Thread by @Nick_Hanover: “more and more people are bringing up the Gilded Age lately so it’s probably important to remember how laborers gained victories back then be […]” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1009574091865690115.html
Bad idea of the day: a physical crank for rolling back commits
The geneology of Eliza: http://elizagen.org/index.html
Band name of the day: convalescence quilts
Bad idea of the day: a fuzzer disguised as a usb charger
Band name of the day: the international committee of robot arms
Ecological “law” turns out to just be the result of us fishing | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/06/ecological-law-turns-out-to-just-be-the-result-of-us-fishing/
JSON as configuration files: please don’t https://arp242.net/weblog/json_as_configuration_files-_please_dont
YAML: probably not so great after all https://arp242.net/weblog/yaml_probably_not_so_great_after_all.html
What can depersonalisation disorder say about the self? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/what-can-depersonalisation-disorder-say-about-the-self
The Texas Instruments 99/4: World’s First 16-Bit Home Computer - IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/heroic-failures/the-texas-instruments-994-worlds-first-16bit-computer
Unsolved Mysteries: Still Being Updated After All These Years https://tedium.co/2018/06/19/unsolved-mysteries-modern-updates/
Band name of the day: nonstop necropolis
if there is not a parody of TOPPS trading cards called BOTTOMS featuring butts… something is very wrong with the world
Band name of the day: chrome rotation
Periodic reminder that the state exists at the pleasure of the people who compose it, and should be dissolved when it ceases to benefit them. This means all of us, not just politicians or billionaires.
Band name of the day: starscum
Making Interactive Fiction: Using Generative Prose - sub-Q Magazine https://sub-q.com/making-interactive-fiction-using-generative-prose/
Rob Martin - Teaching functional programming to noobs (Lambda Days 2016) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmFKEewRRQg
Writing in Collaboration with the System | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2014/10/29/writing-in-collaboration-with-the-system/
World Models Rendered in Text | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2018/06/19/world-models-rendered-in-text/
Speak & Spell History: Texas Instruments‘ Greatest Product https://tedium.co/2018/06/19/speak-and-spell-history/
Literate Programming http://www.literateprogramming.com/
periodic reminder that weapons in of themselves don’t have a moral valence & we should think materially about whether or not their use is appropriate to our goals, instead of vaguely about accidental associations. this includes social/memetic weaponry like protest techniques
28c3: The Science of Insecurity - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEfedtQVOY
Bad idea of the day: A lootbox service for public-domain work – every month you get a hardcover of a PD book & a vinyl of a PD recording
life hex: is your company’s marketing falling flat? Before spending millions on a re-branding effort, try charging your existing logo by staring at it during orgasm and then reproducing it in seminal fluid
life hex: leash-training your dog can be a pain. Instead, make an effigy of your dog, and wrap around it twine made from his own hair, while chanting ‘I bind you to this image’. Pop the poppet in your pocket and off you go
life hex: sick of dating sites? Instead of trusting a pickup artist, trust Furfur, Earl of Hell. Just remember to put him inside a magic triangle before asking him for relationship advice
life hex: for financial planning advice, summon Foras, Great President of Hell
A Gentle Intro to PLT https://mpc.sh/blog/a-gentle-intro-to-plt/
Res Obscura: The Art of Fooling the Eye https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2011/10/art-of-fooling-eye.html
x86 assembly doesn’t have to be scary (interactive) https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/interactive-x86-bootloader-tutorial
The DEC 340 Monitor – ENGBLG http://engblg.livingcomputers.org/index.php/2018/06/07/the-dec-340-monitor/
the sceptical futuryst: An Experiential Futures Interview https://futuryst.blogspot.com/2018/06/an-experiential-futures-interview.html
Ghost Writer: The Story of Patience Worth, the Posthumous Author https://longreads.com/2018/06/13/ghost-writer-the-story-of-patience-worth-the-posthumous-author/
Designing a Programming Language for the Desert | Futhark - A High Performance Functional Array Language https://futhark-lang.org/blog/2018-06-18-designing-a-programming-language-for-the-desert.html
’Ndrangheta mafia: more powerful, and scarier, than it’s ever been. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/ndrangheta-mafia-more-powerful-and-scarier-than-its-ever-been.html?utm_source=nextdraft
Why I Taught My Son to Speak Russian | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/why-did-i-teach-my-son-to-speak-russian
Hot take: ‘truth sandwich’ is a terrible name because sandwiches are named after what’s on the inside of them instead of what’s on the outside. Instead, call it ‘stuffed truth’, by analogy to ‘stuffed bread’.
Designing to Facilitate Browsing: A Look Back at the Hyperties Workstation Browser | Don Hopkins http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/node/102
HyperLook (aka HyperNeWS (aka GoodNeWS)) http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/hyperlook/
The difficulty in translating ‘dokidoki’ for non-otaku audiences is a great example of why conceptual frames are a useful idea. You can literally translate it as ‘badump’ because it’s the heartbeat sfx, but you lose something.
Fibonacci Hashing: The Optimization that the World Forgot (or: a Better Alternative to Integer Modulo) | Probably Dance https://probablydance.com/2018/06/16/fibonacci-hashing-the-optimization-that-the-world-forgot-or-a-better-alternative-to-integer-modulo/
Elvis is Everywhere - Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knc9LKjukSQ
Attention knitters: (n) the ad-tech people who make sure your recommended youtube videos smoothly transition from lets-plays to people who are very angry that the lizard people refuse to inflate the flat earth with ghosts
GitHub - jvburnes/node9: A portable hybrid distributed OS based on Inferno, LuaJIT and Libuv https://github.com/jvburnes/node9
GitHub - nickolas360/markov-complete: A hackathon project written with ~bobbybee. Inspired by code written by ~hardmath123 and me. https://github.com/nickolas360/markov-complete
Conspiracy theory: ‘spaghetti carbonara’ is so named for the Carbonari, the italian pseudo-rosicrucian secret society also known as ‘coal-burners’, who popularized various pasta dishes as an edible encoding of their philosophy