Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20171201123944/https://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_sci_fi_comic_book_story_that_inspired_they_live originally retrieved Fri Dec 1 12:39:44 EST 2017
Random link from the archives: "Woz comments clarify some important Apple history" https://web.archive.org/web/20190830072307/https://www.loopinsight.com/2019/08/29/woz-comments-clarify-some-important-apple-history/ originally retrieved Fri Aug 30 07:23:07 EDT 2019
Random link from the archives: "Woz comments clarify some important Apple history" https://web.archive.org/web/20190830072307/https://www.loopinsight.com/2019/08/29/woz-comments-clarify-some-important-apple-history/ originally retrieved Fri Aug 30 07:23:07 EDT 2019
Random link from the archives: "Social Gentrification | Status 451" https://web.archive.org/web/20200712153542/https://status451.com/2016/09/15/social-gentrification/#comment-1960 originally retrieved Sun Jul 12 15:35:42 EDT 2020
Random link from the archives: "Interview: Ari Aster - Film Comment" https://web.archive.org/web/20190501093057/https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/interview-ari-aster/ originally retrieved Wed May 1 09:30:57 EDT 2019
Random link from the archives: "Jeffrey Epstein's influence in the science world is a symptom of larger problems | Kate Darling | Opinion | The Guardian" https://web.archive.org/web/20190909131203/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/27/jeffrey-epstein-science-mit-brockman
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20220209130111/https://scribe.rip/p/questions-are-the-new-comments-5169d0b2c66f originally retrieved Wed 09 Feb 2022 01:01:11 PM EST
Random link from the archives: "Too Many Requests" https://web.archive.org/web/20200819113055/https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/hregpy/girls_of_reddit_whats_something_guys_see_done_in/ originally retrieved Wed Aug 19 11:30:55 EDT 2020
Random link from the archives: "Competitive culture brings out the worst in scientists | The Japan Times" https://web.archive.org/web/20190123100353/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/01/22/commentary/world-commentary/competitive-culture-brings-worst-scientists/?appsule=1&idfa=345AD11F-06FF-4308-B97F-69BE5AC9BC2A#.XEfs_qqRWnM
Random link from the archives: "HN: the good parts" https://web.archive.org/web/20190606075209/https://danluu.com/hn-comments/ originally retrieved Thu Jun 6 07:52:09 EDT 2019
Random link from the archives: "Once again, a neural net tries to name cats - AI WeirdnessCommentShareCommentShare" https://web.archive.org/web/20220428113237/https://www.aiweirdness.com/once-again-a-neural-net-tries-to-19-06-03/ originally retrieved Thu 28 Apr 2022 11:32:37 AM EDT
Random link from the archives: "Too Many Requests" https://web.archive.org/web/20191104093135/https://old.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/c0nqg7/people_seem_to_think_thieves_should_lockpick_or/er6huvz/ originally retrieved Mon Nov 4 09:31:35 EST 2019
Random link from the archives: "Too Many Requests" https://web.archive.org/web/20190606112528/https://www.reddit.com/r/bizarrebuildings/comments/b7m6nh/1970_expo_tower_in_osaka_japan/ originally retrieved Thu Jun 6 11:25:28 EDT 2019
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20210527135218/https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Zvu6ZP47dMLHXMiG3/optimized-propaganda-with-bayesian-networks-comment-on originally retrieved Thu 27 May 2021 01:52:18 PM EDT
Bad idea of the day: video game commentary tracks: enable an option and one of the developers, designers, or writers explains something about the section you're playing in VO at all times
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20210104083451/https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kmf1qb/what_is_the_worst_thing_that_is_legal/ originally retrieved Mon 04 Jan 2021 08:34:51 AM EST
Random link from the archives: "Garbage Time Never Runs Out: Commentary on Auto-Poetry" https://web.archive.org/web/20211129060931/https://scribe.rip/p/garbage-time-never-runs-out-commentary-on-auto-poetry-4357dbfb86a1 originally retrieved Mon 29 Nov 2021 06:09:31 AM EST
saw the looker commentary, and michael chrichton's ego is just astounding. i say this as somebody who has spent a lot of time with ted nelson.
Random link from the archives: "302 Found" https://web.archive.org/web/20241105091029/https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/1gjuzwg/no_wonder_mimes_get_all_the_girls/ originally retrieved Tue 05 Nov 2024 09:10:29 AM EST
Random link from the archives: " The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again" https://web.archive.org/web/20240105235653/https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/internet-future-about-to-get-weird-1234938403/ originally retrieved Fri 05 Jan 2024 11:56:53 PM EST
Random link from the archives: "Limited Liability Is Causing Unlimited Harm by Katharina Pistor - Project Syndicate" https://web.archive.org/web/20200205113725/https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/limited-liability-corporate-shares-by-katharina-pistor-2020-02
Random link from the archives: "Eco-fascism is undergoing a revival in the fetid culture of the extreme right | Jason Wilson | World news | The Guardian" https://web.archive.org/web/20190319184358/https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2019/mar/20/eco-fascism-is-undergoing-a-revival-in-the-fetid-culture-of-the-extreme-right
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20210714104247/https://dangerousminds.net/comments/doctor_fausts_handy_guide_to_conjuring_up_demons originally retrieved Wed 14 Jul 2021 10:42:47 AM EDT
The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/internet-future-about-to-get-weird-1234938403/
Random link from the archives: "Disqus, the dark commenting system" https://web.archive.org/web/20210208150226/https://supunkavinda.blog/disqus originally retrieved Mon 08 Feb 2021 03:02:26 PM EST
Random link from the archives: "Boris Johnson’s “Looking Glass” Brexit | The New Yorker" https://web.archive.org/web/20190730131630/https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/boris-johnsons-looking-glass-brexit originally retrieved Tue Jul 30 13:16:30 EDT 2019
if you're somehow under the impression that discussion on HN (or lobste.rs) is high-quality, try sorting posts by new and reading entire comment threads. the hn mods are very good at ensuring that comments (regardless of quality or salience) that superficially resemble intelligent & civil discussion show up high on frontpage posts. HN is a certain kind of cultural bubble (and lobste.rs is a slightly different but largely adjacent bubble), and ideas that conflict with the unexamined assumptions forming the foundation of this bubble get quickly buried under emotional outbursts, like they do in other communities; there's a large volume of this shit (although most posts have zero interaction -- justified since most posts are low-information self-promotion bullshit -- most comments are in long flame threads attached to troll/bait posts). the comments that end up not being removed from frontpage posts are the ones that do not threaten the whole 'capitalism and pop-science are the solution to every problem' model common to HN posters, arguably because such comments inevitably cause ugly fights -- the kind that the mods would like to make outsiders think never happen there; of course, the general acceptance of this model is arguably the biggest problem with HN's community and the SV tech industry whose culture HN purports to represent, so these flamewars are actually the most pro-social form of content on the whole site. lobste.rs is basically just ex-HN people who don't believe anything different from the HN people but have a slightly higher average technical competence and a marginally lower tolerance for obvious spam.
it seems that medium has pulled a quora and alienated its audience of skilled and motivated early adopters in favor of casuals to the point where it has become very hard to get high quality conversation. i'm starting to get to the point where most comments on my posts are by people who clearly haven't read the post.
Bad idea of the day: an epistolary novel in the form of a long fanfiction of a fictional franchise, written over the course of years, complete with authors notes replying to some comments
Random link from the archives: "Too Many Requests" https://web.archive.org/web/20181120104352/https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2lvjgt/in_games_and_books_there_are_always_adventurers/ originally retrieved Tue Nov 20 10:43:52 EST 2018
Random link from the archives: "Too Many Requests" https://web.archive.org/web/20170816122757/https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/40ldq6/generative_adversarial_networks_for_text/ originally retrieved Wed Aug 16 12:27:57 EDT 2017
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20220209130111/https://scribe.rip/p/questions-are-the-new-comments-5169d0b2c66f originally retrieved Wed 09 Feb 2022 01:01:11 PM EST
hot take: scream is... fine. it's commenting on pop culture conceptions of slasher movies that were never actually accurate, and that lost whatever relevance they had even before it came out. it's reasonably well-executed but less interesting or atmospheric than early-80s slashers like the burning or happy birthday to me, and to the degree that what it comments on actually exists instead of being a 'beam me up scotty' popular-misunderstanding, those tropes are present in late-80s direct-to-vhs slasher cash-ins that are now forgotten (if not totally unavailable). its biggest impact on the slasher genre was to resurrect and preserve those tropes well beyond their sell-by date by inspiring late-90s slashers that try to copy scream's formula poorly. same applies to the whole rest of the franchise. it's watchable but if it were erased from history nothing of value would be lost.
Random link from the archives: "Eco-fascism is undergoing a revival in the fetid culture of the extreme right | Jason Wilson | World news | The Guardian" https://web.archive.org/web/20190319184358/https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2019/mar/20/eco-fascism-is-undergoing-a-revival-in-the-fetid-culture-of-the-extreme-right originally retrieved Tue Mar 19 18:43:58 EDT 2019
I am once again asking you how a posting is like a commenter?
What if trigger warnings don’t work? - ~life - Tildes https://tildes.net/~life/yox/what_if_trigger_warnings_dont_work#comment-6t3a
Random link from the archives: "Reddit - Dive into anything" https://web.archive.org/web/20220913125023/https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xa1ica/whats_a_trade_secret_you_know_from_working_the/ originally retrieved Tue 13 Sep 2022 12:50:23 PM EDT
Random link from the archives: "Too Many Requests" https://web.archive.org/web/20170816122757/https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/40ldq6/generative_adversarial_networks_for_text/ originally retrieved Wed Aug 16 12:27:57 EDT 2017
Random link from the archives: "Eco-fascism is undergoing a revival in the fetid culture of the extreme right | Jason Wilson | World news | The Guardian" https://web.archive.org/web/20190319184358/https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2019/mar/20/eco-fascism-is-undergoing-a-revival-in-the-fetid-culture-of-the-extreme-right originally retrieved Tue Mar 19 18:43:58 EDT 2019
Random link from the archives: "What's an unspoken rule that annoys you when people don't know about it? : AskReddit" https://web.archive.org/web/20220111172938/https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ryum97/whats_an_unspoken_rule_that_annoys_you_when/ originally retrieved Tue 11 Jan 2022 05:29:38 PM EST
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20220209103441/https://scribe.rip/p/is-it-time-to-read-the-comments-fccc86a10864 originally retrieved Wed 09 Feb 2022 10:34:41 AM EST
anime very often comments on the phenomenon of microaggressions against non-asians & mixed white/asian people in japan, and i basically never see western fandom talk about this, to the point where i think it might be going over western audience's heads?
Random link from the archives: "Care at Scale | Comment Magazine" https://web.archive.org/web/20210904213430/https://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/care-at-scale/ originally retrieved Sat 04 Sep 2021 09:34:30 PM EDT
Random link from the archives: "reddit: the front page of the internet" https://web.archive.org/web/20200222110138/https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/evb8of/whats_a_littleknown_but_obvious_fact_that_will/ originally retrieved Sat Feb 22 11:01:38 EST 2020
Random link from the archives: "We can’t leave it to billionaires like Bezos and Bloomberg to solve the world’s problems | Simon Jenkins | Opinion | The Guardian" https://web.archive.org/web/20200221092409/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/21/billionaires-bloomberg-bezos-government-mega-rich originally retrieved Fri Feb 21 09:24:09 EST 2020
Random link from the archives: "How China censors the net: by making sure there’s too much information | John Naughton | Opinion | The Guardian" https://web.archive.org/web/20180625091005/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/16/how-china-censors-internet-information originally retrieved Mon Jun 25 09:10:05 EDT 2018
Once again, a neural net tries to name cats - AI WeirdnessCommentShareCommentShare https://www.aiweirdness.com/once-again-a-neural-net-tries-to-19-06-03/
Random link from the archives: "Care at Scale | Comment Magazine" https://web.archive.org/web/20210904213430/https://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/care-at-scale/ originally retrieved Sat 04 Sep 2021 09:34:30 PM EDT
Random link from the archives: "Towards a text editor construction kit · Issue #1187 · xi-editor/xi-editor · GitHub" https://web.archive.org/web/20190513091514/https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor/issues/1187#issuecomment-491473599 originally retrieved Mon May 13 09:15:14 EDT 2019
i, a person who considers subscription boxes to be generally scams, have subscribed to bokksu. stay stuned for comments on whether or not i thought it was worth the nearly five hundred dollar price tag
Bell, Book and Candle (the Jimmy Stewart / Kim Novak film -- I haven't seen the play) is interesting in that it shows witch society as a primarily consumerist society of nifty new ready-made charms. It does not show practitioners inventing new spells at all, or modifying old ones. It merely shows them either using 'traditional' spells or using new, potion-based ones. This feels like a commentary on the corporate-science-and-engineering boosterism of the postwar period -- in which american society was presented as upper middle class white people consuming the wondrous labor-saving devices produced by hoards of anonymous scientists. (All of the characters in the film are also very 50s-hip: they read non-fiction books about and collect artifacts from far-away and exoticized cultures as a hobby, and Kim Novak's only sartorial concession to traditional conceptions of witchiness is a fondness for black clothes and a tendency to go barefoot.) I wonder if there was ever an explicit connection made, at the time, between this framing and the idea (seemingly completely novel to this franchise) that a witch's power is connected to an inability to truly feel emotions -- Novak's character losing her powers because she fell in love, and proving this by shedding tears, with witch society meanwhile being presented as an orgy of flashy but shallow hipsterism.
Random link from the archives: "Too Many Requests" https://web.archive.org/web/20200827112618/https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/igr7vw/what_is_something_that_is_illegal_but_is_so/ originally retrieved Thu Aug 27 11:26:18 EDT 2020
What's an unspoken rule that annoys you when people don't know about it? : AskReddit https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ryum97/whats_an_unspoken_rule_that_annoys_you_when/
Is a Civil War Ahead? | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/is-a-civil-war-ahead
Random link from the archives: "Why Doctors Think They’re The Best | Slate Star Codex" https://web.archive.org/web/20200116111324/https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/01/02/why-doctors-think-theyre-the-best/#comment-836896 originally retrieved Thu Jan 16 11:13:24 EST 2020
Garbage Time Never Runs Out: Commentary on Auto-Poetry https://scribe.rip/p/garbage-time-never-runs-out-commentary-on-auto-poetry-4357dbfb86a1
Random link from the archives: "GitHub - tiniuclx/CommentCPP: add confusing comments to an existing source file" https://web.archive.org/web/20181127111359/https://github.com/tiniuclx/CommentCPP originally retrieved Tue Nov 27 11:13:59 EST 2018
comments on “A taxonomy of generative poetry techniques” | Gnoetry Daily https://gnoetrydaily.wordpress.com/2018/03/25/comments-on-a-taxonomy-of-generative-poetry-techniques/
More than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments were Likely Faked https://scribe.rip/p/more-than-a-million-pro-repeal-net-neutrality-comments-were-likely-faked-e9f0e3ed36a6
Random link from the archives: "reddit: the front page of the internet" https://web.archive.org/web/20200823133854/https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/id46ym/what_simple_life_hack_should_everyone_know/ originally retrieved Sun Aug 23 13:38:54 EDT 2020
This is an interesting article because it’s posted on Medium, and the Medium comment system is… https://scribe.rip/p/this-is-an-interesting-article-because-it-s-posted-on-medium-and-the-medium-comment-system-is-ef1c9cddcb01
Eric Clapton Isn't Just Spouting Vaccine Nonsense--He's Bankrolling It - Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/eric-clapton-vaccine-lockdown-racist-comments-1239027/
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200610130114/https://medium.com/p/knives-out-is-a-master-class-in-how-to-make-savvy-social-commentary-go-mainstream-964c46c5cb4a originally retrieved Wed Jun 10 13:01:14 EDT 2020
don't be the guy who replies with a single-word comment that repeats the information that somebody posted in several full sentences two hours ago
Care at Scale | Comment Magazine https://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/care-at-scale/
The Materiality of Digital Culture | Comment Magazine https://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/the-materiality-of-digital-culture/
Random link from the archives: "Too Many Requests" https://web.archive.org/web/20181120104352/https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2lvjgt/in_games_and_books_there_are_always_adventurers/ originally retrieved Tue Nov 20 10:43:52 EST 2018
Random link from the archives: "Too Many Requests" https://web.archive.org/web/20190606112528/https://www.reddit.com/r/bizarrebuildings/comments/b7m6nh/1970_expo_tower_in_osaka_japan/ originally retrieved Thu Jun 6 11:25:28 EDT 2019
Random link from the archives: "Too Many Requests" https://web.archive.org/web/20180727181257/https://www.reddit.com/r/SignalHorrorFiction/comments/92gvwj/the_house_on_foulness/ originally retrieved Fri Jul 27 18:12:57 EDT 2018
reddit: the front page of the internet https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/oanhr8/what_invention_has_done_more_harm_than_good/
Random link from the archives: "Is Pharma Research Worse Than Chance? | Slate Star Codex" https://web.archive.org/web/20170606075338/https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/06/05/is-pharma-research-worse-than-chance/#comment-507815 originally retrieved Tue Jun 6 07:53:38 EDT 2017
Random link from the archives: "Too Many Requests" https://web.archive.org/web/20180121124431/https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/7rywat/masaaki_yuasa_ama_overview/ originally retrieved Sun Jan 21 12:44:31 EST 2018
Random link from the archives: "Disqus, the dark commenting system" https://web.archive.org/web/20210208150226/https://supunkavinda.blog/disqus originally retrieved Mon 08 Feb 2021 03:02:26 PM EST
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20190810142412/https://medium.com/p/more-than-a-million-pro-repeal-net-neutrality-comments-were-likely-faked-e9f0e3ed36a6 originally retrieved Sat Aug 10 14:24:12 EDT 2019
Random link from the archives: "Competitive culture brings out the worst in scientists | The Japan Times" https://web.archive.org/web/20190123100353/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/01/22/commentary/world-commentary/competitive-culture-brings-worst-scientists/?appsule=1&idfa=345AD11F-06FF-4308-B97F-69BE5AC9BC2A#.XEfs_qqRWnM originally retrieved Wed Jan 23 10:03:53 EST 2019
Random link from the archives: "Too Many Requests" https://web.archive.org/web/20190723103555/https://www.reddit.com/r/TempleOS_Official/comments/cgl13l/templeos_obj_model_loader_tutorial/ originally retrieved Tue Jul 23 10:35:55 EDT 2019
I am once again asking you how a commenter is like an ounce?
In the 80s, did any cultural commentators claim that slasher movies were caused by the fairly dissonant and avant-garde style of new wave / new romantic music?
Random link from the archives: "Why Doctors Think They’re The Best | Slate Star Codex" https://web.archive.org/web/20200116111324/https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/01/02/why-doctors-think-theyre-the-best/#comment-836896 originally retrieved Thu Jan 16 11:13:24 EST 2020
Disqus, the dark commenting system https://supunkavinda.blog/disqus
Random link from the archives: "Obligatory Forum Comments" https://web.archive.org/web/20190908155332/https://www.mattzeunert.com/2019/08/25/obligatory-forum-comments.html originally retrieved Sun Sep 8 15:53:32 EDT 2019
reddit: the front page of the internet https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/lcazhz/what_if_the_god_of_religions_christianity_islam/gm0j11m/
Random link from the archives: "This wave of global protest is being led by the children of the financial crash | Jack Shenker | Opinion | The Guardian" https://web.archive.org/web/20191104095545/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/29/global-protest-children-financial-crash-hong-kong-london originally retrieved Mon Nov 4 09:55:45 EST 2019
Random link from the archives: "How We Came to Live in “Cursed” Times | The New Yorker" https://web.archive.org/web/20191022181940/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/how-we-came-to-live-in-cursed-times originally posted Tue Oct 22 18:19:40 EDT 2019
Random link from the archives: "Why Doctors Think They’re The Best | Slate Star Codex" https://web.archive.org/web/20200116111324/https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/01/02/why-doctors-think-theyre-the-best/#comment-836896 originally posted Thu Jan 16 11:13:24 EST 2020
For the past three years, ILLUMINATI-THEMED spambots have been posting in the comments of this one blog post of mine from 2013: https://firstchurchofspacejesus.blogspot.com/2013/12/rahxephon-as-tortured-metaphor-for.html
always weird when i post a sigil on instagram with zero commentary and six absolute strangers heart it
Random link from the archives: "Rockstar developers speak out about “100-hour weeks” comment | Ars Technica" https://web.archive.org/web/20181018123636/https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/10/red-dead-redemption-2-devs-say-quoted-100-hour-weeks-arent-the-norm/ originally posted Thu Oct 18 12:36:36 EDT 2018
Random link from the archives: "Wagner, Incest, and “Game of Thrones” | The New Yorker" https://web.archive.org/web/20170831140318/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/wagner-incest-and-game-of-thrones?curator=MusicREDEF originally posted Thu Aug 31 14:03:18 EDT 2017
reddit: the front page of the internet https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/id46ym/what_simple_life_hack_should_everyone_know/
Random link from the archives: "Is Ownership model unique to Rust? : rust" https://web.archive.org/web/20200714191709/https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/azvd68/is_ownership_model_unique_to_rust/ originally posted Tue Jul 14 19:17:09 EDT 2020
reddit: the front page of the internet https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/5vxoeh/is_there_any_historical_basis_for_gozer_the/
Random link from the archives: "Jeffrey Epstein's influence in the science world is a symptom of larger problems | Kate Darling | Opinion | The Guardian" https://web.archive.org/web/20190909131203/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/27/jeffrey-epstein-science-mit-brockman originally posted Mon Sep 9 13:12:03 EDT 2019
Hidden Anime Gems: COMMENTER EDITION | GR Anime Discussion - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJeKk1W8TOM
Is Ownership model unique to Rust? : rust https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/azvd68/is_ownership_model_unique_to_rust/
Random link from the archives: "Too Many Requests" https://web.archive.org/web/20181120104352/https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2lvjgt/in_games_and_books_there_are_always_adventurers/ originally posted Tue Nov 20 10:43:52 EST 2018
Social Gentrification | Status 451 https://status451.com/2016/09/15/social-gentrification/#comment-1960
Random link from the archives: "Eco-fascism is undergoing a revival in the fetid culture of the extreme right | Jason Wilson | World news | The Guardian" https://web.archive.org/web/20190319184358/https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2019/mar/20/eco-fascism-is-undergoing-a-revival-in-the-fetid-culture-of-the-extreme-right originally posted Tue Mar 19 18:43:58 EDT 2019
Random link from the archives: "Deepfakes aren't a tech problem. They're a power problem | Oscar Schwartz | Opinion | The Guardian" https://web.archive.org/web/20190625111011/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/24/deepfakes-facebook-silicon-valley-responsibility originally posted Tue Jun 25 11:10:11 EDT 2019
Random link from the archives: "Why Doctors Think They’re The Best | Slate Star Codex" https://web.archive.org/web/20200116111324/https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/01/02/why-doctors-think-theyre-the-best/#comment-836896 originally posted Thu Jan 16 11:13:24 EST 2020
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20190810142412/https://medium.com/p/more-than-a-million-pro-repeal-net-neutrality-comments-were-likely-faked-e9f0e3ed36a6 originally posted Sat Aug 10 14:24:12 EDT 2019
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Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20190614085017/https://dangerousminds.net/comments/donald_sutheland_in_fellinis_casanova originally posted Fri Jun 14 08:50:17 EDT 2019/
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20171201123944/https://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_sci_fi_comic_book_story_that_inspired_they_live originally posted Fri Dec 1 12:39:44 EST 2017/
reddit: the front page of the internet https://www.reddit.com/r/audiobooksonyoutube/comments/hbhl2z/50_out_of_print_horror_novelizationstiein_books/
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20200222113844/https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/growing-old-in-hollywood/ originally posted Sat Feb 22 11:38:44 EST 2020/
reddit: the front page of the internet https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/h96k4q/dataset_the_first_comprehensive_longrun_dataset/
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20190830072307/https://www.loopinsight.com/2019/08/29/woz-comments-clarify-some-important-apple-history/ originally posted Fri Aug 30 07:23:07 EDT 2019/
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20190810142412/https://medium.com/p/more-than-a-million-pro-repeal-net-neutrality-comments-were-likely-faked-e9f0e3ed36a6 originally posted Sat Aug 10 14:24:12 EDT 2019/
From April 1st to 5th, two of my books will be free on kindle: https://www.reddit.com/r/FreeEBOOKS/comments/fshl6y/from_april_1st_to_april_5th_two_of_my_books_will/ ; both are already on Kindle Unlimited.
Socratic Grilling | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/03/06/socratic-grilling/#comment-861598
Growing Old in Hollywood - Commentary https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/growing-old-in-hollywood/
reddit: the front page of the internet https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/evb8of/whats_a_littleknown_but_obvious_fact_that_will/
We can’t leave it to billionaires like Bezos and Bloomberg to solve the world’s problems | Simon Jenkins | Opinion | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/21/billionaires-bloomberg-bezos-government-mega-rich
Limited Liability Is Causing Unlimited Harm by Katharina Pistor - Project Syndicate https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/limited-liability-corporate-shares-by-katharina-pistor-2020-02
Why Doctors Think They’re The Best | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/01/02/why-doctors-think-theyre-the-best/#comment-836896
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20190909131203/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/27/jeffrey-epstein-science-mit-brockman originally posted Mon Sep 9 13:12:03 EDT 2019/
Hey, somebody finally gave me a real answer for why theatrical releases have gotten so conservative: https://www.quora.com/Why-are-ultra-low-budget-theatrical-releases-so-much-more-rare-post-2000-than-they-were-during-the-80s-and-90s-Why-did-direct-to-streaming-kill-the-B-movie-when-direct-to-video-could-not/all_comments/Mike-Schneider-30?__nsrc__=4&__snid3__=6347304932&comment_id=123738118&comment_type=2
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20180625091005/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/16/how-china-censors-internet-information originally posted Mon Jun 25 09:10:05 EDT 2018/
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20180625091005/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/16/how-china-censors-internet-information originally posted Mon Jun 25 09:10:05 EDT 2018/
https://medium.com/@enkiv2/did-somebody-unload-a-time-machine-from-1998-into-this-comment-thread-29a45befd91a
https://medium.com/@enkiv2/prize-money-is-sent-if-you-dont-receive-it-leave-another-comment-78a09e7a8bd2
https://medium.com/@enkiv2/this-comment-wasnt-intended-as-snark-e89bc08aa13e
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20191104095545/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/29/global-protest-children-financial-crash-hong-kong-london originally posted Mon Nov 4 09:55:45 EST 2019/
pet peeve: when 12 people leave exactly the same comment, and that comment makes it clear that they didn't read the whole original post
How Often Do Researchers Not Read the Papers They Cite? https://www.reddit.com/r/gwern/comments/deqvft/how_often_do_researchers_not_read_the_papers_they/
for a while my most popular post on medium has been a comment on somebody else's article where i talk about trends in how often hentai is set in explicitly high-fantasy settings & how that relates to trends in explicitly unacceptable or impossible behavior in it...
I'm tempted to learn latin just so I can understand the cool diagrams in Ramon Llull's commentary on Cornelius Agrippa here https://archive.org/details/hin-wel-all-00001948-001/page/n8
22 Things We Learned From the ‘Lifeforce’ Commentary https://filmschoolrejects.com/22-things-we-learned-from-the-lifeforce-commentary-936217329e81/
This wave of global protest is being led by the children of the financial crash | Jack Shenker | Opinion | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/29/global-protest-children-financial-crash-hong-kong-london
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20190801165538/https://masukomi.github.io/private_comments/ originally posted Thu Aug 1 16:55:38 EDT 2019/
How We Came to Live in “Cursed” Times | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/how-we-came-to-live-in-cursed-times
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20190909105655/https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/07/jeffrey-epstein-mit-funding-tech-intellectuals originally posted Mon Sep 9 10:56:55 EDT 2019/
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20170606075338/https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/06/05/is-pharma-research-worse-than-chance/#comment-507815 originally posted Tue Jun 6 07:53:38 EDT 2017/
Re: https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/26/20886111/youtube-comments-search-filter-subscriber-count-following -- sorting by subscriber count, while probably an effective way to eliminate drive-by low-effort trolls, is the worst kind of trendism & therefore a terrible idea. Big youtubers already live in a bubble of other big youtubers.
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20181202180304/https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2018/issues/33#issuecomment-443401950 originally posted Sun Dec 2 18:03:04 EST 2018/
Jeffrey Epstein's influence in the science world is a symptom of larger problems | Kate Darling | Opinion | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/27/jeffrey-epstein-science-mit-brockman
The Epstein scandal at MIT shows the moral bankruptcy of techno-elites | Jeffrey Epstein | The Guardian https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/07/jeffrey-epstein-mit-funding-tech-intellectuals
Woz comments clarify some important Apple history https://www.loopinsight.com/2019/08/29/woz-comments-clarify-some-important-apple-history/
Splain it to Me | Status 451 https://status451.com/2016/01/06/splain-it-to-me/?c=125#comment-125
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20170606075338/https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/06/05/is-pharma-research-worse-than-chance/#comment-507815 originally posted Tue Jun 6 07:53:38 EDT 2017/
Boris Johnson’s “Looking Glass” Brexit | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/boris-johnsons-looking-glass-brexit
Random link from the archives: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/06/05/is-pharma-research-worse-than-chance/#comment-507815 originally posted Tue Jun 6 07:53:38 EDT 2017
We Analyzed More Than 1 Million Comments on 4chan. Hate Speech There Has Spiked by 40% Since 2015. " VICE News https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/d3nbzy/we-analyzed-more-than-1-million-comments-on-4chan-hate-speech-there-has-spiked-by-40-since-2015
Random link from the archives: http://programming.guide/java/executing-code-in-comments.html originally posted Fri May 11 08:52:40 EDT 2018
Deepfakes aren't a tech problem. They're a power problem | Oscar Schwartz | Opinion | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/24/deepfakes-facebook-silicon-valley-responsibility
Please, My Wife, She’s Very Online | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/please-my-wife-shes-very-online
HN: the good parts https://danluu.com/hn-comments/
Towards a text editor construction kit · Issue #1187 · xi-editor/xi-editor · GitHub https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor/issues/1187#issuecomment-491473599
Interview: Ari Aster - Film Comment https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/interview-ari-aster/
Apparently the Peterson/Zizek debate went about as I expected: Peterson said nothing interesting, and Zizek said nothing on-topic. I'll have to watch it later, because it sounds entertaining. https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/04/live-commentary-on-the-zizek-peterson-debate
Random link from the archives: https://medium.com/p/this-is-an-interesting-article-because-it-s-posted-on-medium-and-the-medium-comment-system-is-ef1c9cddcb01 originally archived Mon Oct 1 19:57:14 EDT 2018
Eco-fascism is undergoing a revival in the fetid culture of the extreme right | Jason Wilson | World news | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2019/mar/20/eco-fascism-is-undergoing-a-revival-in-the-fetid-culture-of-the-extreme-right
The Comment Moderator Is The Most Important Job In The World Right Now https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/the-comment-moderator-is-the-most-important-job-in-the
Competitive culture brings out the worst in scientists | The Japan Times https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/01/22/commentary/world-commentary/competitive-culture-brings-worst-scientists/?appsule=1&idfa=345AD11F-06FF-4308-B97F-69BE5AC9BC2A#.XEfs_qqRWnM
I Forced an AI to Watch Santa Claus Conquers the Martians · Issue #33 · NaNoGenMo/2018 · GitHub https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2018/issues/33#issuecomment-443401950
GitHub - tiniuclx/CommentCPP: add confusing comments to an existing source file https://github.com/tiniuclx/CommentCPP
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/
Pet peeve: on my work computer, 80% of my lobste.rs comments double-post because of some kind of missing deduplication logic. Then, I have to periodically go through all my threads to delete the duplicates. Sometimes one copy of the post will have 2 upvotes & the other 3.
Instagram’s in love with bare-faced brutalism " and so am I | Steve Rose | Opinion | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/25/instagram-love-brutalist-stark-architecture
QOTD: 'The web is broken because it is a half-hearted, incomplete implementation of Xanadu.' (Source: https://dev.to/tux0r/comment/586n)
How China censors the net: by making sure there’s too much information | John Naughton | Opinion | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/16/how-china-censors-internet-information
Postmodernism vs. The Pomoid Cluster – Everything Studies https://everythingstudies.com/2018/06/21/postmodernism-vs-the-pomoid-cluster/comment-page-1/#comment-954
Java: Executing code in comments?! | Programming.Guide http://programming.guide/java/executing-code-in-comments.html
If nothing else, Peterson is really good at making people write at length about him, even when they're not sure if he's actually saying anything: http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/04/03/highlights-from-the-comments-on-twelve-rules/
I keep hearing the awful take that Altered Carbon is shallow aesthetic-centric cyberpunk devoid of social commentary. Did these people rush to skim the book when they heard about the TV show or something?
I am Masaaki Yuasa, Director of Lu Over t... https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/7rypm2/i_am_masaaki_yuasa_director_of_lu_over_the_wall/
Odd Comments and Strange Doings in Unix http://9p.io/who/dmr/odd.html
webGL shader was supposed to fade from one image to another, over a number of frames. It did this instead. : glitch_art https://www.reddit.com/r/glitch_art/comments/78zn6l/webgl_shader_was_supposed_to_fade_from_one_image/
webGL shader was supposed to fade from one image to another, over a number of frames. It did this instead. : glitch_art https://www.reddit.com/r/glitch_art/comments/78zn6l/webgl_shader_was_supposed_to_fade_from_one_image/
How Did New Atheism Fail So Miserably? | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/24/how-did-new-atheism-fail-so-miserably/#comment-560026
Why Is the U.S. So Susceptible to Social-Media Distortion? | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/why-is-the-us-so-susceptible-to-social-media-distortion
How Did New Atheism Fail So Miserably? | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/24/how-did-new-atheism-fail-so-miserably/#comment-560026
Highlights From The Comments On My IRB Nightmare | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/31/highlights-from-the-comments-on-my-irb-nightmare/
Wagner, Incest, and “Game of Thrones” | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/wagner-incest-and-game-of-thrones?curator=MusicREDEF
Is Pharma Research Worse Than Chance? | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/06/05/is-pharma-research-worse-than-chance/#comment-507815
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