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

alethionymity: you’re online with your arcane name; the idea was that people would be nice and polite if they knew they could be cursed by anybody with a grudge, but somehow that didn’t work out

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

project idea: VM A starts VM B, which then starts another VM and remaps that to A, leading to A and B hosting each other

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

the hypodrive, a device for covering arbitrarily small distances so you can hide inside a mandelbrot, or hunt what lives within (generally a bad idea though, whoever can hide inside a mandelbrot has bigger threats to deal with than you)

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