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

What’s That Smell You’re 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 – 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 Pollan’s 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) – 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