story idea: a fringe political party backed by organized crime controls a network of seemingly-independent roadside palmistry shops & new-age stores – organizing fortunes & stocking books in a plan to manipulate voters

story idea: after computing the cenusus, an unexpected conclusion – about 10% of the population is gone, with no explanation

Band name of the day: the psychic-industrial complex

The Practice of Change - Joi Ito Home https://joi.ito.com/the-practice-of-change.html

Hot take: really strongly associating anime with japanese-ness is weird in the same way as immediately associating westerns with italian-ness, & marks casuals/outsiders to fandom. It’s a syncretic medium with a hotbed in japan.

An Anarchist Critique of Democracy https://libcom.org/library/anarchist-critique-democracy

Bad idea of the day: a twitter bot that responds to messages by paying mechanical turk five cents to produce a response – and in the absence of mentions, pays mechanical turk five cents to produce one tweet per day

Demo Preview “ Fake News Horror Show https://www.fakenewshorrorshow.org/demo-expo/

Neodymium – Popula https://popula.com/2018/07/30/neodymium/

Re: https://www.fastcompany.com/90208681/the-myth-of-human-centered-design – good design encourages symbiosis, while bad design encourages parasitism. (Go read your Engelbart & Licklider again.)

Joel Simon http://www.joelsimon.net/evo_floorplans.html

For weeks I’ve been getting 400 trying to load any youtube page on one machine (on chrome), and starting last week another machine started having the same problem. Any idea what’s happening?

Lonely Men Club (Mike Kleine) | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2018/06/28/lonely-men-club-mike-kleine/

alias grpe=‘sleep 5m’

So you want to invent your own currency | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/so-you-want-to-invent-your-own-currency

Double Faults | Writing an OS in Rust https://os.phil-opp.com/double-fault-exceptions/

Band name of the day: square and stationary earth

A Spectre is Haunting Unicode https://www.dampfkraft.com/ghost-characters.html

I’m half-convinced that the new popular trolling tactic with the youths is to respond to screencaps of popular anime asking what show it is when they already know the answer.

The Conversations that Cryptocurrency Killed – Jacobite https://jacobitemag.com/2018/07/27/the-conversations-that-cryptocurrency-kills/

Imagine if Marvel’s Captain Marvel movie was out at the same time as Shazaam (DC’s Captain Marvel). And then imagine if there was also a Marvelman (one of the other Captain Marvels) movies.

Why didn’t Carnival of Souls spawn a whole genre the way Night of the Living Dead did?

Band name of the day: a most extraordinary something

How Silicon Valley Became a Den of Spies - POLITICO Magazine https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/07/27/silicon-valley-spies-china-russia-219071

Band name of the day: the central premonitions registry

Too Many Requests https://www.reddit.com/r/SignalHorrorFiction/comments/92gvwj/the_house_on_foulness/

Why Are There So Many Anime Elitists? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY6XMBRM6A4

Band name of the day: mechanical violator

Imagine This: A Web Without Servers - Tara Vancil - JSConf EU 2018 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ_WvfF3FN8

Band name of the day: actuarial escape velocity

What Silicon Valley won’t admit about technology and progress | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/what-silicon-valley-wont-admit-about-technology-and-progress

Hot take: Everybody whose handle is the word ‘Real’ followed by a name is DEFINITELY a fake/parody account. Fite me.

ArtStation - Eric Geusz https://www.artstation.com/ericgeusz

Disposable Camera History: Point, Shoot, and Throw Away https://tedium.co/2018/07/26/disposable-camera-history/

Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-08-08/linux-load-averages.html

Meet the Anarchists Making Their Own Medicine - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43pngb/how-to-make-your-own-medicine-four-thieves-vinegar-collective

Error 406 - Not Acceptable http://www.notechmagazine.com/2018/07/fermentation-and-daily-life.html

Band name of the day: colorspace atlas

Roger Luckhurst: “Negotiating the Public and Private in The Ghost Club” - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWUDgyeN7_c

Band name of the day: the dreaded outcome

China Miéville: Marxism and Halloween - Socialism 2013 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paCqiY1jwqc

The 'Guerrilla' Wikipedia Editors Who Combat Conspiracy Theories https://www.wired.com/story/guerrilla-wikipedia-editors-who-combat-conspiracy-theories/amp?__twitter_impression=true

every thing every time — Great Exhibition of the North https://getnorth2018.com/events/every-thing-every-time/

The Spy Who Drove Me | GQ https://www.gq.com/story/spy-or-uber-driver

Band name of the day: viable system model

Thread by @JairusKhan: “I was a speaker and workshop organizer at hopeconf this year. My first 2600 meeting was over 20 years ago. I’m also an event organizer with […]” #hopeconf https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1021576113875771392.html

How Witchcraft Became A Brand https://www.buzzfeed.com/corinfaife/how-witchcraft-became-a-brand

Arnemancy : Giordano Bruno’s Art of Memory https://arnemancy.com/articles/art-of-memory/giordano-brunos-art-of-memory/

Game Studio With No Bosses Pays Everyone The Same https://kotaku.com/game-studio-with-no-bosses-pays-everyone-the-same-1827872972

Hot take: if we’re gonna have free-market boosters, we need more of the kind that will make sacrifices to ensure the conditions for the possibility of fair markets, & fewer of the kind who pretend all markets are fair.