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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

Why didn’t Carnival of Souls spawn a whole genre the way Night of the Living Dead did?

There are live performances of Ultimate Care II, Matmos’s washing machine album, apparently.

Give your house that Escher look with antigravity generators and more: Let your plants tie themselves into knots, build impossibly labyrinthine pillow forts, wrap yourself in a blanket and read a book while in orbit around your living room lamp

How to Live in a Dystopian Fiction https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/06/28/how-to-live-in-a-dystopian-fiction/

Javascript is a just-OK language saddled with the world’s worst graphics toolkit: three distinct languages, each with specs so large that nobody has written a new implementation in 20 years, for live-editing a rich tech document to make it resemble a canvas, in ways that are not portable between the 3 implementations or minor revisions of the same implementation.

a myth is a machine for living in

the hypodrive, a device for covering arbitrarily small distances so you can hide inside a mandelbrot, or hunt what lives within (generally a bad idea though, whoever can hide inside a mandelbrot has bigger threats to deal with than you)

The people of that tribe make up for their lack of dreams with a rich mythology about between-lives, for example they make sure that at least one member is always awake and another asleep, lest the world vanish or fall over and into the void

For the kind of immortal who remembers all of their lives, it’s rare to fear death, birth and the years that follow however are a different matter

Knowing that half of The Buggles became The Art of Noise makes me feel like maybe we do live in a comprehensible and ordered universe. But then I look at literally anything else.

Inside the Songs of Our Lives: ‘Video Killed The Radio Star’ http://www.realclearlife.com/music/video-killed-the-radio-star/

Days after jokingly asking when someone will do an american live action adaptation of Kite, I find that Anchor Bay already has.

Areas of transience – the hyperspace of psychogeography – are not ‘non-places’ with ‘non-culture’. They have a uniquely warped kind of culture, in the same way tourist-dependent places do, except some people spend their lives in it (long haul truckers or jet-setting businessmen).

Why reliable, unchanging, boring, mechanical interfaces are important in big-computing contexts: https://medium.com/@caseorganic/why-do-we-keep-building-cars-with-touchscreens-alt-the-hidden-lives-of-touchscreens-55faf92799bf

The Blood Ritual That Lives on YouTube https://gizmodo.com/the-blood-ritual-that-lives-on-youtube-1825726446

Mood: using the mobile version of the website on desktop because you don’t live in california

Neural speech synthesizers are noise, pressed into form: Meta-Raudive devices that live in your phone, channel the voices of the dead to tell you dinner’s ready

countercomplex: Reaching for the blocks of the living world http://viznut.fi/texts-en/reaching_for_the_blocks.html

I Lived Exclusively Off Doomsday Prepper Food for a Week - MUNCHIES https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/vbx399/what-does-prepper-food-taste-like-v25n1

Pixie tribes live on and in the raindrops, occasionally migrate when their home is nearing the ground, or wait until it splashes to hitch a ride on a droplet

Botnik - Live Procedurally Generated Comedy - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IujSOW1OMWk

For Me, David Bowie Lives On - GARAGE https://garage.vice.com/en_us/article/zmwap9/for-paul-gorman-david-bowie-lives-on

In an equitable society, social problems are a matter of individual choice. We don’t live in such a society, and never have. If we want to, we should be honest about this. Pretending to have achieved equity is a good way to amplify shitty power relations.

secret passages in your memory palace, left there for no reason you’d remember↵a mirror room, consciousness amplifier↵a shed in the garden, where an old tulpa lives↵doors that have become mere paintings, the memories they lead to either lost or fake

a recording of 4’33” played live, a recording of that recording played live, and so on

Getting down and medieval: the sex lives of the Middle … https://aeon.co/essays/getting-down-and-medieval-the-sex-lives-of-the-middle-ages

Bad idea of the day: Cryptocurrency but the proof of work is burning dollar bills on live television

Grandfather has left us
Grandfather died today.

Kim was very close to him because she lived with her grandparents since she was young, until we got married. Back in Vietnam, when she was in elementary school, grandpa took her and her siblings to school, and picked them up in his bicycle every day. He was more than a grandfather to her. He was, throughout her life, a father figure.

Grandpa was a soft spoken man. I never heard him raise his voice, never saw him mad. He was also a man of little wants; … ⌘ Read more

We don’t even live in a cyberpunk dystopia. We live in one of those early-90s cyberpunk ripoff stories by an author who half-read Neuromancer & missed the point.

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_sci_fi_comic_book_story_that_inspired_they_live

a comet strikes but does so so slowly that birds settle on the bolide, grass grows on the shockwave, generations live and trade on what they call the traveling mountains