Hot take: the ‘with AI’ part of the ‘Making X do Y with AI’ is redundant when X is a computing device and Y is a task associated with intelligence, since anything doing that would be called AI

Why horror movies are now more important than ever in Hollywood https://www.fastcompany.com/90199673/why-horror-movies-are-now-more-important-than-ever-in-hollywood

Band name of the day: slausen’s lost oasis

Band name of the day: vicious attack dolls

Band name of the day: the west-german sex-comedy

Letting neural networks be weird • A neural net tries writing Burma-Shave jingles http://aiweirdness.com/post/176056635992/a-neural-net-tries-writing-burma-shave-jingles

These ‘Paperbacks From Hell’ Reflect The Real-Life Angst Of The 1970s : NPR https://www.npr.org/2017/10/26/559522789/these-paperbacks-from-hell-reflect-the-real-life-angst-of-the-1970s

Evil Children And Overachieving Skeletons: Welcome To The World Of Paperback Horror : NPR https://www.npr.org/2018/07/07/626546622/evil-children-and-overachieving-skeletons-welcome-to-the-world-of-paperback-horr

Band name of the day: our miserable end

Penti Chorded Keyboard https://software-lab.de/penti.html

Band name of the day: exodus to an uninhabitable earth

Band name of the day: ice harvester

Unsustainable Interstellar Civilization, Hotspot Colonies, and Dwarf Culture - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/07/unsustainable-interstellar-civ.html

365 tomorrows : A New Flash of Science Fiction Every Day https://365tomorrows.com/

Canned Monkeys Don’t Ship Well, the Remix Version - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/07/canned-monkeys-dont-ship-well-.html

I’ve lost control of my life 🌸🌸 - an entomologist rates ant emojis http://curlicuecal.tumblr.com/post/175362924100/an-entomologist-rates-ant-emojis

The Creativity Driving DOS Nostalgia https://tedium.co/2018/07/17/dos-nostalgia-squirrel-monkey-interview/

How to build an npm worm https://jamie.build/how-to-build-an-npm-worm

Calendar house - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_house

DAW - Penguin Books USA http://www.penguin.com/publishers/daw/

The roots of writing lie in hopes and dreams, not in accounting | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-roots-of-writing-lie-in-hopes-and-dreams-not-in-accounting

Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted To Know | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/

Band name of the day: process s

Scripting News: What became of the blogosphere? http://scripting.com/2018/06/26/114410.html

Band name of the day: brain garbage

Band name of the day: horizontal transcendence

Is psychedelics research closer to theology than to science? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/is-psychedelics-research-closer-to-theology-than-to-science

“After Posadas’s death, Minazzoli began to focus exclusively on political readings of the great scientific Ufologists like Hynek and Vallee.” Yesss

Band name of the day: the alien world of objects

The secret history of Marxist alien hunters | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/5384/the-secret-history-of-marxist-alien-hunters

Band name of the day: nudge unit

Memoir in a Melody: The Tragic Disappearance Behind Fastball’s ‘The Way’ http://www.signature-reads.com/2014/04/memoir-in-a-melody-the-tragic-disappearance-behind-fastballs-the-way/

Digital ads are starting to feel psychic | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/5380/targeted-ad-creepy-surveillance-facebook-instagram-google-listening-not-alone

Band name of the day: instant trash

Unfollowing Everybody https://anildash.com/2018/07/13/unfollowing-everybody/

There are live performances of Ultimate Care II, Matmos’s washing machine album, apparently.

Amiga like OSes on QEMU http://zero.eik.bme.hu/~balaton/qemu/amiga/

The key to creating gorgeous, glitchy YouTube images: anticipation and deletion - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/15/17564588/datamosh-youtubeartifacts-glitch-art-kraftsow

E. W. Dijkstra Archive: A parable. (EWD 594) https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD05xx/EWD594.html

How a cabal of romance writers cashed in on Amazon Kindle Unlimited - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/16/17566276/cockygate-amazon-kindle-unlimited-algorithm-self-published-romance-novel-cabal

The Twitch streamers who spend years broadcasting to no one - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/16/17569520/twitch-streamers-zero-viewers-motivation-community

George Hotz is on a hacker crusade against the ‘scam’ of self-driving cars - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/13/17561484/george-hotz-comma-ai-self-driving-car-scam-diy-kit

“All medias are propagandic” “ Of Bowie, Mishima, Memewar: Jamie Curcio Interviewed https://medium.com/@StealThisSingul/all-medias-are-propagandic-of-bowie-mishima-memewar-jamie-curcio-interviewed-fba0245075bc

It Was Raining in the Data Center “ Member Feature Stories ” Medium https://medium.com/s/story/it-was-raining-in-the-data-center-9e1525c37cc3

Band name of the day: boomtime for deathcults

Band name of the day: die in complete surprise

How many news articles could be retitled ‘Dude with PhD has Weird Opinion His Colleagues Openly Mock Him For’? (Not that weird opinions aren’t inherently interesting & all)

Band name of the day: aphelion

Bad idea of the day: a movie review show where you review imaginary movies that you wish were coming out but never will, and you give them bad reviews

The Bizarre Story of the Seattle Mystery Vending Machine http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2018/07/the-bizarre-story-of-the-seattle-mystery-vending-machine/