THE MEDIA BUSINESS: Encountering The Digital Age – An occasional look at computers in everday life.; Potboiler Springs From Computer’s Loins - The New Yor… https://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/02/us/media-business-encountering-digital-age-occasional-look-computers-everday-life.html
author: slaves away in their den, full power over the narrative yet is bound by the market↵protagonist: just never smarter than the author, sorry↵secondary character: has a place in life, has plot-breaking powers, can make backstory appear retroactively
Same Difference “ Real Life http://reallifemag.com/same-difference/
The Great Mortality “ Real Life http://reallifemag.com/the-great-mortality/
No I know they’d like to study it harder, but now imagine something that’s both as ravenous as life and as competent as technology hitching a ride back up and escaping onto the interstellar stage, we’d lose that whole galaxy
You see, this planet has developed technology and life, remarkable really, problem is that all the probes we sent to study its biomechanosphere have so far either been eaten or shot down by local wildlife, so we’ve quarantined it
Confirming the intelligent designer’s existence, and using its intelligence to solve otherwise intractable problems by making them look like niches for life to settle
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net My take on this is… let’s let people ruin the web. Let centralized services control everything. But let us tech savvy people stick together and provide an alternative space for us. A space that’s welcoming to those that want to join and learn. Maybe people will come over when their online actions show real life consequences. There are statistics about decreasing social media use in Generation Z. Maybe they want to learn from us Internet-Dinosaurs :)
The workflow app on iOS is magic. I now have a button that asks me to select a picture, then converts it to png, resizes it, strips the metadata, scps it to my jumphost, scps it further to my gopher jail and into my paste directory, constructs the http proxy URL and opens it in safari. All without user-interaction. Now I can share my mobile life with you guys! Prepare for cat pictures!
What is happiness?
After questioning myself on the meaning of life—something I still do, by the way—I long settled that, regardless of what it might be, living a happy life and aiming to be happy is what life is all about. Happiness, though, isn’t a fixed thing. Just like the many avatars of gods, their many incarnations, happiness comes from many sources, and is often found in subtle contexts throughout life. It is not absolute, and its definition may vary from person to person: what brings me happiness migh … ⌘ Read more
Nobody knows if there really is a network behind the terms and conditions or has even found their end, but there is life: In a box in the lower right corner, squat communities have sprung up (“35 other people also stymied by § 4.23.7, chat now”)↵#invisiblenetworks (day 16)
Odd Numbers “ Real Life http://reallifemag.com/odd-numbers/
When offered eternal life, take it. No matter your mind’s fate, come heat death, your body may be what sustains all that’s left of life, maybe even some civilizations.
Just Randomness? “ Real Life http://reallifemag.com/just-randomness/
Error 406 - Not Acceptable http://www.notechmagazine.com/2018/07/fermentation-and-daily-life.html
These ‘Paperbacks From Hell’ Reflect The Real-Life Angst Of The 1970s : NPR https://www.npr.org/2017/10/26/559522789/these-paperbacks-from-hell-reflect-the-real-life-angst-of-the-1970s
I’ve lost control of my life 🌸🌸 - an entomologist rates ant emojis http://curlicuecal.tumblr.com/post/175362924100/an-entomologist-rates-ant-emojis
Hot take: almost all ACTUAL statements encountered in daily life are untestable except in an ad-hoc & ambiguous way, because their referents don’t map well to physical reality.
New repository: aquilax/biograph - Life graphing library
Thinking Machine: Ramon Llull Inner Life of Advanced Technology Catholicism God Machine David Metcalfe http://www.patheos.com/blogs/theglobalcatholicreview/2018/06/gods-machine/
life hex: is your company’s marketing falling flat? Before spending millions on a re-branding effort, try charging your existing logo by staring at it during orgasm and then reproducing it in seminal fluid
life hex: leash-training your dog can be a pain. Instead, make an effigy of your dog, and wrap around it twine made from his own hair, while chanting ‘I bind you to this image’. Pop the poppet in your pocket and off you go
life hex: sick of dating sites? Instead of trusting a pickup artist, trust Furfur, Earl of Hell. Just remember to put him inside a magic triangle before asking him for relationship advice
life hex: for financial planning advice, summon Foras, Great President of Hell
TIL that Jaron Lanier is to blame for Second Life’s shitty/dysfunctional internal Linden economy
The Story of Second Life’s Long-Abandoned Duran Duran Universe | Kotaku UK http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2017/07/07/the-story-of-second-lifes-long-abandoned-duran-duran-universe
Exploring The Digital Ruins Of ‘Second Life’ - Digg https://digg.com/2018/second-life-in-2018
True Nonbelievers “ Real Life http://reallifemag.com/true-nonbelievers/
Legend Tripping “ Real Life http://reallifemag.com/legend-tripping/
The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/08/17/the-premium-mediocre-life-of-maya-millennial/
The Accursed Share “ Real Life http://reallifemag.com/the-accursed-share/
Life hack: find the video in your youtube recommendations you’re least interested in watching, click on it, turn off your speakers, and leave your house for a week.
You can easily tell actual dream girls and guys from fake ones by their complete inability to function in daily life, where dream logic just isn’t so useful
The constant freezing gale from the night side forces most life on the edge into well-lit wind shadows, but also powers mills, musical instruments, even computers based on Kármán vortex logic
samim - Thoughts on Botnets and CreativityToday, Botnets impact almost every aspect of human life. Promoting products, providing… https://samim.io/p/2018-04-23-the-solution-to-exploding-fake-news-and-spam-botnets-ca/
Review: 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson | Kate Manne https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/jordan-peterson-12-rules-kate-manne-review/
pro tip: when you tie a part of reality to a social construct (like tying life to money, or violence to law, or technical decisions to industry hype) you risk huge ramifications unless the ‘real’ portion is the primary driver. social constructs are too floaty.
Faking It â Real Life http://reallifemag.com/faking-it/
Uncomfortable ASMR â Real Life http://reallifemag.com/uncomfortable-asmr/
Altered States â Real Life http://reallifemag.com/altered-states/
Daily Affirmations â Real Life http://reallifemag.com/daily-affirmations/
Red Pilled â Real Life http://reallifemag.com/red-pilled/
What It’s Like to Be a Bot â Real Life http://reallifemag.com/what-its-like-to-be-a-bot/
eBook History: Life Before There Was Kindle https://tedium.co/2018/04/26/ebook-history-before-kindle/
a universe where AI alignment is about as impossible as the halting problem, and it’s a fact of life that civilizations periodically turn new faces when a new generation takes over
a voodoo doll, but of someone you mean well and you make sure it has a good life while the person is away
vacuumgap your planets so that if one catches a life, it doesn’t spread as easily
Headlines making you anxious? Delay reading them | Oliver Burkeman | Life and style | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/apr/06/how-to-handle-headline-anxiety-take-time-reading-news-oliver-burkeman
In the gap between writer and reader the novel comes to life | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/in-the-gap-between-writer-and-reader-the-novel-comes-to-life