Have you tried pretending not to care about the problem in order to gain social currency among people who believe that the outgroup only pretends to care about the problem in order to gain social currency?
Have you tried being very vague and confused in your descriptions of the problem, so that in your mind it metamorphoses into a different, more easily solved problem?
Have you tried only pretending to care about the problem in order to gain social currency?
Have you tried accusing the outgroup of only pretending to care about the problem in order to gain social currency?
Have you tried claiming that a recent failure to solve the problem marks the end of all possible progress on or debate about the problem?
Have you tried claiming that all solutions to the problem are worse than the problem?
Have you tried introducing a solution that is worse than the problem?
Have you tried accusing the outgroup of using the problem to introduce a solution that is worse than the problem?
Have you tried accusing the outgroup of believing the problem to be a problem? Have you tried accusing the outgroup of believing the problem not to be a problem?
Have you tried using markov chain monte carlo to perform a weighted random walk of solution space?
Have you tried accusing the outgroup of trying to prevent the ingroup from solving the problem?
Have you tried accusing the outgroup of being incapable of understanding the problem?
Have you tried accusing the outgroup of trying to solve the problem? Have you tried accusing the outgroup of failing to solve the problem? Have you tried accusing the outgroup of successfully solving the problem?
Have you tried reframing acceptance of the problem as a form of costly signalling, and using the problem as a gatekeeping mechanism?
Have you tried switching to manual?
Have you tried becoming the manual?
Have you tried reading the manual? Have you tried writing the manual?
Have you tried making sure the problem is not actually a solution to another problem, so that they could solve each other? For instance, is the problem edible?
Seeing into the True Nature: Have You Tried Solving the Problem? http://grognor.blogspot.com/2016/12/have-you-tried-solving-problem.html
Bad idea of the day: A parody of The Haunting of Hill House called The Haunting of White House, from the perspective of a scatterbrained narcissist who is influenced by the angry ghosts of the dead to join the government.
The Rust Way of OS Development https://phil-opp.github.io/talk-konstanz-may-2018/
History and Future of the Compressed Air Economy - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/05/history-and-future-of-the-compressed-air-economy.html
True Nonbelievers “ Real Life http://reallifemag.com/true-nonbelievers/
Julia Kristeva’s Face - The Rumpus.net http://therumpus.net/2011/06/julia-kristevas-face/
Legend Tripping “ Real Life http://reallifemag.com/legend-tripping/
The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/08/17/the-premium-mediocre-life-of-maya-millennial/
The Accursed Share “ Real Life http://reallifemag.com/the-accursed-share/
There is only one OS, and it’s been obsolete for decades – Programming, Made Complicated https://programmingmadecomplicated.wordpress.com/2017/08/12/there-is-only-one-os-and-its-been-obsolete-for-decades/
Submissions for the 2018 No Budget Film Contest close on July 4th: https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2018-no-budget-film-contest-e023a922fadd
The Shape of Code » Premium mediocrity is software engineering’s demographic http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2018/05/21/premium-mediocrity-is-software-engineerings-demographic/
Announcing Tildes - a non-profit community site driven by its users’ interests https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes
IGiS https://igis.io/
Psychogenic shivers: why we get the chills when we aren’t cold | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/psychogenic-shivers-why-we-get-the-chills-when-we-arent-cold
Band name of the day: the cheap and bleak
Band name of the day: the psychogenic shivers
My long strange winter trip with John Perry Barlow, a legend in the making | Salon.com https://www.salon.com/2018/06/02/1969-my-long-strange-winter-trip-with-john-perry-barlow-a-legend-in-the-making/?curator=MusicREDEF
Expedition | waynebarlowe https://waynebarlowe.wordpress.com/artwork/expedition/
Submissions for the 2018 No Budget Film Contest close on July 4th: https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2018-no-budget-film-contest-e023a922fadd
Hot take: the endgame of any company is 90s Microsoft or death. If Microsoft had not bought Github, Github would have become Microsoft, because it has a profit motive.
Stereo clip - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exI0TlAROPw
Basically, if the antagonist of your story is actually a person or something person-like, it’s not really cyberpunk, because it’s not about the things cyberpunk is about. If you have an evil government or an evil corporation, it’s not cyberpunk either.
TBH there is nothing more cyberpunk than a world where actual politically-relevant cyberpunk literature is forgotten while shitty shallow corporatized versions with awful politics are blockbusters.
Days after jokingly asking when someone will do an american live action adaptation of Kite, I find that Anchor Bay already has.
Ted reads COMPUTOPIA AND CYBERCRUD, published in 1970 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf_cSTt1hmk
Young women on tumblr tagging their selfies ‘cursed image’ is probably a thread with some deep & interesting sociological research on the end if somebody with a PhD tugs on it.
Over-engineering is under-engineering “ Baldur Bjarnason https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/under-engineering-websites/
Incognitube :: Random videos with less than 100 views https://www.incognitube.com/
No Views: watch unwatched YouTube videos | Randomly Inspired! https://www.randomlyinspired.com/noviews
RAIN Mark II Supercomputer Trainer | Hackaday.io https://hackaday.io/project/85392-rain-mark-ii-supercomputer-trainer