Live on April 19th: the professor you’re glad you don’t have and the professor you wish you had debate about something basically tangential to either’s appeal or focus, and one of them will be entertaining.

Living Systems | James Grier Miller | 1978 | Systems Community of Inquiry https://stream.syscoi.com/2018/07/09/living-systems-james-grier-miller-1978/

The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebook-content-moderator-interviews-trauma-working-conditions-arizona

THEY LIVE who is more enslaved? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wdVpenKsto

Gender-swapped and race-flipped remakes aren’t living up to their potential - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/12/18220797/what-men-want-ghostbusters-the-hustle-remakes-gender-race-flipped?curator=MediaREDEF

The ‘paradox of tolerance’ is not a paradox, any moreso than “my car requires gas to run but if I drive too much I run out of gas” is a paradox. Abstract machines are still machines. Society is a machine for living in, & if you break it living gets harder.

Years later, Façade’s groundbreaking AI lives on through bad YouTube jokes | PC Gamer https://www.pcgamer.com/13-years-later-facades-groundbreaking-ai-lives-on-through-bad-youtube-jokes/

Inside the larps that let human players experience AI life - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/1/18185945/live-action-roleplaying-larp-game-design-artificial-intelligence-ethics-issues

David Bowie & Nine Inch Nails: Dissonance, live 1995 (HD) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4sP1CTuIjs

If you live in Mad Max: The Road Warrior, bitcoin makes a lot of sense. If you live in Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, it makes a lot less sense. If you live in Fury Road, it makes no sense at all.

256 Kilobytes | Biography of Terry A. Davis - The greatest programmer to ever live. https://www.256kilobytes.com/index.php/content/show/1939/biography-of-terry-a-davis-the-greatest-programmer-to-ever-live

Starship crews, immortal for their job, don’t just die on arrival unless they choose to. Some become living gods to their mortal colonies, others hermits who return to the soothing familiarity of deep space or learn the language of the trees

I would watch the living fuck out of ‘Cheerleader Samurai vs Megaton Shark’ tbh

In the deeper layers of the abyss live shadows so dark, their afterimages are radiant angels

living wicker dyson spheres made of vine networks

Live every day like you are a background character in Mob Psycho 100.

Live every day like you are a credited but unnamed character who appears in exactly one scene in a David Lynch movie.

Band name of the day: how to grow living skyscrapers

Bad idea of the day: A shuffle-novel in the form of an oracle deck, with strange or absurd predictions & the premise that it is describing the life of the parallel version of the reader who lives in the world described by the deck.

Spreadsheets are dead, long live reactive programming environments! : Stencila https://stenci.la/blog/introducing-sheets/

I’d love to see Trigger do a Geobreeders series. The premise had so much potential: a multi-generational war between chuunibyos with computer sigils and shape-shifting cats made of radio waves who live on the internet.

What are the aethyric ramifications of a live Joe Bob marathon on the solstice? I imagine it must be really fucking up the ley lines.

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

NEXT17 | Bruce Sterling | Live from 2027 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2O_fxmrP_Q

Good design for developers & good design for non-developers don’t operate by different rules. Devs aren’t happy needing to memorize manuals, and end users can & will learn things if it makes their lives easier.

Bad idea of the day: live your life as though it is a bayesian poisoning attack on the basilisk

What universe does Marc Andressen live in, to call a group of wealthy upwardly-mobile careerists ‘extremely left-wing’ for voting Clinton? (Don’t answer that.)

programmers_are_evil() - Live at LinuxFest NW 2018 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e6BKJPnb5o

Linux Sucks. Forever. - Filmed live at Linux Fest NW - April 28, 2018 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVHcdgrqbHE

GitHub - livingcomputermuseum/ContrAlto: This repository contains the source code for Living Computers: Museum+Labs’s Xerox Alto emulator, ContrAlto. https://github.com/livingcomputermuseum/ContrAlto

We still live in the long shadow cast by the idea of Man-the-Hunter | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/we-still-live-in-the-long-shadow-cast-by-the-idea-of-man-the-hunter

The Quietus | Features | Anniversary | The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades: 30 Years Of They Live http://thequietus.com/articles/25613-john-carpenter-they-live-review-anniversary

The project I’m working on went “live” this morning. Even though most us developers think we shouldn’t have.

Hot take: if you can ‘vote with your wallet’ that means you live in an aristocratic oligarchy, because some people inherit large numbers of extra votes & other people start out with negative votes.

“Running With Scissors: Live Coding With Data” by Stuart Halloway - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx0-pViyIDU

A house is a machine for living in, & a haunted house (after Jackson) is a machine for dreaming in. Hill House is architectural LSD: it reflects psychic energy inward, causing people to haunt themselves.

Hey what’s the likelyhood that the world we live in now is a punishment from the Basilisk?

Inspired by ‘They Live,’ these glasses block screens / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/10/03/inspired-by-they-live-the.html

simulator arxiv is probably full of physics papers that despite titles like “an autoethnography of living in universe [kolmogorov description]” are quite serious

We live in a world where both Guy Madden’s The Heart of the World & Matmos’s Ultimate Care II exist, and that has to count for something.

@metamurks@www.metamurks.org It’s not really live. Check my ‘File Storage’ on gopher :-)

DJ-SDKs Programming Music - rtmp://codevoid.de/live

Bursting stovepipes creates an intellectual explosion, but it’s short-lived. You don’t get scenius without tribes, but you also don’t get it without potlatches. The periodic nature of the potlatch is necessary, & so is the discarding of material work.

Bad idea of the day: Expand citizenship: you are automatically a citizen of a state if you were born there, if either parent is from there, if you have lived there for more than 6 months, or if you own or rent any land there.

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

“maddening beating of vile drums” - heart, check.↵”thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes” - breath, check.↵”outside the ordered universe” - past heat death, check.↵Conclusion: Live long enough and you get to be Azathoth.

Center for a Stateless Society » Long Live Anarchy: An Interview With Robert Anton Wilson (Part 2) https://c4ss.org/content/46540

Center for a Stateless Society » Long Live Anarchy: An Interview with Robert Anton Wilson (Part 1) https://c4ss.org/content/46524

Band name of the day: the most powerful living cat

a world in which homunculus theory is true and you can swap bodies by exchanging homunculi, be a robot or live directly inside dataspace with the right body prosthesis