Not news to anybody paying attention, but I still feel like it’s worth a visibility boost: https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/04/text-embedding-models-contain-bias.html

Chain Letter Evolution http://www.silcom.com/~barnowl/chain-letter/evolution.html

graydon2 | programming languages and empiricism https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/259333.html

Kaukatcr: an experiment in language design for multi-dimensional spaces http://www.lord-enki.net/medium-backup/2018-04-12_Kaukatcr–an-experiment-in-language-design-for-multi-dimensional-spaces-cc038caafff9.html

Creating Passionate Users: Is Twitter TOO good? http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2007/03/is_twitter_too_.html

PaintsChainer http://paintschainer.preferred.tech/index_en.html

Re: TLS in Gopher https://lists.debian.org/gopher-project/2018/02/msg00038.html

Ontology http://www.acutesoftware.com.au/aikif/ontology.html

How to Make Everything Ourselves: Open Modular Hardware - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2012/12/how-to-make-everything-ourselves-open-modular-hardware.html

How to Build a Low-tech Internet - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/10/how-to-build-a-low-tech-internet.html

The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user https://jameshfisher.com/2018/04/07/the-dots-do-matter-how-to-scam-a-gmail-user.html

Formatting for Gopher with GNU troff http://davebucklin.com/play/2018/03/04/gopher-groff.html

How to Gopher http://davebucklin.com/play/2018/03/31/how-to-gopher.html

Procedural Worlds from Simple Tiles http://ijdykeman.github.io/ml/2017/10/12/wang-tile-procedural-generation.html

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

NixOS 18.03 released

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Don’t Delete Facebook. Do Something About It. - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/24/opinion/sunday/delete-facebook-does-not-fix-problem.html

Instead of watching Pop Team Epic, just read this essay, which is more satisfying: http://www.stormingtheivorytower.com/2018/03/lets-pop-together-part-1.html

Test Case - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/03/test-case.html

Programmer as wizard, programmer as engineer http://www.tedinski.com/2018/03/20/wizarding-vs-engineering.html

How to Hack an Engineer https://www.nemil.com/musings/hack-an-engineer.html

13 Reasons to Believe Aliens Are Real http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/03/13-reasons-to-believe-aliens-are-real.html

‘Fifth Generation’ Became Japan’s Lost Generation - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/05/business/fifth-generation-became-japan-s-lost-generation.html

Why Wikipedia Works https://nymag.com/selectall/2018/03/why-wikipedia-works.html

How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career http://coding.derkeiler.com/Archive/Lisp/comp.lang.lisp/2006-04/msg01644.html

Benjamin Kovach https://www.kovach.me/posts/2018-03-07-generating-art.html

Setup your own file paste service: https://www.codemadness.org/paste-service.html

Anton’s Research Ramblings - 2018_03_08_how_i_write_code http://antongerdelan.net/blog/formatted/2018_03_08_how_i_write_code.html

Ted’s ComParadigm in OneLiners http://xanadu.com.au/ted/TN/WRITINGS/TCOMPARADIGM/tedCompOneLiners.html

The Nakamoto Variations - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/02/the-nakamoto-variations.html

John Perry Barlow gav… https://slate.com/technology/2018/02/john-perry-barlow-gave-internet-activists-only-half-the-mission-they-need.html

Setup your own git hosting service: https://www.codemadness.org/setup-git-hosting.html

Some free short stories from Soviet-era science fiction author Anat… https://boingboing.net/2018/02/22/some-free-short-stories-from-s.html

So You Think You Have a Power Law — Well Isn’t That Special? http://bactra.org/weblog/491.html

Found at a thrift shop: the last record of a doomed Apple DRM effort from 1979 / Boin… https://boingboing.net/2017/02/23/fools-errand.html

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JLOUIS Ramblings: Some Epigrams https://jlouisramblings.blogspot.com/2012/12/some-epigrams.html

Man-Computer Symbiosis https://groups.csail.mit.edu/medg/people/psz/Licklider.html

Fake news ‘vaccine’: Online game may ‘inoculate’ by simulating propagand… https://phys.org/news/2018-02-fake-news-vaccine-online-game.html

Probably Overthinking It: Learning to program is get… http://allendowney.blogspot.co.nz/2018/02/learning-to-program-is-getting-harder.html

Neural network AI is simple. So… Stop pretending you are a… https://www.kdnuggets.com/2018/02/neural-network-ai-simple-genius.html

Deep Reinforcement Learning Doesn’t Work Yet https://www.alexirpan.com/2018/02/14/rl-hard.html

Metadata: Paper review. IPFS: Content addressed, versio… http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/02/paper-review-ipfs-content-addressed.html

METAHEADCANON: Harmon’s Head - An 8 Circuit Model of Community http://www.metaheadcanon.com/2018/02/harmons-head-8-circuit-model-of.html

I am the very model of a New York Times contrar… https://slate.com/culture/2018/02/i-am-the-very-model-of-a-new-york-times-contrarian.html

Slack is the opposite of organizational memory https://abe-winter.github.io/plea%27s/help/2018/02/11/slack.html

A reverse CAPTCHA designed to filter out humans / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/02/09/a-reverse-captcha-designed-to.html

Linguistics Using Category Theory | The n-Category Caf&#… https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2018/02/linguistics_using_category_the.html

Why I barely read SF these days - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/02/why-i-barely-read-sf-these-day.html

Profile: Barbara Kruger on Trump, Supreme, &am… https://www.thecut.com/2018/02/profile-barbara-kruger-on-trump-supreme-and-harassment.html