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
has been released. See the release\
 notes for a list of changes and new features. ⌘ Read more

Episode 46: Allison Parrish — Commonplace: Conversations with Poe… https://www.commonpodcast.com/home/2018/2/14/episode-46-allison-parrish

How Protein Conquered America - Eater https://www.eater.com/2018/2/12/16991634/muscle-milk-protein-culture

[Updated] BlueGriffon Tutorial: Design a website using the open source BlueGriffon web editor ⌘ https://www.thesitewizard.com/bluegriffon/bluegriffon-2-tutorial-1.shtml

Meet the pirate queen making aca… https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/8/16985666/alexandra-elbakyan-sci-hub-open-access-science-papers-lawsuit

You can now play with Spotify’s rec… https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2018/2/5/16974194/spotify-recommendation-algorithm-playlist-hack-nelson

Fan Service in Anime vs. The Monogatari Series [PART 2] - Redefining Relationships - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBT3wH_0NGw

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Progress:↵1. spambots↵2. thirst bots, propaganda bots↵3. bots able to hold actual conversation, surrogate friends↵4. bots better than humans, none of the drama but all of the relationship↵5. social-network-in-a-box, a complete circle of friends for those done with the real world

1: animated masks, covered in breathing feathers, clockwork, small animals↵2: screens in place of faces, some still look like faces, others play reaction gifs or random streams↵3: the above, but they’re touchscreens and touching another’s face is just… normal, why don’t you?

1. companies figure out that humans are expensive security risks and start doing without↵2. machine economy does not turn on humans, it just increasingly ignores them, humanity watches at the sidelines/bottom of the gravity well while the solar system lights up

» A Net Before the Web, Part 2: Service to Community The Digital Antiquarian http://www.filfre.net/2017/11/a-net-before-the-web-part-2-service-to-community/

Part 2) Download Large Files with Progress Reports ⌘ Read more…

https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/2/16597276/google-ai-image-attacks-adversarial-turtle-rifle-3d-printed

"Aesthetic Engine 2" by Vladimir Mitrovic - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAil0DzclFA

The New Yakuza Murders: Inside the Japanese Mafia’s Circle of Death http://www.thedailybeast.com/the-new-yakuza-murders-inside-the-japanese-mafias-circle-of-death-2?curator=MediaREDEF

phase 1: ads tailored to you↵phase 2: ads tailored to each of your identities↵phase 3: ads inducing identity splits for more customers

1. build self-driving cars that use humans for fuel↵2. make them mimic uber/lyft/etc cars↵3. release↵4. sit back, enjoy the media panic

The complete history of the IBM PC, part two: The DOS empire strikes | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/07/ibm-pc-history-part-2/

Steve Bannon and the occult: The right wing’s long, strange love affair with New Age mysticism - Salon.com http://www.salon.com/2017/07/19/steve-bannon-and-the-occult-the-right-wings-long-strange-love-affair-with-new-age-mysticism-2/?curator=MediaREDEF

2,000+ Cassettes from the Allen Ginsberg Audio Collection Now Streaming Online | Open Culture http://www.openculture.com/2017/07/2000-cassettes-from-the-allen-ginsberg-audio-collection-now-streaming-online.html

Scientists crack mystery of ancient Roman concrete’s 2,000-year life span - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/07/04/ancient-romans-made-worlds-most-durable-concrete-we-might-use-it-to-stop-rising-seas/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=nextdraft&utm_term=.2b76b2885c2a

HEXEN 2.0 http://www.suzannetreister.net/HEXEN2/TAROT_COL/HEXEN_2_TAROT.html

Binary file (standard input) matches http://www.suzannetreister.net/HEXEN2/HEXEN_2.html

Masterprints: synthetic fingerprints that unlock up to 65% of phones (in theory) / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2017/04/14/something-you-have-2.html

GitHub - shiffman/NOC-S17-2-Intelligence-Learning: Syllabus for Part 2 of Nature of Code: "Intelligence and Learning" at ITP Spring 2017 Edit https://github.com/shiffman/NOC-S17-2-Intelligence-Learning

Even and odd levels of irony are always easy to distinguish. It becomes harder when you’re dealing with levels n, n+2, n+4…

The Interpreter - The New Yorker ⌘ http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/04/16/the-interpreter-2

@webi@twtxt.opstack.info Thanks for the youtube link! Don’t miss the rap at 2:20…

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@quite@lublin.se There is even a section rfc7234 about heuristic expiration times: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7234#section-4.2

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net Yeah, but yet a lot of sites are preparing the jump to http/2.0 with its inbelievable complexity. And even http/1.1 is probably a little bit over engineered.