Loper OS » Seven Laws of Sane Personal Computing http://www.loper-os.org/?p=284

Yeah, this is almost exactly what I did too: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/7/27/16035508/diy-wearable-computer-google-glass-raspberry-pi-instructions

Remembering the ’70s activist group that tried to save us from the tech industry | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/4029/computer-people-for-peace-history

TL;DR version of my ‘big and small computing’ essay: amateur & pro can & should coexist, and we should expand the amateur while making sure the stuff that matters is done by pros.

Big and small computing – Rococo Modem Basilisk – Medium https://medium.com/@/big-and-small-computing-73dc49901b9a

The Quest for a Universal Translator for Old, Obsolete Computer Files - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-to-open-old-computer-files

Joe Armstrong - Keynote: The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science - Code BEAM SF 2018 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I_jE0l7sYQ

SXSW 2018: A Look Back at the 1960s PLATO Computing System - IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/tech-history/silicon-revolution/sxsw-2018-a-look-back-at-the-1960s-plato-computing-system

Portable Computer Pre-History: Portable Before Laptops https://tedium.co/2018/03/15/early-portable-computer-history/

RustConf 2017 - Closing Keynote: Safe Systems Software and the Future of Computing by Joe Duf… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuD7SCqHB7k

Blame the Computer | Corey Pein https://thebaffler.com/salvos/blame-the-computer-pein

Man-Computer Symbiosis https://groups.csail.mit.edu/medg/people/psz/Licklider.html

Bad idea of the day: an extension that runs term extraction on whatever web page you’re viewing and then increases the size and contrast of words based on their computed importance ranking

Bad idea of the day: a captcha system that shows you something that should be upsetting and then determines if you’re humane by checking your computer for signs of whether or not you were upset by it

Rather than sending advertisements into outer space, it would be really nice if we made it so that Facebook and Twitter would run reasonably on six month old mid-market desktop computers. These JS timeouts are annoying.

Bad idea of the day: set your voice assistant’s wake word to ‘OK computer’

It’s not that computers are awful on some general axis, but that we spend more effort than necessary getting less out of them than we easily could out of myopia, greed, and laziness.

📚 Finished reading What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing (The MIT Press) by Ed Finn

Bad idea of the day: Cryptocurrency but the proof of work is computing a giant-ass rainbow table

Grid computing - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_computing

📚 Finished reading What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing by Ed Finn

Ted Talking Fast: How Computer Documents Got Dumbed Down– and the Alternative - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDrHkNgGQDs

Computer latency: 1977-2017 http://danluu.com/input-lag/

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programmers : … http://www.sicpers.info/2017/12/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-programming/

This Game Teaches You How to Build a Quantum Compu… https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3jkya/quantum-game-physics-computer-puzzle

Wires in the suitcase’s inlay, in a complicated pattern computed from yesterday’s recognizer dump, are supposed to throw off the customs scanner AI. They do, you’re waved through, another friend smuggled into the country

The Greatest Computer Network You’ve Never Heard Of - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pa3vvg/the-greatest-computer-network-youve-never-heard-of

The Computer Scientist Who Prefers Paper - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/guardian-of-the-vote/544155/

MNT Reform: DIY Portable Computer http://mntmn.com/reform/

Humans Prefer Computer-Generated Paintings to Those at Art Basel https://hyperallergic.com/391059/humans-prefer-computer-generated-paintings-to-those-at-art-basel/

Too much computation in one place wears out the matrix, it starts failing near datacenters. Once-bustling tech hubs give way to glitch belts

Computers weren’t made to understand speech, humans were. When voice interfaces finally succeed, they’re implantable voices, whisperfriends,

Knowledge Navigator (1987) Apple Computer - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb4AzF6wEoc

What it Means to Be an ‘Experimental Computer Poet’ - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8x8ppp/poetry-twitter-bots-best-twitter-bots-art-allison-parrish-everyword

They end up dominating AI.↵2030: With computer science and applied theology on your resume, you’re already in talks with multiple priests

Conducting a Turing test in the wild is a computer’s job. Has been for years.

When computer predictions end up shaping the future. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/09/when_computer_predictions_end_up_shaping_the_future.html

BetterOS.org : an attempt to make computer machines run better http://betteros.org/tut/graphics1.php

Boffin rediscovers 1960s attempt to write fiction with computers • The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/29/ibm_1960s_story_writing_software/?mt=1504125155672

The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences: Symmetries, Sheets, and Saddled Scenes | Qualia Computing https://qualiacomputing.com/2016/12/12/the-hyperbolic-geometry-of-dmt-experiences/

How to secretly communicate with people on LSD | Qualia Computing https://qualiacomputing.com/2015/05/22/how-to-secretly-communicate-with-people-on-lsd/

I‘m a woman in computer science. Let me ladysplain the Google memo to you. - Vox https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/8/11/16130452/google-memo-women-tech-biology-sexism

World‘s First Computer Store: Early Tech Retail http://tedium.co/2017/08/03/early-computer-retailers-history/?utm_source=Tedium&utm_campaign=Tedium_08_03_2017&utm_medium=email

3D Electronic Nose Demostrates Advantages of Carbon Nanotubes - IEEE Spectrum http://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/nanotechnology/carbon-nanotube-computing-stacks-up

it turns out that bees and cephalopods can’t be uploaded because their souls are non-computable, but in the end we do fine without them

Computational Propaganda Worldwide: Executive Summary | Political bots http://comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/2017/06/19/computational-propaganda-worldwide-executive-summary/

Chuck Thacker, "Personal Distributed Computing—The Alto and Ethernet Hardware" - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9n2J24Jg2Y

https://jfm.carcosa.net/blog/computing/facebook-alternative-outline/ https://jfm.carcosa.net/blog/computing/facebook-alternative-outline/

SIGNS YOU MIGHT BE A WEREBOT:↵-your joints make servo noises↵-strong feelings of kinship with computers↵-captchas are way too hard sometimes

To prevent an ice age, a solar mirror is shot into orbit. People report waking up in messes of computer parts, circuit traces on their skin