📚 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

Since the last time you met her, the invisibility rash has spread even further. Now her right hand is completely disembodied and occasionally startles you when it moves

Been a long time since I updated twtxt

How Long Does a Function Take: Measuring Execution Time ⌘ Read more…

For added fun, introduce extra levels until you arrive at the conceptual equivalent of “translated to Japanese and back ten times”

Revenge of the Spectacle: This Time It’s Personal — Red Wedge http://www.redwedgemagazine.com/online-issue/revenge-of-the-spectacle-this-time-its-personal

Somebody wrote an email bot to waste scammers‘ time / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2017/11/08/somebody-wrote-an-email-bot-to.html

Many Academics Are Eager to Publish in Worthless Journals - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/science/predatory-journals-academics.html

In 10000 days, or roughly 27 years, you have time to get really good at 24 things, 8 of which are sleep

Deep in the royal archives is a dorian map. The kingdom’s long been existing outside of time, history advances only on this parchment

The skyscrapers mutate under the athaumic fallout and for the first time, the urban jungle sprouts concrete branches, nonsense ads blossom

The experience of time in Dante’s Inferno https://kottke.org/17/10/the-experience-of-time-in-dantes-inferno

John Titor: The Time Traveler’s Story & Predictions - Thrillist https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/john-titor-time-traveler-predictions-story

toroidian meetup is wednesday 19:00 (sphere time, zero-meridian), donuts of course provided, higher genera welcome as well

So since Mastodon was mentioned a few times, I’m trying that out. Any recommendations on people to follow?

On AT&T fibre
Had to chat with an AT&T employee, as a result of an order I placed yesterday. This is the feedback I left (with minor spelling corrections), after concluding the chat:

The chat experience was excellent (chat agent, Marry). AT&T experience thus far, not quite so.

I had an AT&T sales agent visit me yesterday. I signed up for Internet 1Gbps (Internet 1000 on AT&T lingo), and phone service (transferring my current number). I have a signed form, with all one time service charges waived. The appoint … ⌘ Read more

An exasperated sigh. “No, this is like the twentieth dream in a row I’ve woken up from. Whenever I do” she opens her eyes a second time “thi

Time After Time — Real Life http://reallifemag.com/time-after-time/

Wikipedia graph mining: dynamic structure of collective memory http://blog.miz.space/research/2017/08/14/wikipedia-collective-memory-dynamic-graph-analysis-graphx-spark-scala-time-series-network/

The council of gods schisms every time it tries to decide what the universe should look like, which is the only reason we get physics

@tfurrows@grex.org just saw your one reply. Yes the client does have a way to sync with the we_are_twtxt list. So far the biggest issue with the PHP CLI client is that it takes a long time to poll all the sites

I swear work can not make up its mind. One moment, they want things calculated one way. Then the next a different way. Finally they want it back the way it was. What a waste of time and effort

After their deaths, the great translators of their times are scanned and distilled into software, so that they may be eternal ambassadors

@benaiah@benaiah.me sounds a lot like why many years ago, I went with Drupal for a simple Blogging site vs Wordpress. WP was easier but Drupal allowed me as an admin to not have any filters. Which allowed me to put raw HTML in the posts to control certian that I was doing at the time

Time here meanders, often bends back onto itself. Sometimes then, a loop detaches, we see ghosts and other things that exist for only a day

There’s an optimal speed in space battles and it’s not quite c - time dilation needs to be low enough that you can still outthink the enemy

The Fake News Pipeline: How A Small-Time Clickbait Farmer Is Spreading the Gospel of Big Oil :: Politics :: Features :: Bayou Bridge Pipeline :: Paste https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/09/the-fake-news-pipeline-how-two-small-time-clickbai.html

When you cut open an ouroboros, it has rings like a tree, one for every time it’s eaten itself

The leaves do not turn brown this time. Instead, the holes in the canopy turn a pale violet and float down, leaving an unbroken green

Magic was given only to players, but nobody’s logged in in a few hundred years of game time. We run on hardware the admins have forgotten

We begin to get used to flood-caused Internet outages, but those bits of merfolknet that end up in search engine caches each time puzzle us

KLF Welcome to the Dark Ages review – what time is chaos? | Music | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/aug/26/the-return-of-the-klf-what-time-is-chaos

Down the Breitbart Hole - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/16/magazine/breitbart-alt-right-steve-bannon.html?mcubz=3

‘Virtue Signaling’ Isn’t the Problem. Not Believing One Another Is. - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/08/magazine/virtue-signaling-isnt-the-problem-not-believing-one-another-is.html

Every time they drown the net in weaponized memes, it’s quarantined and rebuilt, over time creating something akin to layered catacombs

Artificial Intelligence Is Stuck. Here’s How to Move It Forward. - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/29/opinion/sunday/artificial-intelligence-is-stuck-heres-how-to-move-it-forward.html?mcubz=0&mtrref=t.co&assetType=opinion

England’s Mental Health Experiment: No-Cost Talk Therapy - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/24/health/england-mental-health-treatment-therapy.html?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email