The alt-right is drunk on bad readings of Nietzsche. The Nazis were too. - Vox https://www.vox.com/2017/8/17/16140846/alt-right-nietzsche-richard-spencer-nazism
Stack Overflow Culture | Jon Skeet’s coding blog https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2018/03/17/stack-overflow-culture/
Pink Lexical Goop: The Dark Side of Autocorrect - Mondo 2000 http://www.mondo2000.com/2018/01/17/pink-lexical-goop-dark-side-autocorrect/
On the design of distributed programming models | th… https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/08/17/on-the-design-of-distributed-programming-models/
Festival 23 - Wonderism, Fake News… http://www.mondo2000.com/2017/12/17/discordian-festival-23-wonderism-fake-news-neo-discordian-revival/
Unlocking the commons: or, the psychoeconomics of patr… https://kottke.org/17/12/unlocking-the-commons-or-the-psychoeconomics-of-patronage
Human Mini-Brains Growing Inside Rat Bodies Are Starting To Integrate - Slashdot https://science.slashdot.org/story/17/11/09/2314220/human-mini-brains-growing-inside-rat-bodies-are-starting-to-integrate
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy : A Series of Steaks by Vina Jie-Min Prasad http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/prasad_01_17/
The experience of time in Dante’s Inferno https://kottke.org/17/10/the-experience-of-time-in-dantes-inferno
Card catalogs and the secret history of modernity https://kottke.org/17/10/card-catalogs-and-the-secret-history-of-modernity
Planetary and the 1990s pulp comics revival https://kottke.org/17/10/planetary-and-the-1990s-pulp-comics-revival
When an AI Tries Writing Slashdot Headlines - Slashdot https://meta.slashdot.org/story/17/10/22/1714246/when-an-ai-tries-writing-slashdot-headlines
Расследование РБК: как «фабрика троллей» поработала на выборах в США :: Технологии и медиа :: РБК http://www.rbc.ru/technology_and_media/17/10/2017/59e0c17d9a79470e05a9e6c1
NixOS 17.09 released
NixOS 17.09 “Hummingbird” has been released, the eigth stable release
branch. See the release\
notes
for details. You can get NixOS 17.09 ISOs and VirtualBox
appliances from the download\
page. For information on how to upgrade from older release
branches to 17.09, check out the manual\
section on\
upgrading. ⌘ Read more
A metaphor for Summer 2017 http://kottke.org/17/09/a-metaphor-for-summer-2017
Mistrust, Efficacy and the New Civics – a whitepaper for the Knight Foundation | … My heart’s in Accra http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2017/08/17/mistrust-efficacy-and-the-new-civics-a-whitepaper-for-the-knight-foundation/
The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/08/17/the-premium-mediocre-life-of-maya-millennial/
Walkie Talkie History: From World War II to Nextel http://tedium.co/2017/08/17/walkie-talkie-history/
Why does U2 irk so many people? A look at their struggle for pop hits and social justice | America Magazine https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2017/07/17/why-does-u2-irk-so-many-people-look-their-struggle-pop-hits-and-social?curator=MusicREDEF
How work changed to make us all passionate quitters | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-work-changed-to-make-us-all-passionate-quitters?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=7f26aee3ac-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-7f26aee3ac-68693017
How to tell a bad person from a person who did a bad thing | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-to-tell-a-bad-person-from-a-person-who-did-a-bad-thing?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=79140b7e03-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-79140b7e03-68693017
How Cold War philosophy permeates US society to this day | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-cold-war-philosophy-permeates-us-society-to-this-day?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=ba66c731ab-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-ba66c731ab-68693017
Oliver Stone’s Putin puzzle: An evil genius who made history, or a shrewd, small-minded nonentity? - Salon.com http://www.salon.com/2017/06/17/oliver-stone-deconstructs-putin-an-evil-genius-who-made-history-or-a-shrewd-but-small-minded-apparatchik-writ-large/?curator=MediaREDEF
Michael Lewis and the parable of the lucky man taking the extra cookie http://kottke.org/17/06/michael-lewis-and-the-parable-of-the-lucky-man-taking-the-extra-cookie
NixOS 17.03 released
NixOS 17.03 “Gorilla” has been released, the seventh stable release
branch. See the release\
notes
for details. You can get NixOS 17.03 ISOs and VirtualBox
appliances from the download\
page. For information on how to upgrade from older release
branches to 17.03, check out the manual\
section on\
upgrading. ⌘ Read more
The decline of GPL? ⌘ https://opensource.com/article/17/2/decline-gpl
Woah, what a day, 17 tweets by five users! :) #twtxt
We just started to watch The West Wing a week ago. No idea how I could have overlooked it for 17 years, it’s so good!