I hope the five people following my ‘misc’ repo on github are happy recieving an email containing only the placeholder commit message ‘xxx’ like 30 times a day.
The new Suspiria, based on the trailer, appears to include Varelli, which may mean that they will try to pack 3 movies worth of story in. This may leave no time for a blind man to have his throat ripped out by his own seeing-eye dog :(
Going beyond UI and UX with User Design, the hottest new branch of AI-assisted psychology (because, why spend time optimizing the interface when you can just mold the user)
403 Forbidden http://www.os2museum.com/wp/troubled-time/
We spend an enormous amount of time and effort teaching children about animals – even ones that only exist far away (like tigers and elephants and giraffes) or that have been extinct for tens to hundreds of millions of years.
QOTD: “Like any extension of the human psyche, machines are scary things[…] When you take the scary human psyche and magnify it hundreds or thousands of times with technology, it’s really nightmarish”
Reminder that I have 2 essays on escaping path-dependence: https://medium.com/@/the-manufacture-of-steam-engine-time-9f83cd24a9b0 & https://medium.com/@/the-wtf-awards-sketching-a-map-to-an-escape-from-steam-engine-time-1bc4bd29c2e4
Band name of the day: the teeth of time
Wanted to do so much on todays public holiday but actually I only did some house cleaning and was staying on the balcony enjoying the sun while doing internet stuff most of the time…
Another theory holds that there’s a fixed amount of humanity and since there were fewer people in ancient times, they were bigger compared to the gods than they are now
Band name of the day: trees in time
As the bombs fall, we retrace our steps backwards so that when they play recordings from our time, they’ll think that around us, cities were falling out of the clouds and crystallizing on the ground
Art Bell and âCoast to Coast AMâ represented a time when conspiracy theories were innocent | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/4343/art-bell-coast-to-coast-am-obitiuary
Cthulhu was due to happen around this time, but its decryption failed because humans had put too many of their own stars into the sky
2017 ACM PPoPP Keynote: It’s Time for a New Old Language - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HKbjYqqPPQ
Headlines making you anxious? Delay reading them | Oliver Burkeman | Life and style | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/apr/06/how-to-handle-headline-anxiety-take-time-reading-news-oliver-burkeman
@kas@enotty.dk, @freemor@freemor.homelinux.net (re: Matrix/TOX/P2P): Uh, never heard of #rumble or #scuttlebutt. Will have to look into it at some time.
The manufacture of steam-engine time â Rococo Modem Basilisk â Medium https://medium.com/@/the-manufacture-of-steam-engine-time-9f83cd24a9b0
For the first time in history, the internet makes it reasonable to expect people to already understand that nothing is unprecedented.
Donât Delete Facebook. Do Something About It. - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/24/opinion/sunday/delete-facebook-does-not-fix-problem.html
‘It’s old news’ doesn’t make something better – it makes it worse. If there’s a problem that’s been newsworthy several times & not addressed, it’s had more time to affect people, and people should be criticized for not addressing it.
Bad idea of the day: Wear a rubber band on your wrist and snap it every time you say ‘technology’, ‘market’, ‘end user’, ‘standard’, ‘I’, or ‘is’.
Bad idea of the day: Instead of an index fund, choose stocks completely at random, and buy or sell/short them completely at random, one share at a time, once every ten minutes or so.
‘Fifth Generation’ Became Japan’s Lost Generation - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/05/business/fifth-generation-became-japan-s-lost-generation.html
Hot take: the whole ‘you need to code in your free time’ is partially justified by the way a 4 year CS degree doesn’t remotely prepare you for an entry-level code-crunching position.
Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader History: Useful At Certain Times https://tedium.co/2018/03/06/uncle-johns-bathroom-reader-history/
Quinn Norton: The New York Times … https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/02/the-new-york-times-fired-my-doppelganger/554402/
inside their ship, they’ve tied time into a loop and halted entropy, created an endless garden of eden that’s been coasting through the vacuum for a billion years, unaware
I am the very model of a New York Times contrar… https://slate.com/culture/2018/02/i-am-the-very-model-of-a-new-york-times-contrarian.html
Luckily, practical reasons prevent customer models from becoming too detailed: Nobody wants to repeat that time Google got sued by their own ad server farm because millions of theories of mind at once had become sophisticated enough to qualify for human rights
ok I’ve come to terms with not having a soul, but why is it that every time we kill a zombie, a heavenly chorus sounds and it ascends
Why We’re Drawn To Time Loop Stories Like ‘Groundhog Day’ - Digg http://digg.com/2018/time-loop-movies-shows-books-groundhog-day
The carefully shackled lab AIs finally surpass humans, but at about five human intelligences they end up scrambling themselves beyond recovery every time. Later models come with carefully engineered sets of blind spots to avoid what is later called Basilisk One
Pearls, soluble in shadow: Keep them in light at all times or they’ll sublimate into glittering nacre swirls, disappear into dark corners to be found only much later as dew in someone’s meadow
Ask Dr. Time: What Should I Call My AI? https://kottke.org/18/01/ask-dr-time-what-should-i-call-my-ai
📚 Finished reading The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck: How to Stop Spending Time You Don’t Have with People You Don’t Like Doing Things You Don’t Want to Do (A No F*cks Given Guide) by Sarah Knight
📚 Finished reading The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck: How to Stop Spending Time You Don’t Have with People You Don’t Like Doing Things You Don’t Want to Do (A No F*cks Given Guide) by Sarah Knight
If you want to snarf up the Project Stargate documents, now is the time: https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/collection/crest-25-year-program-archive
A maze in both time and space: Get lost in it and not even time travel will help you, it’ll be as if you had always been in there
About the impermanence of things
Thinking about the impermanence of things is a reoccurring theme for me. It usually happens if I get mad at something I don’t like, which used to be quite often no long ago. I still notice situations that are less than desirable for my point of view, but I no longer get mad every single time. I am trying my very best not to get upset for anything, or with anyone. Yet, the thought of everything being temporary still surrounds me. The last time it came to mind was whe … ⌘ Read more
Band name of the day: the savvy dealer of unpopular time
Band name of the day: a time for evil
The Bizarre Motivating Power of Aging Into … https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/01/the-end-is-near-time-to-run-faster/549014/
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I think we already discussed encrypted tweets some time ago, but no encryption seemed short enough. GPG ist just too big. Any ideas?
Ask Dr. Time: Orality and Literacy from Homer to Twitter https://kottke.org/18/01/ask-dr-time-orality-and-literacy
It’s time for cyberpunk games to remember how to be punk … http://www.pcgamer.com/its-time-for-cyberpunk-games-to-remember-how-to-be-punk/
As the year draws to a close it becomes ever more clear: nothing has prepared us for the Strange Times.
In the flask is a hyperbolic ocean, near-infinite breadths that swallow light and your probes after centimeters. From time to time, a kraken or whale swims up to the glass to peer through
Dare to be Stupid: that time Weird Al tried to make fun of Devo and instead just became Devo