Bad idea of the day: An RPG whose stats are traits like alienation, shadow integration, neurosis

In The Eternal… http://www.harrowell.org.uk/blog/2018/01/31/in-the-eternal-inferno-fiends-torment-ronald-coase-with-the-fate-of-his-ideas/

Bad idea of the day: donate synthetic diamond machines to hackerspaces

Bad idea of the day: Take two movies & drop or combine frames until they are exactly the same length. Then, interpolate the two, so that in each frame, every other line is a different movie. Then, interpolate the FFT of the soundtrack so that, for some band size, every other band is the other movie.

Bad idea of the day: Rearrange the frames of a movie so that each frame is followed by the remaining frame that has the minimum (or maximum) difference, in terms first of brightness and then of color

Bad idea of the day: Sort the frames of a movie by average color & play it that way

Bad idea of the day: A voice assistant specifically designed to answer toddlers when they ask ‘why’.

Philosophy has a lot to learn from film | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/philosophers-have-much-to-learn-from-the-great-filmmakers

IDEA – nonverbal algorithm assembly instructions https://idea-instructions.com/

Bad idea of the day: bibliomancy by generating random sentences in toki pona

Bad idea of the day: A bot that iterates over one-syllable verbs, saying, for each verb X, ers gonna , , , , ,

The tech bias: why Silicon Valley needs social theory | Aeon I… https://aeon.co/ideas/the-tech-bias-why-silicon-valley-needs-social-theory

Samurai, spy, commando: who were the real ninja? | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/samurai-spy-commando-who-were-the-real-ninja

Why hiring the ‘best’ people produces the least crea… https://aeon.co/ideas/why-hiring-the-best-people-produces-the-least-creative-results

Bad idea of the day: an extension that renders every word in a font chosen based on the hash of that word

Bad idea of the day: an extension that decreases the size of images based on how many copies of similar images are already in your browser cache

Bad idea of the day: an extension that runs term extraction on whatever web page you’re viewing and then increases the size and contrast of words based on their computed importance ranking

Bad idea of the day: a captcha system that shows you something that should be upsetting and then determines if you’re humane by checking your computer for signs of whether or not you were upset by it

Bad idea of the day: Raspberry Pi based seedboxes built into your shoes, connecting to every open network, and trying to break into every not-open one.

Bad idea of the day: ESP32 throwies with flash memory as store-and-forward nodes for an incrementally growing DHT

Bad idea of the day: a claw machine except it’s a fishing pole with a hook on the end

Bad idea of the day: at a wedding, the bride, groom, bridesmaids, and best man all wear identical suits and photorealistic masks of Richard K. James

Bad idea of the day: spaghetti and cakeballs in a cinnamon-sugar-butter sauce

Bad idea of the day: playing cards with oblique strategies on tghem

Bad idea of the day: set your voice assistant’s wake word to ‘OK computer’

The problem with building a “fair” system - O‘Reilly Media https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/the-problem-with-building-a-fair-system

Bad idea of the day: Adversarial social graphs. 99% similar to your actual graph, but friending one guy makes Facebook think you’re actually Al Gore.

Bad idea of the day: Feed all those KMart recordings into sample-rnn and generate infinite automatic mallsoft

How Schopenhauer’s thought can illuminate a midlife crisi… https://aeon.co/ideas/how-schopenhauers-thought-can-illuminate-a-midlife-crisis

Bad idea of the day: Stop distinguishing between wartime non-civillian killings and non-wartime civillian killings, and have all actions during war subject to regular police investigation and trial by jury.

Post-work: the radical idea of a world wi… https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jan/19/post-work-the-radical-idea-of-a-world-without-jobs

Bad idea of the day: a TMBG cover band called In Those Days There Were Giants

Bad idea of the day: require a payment of a dollar (held in escrow by the copyright office) to send a DMCA takedown notice. The dollar goes to whoever is determined to be the legitimate owner, in case of a dispute. If there is no dispute, it goes into the federal education budget.

Bad idea of the day: An ebook reader program in two columns, where the second column is specifically for recording personal marginal notes & is the same size as the book’s text itself – notes pinned to the paragraph, line, or sentence. Call it ‘MARGINAL’.

Bad idea of the day: Cryptocurrency but the proof of work is unclassifiable acts of kindness toward disadvantaged strangers

Bad idea of the day: A book-length work of fiction that contains no nouns

Bad idea of the day: Cryptocurrency but the proof of work is making and serving coffee

Bad idea of the day: Cryptocurrency but the proof of work is burning dollar bills on live television

Bad idea of the day: Cryptocurrency but the proof of work is computing a giant-ass rainbow table

Bad idea of the day: Instead of ads mining bitcoins in your browser, they run IPFS nodes and pin arbitrary hashes in browser persistent storage then store them.

Bad idea of the day: Distribute a copy of Society of the Spectacle in the form of playing cards

#nanogenmo idea: a database of loosely-related epigrams or paragraphs, tagged by topic; going to a topic displays the associated epigrams in arbitrary order. the tags are generated from analysis of the text.

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I think we already discussed encrypted tweets some time ago, but no encryption seemed short enough. GPG ist just too big. Any ideas?

If you make something and you aren’t OK with the idea of a degraded, broken zombie form of it existing forever, killing it is your responsibility.

Wars are not won by military genius or decisive battles | A… https://aeon.co/ideas/wars-are-not-won-by-military-genius-or-decisive-battles

OkCupid begins e… https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/12/okcupid-begins-enforcing-real-name-rules-insists-its-a-good-idea/

Bad idea of the day: mirror all google fonts on ipfs and then use an extension that rewrites the urls to use that version. Alternately: use an extension that downloads them via tor.

Bad idea of the day: a filter that eggcorn-izes test using substitutions from https://eggcorns.lascribe.net/browse-eggcorns/

The human brain’s bandwidth for visual images is s… https://aeon.co/ideas/the-human-brains-bandwidth-for-visual-images-is-severely-limited

Bad idea of the day: voting, except with a 30 year delay, to force people to actually think ahead.