Life hack: find the video in your youtube recommendations you’re least interested in watching, click on it, turn off your speakers, and leave your house for a week.
Internet traffic chaffing: http://makeinternetnoise.com/index.html
Bad idea of the day: the melophone – it plays a tape loop on the line if you pick up the handset
Band name of the day: telecomputer man
Band name of the day: WE HAVE MEAT
Why Everyone Loves Macaroni and Cheese | Essay | Zócalo Public Square http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2018/05/24/everyone-loves-macaroni-cheese/ideas/essay/
Webring History: Social Media Before Social Media https://tedium.co/2018/05/31/webring-history/
Itertools in Python 3, By Example “ Real Python https://realpython.com/python-itertools/
Binary file (standard input) matches
Band name of the day: tin whiskers
Bitcoin As Explained by A.I. - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBRWJzAjkjk
Quantum::Entanglement https://www.perl.com/pub/2001/08/08/quantum.html/
Bad idea of the day: Use eliza as your therapist for an hour a day for years, then train a markov bot on the logs.
The existential paranoia fueling Elon Musk’s fear of AI | Document Journal http://www.documentjournal.com/2018/04/the-existential-paranoia-fueling-elon-musks-fear-of-ai/
Go is a much stranger language than I initially understood. Anyhow, this is my work thus far on an implementation of the Io language in it: https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/kamui/senketsu.go
Happy Syaday, in some sense
The parallelization of logic languages: https://cliplab.org/papers/partut-toplas.pdf
In case you wanted to know how to implement classes & objects in Postscript: http://donhopkins.com/home/monterey86.pdf
PSA: skepticism != disbelief; criticism != insult. If a ‘skeptic’ ‘criticizes’ something, that means actual intellectual effort is going into examination.
What caused Elon Musk’s Twitter meltdown? He’s enraged people stopped believing his tall tales. - Vox https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2018/5/30/17405922/elon-musk-twitter-meltdown-tesla-valuation-bubble-model-3-promises-reality
Bad idea of the day: A fediverse node that only federates over packet radio via moon bounce
Is there a mastodon/scuttlebutt bridge?
Periodic reminder: submissions for the 2018 No Budget Film Contest CLOSE on July 4th; submit your entries now: https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2018-no-budget-film-contest-e023a922fadd
When I say ‘luckily software has nothing to do with business’, what I mean is that software is uniquely positioned, compared to all other engineering, to be free of economies of scale: it is cheap to develop and has near zero cost of reproduction.
GitHub - microcai/llvm-qbasic: llvm based QBASIC Compiler https://github.com/microcai/llvm-qbasic
A few words on Doug Engelbart http://worrydream.com/Engelbart/
The shining moment when Russian revolutionary women reinvented sex | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-shining-moment-when-russian-revolutionary-women-reinvented-sex
This Man Committed Paradise Lost to Memory for Mental Exercise http://nautil.us/blog/-this-man-memorized-a-60000_word-poem-using-deep-encoding
Areas of transience – the hyperspace of psychogeography – are not ‘non-places’ with ‘non-culture’. They have a uniquely warped kind of culture, in the same way tourist-dependent places do, except some people spend their lives in it (long haul truckers or jet-setting businessmen).
Periodic reminder: entries for the 2018 No-Budget Film Contest end July 4th. https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2018-no-budget-film-contest-e023a922fadd
Familiar Vampires: Michio Yamamoto’s BLOODTHIRSTY TRILOGY (1970 - 1974) | Birth.Movies.Death. https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2018/05/29/michio-yamamotos-bloodthirsty-trilogy-1970-1974
Why Beans Were an Ancient Emblem of Death - Gastro Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/favism-fava-beans
Writing long, overly complex, & logically flawed apologia of bad mainstream ideas in order to recast them as revolutionary is a growth industry. (See the ‘intellectual dark web’, whose major unifying trait is boringly normie positions.) Why not reach for a surreal or absurd take?
Same Name Movie Review: Andrew Egan on Andrew Egan https://tedium.co/2018/05/29/same-name-movie-review-locus-of-control/
Band name of the day: the super-marginal
Ep. 2: Elizabeth Sandifer on Neoreaction: A Basilisk https://parallaxviews.podbean.com/e/ep-2-elizabeth-sandifer-on-neoreaction-a-basilisk/
Bad idea of the day: Put the ‘hyper’ modifier key back on the keyboard, but you hold it while typing to create hyperlinks, press it while clicking to open a hyperlink
If your NN produced yacht rock, would you call it Steely GAN?
What It’s Like When Elon Musk’s Twitter Mob Comes After You https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-its-like-when-elon-musks-twitter-mob-comes-after-you
Bad idea of the day: altcoin where the proof of work is correctly decoding messages from extraterrestrial civilizations
ERR! 418 I’m a teapot (this is not a joke) · Issue #20791 · npm/npm · GitHub https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/20791
Plaques of Future Past: Eccentric Stone Monuments to Anti-Gravity Research - 99% Invisible https://99percentinvisible.org/article/plaques-future-past-eccentric-stone-monuments-anti-gravity-research/
The Early History of Smalltalk http://gagne.homedns.org/~tgagne/contrib/EarlyHistoryST.html
Bad idea of the day: As soon as a topic is identified to be trending, hide all conversation about it from anyone not already in the thread. Keep it hidden for 24 hours.
Bad idea of the day: Take advertising jingles and slow them down by 8x or more, remix them together, add infrasound and 19hz binaural beats.
A new fast hash table in response to Google’s new fast hash table | Probably Dance https://probablydance.com/2018/05/28/a-new-fast-hash-table-in-response-to-googles-new-fast-hash-table/
Bill, Ted, and the End of History | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2018/05/22/bill-ted-and-the-end-of-history/
On Deadpool 2 and the “Art” of Fridging | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2018/05/21/on-deadpool-2-and-the-art-of-fridging/
The Power of Prolog https://www.metalevel.at/prolog
Introduction · mostly-adequate-guide https://mostly-adequate.gitbooks.io/mostly-adequate-guide/