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ZIP is Broken, Except it’s Not, Except it Is | Internet Archive Blogs https://blog.archive.org/2019/02/13/zip-is-broken-except-its-not-except-it-is/

‘We Are All Responsible’: How #MeToo Rejects the Bystander Effect https://longreads.com/2019/02/22/we-are-all-responsible-how-metoo-rejects-the-bystander-effect/

Workplace OS History: IBM’s $2 Billion Microkernel of Failure https://tedium.co/2019/02/28/ibm-workplace-os-taligent-history/

Unlocking the Full Brilliance of Ursula Le Guin’s Hainish Cycle | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2019/02/25/unlocking-the-full-brilliance-of-ursula-le-guins-hainish-cycle/

Paper: Hyperscan: A Fast Multi-pattern Regex Matcher for Modern CPUs – Branch Free https://branchfree.org/2019/02/28/paper-hyperscan-a-fast-multi-pattern-regex-matcher-for-modern-cpus/

Heat your House with a Water Brake Windmill - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/02/heat-your-house-with-a-water-brake-windmill.html

‘The Class Ceiling’ Decodes the Cultures of Elite Workplaces - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/02/class-ceiling-laurison-friedman-elite-jobs/582175/

Project Zero: The Curious Case of Convexity Confusion https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-curious-case-of-convexity-confusion.html

“SPEAK LOUDER” Asked the Aliens from Planet UMMO | Mysterious Universe https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/02/speak-louder-asked-the-aliens-from-planet-ummo/

Geoff Greer’s site: Software Rot https://geoff.greer.fm/2017/02/28/software-rot/

Why Do Americans Love Ice Cubes So much? https://tedium.co/2019/02/26/ice-cubes-history/

Vegetables Don’t Exist – Popula https://popula.com/2019/02/20/vegetables-dont-exist/

Attack of the Flying Space Dwarves! | Mysterious Universe https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/02/attack-of-the-flying-space-dwarves/

Unmasking the internet’s favourite novelist - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-23/unmasking-the-internets-favourite-novelist/10830116

Cheap TVs and Exorbitant Education, Modern America in One Chart https://kottke.org/19/02/cheap-tvs-and-exorbitant-education-modern-america-in-one-chart

Humans Who Are Not Concentrating Are Not General Intelligences | Otium https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2019/02/25/humans-who-are-not-concentrating-are-not-general-intelligences/

Saved Game History: Battery Backups, Memory Cards, and the Cloud https://tedium.co/2019/02/21/video-game-save-state-history/

A Global Review of Public Transit Seat Cover Designs - CityLab https://www.citylab.com/design/2019/02/public-transit-design-seat-cover-textile-patterns-moquette/583045/

The CPython Bytecode Compiler is Dumb « null program https://nullprogram.com/blog/2019/02/24/

Why Conspiracy Videos Go Viral on YouTube - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/02/reason-conspiracy-videos-work-so-well-youtube/583282/

The impossible architecture of video games • Eurogamer.net https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-02-12-the-impossible-architecture-of-video-games

Five Lessons From Seven Years of Research Into Buttons - The Crux http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2019/02/04/five-lessons-about-pressing-buttons/

Remembering Ken Nordine https://longreads.com/2019/02/19/remembering-ken-nordine/

Normalization of Deviance | Art is Art and Water is Water https://foone.wordpress.com/2019/02/14/normalization-of-deviance/

GPT-2 As Step Toward General Intelligence | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/19/gpt-2-as-step-toward-general-intelligence/

Do Neural Nets Dream Of Electric Hobbits? | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/18/do-neural-nets-dream-of-electric-hobbits/

RIP Culture War Thread | Slate Star Codex https://web.archive.org/web/20190222094427/https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/22/rip-culture-war-thread/

Watch Sesame Street’s long-lost “Cracks,” resurfaced by internet sleuths (VIDEO). https://slate.com/culture/2019/02/sesame-streets-cracks-video-watch.html

Three Decades of Cross-Cultural Utopianism in British Music Writing https://longreads.com/2019/02/19/three-decades-of-cross-cultural-utopianism-in-british-music-writing/

The Big Data Revolution Will Be Sampled: How ‘Big Data’ Has Come To Mean ‘Small Sampled Data’ https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2019/02/17/the-big-data-revolution-will-be-sampled-how-big-data-has-come-to-mean-small-sampled-data/

BEYOND HIGH WEIRDNESS: AN APPROACH TO THE LIMINAL – Liminal Seattle http://www.liminalseattle.com/2019/02/20/beyond-high-weirdness/

A Green New Deal to Win Back Our Future https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/02/green-new-deal-climate-change-policy

Hackintosh Culture: The Joy of Subverting Apple https://tedium.co/2019/02/12/hackintosh-cultural-trend/

The Green New Deal’s Big Idea - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/02/green-new-deal-economic-principles/582943/

Reese’s Advertising History: Eat Peanut Butter Cups However You Want https://tedium.co/2019/02/14/reeses-peanut-butter-cup-marketing-history/

OpenAI Trains Language Model, Mass Hysteria Ensues – Approximately Correct http://approximatelycorrect.com/2019/02/17/openai-trains-language-model-mass-hysteria-ensues/

Death To Minimalism | Current Affairs https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/02/death-to-minimalism

Sapping Attention: How badly is Google Books search broken, and why? https://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2019/02/how-badly-is-google-books-search-broken.html

Alita: Battle Angel - Escapist Magazine https://www.escapistmagazine.com/v2/2019/02/15/alita-battle-angel/

Who can forget those scenes in Count Zero where they all stand around eating soup? / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/02/14/cream-of-panther-modern.html

The Caviar Con https://longreads.com/2019/02/12/the-caviar-con/

Danish haunted-house studies seek to reveal the seductive appeal of horror | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/02/danish-haunted-house-studies-seek-to-reveal-the-seductive-appeal-of-horror/

Why Freelancing Creates Anxiety About Money https://www.thecut.com/2019/02/why-freelancing-creates-anxiety-about-money.html

Suburban Mystique: Bic Drawings by Kevin Lucbert “ SOCKS http://socks-studio.com/2015/02/11/suburban-mystique-bic-drawings-by-kevin-lucbert/

The Aesthetics of Taxonomy: Hokusai’s Manga (1814-1878) “ SOCKS http://socks-studio.com/2019/02/10/the-aesthetics-of-taxonomy-hokusais-manga-1814-1878/

The Observation Deck » Reflecting on The Soul of a New Machine http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2019/02/10/reflecting-on-the-soul-of-a-new-machine/

Stalin’s Scheherazade https://longreads.com/2019/02/06/stalins-scheherazade/

Retro-Tinged Game Controllers: BX Foundry’s Handmade Joysticks https://tedium.co/2019/02/07/bx-foundry-video-game-controllers/

Code Director - Daily Nutmeg http://dailynutmeg.com/2019/02/08/dan-gries-art-code-director/