List Of Passages I Highlighted In My Copy Of Legal Systems Very Different From Ours | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/15/list-of-passages-i-highlighted-in-my-copy-of-legal-systems-very-different-from-ours/
FeedBurner History: Why Google Can‘t Kill It https://tedium.co/2017/11/14/google-feedburner-rss-history/
Scripting the GUI with ‘hey’ | Haiku Project https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/humdinger/2017-11-05_scripting_the_gui_with_hey/
Book Review: Legal Systems Very Different From Ours | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/13/book-review-legal-systems-very-different-from-ours/
Chapel Perilous: The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson - An Interview with Prop Anon - Mondo 2000 http://www.mondo2000.com/2017/11/13/chapel-perilous-life-thought-crimes-robert-anton-wilson-interview-prop-anon/
Semi-autonomous software agents: A personal perspective. - Mondo 2000 http://www.mondo2000.com/2017/11/08/semi-autonomous-software-agents-personal-perspective/
Semi-autonomous agents: What are they, exactly? - Mondo 2000 http://www.mondo2000.com/2017/11/01/semi-autonomous-agents-exactly/
Unusual experiment reveals the power of non-mainstream media | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/11/unusual-experiment-reveals-the-power-of-non-mainstream-media/
» A Net Before the Web, Part 3: Content and Competition The Digital Antiquarian http://www.filfre.net/2017/11/a-net-before-the-web-part-3-content-and-competition/
» A Net Before the Web, Part 2: Service to Community The Digital Antiquarian http://www.filfre.net/2017/11/a-net-before-the-web-part-2-service-to-community/
Human Mini-Brains Growing Inside Rat Bodies Are Starting To Integrate - Slashdot https://science.slashdot.org/story/17/11/09/2314220/human-mini-brains-growing-inside-rat-bodies-are-starting-to-integrate
Burn The Programmer! - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2017/11/burn-the-programmer.html
Hidden Tracks: Nowhere Left To Hide https://tedium.co/2017/11/09/hidden-tracks-album-history/
The Dead Man Fund https://longreads.com/2017/11/09/ameritor-dead-mans-fund-charles-steadman/
This World Is Full of Monsters | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2017/11/08/this-world-is-full-of-monsters/
Cory Doctorow: How to Do Everything (Lifehacking Considered Harmful) – Locus Online http://locusmag.com/2017/11/cory-doctorow-how-to-do-everything-lifehacking-considered-harmful/
The Booming Japanese Rent-a-Friend Business - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/11/paying-for-fake-friends-and-family/545060/?single_page=true
Ars Longa, Vita Brevis | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/09/ars-longa-vita-brevis/
Infinite Negative Utility: Proofs and Programs and Rhetoric https://blog.infinitenegativeutility.com/2017/11/proofs-and-programs-and-rhetoric
Somebody wrote an email bot to waste scammers‘ time / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2017/11/08/somebody-wrote-an-email-bot-to.html
Meet the scientists building a library of designer drugs - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/8/16619142/designer-drugs-k2-spice-synthetic-weed-ucsf-lab-dea
Does Age Bring Wisdom? | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/07/does-age-bring-wisdom/
Asphalt History: The Evolution of the Pothole-Maker https://tedium.co/2017/11/06/asphalt-pothole-history/
A Beginner‘s Guide to Robert Anton Wilson: Part I - disinformation http://disinfo.com/2017/11/beginners-guide-robert-anton-wilson-part/
Wireless Spectrum Allocation: The Invisible Puzzle https://tedium.co/2017/05/11/wireless-spectrum-allocation-challenges/
Concept-Shaped Holes Can Be Impossible To Notice | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/07/concept-shaped-holes-can-be-impossible-to-notice/
Comcast has a lot to lose if municipal broadband takes off | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/11/comcast-has-a-lot-to-lose-if-municipal-broadband-takes-off/
Social network tarot cards / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2017/11/04/social-network-tarot-cards.html
"Facephenes": Brain Stimulation Creates Phantasmal Faces - Neuroskeptic http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2017/11/04/facephenes-phantasmal-faces/#.WgBm4lf950y
Non-Expert Explanation | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/02/non-expert-explanation/
Virgin Cola: Richard Branson‘s Greatest Failure https://tedium.co/2017/11/02/virgin-cola-history/
These glasses trick facial recognition software into thinking you‘re someone else - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/3/13507542/facial-recognition-glasses-trick-impersonate-fool
Postmodernism For Rationalists (my attempt) | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/01/postmodernism-for-rationalists-my-attempt/
Small-Scale Structures in CYOA | Emily Short‘s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2016/11/05/small-scale-structures-in-cyoa/
The Conversations We Can’t Have: – Emmi Bevensee… https://emmibe.wordpress.com/2016/11/25/the-conversations-we-cant-have/
I‘m a woman in computer science. Let me ladysplain the Google memo to you. - Vox https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/8/11/16130452/google-memo-women-tech-biology-sexism
Why we fell for clean eating | Life and style | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/aug/11/why-we-fell-for-clean-eating
The Madman and the Bomb - POLITICO Magazine http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/11/donald-trump-nuclear-weapons-richard-nixon-215478
The Pull Request Hack - Felix Geisendörfer http://felixge.de/2013/03/11/the-pull-request-hack.html
Comey’s sacking
This is, at least for me, completely surreal. It is not only that Trump sacked the FBI director — who arguably helped him getting elected President — while he was conducting an investigation on Trump’s presidential campaign, but the way he wrote the sacking letter (I emphasised):
Dear Director Comey:
I have received the attached letters from the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General of the United States recommending your dismissal as the Director of the Federal Bureau of Inve … ⌘ Read more
A linguist on Arrival’s alien language ⌘ http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/11/22/a_linguist_on_arrival_s_alien_language.html
tx 11 … quite 59
webi 11 … tx 85
Fake email clients
For a few (years?) now, there has been an increase of so called email clients that are not so. I am talking about the “value added email clients” that require a third party server/service to work. Within that category there is Nylas, Polymail, and Sparkmail, to mention a few. Although they bring an array of features not normally found on an email client, they are worthless if the third party company server(s) goes down, … ⌘ Read more
Useless, but neat! http://ahogrammer.com/2016/11/15/deep-learning-enables-you-to-hide-screen-when-your-boss-is-approaching/
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.”
I was wrong
Back in 5 October 2015, I wrote a prediction, which I saved in a file for which I posted a hash. I predicted that Hillary Clinton would win the United States presidential elections. Sadly, I was wrong.
I really do not have much else to say. I am sorry. ⌘ Read more