I’d run Oceanhorn 2 on my iMac. Installing a kext for my Switch Pro Controller isn’t something I want to do ever again, though.

@mdosch@mdosch.de I’ve tried to play games on my phone and iPad but none of the games I’ve ever played on them seem to stick. I’ve had fun — briefly — with Threes and FTL and Really Bad Chess and so forth, but I don’t seem to stick with any one game on my iOS gizmos like I have with, say, FTL-on-Steam, much less TF2 or Dota 2.

Is it weird that I just want to hang around with some folks and discuss sysctl(2) over a beer or two?

Random link from the archives: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/summer_movies/2006/06/watching_the_detectives.html originally archived Thu Aug 2 07:50:49 EDT 2018

Random link from the archives: https://www.hackmud.com/ originally archived Mon Jul 2 08:46:17 EDT 2018

I think DEVO might have got their math wrong in We’re Through Being Cool. Have I met 2 dozen members of any social group? That’s like 20% of my dunbar allocation.

You know, Desert 2 is probably the best static Mojave wallpaper. It has enough light parts for the daytime, yet it also is generally dark enough to work well in dim lighting. Not many photographs are like that.

Random link from the archives: http://letters.temporarystate.net/entry/4/ originally archived Tue Apr 2 08:29:02 EDT 2019

GPT-2 Neural Network Poetry - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/GPT-2

The Most Important Writing Lesson I Ever Learned – Steven Pressfield https://stevenpressfield.com/2009/10/writing-wednesdays-2-the-most-important-writing-lession-i-ever-learned/

hmm, twtxt 1.2.3 includes “User-Agent:” in its user-agent string…

Why We Love BAD Movies (feat. The Room, Sharknado, Troll 2, Rebecca Black’s Friday) “ Wisecrack Vlog - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rxc0DQs-6qw

jezbel-quote<\/title>https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/how-filmmakers-created-fake-newsreels-in-the-1920s-1832866878

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net When I ‘twtxt view freemor’, the last post I get is from 2 months ago :/

📚 Finished reading Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2) by Isaac Asimov

📚 Finished reading Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2) by Isaac Asimov

DSHR’s Blog: Techno-hype part 2.5 https://blog.dshr.org/2018/03/techno-hype-part-25.html

People love to talk about the potential security impact of exotic state-of-the-art shit like GPT-2 and deepfakes, but they’re neither convincing nor the lowest-effort effective way to create disinfo. Spinners scale better than GPT-2.

Facebook filed a patent for a ‘civil’ political debate forum - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/28/18244632/facebook-political-debate-system-digital-forum-reputation-patent-filing

Status as a Service (StaaS) — Remains of the Day https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19/status-as-a-service

AI won’t relieve the misery of Facebook’s human moderators - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/27/18242724/facebook-moderation-ai-artificial-intelligence-platforms

Workplace OS History: IBM’s $2 Billion Microkernel of Failure https://tedium.co/2019/02/28/ibm-workplace-os-taligent-history/

Weezer’s Black Album Won’t Make It Easier for Them - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/music/2019/2/26/18240667/weezer-black-album-review-rivers-cuomo

The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebook-content-moderator-interviews-trauma-working-conditions-arizona

Happy Death Day 2: You Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy

GPT-2 As Step Toward General Intelligence | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/19/gpt-2-as-step-toward-general-intelligence/

GPT-2: only slightly worse than tracery ™

Re: GPT-2 – sure, this has neural nets and all, but you get higher quality output with less CPU time writing a template for a spinner.

Gender-swapped and race-flipped remakes aren’t living up to their potential - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/12/18220797/what-men-want-ghostbusters-the-hustle-remakes-gender-race-flipped?curator=MediaREDEF

Disney reportedly pulls ads from YouTube following child exploitation controversy - The Verge ⌘ https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/20/18233726/disney-ads-youtube-child-exploitation-scandal-adpocalypse

Dune - Plots and Plans - Extra Sci Fi - #2 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NYO7aoOOmk

Letting neural networks be weird • GPT-2: It learned on the Internet http://aiweirdness.com/post/182824715257/gpt-2-it-learned-on-the-internet

All of the negative reviews of Alita are like “it follows the manga even when it shouldn’t, which makes it not feel like a hollywood movie, & it fits 4.5 volumes of manga into a 2 hour movie”

All of the positive reviews of Alita are like “it follows the manga even when you don’t expect it to, which makes it not feel like a hollywood movie, & does the best job it possibly could fitting 4.5 volumes of manga into a 2 hour movie”

Inside the larps that let human players experience AI life - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/1/18185945/live-action-roleplaying-larp-game-design-artificial-intelligence-ethics-issues

How capitalism reduced diversity to a brand - Vox https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/2/11/18195868/capitalism-race-diversity-exploitation-nancy-leong

The government is using wrong data to make decisions about the internet - Recode https://www.recode.net/2019/2/8/18211794/government-data-internet

Triple feature: Jacob’s Ladder, The Good Son, and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

Can we trust Huawei with 5G? - The Verge ⌘ https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/7/18214166/huawei-security-china-fcc-5g-cybersecurity

I regret to inform everybody that Data Privacy Day was actually last Monday. We all missed it. Sorry. Honorary Data Privacy Day every Monday for the next 2 years to make up for it, kay?

Discussing Isekai, Part 2: How Isekai Imagine Power - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCJesuBHR-g

Success criteria for the PC 2.0 era “ Aral Balkan https://ar.al/2019/01/09/success-criteria-for-the-pc-2.0-era/

2 - A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari - Illustrated Audiobook - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7ZQ5HRntHo

RFC-2 — 365 RFCs https://write.as/365-rfcs/rfc-2

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