Status as a Service (StaaS) — Remains of the Day https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19/status-as-a-service

AI won’t relieve the misery of Facebook’s human moderators - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/27/18242724/facebook-moderation-ai-artificial-intelligence-platforms

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

Weezer’s Black Album Won’t Make It Easier for Them - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/music/2019/2/26/18240667/weezer-black-album-review-rivers-cuomo

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

Happy Death Day 2: You Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy

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

GPT-2: only slightly worse than tracery ™

Re: GPT-2 – sure, this has neural nets and all, but you get higher quality output with less CPU time writing a template for a spinner.

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

Dune - Plots and Plans - Extra Sci Fi - #2 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NYO7aoOOmk

Letting neural networks be weird • GPT-2: It learned on the Internet http://aiweirdness.com/post/182824715257/gpt-2-it-learned-on-the-internet

All of the negative reviews of Alita are like “it follows the manga even when it shouldn’t, which makes it not feel like a hollywood movie, & it fits 4.5 volumes of manga into a 2 hour movie”

All of the positive reviews of Alita are like “it follows the manga even when you don’t expect it to, which makes it not feel like a hollywood movie, & does the best job it possibly could fitting 4.5 volumes of manga into a 2 hour movie”

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

How capitalism reduced diversity to a brand - Vox https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/2/11/18195868/capitalism-race-diversity-exploitation-nancy-leong

The government is using wrong data to make decisions about the internet - Recode https://www.recode.net/2019/2/8/18211794/government-data-internet

Triple feature: Jacob’s Ladder, The Good Son, and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

I regret to inform everybody that Data Privacy Day was actually last Monday. We all missed it. Sorry. Honorary Data Privacy Day every Monday for the next 2 years to make up for it, kay?

Discussing Isekai, Part 2: How Isekai Imagine Power - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCJesuBHR-g

Success criteria for the PC 2.0 era “ Aral Balkan https://ar.al/2019/01/09/success-criteria-for-the-pc-2.0-era/

2 - A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari - Illustrated Audiobook - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7ZQ5HRntHo

RFC-2 — 365 RFCs https://write.as/365-rfcs/rfc-2

Dissecting Log Horizon: The Great, The Good, The Okay 1st Arc [Pt. 2] - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljDzKKp7S5s

EBN - GW1 part 2, Ground War - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHMT6iNb-UU

Human Computer Interaction: Metaphors https://tpetricek.github.io/Teaching/human-computer-interaction/metaphors.html#/7/2

Is Science Slowing Down? | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/11/26/is-science-slowing-down-2/

1. don’t confuse ‘the internet’ with ‘the web’; 2) don’t confuse ‘the web’ with ‘social media’; 3) don’t confuse ‘social media’ with ‘corporate social media’

Interface usability in a nutshell: minimize how often the simplest way to do a thing the user wants to do is 1) hard to imagine before you see it, or 2) hard to understand once observed. Assume the user is more creative than you & less well-informed.

LINES FOR A MANIFESTO OF ALIENIST POETRY – ALIENIST MANIFESTO https://alienistmanifesto.wordpress.com/2017/11/24/lines-for-a-manifesto-of-alienist-poetry-2/

Conceptual Languages (Part 2) - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/conceptual-languages-part-2

@kas@enotty.dk: Reg. Gajim: Does setting env. variable GDK_DPI_SCALE=2 help?

Environmental Media Project, Keio University, Japan 1999 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMujvLQdKaE&index=2&list=PLZYUaP_cPHpa9Cad1GxrnvW4Ky3xlPMHg

Alexander R. Galloway “ Brometheanism | boundary 2 http://www.boundary2.org/2017/06/alexander-r-galloway-brometheanism/

Web 2.0 Expo NY: Clay Shirky (shirky.com) It’s Not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure. - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LabqeJEOQyI

Xanadu Basics 2 - Five working Xanadu Systems (four usable) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_o8q4Sp-w0

Folklore.org: The Grand Unified Model (2) - The Finder http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=The_Grand_Unified_Model_The_Finder.txt&sortOrder=Sort+by+Date&topic=Software+Design

Dataspace 2: Revenge of the Data Model | Natepod http://natecull.org/wordpress/2017/07/06/dataspace-2/

Nick Land’s Philosophy of Capital is Anti-Capitalist (2) – DI Research Zone 22 https://disubunit22.wordpress.com/2018/11/05/nick-lands-philosophy-of-capital-is-anti-capitalist-2/

If Halloween 3 had been Halloween 2 (i.e., if Michael Meyers was a one-off & there was never the expectation set that he’d come back) we could have had a great yearly horror anthology series for the past 40 years.

Rockstar developers speak out about “100-hour weeks” comment | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/10/red-dead-redemption-2-devs-say-quoted-100-hour-weeks-arent-the-norm/

Vectorized Emulation: Hardware accelerated taint tracking at 2 trillion instructions per second | Gamozo Labs Blog https://gamozolabs.github.io/fuzzing/2018/10/14/vectorized_emulation.html

Recipe for periodic royalty boosts if you’re a hack: 1) create a song about a particular time of year – preferably a particular date that is not a holiday; 2) create a song about a very specific combination of very common feelings

Pet peeve: on my work computer, 80% of my lobste.rs comments double-post because of some kind of missing deduplication logic. Then, I have to periodically go through all my threads to delete the duplicates. Sometimes one copy of the post will have 2 upvotes & the other 3.

I love how I just got an email to tell me that something I ordered was shipped. Funny thing is, this email came 2 days after it was delivered to me.

LGR Tech Tales - The First Robot Ever Arrested: DC-2 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdjzmmcJgDM

Satoshi Kon and Why Love Is All You Need: Ep. 2 - Millennium Actress - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dfn-yMmvis

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Severin re-release of The Changeling leads thousands of millenials to say ‘Ohh, so THAT’s what that scene in Scary Movie 2 was referencing’.

Bad idea of the day: ‘twitch writes a novel’: the previous ~15 words are shown & the top ~20 next words based on a markov model of some corpus are voted on over a 2 minute period (going to the first item, if no votes are cast) until 50k words are written.