Bad idea of the day: an anki deck of oblique strategies

Bad idea of the day: using spaced repetition software to remind yourself to meditate on open questions

Bad idea of the day: Expand citizenship: you are automatically a citizen of a state if you were born there, if either parent is from there, if you have lived there for more than 6 months, or if you own or rent any land there.

Bad idea of the day: a metal detector that plays a guitar solo instead of beeping

Bad idea of the day: A video game called ‘infodump’ where the primary mechanic is literally using a wiki/world bible to research lore.

Bad idea of the day: automatically replace words with synonyms that have more phoneme sequences in common with the previous word (post-processing)

Bad idea of the day: turn the entire military budget into a sovergn wealth fund

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.

Bad idea of the day: disguise copies of bolo’bolo as constitution pamphlets

Bad idea of the day: Select a bunch of positions, and pay people on mechanical turk to identify the strongest arguments for & against that position they can think of.

Bad idea of the day: A movie podcast where the host double-features the Nth best-rated and Nth worst-rated movies on IMDB & compares them.

Another way to talk about Maybe Logic re: map-territory confusion: a lot of people don’t put error bars on their imagination. So, they make a prediction, the universe says ‘nope’, and they’ve got no idea where to start debugging bc every inference looks equally strong

Hey guys any of you have an idea why the udev daemon is pinned slightly above 100% CPU like all the time now?

@kas@enotty.dk Have you done something with nncp? I like the idea, but somehow i don’t find a use case for it… :)

Band name of the day: an invitation to bad ideas

Bad idea of the day: a foot pedal for bold and a second foot pedal for italic

Bad idea of the day: pay a million-account botnet to all change their display names to Elon Musk simultaneously

story idea: a fringe political party backed by organized crime controls a network of seemingly-independent roadside palmistry shops & new-age stores – organizing fortunes & stocking books in a plan to manipulate voters

story idea: after computing the cenusus, an unexpected conclusion – about 10% of the population is gone, with no explanation

Bad idea of the day: a twitter bot that responds to messages by paying mechanical turk five cents to produce a response – and in the absence of mentions, pays mechanical turk five cents to produce one tweet per day

For weeks I’ve been getting 400 trying to load any youtube page on one machine (on chrome), and starting last week another machine started having the same problem. Any idea what’s happening?

Thread by @enkiv2@www.lord-enki.net: “An article I’m considering writing: the (explicit) political use of ghost stories. The idea of the ‘confederate soldier ghost’ was explicitl […]” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1021352318028087297.html

Bad idea of the day: a reality tv show where Stephen King and Joe Hill move into a cramped apartment together while both trying to write new novels, confusingly titled King of the Hill

Bad idea of the day: an anthology of human-selected machine-generated fiction and poetry from various codebases, with introductions explaining the generation method, selected on the same lines as a literary anthology

Bad idea of the day: a movie review show where you review imaginary movies that you wish were coming out but never will, and you give them bad reviews

We shouldn’t let people get used to the idea that software fails - Rakhim.org https://rakhim.org/2018/07/software-shouldnt-fail

Bad idea of the day: replace your planner with a planchette and let DEAD GHOSTS set your daily schedule, remind you of appointments, etc.

Bad idea of the day: 9p/scuttlebutt bridge

Bad idea of the day: 9p/activitypub bridge

Hot take: the space of all possible understandable statements is composed almost exclusively of references to complex & abstract ideas with a tenuous relationship to any physical reality & unclear test conditions

Bad idea of the day: Get Annals of the Perrigues style themed corpora type output in your templates by adjusting probabilities by the semantic distance between a choice & some word that is the locus of a theme, with word2vec or something

Is a hole a real thing, or just a place where something isn’t? | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/is-a-hole-a-real-thing-or-just-a-place-where-something-isnt

Revolutionary ideas always are masked as a return to older ideas or appeal to common sense ONLY because they can’t be expressed without the intellectual groundwork that makes them seem inevitable once fully comprehended.

Bad idea of the day: 72-hour osdev jam

Whoever decided to nae a government agency after a thing that sets your head on fire if you forget your password too many times should also be too self-aware to think having one of these is a good idea.

Bad idea of the day: Jojo Stands but they’re all Lemon Demon / Neil Cicerega songs

Bad idea of the day: a physical crank for rolling back commits

Bad idea of the day: a fuzzer disguised as a usb charger

Bad idea of the day: A lootbox service for public-domain work – every month you get a hardcover of a PD book & a vinyl of a PD recording

The difficulty in translating ‘dokidoki’ for non-otaku audiences is a great example of why conceptual frames are a useful idea. You can literally translate it as ‘badump’ because it’s the heartbeat sfx, but you lose something.

Bad idea of the day: Use ssb to coordinate pinning of ipfs objects

Bad idea of the day: Scroll back through GUI input events & application states like you scroll back through shell history; inject conditionals and loops; use speculative execution of applications to show projected state from these changes.

Bad idea of the day: A language with APL-style syntax and PROLOG-style semantics

Bad idea of the day: A small dedicated machine (like a chumby, maybe based on the raspberry pi) that ships with ipfs & ssb/patchwork, casts from ipfs or peertube to TVs.

The khipu code: the knotty mystery of the Inkas’ 3D records | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/the-khipu-code-the-knotty-mystery-of-the-inkas-3d-records

Bad idea of the day: A tarot deck formatted like a set of business cards, one for the egregore of each arcanum (major and minor – not just trumps)

Bad idea of the day: Distort text so that, from a distance, it will be read as a QR code containing the same text – a typographical pseudo-quine

Return the pop-culture idea of the MIB to where it was in the mid-60s: tall, pale, completely hairless, wearing bright red lipstick, and with bulging eyes and a robotic, monotone vocal cadence.

article idea: media (esp. social media) as perverse psychogeography, & the inhabitants of transient spaces by career & disposition

Bad idea of the day: treating asemic combinations of dictionary words as an aesthetic to be appropriated by commerce, and appropriating it with commerce, thus making attempts to identify dictionary-based chaffing techniques lossier