Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20220214160209/https://scribe.rip/p/i-am-sick-of-the-myth-of-creative-fear-445195a15b5f originally retrieved Mon 14 Feb 2022 04:02:09 PM EST
Random link from the archives: "Addressing Peter Grey’s terrible take on We Are The Witchcraft – Aleph's Heretical Domain" https://web.archive.org/web/20220317183200/https://mythoughtsbornfromfire.wordpress.com/2022/03/07/addressing-peter-greys-terrible-take-on-we-are-the-witchcraft/
Poetry Reminds Me of the Holes in My Memory - Electric Literature https://electricliterature.com/poetry-reminds-me-of-the-holes-in-my-memory/
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200306222719/https://scribe.rip/p/the-political-economy-of-mark-fisher-eac956820874 originally retrieved Fri Mar 6 22:27:19 EST 2020
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20180503112455/http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2018/05/synthedelia originally retrieved Thu May 3 11:24:55 EDT 2018
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Random link from the archives: "Lovecraft & the Occult - Historical & Literary Influences on the Cthulhu Mythos & Necronomicon - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20220821150035/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQt5DQP_UqQ originally retrieved Sun 21 Aug 2022 03:00:35 PM EDT
Random link from the archives: "Worried About The Economy? Everything Is About To Get Much Worse." https://web.archive.org/web/20200618125057/https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tomgara/economy-recession-coronavirus originally retrieved Thu Jun 18 12:50:57 EDT 2020
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Jonathan Hogg: "My experience with generative-AI has been that, a…" - Mastodon https://mastodon.social/@jonathanhogg/116091432266481780
in response to revelations that the trump administration is supoenaing social media sites to find critics of the government, i will not be changing my posting behavior. i have been a very vocal anarchist with shit opsec for 20 years. if they want to know who i am, they already know.
is there a way to get linkedin to exclude job listings that include certain keywords? because my background is in search (and so includes a lot of text processing), every single listing they wanna show me is a slop job where LLM critics need not apply
I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Actually Handed Over. | THE LOCAL STACK https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/
i quit my job almost 20 days ago & they still haven't removed me from the company github. should i do them a favor and leave it, or just wait to see how long it takes for them to notice? (the company is gonna go belly-up soon anyway so i don't think it matters much if they're leaking worthless internal codebases)
i used to turn off my bluetooth headphones by long-pressing the power button, but now that's been remapped to some LLM voice assistant & i haven't figured out how to remap it, so i literally have to let my headphones run out of battery to shut them off now.
tried to pick up one of my old OS projects and was disappointed to learn that apparently my gcc won't compile to 32 bit targets and i have to build a cross compiler
RIA Self-Guided Tour: M2A2 Experimental 105MM Auxiliary Propelled Howitzer | Article | The United States Army https://www.army.mil/article/220947/ria_self_guided_tour_m2a2_experimental_105mm_auxillary_propelled_howitzer
encountering an upsetting number of otherwise-intelligent people trying to convince me that letting an LLM write my code is a good idea. i google shit multiple times a day and literally every LLM search result summary i've gotten has been wrong in important ways; why would i bother with something so unreliable?
New Reflections on World Order (or, “On some of the slightly more esoteric implications of the Epstein Files... https://mythoughtsbornfromfire.wordpress.com/2026/02/11/new-reflections-on-world-order-or-on-some-of-the-slightly-more-esoteric-implications-of-the-epstein-files/
I'm doing a sale on everything I have on itch to celebrate my birthday. I just quit my day job, so a couple sales would help me out. https://itch.io/s/179845/birthday-sale
I'm doing a sale on everything I have on itch to celebrate my birthday. I just quit my day job, so a couple sales would help me out. https://itch.io/s/179845/birthday-sale
Random link from the archives: "Column: Writing the Mythos: The Handy-Dandy Mythos Plot Structure | Innsmouth Free Press" https://web.archive.org/web/20171103114108/http://www.innsmouthfreepress.com/blog/column-writing-the-mythos-the-handy-dandy-mythos-plot-structure/
I'm doing a sale on everything I have on itch to celebrate my birthday. I just quit my day job, so a couple sales would help me out. https://itch.io/s/179845/birthday-sale
Random link from the archives: "‘I’m Overdue for a Discussion About My Role in Inspiring ‘Edgelord’ Shit’: A Conversation with Steve Albini" https://web.archive.org/web/20211110133700/https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/steve-albini-counsel-culture-interview
Random link from the archives: " » Myst (or, The Drawbacks to Success) The Digital Antiquarian" https://web.archive.org/web/20200225101924/https://www.filfre.net/2020/02/myst-or-the-drawbacks-to-success/ originally retrieved Tue Feb 25 10:19:24 EST 2020
i spent so much of my life watching loads of anime and playing no video games that whenever i see 3d animation, my brain basically just goes 'that's not the correct way to do anime' and rejects it. dudes a couple years older than me largely had the opposite experience
Maniac Cop | Anatomy of a Franchise - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw9z5D16Lyc
Random link from the archives: "A Taxonomy of Tech Debt | Riot Games Engineering" https://web.archive.org/web/20180411075919/https://engineering.riotgames.com/news/taxonomy-tech-debt originally retrieved Wed Apr 11 07:59:19 EDT 2018
I'm doing a sale on everything I have on itch to celebrate my birthday. I just quit my day job, so a couple sales would help me out. https://itch.io/s/179845/birthday-sale
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20220209105404/https://scribe.rip/p/my-rejected-writing-topics-59fcfe07498a originally retrieved Wed 09 Feb 2022 10:54:04 AM EST
Random link from the archives: "10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents - Ars Technica" https://web.archive.org/web/20260124095808/https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/01/10-things-i-learned-from-burning-myself-out-with-ai-coding-agents/
Random link from the archives: "Introduction to Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism - Part 3 - Merkabah Shi'ur Komah & Sar Torah - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20210812112412/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8LBP4Y-hRM originally retrieved Thu 12 Aug 2021 11:24:12 AM EDT
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20220209120522/https://scribe.rip/p/reading-a-book-on-my-balcony-automatically-94ba6bb1616c originally retrieved Wed 09 Feb 2022 12:05:22 PM EST
10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents - Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/01/10-things-i-learned-from-burning-myself-out-with-ai-coding-agents/
Random link from the archives: "Quit Playing Games with My Heart | Public Books" https://web.archive.org/web/20191209125434/https://www.publicbooks.org/quit-playing-games-with-my-heart/ originally retrieved Mon Dec 9 12:54:34 EST 2019
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20220209124542/https://scribe.rip/p/the-new-intimacy-economy-51c87dc4a4d6 originally retrieved Wed 09 Feb 2022 12:45:42 PM EST
Random link from the archives: "Someone’s Been Messing With My Subnormals!" https://web.archive.org/web/20220923162525/https://moyix.blogspot.com/2022/09/someones-been-messing-with-my-subnormals.html originally retrieved Fri 23 Sep 2022 04:25:25 PM EDT
Random link from the archives: "What Am I Worth to Advertisers? My Obsessive Quest to Put a Price on My Attention" https://web.archive.org/web/20180816142615/https://gizmodo.com/what-am-i-worth-to-advertisers-my-obsessive-quest-to-p-1828343202 originally retrieved Thu Aug 16 14:26:15 EDT 2018
Random link from the archives: "Thread by @JairusKhan: "I was a speaker and workshop organizer at hopeconf this year. My first 2600 meeting was over 20 years ago. I'm also an event organizer with […]" #hopeconf" https://web.archive.org/web/20180726103535/https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1021576113875771392.html
Random link from the archives: "Nature Initiation, Body Horror and British Myth - Daru McAleece - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20210713205412/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr8AIWqlRqs originally retrieved Tue 13 Jul 2021 08:54:12 PM EDT
Random link from the archives: "302 Found" https://web.archive.org/web/20180720110853/http://www.samplereality.com/2017/05/31/a-parallax-reading-of-roethkes-my-papas-waltz/ originally retrieved Fri Jul 20 11:08:53 EDT 2018
Random link from the archives: "Aggregating my distributed self | Miriam Eric Suzanne" https://web.archive.org/web/20241125121522/https://www.miriamsuzanne.com/2024/09/22/agregate-self/ originally retrieved Mon 25 Nov 2024 12:15:22 PM EST
even though zuckerberg's metaverse thing is cited as the canonical example of 'do not build the torment nexus', it's not really a good example. snow crash isn't about how the metaverse is bad (though it explicitly is janky and scammy and such), but about how corporatized ethnonationalism is bad. more of a 'Let's build the circuses from the novel Bread and Circuses are our only distraction from the Torment Nexus, and then also build the Torment Nexus to increase circus sales' situation
Random link from the archives: "Great Synth Mysteries: The Story of Jexus - Trailer - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20190120200841/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRvGtEu1QuI originally retrieved Sun Jan 20 20:08:41 EST 2019
Random link from the archives: "Nate Cull: "I guess the question that occupies my mind a lot …" - Mastodon" https://web.archive.org/web/20200930193352/https://mastodon.social/@natecull/104862899327236619 originally retrieved Wed Sep 30 19:33:52 EDT 2020
Random link from the archives: "Hellstar Remina Explained | Junji Ito's Masterpiece? - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20211126092208/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOaRdMYJ-8E originally retrieved Fri 26 Nov 2021 09:22:08 AM EST
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20180929115431/https://scribe.rip/p/its-my-understanding-that-while-google-and-facebook-both-are-legally-permitted-to-create-policies-41481320ed12 originally retrieved Sat Sep 29 11:54:31 EDT 2018
Random link from the archives: "Run Your Fingers Down My Spine: Inoue Masahiko’s “Night Voices, Night Journeys” | Tor.com" https://web.archive.org/web/20190509152717/https://www.tor.com/2019/04/24/run-your-fingers-down-my-spine-inoue-masahikos-night-voices-night-journeys/
Random link from the archives: "Welcome to My Site!" https://web.archive.org/web/20220506123054/https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/icon-computer/ originally retrieved Fri 06 May 2022 12:30:54 PM EDT
Random link from the archives: "Psychedelic Therapy Needs to Confront the Mystical" https://web.archive.org/web/20220718105255/https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgz3wn/psychedelic-therapy-needs-to-confront-the-mystical originally retrieved Mon 18 Jul 2022 10:52:55 AM EDT
Random link from the archives: "How spammy sites that rip off obits end up running ads from major brands" https://web.archive.org/web/20211110145459/https://www.morningbrew.com/marketing/stories/2021/11/08/how-spammy-sites-that-rip-off-obituaries-suck-up-ad-dollars-from-major-brands
Random link from the archives: "The Unsolved Case of the Most Mysterious Song on the Internet – Rolling Stone" https://web.archive.org/web/20190925102741/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/most-mysterious-song-on-the-internet-885106/
Random link from the archives: "I think, therefore I make mistakes and change my mind | Aeon Essays" https://web.archive.org/web/20191120131315/https://aeon.co/essays/i-think-therefore-i-make-mistakes-and-change-my-mind originally retrieved Wed Nov 20 13:13:15 EST 2019
Random link from the archives: "http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/06/the-show-that-never-ends?curator=MusicREDEF" https://web.archive.org/web/20170706114727/http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/06/the-show-that-never-ends?curator=MusicREDEF
Random link from the archives: "Behold, mortal, the origins of robotfindskitten..." https://web.archive.org/web/20200128150430/https://www.crummy.com/writing/speaking/2017-Roguelike%20Celebration/ originally retrieved Tue Jan 28 15:04:30 EST 2020
Random link from the archives: "E3P1 Tommy Cowan: The Occult World of William Burroughs -Time, Space, Code Words and...Insect Time? - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20211212115100/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw536PJKn88 originally retrieved Sun 12 Dec 2021 11:51:00 AM EST
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200312084606/https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/my-mom-isnt-dumb-but-she-has-not-and-never-had-any-interest-in-learning-how-tech-works-52bbedf70c82 originally retrieved Thu Mar 12 08:46:06 EDT 2020
Random link from the archives: ""SPEAK LOUDER" Asked the Aliens from Planet UMMO | Mysterious Universe" https://web.archive.org/web/20190228101621/https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/02/speak-louder-asked-the-aliens-from-planet-ummo/ originally retrieved Thu Feb 28 10:16:21 EST 2019
if i lose my job, which of these stories should i actually write? https://www.lord-enki.net/stories.html
Random link from the archives: "Amazon’s The Eyes of Tammy Faye: When the GOP got in bed with the Christian right - Vox" https://web.archive.org/web/20210918120422/https://www.vox.com/culture/22652320/eyes-tammy-faye-bakker-explained-jerry-falwell-jessica-chastain-review
as somebody who thinks GAN & LLM output is generally biased toward being boring & useless, other anti-GAN rhetoric has surprised me because it's revealed that many people's relationship to art is primarily or fully parasocial. i don't think i could handle that. art is my refuge from second-guessing the intentions of strangers
Random link from the archives: "Anarchism: Vignettes Against Hobbes - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20210312135153/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcMyJ3BgM1k originally retrieved Fri 12 Mar 2021 01:51:53 PM EST
Random link from the archives: "CHAPELWAITE Blends Vampiric Myth And Cosmic Horror - Fangoria" https://web.archive.org/web/20211110160849/https://www.fangoria.com/original/chapelwaite-vampiric-myth-and-cosmic-horror/ originally retrieved Wed 10 Nov 2021 04:08:49 PM EST
Random link from the archives: "The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo’s odyssey from absurdist theatre troupe to new wave octet – Night Flight" https://web.archive.org/web/20180314100353/http://nightflight.com/the-mystic-knights-of-the-oingo-boingos-odyssey-from-absurdist-theatre-troupe-to-new-wave-octet/
Random link from the archives: "Mysticism of Passion, Penance & Divine Darkness - Angela of Foligno - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20230927120106/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJfPdt9zKvE originally retrieved Wed 27 Sep 2023 12:01:06 PM EDT
Random link from the archives: "The Surveillance Economy and Extreme Income Inequality: You Can't Have One Without the Other - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20180704122127/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSH9gOqevRc originally retrieved Wed Jul 4 12:21:27 EDT 2018
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200924075254/https://scribe.rip/p/my-enduring-intellectual-love-affair-with-fight-club-bfad51eabb originally retrieved Thu Sep 24 07:52:54 EDT 2020
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Random link from the archives: "The Mysterious Figure Stealing Books Before Their Release" https://web.archive.org/web/20220106171619/https://www.vulture.com/2022/01/stealing-books-before-release-mystery.html originally retrieved Thu 06 Jan 2022 05:16:19 PM EST
Random link from the archives: "Practical Procedural Generation for Everyone - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20180312164948/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WumyfLEa6bU originally retrieved Mon Mar 12 16:49:48 EDT 2018
Random link from the archives: "A Simple CPU" https://web.archive.org/web/20200313083936/https://mysterymath.github.io/simple_cpu/ originally retrieved Fri Mar 13 08:39:36 EDT 2020
my hot take is that elvis impersonators are actually elvis, because elvis is a being of pure information that incubated in Elvis Presley's body and then was released
Random link from the archives: "A Hacker Got All My Texts for $16" https://web.archive.org/web/20210316125740/https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3g8wb/hacker-got-my-texts-16-dollars-sakari-netnumber originally retrieved Tue 16 Mar 2021 12:57:40 PM EDT
Random link from the archives: "How to Start Watching Horror Movies | Renegade Cut - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20210822204200/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyTSAtLWwPY originally retrieved Sun 22 Aug 2021 08:42:00 PM EDT
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20220209124232/https://scribe.rip/p/i-promised-myself-that-i-wasn-t-going-to-write-about-donald-trump-today-dc26df32ed23 originally retrieved Wed 09 Feb 2022 12:42:32 PM EST
Random link from the archives: "I Tried (and Failed) to Make the YouTube Algorithm Bend To My Will" https://web.archive.org/web/20230310123914/https://tedium.co/2023/02/28/elliott-smith-youtube-algorithm-experiment/ originally retrieved Fri 10 Mar 2023 12:39:14 PM EST
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200612080621/https://scribe.rip/p/lemons-for-yeast-for-flour-the-bartering-economy-explodes-on-nextdoor-4eeac05ddaff originally retrieved Fri Jun 12 08:06:21 EDT 2020
Sleepaway Camp | Anatomy of a Franchise - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn-HnOJhXLU
Random link from the archives: "My old HyperCard stack (Phil Gyford’s website)" https://web.archive.org/web/20181113005426/https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2017/08/16/hypercard-tea/ originally retrieved Tue Nov 13 00:54:26 EST 2018
Random link from the archives: "Introduction to Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism - Part 8 - Sefer Zohar II - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20210924172934/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5_2yDNvHN4 originally retrieved Fri 24 Sep 2021 05:29:34 PM EDT
Deer in mythology - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deer_in_mythology
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Random link from the archives: "I Spent Two Years Trying to Fix the Gender Imbalance in My Stories - The Atlantic" https://web.archive.org/web/20180208115542/https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/i-spent-two-years-trying-to-fix-the-gender-imbalance-in-my-stories/552404/
is 'i would prefer not to have work applications on my personal machine for security reasons' a sufficiently mild euphemism for 'i think the corporate security department must be fucking idiots and i no longer trust them not to literally give me a trojan'?
Random link from the archives: "Nate Cull: "I guess the question that occupies my mind a lot …" - Mastodon" https://web.archive.org/web/20200930193352/https://mastodon.social/@natecull/104862899327236619 originally retrieved Wed Sep 30 19:33:52 EDT 2020
Random link from the archives: "302 Found" https://web.archive.org/web/20191109002436/https://modernmythology.net/hill-house-vs-hill-house-two-different-kinds-of-hauntings-8b535d8e667c?source=friends_link&sk=fe06a7f590cd8391e0205918c5299b34 originally retrieved Sat Nov 9 00:24:36 EST 2019
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200304222204/https://scribe.rip/p/my-year-of-not-buying-books-54e4c8f99615 originally retrieved Wed Mar 4 22:22:04 EST 2020
my insurance rep is trying really hard to sell me on handing out referrals. like, i've gotten several calls and texts this week about it
Random link from the archives: "Introduction to Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism - Part 8 - Sefer Zohar II - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20210924172934/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5_2yDNvHN4 originally retrieved Fri 24 Sep 2021 05:29:34 PM EDT
calling my arms dealer on the brink of tears asking if he also carries legs
Random link from the archives: "Share" https://web.archive.org/web/20220108130043/https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-phrase-no-evidence-is-a-red-flag?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMjk3MzIsInBvc3RfaWQiOjQ1NTAzNTkwLCJfIjoibGoxNXUiLCJpYXQiOjE2NDA4MDE3NjYsImV4cCI6MTY0MDgwNTM2NiwiaXNzIjoicHViLTg5MTIwIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.D00Llh9QrX2mY3lCu3DW_3VKbGmZU6ZsrlQEfPrHBi8
Random link from the archives: "Push Meme To The Edge; All My Faves Are Dead - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20180802171928/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G51D51f_WPo originally retrieved Thu Aug 2 17:19:28 EDT 2018
My experience with Canonical's interview process https://dustri.org/b/my-experience-with-canonicals-interview-process.html
Random link from the archives: "The End of My Year of Killer Sudoku – Popula" https://web.archive.org/web/20181126124807/https://popula.com/2018/11/20/the-end-of-my-year-of-killer-sudoku/ originally retrieved Mon Nov 26 12:48:07 EST 2018
the judge keeps asking me questions about my 'ask me about jury nullification' t-shirt that i feel are adequately answered by the t-shirt and it's interrupting voir dire
Movies: I spent a year trying to figure out the weirdest mistake in recent Hollywood history. I succeeded. https://slate.com/culture/2025/05/birds-movies-charlies-angels-2000-pygmy-nuthatch.html
Mysticism as Information Design: A Tour of Paul Laffoley's Premonitions of the Bauharoque - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHsqALji8pY
tiktok ads are unhinged. my girlfriend got one for, just, a phishing site that cloned the entire torrid store and cart interface and i got one for a dating site specifically for chasers
Random link from the archives: "My boyfriend, a writer, broke up with me because I’m a writer | Relationships | The Guardian" https://web.archive.org/web/20221206170955/https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/dec/05/my-boyfriend-a-writer-broke-up-with-me-because-im-a-writer?fbclid=PAAabTOPttQXI-l5NzsKrS4oIwJP3hnDMJP8YuQDhq6AW3GTsNPMB74875lMU
i don't like the false dichotomy of social vs technical. language is a social technology and anything downstream of it is both social and technical, and so subject to both kinds of concerns at once.
Random link from the archives: "My Fave is Problematic: I’m in Love with the Villainess - Anime Feminist" https://web.archive.org/web/20240315152519/https://www.animefeminist.com/my-fave-is-problematic-im-in-love-with-the-villainess/ originally retrieved Fri 15 Mar 2024 03:25:19 PM EDT
in my house i have two giant boxes of unwatched dvds. one is movies i expect to be good and the other is movies i expect to be bad. i try to alternate between the two boxes, & after watching, i donate unwanted disks to the video store.
Random link from the archives: "My website as a home" https://web.archive.org/web/20231213202004/https://nicochilla.com/my-website-as-a-home/ originally retrieved Wed 13 Dec 2023 08:20:04 PM EST
Vystery " Solve the Visual Mystery https://vystery.com/
my headcanon is that the internet in cowboy bebop is basically still just dynamic html bullshit but ed is so good at programming that she made a bullshit visualization just bc she thought it was cool
Random link from the archives: "NYT Is Threatening My Safety By Revealing My Real Name, So I Am Deleting The Blog | Slate Star Codex" https://web.archive.org/web/20200624170025/https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/22/nyt-is-threatening-my-safety-by-revealing-my-real-name-so-i-am-deleting-the-blog/
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20220209124704/https://scribe.rip/p/i-was-sued-for-sounding-like-myself-da089f34d953 originally retrieved Wed 09 Feb 2022 12:47:04 PM EST
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20220209112536/https://scribe.rip/p/my-failed-experiment-in-time-travel-3aa2240a6bc0 originally retrieved Wed 09 Feb 2022 11:25:36 AM EST
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20181105095657/https://www.wired.com/story/my-father-says-hes-a-targeted-individual-maybe-we-all-are/ originally retrieved Mon Nov 5 09:56:57 EST 2018
Random link from the archives: "Alchemy - Where to Begin - Introduction to the Summa Perfectionis (Sum of Perfection) Pseudo-Geber - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20210801152442/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKDbXSgurys originally retrieved Sun 01 Aug 2021 03:24:42 PM EDT
first world problems: my tumblr posts keep escaping containment so i get flooded with absolutely deranged and/or inane shit in the notes. tumblr does not have a 'see only notifications from mutuals' option, which makes it very unsuitable for conversation or community.
Random link from the archives: "Myths Programmers Believe about CPU Caches – Software the Hard way" https://web.archive.org/web/20191122144435/https://software.rajivprab.com/2018/04/29/myths-programmers-believe-about-cpu-caches/ originally retrieved Fri Nov 22 14:44:35 EST 2019
Random link from the archives: "Amazon’s The Eyes of Tammy Faye: When the GOP got in bed with the Christian right - Vox" https://web.archive.org/web/20210918120422/https://www.vox.com/culture/22652320/eyes-tammy-faye-bakker-explained-jerry-falwell-jessica-chastain-review
Random link from the archives: "Demystifying JOIN Algorithms" https://web.archive.org/web/20190225091218/http://blog.felipe.rs/2019/01/29/demystifying-join-algorithms/ originally retrieved Mon Feb 25 09:12:18 EST 2019
Random link from the archives: "Tim Tyler: My memetic misunderstandings - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20210604153810/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPQjqFXym4I originally retrieved Fri 04 Jun 2021 03:38:10 PM EDT
Random link from the archives: "302 Found" https://web.archive.org/web/20191104095354/https://modernmythology.net/contra-ovadya-on-post-truth-83bb15acce7c?source=friends_link&sk=c0aed65c0f5befe2a1e241efd8d695e3 originally retrieved Mon Nov 4 09:53:54 EST 2019
whenever i see a 'i bought this before elon went crazy' sticker, my reaction is 'i don't believe you'. like, he was getting news coverage for bizarre own-goals a full decade ago.
Random link from the archives: "The Myth and Magic of Generating New Ideas | The New Yorker" https://web.archive.org/web/20191113103725/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/the-myth-and-magic-of-generating-new-ideas originally retrieved Wed Nov 13 10:37:25 EST 2019
astrology tiktok is great. like, leo sun is going to cessina squared my anus, yes, tell me all about it.
Random link from the archives: "UFOs: Fact, Fantasy, and Hyperreality | Mysterious Universe" https://web.archive.org/web/20190314083104/https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/03/ufos-fact-fantasy-and-hyperreality/ originally retrieved Thu Mar 14 08:31:04 EDT 2019
The Mysterious Serial Experiments Lain PS1 Game - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC6o85endm0
Random link from the archives: " 21 Years On, Revisiting Ellwood’s The Politics of Myth « enfolding.org" https://web.archive.org/web/20200824162233/http://enfolding.org/21-years-on-revisiting-ellwoods-the-politics-of-myth/ originally retrieved Mon Aug 24 16:22:33 EDT 2020
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20210316122935/https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9YDk52NPrfq7nqLvd/lessons-from-the-book-of-my-life originally retrieved Tue 16 Mar 2021 12:29:35 PM EDT
On Trying (and Really Failing) to Design My Own Book Cover ‹ Literary Hub https://lithub.com/on-trying-and-really-failing-to-design-my-own-book-cover/
Random link from the archives: " Learning About Work Ethic From My High School Driving Instructor - The Atlantic" https://web.archive.org/web/20190816091613/https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/11/learning-about-work-ethic-from-my-high-school-driving-instructor/248339/
if a non-evil non-idiot says 'my right to swing my arm ends at your nose' they mean 'the function of ethics is harm reduction, not the enforcement of normativity'. everybody else who says it means 'i am about to hurt you in a way that is still technically legal'
Bad idea of the day: gift economy based on an ancestral swear-jar shared by the whole family that is used for miscellaneous expenses and individuals demonstrating their generousity by donating resources through elaborate public performances of extreme profanity
Random link from the archives: "The Mysterious Discipline of Narratologists: Why We Need Stories to Make Sense | Tor.com" https://web.archive.org/web/20190205121540/https://www.tor.com/2019/01/29/the-mysterious-discipline-of-narratologists/ originally retrieved Tue Feb 5 12:15:40 EST 2019
Random link from the archives: "my dead girlfriend - Hades (the Nine Stages of Change at the Deceased Remains) - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20220724103902/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXT4OdGw57s originally retrieved Sun 24 Jul 2022 10:39:02 AM EDT
glad to see more people noticing that law is a weapon of the enemy, used selectively by the enemy for their own ends
Random link from the archives: "DOOM Eternal, Counterculture, and How We Talk About Labor - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20190307210439/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfroFmy6Z2U originally retrieved Thu Mar 7 21:04:39 EST 2019
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20180929115431/https://scribe.rip/p/its-my-understanding-that-while-google-and-facebook-both-are-legally-permitted-to-create-policies-41481320ed12 originally retrieved Sat Sep 29 11:54:31 EDT 2018
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20180503112455/http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2018/05/synthedelia originally retrieved Thu May 3 11:24:55 EDT 2018
nosferatu 2024 is my third favorite nosferatu movie, but that still puts it way above most dracula adaptations
Random link from the archives: "I Emailed My Doctor 133 Times: The Crisis In the British Healthcare System - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20221116102652/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1eWIshUzr8 originally retrieved Wed 16 Nov 2022 10:26:52 AM EST
Random link from the archives: "Unemployment, inflation, and what’s happening in the economy are uncertain - Vox" https://web.archive.org/web/20210518102611/https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22435400/economy-unemployment-inflation originally retrieved Tue 18 May 2021 10:26:11 AM EDT
Random link from the archives: "The Human Cost of the Ghost Economy" https://web.archive.org/web/20171226113019/https://longreads.com/2017/12/13/the-human-cost-of-the-ghost-economy/ originally retrieved Tue Dec 26 11:30:19 EST 2017
my favorite christmas movie is probably batman returns?
that film adaptation of We Have Always Lived in the Castle from a few years ago really confused me. why did they ditch the VO? the whole appeal of the book is that it's entirely from the POV of somebody who would strongly & unironically identify with My Immortal
Random link from the archives: "Anatomy of an AI System" https://web.archive.org/web/20180910082651/https://anatomyof.ai/ originally retrieved Mon Sep 10 08:26:51 EDT 2018
Random link from the archives: "Male brain vs female brain: Is there a difference? — Quartz" https://web.archive.org/web/20170830152022/https://qz.com/1057494/the-biggest-myth-about-our-brains-is-that-theyre-male-or-female/ originally retrieved Wed Aug 30 15:20:22 EDT 2017
Sewer Shark SUCKED MY BRAINS OUT | Renegade Cut - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6VBIY96RHA
Random link from the archives: "Share" https://web.archive.org/web/20220325222930/https://codexastarte.substack.com/p/waiter-theres-a-fly-in-my-rune-soup?s=r originally retrieved Fri 25 Mar 2022 10:29:30 PM EDT
as a practitioner of magick for decades, my position is that the effiacy of magick does not point to unknown or spiritual forces (not even psi), but simply that many well-understood psychological and social principles are not being effectively applied except by occultists.
Random link from the archives: "Sorry, that’s my Canon Cat article. I meant to link to this one." https://web.archive.org/web/20211202041203/https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/sorry-thats-my-canon-cat-article-i-meant-to-link-to-this-one-c88061628070 originally retrieved Thu 02 Dec 2021 04:12:03 AM EST
Aggregating my distributed self | Miriam Eric Suzanne https://www.miriamsuzanne.com/2024/09/22/agregate-self/
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200617050530/https://scribe.rip/p/medium-has-become-the-overzealous-waiter-reading-the-menu-aloud-and-too-close-to-my-face-at-red-726da3c19f86 originally retrieved Wed Jun 17 05:05:30 EDT 2020
Random link from the archives: "Before My Sharona: How Power Pop Became Power Pop - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20220603173953/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRVnp7FC7ok originally retrieved Fri 03 Jun 2022 05:39:53 PM EDT
Random link from the archives: "Unsolved Mysteries: Still Being Updated After All These Years" https://web.archive.org/web/20180621064946/https://tedium.co/2018/06/19/unsolved-mysteries-modern-updates/ originally retrieved Thu Jun 21 06:49:46 EDT 2018
i'm not going to be auditing my post history to make myself look like a lib; that shit has sailed. i don't recommend you do so either.
Random link from the archives: "The Mystery of Mamo | KYOTO VIDEO - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20220729164733/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVXrPXdghHQ originally retrieved Fri 29 Jul 2022 04:47:33 PM EDT
Random link from the archives: "Unmasked: man behind cult set to replace QAnon | QAnon | The Guardian" https://web.archive.org/web/20210325192902/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/20/revealed-man-behind-fast-growing-cult-becoming-the-new-qanon-sabmyk-network
One thing I've learned from reading UFO reports is that people see really weird shit in the sky all the time and it's nearly impossible to figure out what something was because of how many obscure possibilities you have to take into account. If you really want to know, report it to the air force and in 20 years an explanation that may or may not be lazy BS will be declassified. But I suspect you'll have to let this one be a mystery.
Random link from the archives: "My Grading Scale for the Fall Semester, Composed Entirely of Samuel Beckett Quotes - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency" https://web.archive.org/web/20191209082040/https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/my-grading-scale-for-the-fall-semester-composed-entirely-of-samuel-beckett-quotes
whenever one of my special interests suddenly becomes mainstream (ex., with the pentagon UFO report or with LLMs flooding the prose generation space) i get really frustrated because there's now a plethora of material but it's all by people who know less than someone with a casual interest would
periodic reminder, if you want a cheap time-loop / conspiracy theory VN to play for spooky season, my game Manna for our Malices is available on both steam and itch: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1013580/Manna_for_our_Malices/
so, i told my manager why my performance has been shit (tickets with important info missing, time zone issues mean PRs take at least 24 hours to be merged, over-rigorous 'security' measures make testing unnecessarily difficult) & he acted like he didn't know all that already. was this a mistake
i fuckin hate when my UPS dies overnight and i gotta shut down the computer to restart the UPS, then 4 hours later when i actually get up, i gotta boot up and wait 20 minutes for the fucking browser to be usable
large-account drama seems even worse on bluesky than it is on mastodon, from my experience, though it may just be because the blusky userbase is so much smaller that i functionally have to follow high-drama accounts to have a full dash
websites come in two flavors: ones that i need to use on my computer because they are unusable without an ad blocker, and ones i have to use on my phone because they have been booby-trapped so as to become unusable with an ad blocker.
love to spend 15 minutes of my daily standup trying to explain that the ticket's ready for test while the scrum master says shit like 'so i am hearing that you will start tomorrow'
oh shit, i just realized that yesterday was labor day. i worked yesterday. i worked late yesterday. i got mail yesterday and my trash was retrieved?? am i nuts?
Las Noches del Hombre Lobo: The Mystery of Paul Naschy’s Bizarre Lost Wolfman Movie – No But Listen https://nobutlisten.com/2023/07/06/las-noches-del-hombre-lobo-the-mystery-of-paul-naschys-bizarre-lost-wolfman-movie/
Random link from the archives: "Introduction to Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism - Part 3 - Merkabah Shi'ur Komah & Sar Torah - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20210812112412/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8LBP4Y-hRM originally retrieved Thu 12 Aug 2021 11:24:12 AM EDT
in case you needed to know how things are going over on tumblr, i finally had to close my asks because i was recieving 10+ asks per day from different blogs all claiming to be the same palestinian refugee pointing to different gofundmes
Random link from the archives: "Life’s economy is primarily based on collaborative rather than competitive advantage" https://web.archive.org/web/20211017102632/https://scribe.rip/p/lifes-economy-is-primarily-based-on-collaborative-rather-than-competitive-advantage-e7c5f55466fd
the world is full of technologies whose affordances subtly incentivize particular behaviors. if this were the result of individual creators promoting their personal worldviews, it'd be great. but the worldview being promoted is 'make my boss richer'.
'cool olympic shooter guy is statistically probably a war criminal' is my new favorite milkshake duck
Random link from the archives: "Science Is Full of Mavericks Like My Grandfather. But Was His Physics Theory Right? - The Atlantic" https://web.archive.org/web/20181101124554/https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/science-full-mavericks-like-my-grandfather-was-his-physics-theory-right/574573/
Random link from the archives: "An Alternative Taxonomy for Interactive Stories | Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling" https://web.archive.org/web/20190109090142/https://emshort.blog/2011/05/03/an-alternative-taxonomy-for-interactive-stories/ originally retrieved Wed Jan 9 09:01:42 EST 2019
searching youtube for 'animecore 11 hour ai' to put on my turned off monitor & speakers while i sleep as part of a long con against the recommendation algorithm
Random link from the archives: "My Own ‘Bad Story’: I Thought Journalism Would Make a Hero of Me" https://web.archive.org/web/20180403101956/https://longreads.com/2018/04/03/my-own-bad-story-i-thought-journalism-would-make-a-hero-of-me/
Random link from the archives: "The perfect college experience is a myth - Vox" https://web.archive.org/web/20210728193917/https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/22573842/the-best-four-years-of-your-life originally retrieved Wed 28 Jul 2021 07:39:17 PM EDT
Random link from the archives: " A Bleed of Blue | Amy Key | Granta" https://web.archive.org/web/20220518144020/https://granta.com/a-bleed-of-blue/ originally retrieved Wed 18 May 2022 02:40:20 PM EDT
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200925141851/https://scribe.rip/p/the-comforting-myth-of-alien-abduction-d95496fd70e6 originally retrieved Fri Sep 25 14:18:51 EDT 2020
Random link from the archives: "Lacan - The Mirror Stage, The Imaginary, and Social Media (How am I not myself?) - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20200816113918/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50k_IUMrehU originally retrieved Sun Aug 16 11:39:18 EDT 2020
Random link from the archives: "Inside the global gig economy of werewolf erotica on platforms like Dreame, GoodNovel and Amazon Kindle Vella - Rest of World" https://web.archive.org/web/20220727083516/https://restofworld.org/2022/china-romance-novels/
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200615174213/https://scribe.rip/p/a-modern-mythology-9a90b914d188 originally retrieved Mon Jun 15 17:42:13 EDT 2020
No, Victorians Didn't Cover Up Table Legs Because They Were Too 'Sexy' - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/victorian-table-legs-covering-myth
The Zorn Palette - What It Is And How You Can Use It https://drawpaintacademy.com/zorn-palette/
Random link from the archives: "My website as a home" https://web.archive.org/web/20231213202004/https://nicochilla.com/my-website-as-a-home/ originally retrieved Wed 13 Dec 2023 08:20:04 PM EST
Random link from the archives: "My Life as a Member of the Cult of the Dead Cow" https://web.archive.org/web/20211124184044/https://scribe.rip/p/the-cult-of-the-dead-cow-9c04110b792f originally retrieved Wed 24 Nov 2021 06:40:44 PM EST
Analyzing my text messages with my ex-boyfriend https://teresaibarra.com/texts/
she's wondering why the first date is so awkward, completely unaware that my hidden earbud is reading me template-generated improv comedy prompts every 10 minutes which i must integrate into the conversation
i only leave star reviews in two circumstances: either i expected something mediocre & was blown away, so five stars, or i feel like i was literally conned into wasting my time and money on a no-effort piece of shit, so one star. otherwise, quantifying and ranking media is fraught
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20220325230333/https://codexastarte.substack.com/p/waiter-theres-a-fly-in-my-rune-soup-f5a?s=w originally retrieved Fri 25 Mar 2022 11:03:33 PM EDT
every user of myspace managed to essentially just figure out how to write valid CSS by trial and error without even knowing the term CSS. i went to high school with these some of people & they weren't necessarily geniuses or anything, & CSS is unnecessarily complex. so anybody can code
periodic reminder: i'm still trying to help my game, Manna for our Malices, find its audience. if you review or stream games & a time loop conspiracy-horror VN sounds up your alley, let me know & i can get you a steam key. it is also literally one dollar
my impression is that ExodusCry is basically Autism Speaks for sex work. is that accurate?
Random link from the archives: "Jeremy Clarkson: Untangling the strange, enduring appeal of the Grand Tour presenter | The Independent" https://web.archive.org/web/20240301193458/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/jeremy-clarkson-grand-tour-farm-b2495286.html?encoded_id=Ol5ke
How I Made Google’s “Web” View My Default Search https://tedium.co/2024/05/17/google-web-search-make-default/
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20210310144722/https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmZ1cGyzQNXhdAzqpkk1qatr98TLMYqKTkJBqrdvnmAP9y originally retrieved Wed 10 Mar 2021 02:47:22 PM EST
Random link from the archives: "Charles Finch on How He Writes Charles Lenox Mysteries" https://web.archive.org/web/20191110185536/https://www.vulture.com/2019/10/charles-finch-on-how-he-writes-charles-lenox-mysteries.html originally retrieved Sun Nov 10 18:55:36 EST 2019
ANATOMY OF A RESURRECTION: How They Saved Doctor Who (again) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6hmBlQiwZ0
Random link from the archives: "Why my website is better than yours" https://web.archive.org/web/20211018173516/https://scribe.rip/p/why-my-website-is-better-than-yours-85fc643ccc2f originally retrieved Mon 18 Oct 2021 05:35:16 PM EDT
anybody else having trouble accessing tumblr? or did they just up and delete my account?
Why New York City is lowering its speed limit - Vox https://www.vox.com/24153725/speed-limits-pedestrian-deaths-sammys-law-nyc
Skip James - Hard Times Killing Floor Blues, American Folk and Blues Festival, Cologne Oct. 9, 1967 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYALBzfY5QY&ab_channel=Ramblin%27Bob
Everyone Knows That: internet music mystery solved via 1986 adult movie | Music | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/apr/29/everyone-knows-that-internet-music-mystery-solved-via-1986-adult-movie
'Everyone Knows That': Lost Mystery Song Intensely Debated Online https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/everyone-knows-that-lost-mystery-song-1234875326/
Krabi (1976) | Crabs | Short teen+ animation with no dialogue - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igROsVAk7fY&ab_channel=FILMY%C4%8CESKY
Kate Bush shocks me AGAIN! Vocal ANALYSIS of "Babooshka" has me rolling up my sleeves to help! - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCS7rFgQM1U
Random link from the archives: "Lossy Text Compression | Anfractuosity | Still waiting on the daybreak, its shadows in my mind" https://web.archive.org/web/20170912094922/https://www.anfractuosity.com/projects/lossy-text-compression/ originally retrieved Tue Sep 12 09:49:22 EDT 2017
Random link from the archives: "Quitting Sex Was The Best Thing I Ever Did For Myself" https://web.archive.org/web/20200710122534/https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/laurabogart/sex-celibate-dating-weight-body-image?ref=bfnsplash originally retrieved Fri Jul 10 12:25:34 EDT 2020
Bad idea of the day: a trilogy of movies about jimmy olsen's life as perpetual third wheel
corporate computer security feels like this weird mix of over- and under- protection. like, it's a nightmare to do my job bc of all these hurdles in the way of the public domain data we downloaded for free, but i'm pretty sure anybody could call the public HR number & get my paycheck routed to them without any of my personal information
My Dinner With Andreessen - The American Prospect https://prospect.org/power/2024-04-24-my-dinner-with-andreessen/
i shouldn't let LLMs & GANs ruin my appreciation for generative art. statistical methods like these are not new (and most of their problems with LLMs are shared with, ex., markov) & all that's changed is that people are trying to Productize, which they tend to do.
Voyager was my introduction to Star Trek & it's so weird to go back to it & realize the whole thing was basically the showrunners looking at various TNG episodes and going 'people liked that arc, let's do it worse but like fifteen times'. Meanwhile DS9 was fomenting revolutionary sentiment.
Deeper Cut: Weird Tales, Birth Control, and the Mysterious Dr. Fouts – Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein https://deepcuts.blog/2024/04/17/deeper-cut-weird-tales-birth-control-and-the-mysterious-dr-fouts/
Random link from the archives: "Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy" https://web.archive.org/web/20180904134855/http://www.shirky.com/writings/herecomeseverybody/group_enemy.html originally retrieved Tue Sep 4 13:48:55 EDT 2018
Random link from the archives: "A Stimulus Plan for the Mutual Aid Economy" https://web.archive.org/web/20181121164453/https://longreads.com/2018/11/20/a-stimulus-plan-for-the-mutual-aid-economy/ originally retrieved Wed Nov 21 16:44:53 EST 2018
Random link from the archives: "List of people who disappeared mysteriously: post-1970 - Wikipedia" https://web.archive.org/web/20190607074536/https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_disappeared_mysteriously:_post-1970 originally retrieved Fri Jun 7 07:45:36 EDT 2019
flownase sounds so shady when you explain it literally. 'it's this steroid i snort that causes my sinuses to get all numb and i have to use it every day'
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20220209120522/https://scribe.rip/p/reading-a-book-on-my-balcony-automatically-94ba6bb1616c originally retrieved Wed 09 Feb 2022 12:05:22 PM EST
i like to read stuff that's way over my head, which is a mixed bag. on the one hand, i'm full of weird trivia from totally different domains. on the other hand, i routinely read a whole book and understand approximately none of it
Random link from the archives: "Welcome to ‘Zombieland’: A former US Army base rots in the hands of overwhelmed Afghans - Stripes" https://web.archive.org/web/20190312113657/https://www.stripes.com/welcome-to-zombieland-a-former-us-army-base-rots-in-the-hands-of-overwhelmed-afghans-1.570893
Random link from the archives: "Everything they Told You About Ghost Stories Was Wrong | Ani-Mysteries Solved #1 - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20210623184620/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI_AkYpOuQo originally retrieved Wed 23 Jun 2021 06:46:20 PM EDT
one of these days i will extinguish my fear of cringe enough to name a character Felix Culpa but for now the silliest character name i will allow myself is Hanabi Tamaya
Random link from the archives: "Introduction to Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism - Part 10 - Christian and Lurianic Kabbalah - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20210930211136/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqvcifVWjvM originally retrieved Thu 30 Sep 2021 09:11:36 PM EDT
my fellow autistics just entering the job market: please keep in mind that self-evals & (if you're salaried) time reporting are tricks to get you to self-incriminate, and so is all the 'be yourself at work' rhetoric.
Hammer Mummy Retrospective - Egyptology and Razzmatazz - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKwr3qA9ixQ
Band name of the day: it's a pity i can't show you my real face
way more situations than you might think are analogous to 'how do i consent to something done while i am hypnotized to think i am a kitty cat for 2 weeks with my husband's boyfriend'
that owl wasn't a screen memory. those weren't greys. that was stolas, great prince of hell, teaching you about astronomy, mathematics, and the properties of precious stones
my stuff is on sale again: https://itch.io/s/118241/spring-sale-2024
My Fave is Problematic: I’m in Love with the Villainess - Anime Feminist https://www.animefeminist.com/my-fave-is-problematic-im-in-love-with-the-villainess/
today, and only today, one minute before its scheduled time, my morning meeting was pushed forward ten minutes 'for daylight savings time'.
The Devil's Rejects | Anatomy of a Franchise - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOazcIep5PI
i can't bring myself to be mad about daylight savings because it's not like i don't routinely wake up to discover that while i was sleeping my daily standup has been moved from 7 AM to 6 AM
tiktok is trying to tell me how to dress for the female gays, sorry that's not applicable to my life
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20190801105456/https://grimoire.ca/mysql/choose-something-else originally retrieved Thu Aug 1 10:54:56 EDT 2019
so, autoplay is actually great & ruins ad targeting. here's why: autoplay will play whether or not you're watching, and basically just makes a positive feedback loop: whatever the algorithm tries, it gets told 'YES MORE PLEASE OMG UGGH IM COMING' and it loses all sense of what you actually want. one time i let youtube cast to my turned-off TV for a week & it decided i was obsessed with traditional belarusian christmas music.
'i had to explain
just heard the term 'critical aquarianism' and, okay, it's being deployed as a slur i guess, but fuck yeah that's a perfect name for my preferred vibe.
Jeremy Clarkson: Untangling the strange, enduring appeal of the Grand Tour presenter | The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/jeremy-clarkson-grand-tour-farm-b2495286.html?encoded_id=Ol5ke
my problem with arch & gentoo is that they are severe own-goals. if you wanted to make a source based distro, you can make a much better one with much less effort by exercising a tiny bit of planning. (this is what lunar is.) it's sort of impossible to take arch or gentoo seriously after using lunar.
i need my phone's spell checker to understand that most words can have an s added to the end (sometimes with an apostrophe either before or after it) and still be a valid word. it's fine that my phone has the vocabulary of a third grader; i don't necessarily mind that i have to teach it new words. i do not like that i have to teach it the same new word four times because nobody thought to plug in a fucking lemmatizer. i do not like that it takes my correct word and then removes things from it in order to produce an incorrect word.
i regularly start up a video game for the first time, say to my self 'ewww why it is 3d', and debate whether or not to uninstall it
my roman empire is a chaos communications conference presentation i watched once that was ostensibly about how to fight for civil rights but was actually about how this protest organization changed into a lobbying organization and spent years trying to accumulate a database of which cookies specific conservative politicians liked best and what their habits were so that they could be easily cornered and given cookies. like: way to go spending an enormous amount of effort trying to optimize unsuccessfully bribing people who hate you? i knew lobbying was stupid & contributed to political corruption but i didn't realize it wasalso the political equivalent of a tabs-vs-spaces argument
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i've been on bluesky for a couple days and my verdict is: it's twitter again, by the guy who did twitter the first time, and leans very normie (having none of the interesting subcultures that made twitter interesting except furries and cute-animal bots, both of which fedi is much better on). it's probably a good fit for people whose only problem with twitter is elon musk, & who thought it was perfect a couple years ago. they've rebranded saved searches as 'feeds' and they're trying to pitch it as a UI revolution, which it might be in the context of an app that looks and acts like somebody replaced the icon pack in the official twitter app. so far as i can tell it's very liberal and i'm one of only a handful of anarchists even on there.
today, all my stuff is super cheap on itch for my birthday sale https://itch.io/s/116290/birthday-sale
tomorrow, all my games and such are on deep discount for my birthday. if you were considering checking them out, now is the time. https://itch.io/s/116290/birthday-sale
this morning i'm thinking about how, after my grandfather's funeral, some guy pulled my grandmother aside and spent like 20 minutes trying to convince her to worry about an immanent chinese invasion of the united states, and whenever i tried to push back on anything he was basically like 'what do you know, you're not a member of the military so you can't possibly have any idea about politics'. who was that guy? why did he think this was an appropriate time or place for that discussion? and why was he so sure?
my insomnia has progressed from 'i'm a little tired and keep making mistakes' territory to 'i keep having microsleeps during the day and can't regulate my body temperature' territory, send sleepy vibes
i want my dread subtle and creeping and my joy bright, colorful, and loud pls
if i was making an fmv game, i'd get all my larp and cosplay friends to play their OCs and write or improvise their own responses
Next week for my birthday all my games & stuff will be on deep discount: https://itch.io/s/116290/birthday-sale
so, some of my music has been in circulation on radio free fedi for many months now. has anybody caught it? should i submit more? i have a lot, so i won't submit more unless somebody actually wants it.
let me tell you a story about how not just gender roles but gender categories are highly culturally specific. in japan, in the 60s, there was a category called 'gayboy'; lots of people self-identified with it. what it meant was an AMAB person who dresses in a feminine way and enacts feminine roles. this can map onto a lot of stuff in other systems of understanding gender; actually, it was a pretty big tent. in the late 60s, a movie came out: half kitchen-sink drama and half documentary, Funeral Parade of Roses was a movie about life in tokyo's queer underground intercut with interviews with the cast and crew, themselves members of the tokyo queer underground, about their experiences of sex, gender, attraction, social roles, journeys of self-identification, and their similarity and differences with their characters. one of the questions that was asked, of many people, was 'why are you a gayboy?' the answers fell across a familiar spectrum, and again there's this temptation to place it on our own maps, which are ours because we prefer them and vice versa. for instance: 'i like being a girl', 'i like acting like a girl but only because i'm not a girl', 'i was bad at being a boy, and i found out that i'm naturally better at being a girl', 'i'm not exactly either a boy or girl', 'i'm a boy, this dress is just a fashion statement', 'i am not a gayboy, i am a traditional conservative woman with a birth defect'. now, the editor of japan's first gay magazine wrote a review of The Funeral Parade of Roses that took on a revolutionary tone, and afterward, the term gayboy fell out of favor and instead people refered to themselves as 'the rose tribe' -- as in, anyone who ever identified with something they saw in The Funeral Parade of Roses. the magazine pivoted to be the premire publication of the rose tribe, broadening its audience, but the old guard and the majority were gay men. in response to reader mail about gay male content crowding other stuff out of limited page space, the editor created a specific section called 'the lily tribe', which got guaranteed page space and was exclusive to femme-leaning content (while masc- and neutral- content could predominate elsewhere). this did not necessarily mean that the occasional lesbian or transfem article wouldn't make its way into the main body of the magazine if it was deemed of wide enough interest. the rose / lily categorization system seems to have remained the baseline in japan for a while (my direct knowledge of this part is very limited). today, our categories are more global and intersecting: anime will intentionally place trans flags or use bisexual lighting.
wtf does 'feel your feelings' even mean? a feeling is just a thought that won't stop giving you a tummy ache. if i could stop feeling my feelings that'd be fuckin ace.
i do book clubs in my free time because it turns out i like everything about school but the grades. i should have realized that when i started watching recordings of lectures for fun.
Random link from the archives: "William Blake's Prophetic & Mystical Mythology - Analysis of The Book of Urizen & its Gnostic Myth - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20221225175014/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXN2CRpWAzU originally retrieved Sun 25 Dec 2022 05:50:14 PM EST
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my copy of casablanca has an intro by lauren bacall and it's so weird, because she's clearly struggling to figure out something nice to say about the movie (which is weird in of itself -- it's a classic for a reason) and what she eventually settles on is 'the nationalism is romantic'. bruh, this is a movie about how it's more important to kill nazis than mope over your ex
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How Aristotle Accidentally Helped to Invent Alchemy (and got nearly everything wrong) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haBEMuhD2AA
A Claxonomy of Mexico City’s Traffic - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/a-claxonomy-of-mexico-citys-traffic/
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my dishwasher was complaining of a clogged valve so, after putting it off for weeks, i finally washed all the dishes in it by hand, pulled all the drawers out, and fished all the gunk out of the bottom. i started a test run and -- it pissed all over the floor.
i've gotten way better at handling situations where there's an obvious problem but i can't positively identify or solve it -- by which i mean it only ruins my whole day sometimes, and i hardly ever cry in public about it anymore
in an attention economy reply guys are whales
one thing i've noticed is that, since i've started smoking weed regularly, i'm prone to spontaneously smiling (even if i'm not high, even sometimes if i haven't smoked in more than a week). this is unexpected but i approve -- i think it balances out my RBF a bit. like, i'm fairly chill, but i can't blame anybody for being intimidated by a white guy in combat boots and all black with a shaved head frowning
Random link from the archives: "What would the internet of people look like now? - The Verge" https://web.archive.org/web/20230904122351/https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/22/23803538/google-facebook-myspace-internet-culture-web-dot-com-crash originally retrieved Mon 04 Sep 2023 12:23:51 PM EDT
do you think that wittgenstein, when describing language games, intentionally chose the example of a builder asking for a brick because it inverts the tower of babel myth or is it, like, a freemasonry thing?
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by a mystery of facebook's algorithmic ranking, i see a lot of posts by strangers complaining about cheating or a fear of cheating. i've never really understood this, because i can't see how cheating could possibly be widespread or difficult to avoid. for your partner to cheat, they must (1) be really hot, and (2) be really stupid (or at least impulsive) -- because at least to people will need to want to fuck them at the same time (a rarity), and they need to consciously decide to handle this situation in an irresponsible way instead of just becoming poly or exerting self-control
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coyote urine is sold in the same kind of container as airline liquor bottles, which made my hazy understanding of the first trailers for coyote ugly very confusing
Is My Toddler a Stochastic Parrot? | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/humor/sketchbook/is-my-toddler-a-stochastic-parrot
the core skill of a software engineer is not programming. it's having enough of a totally-unjustified mystique, and buying into it enough, to be able to say 'no, fuck off' to management until they finally ask you to do something that's not completely stupid. that's actually much more important, anyway. anybody with a high tolerance for frustration can code, but jester's privilege is much more rare.
Debunking the Pervasive Myths About Medieval Witch Hunts - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjXETCPMuHo
there are all sorts of interesting things you can demand be done with your corpse after your death but basically all the fun ones will be struck out by probate courts or will be a huge burden on the executor or are way better in theory than in practice. (as much as i love the 'my estate will be distributed in proportion to the amount of my corpse eaten by each attendee at my funeral slash banquet' nobody will actually do it and if they did nobody would attend.) the best i've come up with that is likely to work is schmaltz-adjacent: 'bury my ashes and plant a fruit tree above them, which must be allowed to grow to full maturity'. but here is a freebie for you, that you might be able to pull off if your executor has a sense of humor: 'my ashes are to be placed in envelopes with no return address and mailed to my ten worst enemies, so that i may haunt them'.
Random link from the archives: "My Fully Optimized Life Allows Me Ample Time to Optimize Yours - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency" https://web.archive.org/web/20190925092139/https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/my-fully-optimized-life-allows-me-ample-time-to-optimize-yours originally retrieved Wed Sep 25 09:21:39 EDT 2019
joan of arc was used by nonhuman intelligences to plant a myth in the culture, and died not knowing her purpose
tinder wants me to 'invite someone' to 'be my matchmaker' which i guess means have them swipe for me. no way am i forcing somebody else into this hellscape of blank fucking profiles
in 100 years, english students will hear about stephen king for the first time in grad school and be very confused about why he was so popular. not knocking on king here -- i like his books, generally speaking -- but he's a deeply weird dude who writes long, rambling, extremely personal books that are frequently hard to relate to. people in the future will talk about It the same way people today talk about Moby Dick. people in the future will talk about The Tommyknockers the same way people today talk about Vril: The Power of the Coming Race. people in the future will talk about The Dark Tower the same way people today talk about Barsoom or The Night Land.
nothing i've ever read or heard about rust has dispelled my immediate first impression, which is that it's basically c for people who like haskell. between this and finding that the rust compiler won't build from source on a standard toolchain the last couple times i tried, i have very little interest. i like weird high-concept programming languages, and rust seems to be in the same basic category as scala (too weird for the normies but too normal for me).
if you make your services stop working with ad blockers, people will stop using your services rather than see ads. if you make your services stop working with ad blockers when you weren't showing ads in the first place (looking at you, crunchyroll premium & the astonishing legends podcast) wtf are you even doing? last year, when i upgraded my internet, my router came with basically a pi hole built-in and enabled by default; people less technically proficient than i am would have no idea that it was even running, and will just think your shit is broken. and it is.
i got my second-ever payout from steam last month. my game was released in 2018. this means i just now reached 200 dollars on my cut of sales, after five and a half years. don't let anybody tell you that indie games are easy money.
a pattern that repeats over and over in tech is that somebody will invent a cool toy (whose usefulness is very obviously, and sometimes intentionally, circumscribed), a bunch of grifters will say 'this toy is actually a panacea that will do everything for you', a bunch of capitalists hear this and say 'will it help me replace all my employees with perfect slaves?', the grifters will say 'yes', and a bunch of the capitalists will lose a bunch of their money to the grift but won't suffer real consequences. during the whole thing, regular people will be flooded with news coverage along the lines of 'new toy will solve all problems' and 'new toy will take your job and force you to starve'. and the new toy will be something like, play doom in your word processor at 5fps, or pay for a pizza without money but it takes four hours, or emit random dictionary words.
i'm not a particularly confident person, yet overconfidence constantly bites me in the ass and underconfidence has never led me to make a poor decision. people around me, who are much more confident than i am, must be making many more mistakes (and, well, not noticing them because they are confident that there is nothing to notice). so my general advice: always assume that it's impossible & you're not good enough to do it, and then if it's worth doing even in the face of near-inevitable failure, do it anyway. lots of things are worth failing at, but some things will really ruin your life if you fail at them while not affecting anybody at all if you don't try, and confident people fail to distinguish between the two.
it's crazy how much your sense of time changes with age. like, i have stuff in my fridge that has been there longer than i was in high school.
i spent all night last night tossing and turning in a pool of sweat and dealing with gas-related cramping, and my nose has been stuffed up & throat sore for days, and today i had a headache, fatigue, and trouble focusing all day. these days, those kinds of symptoms (which i have, independently and in combination, a lot -- i don't go a week without having one, and i don't go a month without having several hit at the same time) make me wonder if i somehow got covid, but it's equally explained by the season change: allergies + sleep disruption + the outside temperature dramatically swinging between AC weather and furnace weather in the same day. i've got a covid shot scheduled for the day after tomorrow: i had one scheduled for friday but the place canceled day-of, and i tried to get one in the spring but the person administering the shot told me that i wasn't allowed to have one because it'd only been 6 months since my last booster.
Funky AI-generated spiraling medieval village captivates social media | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/09/dreamy-ai-generated-geometric-scenes-mesmerize-social-media-users/
Carrie | Anatomy of a Franchise - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFcYsAtHHww
Mysticism of Passion, Penance & Divine Darkness - Angela of Foligno - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJfPdt9zKvE
Behind the Scenes of SOME LIKE IT HOT: Secrets, Scandals, and Marilyn's Mystique - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acfmuAI1Q_k
i usually think of myself as having pretty good emotional control, but sometimes the vibes will be slightly off in one interaction in the morning and it'll ruin my whole week
i don't know how to explain this to somebody who doesn't already understand it (like my scrum master, whose mind is so alien as to be totally unknowable) but: looking pretty is totally unrelated to coding, so if you force workers to look pretty (ex., by making them come into the office or turn webcams on during meetings) that will inevitably take energy away from the more important task of doing the fucking labor. People came into offices because we didn't have the internet yet, not because offices actually provided value, and they continued coming into offices out of inertia and not because it wasn't a clearly stupid idea.
stop letting good enough be the enemy of better
What are carbon offsets, and are they scammy? We tracked one, from Kenya to the UK. - Vox https://www.vox.com/23817575/carbon-offsets-credits-financialization-ecologi-solutions-scam
Taxi Driver and King of Comedy both represent worlds where people are trapped in shitty circumstances they can't imagine real alternatives to, and poorly-adjusted dudes working off naive-bordering-on-delusional models of the world consisting largely of contextless marketing slogans that give them no way to understand their own trauma, who then perform the only type of action they can imagine that's outside of their daily life: violence-as-spectacle. A smart viewer would recognize that these protagonists are deeply flawed, that they do not properly understand the nature of the system keeping them down, that their atomization and alienation is in a dysfunctional feedback loop with their individualism and self-aggrandizement, and that the fact that this spectacular violence worked is another terrible irony. But I am sure that my fifteen year old self would fundamentally misunderstand these movies as being in favor of 'heroic' big public gestures, the same way that a lot of teenagers misunderstood Fight Club, and the same way that my 5 year old self fundamentally misunderstood Weird Science. As somebody who as a general rule supports and enjoys 'extreme' media that represents undesirable behavior honestly, these movies are kind of an exception for me -- I wish they had more directly 'downer' endings, because the kinds of guys who identify with De Niro's beaten-down possibly-autistic protagonists are the least likely to understand the subtext of these movies and the most likely to actually perform public violence. I might recommend these movies to people, but only after specifically talking about this. (More likely, I wouldn't: these movies, despite their gritty reputation, are fundamentally cringe comedies -- michael scott with a gun -- and so they're really uncomfortable to sit through despite their artistry & all the social issues they touch on are better handled by books.)
i've probably ruined my chances of ever becoming a freemason by being loudly discordian online for 15 years
the only thing i miss from having an office is being able to reverse ssh tunnel into my workstation from home instead of fucking around with a VPN that expires its own connection every couple hours & expects you to 2fa on every reconnection. how the fuck do NTs not drown under the massive weight of all the millions of useless and meaningless fluff we're required to do before doing anything useful? they keep adding extra shit, and yet...
What would the internet of people look like now? - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/22/23803538/google-facebook-myspace-internet-culture-web-dot-com-crash
The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge https://tylervigen.com/the-mystery-of-the-bloomfield-bridge
My Favorite Online Discourse - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHtd0rcPBjw
my game, Manna for our Malices, will be discounted for the steam 'visual novel fest' sale next week. (i've forgotten the sale price but the normal price is a dollar so...)
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.
i dunno, man. facebook & google have extremely inaccurate models of me and my interests, despite having a huge amount of data on me. so it might be a skill issue. you might just be basic.
MyHouse.wad - WAD Releases & Development - Doomworld https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/134292-myhousewad/
V-Discs - Music from the longest strike in American history " ~ajroach42.com " I'm Andrew. I write about the past and future of tech, music, media, culture, art, and activism. This is my blog. https://ajroach42.com/v-discs-music-from-the-longest-strike-in-american-history/
What Role Are You Playing? Communication, queerness, and neurodivergence in Yuri is My Job! - Anime Feminist https://www.animefeminist.com/what-role-are-you-playing-communication-queerness-and-neurodivergence-in-yuri-is-my-job/
i believe in abolishing all forms of IP law (and this is directly informed by my day job, writing the infrastructure that allows IP law to be executed at scale). if you are worried that abolishing IP law would screw over individual artists (though i would argue that small artists are already screwed over and IP law is mostly used against them, and in fact cannot typically be used to support them) then a reasonable half-measure is as follows: limit copyright terms to 7 years, and rule that copyright can only be held by a natural person, and cannot be transferred or inherited. this will prevent copyright from ever being used as a corporate cash-cow, and ensures that whatever benefits might go to the copyright holder always go to the artist instead. this doesn't address other forms of IP, but other forms of IP are really not available to regular people unless they're quite rich, whereas everybody you have ever met owns a billion copyrights in theory and doesn't know it.
a bit about my background, so that people don't think my weird takes about software come from nowhere: i spent 15 years in mostly self-guided exploratory learning around programming & computers (supplemented in the last 10 with formal instruction: took some high school classes & got a BS in CS), only after which i entered the industry. during that first 15 years, i did OS development and wrote language interpreters and compilers, rudimentary machine learning, got really inspired by descriptions of smalltalk environments and wrote a similar kind of environment in tcl, researched the history of hypertext and its variations, and did a whole bunch of other projects of similar complexity but less relevance. then i got an internship working on a search engine, and shortly after, i was contacted by ted nelson, who had seen some of my xanadu-inspired projects, and began to write code for xanadu in an official capacity. now, i've been in the industry for a decade, and because i work for a large company, i've collaborated with a lot of different units and seen & written very different kinds of code in very different languages for very different purposes. already soured on java, i soured even further when i had to enhance and maintain a large java codebase that hadn't been edited in 6 years, and meanwhile my eyes were opened to the scope of shell functionality (which i approached with an enthusiasm tempered by experience with tcl maintenance). when i shoot off some angry polemic about DNS, or jump links, or language design influence on code structure, it's coming from a synthesis of this whole history -- somebody who had a lot of time to grow to appreciate what good code looked like and did, and to create elaborate single-user projects, being forced to adjust to a world of bad code and one-size-fits-all software products, and looking for a line of flight.
i wonder what sammy davis jr thought of sun ra
the fact that some people find LLMs useful for writing code is not a credit to LLMs but an indictment of the average signal to noise ratio of code: it means that most code is confusing boilerplate -- boilerplate because a statistical model can only reliably reproduce patterns that reoccur many times across its training corpus, and confusing because otherwise-intelligent people capable of convincing a hiring manager that they are competent programmers find it easier to ask a statistical model to produce an incorrect prototype they must debug than write the code themselves. we all know from experience that most code is bad, but for LLMs to be able to write more-or-less working code at all indicates that code is much worse than we imagine, and that even what we consider 'good' code is from a broader perspective totally awful. (in my opinion, it is forced to be this way because of the way we design programming languages and libraries.)
day one back from my vacation, i have a meeting and write like 4 lines of code, and then the waves of fatigue come back again
i don't like light mode because using light mode means i need to turn on the lights in my house (and probably even install more lights) if i want to use my computer & also do things around the house. but a computer monitor is a light source, so it makes sense to just tune it so that the amount of light it puts into my eyes when i look at is is comparable to the amount of ambient light reflected off of the surfaces in my home. it's not possible to dim your monitor to the point where a white background won't ruin your night vision, but combining a black background with a red, green, or amber foreground works fine.
i tip my hat to whoever in the macross production process decided to use the term 'super dimensional' instead of just saying 'big'
it seems like there's no extension yet for what i really want -- which is to actually enforce my okcupid filters & enforce other things that should be filterable but aren't (like 'are we in the same state'). it ought to be straightforward: check the contents of a couple named spans against a regex, and produce a click event on the 'pass' button if they match / don't match. but i hate webtech so i really don't want to build it myself.
'poor network quality', teams says, as it disconnects me from the daily standup for 20 seconds after every 1 second of actually being in the meeting. all my other machines are fine. (i thought it was the VPN, but it started doing it this morning when i forgot to turn on the VPN too...) pretty sure it's literally just teams.
my position (which was very common up until a specific variety of anti-GAN sentiment was seeded) is that the world is better when access to media (including for creative & transformative purposes) is open, & that it's totally possible to have that while also ensuring the creators of that media have the resources to live their lives. the there are two things that need to be sacrified for that to happen -- two things that exist to benefit capitalists & screw over artists, but that have been sold as necessary evils -- and they are: IP law and capitalism. i hate to see social progress go backwards on account of workers imagining awesome short-term gains by becoming authoritarian rulers of a tiny personal media empire, especially when everybody involved has the capability to see ahead of time that those promised gains will never materialize. nobody was paying you a living wage for your fanart in 2017, they're paying about the same now, and they'll pay about the same in another five years whether or not the folks who are currently unwilling to commission an OC decide to use a GAN for that
Band name of the day: question mark and the new mysterians
i had to get a loan a couple years ago when my ex used up all my money and put me 20k in debt. (then she promptly did it again.) anyway, now that my credit is recovered, the place i got the loan from is sending me marketing emails every day encouraging me to take out another one. wtf
when you post images to tumblr it renames them but they aren't named based on content hash but instead based on the post ID. which means i need to hash every single one of them in order to detect and remove duplicates. my export file is 90 gigs, zipped :(
strangers on facebook telling me it's disrespectful to say that sylvia plath is best known for her death. no, it's disrespectful of reality that sylvia plath is best known for her death, but if her death isn't the first association you have with her, you're kinda a weirdo, because every artist with mental health issues gets boiled down to the same stock myth for a general audience.
twitter has finally gotten around to expiring my application keys, so i guess i'm not on twitter anymore.
MyHouse.WAD - Inside Doom's Most Terrifying Mod - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wAo54DHDY0
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200602110016/https://bnet.substack.com/p/mysteries-of-the-scatman?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMDg1ODMwLCJwb3N0X2lkIjo1MDA4NDEsIl8iOiIwc05nNSIsImlhdCI6MTU5MTAyMDYxMSwiZXhwIjoxNTkxMDI0MjExLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMzk3NDEiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.R12YEeeGSOkzsDumsW7c4HpP1SFjVusO0Y1OQH2Fy6E originally retrieved Tue Jun 2 11:00:16 EDT 2020
Random link from the archives: "1. Running Through My Back Brain (Messages) - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20180712142213/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Robv-yAvWMY originally retrieved Thu Jul 12 14:22:13 EDT 2018
Random link from the archives: "Share" https://web.archive.org/web/20220108130043/https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-phrase-no-evidence-is-a-red-flag?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMjk3MzIsInBvc3RfaWQiOjQ1NTAzNTkwLCJfIjoibGoxNXUiLCJpYXQiOjE2NDA4MDE3NjYsImV4cCI6MTY0MDgwNTM2NiwiaXNzIjoicHViLTg5MTIwIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.D00Llh9QrX2mY3lCu3DW_3VKbGmZU6ZsrlQEfPrHBi8 originally retrieved Sat 08 Jan 2022 01:00:43 PM EST
went to jury duty today & had my first in-the-wild encounter with the results of poor reading pedagogy (or possibly a kind of brilliant prank): the law clerk, who seemed like he was in his late teens, was unable to pronounce even common names & mispronounced them in absurd ways. specifically: one woman's first name was Anita and he consistently called her Antifa
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20210714192505/https://subconscious.substack.com/p/search-reveals-useful-dimensions?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMjk3MzIsInBvc3RfaWQiOjM2NTMxODQ2LCJfIjoiTVh6QWsiLCJpYXQiOjE2MjU5MzYzNTAsImV4cCI6MTYyNTkzOTk1MCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTMwNzk5MyIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.0-CzV1b8e9xvohoPqjoGvpx5ZGovjhewNu0K-p5TMOs originally retrieved Wed 14 Jul 2021 07:25:05 PM EDT
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20210331175604/https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjpgd7/the-mystery-of-fcking-good-pizza-travis-kalanick-cloudkitchens-future-foods-delivery-restaurants originally retrieved Wed 31 Mar 2021 05:56:04 PM EDT
tiktok is showing me ads for nothing but plus-sized bras. i think they got confused: i just like to look at big tits; i don't have any of my own.
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20180503112455/http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2018/05/synthedelia originally retrieved Thu May 3 11:24:55 EDT 2018
Random link from the archives: "Inside David Lynch’s scariest scene | The Outline" https://web.archive.org/web/20190405095102/https://theoutline.com/post/7272/lost-highway-mystery-man-robert-blake-david-lynch originally retrieved Fri Apr 5 09:51:02 EDT 2019
mainstream movies have gotten better about being long and slow lately but one thing that used to be common & now is lost is having long scenes of people who aren't important to the plot doing something interesting -- marketplaces, carnivals, parades. it gives a sense of place, but it also acts against the monomythic impulse of narrative film: sure, you're following the protagonist, but for this part of the movie you have to reckon with the fact that every person in this crowd is just as autonomous as the protagonist, in the middle of their own story of a different genre.
adobe & getty & whoever trying to train their GAN models on your work is a problem, but the problem is not 'they are stealing my intellectual property' (which is practically worthless from their POV -- think how hard you have to work to get any money at all from it, and then think how much effort that much money would be worth to a multinational corporation); the problem is that they correctly see themselves competing with large open models, and so they would like to own their own closed models, lock people into them, and strengthen IP law so that they can FUD open models out of existence. getty is competing with large open models, but no individual person uploading to getty is competing with GANs in any meaningful way, and artist commissions will never have serious competition from GANs because GANs require an artist's trained eye (and typically an artist's trained hand to fix in photoshop later) in order to produce acceptable-quality work.
I switched to manyverse desktop a few months ago & had endless issues (but couldn't switch back to patchwork because my .ssb directory got removed as part of migration). But, I upgraded to the current release today & every major problem i had with manyverse over patchwork is now solved. For the first time, I can actually wholeheartedly recommend SSB to non-technical people.
i'm trying to become the kind of person i'd want to know, but my standards are too high and it's impossible
i have decided to hold you to the same standard to which i hold myself
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20220209123516/https://scribe.rip/p/step-into-my-office-fe8417327d41 originally retrieved Wed 09 Feb 2022 12:35:16 PM EST
i constantly hear people complain about other people & my internal reaction is 'that guy sounds like a fucking jerk; you should cut them out of your life immediately'. but there can't be that many, right? it can't be that only the people i surround myself with are cool and literally everybody else is irredeemable. it can't be that everybody i know is constantly intentionally subjecting themselves to jerks even though they know better.
Q: Why are you so mean? A: I've decided to hold everyone around me to the same standards I hold myself to.
Random link from the archives: "My Brush with Behavioral Economics - Scientific American Blog Network" https://web.archive.org/web/20190923105953/https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/my-brush-with-behavioral-economics/ originally retrieved Mon Sep 23 10:59:53 EDT 2019
as somebody whose family was never big on holidays, birthdays, or special occasions, i don't have a good sense for whether certain things are 'real' holidays. like, do people actually celebrate mother's day, the way that people outside my family actually celebrate thanksgiving or new year's, or is it more like arbor day, where some teacher might do a special event in elementary school but there's no organic celbration, or is it like international felafel day, where it's purely a marketing invention with basically zero impact on anybody's real life public or private beyond an excuse for somebody to change the designs on their coupons?
VN fans: i will give you a steam key for my game, if you agree to give it a fair/impartial/honest review on steam. the game is called Manna for our Malices. reply to this post and i'll get in contact with you.
lately i've been finding myself spending more time helping other people walk through investigating & figuring out possible solutions for their tickets than working on my own tickets, and it's not too bad
Random link from the archives: "The Collapse of Bon Appetit | Jack Saint - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20200816115234/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQV-W_Ut8MY originally retrieved Sun Aug 16 11:52:34 EDT 2020
Random link from the archives: "My Dick - My Dick's Double Full-Length Release (2012 Album) - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20221226141532/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUOmL7UPfFA&ab_channel=BLOODYRAIN10001 originally retrieved Mon 26 Dec 2022 02:15:32 PM EST
Random link from the archives: "Hobbs and His Locks: The Great Lock Controversy of 1851 - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20171126141239/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH2kohmyqm4 originally retrieved Sun Nov 26 14:12:39 EST 2017
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20190430133707/https://kortina.nyc/essays/market-failures-in-the-attention-economy/ originally retrieved Tue Apr 30 13:37:07 EDT 2019
Random link from the archives: "GitHub - dmytrostriletskyi/8-bit-computer-memory-init: Initialize the 8-bit computer memory with a program to be executed automatically on powering." https://web.archive.org/web/20210602100329/https://github.com/dmytrostriletskyi/8-bit-computer-memory-init originally retrieved Wed 02 Jun 2021 10:03:29 AM EDT
Band name of the day: the mystical man-moth
just heard a segment on NPR saying that, because of a specific law passed after 9/11, the hijackers can't be brought to trial in the US. in other words: somebody put the entire machinery of the federal government's legislative branch into action to make a meaningless 'screw you' to five specific guys and that's part of why the case is still open after twenty-two years. which just blows my mind, because... 9/11 wasn't actually unprecedented in basically any way. foreign nationals have committed murder on US soil before, so why not literally just prosecute these guys for murder in the normal way? not just that, but: 9/11 wasn't the first foreign terrorist attack on US soil to kill people, nor was it the first time a terrorist attacked the WTC specifically, nor was it the first time a plane crashed into the WTC specifically. it seems like 9/11 was turned into a much bigger deal than it needed to be specifically to justify a bunch of things that various politicians wanted to do but didn't have a good excuse for -- that it primarily served to lower the bar on what could be legally justified.
on april 1st, my employer made a change to their VPN system globally that locked out everyone who wasn't using the (famously buggy & security-hole-ridden) cisco anyconnect client on (also famously buggy and security-hole-ridden) windows. so, this morning, every mac & linux user was unable to do any work for the first few hours of the day, as we tried to find workarounds.
Our Strange Skies: UFOs Throughout History - 133: The History of Alien Abductions, Part 5: The Andreasson Affair with Stepha... https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hdWRpb2Jvb20uY29tL2NoYW5uZWxzLzUwNDE0MjEucnNz/episode/YzhjM2VhODgtN2YxOS0xMWVkLTg4MjctYmYzYTY4Y2UyZDJk?ep=14
The Only Illustrated Ancient Gnostic Manual of Mystical Ascent After Death - The Two Books of Jeu - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhGXgegKeSI
Band name of the day: invokation of my divine double
protip: if you want performance, the biggest performance impact is probably not language choice, but some third party dependency doing something in n^3 time instead of linear time because it was written by somebody who didn't care about performance. the easiest way to get performant code is just to write things yourself & do it in a sensible way. this is how, for instance, i replaced 800 lines of java on a 40-node map-reduce cluster with an awk one-liner running on my first generation asus netbook & had it run hundreds of times faster.
for some reason, my company's pay increases all happen on april fool's day...
How I Paid My Rent by Publishing the Most Disgusting Things on the Internet https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2015/12/my-life-as-an-atrocity-tour-guide.html
How E-girl influencers are trying to get Gen Z into the military | Dazed https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/57878/1/the-era-of-military-funded-e-girl-warfare-army-influencers-tiktok
Random link from the archives: "THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF THE INVISIBLE THIRD MEME – ALIENIST MANIFESTO" https://web.archive.org/web/20190821121538/https://alienistmanifesto.wordpress.com/2019/08/20/the-mysterious-case-of-the-invisible-third-meme/ originally retrieved Wed Aug 21 12:15:38 EDT 2019
i should do my part to distinguish between 'a shitty transfer' and 'a transfer from shitty footage'
I Tried (and Failed) to Make the YouTube Algorithm Bend To My Will https://tedium.co/2023/02/28/elliott-smith-youtube-algorithm-experiment/
reason #7963794 i shouldn't ever become a manager: we're having a sprint planning meeting & the PM + BAs are struggling to figure out which parts of a set of mutually entangled tickets to move to which upcoming sprint, and my answer was 'who cares? just mark tickets as done when you finish them, no matter what sprint they are in'. direct experience has proven to me that sprint planning is always so wrong as to be useless, and the approximately six hours per week we spend arguing about it seems totally wasted; were it up to me, i would simply lie to middle management & tell them that whatever we happened to finish was exactly what we planned to work on, because developers are in a better position to know what features should be implemented when than product & project management -- information that only comes to light once you've got your head totally immersed in the relevant corner of the code.
i got a bunch of emails indicating that somebody used my email at, like, a funeral home to organize a memorial service? (i have not attended any funerals lately.)
Random link from the archives: "Error 406 - Not Acceptable" https://web.archive.org/web/20220108153702/https://contrarymagazine.com/2021/the-myth-of-change/ originally retrieved Sat 08 Jan 2022 03:37:02 PM EST
GitHub - paulfioravanti/steno-dictionaries: My personal Plover-theory stenography dictionaries. https://github.com/paulfioravanti/steno-dictionaries
Band name of the day: the purity of my instrument
Random link from the archives: "Garfield phones beach mystery finally solved after 35 years - BBC News" https://web.archive.org/web/20190401090924/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47732553 originally retrieved Mon Apr 1 09:09:24 EDT 2019
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20210901120247/https://subconscious.substack.com/p/a-kardashev-scale-for-interfaces?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMjk3MzIsInBvc3RfaWQiOjM5OTMyNjUwLCJfIjoiTVh6QWsiLCJpYXQiOjE2Mjk5OTQ5MTksImV4cCI6MTYyOTk5ODUxOSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTMwNzk5MyIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.CToF_k0flmlO7Ir2W3iruQPwzXoZLayc3m9MUqeh1IE originally retrieved Wed 01 Sep 2021 12:02:47 PM EDT
it's blowing my mind that johnny mnemonic came out before new rose hotel
Random link from the archives: "Do my Homework - Charlie's Diary" https://web.archive.org/web/20180924091912/http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/09/do-my-homework.html originally retrieved Mon Sep 24 09:19:12 EDT 2018
Random link from the archives: "Gore Screaming Show, Trauma, and Growing Up (or: GSS is My 2006 GOTY) - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20230123202531/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CxxK9NTphM originally retrieved Mon 23 Jan 2023 08:25:31 PM EST
"Chainsaw Man Is A COMMERCIAL FAILURE" | Anime Mythbusters #7 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k97C_f9aj3M
i took two semesters of russian & i can't even remember whether or not the language has articles... that's how hard it yeeted out of my brain
Random link from the archives: "Basket Case | Anatomy of a Franchise - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20210525094653/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F_JEx4EI1g originally retrieved Tue 25 May 2021 09:46:53 AM EDT
A New Drug Switched Off My Appetite. What’s Left? | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/new-drug-switched-off-appetite-mounjaro/
i really dig watching things like manben, & i think doing so improves my drawing skills in subtle ways, because what i've realized over time is that once you have the fine motor skills to make correct drawing motions, a lot of the challenge of drawing is similar to the challenge of programming -- that the sense you have of a complete image of the finished work in your head is illusory & certain details won't be considered until you're actively doing the thing. watching professionals reason about how to draw complex scenes adds to the database of things i've never considered might possibly need extra consideration, as well as the database of possible solutions/decisions/tools.
Random link from the archives: "Thread by @GalaxyKate: "Do you know this book (grapefruit, by Yoko Ono)? I've been reading it and profoundly affecting my bot-making. Art appreciation and bot-makin […]"" https://web.archive.org/web/20180523102628/https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/999110758305882112.html?refreshed=yes originally retrieved Wed May 23 10:26:28 EDT 2018
Random link from the archives: "Lyotard or Marx? The Evil Legacy of 'Libidinal Economy' - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20220920105206/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Opu6yggeYA originally retrieved Tue 20 Sep 2022 10:52:06 AM EDT
Random link from the archives: "The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture | The New Yorker" https://web.archive.org/web/20181024094547/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/29/the-myth-of-whiteness-in-classical-sculpture originally retrieved Wed Oct 24 09:45:47 EDT 2018
Band name of the day: gloomy elaborate whining
Of course the attention economy is threatened by the Fediverse – Jon Udell https://blog.jonudell.net/2023/01/19/of-course-the-attention-economy-is-threatened-by-the-fediverse/
Random link from the archives: "The Anime Nostalgia Podcast: Debunking the Myth of Naoko Takeuchi having "no friends"." https://web.archive.org/web/20210714171512/http://animenostalgia.blogspot.com/2021/07/debunking-myth-of-naoko-takeuchi-having.html originally retrieved Wed 14 Jul 2021 05:15:12 PM EDT
Random link from the archives: "Inside the global gig economy of werewolf erotica on platforms like Dreame, GoodNovel and Amazon Kindle Vella - Rest of World" https://web.archive.org/web/20220727083516/https://restofworld.org/2022/china-romance-novels/ originally retrieved Wed 27 Jul 2022 08:35:16 AM EDT
Gore Screaming Show, Trauma, and Growing Up (or: GSS is My 2006 GOTY) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CxxK9NTphM
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200618073756/https://scribe.rip/p/parseint-mystery-7c4368ef7b21 originally retrieved Thu Jun 18 07:37:56 EDT 2020
my new blu-ray player has netflix and youtube so i wonder if i can put shudder and crunchyroll on it too. (they weren't in the app list)
‘My AI Is Sexually Harassing Me’: Replika Users Say the Chatbot Has Gotten Way Too Horny https://www.vice.com/en/article/z34d43/my-ai-is-sexually-harassing-me-replika-chatbot-nudes
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20220209095452/https://scribe.rip/p/i-was-more-than-a-bit-surprised-when-i-got-off-a-plane-on-saturday-and-switched-on-my-phone-to-find-b57534c6c64e originally retrieved Wed 09 Feb 2022 09:54:52 AM EST
Arts and AI: Being Authentic to Intent by J Curcio https://modernmythology.net/arts-and-ai-being-authentic-to-intent-95bc1c000b14
Random link from the archives: "Mark Fisher | Acid Communism (Unfinished Introduction) – BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))" https://web.archive.org/web/20210507111734/https://my-blackout.com/2019/04/25/mark-fisher-acid-communism-unfinished-introduction/ originally retrieved Fri 07 May 2021 11:17:34 AM EDT
I am once again asking you how a stillness is like an anatomy?
i don't get why people keep asking my new year's resolution. it's the same as always: 1024x768
Random link from the archives: "The Legacy of Japan’s Bubble Economy "Juppies" - InsideHook" https://web.archive.org/web/20200528092835/https://www.insidehook.com/article/news-opinion/japan-bubble-economy-juppies originally retrieved Thu May 28 09:28:35 EDT 2020
My Dick - My Dick's Double Full-Length Release (2012 Album) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUOmL7UPfFA&ab_channel=BLOODYRAIN10001
William Blake's Prophetic & Mystical Mythology - Analysis of The Book of Urizen & its Gnostic Myth - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXN2CRpWAzU
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20220209112612/https://scribe.rip/p/monogamy-an-evolution-a-revelation-and-an-attempted-revolt-8a8f72287a57 originally retrieved Wed 09 Feb 2022 11:26:12 AM EST
Random link from the archives: "The Left Brain/Right Brain Divide is a Myth" https://web.archive.org/web/20211026185208/https://scribe.rip/p/why-science-like-art-is-the-practice-of-imagination-in-a-straightjacket-7532ee6b5363 originally retrieved Tue 26 Oct 2021 06:52:08 PM EDT
Random link from the archives: "Scrubs, My Retrospective - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20220829100140/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrJhXzpBwYY originally retrieved Mon 29 Aug 2022 10:01:40 AM EDT
Random link from the archives: "MYTH OF THE AUTEUR: Stanley Kubrick & David Lynch - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20210622165711/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr65ZIWoD6c originally retrieved Tue 22 Jun 2021 04:57:11 PM EDT
My boyfriend, a writer, broke up with me because I’m a writer | Relationships | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/dec/05/my-boyfriend-a-writer-broke-up-with-me-because-im-a-writer?fbclid=PAAabTOPttQXI-l5NzsKrS4oIwJP3hnDMJP8YuQDhq6AW3GTsNPMB74875lMU
What is the Philosophers Stone? Introduction to Alchemy in Theory and Practice - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWGsVzWV_i4
Casablanca At 80: It Should NEVER Have Worked But I'm So Glad It Did - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adMpK9MdDmY
goth christmas / i gave you my heart / the very next day / you ate it
Random link from the archives: "Just About Everything We Know About the Pard - Atlas Obscura" https://web.archive.org/web/20171020102722/https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pard-big-cat-mythology-leopard-lion-taxonomy originally retrieved Fri Oct 20 10:27:22 EDT 2017
Popular writing manuals that are actually pretty bad and should be avoided: Story by Robert McKee (meandering and abstract), On Writing by Stephen King (not really a writing manual), Writing for Interactive Media by Jon Samsel (unimaginative and obsessed with the limitations of mid-90s tech and market forces), any of the many writing manuals by Kevin J. Anderson (advice only applicable if you happen to be Kevin J. Anderson), Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose (10% good advice, 20% repetition, 70% complaining about Kids These Days Being Too Woke), Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg (contains exactly one piece of writing advice -- to trick yourself into writing -- repeated for 200 pages, interspersed with completely unrelated anecdotes about hanging out with some cult leader), Writing Fiction by Janet Burroway and Susan Weinberg (indulges too much in emotional bullshit to the exclusion of actionable advice, and more than half the pages are just reprinted short stories you've already read in high school english), The Anatomy of Story by John Truby (a mix of extremely abstract & confusing models & weird sweeping political shit)
it's not until i decide to skip my daily standup that i realize how much (and how reliably) it saps my energy. like, all week i've barely been able to write a single line of code, because i get up and go into a meeting at 7:30 AM and as soon as it's over i'm ready for bed again, exhausted for the whole rest of the day. i skip the meeting today and i clear all my open tickets in like 20 minutes.
so i switched my twitter account to (almost entirely) automated generated image posts (at a high rate) in order to help fill twitter's disks with low-value content, and ironically i got a bunch of new followers & a substantially higher engagement rate. this tells you everything you need to know about the incentive dynamics of twitter tbh
Random link from the archives: "Mob Psycho 100 - My Favourite Anime - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20190224113806/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-DyIWF0h-8 originally retrieved Sun Feb 24 11:38:06 EST 2019
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20220214154325/https://scribe.rip/p/you-cant-escape-the-attention-economy-97fda03f9d45 originally retrieved Mon 14 Feb 2022 03:43:25 PM EST
every wint (@dril) tweet (URL: MyFamilyIsDying.com) (Now Featuring bandit [@UtilityLimb], and how!) - Google Sheets https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1juZ8Dzx-hVCDx_JLVOKI1eHzBlURHd7u6dqkb3F8q4w/edit#gid=0
'when i post something popular my server gets slashdotted' is a problem with the client-server model (which is inherently centralizing and privileges resource-rich hosts, because nobody else can afford to be popular), and any 'solution' that doesn't break the association between host and content is short-sighted. if you don't want to transition to full p2p (hard with activitypub with the dependence on domain names), you can switch to store-and-forward (figure out which peers are federated with each other, and instead of requesting from the originating server directly, send your request to a randomly selected peer that federates from it, and do the same for any request for a peer you can't fulfill, but if you get two identical requests that you can't fulfill, fall back to fetching from the origin). store and forward makes federation delays marginally worse when every node is accessible & healthy, but it spreads activity more evenly throughout the network so that single popular nodes don't get slashdotted (and so that popularity correlates with redundancy) -- so everybody needs to store their federated feed a little longer, but the whole network is more reliable and, furthermore, more tolerant of temporary node outages.
Random link from the archives: "Mysteries of the Unknown and the Unknowable" https://web.archive.org/web/20220201202220/https://www.erichgrunewald.com/posts/mysteries-of-the-unknown-the-unknowable/ originally retrieved Tue 01 Feb 2022 08:22:20 PM EST
when i played call of cthulhu, i made a character that was supposed to mimic a standard lovecraft protagonist: as physically weak as possible, but with academic-related stuff maxxed out, and played as somebody who has a giant inferiority/superiority complex that leads him to impulsively get into fights he's bound to lose. but because the enemies in call of cthulhu are so much more powerful than all the human characters, a human with the absolute minimum physical build isn't that much worse at fighting than somebody who has maxed it out, and anybody who keeps getting into fights levels up their physique pretty fast. one of the people in the game called my character 'conan the librarian'.
I am once again asking you how a windfall is like an infamy?
Random link from the archives: "You Can't Solve The Gender Gap In Tech If You Don't Understand Why It Exists" https://web.archive.org/web/20190307103511/https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/reshmasaujani/tech-gender-gap-pipeline-myth originally retrieved Thu Mar 7 10:35:11 EST 2019
Random link from the archives: "Grading is a Scam (and Motivation is a Myth) | A Professor Explains - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20210525141201/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe-SZ_FPZew originally retrieved Tue 25 May 2021 02:12:01 PM EDT
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200920005952/https://scribe.rip/p/the-mad-fox-1962-blu-ray-arrow-academy-4bf6ca4fd729 originally retrieved Sun Sep 20 00:59:52 EDT 2020
Random link from the archives: "The Mysterious Discipline of Narratologists: Why We Need Stories to Make Sense | Tor.com" https://web.archive.org/web/20190205121540/https://www.tor.com/2019/01/29/the-mysterious-discipline-of-narratologists/ originally retrieved Tue Feb 5 12:15:40 EST 2019
I Emailed My Doctor 133 Times: The Crisis In the British Healthcare System - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1eWIshUzr8
Random link from the archives: "On The Casual Sociopathy of The Traditional Mystery | CrimeReads" https://web.archive.org/web/20200130101555/https://crimereads.com/on-the-casual-sociopathy-of-the-traditional-mystery/ originally retrieved Thu Jan 30 10:15:55 EST 2020
GuideToMastodon/README.md at main · joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon · GitHub https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon/blob/main/README.md#how-do-i-establish-my-brands-presence-on-mastodon
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200619061911/https://scribe.rip/p/the-story-my-male-editors-kept-killing-e0e8c71a47ec originally retrieved Fri Jun 19 06:19:11 EDT 2020
tubeway army era gary numan was as edgy as joy division, as electronic as new order, as nerdy as yes, as dark as king crimson, and as openly and flagrantly cringe as pretty hate machine era nine inch nails or don't be afraid era information society, and it's no wonder trent reznor is a fan
as somebody who is very into ufos and sumerian mythology, i really wanted to love The Fourth Kind, and instead it turned out to be... just okay. the parts i hated the most were when they flubbed either ufo shit or mesopotamian shit, but hearing reviews from people who don't know shit about either ufos or ancient mesopotamia, apparently they got even less enjoyment out of it?
right now, i've got periodic random links every 4 hours on twitter and masto but a roundup of ~20 random links daily on ssb. i originally decided to do it this way because my home fedi node had a ~500 character post limit & ssb's limit was much longer, and because ssb has a culture of longer posts at a slower rate. now that eldritch.cafe has an extremely high post length limit, should i post daily link roundups on masto instead?
The small things Manifesto " ~ajroach42.com " I'm Andrew. I write about the past and future of tech, music, media, culture, art, and activism. This is my blog. https://ajroach42.com/the-small-things-manifesto/
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20180909232243/https://scribe.rip/p/on-my-reading-of-slavoj-%C5%BEi%C5%BEek-3dfb569cd60e originally retrieved Sun Sep 9 23:22:43 EDT 2018
one of my character flaws is that, whenever someone says something i already know, i get slightly offended (as though they are implying i don't know the thing). this is more of a problem than it might otherwise be, because i went down wiki holes 12 hours a day for like 10 years, & devoured trivia books for a decade before that...
I am once again asking you how an infamy is like an earnestness?
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20210722132605/https://subconscious.substack.com/p/open-ended-tools-for-infinite-games?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMjk3MzIsInBvc3RfaWQiOjM4MjY5NjI4LCJfIjoiTVh6QWsiLCJpYXQiOjE2MjU5MzY5MDEsImV4cCI6MTYyNTk0MDUwMSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTMwNzk5MyIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.lxxCXQ9XOqNb4OCFdBEtqVQa4oRrPmpUU87Q4iLfO9o originally retrieved Thu 22 Jul 2021 01:26:05 PM EDT
Bad idea of the day: vampire as parasitic-sea-sponge: fangs are fruiting bodies used for reproduction, and the puncture holes made by the bite become the combination mouth-anus of the creature, which gets most of its nutrition from filtering the host's blood. so under stress, the vampire's neck holes will, like, gape. soon after reproduction, the host (now something like 40% mycelium by weight) is liquidated for remaining nutrients, forming a deposit of star jelly
Origins and Mysticism of the Death Drive in Psychoanalysis & the Philosophy of Transgression - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuHwws5aXBE
Random link from the archives: "American Mythology - The Simpsons | Renegade Cut - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20200312190226/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbTL_vuDuOQ originally retrieved Thu Mar 12 19:02:26 EDT 2020
The Witch and Witchcraft in Popular Demonology - Foundational Depictions of Witches in Early Print - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MgxgurwMYA
Random link from the archives: "Nate Cull: "I guess the question that occupies my mind a lot …" - Mastodon" https://web.archive.org/web/20200930193352/https://mastodon.social/@natecull/104862899327236619 originally retrieved Wed Sep 30 19:33:52 EDT 2020
Random link from the archives: "The Mystery of Mamo | KYOTO VIDEO - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20220729164733/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVXrPXdghHQ originally retrieved Fri 29 Jul 2022 04:47:33 PM EDT
Random link from the archives: "302 Found" https://web.archive.org/web/20190801131829/https://modernmythology.net/a-rose-by-any-other-name-would-smell-just-the-same-says-the-poet-5b5acb61a709 originally retrieved Thu Aug 1 13:18:29 EDT 2019
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200304222204/https://scribe.rip/p/my-year-of-not-buying-books-54e4c8f99615 originally retrieved Wed Mar 4 22:22:04 EST 2020
Random link from the archives: "The Mysterious Origins of the Angel Metatron from the 3rd Book of Enoch - Sefer Hekhalot Mysticism - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20220624190731/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-VGkaqDxbY originally retrieved Fri 24 Jun 2022 07:07:31 PM EDT
Random link from the archives: "Secretly Public Domain" https://web.archive.org/web/20190802104412/https://www.crummy.com/2019/07/22/0 originally retrieved Fri Aug 2 10:44:12 EDT 2019
Cross Game Review: Break My Heart With A Baseball Bat - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cbch-oprv4
one of the downsides of blocking bad-faith shit from all my feeds is that i get into this headspace where i feel like bad-faith argumentation is rare, easily identified, easily avoided, toothless, and ineffective -- forgetting that i've spent literally years doing daily maintenance to produce a space with those characteristics. based on the accounts of... pretty much everybody, it seems like the norm is to be absolutely inundated with it all the time and manipulated by it despite yourself, because your ability to resist blatant emotional manipulation has been worn down through exposure.
Bad idea of the day: a 'hunting' game that's actually primarily about dressing, skinning, tanning hides, taxidermy, etc., and where the 'hunting' portion's skill progression is largely about making as few holes as possible, making them small, and putting them in places you'd be cutting anyway.
Someone’s Been Messing With My Subnormals! https://moyix.blogspot.com/2022/09/someones-been-messing-with-my-subnormals.html
How Capitalism Really Started | Machine God - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYYG08R1bRM
i'm seeing wuthering heights all over my feed last couple days. is it because of kate bush?
Infinite Images and the latent camera " Herndon Dryhurst Studio https://mirror.xyz/herndondryhurst.eth/eZG6mucl9fqU897XvJs0vUUMnm5OITpSWN8S-6KWamY
Lyotard or Marx? The Evil Legacy of 'Libidinal Economy' - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Opu6yggeYA
Random link from the archives: "The Sinister Origins of the Peanut Butter-Dog-Vagina Myth" https://web.archive.org/web/20200710122956/https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/peanut-butter-dog-vagina-myth originally retrieved Fri Jul 10 12:29:56 EDT 2020
The Viable Systems Model, and where my team fits – Jessitron https://jessitron.com/2022/08/28/the-viable-systems-model-and-where-my-team-fits/
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20220209091051/https://scribe.rip/p/announcing-my-new-project-50-years-of-text-games-dbe47e6bda35 originally retrieved Wed 09 Feb 2022 09:10:51 AM EST
Random link from the archives: "The Real-Life History Behind My Favorite New Shoujo Anime - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20210803172314/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmY8xa6DT90 originally retrieved Tue 03 Aug 2021 05:23:14 PM EDT
Random link from the archives: "Why My Hero Academia's Simplistic Characterization is a GOOD Thing - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20170602131116/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svNRFnmPbWo originally retrieved Fri Jun 2 13:11:16 EDT 2017
which movie from my childhood heavy rotation screwed me up the most: weird science, mannequin & mannequin 2, repo man, IQ, or young einstein?
comcast sent me a letter saying they were 'switching [me] to paperless' and that they'd email me my bill. now, i never gave them my email, because i know how they behave with my phone number -- calling and texting at least once a month to try to sell me some scam shit. so i try to log into my account, which was never set up because of course it fucking wasn't. and the whole website just... doesn't work on chrome. open up firefox, find out their 'verification' is to type in my address in a specific format that they don't provide. get locked out of the password resetting thing. tells me to call them. i know from experience: if i call them, i spend 20 minutes listening to hold music before somebody comes on, fails to solve any of my problems, and tries to sell me some scam shit. anyway, if they don't get paid it's their own damned fault now.
Someone stole my truck. I got a crash course on the wild black market for stolen cars : Planet Money : NPR https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2022/08/23/1118457271/someone-stole-my-truck-i-got-a-crash-course-on-the-wild-black-market-for-stolen-
Storming the Ivory Tower: To Watch All My Heroes Sell A Car On TV https://www.stormingtheivorytower.com/2022/08/to-watch-all-my-heroes-sell-car-on-tv.html
Random link from the archives: "This House Is Still Haunted: An Essay In Seven Gables - Dilettante Army" https://web.archive.org/web/20220228120646/https://dilettantearmy.com/articles/this-house-is-still-haunted originally retrieved Mon 28 Feb 2022 12:06:46 PM EST
Zer0 Classics: Mark Fisher's 'Ghosts of My Life' with Simon Reynolds - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH_TDcT49PA
Scrubs, My Retrospective - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrJhXzpBwYY
my ideal movie is, basically, interstella 5555 (i.e., a 2+ hour music video) if instead of daft punk it was claudio simonetti and instead of drawing on captain harlock it was just atmospheric tracking shots of early to mid 20th century architecture lit with colored gels
stupid take i heard once that lives in my head rent-free: "cowboy bebop is fun and all but i don't think any anime will ever approach the depth and polish of game of thrones"
Random link from the archives: "302 Found" https://web.archive.org/web/20180602131453/https://modernmythology.net/invisible-architecture-iii-e30d6add047d originally retrieved Sat Jun 2 13:14:53 EDT 2018
Random link from the archives: "Thread by @mykola: A relational database represents an ontology of the data it contains. It is a graph, not a tree -- everything is defined in terms of everyth…" https://web.archive.org/web/20200709084811/https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1281203896384393216.html originally retrieved Thu Jul 9 08:48:11 EDT 2020
André Staltz - The Myth of Mass Collaboration https://staltz.com/the-myth-of-mass-collaboration.html
Historical, Mythological & Social Origins of the Satanic Panic and How it Nearly Destroyed My Life - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgmPQGWn8pI
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200613014758/https://scribe.rip/p/flattening-the-curve-and-expanding-my-understanding-70a6c1fb671e originally retrieved Sat Jun 13 01:47:58 EDT 2020
Lovecraft & the Occult - Historical & Literary Influences on the Cthulhu Mythos & Necronomicon - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQt5DQP_UqQ
Gloomy Sunday: History and Legend with B. Rae Grosz - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9092GFAyfys
A New HOPE (2022): Botnets are the Best Way to Measure User-Hostile Behavior on the Internet - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0hYJ-1nmYM
Random link from the archives: "> My mom isn’t dumb, but she has not and never had any interest in learning how tech works." https://web.archive.org/web/20211202181204/https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/my-mom-isnt-dumb-but-she-has-not-and-never-had-any-interest-in-learning-how-tech-works-52bbedf70c82 originally retrieved Thu 02 Dec 2021 06:12:04 PM EST
Random link from the archives: "Understanding Losing My Religion - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20190803172947/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0FrjJyuXHY originally retrieved Sat Aug 3 17:29:47 EDT 2019
A Chemical Hunger " Part I: Mysteries – SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/07/a-chemical-hunger-part-i-mysteries/
Random link from the archives: "The Myth and Magic of Generating New Ideas | The New Yorker" https://web.archive.org/web/20191113103725/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/the-myth-and-magic-of-generating-new-ideas originally retrieved Wed Nov 13 10:37:25 EST 2019
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20210804162814/https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/what-should-we-make-of-sasha-chapins?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMjk3MzIsInBvc3RfaWQiOjM5NDQ5MzAzLCJfIjoiTVh6QWsiLCJpYXQiOjE2MjgxMDg3MjAsImV4cCI6MTYyODExMjMyMCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTg5MTIwIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.qrVm3a8vGiAm2h1m3dJolijL_VR0BDT-gLZ2nYjP-yE originally retrieved Wed 04 Aug 2021 04:28:14 PM EDT
Random link from the archives: "Can't Help Myself & The Death of the Author - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20220125193923/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJp-pOazCAg originally retrieved Tue 25 Jan 2022 07:39:23 PM EST
Random link from the archives: "Cammy - Esolang" https://web.archive.org/web/20211116110628/https://esolangs.org/wiki/Cammy originally retrieved Tue 16 Nov 2021 11:06:28 AM EST
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20220209123358/https://scribe.rip/p/decolonization-and-alienation-why-i-find-my-peers-politics-unrelatable-6de743a7471f originally retrieved Wed 09 Feb 2022 12:33:58 PM EST
The Mystery of Mamo | KYOTO VIDEO - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVXrPXdghHQ
Lots of my stuff is on sale for #itchio creator day: https://itch.io/s/74888/july-2022-creator-day ; get MfoM now and be prepared for BotD when it comes out.
Lots of my stuff is on sale for #itchio creator day: https://itch.io/s/74888/july-2022-creator-day ; get MfoM now and be prepared for BotD when it comes out.
Lots of my stuff is on sale for #itchio creator day: https://itch.io/s/74888/july-2022-creator-day ; get MfoM now and be prepared for BotD when it comes out.
Inside the global gig economy of werewolf erotica on platforms like Dreame, GoodNovel and Amazon Kindle Vella - Rest of World https://restofworld.org/2022/china-romance-novels/
Arcadia of My Youth: On Captain Harlock and Romanticism | KYOTO VIDEO - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LPX-0K217s
my dead girlfriend - Hades (the Nine Stages of Change at the Deceased Remains) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXT4OdGw57s
Random link from the archives: "Jordan Peterson & Fascist Mysticism | by Pankaj Mishra | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books" https://web.archive.org/web/20180323130003/http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/03/19/jordan-peterson-and-fascist-mysticism/ originally retrieved Fri Mar 23 13:00:03 EDT 2018
Psychedelic Therapy Needs to Confront the Mystical https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgz3wn/psychedelic-therapy-needs-to-confront-the-mystical
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20210901120247/https://subconscious.substack.com/p/a-kardashev-scale-for-interfaces?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMjk3MzIsInBvc3RfaWQiOjM5OTMyNjUwLCJfIjoiTVh6QWsiLCJpYXQiOjE2Mjk5OTQ5MTksImV4cCI6MTYyOTk5ODUxOSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTMwNzk5MyIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.CToF_k0flmlO7Ir2W3iruQPwzXoZLayc3m9MUqeh1IE originally retrieved Wed 01 Sep 2021 12:02:47 PM EDT
I'm about to stream some of my gamedev work at http://twitch.tv/enkiv2
This Mystical Book Was Co-Authored by a Disturbingly Realistic AI https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kbjvb/this-magickal-grimoire-was-co-authored-by-a-disturbingly-realistic-ai
dracula is pretty messy in places, but i'm pleasantly surprised: it's a good book, packed with resonant imagery (only a fraction of which has shown up in film adaptations) and incredibly restrained. the epistolary elements are almost borderline experimental. my one serious complaint is the profusion of eye-dialect
Random link from the archives: "Introduction to Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism - Part 4 - Jewish Magic - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20210818141303/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvng8vCsvi0 originally retrieved Wed 18 Aug 2021 02:13:03 PM EDT
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20220209103802/https://scribe.rip/p/how-i-decide-between-python-2-and-3-for-my-projects-fdc7506e1d2 originally retrieved Wed 09 Feb 2022 10:38:02 AM EST
My awakening moment about how smartphones fragment our attention span Journey away from smartphones | I'd Rather Be Writing Blog https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/awakening-moment-to-how-smartphones-fragment-our-attention/
Random link from the archives: "My Body Is Not a Temple" https://web.archive.org/web/20200417125756/https://longreads.com/2020/04/16/my-body-is-not-a-temple/?mc_cid=cdd5a6f778&mc_eid=2008f73199 originally retrieved Fri Apr 17 12:57:56 EDT 2020
Random link from the archives: "I Tried to Live Like Joe Rogan - The Atlantic" https://web.archive.org/web/20190819091848/https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/08/my-joe-rogan-experience/594802/ originally retrieved Mon Aug 19 09:18:48 EDT 2019
Random link from the archives: "Modern, functional Common Lisp: Myths and tips" https://web.archive.org/web/20200225100824/https://ambrevar.xyz/modern-common-lisp/index.html originally retrieved Tue Feb 25 10:08:24 EST 2020
reading go nagai manga makes me feel better about my own drawing skills -- like, 90% of the time he draws a face it comes out wonky, anatomy is all over the place, and yet he pioneered like half of the most popular genres in anime
The Mysterious Origins of the Angel Metatron from the 3rd Book of Enoch - Sefer Hekhalot Mysticism - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-VGkaqDxbY
Random link from the archives: "What Am I Worth to Advertisers? My Obsessive Quest to Put a Price on My Attention" https://web.archive.org/web/20180816142615/https://gizmodo.com/what-am-i-worth-to-advertisers-my-obsessive-quest-to-p-1828343202 originally retrieved Thu Aug 16 14:26:15 EDT 2018
Random link from the archives: "How spammy sites that rip off obits end up running ads from major brands" https://web.archive.org/web/20211110145459/https://www.morningbrew.com/marketing/stories/2021/11/08/how-spammy-sites-that-rip-off-obituaries-suck-up-ad-dollars-from-major-brands originally retrieved Wed 10 Nov 2021 02:54:59 PM EST
my favorite piece of visionary apophatic poetry is 'seether' by veruca salt, followed by 'planet telex' by radiohead
Do We Need Ethical Principles? Richard Rorty (1994) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDAdveMYHFs
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20190816171923/https://scribe.rip/p/in-my-culture-29c6464072b2 originally retrieved Fri Aug 16 17:19:23 EDT 2019
Old Copper Culture: North America's Forgotten Metal Workers - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpmMY_Rcbd8
Random link from the archives: "The Creepy, Insane, and Undeniably Romantic World of Cryonics - Tonic" https://web.archive.org/web/20171107131017/https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/gv78my/the-creepy-insane-and-undeniably-romantic-world-of-cryonics originally retrieved Tue Nov 7 13:10:17 EST 2017
Before My Sharona: How Power Pop Became Power Pop - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRVnp7FC7ok
Random link from the archives: "Millennial mysticism: why contemporary poets are turning to the occult" https://web.archive.org/web/20190118111924/https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2019/01/Spells-21st-Century-Occult-Poetry-review originally retrieved Fri Jan 18 11:19:24 EST 2019
Random link from the archives: "Neil Young & Devo - Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) [LaserDisc Excerpt] - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20211229225759/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VimyH1uoZt0 originally retrieved Wed 29 Dec 2021 10:57:59 PM EST
Random link from the archives: "My Body Is Not a Temple" https://web.archive.org/web/20200417125756/https://longreads.com/2020/04/16/my-body-is-not-a-temple/?mc_cid=cdd5a6f778&mc_eid=2008f73199 originally retrieved Fri Apr 17 12:57:56 EDT 2020
Random link from the archives: "Sherlock Holmes Music History: Elementary, My Dear Soundtrack" https://web.archive.org/web/20200531133527/https://tedium.co/2020/05/29/sherlock-holmes-music/ originally retrieved Sun May 31 13:35:27 EDT 2020
Random link from the archives: "Unemployment, inflation, and what’s happening in the economy are uncertain - Vox" https://web.archive.org/web/20210518102611/https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22435400/economy-unemployment-inflation originally retrieved Tue 18 May 2021 10:26:11 AM EDT
A Bleed of Blue | Amy Key | Granta https://granta.com/a-bleed-of-blue/
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200319161442/https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/i-dont-remember-writing-this-but-it-looks-exactly-like-my-writing-style-1faf3ef0b394 originally retrieved Thu Mar 19 16:14:42 EDT 2020
Random link from the archives: "Demystifying JOIN Algorithms" https://web.archive.org/web/20190225091218/http://blog.felipe.rs/2019/01/29/demystifying-join-algorithms/ originally retrieved Mon Feb 25 09:12:18 EST 2019
there is a rock in my house - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RkzOAlLBg4
This Indie Horror Movie is a Grade A Mindf*ck - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN29HmyuS5w
i'd say that romance-comedy anime is bad for my mental health but honestly i can't blame media for poking sensitivities that get poked by themselves all the time anyway
i had been keeping my in-progress book out of revision control, knowing that amazon pays a bigger cut if you check a box saying it's amazon-exclusive when making stuff in KDP, but last night i said fuck it & checked everything in. i make a couple bucks a year from the books i already released, and 30% vs 70% doesn't matter at that scale. it's not worth the inconvenience & risk to make an extra fifty cents.
my rule of thumb when it comes to my own creative works is: the amount of money or attention any of this is going to net anybody is negligable, so i'm creating 100% for my own amusement; as a result, i get to be as self-indulgent as i like, & i can quit whenever it stops being fun
I no longer grade my students' work " and I wish I had stopped sooner https://theconversation.com/i-no-longer-grade-my-students-work-and-i-wish-i-had-stopped-sooner-179617
My Hunt For A Nearly Lost 90s Anime - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4yyD7G5SUs
Random link from the archives: "You Can't Solve The Gender Gap In Tech If You Don't Understand Why It Exists" https://web.archive.org/web/20190307103511/https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/reshmasaujani/tech-gender-gap-pipeline-myth originally retrieved Thu Mar 7 10:35:11 EST 2019
my favorite podcasting trend is where horror podcasts have the 'what have you been watching' section expand to like an hour & the ostensible subject of each episode just gets smushed into the last 20 minutes
Random link from the archives: "A Taxonomy of Tech Debt | Riot Games Engineering" https://web.archive.org/web/20180411075919/https://engineering.riotgames.com/news/taxonomy-tech-debt originally retrieved Wed Apr 11 07:59:19 EDT 2018
Humanizing the DSM's Definition of Autism · Public Neurodiversity Support Center https://coda.io/@mykola-bilokonsky/public-neurodiversity-support-center/humanizing-the-dsms-definition-of-autism-98
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200306062427/https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/i-dont-see-how-rust-s-design-is-compatible-with-any-of-my-suggestions-f34687127a0f originally retrieved Fri Mar 6 06:24:27 EST 2020
Resurrect Dead - The mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (2011) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYTK6QicICo
it always takes me like 10 minutes to remember the term 'brussels sprouts' because growing up my mom always called them by their french name, 'petits chuts', & so i find actually-bilingual people really impressive for being able to hold a conversation in any language at all
Random link from the archives: "GitHub - dmytrostriletskyi/8-bit-computer-memory-init: Initialize the 8-bit computer memory with a program to be executed automatically on powering." https://web.archive.org/web/20210602100329/https://github.com/dmytrostriletskyi/8-bit-computer-memory-init originally retrieved Wed 02 Jun 2021 10:03:29 AM EDT
Campus free speech crisis: Its myths and its realities. https://slate.com/human-interest/2022/04/campus-free-speech-crisis-myths-realities.html
damn, i'm doing a lot more shooting my shot lately. taking risks. they're all failing miserably but for some reason i'm not stopping like usual. this is scary.
feel your feelings & all, but sometimes your feelings are fuckin' stupid and you should keep them to yourself. at least that's what i'm telling myself
Alternative Anatomies - with Stelarc and Nina Sellars | Virtual Futures Salon - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWm-32gkOMY
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20220209095452/https://scribe.rip/p/i-was-more-than-a-bit-surprised-when-i-got-off-a-plane-on-saturday-and-switched-on-my-phone-to-find-b57534c6c64e originally retrieved Wed 09 Feb 2022 09:54:52 AM EST
Wtch This: Unravelling the Mystery Behind a Secret YouTube URL https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7d8g8/youtube-mystery-custom-urls
Random link from the archives: "“Who’s quoting this?”: Synchromystic Language, Narrative and Metatextuality in Hellier – The House of Alexander" https://web.archive.org/web/20200829173610/http://houseofalexander.wiki/whos-quoting-this originally retrieved Sat Aug 29 17:36:10 EDT 2020
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200620171933/https://scribe.rip/p/how-i-bombed-my-first-therapy-session-99a375958fa1 originally retrieved Sat Jun 20 17:19:33 EDT 2020
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200312084606/https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/my-mom-isnt-dumb-but-she-has-not-and-never-had-any-interest-in-learning-how-tech-works-52bbedf70c82 originally retrieved Thu Mar 12 08:46:06 EDT 2020
my local video rental place naturally has limited space and limited funding, so i'm perpetually glad they've dedicated as much of it as they have to weird horror & cult movies -- exactly the stuff that streaming services largely don't make or keep available (even shudder, which makes an effort)
for the first twenty years of my life i modeled my own behavior on geek & mad scientist characters from 80s teen movies, and that was in retrospect a bad decision
inuring myself to the inevitability of failure has not make me more successful, but it has taken the pressure off, and it has also made me humble because i now recognize that even my apparent successes are actually just failures to imagine a better goal
that feeling of brushing up against the edge of an alien discourse and saying 'nope, i will not learn enough to entangle myself with this'
Erotica Inspired by My Endometriosis - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/erotica-inspired-by-my-endometriosis
The Monument Mythos: A Deep Dive - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQMA0IG7Jdk
Why I don't relate to my skin colour - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaCEUrVJfTc
facebook mobile appears to have rolled out a change where you can no longer download pictures from groups & must screenshot them instead. i guess i'll just not be using facebook anymore, seeing as how 98% of my facebook use is finding memes to crosspost to tumblr. (2% is getting pulled into arguments by total strangers)
Random link from the archives: "Column: Writing the Mythos: The Handy-Dandy Mythos Plot Structure | Innsmouth Free Press" https://web.archive.org/web/20171103114108/http://www.innsmouthfreepress.com/blog/column-writing-the-mythos-the-handy-dandy-mythos-plot-structure/ originally retrieved Fri Nov 3 11:41:08 EDT 2017
Random link from the archives: "Nearly All Mass Shooters Since 1966 Have Had 4 Things in Common - VICE" https://web.archive.org/web/20191120111518/https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a35mya/nearly-all-mass-shooters-since-1966-have-had-four-things-in-common originally retrieved Wed Nov 20 11:15:18 EST 2019
Addressing Peter Grey’s terrible take on We Are The Witchcraft – Aleph's Heretical Domain https://mythoughtsbornfromfire.wordpress.com/2022/03/07/addressing-peter-greys-terrible-take-on-we-are-the-witchcraft/
Random link from the archives: "Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery" https://web.archive.org/web/20180727111933/http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-08-08/linux-load-averages.html originally retrieved Fri Jul 27 11:19:33 EDT 2018
Random link from the archives: "A Stimulus Plan for the Mutual Aid Economy" https://web.archive.org/web/20181121164453/https://longreads.com/2018/11/20/a-stimulus-plan-for-the-mutual-aid-economy/ originally retrieved Wed Nov 21 16:44:53 EST 2018
Random link from the archives: "My Own ‘Bad Story’: I Thought Journalism Would Make a Hero of Me" https://web.archive.org/web/20180403101956/https://longreads.com/2018/04/03/my-own-bad-story-i-thought-journalism-would-make-a-hero-of-me/ originally retrieved Tue Apr 3 10:19:56 EDT 2018
Chipmunks On 16 Speed - Sludgefest (Full Album) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU-MYe0SL9Q&ab_channel=LunarOrbit
anybody else not able to log into spotify via facebook? i can't log in on any of my devices, & i'm trying to figure out if it's a glitch or somebody ganked my account
people flounce from facebook shitposting groups like 'when i first saw this show i was too young and dumb to get any of the political implications, and now that i am an adult i refuse to expose myself to information that might make me grow as a person'
The K-Files: Who's Pulling Your Strings? featuring Amy Ireland - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWs75vVClZ0
My Dress up Darling is Too Realistic. (and that's a good thing) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz9tAshKJPU
Random link from the archives: "Share" https://web.archive.org/web/20220223093815/https://subconscious.substack.com/p/prompt-generator?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMjk3MzIsInBvc3RfaWQiOjQ4NjM3OTE5LCJfIjoibGoxNXUiLCJpYXQiOjE2NDQ2OTgxNTEsImV4cCI6MTY0NDcwMTc1MSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTMwNzk5MyIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.MaW_gxt-wl7uJYD3nkNdgcDrCBDmW21lU3uIZB_KDn8 originally retrieved Wed 23 Feb 2022 09:38:15 AM EST
Random link from the archives: "Mark Fisher | Acid Communism (Unfinished Introduction) – BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))" https://web.archive.org/web/20210507111734/https://my-blackout.com/2019/04/25/mark-fisher-acid-communism-unfinished-introduction/ originally retrieved Fri 07 May 2021 11:17:34 AM EDT
Random link from the archives: "The Mysteries of the Magick Lantern Cycle - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20200313203948/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttmhmyiz1N8 originally retrieved Fri Mar 13 20:39:48 EDT 2020
I Got Sober in the Pandemic. It Saved My Life. https://jezebel.com/i-got-sober-in-the-pandemic-it-saved-my-life-1848380935
Free collaboration networks [Open Access Economy] https://openaccesseconomy.org/doku.php?id=free_collaboration_networks
some people on this website really be like 'o noe they are presenting as high status by pretending they don't care chiefly about status hierarchies; let me declare that they care chiefly about status hierarchies, and thus bring them back down to my level without helping anyone' and think they're rational
This House Is Still Haunted: An Essay In Seven Gables - Dilettante Army https://dilettantearmy.com/articles/this-house-is-still-haunted
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20220209123528/https://scribe.rip/p/i-take-them-as-my-unpaid-bodyguards-and-let-them-do-battle-out-there-for-me-28fe047a98ae originally retrieved Wed 09 Feb 2022 12:35:28 PM EST
Random link from the archives: "The khipu code: the knotty mystery of the Inkas’ 3D records | Aeon Ideas" https://web.archive.org/web/20180613133215/https://aeon.co/ideas/the-khipu-code-the-knotty-mystery-of-the-inkas-3d-records originally retrieved Wed Jun 13 13:32:15 EDT 2018
vervake is great & awakening from the meaning crisis is great but i find it slightly disturbing whenever in the course of his lectures he starts to look angry at an abstract concept. like 'mystery is NOT the same in perspectival knowing GOD DAMN IT'. it's also sort of comical since he's getting worked up about extremely abstruse things -- like, clearly for a lot of these things, the position he gets angry over literally do not have any serious representatives (if only because the whole framework is a synthesis of his own, so only he could possibly be doing work in that framework before the release of these lectures)
Polybius, MKUltra and Dream Machines – Myth Crafts https://mythcrafts.com/2016/12/28/polybius-mkultra-and-dream-machines/
in a weird way, taking 2 semesters of russian in like 2012 prepared me to understand the russia/ukraine thing, not because i remember any russian (i can read cyrillic but i'm terrible with languages so my vocab is totally gone) but because my professor spent like 40% of her time in class talking about current russian geopolitics
Random link from the archives: "Alchemy - Where to Begin - Introduction to the Summa Perfectionis (Sum of Perfection) Pseudo-Geber - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20210801152442/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKDbXSgurys originally retrieved Sun 01 Aug 2021 03:24:42 PM EDT
The adorable love story behind Wikipedia’s 'high five' photos https://www.inputmag.com/culture/wikipedia-high-five-too-slow-photos-mystery-couple-solved
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20210331175604/https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjpgd7/the-mystery-of-fcking-good-pizza-travis-kalanick-cloudkitchens-future-foods-delivery-restaurants originally retrieved Wed 31 Mar 2021 05:56:04 PM EDT
This Friday, for #itchio's Creator Day, all my games, books, and albums are 50% off: https://itch.io/s/67031/creator-day-feb-2022
This Friday, for #itchio's Creator Day, all my games, books, and albums are 50% off: https://itch.io/s/67031/creator-day-feb-2022
This Friday, for #itchio's Creator Day, all my games, books, and albums are 50% off: https://itch.io/s/67031/creator-day-feb-2022
This Friday, for #itchio's Creator Day, all my games, books, and albums are 50% off: https://itch.io/s/67031/creator-day-feb-2022
This Friday, for #itchio's Creator Day, all my games, books, and albums are 50% off: https://itch.io/s/67031/creator-day-feb-2022
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86 -Eighty Six- Makes Mech Warfare Feel TOO Real - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8P0P8mY0CI
The Hills Have Eyes | Anatomy of a Franchise - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAkF81n5emk
how often does the same native god (in a land invaded in the name of the church) become the basis for both a saint and a demon? and, how often is this simultaneous? my intuition is that the overlap will be small because demon names tended to be based on the gods of peoples that hebrews encountered during the writing of the old testament, the saints are mostly based on gods of peoples who post-300-AD romanized christians were encountering for the first time, and so any local gods would need to survive a roughly 500 year gap at the minimum (and probably more like 1000-2000) with very little sound variation, in a world where almost everybody is illiterate and so the vernacular has a high rate of churn
since close to the beginning of the pandemic, i've been a part of at least one (and sometimes 3 or 4) weekly book clubs on discord, and i just realized... that it's basically a college class? like, a bunch of us dorks decided to take it upon ourselves to do intensive studies of often-difficult texts and come together to discuss them for 2-3 hours, every week, for years. there are no tests & there's no credit -- we are doing this purely as a social thing and to learn stuff we're interested in -- and we're not even recording it for a podcast or anything. some of our book clubs have homework or group projects, even. at the same time, this work has been driving my media consumption habits & a lot of my writing and other interests for the past few years. this is a thing that people can do. while there are a bunch of reasons to attend an accredited university (including having qualified experts to personally advise you & being able to prove, in an easily-legible way, to future employers that you passed some kind of measure of competence), if your goal is to learn (especially to learn together & have all the positive social pressures that can keep you committed to often-difficult subjects) you can just... do it. you can just arrange with your friends to... do a class. the stuff i've been doing has involved occult tomes, works of critical theory, and mass-market nonfiction, but i think you can even do this with textbooks. and, with smaller groups, it's easier to negotiate an appropriate pace. while in these meetings there's always been someone to step up and gently guide discussion back toward the subject & make sure everyone has a chance to speak, there generally hasn't been a 'teacher' in the sense of 'expert', and for the most part, that's been OK. it captures everything i loved about being in college with none of the things i hated.
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20201007184039/https://scribe.rip/p/how-demo-or-die-helped-my-career-89feaa5773e7 originally retrieved Wed Oct 7 18:40:39 EDT 2020
Mysteries of the Unknown and the Unknowable https://www.erichgrunewald.com/posts/mysteries-of-the-unknown-the-unknowable/
Random link from the archives: "Can't Help Myself & The Death of the Author - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20220125193923/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJp-pOazCAg originally retrieved Tue 25 Jan 2022 07:39:23 PM EST
today i got a cold email from a recruiter who asked me to email me with my current position and years of experience. these guys aren't even reading my linkedin anymore apparently. like, i know almost all cold emails are scams so i wasn't going to reply anyhow, but i'm sort of insulted by the laziness
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: "What is Enochian Magic? John Dee and the Book of Enoch / The Liber Loagaeth - Angelic Language II - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20210924173045/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hnuB9MCpmY originally retrieved Fri 24 Sep 2021 05:30:45 PM EDT
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200821154643/https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3azyav/i-lost-my-wife-to-a-cult originally retrieved Fri Aug 21 15:46:43 EDT 2020
what is keeping disney from just calling the diminunative magical humanoids in the upcoming snow white remake elves? they're not supposed to be human dwarves, but instead small humanlike underground mythological creatures. call them elves, or kobolds, or tommyknockers, or one of the many other names that have been used.
Random link from the archives: "Metakovan, the mystery Beeple art buyer, and his NFT/DeFi scheme – Amy Castor" https://web.archive.org/web/20210316191839/https://amycastor.com/2021/03/14/metakovan-the-mystery-beeple-art-buyer-and-his-nft-defi-scheme/ originally retrieved Tue 16 Mar 2021 07:18:39 PM EDT
Random link from the archives: "What you eat, who you date, and how you shop are valuable details for the brokers behind India’s multimillion-dollar dark data economy - Rest of World" https://web.archive.org/web/20210128130705/https://restofworld.org/2020/all-the-data-fit-to-sell/ originally retrieved Thu 28 Jan 2021 01:07:05 PM EST
Can't Help Myself & The Death of the Author - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJp-pOazCAg
the way facebook dragged their feet for years on 'verified accounts' / 'pages' had the odd side effect that i have, like, 20 mutual friends with Rudy Rucker and Doug Rushkoff and am actually facebook friends with R. U. Sirius. the same was true on myspace, but myspace never had facebook's focus on mirroring IRL relationships. like, i was friends with nine inch nails on myspace.
Random link from the archives: "My Life in Books: A Meditation on the Writer’s Library | Poets & Writers" https://web.archive.org/web/20190729112008/https://www.pw.org/content/my_life_in_books_a_meditation_on_the_writers_library originally retrieved Mon Jul 29 11:20:08 EDT 2019
every day i see posts that are of the form 'everybody keeps saying X', where X is something transparently stupid and evil, and every day i ask myself: why are you surrounding yourself with assholes? why put yourself through that? it is neither normal nor unavoidable to have all of your social contacts be people you hate and who also hate you. block anyone who does not bring you joy.
How Killer Rice Crippled Tokyo and the Japanese Navy - Gastro Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/rice-disease-mystery-edo-tokyo-navy-beriberi
one of my company's internal names for our big data lake is 'singularity' and i'm tempted to let management know that 'singularity' comes from the part of the black hole where information can enter but can never leave. so it's accurate but maybe not in a desirable way.
Technologies of Black Freedoms: Calling On Black Studies Scholars, with SA Smythe https://logicmag.io/beacons/technologies-of-black-freedoms-calling-on-black-studies-scholars-with-sa/
Band name of the day: the music of the enemy
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20201011045521/https://scribe.rip/p/le-pens-small-online-army-c754058630f0 originally retrieved Sun Oct 11 04:55:21 EDT 2020
Error 406 - Not Acceptable https://contrarymagazine.com/2021/the-myth-of-change/
The Mysterious Figure Stealing Books Before Their Release https://www.vulture.com/2022/01/stealing-books-before-release-mystery.html
rob zombie: 'how can i brag about my hot wife in the edgiest way possible?'
From December 20th to January 2nd, all my stuff is 50% off or $23 for the whole batch for the #itchioWinterSale https://itch.io/s/62089/winter-sale-2021
From December 20th to January 2nd, all my stuff is 50% off or $23 for the whole batch for the #itchioWinterSale https://itch.io/s/62089/winter-sale-2021
Random link from the archives: "My Hero Academia & The Quest For the Perfect Shounen Anime - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20180802170902/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAV1uv3lPBQ originally retrieved Thu Aug 2 17:09:02 EDT 2018
From December 20th to January 2nd, all my stuff is 50% off or $23 for the whole batch for the #itchioWinterSale https://itch.io/s/62089/winter-sale-2021
who else here has a big box in which to throw books you just finished that you know you'll never re-read, so that when it's full you can sell a whole box of books to the used book store / donate them all to the library sale? because it has changed my life
Neil Young & Devo - Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) [LaserDisc Excerpt] - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VimyH1uoZt0
Random link from the archives: "Push Meme To The Edge; All My Faves Are Dead - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20180802171928/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G51D51f_WPo originally retrieved Thu Aug 2 17:19:28 EDT 2018
From December 20th to January 2nd, all my stuff is 50% off or $23 for the whole batch for the #itchioWinterSale https://itch.io/s/62089/winter-sale-2021
From December 20th to January 2nd, all my stuff is 50% off or $23 for the whole batch for the #itchioWinterSale https://itch.io/s/62089/winter-sale-2021
Making Monsters: Strange and Bizarre Projects of Government Agencies | Mysterious Universe https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2021/12/making-monsters-strange-and-bizarre-projects-of-government-agencies/
From December 20th to January 2nd, all my stuff is 50% off or $23 for the whole batch for the #itchioWinterSale https://itch.io/s/62089/winter-sale-2021
From December 20th to January 2nd, all my stuff is 50% off or $23 for the whole batch for the #itchioWinterSale https://itch.io/s/62089/winter-sale-2021
From December 20th to January 2nd, all my stuff is 50% off or $23 for the whole batch for the #itchioWinterSale https://itch.io/s/62089/winter-sale-2021
From December 20th to January 2nd, all my stuff is 50% off or $23 for the whole batch for the #itchioWinterSale https://itch.io/s/62089/winter-sale-2021
From December 20th to January 2nd, all my stuff is 50% off or $23 for the whole batch for the #itchioWinterSale https://itch.io/s/62089/winter-sale-2021
From December 20th to January 2nd, all my stuff is 50% off or $23 for the whole batch for the #itchioWinterSale https://itch.io/s/62089/winter-sale-2021
From December 20th to January 2nd, all my stuff is 50% off or $23 for the whole batch for the #itchioWinterSale https://itch.io/s/62089/winter-sale-2021
From December 20th to January 2nd, all my stuff is 50% off or $23 for the whole batch for the #itchioWinterSale https://itch.io/s/62089/winter-sale-2021
From December 20th to January 2nd, all my stuff is 50% off or $23 for the whole batch for the #itchioWinterSale https://itch.io/s/62089/winter-sale-2021
From December 20th to January 2nd, all my stuff is 50% off or $23 for the whole batch for the #itchioWinterSale https://itch.io/s/62089/winter-sale-2021
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20171129080725/http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/11/vocoder-instrumental-instruments originally retrieved Wed Nov 29 08:07:25 EST 2017
From December 20th to January 2nd, all my stuff is 50% off or $23 for the whole batch for the #itchioWinterSale https://itch.io/s/62089/winter-sale-2021
From December 20th to January 2nd, all my stuff is 50% off or $23 for the whole batch for the #itchioWinterSale https://itch.io/s/62089/winter-sale-2021
Random link from the archives: "The Angel of Death - The Origins, History & Mythology of the Angel of Death - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20210723102636/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZHAKdMk_jE originally retrieved Fri 23 Jul 2021 10:26:36 AM EDT
Random link from the archives: "Who Filters Your News? Why we built gobo.social | … My heart’s in Accra" https://web.archive.org/web/20171117093805/http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2017/11/16/who-filters-your-news-why-we-built-gobo-social/ originally retrieved Fri Nov 17 09:38:05 EST 2017
E3P2 Tommy Cowan: The Occult World of William Burroughs-Time, Space, Code Words and...Insect Time? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FExlWtRQIws
E3P1 Tommy Cowan: The Occult World of William Burroughs -Time, Space, Code Words and...Insect Time? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw536PJKn88
Spirit Scripts: Japan’s mysterious outcast alphabets https://scribe.rip/p/spirit-scripts-japans-mysterious-outcast-alphabets-5b3ea905fc
Random link from the archives: "Solving The Internet's Oldest Mystery - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20200512174859/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vboQOQwifwg originally retrieved Tue May 12 17:48:59 EDT 2020
Thoughts on generating mystery & heist stories https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/thoughts-on-generating-mystery-heist-stories-b11882215244
Fiction generator post-mortem: mythology generation https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/fiction-generator-post-mortem-mythology-generation-d7548a08beac
I don’t remember writing this but it looks exactly like my writing style. https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/i-dont-remember-writing-this-but-it-looks-exactly-like-my-writing-style-1faf3ef0b394
book clubs are a fantastic tool. i've found that being in a book club motivates me to read books that otherwise would go on my shelf and get repeatedly pushed off in favor of something more accessible, and that book club discussion brings a richness of understanding to books i found opaque and a joy to books i found unpleasant
moving to agile and ci/cd has meant: 1) hours per day in meetings, rather than a meeting every few weeks; 2) rather than being able to test and deploy a fix immediately, i must wrangle someone to approve a PR and then wait 20 minutes for jenkins to build my PR, then wait 20 minutes for jenkins to rebuild my PR after it's merged, then tell jenkins to build and deploy the other thing, then wait 20 minutes for that to finish, then wait 5 minutes for kubernetes to spin up the new version and shut down the old one, then do my end to end test (total: 65 minutes vs 30 seconds for the original style)
why are generations that lean left especially accused of narcissism in particular? like, the boomers got that accusation right up until they shifted right & became yuppies. i think it's a matter of 'how dare you look out for yourselves instead of sacrificing your lives for me, a member of the capitalist class, as is your duty and my right' being broadcast tbh
Inside My Nightmarish Quest for Screen Time Zero https://scribe.rip/p/inside-my-nightmarish-quest-for-screen-time-zero-c51e269a4b6a
some images i saved to my laptop in 2019 https://scribe.rip/p/some-images-i-saved-to-my-laptop-in-2019-8f8094744c46
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20190626173202/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MyrZF5QGVo originally retrieved Wed Jun 26 17:32:02 EDT 2019
I, too, get more traffic & more responses on Quora (except, of course, when I cross-promote my… https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/i-too-get-more-traffic-more-responses-on-quora-except-of-course-when-i-cross-promote-my-e9bcd335dadf
sorry about the six duplicate posts. for some reason, my terminal emulator spontaneously decided that the answer to 'which tab currently has the input focus' was 'all of them' & so i ran seven copies of the post command
Uniform UIs are the enemy. Problems are not uniform, and solutions should fit their problems. https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/uniform-uis-are-the-enemy-problems-are-not-uniform-and-solutions-should-fit-their-problems-154b48299111
10 Things I Learned About Writing From My $50,000 MFA Program https://scribe.rip/p/10-things-i-learned-about-writing-from-my-50-000-mfa-program-4d29891e8db2
My mom isn’t dumb, but she has not and never had any interest in learning how tech works. https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/my-mom-isnt-dumb-but-she-has-not-and-never-had-any-interest-in-learning-how-tech-works-52bbedf70c82
one of the sources of tension i had with my ex was that she'd think things were wrong just because they were 'perverse' or 'abnormal' while i wanted, like, evidence of harm before i was ready to decry things. so going forward i'm gonna make sure not to date reverse-deontologists...
I Tried Listening to Podcasts at 3x and Broke My Brain https://scribe.rip/p/i-tried-listening-to-podcasts-at-3x-and-broke-my-brain-d8823edecb7c
Sorry, that’s my Canon Cat article. I meant to link to this one. https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/sorry-thats-my-canon-cat-article-i-meant-to-link-to-this-one-c88061628070
My Revolution Was Never a Possibility: Notes on ADHD, Anarchism, and Accelerationism https://scribe.rip/p/my-revolution-was-never-a-possibility-notes-on-adhd-anarchism-and-accelerationism-ed9d5113f9e0
Mommy Fearest: Motherhood and Horror - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6kYBckziGU
where can i get a custom version of mulder's office poster from the x files where the ufo is adamski's lamp and the text below it is 'BELIEF IS THE ENEMY'?
anybody done an album composed of note-length samples fetched entirely from bootleg recordings of 40 year old grateful dead concerts yet, or do i need to do everything myself?
my concern about how explicit it's responsible to be when representing a problem with a lens toward critique (in a world where somewhere between 40 and 80 percent of the audience will see the representation of the problem as aspirational) is tempered by the knowledge that repeatedly, talented auteurs with zero self-awareness will represent their inner struggle as predators so accurately that the entire audience sees it as a brave and nuanced plea for the rights of their victims
The Political Economy of Mark Fisher https://scribe.rip/p/the-political-economy-of-mark-fisher-eac956820874
every day i wake up and hope that i'll encounter something that feels as new and full of insight as serial experiments lain did when i was 14 or society of the spectacle did when i was 18 or the illuminatus trilogy did when i was 20, and every day i am disappointed. i'm starting to think it's my fault.
I don’t see how rust’s design is compatible with any of my suggestions. https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/i-dont-see-how-rust-s-design-is-compatible-with-any-of-my-suggestions-f34687127a0f
Random link from the archives: "Unmasked: man behind cult set to replace QAnon | QAnon | The Guardian" https://web.archive.org/web/20210325192902/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/20/revealed-man-behind-fast-growing-cult-becoming-the-new-qanon-sabmyk-network originally retrieved Thu 25 Mar 2021 07:29:02 PM EDT
My Year of Not Buying Books https://scribe.rip/p/my-year-of-not-buying-books-54e4c8f99615
Hellstar Remina Explained | Junji Ito's Masterpiece? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOaRdMYJ-8E
Regarding the back-catalogue " I have taken to using automation to post links to my old medium… https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/regarding-the-back-catalogue-i-have-taken-to-using-automation-to-post-links-to-my-old-medium-5fa02b9e03f2
Random link from the archives: "The Circle of HOPE (2018): The Problem With The Hacker Mystique - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20190429192145/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D7boOIHrc8 originally retrieved Mon Apr 29 19:21:45 EDT 2019
My Life as a Member of the Cult of the Dead Cow https://scribe.rip/p/the-cult-of-the-dead-cow-9c04110b792f
a feature twitter has that mastodon desperately needs: the ability to mute all notifications from non-mutuals on public accounts. i'm happy for my posts to spread, but i don't want to be pinged every time an idiot who half-read something they weren't the intended audience for has a bad take about something i wrote
Random link from the archives: "Twitter" https://web.archive.org/web/20200804110521/https://mobile.twitter.com/NewGunMyths/status/1138765470696431617 originally retrieved Tue Aug 4 11:05:21 EDT 2020
I do not see myself represented in essays on dating https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/i-do-not-see-myself-represented-in-essays-on-dating-78488462efa6?sk=705f8e1a535edbecb948fb7f9fd59034
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20201007231858/https://medium.com/p/twilight-zone-episodes-based-on-my-existential-suburban-anxieties-fd3122086127 originally retrieved Wed Oct 7 23:18:58 EDT 2020
Convincing myself God exists to learn humility. - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WI2MVOwRlI
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200130143408/http://www.thewhitereview.org/fiction/frequently-asked-questions-craniotomy/ originally retrieved Thu Jan 30 14:34:08 EST 2020
QAnon Almost Destroyed My Relationship. Then My Relationship Saved Me From QAnon. - POLITICO https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/08/13/qanon-radicalization-bernie-sanders-supporter-503295
Yep, I should have followed my instinct and assumed otherwise. https://scribe.rip/p/yep-i-should-have-followed-my-instinct-and-assumed-otherwise-34996905a925
Random link from the archives: "You Can't Solve The Gender Gap In Tech If You Don't Understand Why It Exists" https://web.archive.org/web/20190307103511/https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/reshmasaujani/tech-gender-gap-pipeline-myth originally retrieved Thu Mar 7 10:35:11 EST 2019
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20180830150758/https://medium.com/p/that-internet-feeling-they-stole-my-joke-85574f615e77 originally retrieved Thu Aug 30 15:07:58 EDT 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/
CHAPELWAITE Blends Vampiric Myth And Cosmic Horror - Fangoria https://www.fangoria.com/original/chapelwaite-vampiric-myth-and-cosmic-horror/
How spammy sites that rip off obits end up running ads from major brands https://www.morningbrew.com/marketing/stories/2021/11/08/how-spammy-sites-that-rip-off-obituaries-suck-up-ad-dollars-from-major-brands
‘I’m Overdue for a Discussion About My Role in Inspiring ‘Edgelord’ Shit’: A Conversation with Steve Albini https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/steve-albini-counsel-culture-interview
Random link from the archives: "My Brush with Behavioral Economics - Scientific American Blog Network" https://web.archive.org/web/20190923105953/https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/my-brush-with-behavioral-economics/ originally retrieved Mon Sep 23 10:59:53 EDT 2019
How Behavioural Economics Helped Kick My Phone Addiction https://scribe.rip/p/how-behavioural-economics-helped-kick-my-phone-addiction-edf9fdf6d45e
Random link from the archives: "Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy" https://web.archive.org/web/20180904134855/http://www.shirky.com/writings/herecomeseverybody/group_enemy.html originally retrieved Tue Sep 4 13:48:55 EDT 2018
Band name of the day: the anatomy of crime
Random link from the archives: "After the End of the Myth: On American Interiors and the Rotten Western – xenogothic" https://web.archive.org/web/20200730083342/https://xenogothic.com/2020/07/30/after-the-end-of-the-myth-on-american-interiors-and-the-rotten-western/ originally retrieved Thu Jul 30 08:33:42 EDT 2020
My Data Science Horror Story https://scribe.rip/p/no-happy-little-accidents-8663540763f8
Random link from the archives: "My career as an international blood smuggler | Society | The Guardian" https://web.archive.org/web/20180927120837/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/sep/27/my-career-as-an-international-blood-smuggler originally retrieved Thu Sep 27 12:08:37 EDT 2018
It took Twitter 4hrs to block my modernist architecture bot. Why don’t they block anti-semitism? https://scribe.rip/p/it-took-twitter-4hrs-to-block-my-modernist-architecture-bot-why-dont-they-block-anti-semitism-4bb146c7f361
Anatomy of a Terminal Emulator :: poor.dev https://www.poor.dev/blog/terminal-anatomy/
Random link from the archives: "Nature Initiation, Body Horror and British Myth - Daru McAleece - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20210713205412/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr8AIWqlRqs originally retrieved Tue 13 Jul 2021 08:54:12 PM EDT
Why I Left My Big Fancy Tech Job and Wrote a Book https://scribe.rip/p/why-i-left-my-big-fancy-tech-job-and-wrote-a-book-b64c40484774
Random link from the archives: "The Mystery of the Immaculate Concussion | GQ" https://web.archive.org/web/20210112123132/https://www.gq.com/story/cia-investigation-and-russian-microwave-attacks originally retrieved Tue 12 Jan 2021 12:31:32 PM EST
In defense of nuanced understanding of the enemy in a networked age (feat Zizek vs Peterson) https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/in-defense-of-nuanced-understanding-of-the-enemy-in-a-networked-age-feat-zizek-vs-peterson-b712962c5737?source=friends_link&sk=a6ea666f6ea7f640a35525b4c0e10415
Random link from the archives: "Introduction to Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism - Part 4 - Jewish Magic - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20210818141303/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvng8vCsvi0 originally retrieved Wed 18 Aug 2021 02:13:03 PM EDT
The Left Brain/Right Brain Divide is a Myth https://scribe.rip/p/why-science-like-art-is-the-practice-of-imagination-in-a-straightjacket-7532ee6b5363
Random link from the archives: "Labouring in the digital economy: The people making content (in)visible online | diggit magazine" https://web.archive.org/web/20180208094948/https://www.diggitmagazine.com/column/labouring-digital-economy originally retrieved Thu Feb 8 09:49:48 EST 2018
It’s my understanding that while Google and Facebook both are legally permitted to create policies… https://scribe.rip/p/its-my-understanding-that-while-google-and-facebook-both-are-legally-permitted-to-create-policies-41481320ed12
I needed a guitar teacher. So I turned my Alexa into one. https://scribe.rip/p/who-can-teach-you-the-guitar-better-youtube-or-alexa-96e8cef77470
Scooby-Doo: The Anatomy of a Good Live-Action Adaptation | Video Essay - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxuteSlss3M
Band name of the day: swine mystery disease
Random link from the archives: "Andrew W.K.: Investigating The Mystery Of Steev Mike - Stereogum" https://web.archive.org/web/20181010094845/https://www.stereogum.com/2015589/andrew-wk-steev-mike/franchises/sounding-board/ originally retrieved Wed Oct 10 09:48:45 EDT 2018
Why my website is better than yours https://scribe.rip/p/why-my-website-is-better-than-yours-85fc643ccc2f
On My “Reading” of Slavoj Žižek https://scribe.rip/p/on-my-reading-of-slavoj-%C5%BEi%C5%BEek-3dfb569cd60e
(Medium ate my first draft…:( so this is a bit abbreviated…) https://scribe.rip/p/medium-ate-my-first-draft-so-this-is-a-bit-abbreviated-ed5bb64e42c
Life’s economy is primarily based on collaborative rather than competitive advantage https://scribe.rip/p/lifes-economy-is-primarily-based-on-collaborative-rather-than-competitive-advantage-e7c5f55466fd
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20171129080725/http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/11/vocoder-instrumental-instruments originally retrieved Wed Nov 29 08:07:25 EST 2017
That Internet Feeling: They Stole My Joke! https://scribe.rip/p/that-internet-feeling-they-stole-my-joke-85574f615e77
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200611022855/https://medium.com/p/40-years-later-the-changeling-has-us-wondering-what-if-joseph-is-actually-a-mythical-526f807e11cd originally retrieved Thu Jun 11 02:28:55 EDT 2020
What Danganronpa and My Hero Academia say about school as an institution https://scribe.rip/@urbanfriendden/what-danganronpa-and-my-hero-academia-say-about-school-as-an-institution-e4b9632bb624
Nearly two years after writing https://enkiv2.medium.com/i-do-not-see-myself-represented-in-essays-on-dating-78488462efa6?sk=705f8e1a535edbecb948fb7f9fd59034 I now know why this perspective is underrepresented. Reactions to this article are split cleanly in three: redpill-bros who call me a cuck, incels who think I'm a poor naive soul who hasn't seen the light & decided to blame women, and anti-incels who think I'm an incel. All three groups think this post is some kind of cannily performative bad-faith attempt to get a mercy-fuck -- as though I didn't know that mercy fucks are not worth the time, and as though I didn't know that this kind of essay wouldn't get me one anyway. I still think I can't be the only one in this specific situation, but despite a lot of readers, this essay doesn't seem to have produced new conversation about how to make women feel more comfortable with taking the initiative or how to discourage men from spamming unwanted advances.
A new taxonomy of difficulty https://www.gamedeveloper.com/blogs/a-new-taxonomy-of-difficulty
Introduction to Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism - Part 10 - Christian and Lurianic Kabbalah - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqvcifVWjvM
What is Enochian Magic? John Dee and the Book of Enoch / The Liber Loagaeth - Angelic Language II - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hnuB9MCpmY
Introduction to Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism - Part 9 - Safedian Kabbalah - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYOBzZkngik
Introduction to Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism - Part 8 - Sefer Zohar II - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5_2yDNvHN4
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20190125121732/https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/jjajang-myeon-black-noodles-singles-day originally retrieved Fri Jan 25 12:17:32 EST 2019
Band name of the day: legalistic mysticism
"Anime Companies are Trying to Cut Out Crunchyroll and Funimation" | Anime Mythbusters #6 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5u7edCQPX4
Amazon’s The Eyes of Tammy Faye: When the GOP got in bed with the Christian right - Vox https://www.vox.com/culture/22652320/eyes-tammy-faye-bakker-explained-jerry-falwell-jessica-chastain-review
Theranos’ greatest invention was Elizabeth Holmes - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/22656190/theranos-elizabeth-holmes-wire-fraud-trial-founder-myth
Neurocracy is future fiction in the form of Wikipedia - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/14/22577088/neurocracy-wikipedia-murder-mystery-game
OnlyFans and the Myth of Owning Your Hustle | Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/08/onlyfans-and-the-myth-of-owning-your-hustle
The Ambiguous Loss of (Probably) Not Selling My Novel ‹ Literary Hub https://lithub.com/the-ambiguous-loss-of-probably-not-selling-my-novel/
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20201001045815/https://medium.com/p/the-slimy-technicolor-world-of-satisfying-youtube-videos-63c3793b2738 originally retrieved Thu Oct 1 04:58:15 EDT 2020
Introduction to Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism - Part 7 - Sefer Zohar I - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urrOj5KzG6w
HIERARCHY | Synthesizing Marxist and Anarchist Philosophy - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmYzbY-l2QY
Visual Storytelling: Breaking Down The Adolescence of Utena - Part Final - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My1Y-yVO5Qw
Random link from the archives: "Capitalist Mythology: "Free Markets", The State, and Primitive Accumulation - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20200528203329/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phZyqdNuYsY originally retrieved Thu May 28 20:33:29 EDT 2020
Introduction to Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism - Part 6 - Early Kabbalah - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6JP01lcGGg
The Enduring Midwestern Mystery of Blue Moon Ice Cream - Gastro Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-blue-moon-ice-cream
Random link from the archives: "Science Is Full of Mavericks Like My Grandfather. But Was His Physics Theory Right? - The Atlantic" https://web.archive.org/web/20181101124554/https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/science-full-mavericks-like-my-grandfather-was-his-physics-theory-right/574573/ originally retrieved Thu Nov 1 12:45:54 EDT 2018
My Le Guin Year: Craft Lessons From a Master | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2021/08/24/my-le-guin-year-craft-lessons-from-a-master/
Introduction to Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism - Part 5 - Sefer Yeztirah and Bahir - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c80t2F_Poao
How to Start Watching Horror Movies | Renegade Cut - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyTSAtLWwPY
Random link from the archives: "The Spectacular Personal Mythology of Rammellzee | The New Yorker" https://web.archive.org/web/20180522114925/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/28/the-spectacular-personal-mythology-of-rammellzee originally retrieved Tue May 22 11:49:25 EDT 2018
Introduction to Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism - Part 4 - Jewish Magic - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvng8vCsvi0
re: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/kids-can-recover-from-missing-even ; Scott's description of his own memory of school material is common, but not one I identify with. In school, as a policy, I never studied for tests -- I considered it cheating, since tests are supposed to evaluate fully-internalized knowledge -- and as a result, my familiarity with the material hasn't decayed as much. I learned quite a bit in school, and most of it is still there (or can be coaxed out), because it went into long-term memory. Is the expectation that school learning is evanescent one of the products of the devaluation of schooling through cramming (bad money driving out good)?
Random link from the archives: "Learning to see: Gloomy Sunday on Vimeo" https://web.archive.org/web/20180423110905/https://vimeo.com/260612034 originally retrieved Mon Apr 23 11:09:05 EDT 2018
Ousterhout's dichotomy - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ousterhout's_dichotomy
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200618073756/https://medium.com/p/parseint-mystery-7c4368ef7b21 originally retrieved Thu Jun 18 07:37:56 EDT 2020
work whine: i am annoyed that people are annoyed at me for not knowing things that i was never informed about, like the correct value for a misdocumented URL that somebody changed behind my back.
Introduction to Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism - Part 3 - Merkabah Shi'ur Komah & Sar Torah - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8LBP4Y-hRM
Random link from the archives: "Solving The Internet's Oldest Mystery - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20200512174859/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vboQOQwifwg originally retrieved Tue May 12 17:48:59 EDT 2020
In My View: Where fewer distributors, marketing and anime definitions meet – In Search of Number Nine " An anime blog https://searchofno9.wordpress.com/2021/08/07/in-my-view-where-fewer-distributors-marketing-and-anime-definitions-meet/
Random link from the archives: "NYT Is Threatening My Safety By Revealing My Real Name, So I Am Deleting The Blog | Slate Star Codex" https://web.archive.org/web/20200624170025/https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/22/nyt-is-threatening-my-safety-by-revealing-my-real-name-so-i-am-deleting-the-blog/ originally retrieved Wed Jun 24 17:00:25 EDT 2020
Introduction to Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism - Part 2 - Rise and Impact of Apocalypticism - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzR391dpsBc
Random link from the archives: "A Stimulus Plan for the Mutual Aid Economy" https://web.archive.org/web/20181121164453/https://longreads.com/2018/11/20/a-stimulus-plan-for-the-mutual-aid-economy/ originally retrieved Wed Nov 21 16:44:53 EST 2018
John Dee - The Monas Hieroglyphica - Part II - Alchemy and Cabala - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEwK1dmco3I
The Mystical Dreams of Descartes - Exploring the Origins of Rationalism and Modernity - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMWyFsHzBU0
Spinoza - Rationalist Atheist or Mystical Pantheist ? Exploring Spinozism from Toland to Deleuze - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tg03chJpZ4
Alchemy - The Life Times & Alchemical Writings of Edward Kelley - Beyond John Dee and Enochian Magic - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLgBPNEU9E4
Introduction to Alchemy (FIA Lecture) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgP983eCRfM
The Real-Life History Behind My Favorite New Shoujo Anime - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmY8xa6DT90
Random link from the archives: "The Collapse of Bon Appetit | Jack Saint - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20200816115234/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQV-W_Ut8MY originally retrieved Sun Aug 16 11:52:34 EDT 2020
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200613014758/https://medium.com/p/flattening-the-curve-and-expanding-my-understanding-70a6c1fb671e originally retrieved Sat Jun 13 01:47:58 EDT 2020
Introduction to Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism - Part 1 - Israelite Prophecy and Theophany in Context - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABeeKCygNlw
Philosophy of Mysticism - Are Mystical Experiences True and Can Gnosis be Trusted? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVhXAmjg4OQ
Alchemy - Where to Begin - Introduction to the Summa Perfectionis (Sum of Perfection) Pseudo-Geber - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKDbXSgurys
Band name of the day: organ of mystical sensation
Random link from the archives: "CABINET / The Enemy as Sociologist" https://web.archive.org/web/20210608125920/https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/kiosk/krolewski_sara_27_april_2021.php originally retrieved Tue 08 Jun 2021 12:59:20 PM EDT
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20210514152640/https://subconscious.substack.com/p/the-knowledge-ecology?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMjk3MzIsInBvc3RfaWQiOjM2MzM0MTg0LCJfIjoiTVh6QWsiLCJpYXQiOjE2MjEwMjAzNjksImV4cCI6MTYyMTAyMzk2OSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTMwNzk5MyIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.KlUzKVR_hLuxpd6_BphKcRW-CGPutvyVdkZPNNJyHpk originally retrieved Fri 14 May 2021 03:26:40 PM EDT
Random link from the archives: "Are Psychedelic Retreats Safe for People With Anxiety? - VICE" https://web.archive.org/web/20200130101938/https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7jeeg/i-went-to-a-high-end-psychedelic-retreat-to-address-my-anxiety originally retrieved Thu Jan 30 10:19:38 EST 2020
The perfect college experience is a myth - Vox https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/22573842/the-best-four-years-of-your-life
Random link from the archives: " Learning About Work Ethic From My High School Driving Instructor - The Atlantic" https://web.archive.org/web/20190816091613/https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/11/learning-about-work-ethic-from-my-high-school-driving-instructor/248339/ originally retrieved Fri Aug 16 09:16:13 EDT 2019
every day i have my mind blown anew by the knowledge that both Wuthering Heights and Down In The Park topped the charts in the 70s
‘They’re Really Close To My Body’: A Hagiography of Nine Inch Nails and their resident mystic Robin Finck - The White Review https://www.thewhitereview.org/feature/theyre-really-close-to-my-body/
All My Homies Hate Skrillex | A story about what happened with dubstep. - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hLlVVKRwk0
The Angel of Death - The Origins, History & Mythology of the Angel of Death - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZHAKdMk_jE
Is It My Body " Real Life https://reallifemag.com/is-it-my-body/
Agrippa - Three Books of Occult Philosophy - Mystical Philosophy of Language, Mind & Magic - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egTbqFTsPmU
Random link from the archives: "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. This is my blog." https://web.archive.org/web/20180425144929/http://ajroach42.com/observations-on-modern-computing-the-last-10-years-were-a-misstep/ originally retrieved Wed Apr 25 14:49:29 EDT 2018
Band name of the day: my dearly-loved revenge
Buying a PC With Dell: My Journey Into Hell - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR25BVBsuS0
Adam Gorightly talk 'Saucers, Spooks, and Kooks: UFO Disinformation'--Part 2 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tALNWO7qTMY
The Anime Nostalgia Podcast: Debunking the Myth of Naoko Takeuchi having "no friends". http://animenostalgia.blogspot.com/2021/07/debunking-myth-of-naoko-takeuchi-having.html
Nature Initiation, Body Horror and British Myth - Daru McAleece - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr8AIWqlRqs
Dating in your 30s is like 'should I get back with my asshole ex, or should I die alone?'
Band name of the day: mythmaking processes
a planned economy is necessarily capitalist in nature
Elevated Stupidity Is the Evolution of the Hot Take Economy at Its Worst https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a36439329/rise-of-elevated-stupidity-cable-news-politics/
dream: an unexpected blizzard on 4th of july interrupted my vacation plans, screwed with plant watering
Everything they Told You About Ghost Stories Was Wrong | Ani-Mysteries Solved #1 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI_AkYpOuQo
MYTH OF THE AUTEUR: Stanley Kubrick & David Lynch - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr65ZIWoD6c
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In my culture: the responsibilities of open source maintainers http://reasonableapproximation.net/2020/04/13/in-my-culture-responsibility-oss.html
Random link from the archives: "Behold, mortal, the origins of robotfindskitten..." https://web.archive.org/web/20200128150430/https://www.crummy.com/writing/speaking/2017-Roguelike%20Celebration/ originally retrieved Tue Jan 28 15:04:30 EST 2020
Random link from the archives: "Permissive, then restrictive: learning how to design Haskell programs | William Yao" https://web.archive.org/web/20200508144552/https://williamyaoh.com/posts/2020-04-19-permissive-vs-restrictive.html originally retrieved Fri May 8 14:45:52 EDT 2020
Random link from the archives: "302 Found" https://web.archive.org/web/20190801130616/https://modernmythology.net/branding-a-movement-e2c102a16f48 originally retrieved Thu Aug 1 13:06:16 EDT 2019
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20190812141626/https://medium.com/p/it-took-twitter-4hrs-to-block-my-modernist-architecture-bot-why-dont-they-block-anti-semitism-4bb146c7f361 originally retrieved Mon Aug 12 14:16:26 EDT 2019
Random link from the archives: "My FOSS Story - Andrew Gallant's Blog" https://web.archive.org/web/20200127102333/https://blog.burntsushi.net/foss/ originally retrieved Mon Jan 27 10:23:33 EST 2020
CABINET / The Enemy as Sociologist https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/kiosk/krolewski_sara_27_april_2021.php
How I Stopped Being an Incel and Started Loving Myself https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dpyaa/how-to-stop-being-an-incel
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Tim Tyler: My memetic misunderstandings - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPQjqFXym4I
Satanic Panics and the Death of Mythos ❧ Current Affairs https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/02/satanic-panics-and-the-death-of-mythos
GitHub - dmytrostriletskyi/8-bit-computer-memory-init: Initialize the 8-bit computer memory with a program to be executed automatically on powering. https://github.com/dmytrostriletskyi/8-bit-computer-memory-init
The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus - Origins History and Meaning of the Famed Text of Alchemy - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qa4woIz_Ag
Bad idea of the day: a porno featuring tall buxom jugalettes called Big Mommy Hustlas
Grading is a Scam (and Motivation is a Myth) | A Professor Explains - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe-SZ_FPZew
Basket Case | Anatomy of a Franchise - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F_JEx4EI1g
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20180830150758/https://medium.com/p/that-internet-feeling-they-stole-my-joke-85574f615e77 originally retrieved Thu Aug 30 15:07:58 EDT 2018
Unemployment, inflation, and what’s happening in the economy are uncertain - Vox https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22435400/economy-unemployment-inflation
Esoteric Beat with John Ohno: How can Hypertext help my Glass Bead Game? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtuvLYoi9Yo&ab_channel=TedHand
Random link from the archives: "Of X, Y, and Z: The Search for the Lost Works of Charles Fort | Mysterious Universe" https://web.archive.org/web/20191114090713/https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/11/of-x-y-and-z-the-search-for-the-lost-works-of-charles-fort/ originally retrieved Thu Nov 14 09:07:13 EST 2019
Random link from the archives: "The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture | The New Yorker" https://web.archive.org/web/20181024094547/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/29/the-myth-of-whiteness-in-classical-sculpture originally retrieved Wed Oct 24 09:45:47 EDT 2018
Random link from the archives: "On The Casual Sociopathy of The Traditional Mystery | CrimeReads" https://web.archive.org/web/20200130101555/https://crimereads.com/on-the-casual-sociopathy-of-the-traditional-mystery/ originally retrieved Thu Jan 30 10:15:55 EST 2020
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Efficiency is the Enemy https://fs.blog/2021/05/slack/
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Mark Fisher | Acid Communism (Unfinished Introduction) – BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics)) https://my-blackout.com/2019/04/25/mark-fisher-acid-communism-unfinished-introduction/
Romancing the Gothic: Haunted Houses, Credit and Shirley Jackson with Amy Bride - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeERGmwUdF8
THE MYRMECOLEON EFFECT — NORTH OF REALITY http://www.northofreality.com/tales/2017/10/29/the-myrmecoleon-effect
Croquet: My Colony Memoir http://www.croquet.zone/2005/02/my-colony-memoir.html
The tragedy of the commons is a false and dangerous myth | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-tragedy-of-the-commons-is-a-false-and-dangerous-myth
My Octopus Girlfriend | Issue 39 | n+1 https://nplusonemag.com/issue-39/reviews/my-octopus-girlfriend/
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200602110016/https://bnet.substack.com/p/mysteries-of-the-scatman?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMDg1ODMwLCJwb3N0X2lkIjo1MDA4NDEsIl8iOiIwc05nNSIsImlhdCI6MTU5MTAyMDYxMSwiZXhwIjoxNTkxMDI0MjExLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMzk3NDEiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.R12YEeeGSOkzsDumsW7c4HpP1SFjVusO0Y1OQH2Fy6E originally retrieved Tue Jun 2 11:00:16 EDT 2020
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Streaming Review: Teinosuke Kinugasa's A Page of Madness (YouTube) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjVQMyKQ-Sc
Random link from the archives: "Inside the Dreamy Nightmare of Mother!’s Music-Free Soundscape | Vanity Fair" https://web.archive.org/web/20170919125715/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/09/mother-movie-jennifer-lawrence-darren-aronofsky-score-johann-johannsson originally retrieved Tue Sep 19 12:57:15 EDT 2017
%FZOQVQA/UKjb8pzHIbb5G3d+rDalnmYt8vCOCgyISS8=.sha256 | ssb-viewer https://viewer.scuttlebot.io/%25FZOQVQA%2FUKjb8pzHIbb5G3d%2BrDalnmYt8vCOCgyISS8%3D.sha256
Random link from the archives: "Did MySpace Kill the Potential for Customization on Social Media?" https://web.archive.org/web/20200715161522/https://tedium.co/2020/07/14/social-media-customization-failings/ originally retrieved Wed Jul 15 16:15:22 EDT 2020
Band name of the day: a dream of lunar alchemy
Random link from the archives: "What Shattered My Mother’s Mind" https://web.archive.org/web/20191209141417/https://longreads.com/2019/12/06/what-shattered-my-mothers-mind/ originally retrieved Mon Dec 9 14:14:17 EST 2019
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200925222431/https://medium.com/p/im-an-amazon-employee-my-company-shouldn-t-sell-facial-recognition-tech-to-police-36b5fde934ac originally retrieved Fri Sep 25 22:24:31 EDT 2020
Random link from the archives: "A Stimulus Plan for the Mutual Aid Economy" https://web.archive.org/web/20181121164453/https://longreads.com/2018/11/20/a-stimulus-plan-for-the-mutual-aid-economy/ originally retrieved Wed Nov 21 16:44:53 EST 2018
The Miracle Mystical Whimsy Machine of Troika! - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNDNBlBP3Mw
Amazon Denies Workers Pee in Bottles. Here Are the Pee Bottles. https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7amyn/amazon-denies-workers-pee-in-bottles-here-are-the-pee-bottles
Random link from the archives: "My browser, the spy: How extensions slurped up browsing histories from 4M users | Ars Technica" https://web.archive.org/web/20190723134106/https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/07/dataspii-inside-the-debacle-that-dished-private-data-from-apple-tesla-blue-origin-and-4m-people/ originally retrieved Tue Jul 23 13:41:06 EDT 2019
UFO Reports: Pentagon Reports Explain Mysterious UFO Sightings https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a35904670/pentagon-ufo-reports-objects-breaking-sound-barrier-without-sonic-boom/
Unmasked: man behind cult set to replace QAnon | QAnon | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/20/revealed-man-behind-fast-growing-cult-becoming-the-new-qanon-sabmyk-network
Random link from the archives: "Sherlock Holmes Music History: Elementary, My Dear Soundtrack" https://web.archive.org/web/20200531133527/https://tedium.co/2020/05/29/sherlock-holmes-music/ originally retrieved Sun May 31 13:35:27 EDT 2020
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The Mystery of 'Harriet Cole' - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/harriet-cole-human-nervous-system-philadelphia
My 10 Favorite Books I've Read in 2020 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcEZbpzn9Ls
Metakovan, the mystery Beeple art buyer, and his NFT/DeFi scheme – Amy Castor https://amycastor.com/2021/03/14/metakovan-the-mystery-beeple-art-buyer-and-his-nft-defi-scheme/
A Hacker Got All My Texts for $16 https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3g8wb/hacker-got-my-texts-16-dollars-sakari-netnumber
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20210214111142/https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/statement-on-new-york-times-article?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMjk3MzIsInBvc3RfaWQiOjMyNTIzMzMzLCJfIjoiTVh6QWsiLCJpYXQiOjE2MTMzMTg5NjIsImV4cCI6MTYxMzMyMjU2MiwiaXNzIjoicHViLTg5MTIwIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.BZyhV811cJYzsHpj5PtKOp28xGynwzqmNpYA8LqduW8 originally retrieved Sun 14 Feb 2021 11:11:42 AM EST
Anarchism: Vignettes Against Hobbes - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcMyJ3BgM1k
I hate windows. Closed all apps and shut down all user-controllable daemons, and found that the system was still using 83% of my ram
Random link from the archives: "My Approach to Getting Dramatically Better as a Programmer – malisper.me" https://web.archive.org/web/20180614131843/http://malisper.me/my-approach-to-getting-dramatically-better-as-a-programmer/ originally retrieved Thu Jun 14 13:18:43 EDT 2018
Random link from the archives: "302 Found" https://web.archive.org/web/20191104095043/https://mystudentvoices.com/spanning-problem-space-74e81c367bb7?source=friends_link&sk=0aed75c4e982d3c1659e1f5bc0e0c50f originally retrieved Mon Nov 4 09:50:43 EST 2019
Scott Alexander read's somebody's version of The Grey Tribe from 1983 and rejects it: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-fussell-on-class?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMjk3MzIsInBvc3RfaWQiOjMyODYzNDY1LCJfIjoiTVh6QWsiLCJpYXQiOjE2MTQ2MDY0MTcsImV4cCI6MTYxNDYxMDAxNywiaXNzIjoicHViLTg5MTIwIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.Xx42PU7V8f_jzy0PS2edAA40LkWuh2mzox9j9bdLpkk&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share
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The Guy Predicting Stocks With An Army of App-Based Psychics https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7v7wb/the-guy-predicting-stocks-with-an-army-of-app-based-psychics
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Scientists Achieve Real-Time Communication With Lucid Dreamers in Breakthrough https://www.vice.com/en/article/4admym/scientists-achieve-real-time-communication-with-lucid-dreamers-in-breakthrough
Random link from the archives: "The Mysterious "Order of the Odd Fellows" that frankly, belongs in a Wes Anderson Movie" https://web.archive.org/web/20200205115016/https://www.messynessychic.com/2020/01/17/237753/ originally retrieved Wed Feb 5 11:50:16 EST 2020
Random link from the archives: "The Collapse of Bon Appetit | Jack Saint - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20200816115234/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQV-W_Ut8MY originally retrieved Sun Aug 16 11:52:34 EDT 2020
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Random link from the archives: "AHA 2020 - Becoming a Desk(top) Profession - Google Slides" https://web.archive.org/web/20200115102604/https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zLOTxijUgQhPy_xxKtuWBTpwdoDoRxoxNyXvMyHAFt8/edit#slide=id.p originally retrieved Wed Jan 15 10:26:04 EST 2020
What you eat, who you date, and how you shop are valuable details for the brokers behind India’s multimillion-dollar dark data economy - Rest of World https://restofworld.org/2020/all-the-data-fit-to-sell/
The Meme Economy: A Class Analysis of #STONKS - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnUdiEMFtMg
Information Society is like if KMFDM wrote nothing but breakup songs and critiques of capitalism, and I think that's maybe why they jam so hard. I like my bangers cheesy because it gives me requisite distance from my own reflected feelings.
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‘My Way’ Has Always Been the Anthem of Despicable Men https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/my-way-has-always-been-the-anthem-of-despicable-men
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The Mystery of the Immaculate Concussion | GQ https://www.gq.com/story/cia-investigation-and-russian-microwave-attacks
my balogna has a first name, but it is carefully kept secret. wizards who know the balogna's name can control the balogna, including that already ingested. it is very dangerous to traffic in names.
Police Need Help Identifying Famous QAnon Guy Named Jake Angeli From Arizona https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7my83/police-need-help-identifying-famous-qanon-guy-named-jake-angeli-from-arizona
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Mystery meat navigation - Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_meat_navigation
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Bad idea of the day: the office of Irregular Detective, who, rather than solving mysteries, uses their investigation to explore and highlight the mysterious and fractalline strangeness that pervades the universe
Random link from the archives: "My Life at a Russian Propaganda Network - POLITICO Magazine" https://web.archive.org/web/20181220104149/https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/21/russian-propaganda-sputnik-reporter-215511 originally posted Thu Dec 20 10:41:49 EST 2018
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Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200616181917/https://medium.com/p/how-i-taught-my-computer-to-write-its-own-music-6d5804ffb7b5 originally posted Tue Jun 16 18:19:17 EDT 2020
True Facts: Army Ant Riders - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p16g5IVCdeE
Random link from the archives: "The bizarre, true story of Metal Gear Solid’s English translation - Polygon" https://web.archive.org/web/20190723100839/https://www.polygon.com/2019/7/18/20696081/metal-gear-solid-translation-japanese-english-jeremy-blaustein originally posted Tue Jul 23 10:08:39 EDT 2019
So I fed the i ching into my comic generator script and it generated a 101 page comic about how I'm a bad person for feeding the i ching into a comic generator http://www.lord-enki.net/iching.pdf
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200303131946/https://medium.com/@enkiv2/my-intellectual-progress-2010-2019-ef7dec61cbf4 originally posted Tue Mar 3 13:19:46 EST 2020
Random link from the archives: "The Posthuman Heart of ‘Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons’" https://web.archive.org/web/20190814083920/https://wearethemutants.com/2019/08/06/the-posthuman-heart-of-captain-scarlet-and-the-mysterons/ originally posted Wed Aug 14 08:39:20 EDT 2019
I filed for the last week of December off work, but my executive function is so crap right now... I need that vacation to start, like, two weeks ago and last through the end of the year tbh.
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20201002091120/https://medium.com/p/be-a-pal-my-dudes-a34c06df1b1d originally posted Fri Oct 2 09:11:20 EDT 2020
Why would you claim that Mozart's 1787 composition 'A Musical Joke' was 'the first shitpost' when, by that point, Mozart had already composed his piece 'Lick My Ass'?
Random link from the archives: "‘Real’ Programming Is an Elitist Myth | WIRED" https://web.archive.org/web/20200819170731/https://www.wired.com/story/databases-coding-real-programming-myth/ originally posted Wed Aug 19 17:07:31 EDT 2020
Apparently my spotify #1 streaming track for 2020 is an obscure Goblin b-side for a movie I've never heard of that I streamed 4 times -- once in march and three times in september -- while my #1 artist is whoever recorded the version of The Ring Cycle I listened to in October, but I discovered 457 new genres?
Outlaw Star is my favorite anime about tao-powered pink spaceships who wrassle
Random link from the archives: "Understanding Losing My Religion - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20190803172947/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0FrjJyuXHY originally posted Sat Aug 3 17:29:47 EDT 2019
I don't know how melodies work so I just don't have any, and it seems to have worked just fine, in that by making no money from my music, I am not making any less than the average actually-talented musician.
My primary skill as a thinker is that I remember things I heard on podcasts. I don't remember them CORRECTLY, but just remembering them wrong is often enough...
Random link from the archives: "My Life in Books: A Meditation on the Writer’s Library | Poets & Writers" https://web.archive.org/web/20190729112008/https://www.pw.org/content/my_life_in_books_a_meditation_on_the_writers_library originally posted Mon Jul 29 11:20:08 EDT 2019
The First Church of Space Jesus: The Mythic Function of the Zombie Apocalypse: The Politics of Contagion http://firstchurchofspacejesus.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-mythic-function-of-zombie.html
The First Church of Space Jesus: Market Myths: Good, Bad, and Bazaar: The stories that hold up western* capitalism http://firstchurchofspacejesus.blogspot.com/2020/11/market-myths-good-bad-and-bazaar.html
The First Church of Space Jesus: I do not see myself represented in essays on dating http://firstchurchofspacejesus.blogspot.com/2020/11/i-do-not-see-myself-represented-in.html
Random link from the archives: "My hobby: Troll hugging. - 鳳" https://web.archive.org/web/20180830112634/http://pugs.blogs.com/audrey/2009/08/my-hobby-troll-hugging.html originally posted Thu Aug 30 11:26:34 EDT 2018
Random link from the archives: "AI art: I’m using a language model called GPT-2 to write my next novel - Vox" https://web.archive.org/web/20191001122732/https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/8/30/20840194/ai-art-fiction-writing-language-gpt-2 originally posted Tue Oct 1 12:27:32 EDT 2019
Band name of the day: the mysterious world of ghosts
Random link from the archives: "Thread by @JairusKhan: "I was a speaker and workshop organizer at hopeconf this year. My first 2600 meeting was over 20 years ago. I'm also an event organizer with […]" #hopeconf" https://web.archive.org/web/20180726103535/https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1021576113875771392.html originally posted Thu Jul 26 10:35:35 EDT 2018
Random link from the archives: "Army of Altruists | The Anarchist Library" https://web.archive.org/web/20200819101450/https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-army-of-altruists originally posted Wed Aug 19 10:14:50 EDT 2020
Every time I try to write drawing routines of any kind, I am reminded of how bad my geometric reasoning is. Like, I'm trying to lay out a squared-off spiral from variable-sized parts and it's kicking my ass.
Amy Coney Barrett | Philosophy Tube ft. LegalEagle - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNhj_s8flUk
Mythryl is not just a bag of features like most programming languages. https://mythryl.org/my-Mythryl_is_not_just_a_bag_of_features_like_most_programming_languages_.html
Mitch Horowitz Speaks on Mysterious Beasts and Natural Wonders - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKJSOo-SRfc
So surreal, as a leftist, to check my mailbox every day & see stacks of ads from all the various politicians & they're all competing with each other to lick more cop boots & accusing each other of not licking enough cop boots
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200920005952/https://medium.com/p/the-mad-fox-1962-blu-ray-arrow-academy-4bf6ca4fd729 originally posted Sun Sep 20 00:59:52 EDT 2020
Band name of the day: mysterious circumstances
The myth of the male bumbler https://theweek.com/articles/737056/myth-male-bumbler
Software gore: I hit 'random post' on my tumblr blog eight times. Six were from March 23rd, 2014, one was from March 25, 2014, and one was from March 24th, 2014.
Thread by @enkiv2: "@mykola TBH, NTs don't know social rules because they learned to follow them in a pre-conscious state. When you ask an NT to explain socia […]" https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1171808796395659264.html
BEST Horror Movie Ever! -- My Octopus Teacher - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whb4unrhy44
Random link from the archives: "I think, therefore I make mistakes and change my mind | Aeon Essays" https://web.archive.org/web/20191120131315/https://aeon.co/essays/i-think-therefore-i-make-mistakes-and-change-my-mind originally posted Wed Nov 20 13:13:15 EST 2019
Random link from the archives: "Myth Maker: The Fantasy Films of Ray Harryhausen - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20200626103413/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJZDLP_spIg originally posted Fri Jun 26 10:34:13 EDT 2020
Random link from the archives: "Pey Shkoy Benefits Humans" https://web.archive.org/web/20181111191020/http://constellation.crummy.com/Pey%20Shkoy%20Benefits%20Humans/ originally posted Sun Nov 11 19:10:20 EST 2018
Random link from the archives: "My Hero Academia's Fights Are Actually Dull - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20180626152137/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3jjVsm99Ec originally posted Tue Jun 26 15:21:37 EDT 2018
With an Army of Sex Soldiers, a Thai King Makes His Great Escape https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/with-an-army-of-sex-soldiers-a-thai-king-makes-his-great-escape
Nate Cull: "I guess the question that occupies my mind a lot …" - Mastodon https://mastodon.social/@natecull/104862899327236619
Random link from the archives: "bollu.github.io | code + contents of my website, and programming life" https://web.archive.org/web/20200116112247/http://bollu.github.io/#incunabulum-for-the-21st-century-making-the-j-interpreter-compile-in-2020 originally posted Thu Jan 16 11:22:47 EST 2020
love to take 20mg of melotonin and then lay in bed for 11 hours, wide awake, thinking about bills, on a work night. great use of my time, thanks.
Random link from the archives: "In an unstable economy, I found freedom and security in sex work | Psyche Ideas" https://web.archive.org/web/20200818121806/https://psyche.co/ideas/in-an-unstable-economy-i-found-freedom-and-security-in-sex-work originally posted Tue Aug 18 12:18:06 EDT 2020
The Glass Onion theory of The Shining is my new favorite https://www.tor.com/2012/11/08/the-great-stephen-king-reread-the-shining-movie/
'2 Girls 1 Cup': Is It Real? Investigating the Web's Most NSFW Mystery https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/2-girls-1-cup-an-investigation-into-the-webs-shittiest-mystery
Random link from the archives: "The Mysteries of the Magick Lantern Cycle - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20200313203948/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttmhmyiz1N8 originally posted Fri Mar 13 20:39:48 EDT 2020
Random link from the archives: "Conspiracies and "The Wrong Room" Phenomenon | Mysterious Universe" https://web.archive.org/web/20180220111139/http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/02/conspiracies-and-the-wrong-room-phenomenon/ originally posted Tue Feb 20 11:11:39 EST 2018
Random link from the archives: "Pey Shkoy Benefits Humans" https://web.archive.org/web/20181111191020/http://constellation.crummy.com/Pey%20Shkoy%20Benefits%20Humans/ originally posted Sun Nov 11 19:10:20 EST 2018
The Myth of a Free Press: Media Bias Explained | Tom Nicholas - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-8t0EfLzQo
Random link from the archives: "The Quietus | Opinion | Black Sky Thinking | What The KLF Burning A Million Quid Means In 2017" https://web.archive.org/web/20170807121130/http://thequietus.com/articles/22945-klf-burn-a-million-quid-bill-drummond-jimmy-cauty?curator=MusicREDEF originally posted Mon Aug 7 12:11:30 EDT 2017
Random link from the archives: "Error 406 - Not Acceptable" https://web.archive.org/web/20200109081429/https://philemonfoundation.org/alchemy/ originally posted Thu Jan 9 08:14:29 EST 2020
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20190824123406/https://medium.com/p/how-behavioural-economics-helped-kick-my-phone-addiction-edf9fdf6d45e originally posted Sat Aug 24 12:34:06 EDT 2019
Random link from the archives: "Reality TV: Anatomy of a Genre | Video Essay - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20181012124126/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS90rgLsb24 originally posted Fri Oct 12 12:41:26 EDT 2018
Random link from the archives: "Secretly Public Domain" https://web.archive.org/web/20190802104412/https://www.crummy.com/2019/07/22/0 originally posted Fri Aug 2 10:44:12 EDT 2019
Random link from the archives: "Designing Our Disciplines in a Postmodern Age – and Academy" https://web.archive.org/web/20190115092523/http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/designing-our-disciplines-in-a-postmodern-age-and-academy/ originally posted Tue Jan 15 09:25:23 EST 2019
Why I Call Myself a Socialist | The Nation https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/why-i-call-myself-socialist/
Random link from the archives: "The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo’s odyssey from absurdist theatre troupe to new wave octet – Night Flight" https://web.archive.org/web/20180314100353/http://nightflight.com/the-mystic-knights-of-the-oingo-boingos-odyssey-from-absurdist-theatre-troupe-to-new-wave-octet/ originally posted Wed Mar 14 10:03:53 EDT 2018
Mysterious SEGA Saturn Games - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZID4kzEJ0E
“Who’s quoting this?”: Synchromystic Language, Narrative and Metatextuality in Hellier – The House of Alexander http://houseofalexander.wiki/whos-quoting-this
21 Years On, Revisiting Ellwood’s The Politics of Myth « enfolding.org http://enfolding.org/21-years-on-revisiting-ellwoods-the-politics-of-myth/
How Al Bundy Became an Icon, A Married With Children Retrospective - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4tmyGvqNJk
‘Real’ Programming Is an Elitist Myth | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/databases-coding-real-programming-myth/
Army of Altruists | The Anarchist Library https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-army-of-altruists
In an unstable economy, I found freedom and security in sex work | Psyche Ideas https://psyche.co/ideas/in-an-unstable-economy-i-found-freedom-and-security-in-sex-work
Boys State, the Subject of an Outstanding New Documentary, Was One of the Strangest Weeks of My Life https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/a33587978/boys-state-documentary-review/
Random link from the archives: "The Coping Economy | Dissent Magazine" https://web.archive.org/web/20190118093449/https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/coping-economy-mindfulness-goes-corporate originally posted Fri Jan 18 09:34:49 EST 2019
The rest cure challenges cherished myths about a working body | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-rest-cure-challenges-cherished-myths-about-a-working-body
The Collapse of Bon Appetit | Jack Saint - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQV-W_Ut8MY
Lacan - The Mirror Stage, The Imaginary, and Social Media (How am I not myself?) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50k_IUMrehU
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20190812141626/https://medium.com/p/it-took-twitter-4hrs-to-block-my-modernist-architecture-bot-why-dont-they-block-anti-semitism-4bb146c7f361 originally posted Mon Aug 12 14:16:26 EDT 2019
Today I read a random passage from 1000 Plateaus aloud to my GF over breakfast & we both had fun laughing about the Professor Challenger metaphor so I feel pretty good about our match tbh
Creating My Own Personal Micropub Client · Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer https://www.jvt.me/posts/2020/06/28/personal-micropub-client/
Do Not Plant These! Officials Investigate Mystery Seeds Sent By Mail : NPR https://www.npr.org/local/305/2020/07/29/896715875/do-not-plant-these-officials-investigate-mystery-seeds-sent-by-mail
After the End of the Myth: On American Interiors and the Rotten Western – xenogothic https://xenogothic.com/2020/07/30/after-the-end-of-the-myth-on-american-interiors-and-the-rotten-western/
Random link from the archives: "Harvey Weinstein’s Army of Spies | The New Yorker" https://web.archive.org/web/20171107070117/https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/harvey-weinsteins-army-of-spies originally posted Tue Nov 7 07:01:17 EST 2017
BestGuyEver references my article on GitS (at 16:03) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyegXKHBZT8
The myth of the free speech crisis | Freedom of speech | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/03/the-myth-of-the-free-speech-crisis
The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army But It's the Spongebob Squarepants Intro - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otwqZ6VqMss
Did MySpace Kill the Potential for Customization on Social Media? https://tedium.co/2020/07/14/social-media-customization-failings/
Random link from the archives: "My long strange winter trip with John Perry Barlow, a legend in the making | Salon.com" https://web.archive.org/web/20180604104455/https://www.salon.com/2018/06/02/1969-my-long-strange-winter-trip-with-john-perry-barlow-a-legend-in-the-making/?curator=MusicREDEF originally posted Mon Jun 4 10:44:55 EDT 2018
Random link from the archives: "My unedited rant on slavery in isekai - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20190310171123/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrxG0tTIqbg originally posted Sun Mar 10 17:11:23 EDT 2019
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20180909232243/https://medium.com/p/on-my-reading-of-slavoj-%C5%BEi%C5%BEek-3dfb569cd60e originally posted Sun Sep 9 23:22:43 EDT 2018
Random link from the archives: "Push Meme To The Edge; All My Faves Are Dead - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20180802171928/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G51D51f_WPo originally posted Thu Aug 2 17:19:28 EDT 2018
Random link from the archives: "Garfield phones beach mystery finally solved after 35 years - BBC News" https://web.archive.org/web/20190401090924/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47732553 originally posted Mon Apr 1 09:09:24 EDT 2019
Random link from the archives: "Anime Mythbusters #3 | "China Will Become the Largest Market for Anime" - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20191104112052/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaX8Dmpx0fI originally posted Mon Nov 4 11:20:52 EST 2019
Random link from the archives: "My browser, the spy: How extensions slurped up browsing histories from 4M users | Ars Technica" https://web.archive.org/web/20190723134106/https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/07/dataspii-inside-the-debacle-that-dished-private-data-from-apple-tesla-blue-origin-and-4m-people/ originally posted Tue Jul 23 13:41:06 EDT 2019
Random link from the archives: "The Circle of HOPE (2018): The Problem With The Hacker Mystique - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20190429192145/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D7boOIHrc8 originally posted Mon Apr 29 19:21:45 EDT 2019
Random link from the archives: "The Mystery Behind The World's Worst Fanfiction - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20191128123428/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISfGI0vVBSs originally posted Thu Nov 28 12:34:28 EST 2019
Random link from the archives: "The Mystery Behind The World's Worst Fanfiction - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20191128123428/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISfGI0vVBSs originally posted Thu Nov 28 12:34:28 EST 2019
OK, until somebody makes a full-featured desktop SSB client that doesn't involve nodejs, I'm done with it. I tried to install the new binary patchfoo & it broke half my npm packages (including all the ssb-related ones). Spent 2 days & couldn't get any npm packages working again. Node packaging simply isn't acceptably stable & IMO shouldn't be used.
Random link from the archives: "Anime Mythbusters #3 | "China Will Become the Largest Market for Anime" - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20191104112052/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaX8Dmpx0fI originally posted Mon Nov 4 11:20:52 EST 2019
The Sinister Origins of the Peanut Butter-Dog-Vagina Myth https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/peanut-butter-dog-vagina-myth
Quitting Sex Was The Best Thing I Ever Did For Myself https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/laurabogart/sex-celibate-dating-weight-body-image?ref=bfnsplash
Random link from the archives: "Worried About The Economy? Everything Is About To Get Much Worse." https://web.archive.org/web/20200618125057/https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tomgara/economy-recession-coronavirus originally posted Thu Jun 18 12:50:57 EDT 2020
My only problem with Scott Alexander remains his stubborn refusal to treat elementary leftist ideas like Marx's conception of the relation of capital to labor with the same intellectual seriousness that he lends to, say, the idea that My Immortal is an alchemical allegory for the ars magna, or miscellaneous Moldbuggery.
Random link from the archives: "Cicada 3301: An Internet Mystery - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20180913113421/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2O7blSSzpI originally posted Thu Sep 13 11:34:21 EDT 2018
Thread by @mykola: A relational database represents an ontology of the data it contains. It is a graph, not a tree -- everything is defined in terms of everyth… https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1281203896384393216.html
Random link from the archives: "MY YEAR AT JOHN LILLY'S DOLPHIN LAB - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20200305175927/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONhnEmoSRfk originally posted Thu Mar 5 17:59:27 EST 2020
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20190801105456/https://grimoire.ca/mysql/choose-something-else originally posted Thu Aug 1 10:54:56 EDT 2019
Random link from the archives: "Welcome to My Opium Den/Coworking Space for Millennials - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency" https://web.archive.org/web/20191002081739/https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/welcome-to-my-opium-den-coworking-space-for-millennials originally posted Wed Oct 2 08:17:39 EDT 2019
I am slowly uploading my old albums to bandcamp: https://infocalypse.bandcamp.com/
Random link from the archives: "Amy Winehouse’s 2019 tour: why dead celebrity holograms keep happening - Vox" https://web.archive.org/web/20181025135555/https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/10/23/18010274/amy-winehouse-hologram-tour-controversy-technology originally posted Thu Oct 25 13:55:55 EDT 2018
Random link from the archives: "Practical Procedural Generation for Everyone - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20180312164948/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WumyfLEa6bU originally posted Mon Mar 12 16:49:48 EDT 2018
Ever had a day where you're so bone-tired that you can't bring yourself to do anything except aimlessly scroll twitter? That's been my last couple days.
Random link from the archives: "Hobbs and His Locks: The Great Lock Controversy of 1851 - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20171126141239/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH2kohmyqm4 originally posted Sun Nov 26 14:12:39 EST 2017
Random link from the archives: "Frankincense and myrrh were not only holy but heretical too | Aeon Essays" https://web.archive.org/web/20181226103519/https://aeon.co/essays/frankincense-and-myrrh-were-not-only-holy-but-heretical-too originally posted Wed Dec 26 10:35:19 EST 2018
Random link from the archives: "My Hero Academia & The Quest For the Perfect Shounen Anime - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20180802170902/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAV1uv3lPBQ originally posted Thu Aug 2 17:09:02 EDT 2018
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20190816171923/https://medium.com/p/in-my-culture-29c6464072b2 originally posted Fri Aug 16 17:19:23 EDT 2019
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200304222204/https://medium.com/p/my-year-of-not-buying-books-54e4c8f99615 originally posted Wed Mar 4 22:22:04 EST 2020
Random link from the archives: "Hobbs and His Locks: The Great Lock Controversy of 1851 - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20171126141239/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH2kohmyqm4 originally posted Sun Nov 26 14:12:39 EST 2017
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200614085815/https://medium.com/p/my-virtual-dream-of-flying-to-marker-island-f17e9373acc3 originally posted Sun Jun 14 08:58:15 EDT 2020
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200315020338/https://medium.com/@enkiv2/i-too-get-more-traffic-more-responses-on-quora-except-of-course-when-i-cross-promote-my-e9bcd335dadf originally posted Sun Mar 15 02:03:38 EDT 2020
Random link from the archives: "What's On My Mind" https://web.archive.org/web/20180816144458/http://www.xanadu.com.au/ted/zigzag/xybrap.html originally posted Thu Aug 16 14:44:58 EDT 2018
Random link from the archives: "Lossy Text Compression | Anfractuosity | Still waiting on the daybreak, its shadows in my mind" https://web.archive.org/web/20170912094922/https://www.anfractuosity.com/projects/lossy-text-compression/ originally posted Tue Sep 12 09:49:22 EDT 2017
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200618171452/https://medium.com/p/what-i-learned-about-myself-by-going-through-17-years-of-amazon-purchases-8e3676781bd9 originally posted Thu Jun 18 17:14:52 EDT 2020
Random link from the archives: "302 Found" https://web.archive.org/web/20191104095318/https://modernmythology.net/a-qualified-defense-of-fake-news-3a1a31b0168a?source=friends_link&sk=29e670c2a101aba61a355979b49f8c98 originally posted Mon Nov 4 09:53:18 EST 2019
Random link from the archives: "Male brain vs female brain: Is there a difference? — Quartz" https://web.archive.org/web/20170830152022/https://qz.com/1057494/the-biggest-myth-about-our-brains-is-that-theyre-male-or-female/ originally posted Wed Aug 30 15:20:22 EDT 2017
Random link from the archives: "My Lisp Experiences and the Development of GNU Emacs" https://web.archive.org/web/20190709140518/https://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.html originally posted Tue Jul 9 14:05:18 EDT 2019
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200614033511/https://medium.com/p/please-dont-support-the-salvation-army-9f1408c333ff originally posted Sun Jun 14 03:35:11 EDT 2020
Is there a market for a quarterly zine of horror fiction, horror book and film reviews, and essays on the occult? I was thinking of titling it something like 'Devilry Quarterly' & releasing it as paperback and ebook on various platforms, writing everything myself until it became popular enough to justify commissioning submissions, and releasing it on the solstices and equinoxes.
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200616171002/https://medium.com/p/searching-for-meaning-in-my-dreams-238435aaedd6 originally posted Tue Jun 16 17:10:02 EDT 2020
Random link from the archives: "My Life at a Russian Propaganda Network - POLITICO Magazine" https://web.archive.org/web/20181220104149/https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/21/russian-propaganda-sputnik-reporter-215511 originally posted Thu Dec 20 10:41:49 EST 2018
Random link from the archives: "The Posthuman Heart of ‘Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons’" https://web.archive.org/web/20190814083920/https://wearethemutants.com/2019/08/06/the-posthuman-heart-of-captain-scarlet-and-the-mysterons/ originally posted Wed Aug 14 08:39:20 EDT 2019
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Random link from the archives: "I Tried to Live Like Joe Rogan - The Atlantic" https://web.archive.org/web/20190819091848/https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/08/my-joe-rogan-experience/594802/ originally posted Mon Aug 19 09:18:48 EDT 2019
Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200610204256/https://medium.com/p/our-economy-was-just-blasted-years-into-the-future-a591fbba2298 originally posted Wed Jun 10 20:42:56 EDT 2020
Myth Maker: The Fantasy Films of Ray Harryhausen - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJZDLP_spIg
Bad idea of the day: a podcast 'My Favorite Rabbithole' where every week a new guest comes on and talks to the host about whatever they keep finding themselves talking too much about at parties and such
Random link from the archives: "Investigating Homo floresiensis and the myth of the ebu gogo | Aeon Ideas" https://web.archive.org/web/20200218102033/https://aeon.co/ideas/investigating-homo-floresiensis-and-the-myth-of-the-ebu-gogo originally posted Tue Feb 18 10:20:33 EST 2020
Random link from the archives: "List of people who disappeared mysteriously: post-1970 - Wikipedia" https://web.archive.org/web/20190607074536/https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_disappeared_mysteriously:_post-1970 originally posted Fri Jun 7 07:45:36 EDT 2019
Random link from the archives: "302 Found" https://web.archive.org/web/20191109002436/https://modernmythology.net/hill-house-vs-hill-house-two-different-kinds-of-hauntings-8b535d8e667c?source=friends_link&sk=fe06a7f590cd8391e0205918c5299b34 originally posted Sat Nov 9 00:24:36 EST 2019
Random link from the archives: "James Stanley - Someone used my IPFS gateway for phishing" https://web.archive.org/web/20181005095522/https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/hardbin-phishing.html originally posted Fri Oct 5 09:55:22 EDT 2018
How the World’s Most Venomous Fish Convinced Me to Stop Working Myself to Death https://narratively.com/how-the-worlds-most-venomous-fish-convinced-me-to-stop-working-myself-to-death/
NYT Is Threatening My Safety By Revealing My Real Name, So I Am Deleting The Blog | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/22/nyt-is-threatening-my-safety-by-revealing-my-real-name-so-i-am-deleting-the-blog/
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Worried About The Economy? Everything Is About To Get Much Worse. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tomgara/economy-recession-coronavirus
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Sherlock Holmes Music History: Elementary, My Dear Soundtrack https://tedium.co/2020/05/29/sherlock-holmes-music/
Capitalist Mythology: "Free Markets", The State, and Primitive Accumulation - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phZyqdNuYsY
!!Con 2020 - *Punch Card Love! A (Very!) Personal History of Computer Dating! by Amy Cash - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o--GId9sO4
The Legacy of Japan’s Bubble Economy "Juppies" - InsideHook https://www.insidehook.com/article/news-opinion/japan-bubble-economy-juppies
“My Immortal” As Alchemical Allegory | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/05/26/my-immortal-as-alchemical-allegory/
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The ULTIMATE Harem Anime - My Next Life as a Villainess - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rekj5TqbmM
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In case you wanna learn way more than anybody needs to know about a subject none of your friends care about, my dad runs http://www.miniaturebinoculars.com
'Ethics are beyond my purview' is a fancy way of saying 'it is unsafe to allow me to make decisions'
Solving The Internet's Oldest Mystery - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vboQOQwifwg
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20190409073135/https://archive.org/details/myspace_dragon_hoard_2010 originally posted Tue Apr 9 07:31:35 EDT 2019/
Permissive, then restrictive: learning how to design Haskell programs | William Yao https://williamyaoh.com/posts/2020-04-19-permissive-vs-restrictive.html
Entries are OPEN for the 2020 No-Budget Film Contest. They close July 4th. Enter your cheapie films and make my quarantine less boring. https://medium.com/@enkiv2/announcing-the-2020-no-budget-film-contest-b840149f2cf0
Entries are OPEN for the 2020 No-Budget Film Contest. They close July 4th. Enter your cheapie films and make my quarantine less boring. https://medium.com/@enkiv2/announcing-the-2020-no-budget-film-contest-b840149f2cf0
Entries are OPEN for the 2020 No-Budget Film Contest. They close July 4th. Enter your cheapie films and make my quarantine less boring. https://medium.com/@enkiv2/announcing-the-2020-no-budget-film-contest-b840149f2cf0
Entries are OPEN for the 2020 No-Budget Film Contest. They close July 4th. Enter your cheapie films and make my quarantine less boring. https://medium.com/@enkiv2/announcing-the-2020-no-budget-film-contest-b840149f2cf0
Entries are OPEN for the 2020 No-Budget Film Contest. They close July 4th. Enter your cheapie films and make my quarantine less boring. https://medium.com/@enkiv2/announcing-the-2020-no-budget-film-contest-b840149f2cf0
Entries are OPEN for the 2020 No-Budget Film Contest. They close July 4th. Enter your cheapie films and make my quarantine less boring. https://medium.com/@enkiv2/announcing-the-2020-no-budget-film-contest-b840149f2cf0
Entries are OPEN for the 2020 No-Budget Film Contest. They close July 4th. Enter your cheapie films and make my quarantine less boring. https://medium.com/@enkiv2/announcing-the-2020-no-budget-film-contest-b840149f2cf0
Entries are OPEN for the 2020 No-Budget Film Contest. They close July 4th. Enter your cheapie films and make my quarantine less boring. https://medium.com/@enkiv2/announcing-the-2020-no-budget-film-contest-b840149f2cf0
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20190607073841/http://enclydion.blogspot.com/2012/04/my-laptop-bit-me-shocking-truth.html originally posted Fri Jun 7 07:38:41 EDT 2019/
Entries are OPEN for the 2020 No-Budget Film Contest. They close July 4th. Enter your cheapie films and make my quarantine less boring. https://medium.com/@enkiv2/announcing-the-2020-no-budget-film-contest-b840149f2cf0
Entries are OPEN for the 2020 No-Budget Film Contest. They close July 4th. Enter your cheapie films and make my quarantine less boring. https://medium.com/@enkiv2/announcing-the-2020-no-budget-film-contest-b840149f2cf0
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20191120131315/https://aeon.co/essays/i-think-therefore-i-make-mistakes-and-change-my-mind originally posted Wed Nov 20 13:13:15 EST 2019/
Entries are OPEN for the 2020 No-Budget Film Contest. They close July 4th. Enter your cheapie films and make my quarantine less boring. https://medium.com/@enkiv2/announcing-the-2020-no-budget-film-contest-b840149f2cf0
Entries are OPEN for the 2020 No-Budget Film Contest. They close July 4th. Enter your cheapie films and make my quarantine less boring. https://medium.com/@enkiv2/announcing-the-2020-no-budget-film-contest-b840149f2cf0
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Entries are OPEN for the 2020 No-Budget Film Contest. They close July 4th. Enter your cheapie films and make my quarantine less boring. https://medium.com/@enkiv2/announcing-the-2020-no-budget-film-contest-b840149f2cf0
How Transforming My Apartment Into an Indoor Farm Turned Into a Bad Idea https://gizmodo.com/how-transforming-my-apartment-into-an-indoor-farm-turne-1842668178
I appreciate lovecraftian cosmic horror because as a software engineer I spend 8 hours or more a day feeling frustrated and powerless in the face of vast unknowable abominations while also feeling guilty for my role in bringing them into being or empowering them, knowing that I am incapable of banishing them except temporarily.
The First Church of Space Jesus: The MIB and the frontal lobotomy http://firstchurchofspacejesus.blogspot.com/2010/01/mib-and-frontal-lobotomy.html
I like my fansubs the way I like my coffee: with translator notes whose footnotes have their own marginal notes.
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From April 1st to April 8th, my game Manna for our Malices will be free on itch: https://itch.io/s/29402/april-fish-sale
From April 1st to April 8th, my game Manna for our Malices will be free on itch: https://itch.io/s/29402/april-fish-sale
From April 1st to April 8th, my game Manna for our Malices will be free on itch: https://itch.io/s/29402/april-fish-sale
From April 1st to April 8th, my game Manna for our Malices will be free on itch: https://itch.io/s/29402/april-fish-sale
From April 1st to April 8th, my game Manna for our Malices will be free on itch: https://itch.io/s/29402/april-fish-sale
From April 1st to April 8th, my game Manna for our Malices will be free on itch: https://itch.io/s/29402/april-fish-sale
From April 1st to April 8th, my game Manna for our Malices will be free on itch: https://itch.io/s/29402/april-fish-sale
From April 1st to 5th, two of my books will be free on kindle: https://t.co/ijSyUiS7wn?amp=1 ; both are already on Kindle Unlimited.
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20171129102433/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/vrillon-hacking-alien-voice-seventies-extra-terrestrial-hoax-unexplained-mysteries-a8069926.html originally posted Wed Nov 29 10:24:33 EST 2017/
From April 1st to April 8th, my game Manna for our Malices will be free on itch: https://itch.io/s/29402/april-fish-sale
From April 1st to 5th, two of my books will be free on kindle: https://t.co/ijSyUiS7wn?amp=1 ; both are already on Kindle Unlimited.
From April 1st to April 8th, my game Manna for our Malices will be free on itch: https://itch.io/s/29402/april-fish-sale
Yet another novel I will no longer write - Charlie's Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2020/04/reality-keeps-stealing-my-line.html
From April 1st to 5th, two of my books will be free on kindle: https://t.co/ijSyUiS7wn?amp=1 ; both are already on Kindle Unlimited.
From April 1st to April 8th, my game Manna for our Malices will be free on itch: https://itch.io/s/29402/april-fish-sale
From April 1st to 5th, two of my books will be free on kindle: https://t.co/ijSyUiS7wn?amp=1 ; both are already on Kindle Unlimited.
From April 1st to April 8th, my game Manna for our Malices will be free on itch: https://itch.io/s/29402/april-fish-sale
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20170602124625/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/magazine/the-mystery-of-the-wasting-house-cats.html?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email originally posted Fri Jun 2 12:46:25 EDT 2017/
From April 1st to April 8th, my game Manna for our Malices will be free on itch: https://itch.io/s/29402/april-fish-sale
From April 1st to 5th, two of my books will be free on kindle: https://t.co/ijSyUiS7wn?amp=1 ; both are already on Kindle Unlimited.
From April 1st to April 8th, my game Manna for our Malices will be free on itch: https://itch.io/s/29402/april-fish-sale
From April 1st to 5th, two of my books will be free on kindle: https://t.co/ijSyUiS7wn?amp=1 ; both are already on Kindle Unlimited.
From April 1st to April 8th, my game Manna for our Malices will be free on itch: https://itch.io/s/29402/april-fish-sale
From April 1st to April 8th, my game Manna for our Malices will be free on itch: https://itch.io/s/29402/april-fish-sale
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.
all signs indicate that this quarantine is gonna last longer than my last relationship
My first book has four reviews on amazon. Three are five-star reviews about the content. One is a one-star review complaining that the book is too tall, & saying that he immediately returned it without reading it because he didn't like the font.
It's funny how, now that I'm stuck at home all day, I somehow feel like I have even less time & I'm having so much more difficulty being productive. I even moved my work laptop into a different room in order to try to separate work from leisure, but my executive function is really bad since the quarantine started...
https://medium.com/@enkiv2/thoughts-on-generating-mystery-heist-stories-b11882215244
Coronavirus Will Change the World Permanently. Here’s How. - POLITICO https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/19/coronavirus-effect-economy-life-society-analysis-covid-135579
I'll bet nobody really expected that we'd go directly from a gig economy to a hikkikomori economy. A hikkikoconomy.
https://medium.com/@enkiv2/fiction-generator-post-mortem-mythology-generation-d7548a08beac
Band name of the day: all my favorite cities are invisible
https://medium.com/@enkiv2/i-dont-remember-writing-this-but-it-looks-exactly-like-my-writing-style-1faf3ef0b394
Reasons to be careful about using zombie apocalypse metaphors to think about the current pandemic: https://modernmythology.net/the-mythic-function-of-the-zombie-apocalypse-narrative-515fe4eece53?source=friends_link&sk=f548fde4560c81d8dc5beadeb89f7b6d
Mastermind at 50: The Mysterious Origins of the Codebreaking Board Game - VICE https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/884k54/permalink-mastermind-board-game-50th-anniversary-origins-fallout-cybersecurity
Stuck at home and bored? Why not play my video game? It's available from steam & itch: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1013580/Manna_for_our_Malices/ https://enkiv2.itch.io/manna-for-our-malices
https://medium.com/@enkiv2/i-too-get-more-traffic-more-responses-on-quora-except-of-course-when-i-cross-promote-my-e9bcd335dadf
The Mysteries of the Magick Lantern Cycle - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttmhmyiz1N8
I will never become an amazon 'best seller' in category, because the categories my books fall into are so specific that amazon has not actually listed them yet -- like alt-computing, cyber-marxist user interface design, and cyberfunk drabbles.
https://medium.com/@enkiv2/uniform-uis-are-the-enemy-problems-are-not-uniform-and-solutions-should-fit-their-problems-154b48299111
American Mythology - The Simpsons | Renegade Cut - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbTL_vuDuOQ
https://medium.com/@enkiv2/my-mom-isnt-dumb-but-she-has-not-and-never-had-any-interest-in-learning-how-tech-works-52bbedf70c82
https://medium.com/@enkiv2/sorry-thats-my-canon-cat-article-i-meant-to-link-to-this-one-c88061628070
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20190819091848/https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/08/my-joe-rogan-experience/594802/ originally posted Mon Aug 19 09:18:48 EDT 2019/
Nine Inch Nails "March of the Pigs": From Scrapped Original Video to Iconic Final Cut | Revolver https://www.revolvermag.com/culture/nine-inch-nails-march-pigs-scrapped-original-video-iconic-final-cut?fbclid=IwAR1pFYMDE34R58pybUNLysAX5cXqE5ZGbIHh3hjIOxQMKJfPPMYWnjqDIoE
Explosive Barrels. - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMYEE8lvlvA
https://medium.com/@enkiv2/i-dont-see-how-rust-s-design-is-compatible-with-any-of-my-suggestions-f34687127a0f
MY YEAR AT JOHN LILLY'S DOLPHIN LAB - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONhnEmoSRfk
https://medium.com/@enkiv2/regarding-the-back-catalogue-i-have-taken-to-using-automation-to-post-links-to-my-old-medium-5fa02b9e03f2
https://medium.com/@enkiv2/my-intellectual-progress-2010-2019-ef7dec61cbf4
it's weird that party city still sends me marketing emails, considering that i gave them my email on the last day that the only nearby outlet was open, like 2 years ago. i wonder how much money they lose sending marketing emails to people who live too far away to ever shop there
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20170713090331/https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/07/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-mostly-and-love-my-threat-model/ originally posted Thu Jul 13 09:03:31 EDT 2017/
Explain your thinking. Don't make it mysterious. | MetaFilter https://www.metafilter.com/185799/Explain-your-thinking-Dont-make-it-mysterious
» Myst (or, The Drawbacks to Success) The Digital Antiquarian https://www.filfre.net/2020/02/myst-or-the-drawbacks-to-success/
Modern, functional Common Lisp: Myths and tips https://ambrevar.xyz/modern-common-lisp/index.html
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20200130101555/https://crimereads.com/on-the-casual-sociopathy-of-the-traditional-mystery/ originally posted Thu Jan 30 10:15:55 EST 2020/
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20190801105456/https://grimoire.ca/mysql/choose-something-else originally posted Thu Aug 1 10:54:56 EDT 2019/
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20200121110656/https://newrepublic.com/article/156202/silicon-valley-economy-here-its-nightmare originally posted Tue Jan 21 11:06:56 EST 2020/
Investigating Homo floresiensis and the myth of the ebu gogo | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/investigating-homo-floresiensis-and-the-myth-of-the-ebu-gogo
Robert Burton lived and died for his Anatomy of Melancholy | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/robert-burton-lived-and-died-for-his-anatomy-of-melancholy
My secret to being blissfully unaware of most of the stock categories of internet jerks while remaining extremely online: every time a stranger says something to me that wastes my time, I mute them.
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20170816121240/https://thenewinquiry.com/taxonomy-of-humans-according-to-twitter/ originally posted Wed Aug 16 12:12:40 EDT 2017/
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20190913084016/https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/myths-about-your-thirties-debunked originally posted Fri Sep 13 08:40:16 EDT 2019/
People Born Blind Are Mysteriously Protected From Schizophrenia - VICE https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/939qbz/people-born-blind-are-mysteriously-protected-from-schizophrenia
https://medium.com/@enkiv2/general-purpose-in-my-view-is-an-overstatement-422d7a8d58e1
As somebody who worked for Xanadu, I still maintain that 'real' hypertext is less like 'what if clicking on blue words replaced my screen with a different screen' and more like 'what if marginal notes went on forever in every direction and i could see all of them at once'.
Extremely periodic reminder: until a few years ago, I was prolific in making (something not entirely unlike) music, & I have a patreon associated. I will need to start making new music again soon for another project. Here is my back catalogue: http://infocalypse.nfshost.com/
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20191104095429/https://modernmythology.net/market-myths-good-bad-and-bazaar-7fa0cbc8f646?source=friends_link&sk=e5e9b4defc93d2240caceb6b4437d723 originally posted Mon Nov 4 09:54:29 EST 2019/
The Mysterious "Order of the Odd Fellows" that frankly, belongs in a Wes Anderson Movie https://www.messynessychic.com/2020/01/17/237753/
How the Coen Brothers Changed My Life " Wisecrack Vlog - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKQPG93jAe0
Drawing with Ants: Generative Art with Ant Colony Optimization Algorithms – Art by Amy Dyer http://amydyer.art/wp/index.php/2020/01/01/drawing-with-ants-generative-art-with-ant-colony-optimization-algorithms/
Question time: my life as a quiz obsessive | News | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/jan/28/question-time-my-life-as-a-quiz-obsessive
Band name of the day: colorado mystery drones
Are Psychedelic Retreats Safe for People With Anxiety? - VICE https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7jeeg/i-went-to-a-high-end-psychedelic-retreat-to-address-my-anxiety
On The Casual Sociopathy of The Traditional Mystery | CrimeReads https://crimereads.com/on-the-casual-sociopathy-of-the-traditional-mystery/
bumper sticker: "My other #AuthorGoals are also #Writing"
Band name of the day: eleven myths about snail breeding
Behold, mortal, the origins of robotfindskitten... https://www.crummy.com/writing/speaking/2017-Roguelike%20Celebration/
https://medium.com/@enkiv2/i-do-not-see-myself-represented-in-essays-on-dating-78488462efa6
My FOSS Story - Andrew Gallant's Blog https://blog.burntsushi.net/foss/
I think I'm gonna jump on the bandwagon and write one of those 'my intellectual progress in the 2010s' blog posts. A lot of stuff happened to me in this decade but I still feel like a high schooler even though I'm a grown ass-man, so maybe making a list will help.
https://medium.com/@enkiv2/belief-is-the-enemy-6cf2ef7c4925
Mystery Flesh Pit National Park https://mysteryfleshpit.tumblr.com/
Welcome to Mystery Flesh Pit National Park, One Redditor’s Colossal Feat of Worldbuilding | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2020/01/03/welcome-to-mystery-flesh-pit-national-park-one-redditors-colossal-feat-of-worldbuilding/
I'm the kind of person who, when feeling irrationally self-destructive, denies themselves the satisfaction of indulging in that impulse. I wonder if my life would be substantially better or substantially worse if I indulged in it more often instead of sublimating it into less-obvious & probably more insidious forms.
My Instagram | Issue 36 | n+1 https://nplusonemag.com/issue-36/essays/my-instagram/
https://medium.com/@enkiv2/thats-sort-of-my-point-there-s-no-technical-reason-why-feature-length-film-budgets-should-be-d3a2d855b8c6
Band name of the day: the anatomy of refusal
bollu.github.io | code + contents of my website, and programming life http://bollu.github.io/#incunabulum-for-the-21st-century-making-the-j-interpreter-compile-in-2020
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20190517111239/https://xenogothic.com/2019/05/17/myth-addiction-reflections-on-lost-fanaticism/ originally posted Fri May 17 11:12:39 EDT 2019/
danah boyd | apophenia » how “context collapse” was coined: my recollection http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2013/12/08/coining-context-collapse.html
AHA 2020 - Becoming a Desk(top) Profession - Google Slides https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zLOTxijUgQhPy_xxKtuWBTpwdoDoRxoxNyXvMyHAFt8/edit#slide=id.p
https://medium.com/@enkiv2/in-my-experience-96ac33b47bdb
Every three or four years some jerk invents a new square wheel and gets a lot of attention from people who were never told about the round ones. Meanwhile, tri-star wheel assemblies and ekranoplans are a wikipedia dive away. Sometimes I wonder if documenting alternatives is worth it, since if it took me so little effort to find something, anybody who finds my writing will already know about it or will have already decided to avoid it.
I spent my vacation staying off the computer and reading / watching movies in order to try to re-seed my imagination so I could write better new stuff, but it backfired because I got out of the habit of writing & now it's tough to make myself write anything :(
Error 406 - Not Acceptable https://philemonfoundation.org/alchemy/
https://medium.com/@enkiv2/sorry-thats-my-canon-cat-article-i-meant-to-link-to-this-one-c88061628070
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20170713090331/https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/07/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-mostly-and-love-my-threat-model/ originally posted Thu Jul 13 09:03:31 EDT 2017/
Somebody's trying to brute force my blizzard account, and I don't know why. I don't have a credit card attached & I don't have any valuable characters. Also they are unaware of 2FA somehow?
I don't know why, regardless of how low I set my distance window, dating sites mostly show me people from NYC. I'm not gonna drive three hours for a first date, & nobody's gonna drive 3 hours to meet me.
https://medium.com/@enkiv2/i-too-get-more-traffic-more-responses-on-quora-except-of-course-when-i-cross-promote-my-e9bcd335dadf
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20190801135920/https://www.mythinking.rocks/WillMartin/rene_girard originally posted Thu Aug 1 13:59:20 EDT 2019/
The answer to 'whatever happened to UFOs': everybody thinks they're drones now. https://gizmodo.com/the-baffling-case-of-colorados-mystery-drones-1840668928
https://medium.com/@enkiv2/in-defense-of-nuanced-understanding-of-the-enemy-in-a-networked-age-feat-zizek-vs-peterson-b712962c5737
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20180411075919/https://engineering.riotgames.com/news/taxonomy-tech-debt originally posted Wed Apr 11 07:59:19 EDT 2018/
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20180909232243/https://medium.com/p/on-my-reading-of-slavoj-%C5%BEi%C5%BEek-3dfb569cd60e originally posted Sun Sep 9 23:22:43 EDT 2018/
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20191205160853/http://yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machines.html originally posted Thu Dec 5 16:08:53 EST 2019/
https://medium.com/@enkiv2/fiction-generator-post-mortem-mythology-generation-d7548a08beac
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20180604104455/https://www.salon.com/2018/06/02/1969-my-long-strange-winter-trip-with-john-perry-barlow-a-legend-in-the-making/?curator=MusicREDEF originally posted Mon Jun 4 10:44:55 EDT 2018/
https://medium.com/@enkiv2/i-feel-like-some-of-this-material-is-covered-in-transactional-psychology-though-my-understanding-aa25c94ca795
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20191209125434/https://www.publicbooks.org/quit-playing-games-with-my-heart/ originally posted Mon Dec 9 12:54:34 EST 2019/
https://medium.com/@enkiv2/myths-of-competence-and-specialization-c5d27506c2bf
https://medium.com/@enkiv2/market-myths-good-bad-and-bazaar-7fa0cbc8f646
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20190814083920/https://wearethemutants.com/2019/08/06/the-posthuman-heart-of-captain-scarlet-and-the-mysterons/ originally posted Wed Aug 14 08:39:20 EDT 2019/
Sunny nihilism: 'Since discovering I’m worthless my life has felt precious' | Life and style | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/dec/18/sunny-nihilism-since-discovering-im-worthless-my-life-has-felt-precious
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20191017091738/https://aeon.co/essays/ottoman-cosmopolitanism-and-the-myth-of-the-sectarian-middle-east originally posted Thu Oct 17 09:17:38 EDT 2019/
I created my own deepfake"it took two weeks and cost $552 | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/12/how-i-created-a-deepfake-of-mark-zuckerberg-and-star-treks-data/
https://medium.com/@enkiv2/mycroft-a-predicate-logic-language-overview-post-mortem-e357fe80d53
Consciousness is neither a spooky mystery nor an illusory belief | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/consciousness-is-neither-a-spooky-mystery-nor-an-illusory-belief
I am still working on that 'next book', Interfaces and Systems: A Survey Of Alternatives (which ended up not being 'next'). It's taking a while -- gotta obtain & read some dense out of print books, get emulators working for forgotten systems, learn programming languages, juggle with my day job. Research material (periodically updated) is at http://www.lord-enki.net/resources-survey-of-alternatives.html and http://www.lord-enki.net/survey-of-alternatives/further_reading.html
https://medium.com/@enkiv2/initially-my-machines-were-named-after-classical-philosophers-and-mathematicians-starting-with-3d26b9fc9468
On Digital Disinformation and Democratic Myths – MediaWell https://mediawell.ssrc.org/expert-reflections/on-digital-disinformation-and-democratic-myths/
It's too bad that I already self-published all my good material on this topic. I could really use the clout of a real academic publisher behind my work. I'm sure I have some followers with unpublished in-progress ms though. https://uwestminsterpress.blog/2019/12/11/900/
Who Made My Phone Do THIS?! - DEV Community '''' https://dev.to/lethargilistic/who-made-my-phone-do-this-1aan
What Shattered My Mother’s Mind https://longreads.com/2019/12/06/what-shattered-my-mothers-mind/
Quit Playing Games with My Heart | Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/quit-playing-games-with-my-heart/
I, Joe Biden, Don’t Support Medicare for All Because My Health Care Plan Is to Restart the Opium Wars - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-joe-biden-dont-support-medicare-for-all-because-my-health-care-plan-is-to-restart-the-opium-wars
My Grading Scale for the Fall Semester, Composed Entirely of Samuel Beckett Quotes - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/my-grading-scale-for-the-fall-semester-composed-entirely-of-samuel-beckett-quotes
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20180628095638/http://www.mikedrivendevelopment.com/2018/06/what-i-learned-making-my-own-jit.html originally posted Thu Jun 28 09:56:38 EDT 2018/
https://medium.com/@enkiv2/i-dont-see-how-rust-s-design-is-compatible-with-any-of-my-suggestions-f34687127a0f
My history with Forth & stack machines http://yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machines.html
Systems for Collective Human Curation of Online Discussion by Amy Xian Zhang http://people.csail.mit.edu/axz/PhDThesisFinal.pdf
Genital herpes stigma history: how an innocuous skin condition became “sexual leprosy” and sparked a myth about drug companies. https://slate.com/technology/2019/12/genital-herpes-stigma-history-explained.html?via=taps_top
Today's the day I remind everybody that they can buy my books & that I will eventually write one that is, like, good. In the meantime, they can also buy my video game, and then wait for me to finish the other two.
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20180411134039/https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/the-myth-of-learning-styles/557687/ originally posted Wed Apr 11 13:40:39 EDT 2018/
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20190726114025/http://religiondispatches.org/magic-in-the-air-how-intellectuals-invented-the-myth-of-a-mythless-society/ originally posted Fri Jul 26 11:40:25 EDT 2019/
https://medium.com/@enkiv2/my-mom-isnt-dumb-but-she-has-not-and-never-had-any-interest-in-learning-how-tech-works-52bbedf70c82
As a kid my mind was warped by constant rewatching of the least popular John Hughes film, Weird Science, the Yahoo Serious vehicle Young Einstein, the Val Kilmer vehicle Real Genius, and the fact that the dewey decimal system files computer books and occult books into the same section, & I think it shows in the man I eventually became.
There's no discount or anything, but if you're in a buying mood, you can buy my new essay collection Software Versus Capital. Full of stuff you've already read online, it is a complicated way to send me two bucks. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1712598651
The Mystery Behind The World's Worst Fanfiction - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISfGI0vVBSs
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20190810133128/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6izXHpLMymE originally posted Sat Aug 10 13:31:28 EDT 2019/
Aiming for my new (very short -- 68 page) essay collection Software Versus Capital to hit KDP & be purchasable on Black Friday, because selling anticapitalist propaganda on Amazon on Black Friday amuses me.
https://medium.com/@enkiv2/uniform-uis-are-the-enemy-problems-are-not-uniform-and-solutions-should-fit-their-problems-154b48299111
Bad idea of the day: sale: if you buy all my games they are 50% off, but if you prove you already bought all my games at full price i will buy one of yours so long as they are cheaper than mine
Bad idea of the day: t-shirt: my other guardian angle is non-euclidian
A section in Robin Sloan's newsletter for this week pairs well with my essay "A Libertarian Case for Social Justice", which takes a different (non-pro-market) route toward the same result: https://buttondown.email/year-of-the-meteor/archive/week-48-doesnt-have-a-cat/ https://medium.com/@enkiv2/a-libertarian-case-for-social-justice-23ee2237b6f5?source=friends_link&sk=11db912d7205c9635aaf146534741203
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20190805135944/https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/crimes$20against$20mimesis$20Roger$20Giner-Sorolla/rec.arts.int-fiction/8Wp4DUbmYYc/0BwemspOurMJ originally posted Mon Aug 5 13:59:44 EDT 2019/
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20181008104935/https://medium.com/@bananaft/my-journey-into-fractals-d25ebc6c4dc2 originally posted Mon Oct 8 10:49:35 EDT 2018/
Myths Programmers Believe about CPU Caches – Software the Hard way https://software.rajivprab.com/2018/04/29/myths-programmers-believe-about-cpu-caches/
There's one month left in the decade. Most of the time I feel like I've been treading water since 2010. But, come to think of it, during this time I: wrote a book, got articles published in real paying publications, lost my virginity, worked on Xanadu in an official capacity, got a real job, put a game on steam, met & worked with some of my idols, learned to drive, got my own house, and adopted a cat who is now the emotional center of my whole life. I also released dozens of albums of music & wrote many hundreds of pages of prose.
I Do Not See Myself Represented in Essays On Dating https://medium.com/@enkiv2/i-do-not-see-myself-represented-in-essays-on-dating-78488462efa6?sk=705f8e1a535edbecb948fb7f9fd59034
semi-tempted to write a medium post about my issues with dating, since i see practically no content that doesn't fall into either the 'three weeks is a long time not to get laid' or 'i identify as incel' categories. surely there's an audience of folks for whom getting a date isn't as easy as winking at an attractive stranger but don't think it's because women aren't people.
i should stop with the caffeine because every time i have any i end up spending hours stressing about my budget. or maybe i should have a lot more caffeine & actually make the bold & hard choices to actually balance my budget instead of masking the symptoms by living off pasta and balogna
These are all disappointing, but I can't think of a good one off the top of my head: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21581361
I think, therefore I make mistakes and change my mind | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/i-think-therefore-i-make-mistakes-and-change-my-mind
Nearly All Mass Shooters Since 1966 Have Had 4 Things in Common - VICE https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a35mya/nearly-all-mass-shooters-since-1966-have-had-four-things-in-common
A Philosophy of Software Design: My Take (and a Book Review) https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/a-philosophy-of-software-design-review/
one time i was in line at the movie theatre trying to explain the premise of Pandora in the Crimson Shell to my friend as 'the world is ruled by a shadow cabal of lesbian cypherpunks' & a middle-aged dude -- a complete stranger behind me in line -- tried to crack a joke about 'lesbians are already in charge of everything huh' and it was awkward af.
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20181105095657/https://www.wired.com/story/my-father-says-hes-a-targeted-individual-maybe-we-all-are/ originally posted Mon Nov 5 09:56:57 EST 2018/
Of X, Y, and Z: The Search for the Lost Works of Charles Fort | Mysterious Universe https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/11/of-x-y-and-z-the-search-for-the-lost-works-of-charles-fort/
The Myth and Magic of Generating New Ideas | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/the-myth-and-magic-of-generating-new-ideas
i have more ram in my current computer than i had disk space in some of the machines i used up though a couple years ago, and yet if i'm not careful a single web browser will fill it up completely in minutes & freeze up the whole box. how did we get here?
Charles Finch on How He Writes Charles Lenox Mysteries https://www.vulture.com/2019/10/charles-finch-on-how-he-writes-charles-lenox-mysteries.html
All the way through the second half of Shadowland I kept thinking 'somebody already made this into a movie right?' Nope. Even though it's so wonderfully cinematic. Real tempted to try my hand at spec, even though it's a now-forgotten 40-year-old 500-page novel.
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20181120102406/https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/nov/20/high-score-low-pay-gamification-lyft-uber-drivers-ride-hailing-gig-economy originally posted Tue Nov 20 10:24:06 EST 2018/
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...
when my dentist said 'god bless' i should have replied 'but you were just looking at my gob'
re: https://medium.com/@simonsellars/my-virtual-dream-of-flying-to-marker-island-f17e9373acc3 having your brain eaten and/or invaded by ballardian memeplexes seems to me to be a substantially more ballardian way of engaging with ballard than scholarship would be. cf: millenium people
apparently somebody forked my 'misc' repo like a year ago and... made 500 commits... and i can't actually tell what they were
oh hey the number of unread emails in my inbox is exactly 2600
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20190726114025/http://religiondispatches.org/magic-in-the-air-how-intellectuals-invented-the-myth-of-a-mythless-society/ originally posted Fri Jul 26 11:40:25 EDT 2019/
https://medium.com/@enkiv2/in-defense-of-nuanced-understanding-of-the-enemy-in-a-networked-age-feat-zizek-vs-peterson-b712962c5737?source=friends_link&sk=a6ea666f6ea7f640a35525b4c0e10415
Band name of the day: mysterious circumstances
Anime Mythbusters #3 | "China Will Become the Largest Market for Anime" - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaX8Dmpx0fI
I'm supposed to be finishing my article but instead I spent today watching checks five movies
My halloween sale for MfoM wasn't a total loss. I sold one copy on itch & 21 on steam -- which doesn't sound like much but I sold only one copy on itch all summer & the last time I sold a copy on steam was april
my heap fights for the proletariat https://dodisturb.me/posts/2019-10-03-Verifying-the-Titular-Properties-of-a-Leftist-Heap.html
Even Though I’m a Chuunibyou, I Stil... https://mimidoshima.wordpress.com/2019/10/25/hello-everyone-this-is-my-fanfic-on-sasuke-x-naruto-i-really-like-this-pairing-because-they-are-so-chuu2-and-angry-to-each-other-it-makes-my-heart-go-crazy-anyway-please-rate-my-fic-thanks/
Until tomorrow, my game is 30 cents on steam (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1013580/Manna_for_our_Malices/) and 23 cents on #itchhalloweensale (https://enkiv2.itch.io/manna-for-our-malices). Give it a try. It will never be this cheap again.
i'm starting to wonder (after only making one itch sale at a twenty three cent price point despite lots of promotion) if maybe anime-style-horror-mystery-VN-about-fortean-philosophy is too fringe to be profitable & it's a mistake to hang a trilogy of games on that category
reading nuanced political arguments into dumb movies that clearly didn't intend them is my hobby but i'm not willing to do it in a way that seriously benefits reactionary creators ffs
Anime Mythbusters #2 | "Anime is Just Made on Computers These Days" - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSMAL-Em5AM
Reposting my short horror fiction for spooky season: https://medium.com/@enkiv2/she-awaited-the-turkeys-8cf1abff3621 https://medium.com/@enkiv2/the-lazarus-pose-6d0b197291d3 https://medium.com/@enkiv2/the-house-on-foulness-29592a4eabd8?source=friends_link&sk=fc25d309f86d4db81e9d90ca132142b4 ; these stories are adapted (in modified form) in my upcoming VN, Trilogy.
QOT fucking D: "Reality — which allegedly exists, despite the lack of credible witnesses — is mysterious."
Medium is about to change payments from number of claps to total read time, which will either drastically increase my earnings or drastically decrease them but will also make it hard to hate-read stupid articles without supporting the stupid authors.
How American CEOs got so rich - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylLTMYt24lA
The Truth is Terrible: Nietzsche's Idea of an Aesthetic Justification for Existence - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aYr1xguMyg
video game idea: 'finish my sentences' -- you pair up with a partner, and each takes turns choosing a prompt from a list provided by the game -- sentences missing the final word. The two of you type in a final word, and if you match, you get a number of points inversely proportional to how common that completion is (initially in some corpus like gutenberg and later in terms of other players). There is no global scoreboard (to prevent gaming rank) but each player has a personal scoreboard for how many points games with particular friends tend to have. The goal of the game is to understand how your partner thinks in order to sync up with them, while diverging from the herd.
my favorite genre of podcast: women with doctorates gushing about horror movies they like
Ottoman cosmopolitanism and the myth of the sectarian Middle East | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/ottoman-cosmopolitanism-and-the-myth-of-the-sectarian-middle-east
hot take that I made last night: Phantasm fills me with joy because no matter how many times I see it, it never makes any more sense, which means that the world contains at least one mystery that is truly ineffable and insoluble
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20180403101956/https://longreads.com/2018/04/03/my-own-bad-story-i-thought-journalism-would-make-a-hero-of-me/ originally posted Tue Apr 3 10:19:56 EDT 2018/
Tech issues: The myth of inevitable technological progress - Vox https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/10/1/20887003/tech-technology-evolution-natural-inevitable-ethics
John’s Horror Corner: Necronomicon: Book of the Dead (1993), a Lovecraftian horror antholog... https://moviesfilmsandflix.com/2019/10/12/johns-horror-corner-necronomicon-book-of-the-dead-1993-a-lovecraftian-horror-anthology-loaded-with-disgusting-gore-and-slimy-tentacle-monsters/
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20190816091613/https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/11/learning-about-work-ethic-from-my-high-school-driving-instructor/248339/ originally posted Fri Aug 16 09:16:13 EDT 2019/
Hey, it won't actually affect my productivity on any of my projects, but if you like you can give me a dollar a month on http://github.com/users/enkiv2/sponsorship
Thread by @livlab: "So, you know how I think Jira is mediocre and fails at some super basic stuff? Here's how I work around that bullshit: I made my own hack UI […]" https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1179134097060442113.html
if i had considered learning to code to be vocational training when i was busy doing it, i wouldn't have been nearly as excited about it. i did have dreams about making money off some of my projects in those days, but none of those dreams involved working for other people.
love too spend two 12 hour days at work doing something that doesn't need to be done & have my boss call my manager to call me to come back into work at 8pm (10 mins after getting home) because my spreadsheet didn't have the same number of columns as his
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20180323130003/http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/03/19/jordan-peterson-and-fascist-mysticism/ originally posted Fri Mar 23 13:00:03 EDT 2018/
I come home from 12 hours at work to find that my credenza has collapsed under the weight of a toolbox, & the floor is covered with screws, and the cat's cowering in the dark in the other room.
Welcome to My Opium Den/Coworking Space for Millennials - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/welcome-to-my-opium-den-coworking-space-for-millennials
AI art: I’m using a language model called GPT-2 to write my next novel - Vox https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/8/30/20840194/ai-art-fiction-writing-language-gpt-2
There are several ways to interpret the marshmallow test, & my favorite is 'self-control is a very useful skill across a variety of domains'.
How Brazil’s Army Wants to “Occupy” the Amazon https://theintercept.com/2019/09/20/amazon-brazil-army-bolsanaro/
My Secret Life as a Mysterious Multimillionaire’s Personal Assistant https://narratively.com/my-secret-life-as-a-mysterious-millionaires-assistant/
Next time somebody disagrees with me about the claim that the function of a business is to protect itself from the need to provide value, I ought to link them this list of protectionist rent-seeking techniques by a VC bootlicker: http://reactionwheel.net/2019/09/a-taxonomy-of-moats.html
A couple of my posts on the intersection of software freedom & commerce: https://medium.com/@enkiv2/free-software-and-the-revolt-against-transactionality-3a44a1b7f96d?source=friends_link&sk=dcc51b815d020b5fb50852ed6844922a https://medium.com/@enkiv2/freeing-software-3e3ede439f20?source=friends_link&sk=faeed756e13f8fefd93c6c599199dd3b https://medium.com/@enkiv2/software-vs-capital-e8ab15b48390?source=friends_link&sk=10707a89d0cb2d3f66876fbcb3f872c7
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20180430113646/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/an-msg-convert-visits-the-high-church-of-umami originally posted Mon Apr 30 11:36:46 EDT 2018/
The Unsolved Case of the Most Mysterious Song on the Internet – Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/most-mysterious-song-on-the-internet-885106/
My Fully Optimized Life Allows Me Ample Time to Optimize Yours - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/my-fully-optimized-life-allows-me-ample-time-to-optimize-yours
The Vietnam myth that gave us all those ‘Rambo’ movies | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/7984/rambo-last-blood-vietnam-bo-gritz-sylvester-stallone
Area 51 and aliens: The myth, meme, and the strange reality, explained - Vox https://www.vox.com/2019/9/19/20857221/storm-area-51-aliens-ufos-meme-myth-lore-history-bob-lazar-explained
My Brush with Behavioral Economics - Scientific American Blog Network https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/my-brush-with-behavioral-economics/
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20181226103519/https://aeon.co/essays/frankincense-and-myrrh-were-not-only-holy-but-heretical-too originally posted Wed Dec 26 10:35:19 EST 2018/
Thomas Piketty's New Book Brings Political Economy Back to Its Sources - https://promarket.org/thomas-piketty-new-book-brings-political-economy-back-to-its-sources/
novelty mug: "don't talk to me until i've had my laudnum"
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20181111191020/http://constellation.crummy.com/Pey%20Shkoy%20Benefits%20Humans/ originally posted Sun Nov 11 19:10:20 EST 2018/
List: Myths About Your Thirties " Debunked - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/myths-about-your-thirties-debunked
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20180910082651/https://anatomyof.ai/ originally posted Mon Sep 10 08:26:51 EDT 2018/
Control, Anatomy, and the Legacy of the Haunted House - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mexs39y0Imw
my local library is hosting a 'muller report reading group'
i hate having to climb on my roof during electrical storms to clear out the gutters, but what i hate even more is when the gutters are actually clear already & the reason water was pouring over the top was that it was just raining that damn hard
fun fact: my ex, upon hearing about the randonaut community, immediately asked me if it was something i had invented, which is a fairly accurate analysis of my taste & also extremely complimentary & not quite as ridiculous as it initially seems
Gorogoa and The Nature of Time - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mcwCD7KZmY
The Myth of Consumer-Grade Security - Schneier on Security https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/08/the_myth_of_con.html
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20171129102433/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/vrillon-hacking-alien-voice-seventies-extra-terrestrial-hoax-unexplained-mysteries-a8069926.html originally posted Wed Nov 29 10:24:33 EST 2017/
Band name of the day: unusual butt anatomy
On the one hand, all of the reviews of my book are five stars. On the other hand, there are only three of them, so YMMV.
THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF THE INVISIBLE THIRD MEME – ALIENIST MANIFESTO https://alienistmanifesto.wordpress.com/2019/08/20/the-mysterious-case-of-the-invisible-third-meme/
I Tried to Live Like Joe Rogan - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/08/my-joe-rogan-experience/594802/
Beating Trump: Barthes, Wrestling, & Myth Today - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LmxXvi8yYc
Learning About Work Ethic From My High School Driving Instructor - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/11/learning-about-work-ethic-from-my-high-school-driving-instructor/248339/
How ‘Wayne’s World’ Kicked Off a Comedy Renaissance - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/movies/2019/8/14/20803423/waynes-world-mike-myers-dana-carvey-comedy-1990s
Don’t talk to me before I put on my custom graphic T-shirt | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/7801/don-t-talk-to-me-before-i-put-on-my-custom-graphic-t-shirt?zd=1
The Posthuman Heart of ‘Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons’ https://wearethemutants.com/2019/08/06/the-posthuman-heart-of-captain-scarlet-and-the-mysterons/
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20180830110743/https://medium.com/p/i-can-t-stop-contributing-to-my-401-k-43826f370fc originally posted Thu Aug 30 11:07:43 EDT 2018/
On the outside, I am Beardy McTactical, but on the inside, I am Neon HairGoth. It is hard to dye your hair neon when you are bald. Maybe I should dye my beard bright green & start wearing black lipstick.
Whenever somebody talks about 'bavarians' I assume they're talking about the A. I. S. B. (i.e., the Bavarian Illuminati) until I catch myself.
Alita: Battle Angel (2019/1993) side-by-side comparison - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6izXHpLMymE
HN says 'you are posting too fast'. Bitch, the last time you let me post anything was 2 hours ago, and my second most recent post is currently #1 on the front page.
Dual Quaternions for Mere Mortals – ninepoints https://www.jeremyong.com/math/2019/08/05/dual-quaternions-for-mere-mortals/
What is it like to be the bolivian economy? When the bolivian economy has a weird dream, what is it that makes it weird? If the bolivian economy had YOUR weird dream, would it be able to identify it as weird? For different reasons?
Understanding Losing My Religion - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0FrjJyuXHY
Secretly Public Domain https://www.crummy.com/2019/07/22/0
One of my least favorite genres of medium post: "somebody once said something obviously wrong to me, and I will waste 2 minutes failing to explain why they are wrong because I am bad at writing"
Shudder has all of the nightmare on elm street films, so I'm gonna complete my education (having only previously seen the good ones)
Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20180830110743/https://medium.com/p/i-can-t-stop-contributing-to-my-401-k-43826f370fc originally posted Thu Aug 30 11:07:43 EDT 2018/
why is it that when, according to my step tracker, i've burned 1500 kcal, i actually eat LESS and am less hungry?
I try to hold myself to the standards I wish I could hold everybody to, because I'm the only person who cares about my standards. One of the benefits of being powerless is that you can reroute your control-freak nature into self-improvement.
My Life in Books: A Meditation on the Writer’s Library | Poets & Writers https://www.pw.org/content/my_life_in_books_a_meditation_on_the_writers_library
Random link from the archives: https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/gregorianChoirGenerator.php originally posted Fri Jun 14 06:58:28 EDT 2019
my favorite anime genres two kay nine teen: 1) hot girl is eccentric; 2) harem except studying-themed; 3) horny ghosts
Weird dream I had last night: Josef Stalin tried to drive a small tank into my childhood bedroom after I had an argument with him, so I pushed it out the window, at which point I realized it was actually a Mini Cooper. It then turned into a gryphon & peed all over a different car that was already down there, melting the layer of frost that it was encased in.
How Anime Deals With History (My Hero Academia, Attack on Titan, Gundam Wing) " Wisecrack Edition - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTWQQukpTn0
Random link from the archives: http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/02/conspiracies-and-the-wrong-room-phenomenon/ originally posted Tue Feb 20 11:11:39 EST 2018
crocodile dundee voice that's not a knife, this is borat voice my knife
Magic in the Air: How Intellectuals Invented the Myth of a Mythless Society | Religion Dispatches http://religiondispatches.org/magic-in-the-air-how-intellectuals-invented-the-myth-of-a-mythless-society/
Anno's original storyboards for the NGE OP - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IZH4FyxMYM
My browser, the spy: How extensions slurped up browsing histories from 4M users | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/07/dataspii-inside-the-debacle-that-dished-private-data-from-apple-tesla-blue-origin-and-4m-people/
The bizarre, true story of Metal Gear Solid’s English translation - Polygon https://www.polygon.com/2019/7/18/20696081/metal-gear-solid-translation-japanese-english-jeremy-blaustein
DIY convertible computing " ~ajroach42.com " I'm Andrew. I write about the past and future of tech, music, media, culture, art, and activism. This is my blog. http://ajroach42.com/diy-convertible-computing/
Idea for BotD: depending which route the protagonist goes down (i.e., which character she ends up falling in love with), the genre of the game changes. If she goes for Akane, it's a mashup of italian gothic & giallo sensibilities -- a neon-tinged haunted house movie. If she goes for the bookish Hanabi, it's a mannered Agatha Christie style mystery. (Facts of the case stay the same.) If you play all those routes, you open up the ability for her to go on a PLAYER ROUTE.
I wish I still had the spare cycles to dive down wikipedia holes. Actually getting a job & supporting myself has cut down my ability to engage my intellectual curiosity by like 90%.
Maybe I should develop some ambitions so I can say "I'm not dating because I'm too busy following my dreams" instead of "I'm not dating because nobody has any particular interest in dating me"...
My Lisp Experiences and the Development of GNU Emacs https://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.html
In my games, I'm aiming for 'beautiful trainwreck' because that's the kind of thing I like to play, but (particularly when starting out) it's hard to make something fringe sustainable if you've got any expenses at all... That said, the 'beautiful trainwreck' space is basically empty because most people only end up in it by accident, so if I can actually build up a following I'll be able to spend money on game dev again eventually.
Seven Types of Locked Room Mystery (part 1/5) | The Bodies From The Library https://bodiesfromthelibrary.com/2017/10/23/seven-types-of-locked-room-mystery-part-15/
Band name of the day: tommygun bachelor party
Band name of the day: academy of fisticuffs
The keys on my twiddler are starting to stick & I think this might be even worse for a chording keyboard than a regular one...
Somebody flagged my name as fake on Quora, & I got locked out :(
Random link from the archives: https://modernmythology.net/invisible-architecture-iii-e30d6add047d originally posted Sat Jun 2 13:14:53 EDT 2018
Before watching MIDSOMMAR, read my essay "Folk Horror as Speculative Sociology". After watching it, tell me how wrong I am on social media. https://modernmythology.net/folk-horror-as-speculative-sociology-c1e24d0c106
Do the Dead Don't Died? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n6Lq8W9sMY
Somebody with a suspiciously similar name to mine won a prize for writing an essay about my favorite show in 2006... http://legacy.aintitcool.com/node/30817
Hey, you. Celebrate halloween four months early by buying my game when it goes on sale.
Random link from the archives: http://www.innsmouthfreepress.com/blog/column-writing-the-mythos-the-handy-dandy-mythos-plot-structure/ originally posted Fri Nov 3 11:41:08 EDT 2017
When is a Myth Not a Myth: The Origins of the Green Man | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2019/06/11/the-green-man-when-is-a-myth-not-a-myth/
Gregorian Voices • Relaxing Music Generator https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/gregorianChoirGenerator.php
Fern, my curses-based mastodon client, has moved to its own repository: https://github.com/enkiv2/fern
Google Go: Fischer Price’s My First Programming Language. by Elf Sternberg https://elfsternberg.com/2018/01/11/google-fischer-prices-programming-language/
Stanford Seminar - HabitLab: In-the-wild Behavior Change Experiments at Scale - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLoROMvodv4rMyupDF2O00r19JsmolyXdD&v=_MkUep3D3jk
Please, My Wife, She’s Very Online | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/please-my-wife-shes-very-online
List of people who disappeared mysteriously: post-1970 - Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_disappeared_mysteriously:_post-1970
Brains' Train Of Thought: My Laptop Bit Me - The Shocking Truth http://enclydion.blogspot.com/2012/04/my-laptop-bit-me-shocking-truth.html
bollu.github.io | code + contents of my website, and programming life http://bollu.github.io/
Forget the pyramids, the greatest mystery of our time is what happened to Yahoo Serious | Luke Buckmaster | Television & radio | The Guar... https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/jun/03/forget-the-pyramids-the-greatest-mystery-of-our-time-is-what-happened-to-yahoo-serious
not my vampire circus, not my 50-foot monkeys
What I Don’t Tell My Students About ‘The Husband Stitch’ - Electric Literature https://electricliterature.com/what-i-dont-tell-my-students-about-the-husband-stitch/
The academy I dreamed of for 20 years no longer exists, and I am waking up | Times Higher Education (THE) https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/academy-i-dreamed-20-years-no-longer-exists-and-i-am-waking
Watching somebody stream my game has been informative because it made me think about tempering my assumptions about obviousness. Seeing somebody fail to put together a plot point I thought was too obvious to state explicitly and fail puzzles as a result...
The guy streaming my VN got one of the bad ends and was like 'is this the good end?' and actually I'm kinda proud of that. I made a game so despair-filled that an apocalypse of telepathic working-memory-eating aliens seems like it might be the best option.
Dazzling Darkness: Mysticism and Philosophy Syllabus – An und für sich https://itself.blog/2018/09/04/dazzling-darkness-mysticism-and-philosophy-syllabus/
Why did I write my programming projects? | rain-1.github.io https://rain-1.github.io/why/why
Holy shit Robin Sloan posted a link to my list of story pitches in his newsletter https://buttondown.email/year-of-the-meteor/archive/week-21-all-is-foretold/
Myth Addiction: Reflections on a Lost Fanaticism – xenogothic https://xenogothic.com/2019/05/17/myth-addiction-reflections-on-lost-fanaticism/
Falsehoods programmers believe about the placement and function of book lungs in spider anatomy
Screw seifuku -- I'm using Trilogy as an excuse to give all my characters mod dresses, & BotD as an excuse to mix black leather miniskirts with combat boots & sleeveless crew-knit turtlenecks
The Myth of Convenience | L.M. Sacasas https://thefrailestthing.com/2019/05/06/the-myth-of-convenience/
watching this streamer get super stuck and frustrated trying to solve the puzzles in my game is a weird experience. is this how most people feel when they watch bad slasher movies?
Run Your Fingers Down My Spine: Inoue Masahiko’s “Night Voices, Night Journeys” | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2019/04/24/run-your-fingers-down-my-spine-inoue-masahikos-night-voices-night-journeys/
I wonder if, by making my CPU & case fans run really hard all the time, my browser is partially at fault for the embarassingly small lifespan of my hard disks (since they're being vibrated constantly)
Former college admissions dean: what people don’t understand about getting in - Vox https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/1/18311548/college-admissions-secrets-myths
My Childhood in a Cult | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/06/my-childhood-in-a-cult
The Circle of HOPE (2018): The Problem With The Hacker Mystique - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D7boOIHrc8
In defense of nuanced understanding of the enemy in a networked age (feat Zizek vs Peterson) https://medium.com/@enkiv2/in-defense-of-nuanced-understanding-of-the-enemy-in-a-networked-age-feat-zizek-vs-peterson-b712962c5737?source=friends_link&sk=a6ea666f6ea7f640a35525b4c0e10415
it's really weird that my most popular medium post thus far this year is a rant about extensions to the gopher protocol
Random link from the archives: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/nov/20/high-score-low-pay-gamification-lyft-uber-drivers-ride-hailing-gig-economy originally archived Tue Nov 20 10:24:06 EST 2018
GitHub - historicalsource/plunderedhearts: Plundered Hearts (Amy Briggs) (Infocom) https://github.com/historicalsource/plunderedhearts
I think DEVO might have got their math wrong in We're Through Being Cool. Have I met 2 dozen members of any social group? That's like 20% of my dunbar allocation.
demystify before you remystify, so that it doesn't just remain mysterious forever for no reason
Codecademy vs. The BBC Micro https://twobithistory.org/2019/03/31/bbc-micro.html
How to Do Nothing: Jenny Odell's case for resisting "The Attention Economy" / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/04/09/resisting-attention-economy.html
The Myspace Dragon Hoard (2008-2010) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/myspace_dragon_hoard_2010
My buddy Dan Comstock went on a podcast to promote his upcoming GOAT LARP, a LARP where you LARP as the people running a LARP for goats (who are being RP'd by actual goats) http://www.onarollpodcast.com/211
Inside David Lynch’s scariest scene | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/7272/lost-highway-mystery-man-robert-blake-david-lynch
Band name of the day: mystic eyes of death perception
Garfield phones beach mystery finally solved after 35 years - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47732553
I think I've figured out what makes My Roommate Is A Cat satisfying: it's the standard romance-comedy formula (i.e., a comedy of errors where gags are caused by miscommunication) but misunderstandings are justified by the fact that they're different species.
Imagine a world in which Doctor Phibes got the same expanded universe treatment that Captain Nemo got. The sequels we could have: Phibes The Immortal, The Clockwork Army of Doctor Phibes, Phibes Five, Doctor Phibes in the 28th Century, Phibes and the Lost Continent
all the jokes you remember whose origins you don't recall were precision engineered by cosmic coincidence control for the purpose of nooforming the mankind biocomputer change my mind
I fixed my now-year-long semi-intermittent sound problem, & the explanation is compellingly stupid: sometimes when ubuntu upgrades sound driver modules it doesn't make the /dev/snd tree user-writable, & pulse runs as the logged-in user.
My online friends are very sweet & thinking about it fills me with joy <3
UFOs: Fact, Fantasy, and Hyperreality | Mysterious Universe https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/03/ufos-fact-fantasy-and-hyperreality/
Welcome to ‘Zombieland’: A former US Army base rots in the hands of overwhelmed Afghans - Stripes https://www.stripes.com/welcome-to-zombieland-a-former-us-army-base-rots-in-the-hands-of-overwhelmed-afghans-1.570893
Poor documentation is overrated as an attribute of jokes. (Some of my favorite jokes are literally humorous attempts at explaining other jokes.) The difference between standup comedy & UI design is even bad comics know this.
My unedited rant on slavery in isekai - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrxG0tTIqbg
The only outright negative review my game has gotten thus far starts with the reviewer saying making a VN should be a crime against humanity. Like, thanks for leading with the admission that you're not part of the target audience & your opinion doesn't matter.
DOOM Eternal, Counterculture, and How We Talk About Labor - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfroFmy6Z2U
You Can't Solve The Gender Gap In Tech If You Don't Understand Why It Exists https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/reshmasaujani/tech-gender-gap-pipeline-myth
I wrote an essay about folk horror as seen as a subgenre of speculative fiction, on May Day of 2017: https://modernmythology.net/folk-horror-as-speculative-sociology-c1e24d0c106?source=friends_link&sk=1573bafd20abaf410c71c44a472c1d85
Update: if you buy the paperback version of my book, now you'll be able to get the ebook for free. (Dunno why anybody would want that.) Also, the ebook now has wikipedia links for various terms via X-Ray, in case you didn't know who Thad Starner was or something.
"SPEAK LOUDER" Asked the Aliens from Planet UMMO | Mysterious Universe https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/02/speak-louder-asked-the-aliens-from-planet-ummo/
My Adventures in Oz - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5QO2Cqtazg
Attack of the Flying Space Dwarves! | Mysterious Universe https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/02/attack-of-the-flying-space-dwarves/
Demystifying JOIN Algorithms http://blog.felipe.rs/2019/01/29/demystifying-join-algorithms/
Mob Psycho 100 - My Favourite Anime - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-DyIWF0h-8
Inhabit: Instructions for Autonomy https://inhabit.global/
The 'paradox of tolerance' is not a paradox, any moreso than "my car requires gas to run but if I drive too much I run out of gas" is a paradox. Abstract machines are still machines. Society is a machine for living in, & if you break it living gets harder.
I have sold zero copies of my game since the launch sale ended. I'm not sure if I need to cut the original price in half or if people literally just only buy games when they are on sale.
The Complicated Economy of Open Source Software - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43zak3/the-internet-was-built-on-the-free-labor-of-open-source-developers-is-that-sustainable
Limits of the Market: Notes on Political Economy & Externalities - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rYHhc7OsJ0
My Alita review: 10/10 some of the decapitations are very romantic
FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY (Feat. Jimmy Urine) - Rock Me Amadeus - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwQBt85Jmp8
Somebody's streaming my game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_ugVRvbdY4
JIRA would be a lot more useful if it was small enough to actually load & render on my company-provided workstation.
Suburban Mystique: Bic Drawings by Kevin Lucbert " SOCKS http://socks-studio.com/2015/02/11/suburban-mystique-bic-drawings-by-kevin-lucbert/
The Aesthetics of Taxonomy: Hokusai’s Manga (1814-1878) " SOCKS http://socks-studio.com/2019/02/10/the-aesthetics-of-taxonomy-hokusais-manga-1814-1878/
I Blocked Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-the-big-five-tech-giants-from-my-life-it-was-hel-1831304194
Band name of the day: his smile was the nightmare in my back pocket
The Mysterious Discipline of Narratologists: Why We Need Stories to Make Sense | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2019/01/29/the-mysterious-discipline-of-narratologists/
[American Journal] by Robert Hayden - Poems | Academy of American Poets https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/american-journal
Almost all the content I post to social media is posted by a small shell script that simultaneously posts to several services or through IFTTT duplicating those posts to services for which I lack an API key. When facebook broke automated posting, it meant my account went dark. I didn't notice.
Responses to my essay 'Tech's Masturbatory Historiography' make me think that most people reading it don't know what 'historiography' means. (It's exactly what it sounds like...)
This is math-heavy but the idea that 'keys are meta-taxonomic dimensions' reminds me of ZigZag & other elements make me think of parallel prolog-likes like mycroft -- should re-read carefully later: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2009002_qod.pdf
My furnace broke & the furnace repair guy is snowed in, & it'll be going below zero tonight. So, I had to run to walmart & buy a bunch of space heaters, & I'll be up all night making sure nothing catches on fire :(
Great Synth Mysteries: The Story of Jexus - Trailer - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRvGtEu1QuI
Next year's hit isekai: 'In Another World with My Copy of Ryan North's New Book'
Remaining RSS users, my links archive is now rss-ful: http://www.lord-enki.net/feed.rss
Millennial mysticism: why contemporary poets are turning to the occult https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2019/01/Spells-21st-Century-Occult-Poetry-review
The Coping Economy | Dissent Magazine https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/coping-economy-mindfulness-goes-corporate
Designing Our Disciplines in a Postmodern Age – and Academy http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/designing-our-disciplines-in-a-postmodern-age-and-academy/
I Tracked My Whole Life In A Google Sheet For A Year " Here's What I Learned - Digg http://digg.com/2019/google-sheet-personal-organization-lifehack
Giles Bowkett: How Vim Shaped My Writing http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2016/10/how-vim-shaped-my-writing.html
Since it's friday, if I have the energy, after work I'll stream my final push on finishing implementing MfoM. Y'know, in case anybody wants to watch me write 'code' that's actually mostly dialogue.
An Alternative Taxonomy for Interactive Stories | Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2011/05/03/an-alternative-taxonomy-for-interactive-stories/
I love books about the history of tech, but no matter how well-researched, they're typically mostly a documentation of tech's mythology (or some countermythology). I prefer the countermythographies.
I broke down my new year's tarot spreads: http://enki2.tumblr.com/post/181624807399/a-tarot-reading-for-the-new-year
An interesting alternative to my 'big vs small computing' distinction is the wizard vs engineer distinction discussed here: https://www.tedinski.com/2018/03/20/wizarding-vs-engineering.html
Frankincense and myrrh were not only holy but heretical too | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/frankincense-and-myrrh-were-not-only-holy-but-heretical-too
My Life at a Russian Propaganda Network - POLITICO Magazine https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/21/russian-propaganda-sputnik-reporter-215511
Mark Zuckerberg did everything in his power to avoid Facebook becoming the next MySpace " but forgot one crucial detail… • The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/12/20/facebook_disaster/
The Norse Mythology Blog | norsemyth.org: Questioning Loki, Part One | Articles & Interviews on Myth & Religion https://www.norsemyth.org/2013/01/questioning-loki-part-one.html
Since related ideas are circulating again, here's my freshly reheated take: making sure your criticisms of reprehensible people are on-topic (focusing on the represhensible parts of them) solves all kinds of problems.
To a reserve a table for my new hyper-exclusive resturant, cut a potato in half, put a twenty dollar bill inside, and bury it in your back yard during a new moon; if your application is accepted, we will contact you.
A Postmodernism FAQ: Part I - Introduction - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmYegIGhwtc
The End of My Year of Killer Sudoku – Popula https://popula.com/2018/11/20/the-end-of-my-year-of-killer-sudoku/
A Stimulus Plan for the Mutual Aid Economy https://longreads.com/2018/11/20/a-stimulus-plan-for-the-mutual-aid-economy/
High score, low pay: why the gig economy loves gamification | Business | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/nov/20/high-score-low-pay-gamification-lyft-uber-drivers-ride-hailing-gig-economy
Band name of the day: mysterious by divine
Pet peeve: when people nitpick rhetorical flourishes in my examples while completely ignoring the main point. Hint: If I bring up the web or the macintosh, that doesn't mean my essay is specifically about the web or the macintosh.
My old HyperCard stack (Phil Gyford’s website) https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2017/08/16/hypercard-tea/
One of those cult cinema distribution companies owns an actual video store -- and it's only like an hour or two from my house. I'll have to make a trip out there at some point...
The 'As you know, Bob' technique for infodumps gets a lot of flak, but all my internal corporate emails from upper management begin with 'As you know,', so I think there might be room to make it verisimilitudinous.
My attempt at mapping the flow of influence in UI development thus far: http://www.lord-enki.net/gui_evolution2.png
Science Is Full of Mavericks Like My Grandfather. But Was His Physics Theory Right? - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/science-full-mavericks-like-my-grandfather-was-his-physics-theory-right/574573/
My goal in life is to create the perfect bowl of ramen https://thetakeout.com/ramen-lord-perfect-bowl-of-ramen-mike-satinover-1830128673
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/
'Do you prefer horror movies or comedy movies' is a good way of phrasing 'with what degree of intensity are you comfortable having your mental constructs challenged'. 'Hausu is my favorite movie' is a valid & illuminating response.
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
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
I updated my list of story pitches: http://enki2.tumblr.com/stories
Meaning Alchemy - Jason Grinblat [PROCJAM 2018] - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvVx0l1gepM
"The Glitching Hour" by Amy Wibowo - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HoMsbxY9zA
Hotter take: 'ambient computing', 'internet of things', and 'ubiquitous computing' all pale in comparison to my favorite goofy term for this tech: 'everyware'
Thread by @morganknutson: "Now that Google+ has been shuttered, I should air my dirty laundry on how awful the project and exec team was. I'm still pissed about the ba […]" https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1049523067506966529.html
Reality TV: Anatomy of a Genre | Video Essay - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS90rgLsb24
Andrew W.K.: Investigating The Mystery Of Steev Mike - Stereogum https://www.stereogum.com/2015589/andrew-wk-steev-mike/franchises/sounding-board/
My journey into fractals " Gregory Ivanov " Medium https://medium.com/@bananaft/my-journey-into-fractals-d25ebc6c4dc2
James Stanley - Someone used my IPFS gateway for phishing https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/hardbin-phishing.html
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.
My career as an international blood smuggler | Society | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/sep/27/my-career-as-an-international-blood-smuggler
Do my Homework - Charlie's Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/09/do-my-homework.html
The global economy: gamblers betting on the effectiveness of bad assumptions made based on wide but shallow surveillance in influencing the distribution of ads that don't work for products that nobody wants and nobody can afford to people who are using adblock.
The Tyranny of Personality Testing | The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/151098/personality-brokers-book-review-invention-myers-briggs-type-indicator
Cicada 3301: An Internet Mystery - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2O7blSSzpI
Anatomy of an AI System https://anatomyof.ai/
Alejandro Jodorowsky - The Mystic Theatre - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZsAP8VyoO4
Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy http://www.shirky.com/writings/herecomeseverybody/group_enemy.html
OK, so the next 22 people who click on this link get my book: https://www.amazon.com/ga/p/9035fb092fa86187?ref_=pe_1771210_134854370#ln-en (The two previous giveaways only gave out one book, which is stupid.)
My hobby: Troll hugging. - 鳳 http://pugs.blogs.com/audrey/2009/08/my-hobby-troll-hugging.html
My feed will be deader than usual for a while so I'm going to be automatically posting a medium story I clapped for every 4 hours. Set your filters accordingly.
The Mystery of People Who Speak Dozens of Languages | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/03/the-mystery-of-people-who-speak-dozens-of-languages
Also pulse randomly decided that I didn't get to have a driver for my (extremely common) sound card anymore. Jesus, systemd -- you're pushing linux on the desktop back to 1998 levels of bullshit.
Udevd was eating up literally all my ram and literally all my CPU, while doing nothing. I fixed it by turning off udevd. (Take that, systemd.)
The Quietus | Features | A Quietus Interview | How Can I Light Myself On Fire To Get You To Listen? NIN Interviewed http://thequietus.com/articles/25050-nine-inch-nails-trent-reznor-interview-bad-witch
What Am I Worth to Advertisers? My Obsessive Quest to Put a Price on My Attention https://gizmodo.com/what-am-i-worth-to-advertisers-my-obsessive-quest-to-p-1828343202
When you don't think cybernetically, you ask questions like 'did X cause Y or did Y cause X' when actually most persistent things have self-perpetuating loops and cause themselves/each other. This will mystify you because aristotlean 'first cause' hierarchy shit baked your brain.
it's kind of amazing how much better Yuuna & the Haunted Onsen is than Ah My Buddha or Love Hina
Greenfield maintains the MIB are just really good practicioners of enochian magick. We know from Lachman that sometimes secret chiefs have been enemy spies & occultists 'useful idiots' like Bennowitz. What if both?
Forget Nick Land; Rigorous Intuition is still my favorite infohazard
Push Meme To The Edge; All My Faves Are Dead - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G51D51f_WPo
My Hero Academia & The Quest For the Perfect Shounen Anime - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAV1uv3lPBQ
It seems like every time I reboot, Ubuntu manages to forget about another piece of hardware I have. First it was the USB controller, then the wifi (still not fixed), and now it's my sound card.
Re: https://www.fastcompany.com/90208681/the-myth-of-human-centered-design -- good design encourages symbiosis, while bad design encourages parasitism. (Go read your Engelbart & Licklider again.)
Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-08-08/linux-load-averages.html
Thread by @JairusKhan: "I was a speaker and workshop organizer at hopeconf this year. My first 2600 meeting was over 20 years ago. I'm also an event organizer with […]" #hopeconf https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1021576113875771392.html
In case anybody cares, I've fixed up my mirror of all my medium posts. (Useful if you are a cheapskate!) As always, I prefer people with a medium account to actually go there & clap so I get a dime. http://www.lord-enki.net/medium-backup/
My old HyperCard stack (Phil Gyford’s website) https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2017/08/16/hypercard-tea/
I've lost control of my life 🌸🌸 - an entomologist rates ant emojis http://curlicuecal.tumblr.com/post/175362924100/an-entomologist-rates-ant-emojis
The Bizarre Story of the Seattle Mystery Vending Machine http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2018/07/the-bizarre-story-of-the-seattle-mystery-vending-machine/
I feel like I'm repeating myself when I say: knowing the ideological diversity of your enemy is TACTICALLY USEFUL because, when observed closely, any group large enough to be politically powerful is full of hidden fault lines and tense cease-fires
Holy shit, Morning Cup of Coding featured my article about Scene/Sequel as a part of their description of NaNoGenMo. http://tinyurl.com/yayvdl9u #botally
The Surveillance Economy and Extreme Income Inequality: You Can't Have One Without the Other - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSH9gOqevRc
Glossary of Commonly Used Terms in the Western Mystery Tradition - Introduction to the Western Mystery Tradition - Journal of the Western Mystery Tradition - Hermetic Library https://hermetic.com/jwmt/v1n0/glossary2
Cognitive ease is the enemy: if something makes sense, that's an indication that you have done insufficient research or applied insufficient consideration, because nothing real makes sense.
Oneohtrix Point Never Interview: On 'Age Of,' MYRIAD, Byrne, & more - Stereogum https://www.stereogum.com/featured/oneohtrix-point-never-age-of-myriad-byrne-anohni-twigs-usher/
Mike Driven Development: What I Learned Making My Own JIT Language http://www.mikedrivendevelopment.com/2018/06/what-i-learned-making-my-own-jit.html
I hope the five people following my 'misc' repo on github are happy recieving an email containing only the placeholder commit message 'xxx' like 30 times a day.
My Hero Academia's Fights Are Actually Dull - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3jjVsm99Ec
Unsolved Mysteries: Still Being Updated After All These Years https://tedium.co/2018/06/19/unsolved-mysteries-modern-updates/
Why I Taught My Son to Speak Russian | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/why-did-i-teach-my-son-to-speak-russian
I'm starting to think I should post an explanation of my crossposting/linking toolchain. It's so straightforward that I didn't think it required explanation, but other people are doing equivalents with webapps?
Reading about Web Prolog & it reminds me a lot of the work I did on Mycroft. I wonder: how will routing work here? If fully-qualified predicates have an explicit hostname component, Web Prolog can go fuk.
My Approach to Getting Dramatically Better as a Programmer – malisper.me http://malisper.me/my-approach-to-getting-dramatically-better-as-a-programmer/
The khipu code: the knotty mystery of the Inkas’ 3D records | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/the-khipu-code-the-knotty-mystery-of-the-inkas-3d-records
Myths programmers believe | Átila on Code https://atilanevesoncode.wordpress.com/2018/06/12/myths-programmers-believe/
'Sci-Fi Music Felt Like a Vast, Interconnected Mythology': An Interview with Jason Heller | Hazlitt https://hazlitt.net/feature/sci-fi-music-felt-vast-interconnected-mythology-interview-jason-heller
TIL that Jaron Lanier is to blame for Second Life's shitty/dysfunctional internal Linden economy
I should probably implement an example version of transcopyright for my repo of 'important data structures, algorithms, & ideas that have no easily-understood isolated example implementations' (https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/tree/master/ds-lib) since it's already mostly xanadu shit
My unique identifier on scuttlebutt is @Q6jeOaoJOdFq8/3oFaOYC6bKhaVCD3IIdpjG+7Fab2M=.ed25519
History and Future of the Compressed Air Economy - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/05/history-and-future-of-the-compressed-air-economy.html
My long strange winter trip with John Perry Barlow, a legend in the making | Salon.com https://www.salon.com/2018/06/02/1969-my-long-strange-winter-trip-with-john-perry-barlow-a-legend-in-the-making/?curator=MusicREDEF
Go is a much stranger language than I initially understood. Anyhow, this is my work thus far on an implementation of the Io language in it: https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/kamui/senketsu.go
Bad idea of the day: MC Eliza, who rephrases your diss track in the form of a question. "How does that make you feel? Tell me more. Perhaps in your fantasies my flow is basic."
Thread by @GalaxyKate: "Do you know this book (grapefruit, by Yoko Ono)? I've been reading it and profoundly affecting my bot-making. Art appreciation and bot-makin […]" https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/999110758305882112.html?refreshed=yes
Thread by @GalaxyKate: "Do you know this book (grapefruit, by Yoko Ono)? I've been reading it and profoundly affecting my bot-making. Art appreciation and bot-makin […]" https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/999110758305882112.html?refreshed=yes
The Spectacular Personal Mythology of Rammellzee | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/28/the-spectacular-personal-mythology-of-rammellzee
'Ethics are beyond my purview' is a fancy way of saying 'it is unsafe to allow me to make decisions'
Band name of the day: non stop mystery action
My Brain Keeps Turning Thoughts into Memories - VICE https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3kjxpb/my-brain-keeps-turning-thoughts-into-memories
all my favorite movies are beautiful clusterfucks because a dysfunctional game of telephone with people who don't share a common language is the most reliable way to generate creativity
Quatermass and the Pit: 50 Years On | Mysterious Universe http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/05/quatermass-and-the-pit-50-years-on/
my friend pokey â note dump, dump notes http://myfriendpokey.tumblr.com/post/171904353715/note-dump-dump-notes
An MSG Convert Visits the High Church of Umami | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/an-msg-convert-visits-the-high-church-of-umami
Learning to see: Gloomy Sunday on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/260612034
My Five Discordian Rituals | Historia Discordia http://historiadiscordia.com/my-five-discordian-rituals/
Reddit redesigned its site and it could kill discussion subreddits – Change My View https://changemyview.net/2018/04/11/reddit-redesigned-its-site-and-it-could-kill-discussion-subreddits/
Are 'Learning Styles' Real? - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/the-myth-of-learning-styles/557687/
A Taxonomy of Tech Debt | Riot Games Engineering https://engineering.riotgames.com/news/taxonomy-tech-debt
TL;DR version of my 'big and small computing' essay: amateur & pro can & should coexist, and we should expand the amateur while making sure the stuff that matters is done by pros.
My Own ‘Bad Story’: I Thought Journalism Would Make a Hero of Me https://longreads.com/2018/04/03/my-own-bad-story-i-thought-journalism-would-make-a-hero-of-me/
My Cow Game Extracted Your Facebook Data - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/my-cow-game-extracted-your-facebook-data/556214/
Architectural Mystery: Ruin Researcher Explores Ancient Temple's Hidden History - 99% Invisible https://99percentinvisible.org/article/architectural-mystery-ruin-researcher-explores-ancient-temples-hidden-history/
Jordan Peterson & Fascist Mysticism | by Pankaj Mishra | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/03/19/jordan-peterson-and-fascist-mysticism/
The Signal has run my short story "She Awaited the Turkeys" as part of the episode called "Intermission 02". (Doesn't seem to be posted on the website yet.)
Hall and Oates vs. The Supremes - "My World is Empty Without You, Maneater" - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCjr2EUHRuk
How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career http://coding.derkeiler.com/Archive/Lisp/comp.lang.lisp/2006-04/msg01644.html
#nanogenmo idea: Create a pantheon with thematic names, modeled on sumerian, & sumerian-style myths around them. Ex., a god of water could be called Ena or Nina (since 'a' means water, & 'en' & 'nin' are prefixes for god names) & have hundreds of generated epithets based on domain
The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo’s odyssey from absurdist theatre troupe to new wave octet – Night Flight http://nightflight.com/the-mystic-knights-of-the-oingo-boingos-odyssey-from-absurdist-theatre-troupe-to-new-wave-octet/
Practical Procedural Generation for Everyone - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WumyfLEa6bU
Hot take: mashups & references can be powerful tools for getting your message across, but if you don't have a message (or your message is this is my taste) it's just masturbatory. (Fite me.)
My Mondo piece on sublims is up on gopher: gopher://fuckup.solutions/1enkiv2/sublim.txt
Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself - Silly Bits https://mtlynch.io/why-i-quit-google/
Quinn Norton: The New York Times ... https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/02/the-new-york-times-fired-my-doppelganger/554402/
Conspiracies and "The Wrong Room" Phenomenon ... http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/02/conspiracies-and-the-wrong-room-phenomenon/
How I Cracked Facebook’s New Algorithm And... https://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/how-i-cracked-facebooks-new-algorithm-and-tortured-my
The Sound and the Fury: Inside the Mystery of the Havana… — ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/diplomats-in-cuba
Labouring in the digital economy: The people making content (in)visible o... https://www.diggitmagazine.com/column/labouring-digital-economy
Band name of the day: the mysterious night visitor
Ask Dr. Time: What Should I Call My AI? https://kottke.org/18/01/ask-dr-time-what-should-i-call-my-ai
It's not that computers are awful on some general axis, but that we spend more effort than necessary getting less out of them than we easily could out of myopia, greed, and laziness.
If I resurrected my newsletter, would anybody subscribe? I'm thinking of modifying the format to have it contain the content I usually post on Medium, and then paywall the Medium essays for a month. (So, subscribers would be getting the free essays early.)
Exhilarating if flawed, Colin Wilson helped open my mind |... https://aeon.co/essays/exhilarating-if-flawed-colin-wilson-helped-open-my-mind
The Human Cost of the Ghost Economy https://longreads.com/2017/12/13/the-human-cost-of-the-ghost-economy/
Tommy Wiseau: The Last Auteur - Brows Held High - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7pUs-9C-gY
Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Myste... https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html
How I Turned My Discarded Novel Drafts Into an AI | Literary Hub http://lithub.com/how-i-turned-my-discarded-novel-drafts-into-an-ai/
Vrillon: the alien voice hoax that became a legend | The Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/vrillon-hacking-alien-voice-seventies-extra-terrestrial-hoax-unexplained-mysteries-a8069926.html
Hobbs and His Locks: The Great Lock Controversy of 1851 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH2kohmyqm4
The Ancient Roman Cult That Continues to Vex Scholars - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mithraic-mysteries
Who Filters Your News? Why we built gobo.social | … My heart’s in Accra http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2017/11/16/who-filters-your-news-why-we-built-gobo-social/
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/
The Creepy, Insane, and Undeniably Romantic World of Cryonics - Tonic https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/gv78my/the-creepy-insane-and-undeniably-romantic-world-of-cryonics
The Tantalizing Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/toynbee-tiles
Harvey Weinstein’s Army of Spies | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/harvey-weinsteins-army-of-spies
Column: Writing the Mythos: The Handy-Dandy Mythos Plot Structure | Innsmouth Free Press http://www.innsmouthfreepress.com/blog/column-writing-the-mythos-the-handy-dandy-mythos-plot-structure/
Postmodernism For Rationalists (my attempt) | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/01/postmodernism-for-rationalists-my-attempt/
No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons » My Dinner with Ramez: or, The Identity Landscape. http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=7737
No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons » My Dinner with Ramez: or, The Identity Landscape. http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=7737
Here be woodcuts: science, mysticism and early modern memes | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/here-be-woodcuts-science-mysticism-and-early-modern-memes
How I Socially Engineer Myself Into High Security Facilities - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qv34zb/how-i-socially-engineer-myself-into-high-security-facilities
Just About Everything We Know About the Pard - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pard-big-cat-mythology-leopard-lion-taxonomy
A Former Clickhole Writer Made a ‘Content Bot’ That Will Probably Become My Boss - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wjxmzx/former-clickhole-writer-content-botnik-jamie-brew-bob-mankoff-ai-robot-take-my-job
Inside the Dreamy Nightmare of Mother!’s Music-Free Soundscape | Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/09/mother-movie-jennifer-lawrence-darren-aronofsky-score-johann-johannsson
Storming the Ivory Tower: A Lot Of Preps Stared At Me: My Immortal and Parafiction https://stormingtheivorytower.blogspot.com/2017/09/a-lot-of-preps-stared-at-me-my-immortal.html
Lossy Text Compression | Anfractuosity | Still waiting on the daybreak, its shadows in my mind https://www.anfractuosity.com/projects/lossy-text-compression/
Mistrust, Efficacy and the New Civics – a whitepaper for the Knight Foundation | … My heart’s in Accra http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2017/08/17/mistrust-efficacy-and-the-new-civics-a-whitepaper-for-the-knight-foundation/
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/
My IRB Nightmare | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/29/my-irb-nightmare/
Male brain vs female brain: Is there a difference? — Quartz https://qz.com/1057494/the-biggest-myth-about-our-brains-is-that-theyre-male-or-female/
Taxonomy of Humans According to Twitter – The New Inquiry https://thenewinquiry.com/taxonomy-of-humans-according-to-twitter/
Are Index Funds Bad for the Economy? - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/are-index-funds-evil/534183/?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
The Quietus | Opinion | Black Sky Thinking | What The KLF Burning A Million Quid Means In 2017 http://thequietus.com/articles/22945-klf-burn-a-million-quid-bill-drummond-jimmy-cauty?curator=MusicREDEF
Steve Bannon and the occult: The right wing’s long, strange love affair with New Age mysticism - Salon.com http://www.salon.com/2017/07/19/steve-bannon-and-the-occult-the-right-wings-long-strange-love-affair-with-new-age-mysticism-2/?curator=MediaREDEF
The US Army Funded Astral Projection and Hypnosis Research in the 80s - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pad4a9/the-us-army-funded-astral-projection-and-hypnosis-research-in-the-80s
How I learned to stop worrying (mostly) and love my threat model | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/07/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-mostly-and-love-my-threat-model/
Scientists crack mystery of ancient Roman concrete's 2,000-year life span - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/07/04/ancient-romans-made-worlds-most-durable-concrete-we-might-use-it-to-stop-rising-seas/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=nextdraft&utm_term=.2b76b2885c2a
Songs of Myself — Real Life http://reallifemag.com/songs-of-myself/
Why My Hero Academia's Simplistic Characterization is a GOOD Thing - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svNRFnmPbWo
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