Bad idea of the day: watching FEWER horror movies in october because you need a break from the rest of the year

Hot take: ambient computing is actually a cool & good idea, as long as no for-profit entities are involved in it. It only becomes horrible when you add business.

Bad idea of the day: turn music into text by substituting note frequency with word frequency

Bad idea of the day: A video game adaptation of Lethem’s Gun With Occasional Music in the style of the Monkey Island series, with a mechanic involving mixing custom blends of forgetol/regretol/etc & replacing people’s stashes with them.

Bad idea of the day: a d20 where every face is labeled 1

Bad idea of the day: a bot that posts random joke punchlines but not the actual joke

Bad idea of the day: a robot that spills or dribbles paint onto canvas until the image is recognized as an object, then names the painting after that object.

The Importance of Simple Ideas - Cyborgology https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2018/09/03/the-importance-of-simple-ideas/

Bad idea of the day: A book called Acknowledgements that’s just a book-length acknowledgements section thanking people for contributing to the book, House-That-Jack-Built-style

Bad idea of the day: a wikipedia project for creating and improving articles that are uniquely relevant to countries that qualified for internet.org

The interesting ideas in Datasette https://simonwillison.net/2018/Oct/4/datasette-ideas/

Bad idea of the day: a machine that uses oscillators to manufacture high-quality sand

Bad idea of the day: inform7 repl as command shell

Bad idea of the day: surreal and disturbing powerpoint presentations as public performance art

How to tell the difference between persuasion and manipulation | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/how-to-tell-the-difference-between-persuasion-and-manipulation

Computers can solve your problem. You may not like the answer. - The Boston Globe https://apps.bostonglobe.com/ideas/graphics/2018/09/equity-machine/

Why the high-tech ideas of ‘Bucky’ Fuller are back in vogue | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/why-the-high-tech-ideas-of-bucky-fuller-are-back-in-vogue

The Joe Rogan Experience Is a Safe Space to Launder Bad Ideas - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kv9qd/the-joe-rogan-experience-is-a-safe-space-to-launder-bad-ideas

Bad idea of the day: univocalipogram.social

Bad idea of the day: Current prisoners have mandatory voting while non-prisoners (including ex-prisoners) have the option to vote

Let’s bring back the Sabbath as a radical act against ‘total work’ | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/lets-bring-back-the-sabbath-as-a-radical-act-against-total-work

Do you have ideas for a new spec? Maybe we can collect them on irc? join freenode/twtxt

Book idea (high effort, dunno if I’ll do it): a survey of alternative computing systems in the style of Seven Languages in Seven Weeks. What should I include other than smalltalk, colorforth, oberon, templeos, and menuet?

@nblade@nblade.sdf.org: It’s just an idea. Not a clean one thoug, as clients would not know upfront who serves such a fiele and who not. Another idea would ne to mix a number of random followers into the twtxt file, which are updated when a person tweets.

Bad idea of the day: a movie musical called Greece, for extra confusion

Bad idea of the day: a sanrio-branded sentient shoelace character who is nervous about fraying named Aglets-ko

Bad idea of the day: The HOWLing: angel-headed hipsters fight werewolves whose blood is running money and whose mind is vast machinery

Bad idea of the day: Phibes recut as a silent film

Bad idea of the day: a retelling of Dracula where Van Hellsing and Renfield are merged into the same character

Bad idea of the day: Batman (1968) vs Doctor Phibes: two rich geniuses who love gadgets and labelling things fight each other in an art-deco city with a comically incompetent police force

Bad idea of the day: replace every word in a book with a sentence in another book that is an anagram of the NATO word-spelling of it

Bad idea of the day: replace every sentence in some book with a sentence from a different gutenberg book that is an anagram of it

Simplicity or style: what makes a sentence a masterpiece? | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/simplicity-or-style-what-makes-a-sentence-a-masterpiece

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