Introducing Darkstar: A Xerox Star Emulator – ENGBLG https://engblg.livingcomputers.org/index.php/2019/01/19/introducing-darkstar-a-xerox-star-emulator/
Successful Reflective Choices in Interactive Narrative – catacalypto https://catacalypto.wordpress.com/2018/06/19/successful-reflective-choices-in-interactive-narrative/
Rhizomes, Why Artists and Activists Should Care about Crabgrass | Blue Stool #19 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou_yikwW15o
The Cost of Living in Mark Zuckerberg’s Internet Empire - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/tech/2018/12/19/18148701/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-year-in-review
Dirty dealing in the $175 billion Amazon Marketplace - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/19/18140799/amazon-marketplace-scams-seller-court-appeal-reinstatement
All Hallmark Christmas movies are horror films in disguise | Salon.com https://www.salon.com/2018/11/19/all-hallmark-christmas-movies-are-horror-films-in-disguise/
Truth as a Vehicle for Enhancing Fiction, Fiction as a Vehicle for Discovering Truth | http://dreamcafe.com/2018/11/19/truth-as-a-vehicle-for-enhancing-fiction-fiction-as-a-vehicle-for-discovering-truth/
Heads up, apparently there are gonna be export restrictions on neural net, reinforcement learning, computer vision, NLP, & similar research done in the US: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/11/19/2018-25221/review-of-controls-for-certain-emerging-technologies
How Tech Bros Fell in Love With Bread Baking - Eater https://www.eater.com/2018/11/19/18099127/bread-silicon-valley-sourdough-tech-bros-tartine-chad-robertson
Robin “Sourdough” Sloan is using a machine-learning autocomplete system to write his next novel / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/10/19/t9-for-auteurs.html
Falsehoods Programmers Believe about Garbage Collection — Paul Bone http://paul.bone.id.au/2018/10/19/gc-falsehoods/
Debugging with intelligence via probabilistic inference | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/06/19/debugging-with-intelligence-via-probabilistic-inference/
Ready Player One is the roadmap to digital dystopia - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/19/17250892/ready-player-one-book-facebook-internet-dystopia
Quiver Doodles https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/07/19/quiver-doodles/
Unsolved Mysteries: Still Being Updated After All These Years https://tedium.co/2018/06/19/unsolved-mysteries-modern-updates/
World Models Rendered in Text | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2018/06/19/world-models-rendered-in-text/
Speak & Spell History: Texas Instruments‘ Greatest Product https://tedium.co/2018/06/19/speak-and-spell-history/
Robotic Arm History: The Industrial Era’s Defining Innovation https://tedium.co/2018/04/19/robotic-arm-history-unimate-versatran/
Jordan Peterson & Fascist Mysticism | by Pankaj Mishra | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/03/19/jordan-peterson-and-fascist-mysticism/
The Internet Archive put your favorite LCD handheld games online - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/19/17138752/internet-archive-handheld-history-collection-game-emulator-mame
Pete Corey - J’s Low-level Obfuscation Leads to Higher Levels of Clarity http://www.petecorey.com/blog/2018/03/19/js-low-level-obfuscation-leads-to-higher-levels-of-clarity/
Reddit and the Quest to Detoxify the Internet… https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/19/reddit-and-the-quest-to-detoxify-the-internet
Tracing fake… https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/02/19/tracing-fake-news-footprints-characterizing-social-media-messages-by-how-they-propagate/
Notes on Visual Snow – Axxon N. Horror https://axxonnhorror.wordpress.com/2018/02/19/notes-on-visual-snow/
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
Why we need to get better at critiquing psychiatric diagnosis – Mind Hacks https://mindhacks.com/2017/09/19/why-we-need-to-get-better-at-critiquing-diagnosis/
How the judge on Oracle v. Google taught himself to code - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/19/16503076/oracle-vs-google-judge-william-alsup-interview-waymo-uber
toroidian meetup is wednesday 19:00 (sphere time, zero-meridian), donuts of course provided, higher genera welcome as well
Steve Bannon and the occult: The right wing’s long, strange love affair with New Age mysticism - Salon.com http://www.salon.com/2017/07/19/steve-bannon-and-the-occult-the-right-wings-long-strange-love-affair-with-new-age-mysticism-2/?curator=MediaREDEF
http://networkcultures.org/longform/2016/12/19/communication-control-communism-on-socialist-cybernetics-accelerationist-dreams-and-tiqquns-nightmares/ http://networkcultures.org/longform/2016/12/19/communication-control-communism-on-socialist-cybernetics-accelerationist-dreams-and-tiqquns-nightmares/
Cognitive dissonance helps old dogs with their new tricks | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/cognitive-dissonance-helps-old-dogs-with-their-new-tricks?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=6906942c9d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_19&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-6906942c9d-68693017
How cult leaders brainwash followers for total control | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-cult-leaders-brainwash-followers-for-total-control?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=328e753676-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_19&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-328e753676-68693017
Computational Propaganda Worldwide: Executive Summary | Political bots http://comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/2017/06/19/computational-propaganda-worldwide-executive-summary/
Are plagues and wars the only ways to reduce inequality? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/are-plagues-and-wars-the-only-ways-to-reduce-inequality?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=5d8fbe3752-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_19&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-5d8fbe3752-68693017
The Persistence of Prog Rock | The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/19/the-persistence-of-prog-rock?curator=MusicREDEF
Remembering the Murder You Didn’t Commit - The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/19/remembering-the-murder-you-didnt-commit?mbid=synd_digg&utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
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Reminders
“What did you have for lunch?,” the father asks while driving home. “Same as usual,” he replies. “And that is?” “I just eat random sandwiches of what comes to whim.” The father processes that for a bit. “I see.” Later, at home, “what’s there for homework today?” “No much,” he says. “Brush your teeth,” he is reminded. Later, in the evening. “Take a shower.” A few times.
Just before the father goes to sleep, and sees his bedroom lights on. “What are you doing up so late? … ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Visual Studio Code
Microsoft launched its free (non open source), cross-platform, code editor early this year (April, 2015), at its Build Developer Conference.
I have been tempted to try it, as I read its file comparison is very nice, its intelliSense, and it’s based on the [same platfor … ⌘ Read more
Microsoft and global cybercrime
From The Official Microsoft Blog:
On June 19, Microsoft filed for an ex parte temporary restraining order (TRO) from the U.S. District Court for Nevada against No-IP. On June 26, the court granted our request and made Microsoft the DNS authority for the company’s 23 free No-IP domains, allowing us to identify and route a … ⌘ Read more
NixOS 14.04 released
NixOS 14.04 “Baboon” has been released, the second stable
release branch. It brings Linux 3.12, systemd 212, GCC 4.8,
Glibc 2.19, KDE 4.12, light-weight NixOS containers, and much
more. See the release\
notes for details. You can get NixOS 14.04 ISOs and
VirtualBox appliances from the download page. For information on
how to upgrade a 13.10 system to 14.04, check out the [manual\
section on upgrading](/manual/nixos/stable/#sec … ⌘ Read more
Four-way stop
Drivers in Orlando do not seem to know what to do when they reach a four way stop. It really makes me wonder how were they able to obtain a drivers license without that knowledge, as it is part of Drivers Handbook (search for “Stop Signs” on that page), the test, and occasionally encountered while driving.
For the record, and in case you live in Orlando, and do not know what to do on a four-way stop (also known as all-way stop) … ⌘ Read more
Sprint crookery
I am not happy with Sprint, I think it is a bad company. That, of course, is my opinion.
I left them and took the hit of the early termination fee (ETF) because their service in my area was, and is, not usable. Even though I had documented the many times I called for not having reception, not able to make calls, and their “unlimited” data plan been unusable, I paid the ETF and decided to move on.
What I wasn’t counting on was the taxes they, or my local government, charged me. They cha … ⌘ Read more
Ricky Gervais - Why I’m an atheist
This is an article
written by Ricky Gervais, for The Wall Street Journal back in 2010.
Reproduced entirely here, as SpeakEasy seems not to be keep articles
around long enough. If WSJ does not like what I have done, let me know
and I will remove it, or adapt it to a co … ⌘ Read more
A Christmas tree
After a small, but heated battle, on whether or not to buy a real tree for Christmas (Kent and I said no, Kim said yes), Kent and Alyssa are now decorating a Fraser pine tree. I am sure you guessed who won. ⌘ Read more
The day Santa died
Kim and I have always told Kent Santa exists. Almost every kid is told the same, and get presents delivered by the fat, white bearded guy each year. He gets all the credits, but kids are happy.
With Kent getting into first grade, he has been hearing things from his peers. Things like, “Santa doesn’t exist”, “Santa isn’t real”, so he began asking about it. About a month ago I told him his pee … ⌘ Read more
Santa gets the extra love
KM believes in Santa. It is that childish fantasy we do not want to spoil quite yet. But the fat guy, with red cheeks, who pilots a sleigh pulled by reindeers, gets all the extra love –and credits– for the job we, as parents, do during Christmas time. I challenge Santa to come up with a Wii! ⌘ Read more
Two visions?
Mark posted yesterday that he will be working for Google, since out of the “ two visions” of the web, he says, Google is the right one. I am not web savvy nor I really care much about it, but I am sure there is more than two visions on the web, there is not right and wrong, but many, many, many shades in between. But the way I see it, the bottom line in my mind: he is going to work for someone who will pay him very well. Yes, bottom line is all a … ⌘ Read more
In God we trust
It is interesting to find out, at times when some minority wants to have removed “…under God…” from the Pledge of Allegiance, about this —it refers to the Great Seal of the United States of America motto:
The federal courts have held that the motto symbolizes the historical role of religion in our society, Lynch, 465 U.S. at 676, formalizes our medium of exchange, see O’Hair v. Blumenthal, 462 F. Supp. 19, 20 (W.D. Tex.), aff’d sub nom. O’Hair v. Murray, 588 F.2d 1144 (5th Cir. … ⌘ Read more