The dopamine switch between atheist, believer and fanatic | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-dopamine-switch-between-atheist-believer-and-fanatic

Band name of the day: The Event

Smart Toilets: Is the World Ready For Connected Lavatories? https://tedium.co/2018/07/05/smart-bathroom-technology-toilets/

Thread by @analogist_net: “In honor of @Foone’s thread on the visual quirks of our brains, let’s talk about “how bullshit insane our brains are”: sensory and motor sys […]” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1014397203450744832.html

Thread by @Foone: “You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are? OK, so there’s a physical problem with our eyes: We move them in short […]” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1014267515696922624.html

Proteus Project: NOMLEX https://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/nomlex/

I feel like I’m late to the party in saying this but Colin Dickey’s Ghostland is really good y’all

Stacking the Bricks: How the Blog Broke the Web https://stackingthebricks.com/how-blogs-broke-the-web/

Are there good studies on the neurochemical basis of variation in succeptibility to numinous or spiritual experiences within normal (non-clinical non-drug-induced) ranges? (I.e., not temporal lobe epilepsy)

Band name of the day: the neuron doctrine

Band name of the day: social anosmia

Band name of the day: neonatal handling

Band name of the day: the circuits of the supersavers

Band name of the day: concrete corduroy

Holy shit, Morning Cup of Coding featured my article about Scene/Sequel as a part of their description of NaNoGenMo. http://tinyurl.com/yayvdl9u #botally

Lies, Trust and Tech with Jeff Hancock - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48uDsaFtwjY

The Golden Calf Vol. 2 | Is Art a Commodity? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5AxnNbC-oM

Akiyuki Shinbo - The Director of Studio Shaft (SCRAPPED RCANIME VIDEO) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqBZ4yxigpA

Lupin the III Ishikawa Goemon Movie - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0s4Qt0ZQUE

Habitat Chronicles: You can’t tell people anything http://habitatchronicles.com/2004/04/you-cant-tell-people-anything/

1. Introduction to Human Behavioral Biology - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g6fA

The Surveillance Economy and Extreme Income Inequality: You Can’t Have One Without the Other - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSH9gOqevRc

Too Many Requests https://www.reddit.com/r/conlangs/comments/8vzs5q/rausle_the_language_of_birds_a_conlang_with_one/

Hot take: the primary function of clothing is as a support system for pockets

Cory Doctorow: Zuck’s Empire of Oily Rags – Locus Online http://locusmag.com/2018/07/cory-doctorow-zucks-empire-of-oily-rags/

Why the US national anthem is terrible “ and perfect - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdl8p9akJJw

Slow Bob in the Lower Dimensions (Feb. 2016 scan) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-Dj6XviBQM

Looking For Meaning in Tim Burton’s Movies - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inXrIYr2V_U

Outsiders: How To Adapt H.P. Lovecraft In the 21st Century - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8u8wZ0WvxI

Hot take: even statements about physical objects, because they are about classes of objects the definitions of which have unclear borders, are almost always ambiguous as to their truth even when tested.

Hot take: almost all ACTUAL statements encountered in daily life are untestable except in an ad-hoc & ambiguous way, because their referents don’t map well to physical reality.

Hot take: the space of all possible understandable statements is composed almost exclusively of references to complex & abstract ideas with a tenuous relationship to any physical reality & unclear test conditions

How yuppies hacked the original hacker ethos | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-yuppies-hacked-the-original-hacker-ethos

301 Moved Permanently https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/07/the-man-who-created-the-world-wide-web-has-some-regrets/

Glossary of Commonly Used Terms in the Western Mystery Tradition - Introduction to the Western Mystery Tradition - Journal of the Western Mystery Tradition - Hermetic Library https://hermetic.com/jwmt/v1n0/glossary2

Fiction generator post-mortem: comic book generation https://medium.com/@/fiction-generator-post-mortem-comic-book-generation-9df847dd4ada

Double Loop Learning: Download New Skills and Information into Your Brain https://fs.blog/2018/06/double-loop-learning/

Nadia Eghbal | The independent researcher https://nadiaeghbal.com/independent-research

A Survey of Programming Language Package Systems http://neurocline.github.io/papers/survey-of-programming-language-packaging-systems.html

Idioms of Dynamic Languages http://willcrichton.net/notes/idioms-of-dynamic-languages/

How to read | Robert Heaton https://robertheaton.com/2018/06/25/how-to-read/

Remember the good old [hellenic] days, when political parties were sports teams and were also named after their jersey colors, and politicians were elected via lottery?

HyperRogue: the weirdest roguelike | Rock, Paper, Shotgun https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/09/28/hyperrogue-non-euclidean-roguelike/

ｈａｃｋｍｕｄ https://www.hackmud.com/

Cognitive ease is the enemy: if something makes sense, that’s an indication that you have done insufficient research or applied insufficient consideration, because nothing real makes sense.

302 Found https://thewholestory.solutionsjournalism.org/complicating-the-narratives-b91ea06ddf63

Band name of the day: difficult conversations laboratory

PMJ, Pomplamoose, the Surfrajettes, and other cover bands keep demonstrating that shitty pop songs often at their core are competently constructed and become great if you change the arrangement & instrumentation.

Chris Espinosa, quoted in the final chapter of Fire in the Valley, says that when Jobs came back to Apple his screaming fits were ‘for show’. What’s worse: a manager with no emotional control or one that fakes it for emotional manipulation?

‘It’s more fun to be a pirate than join the navy’ is accurate, but Jobs failed to mention that any BUSINESS is a navy in this metaphor. A small navy is at a disadvantage. Naval officers who act like pirates are called war criminals.