Teaching Programming Languages by Experimental and Adversarial Thinking http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/pkf-teach-pl-exp-adv-think/

Probability Theory (For Scientists and Engineers) https://betanalpha.github.io/assets/case_studies/probability_theory.html

APL deserves its renaissance too http://wordsandbuttons.online/apl_deserves_its_renaissance_too.html

Band name of the day: the unofficial capacity

Bad idea of the day: Replace each word with another with maximum delta in word vector space but minimum edit distance, or vice versa. Tune weights until result is interesting.

Flying Saucerers: The Role of Science Fiction and the Occult in the Birth of the UFO Era – The Daily Grail https://www.dailygrail.com/2018/05/flying-saucerers-the-role-of-science-fiction-and-the-occult-in-the-birth-of-the-ufo-era/

Jordan Peterson doesn’t understand postmodernism - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU1LhcEh8Ms

Fate/Zero’s Infamous Spinning Scene Is Genius - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efJ3fmm98ww

Did the Sokal affair “destroy postmodernism”? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnmfe6qskRY

American Psycho, Baudrillard and the Postmodern Condition - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJfurfb5_kw

Band name of the day: sign value

The easiest path to GDPR compliance: switch to a completely static website with no javascript, CGI, or CSS, and rotate the logs daily.

Survival of the Mediocre Mediocre https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/04/24/survival-of-the-mediocre-mediocre/

Basic Income, Not Basic Jobs: Against Hijacking Utopia | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/05/16/basic-income-not-basic-jobs-against-hijacking-utopia/

Band name of the day: no hay banda

This skate punk album was created by artificial intelligence | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/3567/this-skate-punk-album-was-created-by-artificial-inteliigence

Bad idea of the day: MC Eliza, who rephrases your diss track in the form of a question. “How does that make you feel? Tell me more. Perhaps in your fantasies my flow is basic.”

DadaBots: Socially Automated Dadaist Music Remix Bots on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/72277348

Hot take: anybody who understands markets isn’t going to be a free-market purist. A market is a piece of social machinery with particular environmental requirements under which it works, & those requirements are rare.

Band name of the day: the lifestyle taxonomists

samim - Thoughts on Botnets and CreativityToday, Botnets impact almost every aspect of human life. Promoting products, providing… https://samim.io/p/2018-04-23-the-solution-to-exploding-fake-news-and-spam-botnets-ca/

https://medium.com/@thegrugq/meme-game-on-fleek-yeah-nah-4ce777ba059a (related to https://medium.com/p/how-to-fail-at-culture-jamming-7b409abf5db5 )

Binary file (standard input) matches

Hints for writing Unix tools https://monkey.org/~marius/unix-tools-hints.html

It’s interesting to think about how habitual migration patterns break the close association between culture and geography. There’s a psychogeographic wormhole between Fairfield County, CT and south Florida, & used to be one between there & upstate NY.

If it was developed in the 70s & you understand it, you can write a crappy version of it in an afternoon. If it wasn’t developed in the 70s, you have never heard of it.

We spend an enormous amount of time and effort teaching children about animals – even ones that only exist far away (like tigers and elephants and giraffes) or that have been extinct for tens to hundreds of millions of years.

Stealth Cell Tower https://julianoliver.com/output/stealth-cell-tower

Visual Programming Languages - Snapshots http://blog.interfacevision.com/design/design-visual-progarmming-languages-snapshots/

Oh man remember these? Only 90s kids had their neural networks in hardware ICs. https://www.sigarch.org/neurochips-from-the-90s/

GitHub - classilla/overbitenx: Because Firefox isn’t complete without Gopherspace. https://github.com/classilla/overbitenx

Protip: change your display name and avatar periodically, so that people will forget who you are and you, in turn, gain the ability to develop without the pressure of their models of you.

This is some kind of a e s t h e t i c I can’t classify https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KfeHNIXYUc

Re: trendism - basing visibility on popularity is a uniquely awful version of ‘tyrrany of the majority’ because uncommon views become invisible, even if, were they to start on an even playing field, they would become popular.

Xanadu Basics 2 - Five working Xanadu Systems (four usable) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_o8q4Sp-w0

Band name of the day: the hidden & unwelcome impulses

Band name of the day: community vibrancy index

Band name of the day: immortal replicator

Review: 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson | Kate Manne https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/jordan-peterson-12-rules-kate-manne-review/

America’s Brand of Capitalism Is Incompatible With Democracy https://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/americas-brand-of-capitalism-is-incompatible-with-democracy.html

Band name of the day: the private horror

Band name of the day: radical lesbian nuns

TFW people you’ve never interacted with already have you blocked on birdsite because you sent positive affirmations to Tay years ago & the shared blocklist curator wasn’t discerning.

Band name of the day: the inner directives

Tourist Trap is apparently on Shudder now. Even though it’s not Giallo, I recommend Giallo fans give it a watch: much like Profundo Russo & other pre-Suspiria Argento, it combines messy storytelling with some beautiful, surreal, and terrifying shot composition.

The Quietus | Opinion | Black Sky Thinking | Why AI Pop Stars Are Even More Real Than The Real Thing http://thequietus.com/articles/24629-lil-miquela-poppy-ai-pop-stars

Audacious Fox: The UX of Hidden Game Mechanics https://audaciousfox.net/linked/2018/hidden-game-mechanics

Band name of the day: these new selves

If William Gibson is so prophetic then why hasn’t Bono married Hatsune Miku yet?! /s

Band name of the day: empty prosperity