Reflections on DOOM’s Development — Rome.ro https://rome.ro/news/2018/12/10/reflections-on-dooms-development

Unflattening Hobbes https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/10/18/unflattening-hobbes/

The Friendship That Made Google Huge | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship-that-made-google-huge

GUERRILLA SEMIOTIX – ALIENIST MANIFESTO https://alienistmanifesto.wordpress.com/2018/10/03/guerrilla-semiotix/

Edward Gorey’s Enigmatic World | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/edward-goreys-enigmatic-world

.……….//: Embracing the New Flesh http://ellaguro.blogspot.com/2014/10/embracing-new-flesh.html

KEYBOARDS FOUND IN DUMPSTERS:↵2: great to type on. return randomizes the keyboard layout.↵4: black and white keys in weird arrangement. produces sound but no letters. may not be a keyboard.↵7: has a ticklish ‘a’ key and tries to edge away when I come near it↵10: enochian alphabet

Notes on the Anti-Praxis of Nietzsche’s Postcapitalist “Will” – xenogothic https://xenogothic.com/2018/10/18/notes-on-the-anti-praxis-of-nietzsches-postcapitalist-will/

“Let us Calculate!”: Leibniz, Llull, and the Computational Imagination – The Public Domain Review https://publicdomainreview.org/2016/11/10/let-us-calculate-leibniz-llull-and-computational-imagination/

Observations on Modern Computing (The Last 10 Years Were a Misstep) “ ~ajroach42.com ” I’m Andrew. I write about the past and future of tech, music, media, culture, art, and activism. … http://ajroach42.com/observations-on-modern-computing-the-last-10-years-were-a-misstep/

Simulating a Xerox Alto with the ContrAlto simulator: games and Smalltalk http://www.righto.com/2016/10/simulating-xerox-alto-with-contralto.html

The Xerox Alto, Smalltalk, and rewriting a running GUI http://www.righto.com/2017/10/the-xerox-alto-smalltalk-and-rewriting.html

Dataspace 10: An Array Representation | Natepod http://natecull.org/wordpress/2018/08/16/dataspace-10-an-array-representation/

Dataspace 7: A Low-Level Encoding | Natepod http://natecull.org/wordpress/2017/07/10/dataspace-7-a-low-level-encoding/

Dataspace 6: Terms as Types | Natepod http://natecull.org/wordpress/2017/07/10/dataspace-6-terms-as-types/

A radical pessimist’s guide to the next 10 years - The Globe and Mail https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/a-radical-pessimists-guide-to-the-next-10-years/article1321040/

Sort By Controversial | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/

fogus: Soup http://blog.fogus.me/2018/10/25/soup/

Bad idea of the day: Prevent any party from having representatives in more than 10% of the seats in congress or senate, including at the state level. If any party goes over 10% we redo the election in all affected areas.

After World War I, Horror Movies Were Invaded By an Army of Reanimated Corpses https://longreads.com/2018/10/31/after-world-war-i-horror-movies-were-invaded-by-an-army-of-reanimated-corpses/

In one sense, ‘the computer revolution is over’ because the period of exponential growth behind the tech ended 10 years ago. In another sense, it hasn’t begun: we have sheltered ourselves from the social and intellectual ramifications of computing. Documents are still simulations of paper, & capitalism still exists. So it’s like that period where printing presses existed but everybody used a faux-calligraphic font.

These Are the Bad Times – Hmm Daily https://hmmdaily.com/2018/10/30/these-are-the-bad-times/

“Fun Size” Candy Bar History: Lawsuits Were Involved https://tedium.co/2018/10/30/fun-size-candy-history/

The Draw of the Gothic https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/10/29/the-draw-of-the-gothic/

The Others: Why Women Are Shut Out of Horror https://longreads.com/2018/10/25/the-others-why-women-are-shut-out-of-horror/

The Monster Mash History: More Than a Graveyard Smash https://tedium.co/2018/10/25/monster-mash-history/

Acting like a psychopath is great for male CEOs, not so much for women | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/10/acting-like-a-psychopath-is-great-for-male-ceos-not-so-much-for-women/

Amy Winehouse’s 2019 tour: why dead celebrity holograms keep happening - Vox https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/10/23/18010274/amy-winehouse-hologram-tour-controversy-technology

iPhones are hard to use https://blog.fawny.org/2018/10/22/hardtouse/

The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/29/the-myth-of-whiteness-in-classical-sculpture

Police Training Simulator History: A Parallel Path With Gaming https://tedium.co/2018/10/23/police-training-simulator-history/

Cognitive Enhancers: Mechanisms And Tradeoffs | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/22/cognitive-enhancers-mechanisms-and-tradeoffs/

LegoOS: a disseminated, distributed OS for hardware resource disaggregation | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/10/22/legoos-a-disseminated-distributed-os-for-hardware-resource-disaggregation/

Meet the Endoterrestrials - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/10/meet-endoterrestrials/571939/

B. F. Skinner: The Most Important Theorist of the 21st Century http://hackeducation.com/2018/10/18/skinner

If the Rich Really Want To ‘Do Good,’ They Should Become Class Traitors Like FDR https://longreads.com/2018/10/18/review-of-winners-take-all/

AI and the Trolley Problem | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2018/10/17/ai-and-the-trolley-problem-pat-cadigan/

Enjoying High-Res Graphics on a Text-Only TRS-80 Model 4 from 1983 | Byte Cellar http://www.bytecellar.com/2018/10/17/enjoying-high-res-graphics-on-a-text-only-trs-80-model-4-from-1983/

Robin “Sourdough” Sloan is using a machine-learning autocomplete system to write his next novel / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/10/19/t9-for-auteurs.html

DisneyQuest is dead, and Disney’s VR experiments are gone with it - Polygon https://www.polygon.com/features/2018/10/18/17888722/disneyquest-disney-vr-closed

Falsehoods Programmers Believe about Garbage Collection — Paul Bone http://paul.bone.id.au/2018/10/19/gc-falsehoods/

Staple History: Maybe Royalty Wasn’t Involved https://tedium.co/2018/10/18/stapler-history-office-supplies/

Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House Finds the Beating Heart of Shirley Jackson’s Tale | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2018/10/16/netflixs-the-haunting-of-hill-house-finds-the-beating-heart-of-shirley-jacksons-tale/

Rockstar developers speak out about “100-hour weeks” comment | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/10/red-dead-redemption-2-devs-say-quoted-100-hour-weeks-arent-the-norm/

Do you (mis)remember modern rock and roll radio? http://www.its-her-factory.com/2018/10/do-you-misremember-modern-rock-and-roll-radio/

Mailbag: AI Research on Dialogue and Story Generation | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2018/10/16/mailbag-ai-research-on-dialogue-and-story-generation/

Vectorized Emulation: Hardware accelerated taint tracking at 2 trillion instructions per second | Gamozo Labs Blog https://gamozolabs.github.io/fuzzing/2018/10/14/vectorized_emulation.html

How Lisp Became God’s Own Programming Language https://twobithistory.org/2018/10/14/lisp.html

The Real in Weird Realism: Notes on ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ – xenogothic https://xenogothic.com/2018/10/14/the-real-in-weird-realism-notes-on-the-haunting-of-hill-house/

The firebreaks — KarlSchroeder.com http://www.kschroeder.com/weblog/archive/2011/10/27/the-firebreaks