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Inside Scientology’s Secret Propaganda Museum Blaming 9/11 and the Holocaust on Psychiatry https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-scientologys-secret-propaganda-museum-blaming-911-and-the-holocaust-on-psychiatry
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My friend
Friends are not easy to come across. They are made, just like good wine, after many years of ageing. At a certain point they cease to be just friends and become family. They give you the best advise, uncompromisingly, unabashedly, unreservedly. They praise your virtues and take pride on them, but are quick to call out the stupid things you are bound to do. They are patient, they forgive, they forget. They listen, and they are always available.
John was my dear friend for eighteen years. John was family.� … ⌘ Read more
Suburban Mystique: Bic Drawings by Kevin Lucbert “ SOCKS http://socks-studio.com/2015/02/11/suburban-mystique-bic-drawings-by-kevin-lucbert/
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/
How capitalism reduced diversity to a brand - Vox https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/2/11/18195868/capitalism-race-diversity-exploitation-nancy-leong
boxbase.org: Dialogical logic programming http://boxbase.org/entries/2019/feb/11/dialogical-logic-programming/
Masters of Science Fiction is actually pretty good if you can get over the extremely post-9/11 vibe, the use of the Star Trek Voyager font everywhere, & the ‘hosting’ being somebody using the Hawking synth to speak a line after every episode
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
Extremist Programming : Inside 245-5D http://blog.ezyang.com/2012/11/extremist-programming/
Concurrent objects and SCOOP – Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programmers https://www.sicpers.info/2018/11/concurrent-objects-and-scoop/
Uncertainty propagation in data processing systems | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/11/23/uncertainty-propagation-in-data-processing-systems/
Alan Kay’s answer to Was the Xerox Alto a prototype or a finished product? - Quora https://www.quora.com/Was-the-Xerox-Alto-a-prototype-or-a-finished-product-1/answer/Alan-Kay-11?share=1
The internet, but not as we know it: life online in China, Russia, Cuba and India | Technology | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2019/jan/11/the-internet-but-not-as-we-know-it-life-online-in-china-russia-cuba-and-india
A benefit of the OPA this article doesn’t mention: being government-made IP, OPA reports are in the public domain – and having high-quality serious PD summaries of scientific material is great. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2019/01/11/feature/why-is-congress-so-dumb/
What to write with? Styli for clay tablets in the ancient Aegean and eastern Mediterranean https://crewsproject.wordpress.com/2018/11/25/what-to-write-with-styli-for-clay-tablets/
Political tribalism in Trump’s America: what Andrew Sullivan gets wrong - Vox https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/12/11/18131370/andrew-sullivan-religion-tribalism-christianity-trump
Infomercial Dark Patterns: How the App Store Recreates TV Scams https://tedium.co/2018/12/11/infomercials-history-dark-patterns/
The Economic Perspective On Moral Standards | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/11/16/the-economic-perspective-on-moral-standards/
Is Science Slowing Down? | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/11/26/is-science-slowing-down-2/
Fan fiction site AO3 is dealing with a free speech debate of its own - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/8/18072622/fanfic-ao3-free-speech-censorship-fandom
The Digital Maginot Line https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/11/28/the-digital-maginot-line/
Generated Book Gallery – 60212: INTERACTIVITY & COMPUTATION http://cmuems.com/2018/60212f/deliverables/7-due-11-16/generated-book-gallery/
Rocko’s Modern Life: Inside the Barely Contained Chaos of a Nickelodeon Classic | Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/11/inside-rockos-modern-life-nickelodeon-cartoon
Undefined Behavior Is Really Undefined https://cryptoservices.github.io/fde/2018/11/30/undefined-behavior.html
What makes BeOS and Haiku unique – The OS Voyager https://osvoyager.wordpress.com/2018/11/30/what-makes-beos-and-haiku-unique/
Treasure Hunting https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/11/02/treasure-hunting/
Ask Dr. Time: In Praise of Hope https://kottke.org/18/11/ask-dr-time-in-praise-of-hope
Video Games In East Germany: The Stasi Played Along | ZEIT ONLINE https://www.zeit.de/digital/games/2018-11/computer-games-gdr-stasi-surveillance-gamer-crowd
Beyond “Lump”: The Presidents of the United States of America Rocked https://tedium.co/2018/11/29/presidents-of-the-united-states-of-america-band-history/
The Anarchist Case Against Borders – A response to Angela Nagle’s ahistoric revisionism | Self Certified https://selfcertified.wordpress.com/2018/11/28/the-anarchist-case-against-borders-a-response-to-angela-nagles-ahistorical-revisionism/
Book Review: The Mind Illuminated | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/11/28/book-review-the-mind-illuminated/
David Byrne on True Stories, American Utopia, and his unofficial American triptych. https://slate.com/culture/2018/11/david-byrne-true-stories-american-utopia-interview.html
Blob Blob Blobby: Towards a New Blobjectivity – xenogothic https://xenogothic.com/2018/11/27/blob-blob-blobby-towards-a-new-blobjectivity/
All Hallmark Christmas movies are horror films in disguise | Salon.com https://www.salon.com/2018/11/19/all-hallmark-christmas-movies-are-horror-films-in-disguise/
Processor Socket History: The Upgrade Path is Shrinking https://tedium.co/2018/11/27/processor-socket-history/
The Snowden Legacy, part one: What’s changed, really? | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/11/the-snowden-legacy-part-one-whats-changed-really/