RIP Culture War Thread | Slate Star Codex https://web.archive.org/web/20190222094427/https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/22/rip-culture-war-thread/

Watch Sesame Street’s long-lost “Cracks,” resurfaced by internet sleuths (VIDEO). https://slate.com/culture/2019/02/sesame-streets-cracks-video-watch.html

Three Decades of Cross-Cultural Utopianism in British Music Writing https://longreads.com/2019/02/19/three-decades-of-cross-cultural-utopianism-in-british-music-writing/

The Big Data Revolution Will Be Sampled: How ‘Big Data’ Has Come To Mean ‘Small Sampled Data’ https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2019/02/17/the-big-data-revolution-will-be-sampled-how-big-data-has-come-to-mean-small-sampled-data/

BEYOND HIGH WEIRDNESS: AN APPROACH TO THE LIMINAL – Liminal Seattle http://www.liminalseattle.com/2019/02/20/beyond-high-weirdness/

A Green New Deal to Win Back Our Future https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/02/green-new-deal-climate-change-policy

Hackintosh Culture: The Joy of Subverting Apple https://tedium.co/2019/02/12/hackintosh-cultural-trend/

The Green New Deal’s Big Idea - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/02/green-new-deal-economic-principles/582943/

Reese’s Advertising History: Eat Peanut Butter Cups However You Want https://tedium.co/2019/02/14/reeses-peanut-butter-cup-marketing-history/

OpenAI Trains Language Model, Mass Hysteria Ensues – Approximately Correct http://approximatelycorrect.com/2019/02/17/openai-trains-language-model-mass-hysteria-ensues/

Death To Minimalism | Current Affairs https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/02/death-to-minimalism

Sapping Attention: How badly is Google Books search broken, and why? https://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2019/02/how-badly-is-google-books-search-broken.html

Alita: Battle Angel - Escapist Magazine https://www.escapistmagazine.com/v2/2019/02/15/alita-battle-angel/

Who can forget those scenes in Count Zero where they all stand around eating soup? / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/02/14/cream-of-panther-modern.html

The Caviar Con https://longreads.com/2019/02/12/the-caviar-con/

Danish haunted-house studies seek to reveal the seductive appeal of horror | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/02/danish-haunted-house-studies-seek-to-reveal-the-seductive-appeal-of-horror/

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Why Freelancing Creates Anxiety About Money https://www.thecut.com/2019/02/why-freelancing-creates-anxiety-about-money.html

Suburban Mystique: Bic Drawings by Kevin Lucbert “ SOCKS http://socks-studio.com/2015/02/11/suburban-mystique-bic-drawings-by-kevin-lucbert/

The Aesthetics of Taxonomy: Hokusai’s Manga (1814-1878) “ SOCKS http://socks-studio.com/2019/02/10/the-aesthetics-of-taxonomy-hokusais-manga-1814-1878/

The Observation Deck » Reflecting on The Soul of a New Machine http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2019/02/10/reflecting-on-the-soul-of-a-new-machine/

Stalin’s Scheherazade https://longreads.com/2019/02/06/stalins-scheherazade/

Retro-Tinged Game Controllers: BX Foundry’s Handmade Joysticks https://tedium.co/2019/02/07/bx-foundry-video-game-controllers/

Code Director - Daily Nutmeg http://dailynutmeg.com/2019/02/08/dan-gries-art-code-director/

Amazon is using purchase data to sell targeted ads, which is creepy, but not because they’ve invented a mind-control ray / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/02/06/trivial-insights.html

’60s Children’s Music: The Appeal for Early Electronic Musicians https://tedium.co/2019/02/05/60s-electronic-music-childrens-music-history/

Roomful of Teeth Is Revolutionizing Choral Music | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/02/11/roomful-of-teeth-is-revolutionizing-choral-music

What’s wrong with the Raspberry Pi – Own your bits https://ownyourbits.com/2019/02/02/whats-wrong-with-the-raspberry-pi/

Hackers hijack thousands of Chromecasts to warn of latest security bug – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/02/chromecast-bug-hackers-havoc/

USA Wants to Restrict AI Exports: A Stupid and Dangerous Idea – Lauren Weinstein’s Blog https://lauren.vortex.com/2019/01/02/usa-wants-to-restrict-ai-exports-a-stupid-and-dangerous-idea

How the Marber grid was made | Penguin Series Design https://penguinseriesdesign.com/2017/02/15/how-the-marber-grid-was-made/

An Incomplete List of Things I’d Need to Know In Order Not to Be A Total Impostor | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2018/09/02/an-incomplete-list-of-things-id-need-to-know-in-order-not-to-be-a-complete-impostor/

Treasure Hunting https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/11/02/treasure-hunting/

Boilerplate https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/08/02/boilerplate/

A Big Archive of Occult Recordings: Historic Audio Lets You Hear Trances, Paranormal Music, Glossolalia & Other Strange Sounds (1905-2007) | Open Culture http://www.openculture.com/2018/02/a-big-archive-of-occult-recordings.html

Moved Temporarily http://allendowney.blogspot.co.nz/2018/02/learning-to-program-is-getting-harder.html

P21Forth 1.02 User’s Manual http://www.ultratechnology.com/p21intro.html

Vietnam’s Low-tech Food System Takes Advantage of Decay | LOW←TECH MAGAZINE https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2017/02/vietnams-low-tech-fermentation-food-system-takes-advantage-of-decay.html

THE MEDIA BUSINESS: Encountering The Digital Age – An occasional look at computers in everday life.; Potboiler Springs From Computer’s Loins - The New Yor… https://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/02/us/media-business-encountering-digital-age-occasional-look-computers-everday-life.html

The Gilded Age of (Unpaid) Internet Writing https://longreads.com/2018/10/02/webzines-90s-online-media/

Google 20th Anniversary: How Information Changed Forever https://tedium.co/2018/10/02/google-20th-anniversary-culture-importance/

Learning BASIC Like It’s 1983 https://twobithistory.org/2018/09/02/learning-basic.html

Disposable Ballpoint Pen History: Pennies on the Dollar https://tedium.co/2018/08/02/disposable-ballpoint-pen-history/

Different Worlds | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/02/different-worlds/

THIS: The Gathering Brainstorm – HILOBROW http://hilobrow.com/2017/02/20/this-the-gathering-brainstorm/

Products aren’t for people yet - Rakhim.org https://rakhim.org/2017/02/by_devs

Encouraging individual sovereignty and a healthy commons https://0xadada.pub/2017/02/18/encourging-individual-sovereignty-and-a-healthy-commons/

My long strange winter trip with John Perry Barlow, a legend in the making | Salon.com https://www.salon.com/2018/06/02/1969-my-long-strange-winter-trip-with-john-perry-barlow-a-legend-in-the-making/?curator=MusicREDEF

Any Sufficiently Advanced Civilization is Indistinguishable from Nature https://www.nextnature.net/2012/02/any-sufficiently-advanced-civilization-is-indistinguishable-from-nature/

Philip K. Dick’s VALIS and The Man Who Fell to Earth and Duncan Jones https://bowiesattva.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/philip-k-dicks-valis-and-the-man-who-fell-to-earth-and-duncan-jones/