but i still feel like i’m not super good at directing all this productive energy that i now have towards actual school

i feel like i’ve been getting a lot more done with the radio station than i ever have been able to do…

Lemurs are like catfoxmonkeys

A lot of large software projects are so bad that liking them should automatically disqualify someone from working on them, unless you like them in a masochistic semi-sexual way.

This movie is fuckin’ wild https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYeJfYso9os It’s like Contact meets The Parallax View with Charlie Sheen

Public service announcement: markets & capitalism aren’t the same thing. You can have non-capitalist or even anti-capitalist markets (ex., cases where progressive taxes actually make rentseeking infeasible, or markets without private property). You can have capitalism without markets (like inside a corporation).

I feel like the simplified and cliched ideas about slashers that informed Scream kept me from discovering the strange and wonderful world of actually-good slashers like Sleepaway Camp, Happy Birthday to Me, Tourist Trap, etc. Like, a lot of them are surreal and moody and great.

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”

It looks like OpenAI has announced their marginal progress on the coherence problem in narrative prose generation in the most clickbaity possible way again: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47249163 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/14/elon-musk-backed-ai-writes-convincing-news-fiction

The most important operation in QNX is MsgSend, which works like an interprocess… | Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9872640

Today is St. Valentine’s day. Celebrate by ressurecting vats of minced and pickled children, like St Valentine is most famous for doing

Fragments of a Dream-like City: Collages by Tali Bayer “ SOCKS http://socks-studio.com/2015/11/28/fragments-of-a-dream-like-city-collages-by-tali-bayer/

An enormous presence, like the shimmer of heat in air | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/an-enormous-presence-like-the-shimmer-of-heat-in-air

MfoM is like Groundhog Day meets The X Files, while Happy Death Day is more like Groundhog Day meets Scream. (Actually, less like Scream than Happy Birthday to Me, but nobody’s seen that one.)

I’d like to play a horror game that’s lit like Suspiria is during its most extreme moments: backgrounds & characters in bright monochrome washes, a cypher of harsh shadows, as though lit by single-point neon.

COOKING TIP: if you are frying literally anything, fry it in a lot of butter and then add like a sip of beer (preferably dark beer, like a tripel or a double-ipa). It makes the flavor a lot more complex

Are there sports video games that, RPG-like, allow a user-created character to progress by getting access to better personal trainers & medical support by winning games while in constant fear of breaking their legs?

Digi & Geoff fighting is like Grant Morrison & Alan Moore fighting. Their criticisms of each other are accurate but comical because they make basically the exact same mistakes.

Nadesco is a cynical mecha parody about how genuine & unironic straight mecha is good & cool actually, because exactly the things that make it cheesy make it valuable. Wholesome themes like solidarity in the face of difficult odds are cheesy because they should be obvious (but aren’t).

Unusual core features for a dream language for small computing: MUMPS-style disk persistence of otherwise normal variables indicated by sigils, go-style piping between coroutines or greenthreads, message passing & guards like erlang, parsing backtracking like icon, constraint solving like prolog

Something that people keep forgetting about GitS: in every iteration of the franchise, full-body prosthetics are extremely rare. Cyberbrains are common, but suggesting that everybody with a cyberbrain has a prosthetic body is like saying everybody with a modem has full home automation.

it seemed like the static twtfile setup i used for ‘moon’ fucked with twtxt caching…

Editions https://qz.com/1533143/the-best-way-to-use-social-media-is-to-act-like-a-19th-century-parisian/

Responses to my essay ‘Tech’s Masturbatory Historiography’ make me think that most people reading it don’t know what ‘historiography’ means. (It’s exactly what it sounds like…)

This is math-heavy but the idea that ‘keys are meta-taxonomic dimensions’ reminds me of ZigZag & other elements make me think of parallel prolog-likes like mycroft – should re-read carefully later: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2009002_qod.pdf

Bad idea of the day: train chess engines to play like specific historic players

GitHub - StevenBlack/hosts: Extending and consolidating hosts files from several well-curated sources like adaway.org, mvps.org, malwaredomainlist.com, someonewhocares.org, and potentially others. You can optionally invoke extensions to bl… https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

What could a Clojure/LISP editor be like? - Rakhim Davletkaliyev - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edQyRJyVsUg

What It’s Like to Be Allergic to Corn - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/what-its-like-be-allergic-corn/580594/

Why Professional Magicians Don’t Like Magic Kits https://tedium.co/2019/01/17/magic-kit-controversy-history/

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.

What would a world without pushbuttons look like? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/what-would-a-world-without-pushbuttons-look-like

Can a bat know what it’s like to not know what it’s like to be Thomas Nagel?

Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of cold takes by people who think they’re hot. Like, long-form explanations of how “you aren’t required to agree with film criticism” and “reading should be a pleasurable, low-pressure activity”. Am I just disconnected?

Picture of corpus collosum labelled ‘you may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like’

Progress report: the current build of Manna for our Malices should actually be playable to completion. Gotta double-check, but in theory everything should be reachable. Remaining work: fill in fluff like the rest of the school day.

Periodic reminder that, by using third party trackers, you are paying somebody to grep their http access log instead of greping your own. So, like, maybe roll your own analytics if you need them?

Re: code – keep throwing it away and rewriting from memory until implementing it doesn’t seem like a big deal anymore. At that point, it might be marginally OK. (Or maybe you’ve just acclimated to your failures.)

Angus Scrimm looks like a guy whose name is fucking Angus Scrimm

Why Your iPhone Selfies Don’t Look Like Your Face - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/12/your-iphone-selfies-dont-look-like-your-face/578353/

What would space exploration look like if it starred more women? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/what-would-space-exploration-look-like-if-it-starred-more-women

Teleconferencing is like being on IRC, if everybody was a noob, two people typing at the same time made both of their posts into gibberish, and half the channel has a cat on their keyboard the entire time.

Telekon has a piano cover of Down in the Park & it makes me laugh ever goddamn time I hear it. It’s like having a muzak cover of Bulls On Parade.

Is there a term for absurd euphemisms constructed for censoring dialogue for television – like ‘melon farmer’ and ‘this is what happens when you meet a stranger in the alps’? Is there a database of them?

Thread by @Aelkus: “Strange Days is seriously underrated The aesthetic of the movie, like Blade Runner is, very good and timeless due to its combination of futu […]” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1069354595527344128.html

Hot take: like most things that are good, Cowboy Bebop is mostly good because they stopped making it before it became bad. (If you don’t believe me, watch the movie or read the tie-in manga.)

Remember: if a family member asks about your politics this thanksgiving, tell them you’re an anarchist & would like to abolish the concept of money. It’ll shut them up and it’s probably even true.

Why your Netflix thumbnails don’t look like mine - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axCBA3VD5dQ