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Research Debt https://distill.pub/2017/research-debt/
[American Journal] by Robert Hayden - Poems | Academy of American Poets https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/american-journal
Mainframe, Interrupted https://logicmag.io/06-mainframe-interrupted/
How Diderot’s Encyclopedia Challenged the King https://longreads.com/2019/01/30/how-diderots-encyclopedia-challenged-the-king/
Book Review and Reflection: David Graeber’s “Debt: The First 5,000 Years” – The New Antique https://thenewantique.blog/2019/01/19/book-review-and-reflection-david-graebers-debt-the-first-5000-years/
Band name of the day: weak ties
List of vampire traits in folklore and fiction - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vampire_traits_in_folklore_and_fiction
Today in bot food: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/04/british-librarys-collection-of-obscene-writing-goes-online
I think the english dub might have contributed to Lain's reputation as confusing. Rather than pacing their lines, the voice actors consistently adlibbed extra bullshit to fill time, introducing plotholes.
Model Metropolis https://logicmag.io/06-model-metropolis/
boxbase.org: Null references was a mistake, but what's the take-away? http://boxbase.org/entries/2019/feb/4/null/
The Art of PNG Glitch http://ucnv.github.io/pnglitch/
Band name of the day: corpse taunting
Screw Standards: Why We Aren't Happy https://tedium.co/2016/09/15/screw-history-standards/
Band name of the day: american carnage
The fascinating bromance between Steve Jobs and Ross Perot - Cake https://www.cake.co/conversations/DwwvjtB/the-fascinating-bromance-between-steve-jobs-and-ross-perot
Band name of the day: spooky snow phenomenon
Band name of the day: lowland ways
The Independant Federated Fediverse http://tilde.town/~petegozz/
Grace v. Glamour: The Duality of Sailor Moon (Anime Boston 2016 Panel) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVehcW4fC1g
Information Society - World Enough (Official Lyric Video) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlGEo3zdFgo
Tar-pit thinking http://trevorjim.com/tar-pit-thinking/
A Lever for the Mind https://codon.com/a-lever-for-the-mind
The Accidental Fascism of You've Got Mail: What This 90's Rom-Com Is Really About - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRgvi_Jek-A
Band name of the day: ouchmouse
TIL that Tron was written by Alan Kay's wife. That adds so many new dimensions to that movie, and makes 'I fight for the users' even *more* appropriate as a slogan.
party soft, party sustainable
Niklaus Wirth apparently worked on a plugin that would run JIT-compiled oberon ASTs in the browser as applets back in the mid-90s: https://github.com/berkus/Juice
What’s wrong with the Raspberry Pi – Own your bits https://ownyourbits.com/2019/02/02/whats-wrong-with-the-raspberry-pi/
The Power of Wholesome Harem Anime - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhSyKaXczGI
the accursed rideshare
Band name of the day: invasion literature
Band name of the day: the other power
Notion " The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases. https://www.notion.so/tools-and-craft/03-ted-nelson
Digi & Geoff fighting is like Grant Morrison & Alan Moore fighting. Their criticisms of each other are accurate but comical because they make basically the exact same mistakes.
Band name of the day: empire of hair
Nadesco is a cynical mecha parody about how genuine & unironic straight mecha is good & cool actually, because exactly the things that make it cheesy make it valuable. Wholesome themes like solidarity in the face of difficult odds are cheesy because they should be obvious (but aren't).
A small notebook for a system administrator / Habr https://habr.com/en/post/437912/
Gossip was a powerful tool for the powerless in Ancient Greece | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/gossip-was-a-powerful-tool-for-the-powerless-in-ancient-greece
Kingdom Hearts III: The Kotaku Review | Kotaku UK http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2019/01/27/kingdom-hearts-iii-the-kotaku-review
tired: XBox One X; wired: xbonks
Band name of the day: industrial noise pollution
Band name of the day: randomly selected nightmare
Mall Rats, Vidiots and Addicts: Anti Video Game Propaganda From The 80s – Retro Bitch https://retrobitch.wordpress.com/2019/01/16/mall-rats-vidiots-and-addicts-anti-video-game-propaganda-from-the-80s/
I regret to inform everybody that Data Privacy Day was actually *last* Monday. We all missed it. Sorry. Honorary Data Privacy Day every Monday for the next 2 years to make up for it, kay?
Band name of the day: the eyeball thief
The Lifespan of News Stories https://www.newslifespan.com/
Monday is Data Privacy Day. Celebrate by replacing your wardrobe with loose jumpsuits printed with hundreds of GAN-generated faces.
Monday is Data Privacy Day. Celebrate by getting a new, asymmetrical haircut and some temporary face tattoos of eyes.
Monday is Data Privacy Day. Celebrate by proving all those stock photos right about hackers wearing black ski masks when typing.
Monday is Data Privacy Day. Celebrate by legally changing your name to ";drop table users;
Monday is Data Privacy Day. Celebrate by clicking on a thai death metal video & letting autoplay follow that connection in the background for a week.
Monday is Data Privacy Day. Celebrate by only appearing in public wearing a photorealistic 3d printed mask of Richard D. James' face over your own face.
Monday is Data Privacy Day. Celebrate by putting electrical tape over everybody else's webcams too.
Monday is Data Privacy Day. Celebrate by convincing Facebook that you are at least 120 years old & drive a pink car.
Monday is Data Privacy Day. Celebrate by posting under an assumed identity.
Monday is Data Privacy Day. Celebrate by removing all the yellow ink from your printer's cartridge with a syringe.
Monday is Data Privacy Day. Celebrate by putting your phone in a martini shaker and leaving the internet forever.
Probabilistic logic network - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic_logic_network
Band name of the day: speed victory
Suggestion Box History: The Small Data Before Big Data https://tedium.co/2019/01/31/suggestion-box-history/
Band name of the day: survey feedback aktion
Band name of the day: the box of justice
How rituals can protect life with a petal and a prayer | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-rituals-can-protect-life-with-a-petal-and-a-prayer
every time you donate blood you become secret blood brothers with strangers in need, & that's beautiful
Unusual core features for a dream language for small computing: MUMPS-style disk persistence of otherwise normal variables indicated by sigils, go-style piping between coroutines or greenthreads, message passing & guards like erlang, parsing backtracking like icon, constraint solving like prolog
A Conversation with Alan Kay - ACM Queue https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523
'Kingdom Hearts III' is a Big, Beautiful Mess - Waypoint https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/gyaqwm/kingdom-hearts-iii-review-lore-copyright
The basic reason why we don't have the systems envisioned by Kay, Nelson, Engelbart, etc. is because we have ignored or forgotten the components of the systems those folks actually built that make what they envisioned possible.
Band name of the day: fifty foot horse
Band name of the day: pantechnicon
Something that people keep forgetting about GitS: in every iteration of the franchise, full-body prosthetics are extremely rare. Cyberbrains are common, but suggesting that everybody with a cyberbrain has a prosthetic body is like saying everybody with a modem has full home automation.
Band name of the day: sex lampreys
Ghost in the Shell: The Major's Body (1) - WWAC https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2014/07/ghost-in-the-shell-the-majors-body-1/
Fluid Rigor https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/05/04/fluid-rigor/
Body Pleasure https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/08/03/body-pleasure/
Harry Potter and the Concept of Magic https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2007/07/06/harry-potter-and-the-concept-of-magic/
Want to get away with posting fake news on Facebook? Just change your website domain. – Poynter https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2019/want-to-get-away-with-posting-fake-news-on-facebook-just-change-your-website-domain/
Do I Hate the Nine-Panel Grid or Do I Just Resent Watchmen? - WWAC https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2019/01/do-i-hate-the-nine-panel-grid-or-do-i-just-resent-watchmen/
There is No Nature-Nurture War - Scientific American Blog Network https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/in-the-nature-nurture-war-robert-plomin-is-fighting-a-losing-battle/
tired: learn to code; wired: code to learn
When does cognitive functioning peak? The asynchronous rise and fall of different cognitive abilities across the lifespan https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4441622/
Feeling the Future https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/12/07/feeling-the-future/
Nicolas Cage to Star in ‘Color Out of Space’ – Variety https://variety.com/2019/film/news/nicolas-cage-color-out-of-space-1203115589/
Cognitive dimensions of notations - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dimensions_of_notations
“Learn to Code”: The Twitter Meme Attacking Media - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/tech/2019/1/29/18201695/learn-to-code-twitter-abuse-buzzfeed-journalists
MSX History: The Platform Microsoft Forgot https://tedium.co/2019/01/29/microsoft-msx-history/
1969 & 70 - Bell Labs http://www.larryluckham.com/1969%20&%2070%20-%20Bell%20Labs/album/index.html
The resource cannot be found. http://www.larryluckham.com/1969%20
The Metainterface of the Clouds http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/the-metainterface-of-the-clouds/
CHI4Evil – Creative Speculation on the Negative Effects of HCI Research https://chi4evil.wordpress.com/
YouTube Strikes Now Being Used as Scammers' Extortion Tool - TorrentFreak https://torrentfreak.com/youtube-strikes-now-being-used-as-scammers-extortion-tool/
Maze Design http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/csk/projects/mazes/
A Self-Learning, Modern Computer Science Curriculum https://functionalcs.github.io/curriculum/
Band name of the day: mobcraft
Dance Battle! Meet the Warring Milli Vanilli of Italo Disco | GQ https://www.gq.com/story/dons-of-disco
Designing the game console of the future (in 1997) - Polygon https://www.polygon.com/features/2019/1/28/18146043/the-game-console-of-the-future-1997-nintendo-power
The Beautiful Mind-Bending of Stanislaw Lem | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-beautiful-mind-bending-of-stanislaw-lem
How Early Humans Handled Aggression - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/how-humans-tamed-themselves/580447/
Patchwork Epistemologies (Part 4): Warped by Language – xenogothic https://xenogothic.com/2019/01/30/patchwork-epistemologies-part-4-warped-by-language/