Bad idea of the day: A browser extension that links everything in your browser cache with a fake file whose name is a hash of that item, serves those fake files over bittorrent, and, for all URLs whose expiration date is in the future, keeps a distributed table of URL to hash & attempts to fetch from bittorrent before from http
Band name of the day: the teeth of time
Whatâs That Smell Youâre Reading? | Science History Institute https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/magazine/whats-that-smell-youre-reading
The Blood Ritual That Lives on YouTube https://gizmodo.com/the-blood-ritual-that-lives-on-youtube-1825726446
The most interesting thing about https://www.fastly.com/blog/headers-we-dont-want is the indication that the culture of the web is a cargo-cult one where we will waste kilobytes per response on redundant headers that were deprecated 20 years ago or present possible security problems
the one true grimes and elon musk thinkpiece – emily leedham https://emilymariesarah.wordpress.com/2018/05/15/the-one-true-grimes-and-elon-musk-thinkpiece/
Cambridge Analytica whistleblower fears Facebook data was shared with Russia - CNNPolitics https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/16/politics/cambridge-analytica-congress-wylie/index.html
403 Bots Forbidden https://www.jwz.org/blog/2008/03/most-positive-bignum/
From pointing to nodding: is gesture a universal language? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/from-pointing-to-nodding-is-gesture-a-universal-language
How Gaston Bachelard gave the emotions of home a philosophy | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-gaston-bachelard-gave-the-emotions-of-home-a-philosophy
The Surprising History (and Future) of Fingerprints https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/05/15/the-surprising-history-and-future-of-fingerprints/
The Chinese Robocall Blues https://tedium.co/2018/05/15/spam-robocalls-history-comparison/
The Artful Imperfection of Medieval Manuscript Repair - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/medieval-manuscripts-embroidery
Breaking news: Person famous for saying stupid things in public says stupid thing in public. Film at 11.
Band name of the day: pocket answer machine
“HP typically priced their equipment at the cost of the material list × π (or in an especially competitive market, list × e)” NEEEEERDS
The HP-35 http://codex99.com/design/the-hp35.html
Footnotes to Plato | Spinoza’s philosophy of freedom â Steven Nadler https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/spinoza-philosophy-freedom/
Doc Searls Weblog · GDPR will pop the adtech bubble https://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2018/05/12/gdpr/
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk has Reinvented Research | JSTOR Daily https://daily.jstor.org/amazons-mechanical-turk-has-reinvented-research/
‘Ethics are beyond my purview’ is a fancy way of saying ‘it is unsafe to allow me to make decisions’
Band name of the day: hot ham water
QOTD: “Let’s get back to hating the conspiracy instead of ourselves.”
The Church of the SubGenius Finally Plays It Straight – Texas Monthly https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/the-church-of-the-subgenius-finally-plays-it-straight/
guided journalists during the 1970s media crisis of confidence - Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/the_profile/more-journalism-review.php
LSD research: Michael Pollanâs How to Change Your Mind, reviewed. https://slate.com/culture/2018/05/lsd-research-michael-pollans-how-to-change-your-mind-reviewed.html
Band name of the day: the ratio club
Habeas Data excerpt: How a mugger helped create the modern NSA surveillance program. https://slate.com/technology/2018/05/habeas-data-excerpt-how-a-mugger-helped-create-the-modern-nsa-surveillance-program.html
Band name of the day: rabbit town
“The Mess We’re In” by Joe Armstrong - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4
A New Way to look at Networking - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z685OF-PS8
Kevlin Henney - Procedural Programming: It’s Back? It Never Went Away - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otAcmD6XEEE
“Making Impossible States Impossible” by Richard Feldman - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcgmSRJHu_8
The Break Up Of Big Tech II (Scott Galloway, L2) | DLD New York 18 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92LZ9ti6tPo
What Everyone Needs to Know about Russia Under Putin - FPRI’s 2018 Champagne Brunch for Partners - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnWp_kr4tfc
Decontructing the “Unix philosophy” https://www.tedinski.com/2018/05/08/case-study-unix-philosophy.html
Band name of the day: profane human calculators
Bad idea of the day: philosophy speed-dating: get a prime number of doctoral candidates, split into two lines, and have them give hot takes to each other for 5 minutes on a stated topic before moving on.
Satanism: The Dark Alternative with Mitch Horowitz - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAXdiXNWv-E
The Author Who Tried to END The World (Watchmen / Alan Moore) â Wisecrack Edition - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=163Cb1bAW7U
Aggretsuko - A Cartoon For Children Ages 20+ - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv8kRvZ25Gs
Pretty Loud For Being So Silenced | Current Affairs https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/05/pretty-loud-for-being-so-silenced
Philip K. Dick’s VALIS and The Man Who Fell to Earth and Duncan Jones https://bowiesattva.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/philip-k-dicks-valis-and-the-man-who-fell-to-earth-and-duncan-jones/
Jordan Peterson is like a pack of tarot cards: stare at him hard enough for long enough and eventually you’ll see a message that is both true and profound. But, as with tarot cards, if you attribute that message to any intent on Peterson’s part, it brands you as foolish.
Band name of the day: the every-trichord hexachord
Mood: using the mobile version of the website on desktop because you don’t live in california
Medium really REALLY wants me to re-read that tedium piece about CD longboxes, this past month
Bad idea of the day: run podcast transcripts through char-rnn and then through the duplex speech synthesizer to generate hours of nonsense indistinguishable from NPR
I’m not gonna lie; I would listen to all of @derkirche’s NN-generated podcasts: https://pastebin.com/raw/NzdfAbvP
Underhanded C Contest - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underhanded_C_Contest