Band name of the day: time mace

so far i’ve devoted a lot more time to reading…

why did they call it ‘Web Prolog’ instead of ‘PlanNET’? was it just so that people couldn’t say ‘hack the PlanNET’ every time a vuln was found? that’s a bad reason.

History is the time-inverse of science fiction: While coming from different directions, both write fictional accounts that converge on the present, and both are inspired by facts but usually not true to them.

Time travel in The Peripheral @ Things Of Interest https://qntm.org/peripheral

It’s a cliche to say that technical advances are making the world change faster, but the more the products of time binding become available & silos collapsed the more obviously slow everything is.

All worldbuilding, without exception, is political | columns | Hindustan Times https://www.hindustantimes.com/columns/all-worldbuilding-without-exception-is-political/story-iE1Gc0R4ULSq8khLaJ1dEO.html

It’s time to celebrate the humanity of the communal snooze | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/its-time-to-celebrate-the-humanity-of-the-communal-snooze

April 19th: Shitty Campbell vs Cocaine Lacan. (It’s obvious who will win, but it’s equally obvious that the loser will just claim to have won & his fans will believe him, just like they did every other time.)

Ahead of Time http://histscifi.com/essays/milburn/time.html

China’s urban policy unit just met for the first time in 38 years. Here’s what it recommended | CityMetric https://www.citymetric.com/fabric/china-s-urban-policy-unit-just-met-first-time-38-years-here-s-what-it-recommended-1904

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.

We’ve Wanted This Kind of Horror Movie from Edgar Wright for a Long Time https://filmschoolrejects.com/edgar-wright-horror-movie-2019/

Check If a Date/Time Has Been Set with IsZero ⌘ Read more…

IT’S PEANUT BUTTER CODIN’ TIME IT’S PEANUT BUTTER CODIN’ TIME IT’S PEANUT BUTTER CODIN’ TIME IT’S PEANUT BUTTER CODIN’ TIME

Is The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Heinlein’s All-Time Greatest Work? | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2019/01/31/is-the-moon-is-a-harsh-mistress-heinleins-all-time-greatest-work/

Reading computer history reminds me that there was a time in the 1950s and 1960s when ‘person does thing with computer’ was a standard slow-news-day template item instead of a business plan

I think the english dub might have contributed to Lain’s reputation as confusing. Rather than pacing their lines, the voice actors consistently adlibbed extra bullshit to fill time, introducing plotholes.

Saw a reply to one of my old posts after bypassing goatflare. I’d never heard of Balistos before. At least I don’t remember seeing it the first time around.

every time you donate blood you become secret blood brothers with strangers in need, & that’s beautiful

Band name of the day: time salivating on a reed

Forget voting “ it’s time to start choosing our leaders by lottery | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/forget-voting-it-s-time-to-start-choosing-our-leaders-by-lottery

i think it’s going to take some time before i can actually Do School again…

In the sunken and forgotten city, Senpai lies not dead but dreaming, as blissfully unaware of mankind’s rise above as that of other prior races. We have just begun to meddle in forces that may cause Senpai to notice us for the first time, and rise.

One of the ideas I was playing with in MfoM was the distinction between player & player character with a ‘possession’ metaphor, & how that relates to the time loop. I didn’t go so far with it. Maybe in Book of the Damned I’ll have the player be a possessing-spirit.

Competitive culture brings out the worst in scientists | The Japan Times https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/01/22/commentary/world-commentary/competitive-culture-brings-worst-scientists/?appsule=1&idfa=345AD11F-06FF-4308-B97F-69BE5AC9BC2A#.XEfs_qqRWnM

Libraries are modern faerieland:↵* full of mythical creatures↵* time passes at a different rate↵* deceptively cute guardians that come after you with wrath if you take something and don’t return it↵* under no circumstances should you ever eat anything you find there

‘Q’ the end credits for the internet’s lamest conspiracy theory | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/6883/qanon-conspiracy-theory-end-times

Watching these featurettes about Bandersnatch & the bits that they’re making out to be a big deal or super difficult are the ones I (and every other VN dev) do all the time. Meanwhile, they barely mention working with actors & shit.

I guess it was only a matter of time until Netflix got into the red-hot FMV Game market.

Orality & Literacy: https://kottke.org/18/01/ask-dr-time-orality-and-literacy

Every once in a while I’m reminded that Cory Doctorow is a brilliant & deep thinker. This interview is one of those times: https://boingboing.net/2018/12/15/first-days-better-nations.html

It’s Time For Games To Own Their Politics https://kotaku.com/it-s-time-for-games-to-own-their-politics-1827320727

Design: The Dymaxion American - TIME http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,875527-1,00.html

It’s time for a Bill of Data Rights - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612588/its-time-for-a-bill-of-data-rights/

Is It Time to Redesign Scrabble? http://nautil.us/issue/67/reboot/does-scrabble-need-to-be-fixed

Every time I complain about how computers can be made better (if we work together) I get a bunch of people criticizing me for being insufficiently grateful. Bitch, I’m a programmer. I know how much effort somebody put into this shit, & it’s not enough.

There’s this approach to computing history where we focus on work that looks shallowly similar to current norms, claim that work was ‘prophetic’ or ‘ahead of its time’, & mostly ignore differences & intent except as quirks. Fuck that.

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.

Are smartphones bad for you? The science is still out - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/5/18126154/screen-time-smartphones-bad-health-risk-science-study-wrong-depression-anxiety

Complex networks study ranks the most influential films of all time | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/12/study-finds-the-wizard-of-oz-is-the-most-influential-film-of-all-time/

Despite MST3K’s riffing, the thing that strikes me most about The Day Time Ended is how closely it hews to the tropes of actual close encounters (as Vallee describes). & this is why it’s a bad movie.

Ask Dr. Time: In Praise of Hope https://kottke.org/18/11/ask-dr-time-in-praise-of-hope

61: just one key labeled ‘sentience’. types out passable novels and essays when pressed, sometimes lewd chat messages. one time it was code in a language I didn’t recognize. locked it away after that.↵70: Egal was ich versuche, es kommt in der falschen Sprache raus.

Build your own time server with a GPS receiver. “ The Doctor ” Medium https://medium.com/@VirtualAdept/build-your-own-time-server-with-a-gps-receiver-a99d4819f634

Hey guys, Evangelion is coming to Netflix in 2019. This will be the first time it’s been available on streaming services afaik

Bad idea of the day: time lapse of just really failing to build and paint miniatures

If you sample your own thoughts at twice the Nyquist frequency, you can theoretically achieve full-fidelity introspection - but only for a very short time, since that frequency doubles every few samples

When you think about it, all search engines are human flesh search engines, except disjointed in time. fite me