Dissecting Log Horizon: The Great, The Good, The Okay 1st Arc [Pt. 2] - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljDzKKp7S5s

EBN - GW1 part 2, Ground War - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHMT6iNb-UU

Human Computer Interaction: Metaphors https://tpetricek.github.io/Teaching/human-computer-interaction/metaphors.html#/7/2

Is Science Slowing Down? | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/11/26/is-science-slowing-down-2/

1. don’t confuse ‘the internet’ with ‘the web’; 2) don’t confuse ‘the web’ with ‘social media’; 3) don’t confuse ‘social media’ with ‘corporate social media’

KEYBOARDS FOUND IN DUMPSTERS:↵2: great to type on. return randomizes the keyboard layout.↵4: black and white keys in weird arrangement. produces sound but no letters. may not be a keyboard.↵7: has a ticklish ‘a’ key and tries to edge away when I come near it↵10: enochian alphabet

Interface usability in a nutshell: minimize how often the simplest way to do a thing the user wants to do is 1) hard to imagine before you see it, or 2) hard to understand once observed. Assume the user is more creative than you & less well-informed.

LINES FOR A MANIFESTO OF ALIENIST POETRY – ALIENIST MANIFESTO https://alienistmanifesto.wordpress.com/2017/11/24/lines-for-a-manifesto-of-alienist-poetry-2/

Conceptual Languages (Part 2) - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/conceptual-languages-part-2

@kas@enotty.dk: Reg. Gajim: Does setting env. variable GDK_DPI_SCALE=2 help?

@kas@enotty.dk to (1) he explained that phone numbers are too predictable to have any advantage by hashing and I don’t understand (2) as this might be a step to increase the xmpp user base.

Environmental Media Project, Keio University, Japan 1999 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMujvLQdKaE&index=2&list=PLZYUaP_cPHpa9Cad1GxrnvW4Ky3xlPMHg

Alexander R. Galloway “ Brometheanism | boundary 2 http://www.boundary2.org/2017/06/alexander-r-galloway-brometheanism/

Web 2.0 Expo NY: Clay Shirky (shirky.com) It’s Not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure. - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LabqeJEOQyI

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

Folklore.org: The Grand Unified Model (2) - The Finder http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=The_Grand_Unified_Model_The_Finder.txt&sortOrder=Sort+by+Date&topic=Software+Design

Dataspace 2: Revenge of the Data Model | Natepod http://natecull.org/wordpress/2017/07/06/dataspace-2/

Nick Land’s Philosophy of Capital is Anti-Capitalist (2) – DI Research Zone 22 https://disubunit22.wordpress.com/2018/11/05/nick-lands-philosophy-of-capital-is-anti-capitalist-2/

If Halloween 3 had been Halloween 2 (i.e., if Michael Meyers was a one-off & there was never the expectation set that he’d come back) we could have had a great yearly horror anthology series for the past 40 years.

Rockstar developers speak out about “100-hour weeks” comment | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/10/red-dead-redemption-2-devs-say-quoted-100-hour-weeks-arent-the-norm/

Vectorized Emulation: Hardware accelerated taint tracking at 2 trillion instructions per second | Gamozo Labs Blog https://gamozolabs.github.io/fuzzing/2018/10/14/vectorized_emulation.html

Recipe for periodic royalty boosts if you’re a hack: 1) create a song about a particular time of year – preferably a particular date that is not a holiday; 2) create a song about a very specific combination of very common feelings

Saving Private Gmail pt. 2: Viewing your Gmail MBOX File ⌘ Read more…

Pet peeve: on my work computer, 80% of my lobste.rs comments double-post because of some kind of missing deduplication logic. Then, I have to periodically go through all my threads to delete the duplicates. Sometimes one copy of the post will have 2 upvotes & the other 3.

I love how I just got an email to tell me that something I ordered was shipped. Funny thing is, this email came 2 days after it was delivered to me.

LGR Tech Tales - The First Robot Ever Arrested: DC-2 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdjzmmcJgDM

Satoshi Kon and Why Love Is All You Need: Ep. 2 - Millennium Actress - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dfn-yMmvis

unicode 2040 features (2):↵- support for 2D writing systems, lines can now turn by multiples of 45°↵- in-band parsing directives for ligatures (finally with context-free grammar support)↵- in-band layout directives↵- camera glyph can now store up to ten seconds of video

Nix 2.1 released
Nix 2.1
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Severin re-release of The Changeling leads thousands of millenials to say ‘Ohh, so THAT’s what that scene in Scary Movie 2 was referencing’.

Bad idea of the day: ‘twitch writes a novel’: the previous ~15 words are shown & the top ~20 next words based on a markov model of some corpus are voted on over a 2 minute period (going to the first item, if no votes are cast) until 50k words are written.

Dataspace 2: Revenge of the Data Model | Natepod http://natecull.org/wordpress/2017/07/06/dataspace-2/

Center for a Stateless Society » Long Live Anarchy: An Interview With Robert Anton Wilson (Part 2) https://c4ss.org/content/46540

/me has to switch off showing the timeline after tweeting with #goxtxt as it takes 2 minutes to fetch it 😳. Too long if you have a message split into two tweets.

Hot take: the existence of garden path sentences tells us that: 1) language isn’t so much a representation of meaning as a way of representing constraints for possible intepretation, and 2) we start processing before all the constraints have arrived

The Golden Calf Vol. 2 | Is Art a Commodity? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5AxnNbC-oM

The Shuffle interface is so strange. Everything is HUGE and there’s not much of it. It’s web 2.0 af. Was this a VN trend I missed?

Ep. 2: Elizabeth Sandifer on Neoreaction: A Basilisk https://parallaxviews.podbean.com/e/ep-2-elizabeth-sandifer-on-neoreaction-a-basilisk/

On Deadpool 2 and the “Art” of Fridging | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2018/05/21/on-deadpool-2-and-the-art-of-fridging/

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

Reminder that I have 2 essays on escaping path-dependence: https://medium.com/@/the-manufacture-of-steam-engine-time-9f83cd24a9b0 & https://medium.com/@/the-wtf-awards-sketching-a-map-to-an-escape-from-steam-engine-time-1bc4bd29c2e4

IS SONIC 2 ABOUT CAPITALISM??!??!? | SERIOUS LORE ANALYSIS 3 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TebCHHCw9rY

@kas@enotty.dk thx, very interesting. But I’ll stick with #ZSH as I am in group 1: https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/01/28.html#toc_2

How to get access to timeline travel tech:↵1. Create a unique and valuable piece of information, e.g. be Satoshi↵2. Quantum-suicide yourself and the data into one timeline, in all the other timelines leave proof that this happened↵3. Wait for timeline travelers to try and rob you

Web 2.0 Expo NY: Clay Shirky (shirky.com) It’s Not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure. - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LabqeJEOQyI

just updated twtxt from 1.2.1 to 1.2.3 - looks like there were some config file changes

Storming the Ivory Tower: Let’s Pop Together Part 2 http://www.stormingtheivorytower.com/2018/03/lets-pop-together-part-2.html

On the market for a camera
We have gone through quite a few cameras. The very first one we recall was a Canon EOS D30, with an amazing 3.2 megapixel — sarcasm aside, it took amazing photos. After that we had had many Sony Cyber-shots, a Canon Powershot A640, a couple of Canon Powershot Gs, and another bigger Canon, the [EO … ⌘ Read more

Google Clips review: a smart camera that doesn’t make the grade - The Verge ⌘ https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/27/17055618/google-clips-smart-camera-review

Nix 2.0 released
Nix 2.0
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