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Marxism! | The Whole Plate Episode 9 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFMiuAtbMO0
Managing TLS connections using Lua and Lua coroutines - The Boston Diaries - Captain Napalm http://boston.conman.org/2018/07/23.1
Logical-Based Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems | Primary Objects http://www.primaryobjects.com/2018/07/23/logical-based-artificial-intelligence-and-expert-systems/
‘Hey, folks who are suffering the worst from capitalism, here’s your medicine: more capitalism, now with extra corruption’ https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesdigitalcovers/2018/07/17/an-unlikely-group-of-billionaires-and-politicians-has-created-the-most-unbelievable-tax-break-ever/
TV Programming Quirks: Why So Many Shows Have 65 Episodes https://tedium.co/2018/07/24/tv-programming-quirks-history/
Folks who don’t use medium – do they have misleading popups or something? I have an account so I never see any of this crap, but people have indicated to me that they think they need to pay for (non-paywalled) posts.
James Gunn’s firing shows the enduring power of Gamergate - Vox https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/7/24/17599132/james-gunn-fired-gamergate-guardians-of-the-galaxy
Let’s hope Shudder’s Creepshow series is more in line with Creepshow I & II than it is with Creepshow III.
No, TRIGGER’s Patreon Won’t Save Anime - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKbSzCW8fsM
Ahh, the Macintosh. The budget-Lisa that was neither.
Somebody ought to make a word2vec model trained on https://rit-public.github.io/HappyDB/ available. If I get some time, maybe it’ll be me.
Hot take: more dangerous than centralization itself is the permanence of structures that should be temporary – particularly ones that gain inerta through their own inequity.
Webstock ‘17: Marcin Wichary - Charles Babbage’s mouse pointer on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/209179824
Simone Natale, ‘Deceitful Media and Deceitful Mediums’ by Popular Occulture 1875-1947 | Free Listening on SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/user-569807420/simone-natale-deceitful-media-and-deceitful-mediums
Hot take: even dysfunctional states are antifragile, so it requires a certain amount of planning and competence even to fuck shit up. Unaimed chaos tends to get deflected toward those already in deep shit.
The Tyranny of Stuctureless https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
Annie Lowrey on her new book, Give People Money, and how UBI could work in the U.S. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/07/annie-lowrey-on-her-new-book-give-people-money-and-how-ubi-could-work-in-the-u-s.html
Thread by @enkiv2@www.lord-enki.net: “An article I’m considering writing: the (explicit) political use of ghost stories. The idea of the ‘confederate soldier ghost’ was explicitl […]” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1021352318028087297.html
The US town ruled by an AI storyteller • Eurogamer.net https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-07-14-the-us-town-ruled-by-an-ai-storyteller
In case anybody cares, I’ve fixed up my mirror of all my medium posts. (Useful if you are a cheapskate!) As always, I prefer people with a medium account to actually go there & clap so I get a dime. http://www.lord-enki.net/medium-backup/
Why Human Speech Is Special | The Scientist Magazine® https://www.the-scientist.com/features/why-human-speech-is-special–64351
THIS: The Gathering Brainstorm – HILOBROW http://hilobrow.com/2017/02/20/this-the-gathering-brainstorm/
Hot take: politics is normal interpersonal drama writ large. Anything done in public is political, and anything done in private is political if it’s repeated often enough, by one person or by many independently.
A statistical analysis of WikiLeaks publications – Emma Best http://emma.best/2018/07/22/statistical-analysis-of-wikileaks-publications/
Band name of the day: midnight wimp bowling league
Band name of the day: charming bed & breakfast nightmare
He was the kind of guy whose programs always had one label, and it was always called ConsideredHarmful, regardless of what it did.
Almost every coverage of NaNoGenMo is spun around commercial applications of prose-generating tech or the lack thereof, but nobody involved (AFAIK) sees it as a business venture. They just want to do quantitative experiments on literature.
I’d like to see less tech journalism that’s PR or PR-teardowns for companies, and more tech journalism that’s about strange technically-interesting things people do for fun that could never conceviably be productized.
Remember when this happened with latin & it turned out lorem ipsum was being compared to political blogs, like 10 years ago? https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5npeg/why-is-google-translate-spitting-out-sinister-religious-prophecies
Bad idea of the day: a reality tv show where Stephen King and Joe Hill move into a cramped apartment together while both trying to write new novels, confusingly titled King of the Hill
Bad idea of the day: an anthology of human-selected machine-generated fiction and poetry from various codebases, with introductions explaining the generation method, selected on the same lines as a literary anthology
PERIPHERALS; It’s, Well, HyperCard - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/18/science/peripherals-it-s-well-hypercard.html
The Policeman’s Beard is Algorithmically Constructed - 3:AM Magazine https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/the-policemans-beard-is-algorithmically-constructed/
QOTD: “Being a god is no guarantee of adult behaviour.”
Band name of the day: wet dirt appreciation society
A Mansion Filled With Hidden Worlds: When the Internet Was Young https://undark.org/article/wilo-evans-broad-band/
The Maze and the Other in Interactive Fiction – samplereality http://www.samplereality.com/2018/07/17/the-maze-and-the-other-in-interactive-fiction/
Why Google‘s Material Design is a political choice | Imaginary Cloud https://www.imaginarycloud.com/blog/material-design-is-a-political-choice/
Wiki Inversions – Adam Croom’s Wikity http://acroom.wikity.cc/wiki-inversions/?cardbox=&t=Wiki%20Inversions
My old HyperCard stack (Phil Gyford’s website) https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2017/08/16/hypercard-tea/
Wiki Wiki Hypercard – Adam Croom’s Wikity http://acroom.wikity.cc/wiki-wiki-hypercard/
Band name of the day: the ten thousand moon-brains of the Solid State Entity
BIG DUMB OBJECTS AND COSMIC ENIGMAS | GREGORY BENFORD http://www.gregorybenford.com/extra/big-dumb-objects-and-cosmic-enigmas/
Quiver Doodles https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/07/19/quiver-doodles/
Band name of the day: entropic ruin