Astrophysics

Serial Experiments Lain Opening - Duvet (8bit) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6Jn98ktFw0

Band name of the day: the new art for cancelling fear

Band name of the day: unknown to prometheus

Band name of the day: faith without smile

Bad idea of the day: do your bibliomancy with Green’s Dictionary of Slang – fate will tell you what it really thinks of you, for once.

Band name of the day: the perfect despisers

Band name of the day: the sacred yes

Band name of the day: danger our vocation

Band name of the day: new wonders on the moon

Apparently the Peterson/Zizek debate went about as I expected: Peterson said nothing interesting, and Zizek said nothing on-topic. I’ll have to watch it later, because it sounds entertaining. https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/04/live-commentary-on-the-zizek-peterson-debate

Random link from the archives: https://medium.com/p/this-is-an-interesting-article-because-it-s-posted-on-medium-and-the-medium-comment-system-is-ef1c9cddcb01 originally archived Mon Oct 1 19:57:14 EDT 2018

actually tbh every performance feels epic when it’s backed with 10 jazz-funk greats

who said sonny chiba can’t act imma punch him in the neck

kolchak > koljack fite me

Band name of the day: tiger vengance

Dear lazyweb: what kind of electrical plugs would a house built in japan in 1939 have, assuming it was built out in the sticks? Would newly-built houses in the country generally be electrified at that time?

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They Live, The Matrix, and Our Uncertain Future - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7y7DK_DsYg

The Politics of Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUxtQX9XSJs

Philosophical Nihilism, Nietzsche’s Pessimism, and the Black Pill - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeuWmrGCfbI

Can We Get Beyond Ressentiment and Nihilism? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc2Epj_Jy_I

Incels and the Last Man - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=103uTU-lmsY

Random link from the archives: http://www.bytecellar.com/2018/10/17/enjoying-high-res-graphics-on-a-text-only-trs-80-model-4-from-1983/ originally archived Fri Oct 19 11:08:29 EDT 2018

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GOAT LARP https://thirdeyepatch.wixsite.com/goatlarp

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Triple feature: The Hunger, Daughters of Darkness, & The Blood-Spattered Bride

Something you gotta remember about the alt-right is that they’re a temporary alliance of warring groups with conflicting ideologies, most of which are planning on killing all the others & are putting it off in favor of killing the rest of us first.

Periodic reminder: the 2019 No-Budget Film Contest starts accepting submissions on April 20th https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2019-no-budget-film-contest-d7eb339a3ed5

The rasterman filter is the only one in netfilters that tries to cache all of stdin, & I don’t know enough perl to fix it.

Are the people who think ‘problematic’ means ‘cancelled’ the same ones who think ‘there is no ethical consumption under late capitalism’ means ‘never buy anything’? Glad I don’t know any of them.

Pete Corey - Literate Commits http://www.petecorey.com/blog/2016/07/11/literate-commits/

alxd – Hackers in popular culture - the curse of being an eternal rebel https://alxd.org/hackers-in-popular-culture-the-curse-of-being-an-eternal-rebel.html

Zarf Updates: What is ZIL anyway? http://blog.zarfhome.com/2019/04/what-is-zil-anyway.html

In defense of nuanced understanding of the enemy in a networked age (feat Zizek vs Peterson) https://medium.com/@/in-defense-of-nuanced-understanding-of-the-enemy-in-a-networked-age-feat-zizek-vs-peterson-b712962c5737?source=friends_link&sk=a6ea666f6ea7f640a35525b4c0e10415

One can construct a bingo sheet to group together anybody. A bingo sheet constructed to group together people who don’t act or think similarly will not reliably predict those people’s thoughts or actions.

Random link from the archives: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/disneyland-yippies-1970?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email originally archived Tue Jul 25 10:08:28 EDT 2017

Hot take: gopher is not a failed attempt to invent the WWW, but its own crystallization of a coherent philosophy – to present jump links between text files, without all the other bollocks. That makes it as valuable today as it was 25 years ago.

Weird Paul Interview: Vlogging Since 1984, Rocking Since 1987 https://tedium.co/2019/04/18/weird-paul-first-vlogger-interview/

Linear Fit Search « The blog at the bottom of the sea https://blog.demofox.org/2019/03/22/linear-fit-search/

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GB Studio https://www.gbstudio.dev/

Being Mr. Reasonable | Current Affairs https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/10/being-mr-reasonable

Something being ‘natural’ might make fixing it more difficult, but it is not an excuse not to fix it. If inequity & injustice are ‘natural’ – i.e., happen without conspiracy – that just makes it more important to fight them.

Chris’s Wiki :: blog/unix/EdDesignedForCookedInput https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/EdDesignedForCookedInput

Taking Another Person’s Perspective Doesn’t Help You Understand Them - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus http://nautil.us/blog/-taking-another-persons-perspective-doesnt-help-you-understand-them

Sander van der Burg’s blog: IFF file format experiments http://sandervanderburg.blogspot.com/2012/06/iff-file-format-experiments.html

CrimethInc. : Steal Something from Work Day 2019! : Three Epic Tales of Workplace Resistance https://crimethinc.com/2019/04/15/steal-something-from-work-day-2019-three-stories-of-workplace-resistance

Perkeep https://perkeep.org/