Ironically, Alanis Morissette never got enough credit | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/4400/alanis-morissette-very-intriguing-person

What should you do when Google gets into bed with the US military? | WIRED UK http://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-microsoft-amazon-us-military-ai-conflict

Bad idea of the day: a system for sharing playlists of things that aren’t audio or online video, like themed triple-features or reading lists, so you can curate or browse that kind of human recommendation

Band name of the day: the new all-human cerebellum

Band name of the day: that mad chemistry

200 years later, we can say that Marx was very often right – but in a much more literal way than he intended | The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/karl-marx-200-years-uk-politics-elections-working-class-slavoj-zizek-a8335931.html

AWAKEN AKIRA - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY1QHpp6iEE

The Impact of Akira: The Film that Changed Everything - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqVoEpRIaKg

Dada and Surrealism: Europe After the Rain documentary (1978) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdBaS8fgwNs

Band name of the day: against action

Why Silicon Valley can’t fix itself | News | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/may/03/why-silicon-valley-cant-fix-itself-tech-humanism

‘I had to guard an empty room’: the rise of the pointless job | Money | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/may/04/i-had-to-guard-an-empty-room-the-rise-of-the-pointless-job

Cambridge Analytica dismantled for good? Nope: It just changed its name to Emerdata • The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/02/cambridge_analytica_shutdown/

all my favorite movies are beautiful clusterfucks because a dysfunctional game of telephone with people who don’t share a common language is the most reliable way to generate creativity

This reminds me of the @swaim_corp / smallbeans George Lucas v Disney skit: http://aiweirdness.com/post/163491778652/darth-net-star-wars-characters-invented-by-neural

Social Anarchist Futures – Solarpunk Anarchist https://solarpunkanarchists.com/2018/05/02/social-anarchist-futures/

Three years of the Right To Be Forgotten | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/03/22/three-years-of-the-right-to-be-forgotten/

Information flow reveals prediction limits in online social activity | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/03/26/information-flow-reveals-prediction-limits-in-online-social-activity/

NES Homebrew Scene: Not Necessarily Driven By Nostalgia https://tedium.co/2018/04/10/nes-homebrew-scene-history/

Oracle’s Network Computer: Larry Ellison’s Too-Early Idea https://tedium.co/2018/04/12/larry-ellison-network-computer-history/

REMINDER: Entries for the 2018 No-Budget Film Conest are OPEN NOW, but will close on July 4th: https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2018-no-budget-film-contest-e023a922fadd

How to send local files to Chromecast with Python - Will do stuff for stuff https://rinzewind.org/blog-en/2018/how-to-send-local-files-to-chromecast-with-python.html

eBay, Organized Crime, and Evangelical Christians: The Ethical Minefield of Studying Ancient Civ… https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kgxjp/ebay-organized-crime-and-evangelical-christians-the-ethical-minefield-of-studying-ancient-civilizations-hobby-lobby-irisagrig-iraq

Goodbye, Cold War | Issue 30 | n+1 https://nplusonemag.com/issue-30/politics/goodbye-cold-war/

In the future when people tell me the web stack is an acceptable GUI layer I should just show them this: https://www.vox.com/2018/5/3/17309078/digital-art-diana-a-smith-francine-coded-browser-art ; if drawing a picture is impressive with your tools, your tools are shit

The False Allure of Hashing for Anonymization https://gravitational.com/blog/hashing-for-anonymization/

An Algorithmic Investigation of the Highfalutin ‘Poet Voice’ - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cultural-analysis-poet-voice

Ribbon Cutting Ceremony History: Why Are The Scissors So Big? https://tedium.co/2018/05/01/ribbon-cuttings-ceremonial-scissors-history/

Searching for a Future Beyond Facebook https://longreads.com/2018/05/01/searching-for-a-future-beyond-facebook/

Band name of the day: reciprocation dingle-arm

Band name of the day: nameless assemblage

GANZEER - The year is 1812. Mr. Smith of Huddersfield walks… http://www.ganzeer.com/post/173232122769/the-year-is-1812-mr-smith-of-huddersfield-walks

Band name of the day: calming slaughterbox

A Theory of Information Warfare http://www.iwar.org.uk/iwar/resources/airchronicles/szfran.htm

Band name of the day: night of the corpse whales

Band name of the day: the rich and gullible of europe

The Art of the 1960s Paris Riots http://www.messynessychic.com/2016/05/18/the-art-of-the-1960s-paris-riots/

Quatermass and the Pit: 50 Years On | Mysterious Universe http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/05/quatermass-and-the-pit-50-years-on/

The toxic legacy of Canada’s CIA brainwashing experiments: ‘They strip you of your soul’ | World news | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/03/montreal-brainwashing-allan-memorial-institute

Band name of the day: internet hole

How to Write Personalities for the AI Around Us https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/05/02/how-to-write-personalities-for-the-ai-around-us/

Send Anarchists, Guns, and Money | Jacob Siegel https://thebaffler.com/salvos/anarchists-guns-and-money-siegel

Band name of the day: the apparatus as a break

I Dream of Content-Trash | Zach Webb https://thebaffler.com/latest/i-dream-of-content-trash-webb

Band name of the day: the ends of sleep

Bad idea of the day: a letter-writing campaign to members of CS program accreditation boards (at their home addresses) requesting algorithmic bias & data ownership be a part of mandatory ethics classes in the curriculum.

GitHub - hellerve/cspfuck: Brainfuck with Actors https://github.com/hellerve/cspfuck

Bad idea of the day: an emoji moon but it renders as whatever phase the moon is actually in

BBC - Capital - These fake start-ups highlight tech firms’ silly name trends http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180425-why-do-startup-company-names-all-sound-alike

Band name of the day: automatic uncontrollable giving