Absurdist Dialogues with Siri https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/02/12/absurdist-dialogues-siri/

How Protein Conquered America - Eater https://www.eater.com/2018/2/12/16991634/muscle-milk-protein-culture

Why Paper Jams Persist | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/12/why-paper-jams-persist

The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences: Symmetries… https://qualiacomputing.com/2016/12/12/the-hyperbolic-geometry-of-dmt-experiences/

Universal adversarial perturbations | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/09/12/universal-adversarial-perturbations/

ffwd: delegation is (much) faster than you think | the… https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/12/04/ffwd-delegation-is-much-faster-than-you-think/

Y2K Pop Culture: The New Millennium Blues https://tedium.co/2017/12/27/y2k-pop-culture-oddities/

One model to learn them all | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/01/12/one-model-to-learn-them-all/

Mental models http://www.defmacro.org/2016/12/22/models.html

Simulating Chutes & Ladders in Python | Pythonic Perambulations http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2017/12/18/simulating-chutes-and-ladders/

The People That Capitalism Makes | Current Affairs https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/12/the-people-that-capitalism-makes

Decentralization 2017 https://rbs.io/2017/12/decentralization-2017/

Not Explicit https://boats.gitlab.io/blog/post/2017-12-27-things-explicit-is-not/?

Festival 23 - Wonderism, Fake News… http://www.mondo2000.com/2017/12/17/discordian-festival-23-wonderism-fake-news-neo-discordian-revival/

The Human Cost of the Ghost Economy https://longreads.com/2017/12/13/the-human-cost-of-the-ghost-economy/

Who Is Reality Winner? http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/12/who-is-reality-winner.html

OkCupid begins e… https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/12/okcupid-begins-enforcing-real-name-rules-insists-its-a-good-idea/

Evil Coding Incantations - Posts http://9tabs.com/random/2017/12/23/evil-coding-incantations.html

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A Priesthood of Programmers – Jacobite https://jacobitemag.com/2017/12/05/a-priesthood-of-programmers/

The story of early tape music, microsound, … http://cdm.link/2017/12/the-story-of-early-tape-music-microsound-and-a-eurorack-resurrection/

Storming the Ivory Tower: The Next Homestuck Wil… http://www.stormingtheivorytower.com/2017/12/the-next-homestuck-will-not-be-made-in.html

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programmers : … http://www.sicpers.info/2017/12/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-programming/

UFO IPO-182 – Take me to your dealer: the Pentagon UFO story, crowdfund… https://boingboing.net/2017/12/18/ufo-ipo-182-take-me-to-you.html

Older Adu… https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/12/18/571120472/older-adults-forgetfulness-tied-to-faulty-brain-rhythms-in-sleep

Unlocking the commons: or, the psychoeconomics of patr… https://kottke.org/17/12/unlocking-the-commons-or-the-psychoeconomics-of-patronage

The Weaponization of Awkwardness - The… https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/12/the-weaponization-of-awkwardness/548291/

Fu… https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/12/it-might-be-impossible-for-future-historians-to-understand-our-internet/547463/

Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Myste… https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html

Unalloyed irony
Soon to be ex-Senator Al Franken announced, on an emotional speech, his resignation yesterday. He is leaving the Senate after been accused of sexual misconduct.

“I, of all people, am aware that there is some irony in the fact that I am leaving while a man who has bragged on tape about his history of sexual assault sits in the Oval Office, and a man who has repeatedly preyed on young girls campaigns for the Senate with the [full support of his party] … ⌘ Read more

Old Book Illustrations: Free Archive Lets You Download Beautiful Images From the Golden Age of Book Illustration | Open Culture http://www.openculture.com/2015/12/old-book-illustrations.html

Second Life Still Has 600,000 Regular Users - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/second-life-leslie-jamison/544149/?

BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: THE GHOSTS IN THE LIVING ROOM http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2011/12/the_ghosts_in_the_living_room.html

The Computer Scientist Who Prefers Paper - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/guardian-of-the-vote/544155/

Jamming the Signal: Better Living Through Subliminal Messages - Mondo 2000 http://www.mondo2000.com/2017/10/12/jamming-signal-better-living-subliminal-messages/

Toward A Predictive Theory Of Depression | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/12/toward-a-predictive-theory-of-depression/

The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences: Symmetries, Sheets, and Saddled Scenes | Qualia Computing https://qualiacomputing.com/2016/12/12/the-hyperbolic-geometry-of-dmt-experiences/

Kitchen Soap – Multiple Perspectives On Technical Problems and Solutions https://www.kitchensoap.com/2017/08/12/multiple-perspectives-on-technical-problems-and-solutions/

A Violent 15th-Century Freshman Hazing Ritual Involving Boar Tusks and Razors - Atlas Obscura http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/deposition-hazing-ritual?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=149faf3a75-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_12&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f36db9c480-149faf3a75-63252673&ct=t(Newsletter_7_12_2017)&mc_cid=149faf3a75&mc_eid=fb147c2f0d

The Best Demon Illustrations of All Time - Atlas Obscura http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/demons-illustrations-dictionnaire-infernal?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=149faf3a75-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_12&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f36db9c480-149faf3a75-63252673&ct=t(Newsletter_7_12_2017)&mc_cid=149faf3a75&mc_eid=fb147c2f0d

http://networkcultures.org/longform/2016/12/19/communication-control-communism-on-socialist-cybernetics-accelerationist-dreams-and-tiqquns-nightmares/ http://networkcultures.org/longform/2016/12/19/communication-control-communism-on-socialist-cybernetics-accelerationist-dreams-and-tiqquns-nightmares/

The Birth of the Algorithmic Author - Cyborgology https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2016/01/12/the-birth-of-the-algorithmic-author/

THINK TANK; The Penis as Text for Serious Thinkers: Be Careful What You Wish For - The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/22/books/think-tank-the-penis-as-text-for-serious-thinkers-be-careful-what-you-wish-for.html

And while i’m talking about Isa, my favourite recipes is still her Thai-Chili http://www.isachandra.com/2010/12/red-lentil-thai-chili/

Cleaning the plate
My wife has always told me, “don’t eat everything in your plate, leave something!” It is her believe, and her culture’s, that only poor people eats everything, and that if I do so, it will show I am dying of hunger, and thus, poor. If it were so, what’s wrong with being poor? Why will I leave food on the plate, food that I really like, to pretend what I am not? I am poor, poor, poor!

That custom, though, would be an easy one to follow if the food was bad. That’s something … ⌘ Read more

Unpresidential
Not presidential at all.

“President-elect Donald J. Trump’s aides often cite his appearances at professional wrestling matches as an inspiration for his outsize political speaking style, and his buoyantly belligerent news conference in New York on Wednesday proved he has no plans to betray his brawler’s roots in the service of seeming more presidential.”

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Babbage/Lovelace had their mechanical notation but their work looks to be digital, not analog. (diagrams here: http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2015/12/untangling-the-tale-of-ada-lovelace/)

Home alone
Just like I did on 18 July, 2014, this one is mostly for keeping a record of a first time activity or occasion. This time it was Kent’s first home alone day. He is almost 15 years old, and for the first time he spent eight hours home alone, while Kim and I were at work.

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Amazon Cloud Drive feedback
This is not merely a technical problem, but I did not have the choice for multiple selections. Anytime I use the word “you” down below, I mean Amazon.

First the good. I love you, I have used AWS S3 for a long time, no complains. I do much of my online purchases on you, although I am not a fervent shopper. I rent my movies on Amazon Video. I am signed up for Flex. I want you to succeed even more. I love you!

Now the bad. Amazon Cloud Drive is bad. The OS X client i … ⌘ Read more

NixOS 14.12 released
NixOS 14.12 “Caterpillar” has been released, the third stable
release branch. It brings Linux 3.14, systemd 217, Glibc 2.20,
KDE 4.14.1, and much more. See the release\
 notes
for details. You can get NixOS 14.12 ISOs and VirtualBox
appliances from the download\
 page. For information on how to upgrade from older release
branches to 14.12, check out the [manual section\
 on\
 upgrading](/manual/nixos/stable/ind … ⌘ Read more