘Both sides’ implies there are only two sides. There are never only two sides.

Letting neural networks be weird • The first line of a novel, by an improved neural… http://aiweirdness.com/post/168051907512/the-first-line-of-a-novel-by-an-improved-neural

You👏Don’t👏Need👏To👏Avoid👏Repetition👏If👏You👏Can👏Justify👏It👏As👏A👏Rhetorical👏Device👏 #botally #nanogenmo

Episode 1: A Nothing Place by James Ryan | Free Listening on SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/james-ryan-887346009/episode-1-a-nothing-place

Campus free speech problem: left-wingers being fired for their opinions - Vox https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/policy-and-politics/2018/8/3/17644180/political-correctness-free-speech-liberal-data-georgetown

Fate/I Got News For You Bub: We’re Gonna Get A Lot More Extra In Here Starting Now