Fate/Extra? More like, What? You Thought Fate Was Already / Extra

Interview with Fred Turner https://032c.com/fred-turner-silicon-valley-thinks-politics-doesnt-exist

Cool, There’s Water on Mars. But Does It Make Good Pickles? - Gastro Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mars-pickles

“In the World of Film, We’ve Edited out All Rebellion” https://jacobinmag.com/2018/08/sorry-to-bother-you-boots-riley-interview

The internet fuels conspiracy theories “ but not in the way you might imagine https://theconversation.com/amp/the-internet-fuels-conspiracy-theories-but-not-in-the-way-you-might-imagine-98037

Teenager Finds Classical Alternative to Quantum Recommendation Algorithm | Quanta Magazine https://www.quantamagazine.org/teenager-finds-classical-alternative-to-quantum-recommendation-algorithm-20180731/

Sound Design: How Movie-Makers Create The Sound of Violence https://tedium.co/2018/07/31/indiana-jones-sound-design-history/

Disposable Ballpoint Pen History: Pennies on the Dollar https://tedium.co/2018/08/02/disposable-ballpoint-pen-history/

Espionage and the western occult tradition have a LOT of overlap so it’d be a little weird if there weren’t controls & contacts that were practicing mages.

Greenfield maintains the MIB are just really good practicioners of enochian magick. We know from Lachman that sometimes secret chiefs have been enemy spies & occultists ‘useful idiots’ like Bennowitz. What if both?

hey kid wanna buy an infohazard

Feel Good Inc but every word is reversed, yet the melody is still the same - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi5-yi-q2Cs

Band name of the day: harmonious grays

Welcome to SICP Distilled http://www.sicpdistilled.com/

Forget Nick Land; Rigorous Intuition is still my favorite infohazard

Meet the Semionauts – HILOBROW http://hilobrow.com/2010/11/03/meet-the-semionauts/

Band name of the day: carceral archipelago

mnot’s blog: How to Read an RFC https://www.mnot.net/blog/2018/07/31/read_rfc

Video: Grand Central’s Hidden Sub-Basement Has A 102-Year-Old Computer: Gothamist http://gothamist.com/2015/10/15/grand_central_computer_video.php

Mouth Analysis: The Surprising Way Neil Cicierega Navigates Culture - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D-iWeD4SVM

Push Meme To The Edge; All My Faves Are Dead - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G51D51f_WPo

Xanadu Basics 3 - Browser Law - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV_vYkSmkxk

My Hero Academia & The Quest For the Perfect Shounen Anime - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAV1uv3lPBQ

Bad idea of the day: a foot pedal for bold and a second foot pedal for italic

Information Civics https://infocivics.com/

Different Worlds | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/02/different-worlds/

Reality Apathy is like Reality Winner’s depressing mirror-universe counterpart

Band name of the day: condemned to hope forever

Band name of the day: the spirit of gain

The Black Iron Prison – HILOBROW http://hilobrow.com/2011/07/13/the-black-iron-prison/

The slacktivism of Richard Linklater. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/summer_movies/2006/06/watching_the_detectives.html

Band name of the day: Callisto cuddle sponge

Band name of the day: A Romance of Entropy

Band name of the day: the disaster that everted

Band name of the day: the Forgotten Works

New Wave Sci-Fi: 75 Best Novels of 1964”1983 – HILOBROW https://hilobrow.com/new-wave-sci-fi/

Hot take: cybernetics is an extremely powerful model if you understand the feedback mechanisms in place & game theory is an extremely powerful model if you understand the incentives, but you don’t, so be careful & check your work

Donald Glover’s ‘Community’ Exit And The Evolution Of The End Tags https://uproxx.com/tv/donald-glover-end-tags-giant-hand-dan-harmon/

It seems like every time I reboot, Ubuntu manages to forget about another piece of hardware I have. First it was the USB controller, then the wifi (still not fixed), and now it’s my sound card.

Slack as group mind https://abe-winter.github.io/2018/07/31/group-mind.html

Prospecting for Hash Functions « null program https://nullprogram.com/blog/2018/07/31/

Just Randomness? “ Real Life http://reallifemag.com/just-randomness/

Hot take: in a system where both success and failure compound themselves & affect later likelihood of success & failure respectively, even extreme outcome variation is best explained by random fluctuations early in the process

Bo Burnham and the Illusion of Meritocracy - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus http://nautil.us/blog/bo-burnham-and-the-illusion-of-meritocracy

Why Hostility Can Bring People Closer Together - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-hostility-can-bring-people-closer-together/

Ready Player One is the roadmap to digital dystopia - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/19/17250892/ready-player-one-book-facebook-internet-dystopia

The Bullshit Web — Pixel Envy https://pxlnv.com/blog/bullshit-web/

The Environment is Not a System | a peer-reviewed journal about_ http://www.aprja.net/the-environment-is-not-a-system/

Bad idea of the day: pay a million-account botnet to all change their display names to Elon Musk simultaneously

Ringer Top 100 TV Episodes: When Do TV Shows Peak? - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/7/31/17628494/when-do-tv-shows-peak