Formally Specifying UIs • Hillel Wayne https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/formally-specifying-uis/

The Pressures Of Being An Interpreter At A High-Stakes Summit : NPR https://www.npr.org/2018/06/11/611734103/the-pressures-of-being-an-interpreter-at-a-high-stakes-summit

The Avant-Garde Adventures of Yeah Yeah Yeahs Drummer Brian Chase « Bandcamp Daily https://daily.bandcamp.com/2018/06/11/brian-chase-yeah-yeah-yeahs-interview/

The Jankó keyboard, an 1882 replacement for the traditional piano layout | The Kid Should See This http://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/the-janko-keyboard-an-1882-replacement-for-the-traditional-piano-layout

“Mind-boggling” Stanford research turns human blood cells into functional neurons https://newatlas.com/blood-cells-transformed-neurons-stanford/54948/

Distorted Text Says A Lot | Hackaday https://hackaday.com/2018/05/31/distorted-text-says-a-lot/

Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Quantum computing for policymakers and philosopher-novelists https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3848

Look Down: How Toynbee Tiles Invaded (And Disappeared From) Pittsburgh Streets | 90.5 WESA http://wesa.fm/post/look-down-how-toynbee-tiles-invaded-and-disappeared-pittsburgh-streets#stream/0

Band name of the day: the washington flap

Band name of the day: the maury island incident

The Pivot - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/06/the-pivot.html

Return the pop-culture idea of the MIB to where it was in the mid-60s: tall, pale, completely hairless, wearing bright red lipstick, and with bulging eyes and a robotic, monotone vocal cadence.

Flexi Disc History: Vinyl‘s Thinner Cousin https://tedium.co/2018/06/12/flexi-disc-history/

Band name of the day: the quietized home

LEXICAL AND PRAGMATIC CONSIDERATIONS OF INPUT STRUCTURES https://www.billbuxton.com/lexical.html

A Beginner’s Guide to Coding Graphics Shaders https://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/a-beginners-guide-to-coding-graphics-shaders–cms-23313

Band name of the day: disruption operation playbook

Band name of the day: vampire empire

Survivorship bias spicy take: if someone is successful enough to be notable for their success, they are rare enough that no lessons from their experience apply generally enough to make someone else successful beyond the 50% mark.

30 years later, QBasic is still the best | Personal Registry Editor http://www.nicolasbize.com/blog/30-years-later-qbasic-is-still-the-best/

More Hints for Writing Unix Tools | Mario Campos https://www.mariocampos.io/blog/more-unix-tools-hints/

Myths programmers believe | Átila on Code https://atilanevesoncode.wordpress.com/2018/06/12/myths-programmers-believe/

can you explain to some degree why SPARC chips run… - kremlin_t http://kremlin.enterprises/post/142778524020/can-you-explain-to-some-degree-why-sparc-chips-run

Hotter take: Yes, Prime Minister is also an extremely accurate depiction of all non-state actors consisting of two or more people

Hot take: the most accurate depiction of the deep state in media is the 1980s british sitcom Yes, Prime Minister

Hot take: it’s important to distinguish ‘junk food media’ (i.e., stuff that, regardless of technical competence, will succeed by delivering on purience) from ‘premium media’ (works whose popularity depends on craftsmanship). The former is more important for the progress of art, because polish runs counter to experimentation.

How hunters paved the way for the American environmental movement - Vox https://www.vox.com/conversations/2018/6/12/17449154/hunting-culture-shaped-masculinity-the-nra-and-environmentalism

GitHub - thosakwe/t2b: A wicked-powerful text macro language for building binary files. https://github.com/thosakwe/t2b

Band name of the day: alligator belief championship

Band name of the day: spectacular death apparatus

Band name of the day: the real atomic clash

QOTD: “Criticism and negativity alone still secrete a phantom of the reality of power. If they become weak[…] power has no recourse but to artificially revive and hallucinate them.”

article idea: media (esp. social media) as perverse psychogeography, & the inhabitants of transient spaces by career & disposition

Finance has its own term for ‘skin in the game’: ‘insider trading’. It’s also a legal term, because people very occasionally go to jail for being too obvious when they do it.

Bad idea of the day: treating asemic combinations of dictionary words as an aesthetic to be appropriated by commerce, and appropriating it with commerce, thus making attempts to identify dictionary-based chaffing techniques lossier

Bad idea of the day: creating ads that target asemic combinations of dictionary words order to identify people who use dictionary-based chaffing techniques

Bad idea of the day: creating ads that target things that are in dictionaries but could never be sold in order to identify people who use dictionary-based chaffing techniques

Bad idea of the day: running a script that speaks random words aloud all day while you leave your phone at home, in order to chaff your audio-surveillance-based ad targeting

The end of a world of nation-states may be upon us | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-end-of-a-world-of-nation-states-may-be-upon-us

The cyberpunk aesthetic, moreso than mere future noir, is the future as seen through the eyes of Sir Clive Sinclair: sleek but broken, and dominated by posturing. It’s a beveled black hermetically-sealed shell cracked open to fix manufacturing & design flaws, alligator-clipped wire spilling out, but no fix will prevent it from frying your brain if you look at it funny.

‘Sci-Fi Music Felt Like a Vast, Interconnected Mythology’: An Interview with Jason Heller | Hazlitt https://hazlitt.net/feature/sci-fi-music-felt-vast-interconnected-mythology-interview-jason-heller

Your Phone Is Listening and it’s Not Paranoia - VICE https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/wjbzzy/your-phone-is-listening-and-its-not-paranoia

GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5 Billion Undo Button - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-06/github-is-microsoft-s-7-5-billion-undo-button

Band name of the day: a jagged sky

The Art of Kimchi | SAVEUR https://www.saveur.com/article/Kitchen/The-Art-of-Kimchi

Band name of the day: the business of war

serialism experiments lain, layer 44: c# e g# a# b f a f# d d# b# c g e#

Band name of the day: squirrel events

Minimalist C Libraries « null program https://nullprogram.com/blog/2018/06/10/

Band name of the day: distant thunder