Random link from the archives: "Analyzing my text messages with my ex-boyfriend" https://web.archive.org/web/20240601161100/https://teresaibarra.com/texts/ originally retrieved Sat 01 Jun 2024 04:11:00 PM EDT

Random link from the archives: "GitHub - falcondai/lm-steganography: Steganographic text via language models" https://web.archive.org/web/20190807131834/https://github.com/falcondai/lm-steganography originally retrieved Wed Aug 7 13:18:34 EDT 2019

Random link from the archives: "GitHub - nichtich/hypertext-timeline: A Timeline of Hypertext Systems" https://web.archive.org/web/20191122193601/https://github.com/nichtich/hypertext-timeline originally retrieved Fri Nov 22 19:36:01 EST 2019

Random link from the archives: "The Text Editor sam" https://web.archive.org/web/20181113021742/http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/sam/ originally retrieved Tue Nov 13 02:17:42 EST 2018

Random link from the archives: "Teletext graphics characters among those added to Unicode – Teletext Art" https://web.archive.org/web/20190124110041/http://teletextart.co.uk/teletext-graphics-characters-among-those-added-to-unicode originally retrieved Thu Jan 24 11:00:41 EST 2019

Random link from the archives: "Context-centric cultures & call-out cultures" https://web.archive.org/web/20211117195813/https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/context-centric-cultures-call-out-cultures-3da5e87015f1?source=friends_link&sk=44b692b40ec3ecd5ecbb918087bfb761

Random link from the archives: "How did HyperLook/HyperNeWS compare to other mid-1980s hypertext systems in terms of features & usability? - Quora" https://web.archive.org/web/20191219034113/https://www.quora.com/unanswered/How-did-HyperLook-HyperNeWS-compare-to-other-mid-1980s-hypertext-systems-in-terms-of-features-usability

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20191013094351/https://www.kickscondor.com/hypertexting/ originally retrieved Sun Oct 13 09:43:51 EDT 2019

Is This The Strangest Gnostic Text? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4lxQMQYdYU

Random link from the archives: "John Dee - The Monas Hieroglyphica - Part I - History and Context - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20210803172538/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2meS9-YGYhU originally retrieved Tue 03 Aug 2021 05:25:38 PM EDT

Random link from the archives: "glass.leaves: text manipulator and generator" https://web.archive.org/web/20190304065746/https://glassleaves.herokuapp.com/ originally retrieved Mon Mar 4 06:57:46 EST 2019

No Context Adam Curtis Intertitles - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAnoYLg44QI

Random link from the archives: "IF Magazine : Free Texts : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive" https://web.archive.org/web/20180406084912/https://archive.org/details/ifmagazine originally retrieved Fri Apr 6 08:49:12 EDT 2018

Random link from the archives: "The Craft of Text Editing" https://web.archive.org/web/20181228132910/https://www.finseth.com/craft/ originally retrieved Fri Dec 28 13:29:10 EST 2018

Random link from the archives: "Hypertext TV" https://web.archive.org/web/20250502115939/https://hypertext.tv/ originally retrieved Fri 02 May 2025 11:59:39 AM EDT

The Science of Blunders: Confessions of a Textual Critic – Antigone https://antigonejournal.com/2026/02/science-of-blunders-confessions-textual-critic/

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22NME+-+New+Musical+Express%22&sort=-addeddate

Random link from the archives: "Theory of Hypertext Systems: Article by Jakob Nielsen" https://web.archive.org/web/20180814140045/https://www.nngroup.com/articles/architectural-component-hypertext-systems/ originally retrieved Tue Aug 14 14:00:45 EDT 2018

Random link from the archives: "Guidelines for future hypertext systems" https://web.archive.org/web/20211012011537/https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/guidelines-for-future-hypertext-systems-647b6a10f7dd originally retrieved Tue 12 Oct 2021 01:15:37 AM EDT

actual text from a job listing:

Random link from the archives: "How to make a context-aware bot: Foursquare’s big bet on Marsbot" https://web.archive.org/web/20211022071612/https://scribe.rip/p/how-to-make-a-context-aware-bot-foursquares-big-bet-on-marsbot-c00d86d18eff originally retrieved Fri 22 Oct 2021 07:16:12 AM EDT

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

Technically, You Don’t Need A GUI To Design Stuff https://tedium.co/2026/02/14/text-based-design-mindset/

wheeling up to people who just heard notepad has an LLM in it now: Hello, did you know that ed is the standard text editor?

Random link from the archives: "Full text of "Toward A Philosophy Of Technology"" https://web.archive.org/web/20190618121716/https://archive.org/stream/HansJonasTowardAPhilosophyOfTechnology/Hans-Jonas-Toward-a-Philosophy-of-Technology_djvu.txt originally retrieved Tue Jun 18 12:17:16 EDT 2019

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200116114056/https://shalabh.com/programmable-systems/plain-text-misfeatures.html originally retrieved Thu Jan 16 11:40:56 EST 2020

Random link from the archives: "JPEG · No Text, Just Images" https://web.archive.org/web/20230310234638/https://www.readjpeg.com/ originally retrieved Fri 10 Mar 2023 11:46:38 PM EST

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20191111121237/https://teletextarchaeologist.org/ originally retrieved Mon Nov 11 12:12:37 EST 2019

Random link from the archives: "The Satanic Temple Sought to Upend Missouri Abortion Law. Their Plans Went to Hell | Feature | St. Louis | St. Louis News and Events | Riverfront Times" https://web.archive.org/web/20190509105451/https://www.riverfronttimes.com/stlouis/the-satanic-temple-sued-missouri-to-push-for-abortion-rights-then-everything-went-to-hell/Content?oid=31557301&showFullText=true

Random link from the archives: "Context collapse and context restoration | ROUGH TYPE" https://web.archive.org/web/20200121111151/http://www.roughtype.com/?p=6887 originally retrieved Tue Jan 21 11:11:51 EST 2020

Random link from the archives: "Error 406 - Not Acceptable" https://web.archive.org/web/20200309121431/http://michaelgood.info/publications/text-editing/the-use-of-logging-data-in-the-design-of-a-new-text-editor/ originally retrieved Mon Mar 9 12:14:31 EDT 2020

Random link from the archives: "Yup, automated translation is a great way to semantically warp text." https://web.archive.org/web/20211124170717/https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/yup-automated-translation-is-a-great-way-to-semantically-warp-text-98830c4b9b6e

Random link from the archives: "GitHub - hypotext/hyperbible: The new revised international KJV-ASV-DRB-DBT-ERV-WBT-WEB-YET-AKJV-WNT version" https://web.archive.org/web/20171128132439/https://github.com/hypotext/hyperbible/ originally retrieved Tue Nov 28 13:24:39 EST 2017

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 Build a Twitter Text-Generating AI Bot With GPT-2 | Max Woolf's Blog" https://web.archive.org/web/20200117074346/https://minimaxir.com/2020/01/twitter-gpt2-bot/ originally retrieved Fri Jan 17 07:43:46 EST 2020

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200318001149/https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/a-context-centric-culture-isnt-the-result-of-everybody-being-always-fair-but-the-result-of-most-be873cba3ca6 originally retrieved Wed Mar 18 00:11:49 EDT 2020

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200929174757/https://scribe.rip/p/making-text-search-learn-from-feedback-4fe210fd87b0 originally retrieved Tue Sep 29 17:47:57 EDT 2020

Random link from the archives: "!!Con West 2019 - Alex Rasmussen: EarthBound’s almost-Turing-complete text system! - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20190326165710/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KaatQ-jH6Q originally retrieved Tue Mar 26 16:57:10 EDT 2019

Random link from the archives: "countercomplex: The resource leak bug of our civilization" https://web.archive.org/web/20180419124727/http://viznut.fi/texts-en/resource_leak_bug_of_our_civilization.html originally retrieved Thu Apr 19 12:47:27 EDT 2018

Random link from the archives: "Procedurally Generated Text: A Writing Process Built for Computers" https://web.archive.org/web/20191115054703/https://tedium.co/2019/11/14/procedural-text-history/ originally retrieved Fri Nov 15 05:47:03 EST 2019

the pig-fattening scams are getting better. i just got a text message from an unknown number saying 'why don't you reply to messages?'

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: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20180920154259/https://scribe.rip/p/how-to-make-a-context-aware-bot-foursquares-big-bet-on-marsbot-c00d86d18eff originally retrieved Thu Sep 20 15:42:59 EDT 2018

Random link from the archives: "Context-centric cultures & call-out cultures" https://web.archive.org/web/20211117195813/https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/context-centric-cultures-call-out-cultures-3da5e87015f1?source=friends_link&sk=44b692b40ec3ecd5ecbb918087bfb761

Random link from the archives: "A Look at the Design of Lua | November 2018 | Communications of the ACM" https://web.archive.org/web/20181030094329/https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/11/232214-a-look-at-the-design-of-lua/fulltext originally retrieved Tue Oct 30 09:43:29 EDT 2018

Random link from the archives: "IF Magazine : Free Texts : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive" https://web.archive.org/web/20180406084912/https://archive.org/details/ifmagazine originally retrieved Fri Apr 6 08:49:12 EDT 2018

it's a really strange feeling to experience something in a healthy and supportive context that you had previously only ever had in a traumatic one

Hypertext TV https://hypertext.tv/

Text Fragments Enable Deep Linking on Web Pages - TidBITS https://tidbits.com/2025/04/23/text-fragments-enable-deep-linking-on-web-pages/

Random link from the archives: "GitHub - wyounas/homer: Homer, a text analyser in Python, can help make your text more clear, simple and useful for your readers." https://web.archive.org/web/20190815095301/https://github.com/wyounas/homer originally retrieved Thu Aug 15 09:53:01 EDT 2019

Random link from the archives: "Space Jam: A Revolutionary Text | Jack Saint - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20201101131619/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQsChSd-utk originally retrieved Sun 01 Nov 2020 01:16:19 PM EST

Random link from the archives: "Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine" https://web.archive.org/web/20241211001511/https://archive.org/details/alfredo_lissoni_ufo originally retrieved Wed 11 Dec 2024 12:15:11 AM EST

Random link from the archives: "Biology is not as hierarchical as most textbooks paint it | Aeon Essays" https://web.archive.org/web/20240326112025/https://aeon.co/essays/biology-is-not-as-hierarchical-as-most-textbooks-paint-it originally retrieved Tue 26 Mar 2024 11:20:25 AM EDT

Random link from the archives: "Infovore » Towards a canon of “hypertext literature / interactive fiction / digital narrative”" https://web.archive.org/web/20210115121936/https://infovore.org/archives/2013/01/09/towards-a-canon-of-hypertext-literature-interactive-fiction-digital-narrative/

Random link from the archives: "When to hold ’em and when to fold ’em: Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended" https://web.archive.org/web/20221108143934/https://posts.decontextualize.com/pocket-sp/ originally retrieved Tue 08 Nov 2022 02:39:34 PM EST

Random link from the archives: "Material paratexts" https://web.archive.org/web/20230718130350/https://posts.decontextualize.com/material-paratexts/ originally retrieved Tue 18 Jul 2023 01:03:50 PM EDT

GitHub - shawnz/textcoder: Stegangraphic message encoder using LLMs https://github.com/shawnz/textcoder

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20201002205106/https://scribe.rip/p/a-brief-history-of-hypertext-74400dd8984 originally retrieved Fri Oct 2 20:51:06 EDT 2020

Random link from the archives: "Procedurally Generated Text: A Writing Process Built for Computers" https://web.archive.org/web/20191115054703/https://tedium.co/2019/11/14/procedural-text-history/ originally retrieved Fri Nov 15 05:47:03 EST 2019

Why AI language models choke on too much text - Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/12/why-ai-language-models-choke-on-too-much-text/

people are making a big deal about Mangione's privileged background but like... that's what privilege is? like, you don't have the context to fully understand problems until you experience them. a back injury can teach you a lot of empathy very quickly, taken the right way.

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine https://archive.org/details/alfredo_lissoni_ufo

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20201029151318/http://catn.decontextualize.com/inform7/ originally retrieved Thu 29 Oct 2020 03:13:18 PM EDT

dynamic html is a mistake. if you really want to make an interactive GUI out of a self-modifying rich text document, use display postscript.

Random link from the archives: "Building the Universal Archive of Source Code | October 2018 | Communications of the ACM" https://web.archive.org/web/20181001151908/https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/10/231366-building-the-universal-archive-of-source-code/fulltext

all text in nyc (brooklyn) https://www.alltext.nyc/

Random link from the archives: "Plaintext HTTP in a Modern World - joshua stein" https://web.archive.org/web/20210107113132/https://jcs.org/2021/01/06/plaintext originally retrieved Thu 07 Jan 2021 11:31:32 AM EST

Random link from the archives: "750,000+ texts, PDFs, eBooks and images | Higher Intellect" https://web.archive.org/web/20240517161953/https://preterhuman.net/ originally retrieved Fri 17 May 2024 04:19:53 PM EDT

depending on context, 'right' can mean 'as i was told', 'just', 'corresponding with physical reality', or 'maximizing personal profit'. confuse these at your peril.

once you give birth to a piece of art, you no longer own it. it will be recontextualized. you can choose to make this harder by annoying your fans. doing this increases the amount of money you can expect to make from like $5 to like $15.

i love context collapse because as a fan of niche horror movies, i keep randomly discovering the source of striking images that i saw 15 years ago on occult and conspiracy imageboards in this sudden flash that unites times, places, concepts, and life-worlds

when you think about it, intertextuality is horny af. like, the books are having an orgy. the books are shunting.

Random link from the archives: "Markov Chain Text Generation « The blog at the bottom of the sea" https://web.archive.org/web/20190514094433/https://blog.demofox.org/2019/05/11/markov-chain-text-generation/ originally retrieved Tue May 14 09:44:33 EDT 2019

Random link from the archives: "Guidelines for future hypertext systems" https://web.archive.org/web/20211012011537/https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/guidelines-for-future-hypertext-systems-647b6a10f7dd originally retrieved Tue 12 Oct 2021 01:15:37 AM EDT

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200617124705/https://scribe.rip/p/history-of-medicine-the-story-of-wound-man-from-textbook-to-emblem-and-hollywood-44ae52335f83 originally retrieved Wed Jun 17 12:47:05 EDT 2020

Random link from the archives: "Teletext graphics characters among those added to Unicode – Teletext Art" https://web.archive.org/web/20190124110041/http://teletextart.co.uk/teletext-graphics-characters-among-those-added-to-unicode originally retrieved Thu Jan 24 11:00:41 EST 2019

Random link from the archives: "A Winter Olympics wrap-up written with a predictive text keyboard" https://web.archive.org/web/20180302111656/https://kottke.org/18/02/a-winter-olympics-wrap-up-written-with-a-predictive-text-keyboard originally retrieved Fri Mar 2 11:16:56 EST 2018

Analyzing my text messages with my ex-boyfriend https://teresaibarra.com/texts/

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20191205161215/http://www.textfiles.com/bitsavers/pdf/apollo/brochures/Apollo_DomainOS_Brochure_Jul88.pdf originally retrieved Thu Dec 5 16:12:15 EST 2019

Random link from the archives: "Infrastructure-Agnostic Hypertext" https://web.archive.org/web/20191125085356/https://jakobib.github.io/hypertext2019/ originally retrieved Mon Nov 25 08:53:56 EST 2019

is it straightforward to use illegal spam texts to impersonate a political campaign and make campaign promises that will lose votes and/or force the candidate into replying to them? because that might be a good idea.

so, i get endless political spam texts for some reason, including some claiming to be from the trump campaign. i wonder: how easy is it to pretend to be the trump campaign and send out spam texts to trump supporters claiming that you're now supporting gay&trans rights? or communism?

750,000+ texts, PDFs, eBooks and images | Higher Intellect https://preterhuman.net/

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20220209120829/https://scribe.rip/p/context-graph-its-time-to-bring-context-back-to-the-web-a7542fe45cf3 originally retrieved Wed 09 Feb 2022 12:08:29 PM EST

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: "TempleOS Intro to Graphics Programming, Transformations, and Device Context (dc) - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20210504202842/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eK4QRH22Uk originally retrieved Tue 04 May 2021 08:28:42 PM EDT

Random link from the archives: "Galax Teletext" https://web.archive.org/web/20191203181108/http://www.galax.xyz/TELETEXT/INDEX.HTM originally retrieved Tue Dec 3 18:11:08 EST 2019

Bad idea of the day: intentionally reading against the text, but, like, as a kink thing

Biology is not as hierarchical as most textbooks paint it | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/biology-is-not-as-hierarchical-as-most-textbooks-paint-it

With the rise of AI, web crawlers are suddenly controversial - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/24067997/robots-txt-ai-text-file-web-crawlers-spiders?src=longreads

betterhelp is a pretty mixed bag but one thing they do that i really appreciate is that they send, like, 10 reminder texts about every appointment, starting several days earlier. like, thank you for understanding that many of your customers have attention and time management problems, and not taking advantage of that to farm ninety dollar cancellation fees

we desperately need an adaptation of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde that makes the subtext (that this is about a rich 'respectable' white guy putting on blackface to commit crimes & trying to convince people it's shadow work) explicit

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.

one of these days some meta-analysis will reveal that 90% of ADHD diagnoses are actually just cases of misdiagnosed autism caused by shrinks whose entire training on autism came down to a paragraph in a textbook from the 70s that said, like, 'cant talk, obsessive'.

Random link from the archives: "Vim: Seven habits of effective text editing" https://web.archive.org/web/20171023121837/http://moolenaar.net/habits.html originally retrieved Mon Oct 23 12:18:37 EDT 2017

The invisible problem – Scott Jenson https://jenson.org/text/

Random link from the archives: "Systems Generating Systems | Architecture's New Scientific Foundations" https://web.archive.org/web/20210505084149/https://patterns.architexturez.net/doc/az-cf-173046 originally retrieved Wed 05 May 2021 08:41:49 AM EDT

are text collages an accepted form of collage art? like, essays composed entirely of color-coded quotes from other essays, composed by cutting up and rearranging printouts. because blackout poetry and cutups are both things, and collage art often includes snippets of text on top of images, but this is sort of a different thing -- a medley intended to bring people back to the original sources with an extra layer of intertextual framing.

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20191205161432/http://www.textfiles.com/bitsavers/pdf/apollo/014962-A00_Domain_OS_Design_Principles_Jan89.pdf originally retrieved Thu Dec 5 16:14:32 EST 2019

Random link from the archives: "Systems Generating Systems | Architecture's New Scientific Foundations" https://web.archive.org/web/20210505084149/https://patterns.architexturez.net/doc/az-cf-173046 originally retrieved Wed 05 May 2021 08:41:49 AM EDT

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20191103162548/https://archive.org/details/hypertexttednels00tedn originally retrieved Sun Nov 3 16:25:48 EST 2019

Random link from the archives: "Guidelines for future hypertext systems – Rococo Modem Basilisk – Medium" https://web.archive.org/web/20180209101012/https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/guidelines-for-future-hypertext-systems-647b6a10f7dd originally retrieved Fri Feb 9 10:10:12 EST 2018

the first pro-israeli statement i've heard since the bombings started (not counting stuff being quoted in a pro-palestinian context or stuff by obvious trolls) was literally an ad on the grocery store PA system. broadcast media is a different universe

Bad idea of the day: set your text alert noise to that clip of the parrot saying 'the medium is the massage' from the tape of the same name

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.)

you know how some witty stock phrases come from shakespeare? a great prank is to reply with one of those in its appropriate context, theatrically, but then keep going, reciting more and more of the play while looking progressively more uncomfortable, as though quoting the play has made you vulnerable to an obsessive shakespeare-loving ghost

Random link from the archives: "Kinda okay generated text" https://web.archive.org/web/20181005074157/https://blog.ftql.pw/posts/random-text/ originally retrieved Fri Oct 5 07:41:57 EDT 2018

Discord, or the Death of Lore « ASCII by Jason Scott http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5509

Material paratexts https://posts.decontextualize.com/material-paratexts/

The bruijn programming language https://text.marvinborner.de/2023-04-06-01.html

“Low-Resource” Text Classification: A Parameter-Free Classification Method with Compressors - ACL Anthology https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.426/

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.

an LLM is a plausible-sounding-bullshit machine because any purely-statistical generative system is a plausible-sounding-bullshit machine: it optimizes for least-surprise along the metrics it knows how to measure. it produces interesting output by breaking -- by failing to measure something important and therefore producing output that no human would produce, because no human could ignore whatever metric the model is ignoring. this is great for art: like random factors and constraints, an artist can use interaction with a statistical model to propel them out of a rut and onto a new path (as long as the model is sufficiently bad at predicting what a human would 'really' do -- i.e., so long as the training data in that area is sparse enough that the model's idea of the most-likely thing is absurd). it's horrible for anything where correctness is important: there is no negative feedback mechanism for factually incorrect or (in the case of code) non-functional output, only for output that is insufficiently boring from the perspective of event frequency correlations (where, in the case of an LLM or a markov chain chatbot, the event is a letter or word respectively). if you want reliably correct results, you need to be doing symbolic processing -- using a theorem prover, constraint solver, or expert system. this division between statistical and symbolic techniques in AI mirrors the system I / system II division in human psychology. with humans, it seems like system II is an extremely expensive epiphenomenon on top of system I -- that, through rigorous conditioning, humans are taught to sometimes simulate symbolic processing on statistical hardware. it's possible that computers could do this. but why would we want them to, when conventional computer hardware is much better at symbolic processing than statistical processing (and in fact, we are already doing it the other way around and implementing statistical modeling on symbolic hardware). (i say 'conventional computer hardware' because there are a couple dedicated neural net chips around, mostly built in the 90s; they are not heavily used, but if i didn't mention them somebody would probably complain.) IBM's 'Watson' was originally billed as something that could combine statistical and symbolic methods, but clearly, the statistical side has been given higher priority in ways that make it not just useless but actively dangerous for most of the tasks it is marketed for. the draw of statistical models for a corporation is clear: with an expert system, a human who is an expert in writing expert systems needs to interview domain experts (and all these people are typically paid very well for their time since there are few experienced expert system engineers and the domain experts are automating away some of their own future consulting contracts), whereas you just throw mountains of unstructured text at an LLM until it starts making coherent sentences (and there's a lot of unstructured text that's either in the public domain or where copyright claims are nearly unenforceable).

somehow, we ended up with a global software ecosystem consisting primarily of self-modifying rich text documents acting as slim clients to command line software running on remote machines running in vast centralized data centers, performing message passing over a protocol that uses DNS in conjunction with certificate hierarchies. and we're locked into this paradigm, basically because DNS is for turning hostnames into IPs and isn't suited for turning unique data identifiers into chunks of data or unique service identifiers into routing rules. now that we're locked in, we're being charged for network traffic by the byte & uptime by the second. this is sort of like ending up doing forced prison labor for the rest of your life because you filled out your taxes with a pink pen & the OCR system misread a checkbox.

one of the reasons i'm a never-delete-anything kind of guy is that when finding material is difficult, the person who puts in the effort to find the material gets power over which parts of it get seen and how it gets framed. let's say i wrote a long thread, and in the middle of the thread i made a typo that in the context of that one message could be seen as racist. if i delete the thread, then the only evidence i ever said anything is by the guys who screenshotted just the one bit in the middle to defame me. if i keep it up, and make it indexed on search engines, then anybody who wants to find it can see the whole context, and the people who want to misrepresent the context can only manipulate the people too lazy to look it up.

somehow i was under the impression that flatpack was one of those overly elaborate mechanisms for putting a web page into a zip file and giving it to users like it's a real executable, but people are mentioning it in the context of gnome and distro packaging, so i guess it's like RPM (i.e., an overly elaborate way of putting executables in a tarball so you know what files to delete when uninstalling). but that just makes me further wonder: why? why are we talking about this? source tarballs are still the primary way that packages are distributed by package maintainers, and any other format is at the whims of distro maintainers.

ted nelson coined a lot of terms, but the only two in common use outside of xanadu circles are hypertext and teledildonics. if i went back in time to 1965 and told ted that in 2023, it would be easier to get access to teledildonics than to a real hypertext system, he wouldn't believe me.

Bad idea of the day: a prng based on doing gematria on a steady text input stream

Random link from the archives: "The Satanic Temple Sought to Upend Missouri Abortion Law. Their Plans Went to Hell | Feature | St. Louis | St. Louis News and Events | Riverfront Times" https://web.archive.org/web/20190509105451/https://www.riverfronttimes.com/stlouis/the-satanic-temple-sued-missouri-to-push-for-abortion-rights-then-everything-went-to-hell/Content?oid=31557301&showFullText=true originally retrieved Thu May 9 10:54:51 EDT 2019

Random link from the archives: "Too Many Requests" https://web.archive.org/web/20170816122757/https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/40ldq6/generative_adversarial_networks_for_text/ originally retrieved Wed Aug 16 12:27:57 EDT 2017

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20191023101941/https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2017/03/102726907-05-01-acc.pdf originally retrieved Wed Oct 23 10:19:41 EDT 2019

i support the existence of the web, so long as it remains a mechanism for transporting static rich text documents inside the cern lan

Random link from the archives: "Hypertext Research: The Development of HyperTIES" https://web.archive.org/web/20171231091736/http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/hyperties/ originally retrieved Sun Dec 31 09:17:36 EST 2017

Random link from the archives: "PARALLEL HISTORY! (A text in Japanese.) - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20180924162246/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDD3amMV25g originally retrieved Mon Sep 24 16:22:46 EDT 2018

biases in language use mirror biases in activation potential, and apply to the same context (the Imaginal). in other words, language is an intelligent alien symbiote to humanity, made of living information. trickster phenomena -- UFO close encounters, faerie abductions, BVM apparitions -- are probably caused by this alien intelligence, whose very fingers are deep in our brains.

Random link from the archives: "Butler, “Monkeying Around with Text”" https://web.archive.org/web/20180708202218/http://projects.chass.utoronto.ca/chwp/CHC2005/Butler/Butler.htm originally retrieved Sun Jul 8 20:22:18 EDT 2018

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20191104094946/https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/context-centric-cultures-call-out-cultures-3da5e87015f1?source=friends_link&sk=44b692b40ec3ecd5ecbb918087bfb761 originally retrieved Mon Nov 4 09:49:46 EST 2019

JPEG · No Text, Just Images https://www.readjpeg.com/

random arrangements of words that mimic the statistical attributes of human-generated arrangements of words look vaguely intelligent because language is an external (communal) store of memoized intelligence. 'when you cut up the past the future leaks out' because all communication is a snapshot of processing that is distributed across multiple people, often without the knowledge of those people, and the context surrounding a statement often serves to prevent us from recognizing all the different things it is applicable to.

Random link from the archives: "Digital history and DH resources – Context Junky" https://web.archive.org/web/20200207055710/https://www.mikejonesonline.com/contextjunky/2020/02/07/digital-history-and-dh-resources/ originally retrieved Fri Feb 7 05:57:10 EST 2020

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20201009233624/https://scribe.rip/p/convolutional-methods-for-text-d5260fd5675f originally retrieved Fri Oct 9 23:36:24 EDT 2020

Random link from the archives: "countercomplex: Bringing magic back to technology" https://web.archive.org/web/20180420133427/http://viznut.fi/texts-en/magic_back_to_technology.html originally retrieved Fri Apr 20 13:34:27 EDT 2018

i had been hearing about Mitski for a while in the context of, like, what a Lain fan should listen to?? and that did not prepare me for listening to her for the first time today & discovering she's just, like, off-brand Saint Vincent. which is fine. Saint Vincent is great. but where does the reputation come from?

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20210505083219/https://subconscious.substack.com/p/hypertext-montage originally retrieved Wed 05 May 2021 08:32:19 AM EDT

Desire (under)lines: Notes toward a queer phenomenology of spell check https://posts.decontextualize.com/queer-in-ai-2021/

Language models can only write poetry https://posts.decontextualize.com/language-models-poetry/

Best practices for inclusive textual websites - Seirdy https://seirdy.one/posts/2020/11/23/website-best-practices/

is there a good open source library for extracting closed caption data as plain text from a tuner card/dongle? (ideally from multiple channels at once, but if the tuner device can't do that, that's fine...)

When to hold ’em and when to fold ’em: Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended https://posts.decontextualize.com/pocket-sp/

Random link from the archives: "How to make a context-aware bot: Foursquare’s big bet on Marsbot" https://web.archive.org/web/20211022071612/https://scribe.rip/p/how-to-make-a-context-aware-bot-foursquares-big-bet-on-marsbot-c00d86d18eff originally retrieved Fri 22 Oct 2021 07:16:12 AM EDT

i want to make juxtapositions -- of words, sounds, images, whatever -- that worm their way into people's heads and stick there but they don't know why. the greatest kind of legacy is if, after your death, people write reams of text trying to figure out 'why do i even care???' but at the same time can't deny that they do.

Random link from the archives: "Too Many Requests" https://web.archive.org/web/20170816122757/https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/40ldq6/generative_adversarial_networks_for_text/ originally retrieved Wed Aug 16 12:27:57 EDT 2017

in a corporate/agile context the only way to get important maintenance work done is to do it as part of an unrelated ticket, but then those big PRs full of breaking changes tend to sit unmerged for ages (because you chose the most vaguely-defined ticket to expand the scope of, right?), then spend ages sitting in the dev branch (overlapping) before going to master so they all need to go to master at once to avoid conflicts. catch 22.

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20201004200256/https://scribe.rip/p/skyrim-rendered-in-text-1899548ab2c4 originally retrieved Sun Oct 4 20:02:56 EDT 2020

GitHub - sharonzhou/long_stable_diffusion: Long-form text-to-images generation, using a pipeline of deep generative models (GPT-3 and Stable Diffusion) https://github.com/sharonzhou/long_stable_diffusion

Random link from the archives: "John Shirley Still Puts The PUNK In Cyberpunk - NeoText" https://web.archive.org/web/20211117143019/https://neotextcorp.com/culture/john-shirley-still-puts-the-punk-in-cyberpunk/ originally retrieved Wed 17 Nov 2021 02:30:19 PM EST

people keep making videos talking about how cyberpunk 2077 edgerunners is great over the top of the most lazy/generic/halfassed looking footage ever. like, i guess it must be good in context, but it looks less like an anime (let alone a cyberpunk anime) and more like one of those late 90s nickelodeon productions trying to cater to 13 year olds by showing the character designers one (1) low-res jpeg of akira

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

From context collapse to content collapse | ROUGH TYPE https://www.roughtype.com/?p=8724

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.

Bad idea of the day: exif tag for alt text

have you tried thinking of a context in which the problem would be an asset?

Random link from the archives: "PARALLEL HISTORY! (A text in Japanese.) - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20180924162246/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDD3amMV25g originally retrieved Mon Sep 24 16:22:46 EDT 2018

Random link from the archives: "World Models Rendered in Text | Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling" https://web.archive.org/web/20180620103444/https://emshort.blog/2018/06/19/world-models-rendered-in-text/ originally retrieved Wed Jun 20 10:34:44 EDT 2018

Random link from the archives: "Evolution of the x86 context switch in Linux – MaiZure's Projects" https://web.archive.org/web/20190117111618/http://www.maizure.org/projects/evolution_x86_context_switch_linux/index.html originally retrieved Thu Jan 17 11:16:18 EST 2019

Random link from the archives: "403 Forbidden" https://web.archive.org/web/20181113060328/http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a156769.pdf originally retrieved Tue Nov 13 06:03:28 EST 2018

Random link from the archives: "Future of Text 2013 : Ted Nelson - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20210817121159/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCoivDX3DFY originally retrieved Tue 17 Aug 2021 12:11:59 PM EDT

Random link from the archives: "GitHub - wyounas/homer: Homer, a text analyser in Python, can help make your text more clear, simple and useful for your readers." https://web.archive.org/web/20190815095301/https://github.com/wyounas/homer originally retrieved Thu Aug 15 09:53:01 EDT 2019

Random link from the archives: "Text Editing Hates You Too – Lord.io" https://web.archive.org/web/20210525144821/https://lord.io/text-editing-hates-you-too/ originally retrieved Tue 25 May 2021 02:48:21 PM EDT

Random link from the archives: "A context-centric culture isn’t the result of everybody being always fair, but the result of most…" https://web.archive.org/web/20211207114517/https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/a-context-centric-culture-isnt-the-result-of-everybody-being-always-fair-but-the-result-of-most-be873cba3ca6 originally retrieved Tue 07 Dec 2021 11:45:17 AM EST

Random link from the archives: "A Text Renaissance" https://web.archive.org/web/20200225134228/https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/02/24/a-text-renaissance/ originally retrieved Tue Feb 25 13:42:28 EST 2020

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20201009233624/https://scribe.rip/p/convolutional-methods-for-text-d5260fd5675f originally retrieved Fri Oct 9 23:36:24 EDT 2020

Random link from the archives: "How did HyperLook/HyperNeWS compare to other mid-1980s hypertext systems in terms of features & usability? - Quora" https://web.archive.org/web/20191219034113/https://www.quora.com/unanswered/How-did-HyperLook-HyperNeWS-compare-to-other-mid-1980s-hypertext-systems-in-terms-of-features-usability originally retrieved Thu Dec 19 03:41:13 EST 2019

Random link from the archives: "Xanadu and the rhizomaticity of texts" https://web.archive.org/web/20211103121451/https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/xanadu-and-the-rhizomaticity-of-texts-271e33585875 originally retrieved Wed 03 Nov 2021 12:14:51 PM EDT

Random link from the archives: "Let’s Replace JavaScript with Something Better" https://web.archive.org/web/20180413173450/https://john.ankarstrom.se/english/texts/replacing-javascript/ originally retrieved Fri Apr 13 17:34:50 EDT 2018

Random link from the archives: "‘What I Really Want Is Someone Rolling Around in the Text’ - The New York Times" https://web.archive.org/web/20190909090113/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/magazine/06Riff-t.html originally retrieved Mon Sep 9 09:01:13 EDT 2019

Random link from the archives: "Enjoying High-Res Graphics on a Text-Only TRS-80 Model 4 from 1983 | Byte Cellar" https://web.archive.org/web/20181019110829/http://www.bytecellar.com/2018/10/17/enjoying-high-res-graphics-on-a-text-only-trs-80-model-4-from-1983/ originally retrieved Fri Oct 19 11:08:29 EDT 2018

Random link from the archives: "GitHub - leonardr/olipy: Python library for artistic text generation" https://web.archive.org/web/20200220143820/https://github.com/leonardr/olipy originally retrieved Thu Feb 20 14:38:20 EST 2020

if hypertext stack editing programs on home computers (like hypercard) had remained popular for another 20 years after the introduction of the web, we would have had a perfect understandable set of metaphors for a new breed of 'found footage' epistolary FMV horror games, because people collecting pieces of media together in combination with personal notes in a manner that could be packed up together for distribution would be a recognizable thing. we have the tech but there's no social basis for this behavior anymore, and so any epistolary FMV game has to either take place in an alternate universe, spend time justifying why the collator might be using weird monkey-patched old hypertext systems, or create an in-universe justification wherein the player character is somehow using a strangely designed professional database of some kind. basically, a very short-lived set of technical and financial incentives in the real world prevented a really interesting & obvious potential style of game from coming into its own.

Random link from the archives: "TempleOS Intro to Graphics Programming, Transformations, and Device Context (dc) - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20210504202842/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eK4QRH22Uk originally retrieved Tue 04 May 2021 08:28:42 PM EDT

Random link from the archives: "Hypertext'87 Trip Report" https://web.archive.org/web/20191125085038/https://www.nngroup.com/articles/trip-report-hypertext-87/ originally retrieved Mon Nov 25 08:50:38 EST 2019

The Art of Plain Text https://www.netmeister.org/blog/the-art-of-plain-text.html

GitHub - ganelson/intest: A text-based command-line tool for testing other command-line tools. https://github.com/ganelson/intest

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20191024113800/https://scribe.rip/@aareed/a-minimal-syntax-for-quantum-text-ac5b34308593 originally retrieved Thu Oct 24 11:38:00 EDT 2019

Random link from the archives: "Towards a text editor construction kit · Issue #1187 · xi-editor/xi-editor · GitHub" https://web.archive.org/web/20190513091514/https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor/issues/1187#issuecomment-491473599 originally retrieved Mon May 13 09:15:14 EDT 2019

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: "Gathering the limbs of the text in Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl. - Free Online Library" https://web.archive.org/web/20210624121149/https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Gathering+the+limbs+of+the+text+in+Shelley+Jackson%27s+Patchwork+Girl.-a0149317740 originally retrieved Thu 24 Jun 2021 12:11:49 PM EDT

Plain Text - Dylan Beattie - NDC Oslo 2021 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mZBa3sqTrI

Solar powered dawn poems: progress report https://posts.decontextualize.com/solar-powered-dawn-poems-progress-report/

forgive me if this is obvious but it just now struck me as salient for the first time: collage-based pop-art became a thing in the 50s and 60s because of mass-distribution high-resolution photo-mags like Life providing a wealth of material to draw from, and likewise, the 'postmodern' mixing of styles from different decades and genres in music videos and later films in the late 80s and through the 90s were probably enabled by VHS releases of older films & cable channels like Turner's re-running old movies (i.e., even though footage wasn't necessarily used & editing wasn't necessarily done on VHS, VHS re-releases created an awareness of a variety of styles and helped situate them, so that one could draw from a style that wasn't part of a current 'scene' and expect some of the audience to also have a context for it). in other words: technical advances in communication technologies democratized access to visual ideas from groups distant in space or time, preparing people's imaginations for both creating and interpreting new variations. both photo-mags and video tapes are time-binding technologies, and i think this might be specific to time-binding: long before VHS existed, films got re-released for new theatrical runs, and although that occasionally led to artistic inspiration when a particular film ended up being very popular in re-run (ex., Disney's Alice in Wonderland, originally not terribly popular, got re-released in the late 60s and marketed to heads, & 50s re-releases & TV re-runs of 30s Universal horror flicks created the 'monster kid' generation), these hyper-specific genre riffs mostly only happened when it was possible for large numbers of people to re-experience media in detail repeatedly at their own leisure -- especially to rewind, use slow motion, go frame by frame, and eventually to zoom. likewise, you don't get hip-hop without records and tapes (not just the equipment but the actual media -- if records decayed & became unusable in 10 years then hip hop would have looked very different because crate digging would not involve digging so far back in time) and you don't get jazz without cheat books (i.e., jazz has its origins as a popular form in a certain set of process-technologies -- notational technologies in addition to techniques of performance and concepts about improvization -- and those notational technologies have a material basis and economic-social constraint-incentive structures that influence them). videocollage existed before the 90s, because at least some people had film projectors, film splicing equipment, and access to large quantities of developed film, but until the 80s everybody in that category was a Film Person (and probably a Film Industry Person); videocollage only became A Thing when regular people had cheap access to a huge variety of film (and even then, the editing technology was only accessible to Film People), and videocollage will only become democratized when recorded video and the film editing tech is not just cheap but the technical skills widespread. video (and to some extent audio) has actually gone backwards in this respect for reasons of copyright protectionism: streaming is so common that younger people often don't have copies of any film or music (either on media like DVDs or pirated files), and as understanding for how to get access to video in a form that can be edited becomes an additional hurdle people have to cross before editing (on top of getting and learning to use editing software, which is generally quite hard to learn to use) the number of people from a new generation who bother doing any of it drops. IP holders see DRM and (to some degree) streaming as a win because they see piracy as lost sales, but this is actually only a short term win for them (if at all) because the most skilled people in any domain are folks who started young and got a lot of practice -- in other words, people who didn't get 100% of their training on-the-job but instead are former amateurs -- and those people are also the ones most likely to bring new and innovative ideas into a stagnating field. In other words, when streaming and DRM is promoted to the exclusion of media that can be easily edited, the next generation is starved of new talent. the same thing has happened to computing: in the 80s, lots of people learned BASIC without intending to ever become professional programmers because it was one of the things machines could do out of the box; in the 90s, lots of people learned HTML and javascript without ever intending to become professional web developers because it was one of the things a web browser could do out of the box; today nearly all development tools & development tool documentation is aimed at professionals or would-be professionals and put in places where only people who are interested in learning to code will ever come across it, with few opportunities (excel being a rare exception) where non-programmers can 'naturally' slide into doing a little programming in order to make their lives easier. creative industries that don't get fresh ideas stagnate and eventually crash as they hit the limit of what their intellectual monoculture can imagine. because we have misused computer technology for professional protectionism, we are headed for a creative-stagnation crash in software, film, and music within the next 15 years, unless we take some drastic measures (like putting programming & multi-channel editing into the curriculum of mandatory schooling)

Random link from the archives: "E-Literary Text in the Nomadic Cockpit" https://web.archive.org/web/20190115132224/http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/e-literary-text-in-the-nomadic-cockpit/ originally retrieved Tue Jan 15 13:22:24 EST 2019

Random link from the archives: "An Expert System Approach to the Evaluation of Hypertext Engineering : An Experiment with KnowledgePro and MaxThink's - UNT Digital Library" https://web.archive.org/web/20191125072427/https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279010/ originally retrieved Mon Nov 25 07:24:27 EST 2019

Random link from the archives: "J.G. Ballard's Experimental Text Collages: His 1958 Foray into Avant-Garde Literature | Open Culture" https://web.archive.org/web/20190109074129/http://www.openculture.com/2016/09/j-g-ballards-experimental-text-collages.html originally retrieved Wed Jan 9 07:41:29 EST 2019

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200213162114/https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/a-short-history-of-procedurally-generated-text-733387b6b61f?source=friends_link&sk=cb5ff8bbc61d9360fe87ee790162bf5f originally retrieved Thu Feb 13 16:21:14 EST 2020

Xanadu Hypertext Documents https://sentido-labs.com/en/library/201904240732/Xanadu%20Hypertext%20Documents.html

bricolage is powerful because it makes clear that the story told by carefully-contextualized information is a manipulation -- that there is no single 'obvious' 'correct' narrative, and the illusion of one is evidence of soft power exertion. unfortunately, while tech for scrambling engineered contexts and narrative is very easy & very widespread, tech for aiding interactive sense-making by finding and making visible true connections is mostly awkward and difficult to use -- largely because sensemaking is seen as a specialized and professionalized skill. in fact, sensemaking is a basic function of the nervous system, and allowing it to become centralized is dangerous, since it centralizes power.

History of Hypertext: Article by Jakob Nielsen https://www.nngroup.com/articles/hypertext-history/

Bad idea of the day: a 'search engine for intuition'. it takes a search phrase for input, and simultaneously does a text search, news search, patent / scientific search, wikipedia/wictionary lookup, video search, and image search, and produces a page of arbitrarily-sized 'tiles', each with a result from a randomly chosen source (for text sources, a marquee of the first 1k characters, possibly with speech synthesis synced to the speed of the marquee), and each closing once the content of the box had 'finished playing' (or after a configurable delay for images) to have a new box appended to the end of the document. this continues in search result order until the user presses 'stop', searches for something new, or until all search results that were fetched (with some fetchahead) were shown. extra search backends configurable: ex., we may want to do a gematria lookup

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.

Zer0 Books Archives - Semiotext(e), Lotringer, and the Early Zer0 Blogosphere with Owen Hatherley - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDc3Pjy9eCk

There's this current in horror media, most prevalent from the publication of The Haunting of Hill House in the 1950s to the release of the final Poltergeist movie in the 1980s, where the haunted house is a metaphor for the abusive husband/father, and I think it's a pretty interesting current with many variations. In Haunting, Elanor basically reproduces her dysfunctional relationship with her mother at the house (one where she martyrs herself for the happiness of another who has promised her shelter), and despite lesbian subtext I think we can recognize that the house is at least sometimes characterized as masculine -- and at the very least, Elanor at least sometimes describes the house as a lover. Both Matheson's Hell House & King's The Shining are conscious responses to The Haunting of Hill House, and where most film adaptations of Haunting treat the house as female & re-focus the haunting on a stereotyped desire for children, Matheson & King's work in this space brings out the implicit subtext of an abusive and sexualized male figure -- as though the sinister intelligence of Hill House was literally that of Hugh Crain. In Hell House, Matheson finally exorcises this sinister masculine figure by having another masculine figure open himself up to emotional influences and recognize that the evil in the house is a twisted form of fear of inadequacy. In The Shining, the Overlook's long history of vice created a magnetic field to bring out the dark aspects of Jack Torrance (and in Kubrick's adaptation of the book, Jack is made out to be an abusive husband and father from the start, with the Overlook merely making that evil so pervasive as to be impossible to ignore). Meanwhile, we got The Amityville Horror, which was basically a monetized version of a cover story for an actual abusive husband and (step)father (which got its own film and about a million sequels, and which arguably was as much of an influence on Kubrick's adaptation of The Shining as King's book was). On the other side of the world, we got Hausu, which treats the haunted house not as an avatar of an abusive husband but as a sink for the complicated feelings of attachment that a war widow had, when she took the house as a substitute for her officially-MIA husband -- feelings that were programmed by Japan's massive propaganda apparatus for her whole life, and that once she finally died turned her and the house into a hungry ghost that eats womens' youth and transforms them into sanitized automata that serve to lure in more young women. Anne Rivers Siddons' The House Next Door features a completely new house, born out of a nexus of complicated desires for independence and worth on the part of the people who were involved in making it, that first develops a taste for blood even before it has been completed and that eventually learns to attract vulnerable women, charm them, and torture them with horrors specially tailored to their traumas. All of these versions are really interesting (even Amityville, which became extremely popular despite the absolute incompetence with which the original story & most if not all direct adaptations were told), but with Poltergeist we start to lose the plot a little due to the unnecessary introduction of a 'good' father figure (Craig T. Nelson, who is a kind of re-insertion of the Jack Torrance of the original Shining) who only really becomes a vector for evil in the second film. Poltergeist echoes tropes from the haunted-house-as-abusive-father current without actually properly contextualizing it, and the house's fatherliness never outshines Nelson's own, to the massive detriment of the films as horror (but this probably made them more palatable & was thereby involved in their success).

Random link from the archives: "social_media_design | How should names work in a distributed system? A suggestion for a context-aware petname approach" https://web.archive.org/web/20181227165721/https://social-media-design.dreamwidth.org/886.html originally retrieved Thu Dec 27 16:57:21 EST 2018

Random link from the archives: "GitHub - sequitur/improv: A model-backed generative text library for JavaScript." https://web.archive.org/web/20170712152701/https://github.com/sequitur/improv originally retrieved Wed Jul 12 15:27:01 EDT 2017

Old Vintage Computing Research: prior-art-dept.: OWL Guide, early hypertext, and "replacing" the Web http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2022/01/prior-art-dept-owl-guide-early.html

Random link from the archives: "A Winter Olympics wrap-up written with a predictive text keyboard" https://web.archive.org/web/20180302111656/https://kottke.org/18/02/a-winter-olympics-wrap-up-written-with-a-predictive-text-keyboard originally retrieved Fri Mar 2 11:16:56 EST 2018

a nice piece of hacktivism for folks with the skills to implement it would be to get into services that score job applicants & slowly, one by one, replace every metric with a random number generator (over the course of a year or two, so that people don't notice that result variability is going up). these systems are sufficiently complex and opaque that some variance is expected, and almost all enforced correlations in this context are antisocial/antihuman.

Random link from the archives: "Language Log » Information content of text in English and Chinese" https://web.archive.org/web/20171024131851/http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=34925 originally retrieved Tue Oct 24 13:18:51 EDT 2017

within anything, there is the potential of a knot which sub/verts and per/verts the entire context by warping it. escape to alterity is not a line of flight to the outside but to the uncharted inside that, as it grows, replaces the shell of the world with an unrecognizable new order that is only distinguishable from chaos in retrospect

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20191205161432/http://www.textfiles.com/bitsavers/pdf/apollo/014962-A00_Domain_OS_Design_Principles_Jan89.pdf originally retrieved Thu Dec 5 16:14:32 EST 2019

because perception is always already filtered and contextualized through prediction -- because there are no sensations prior to the sense-making apparatus -- naive realism is neither naive nor realistic, but is instead an uncritical acceptance of one's own acquired prejudices. any alternative requires an active interruption of our automatic responses and classifications through systematically-perverse self-criticism

A context-centric culture isn’t the result of everybody being always fair, but the result of most… https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/a-context-centric-culture-isnt-the-result-of-everybody-being-always-fair-but-the-result-of-most-be873cba3ca6

Random link from the archives: "Error 406 - Not Acceptable" https://web.archive.org/web/20200309121431/http://michaelgood.info/publications/text-editing/the-use-of-logging-data-in-the-design-of-a-new-text-editor/ originally retrieved Mon Mar 9 12:14:31 EDT 2020

Random link from the archives: "The Assimilation of Text by Image" https://web.archive.org/web/20190115125723/http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/the-assimilation-of-text-by-image/ originally retrieved Tue Jan 15 12:57:23 EST 2019

Random link from the archives: "Xanadu and the rhizomaticity of texts" https://web.archive.org/web/20211103121451/https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/xanadu-and-the-rhizomaticity-of-texts-271e33585875 originally retrieved Wed 03 Nov 2021 12:14:51 PM EDT

Random link from the archives: "Self-Organising Textures" https://web.archive.org/web/20210212122133/https://distill.pub/selforg/2021/textures/ originally retrieved Fri 12 Feb 2021 12:21:33 PM EST

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'?

Yup, automated translation is a great way to semantically warp text. https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/yup-automated-translation-is-a-great-way-to-semantically-warp-text-98830c4b9b6e

A Short History of Procedurally Generated Text https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/a-short-history-of-procedurally-generated-text-733387b6b61f?source=friends_link&sk=cb5ff8bbc61d9360fe87ee790162bf5f

Random link from the archives: "countercomplex: Slower Moore's law wouldn't be that bad." https://web.archive.org/web/20180420140503/http://viznut.fi/texts-en/slower_moores_law.html originally retrieved Fri Apr 20 14:05:03 EDT 2018

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200929050316/https://medium.com/p/overview-of-text-similarity-metrics-3397c4601f50 originally retrieved Tue Sep 29 05:03:16 EDT 2020

Random link from the archives: "Neurocracy, a sci-fi hypertext story by Joannes Truyens — Kickstarter" https://web.archive.org/web/20201008220302/https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/playthroughline/neurocracy-a-sci-fi-hypertext-story originally retrieved Thu Oct 8 22:03:02 EDT 2020

Xanadu and the rhizomaticity of texts https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/xanadu-and-the-rhizomaticity-of-texts-271e33585875?source=friends_link&sk=78d71549b2bc4a51b0053c26ce21885f

Guidelines for future hypertext systems https://scribe.rip/hackernoon/guidelines-for-future-hypertext-systems-647b6a10f7dd?source=friends_link&sk=bfa93c38f8756cc58923f3adef6447b7

Context-centric cultures & call-out cultures https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/context-centric-cultures-call-out-cultures-3da5e87015f1?source=friends_link&sk=44b692b40ec3ecd5ecbb918087bfb761

John Shirley Still Puts The PUNK In Cyberpunk - NeoText https://neotextcorp.com/culture/john-shirley-still-puts-the-punk-in-cyberpunk/

Golden Duo for Life: Sarazanmai and the Power of Turning Subtext Into Text https://scribe.rip/p/golden-duo-for-life-eba7d4f43c57

A Minimal Syntax For Quantum Text https://scribe.rip/@aareed/a-minimal-syntax-for-quantum-text-ac5b34308593

Digital esthetics, environmental change and the subcultures of http://viznut.fi/texts-en/digital_esthetics.html

Philip K. Dick’s Novels Of The '50s Are Underrated And (Mostly) Untouched By Hollywood - NeoText https://neotextcorp.com/culture/philip-k-dicks-novels-of-the-50s-are-underrated-and-mostly-untouched-by-hollywood/

Xanadu and the rhizomaticity of texts https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/xanadu-and-the-rhizomaticity-of-texts-271e33585875

Random link from the archives: "Cybertext Killed the Hypertext Star" https://web.archive.org/web/20190117102233/http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/cybertext-killed-the-hypertext-star/ originally retrieved Thu Jan 17 10:22:33 EST 2019

Permacomputing Update 2021 | viznut http://viznut.fi/texts-en/permacomputing_update_2021.html

Designet.ru - Интервью - Интервью - "митрий Азрикан, для журнала "Проектор", полная версия http://www.designet.ru/context/interview/?id=37621

Hypertext Tools from the 80s https://fibery.io/blog/hypertext-tools-from-the-80s/

How to make a context-aware bot: Foursquare’s big bet on Marsbot https://scribe.rip/p/how-to-make-a-context-aware-bot-foursquares-big-bet-on-marsbot-c00d86d18eff

I doomed mankind with a free text editor https://scribe.rip/p/i-doomed-mankind-with-a-free-text-editor-ba6003319681

Hypertext and writing https://www.whoi.edu/science/B/people/kamaral/hypertext.html

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200617124705/https://medium.com/p/history-of-medicine-the-story-of-wound-man-from-textbook-to-emblem-and-hollywood-44ae52335f83 originally retrieved Wed Jun 17 12:47:05 EDT 2020

Guidelines for future hypertext systems https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/guidelines-for-future-hypertext-systems-647b6a10f7dd

Random link from the archives: "GitHub - deniskyashif/ssfst: Subsequential Transducer for Efficient "Dictionary-Based" Text Rewriting" https://web.archive.org/web/20170712152643/https://github.com/deniskyashif/ssfst originally retrieved Wed Jul 12 15:26:43 EDT 2017

Random link from the archives: "glass.leaves: text manipulator and generator" https://web.archive.org/web/20190304065746/https://glassleaves.herokuapp.com/ originally retrieved Mon Mar 4 06:57:46 EST 2019

Hypertext https://web.archive.org/web/20031203094138/http://www.brown.edu/Departments/English/Writing/hypertext.htm

(sub)Text: Cursed Kids or Psych-Au Pair? "The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Tt1bGFIN0

Future of Text 2013 : Ted Nelson - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCoivDX3DFY

John Dee - The Monas Hieroglyphica - Part I - History and Context - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2meS9-YGYhU

Introduction to Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism - Part 1 - Israelite Prophecy and Theophany in Context - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABeeKCygNlw

Gnosticism - The Apocryphon / Secret Writing of John - Introduction to Gnostic Texts Scriptures - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22kxcbN8B_A

Random link from the archives: "GitHub - netxs-group/VTM: Text-based Desktop Environment, aka Monotty Desktop (desktopio)" https://web.archive.org/web/20200823170811/https://github.com/netxs-group/VTM originally retrieved Sun Aug 23 17:08:11 EDT 2020

Abramelin - Introduction to the Magical Text and the Ritual made famous by Aleister Crowley - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yHxe3qLrA0

Gathering the limbs of the text in Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl. - Free Online Library https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Gathering+the+limbs+of+the+text+in+Shelley+Jackson%27s+Patchwork+Girl.-a0149317740

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20191205161432/http://www.textfiles.com/bitsavers/pdf/apollo/014962-A00_Domain_OS_Design_Principles_Jan89.pdf originally retrieved Thu Dec 5 16:14:32 EST 2019

Random link from the archives: "An Essay About Essays – Hypertext Magazine" https://web.archive.org/web/20200223105107/https://www.hypertextmag.com/an-essay-about-essays/ originally retrieved Sun Feb 23 10:51:07 EST 2020

Random link from the archives: "Digital history and DH resources – Context Junky" https://web.archive.org/web/20200207055710/https://www.mikejonesonline.com/contextjunky/2020/02/07/digital-history-and-dh-resources/ originally retrieved Fri Feb 7 05:57:10 EST 2020

Random link from the archives: " The Secret History of Hypertext - The Atlantic" https://web.archive.org/web/20190606114730/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/in-search-of-the-proto-memex/371385/ originally retrieved Thu Jun 6 11:47:30 EDT 2019

Gang Stalking: Real-Life Harassment or Textbook Paranoia? | Psychology Today https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psych-unseen/202010/gang-stalking-real-life-harassment-or-textbook-paranoia

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

Text Editing Hates You Too – Lord.io https://lord.io/text-editing-hates-you-too/

Text and Audio of ‘Are You Being Watched? Simulated Universe Theory in “Person of Interest”‘ | A Future Worth Thinking About http://www.afutureworththinkingabout.com/?p=5142

On The Invisible Architecture of Bias (Audio & Text) | A Future Worth Thinking About http://www.afutureworththinkingabout.com/?p=4838

I talked about hypertext on Ted Hand's Esoteric Beat podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtuvLYoi9Yo&ab_channel=TedHand

Esoteric Beat with John Ohno: How can Hypertext help my Glass Bead Game? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtuvLYoi9Yo&ab_channel=TedHand

International Journal of Negative & Null Results - Journal Network https://www.journalnetwork.org/journals/international-journal-of-negative-and-null-results#:~:text=The%20International%20Journal%20of%20Negative,that%20produced%20no%20positive%20results.

Systems Generating Systems | Architecture's New Scientific Foundations https://patterns.architexturez.net/doc/az-cf-173046

TempleOS Intro to Graphics Programming, Transformations, and Device Context (dc) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eK4QRH22Uk

Random link from the archives: "Text File formats – ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB delimited text | Ronald Duncan's Blog" https://web.archive.org/web/20170912135006/https://ronaldduncan.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/text-file-formats-ascii-delimited-text-not-csv-or-tab-delimited-text/ originally retrieved Tue Sep 12 13:50:06 EDT 2017

Random link from the archives: "GitHub - flipcoder/textbeat: text music sequencer and midi shell with vim playback" https://web.archive.org/web/20180905132310/https://github.com/flipcoder/textbeat originally retrieved Wed Sep 5 13:23:10 EDT 2018

Random link from the archives: "Literature from Page to Interface: The Treatments of Text in Christophe Bruno’s Iterature" https://web.archive.org/web/20190124131235/http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/literature-from-page-to-interface-the-treatments-of-text-in-christophe-brunos-iterature/ originally retrieved Thu Jan 24 13:12:35 EST 2019

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200323143348/http://blog.snailtext.com/posts/cshell-is-punk-rock.html originally retrieved Mon Mar 23 14:33:48 EDT 2020

Text Adventures: how Twine remade gaming https://www.theverge.com/22321816/twine-games-history-legacy-art

Random link from the archives: "Cragne Manor, an 84-room horror "exquisite corpse" text adventure that's a tribute to the classic game Anchorhead / Boing Boing" https://web.archive.org/web/20181210105949/https://boingboing.net/2018/12/09/massively-multi-developer.html originally retrieved Mon Dec 10 10:59:49 EST 2018

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: "countercomplex: Counteracting alienation with technological arts and crafts" https://web.archive.org/web/20180420112746/http://viznut.fi/texts-en/counteracting_tech_alienation.html originally retrieved Fri Apr 20 11:27:46 EDT 2018

Project Gutenberg english-language plain text files archived on SSB http://www.lord-enki.net/ipfs-gutenberg.html

A Half-Century of Hypertext at Brown: Session 2 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=get7utR_BsU

Edit - Home Brewed Text Editor https://c9x.me/edit/

Amulet version 1 https://text.bargains/amulet/

Random link from the archives: "GitHub - deniskyashif/ssfst: Subsequential Transducer for Efficient "Dictionary-Based" Text Rewriting" https://web.archive.org/web/20170712152643/https://github.com/deniskyashif/ssfst originally retrieved Wed Jul 12 15:26:43 EDT 2017

Random link from the archives: "Don't submit yourself to a game machine! | Countercomplex" https://web.archive.org/web/20180420134501/http://viznut.fi/texts-en/dont_submit_yourself_to_game_machine.html originally retrieved Fri Apr 20 13:45:01 EDT 2018

Self-Organising Textures https://distill.pub/selforg/2021/textures/

Random link from the archives: "Plaintext HTTP in a Modern World - joshua stein" https://web.archive.org/web/20210107113132/https://jcs.org/2021/01/06/plaintext originally retrieved Thu 07 Jan 2021 11:31:32 AM EST

Most of the time I feel like I don't have deep knowledge of any subject, but when I hear normies talk about hypertext or magick I realize -- oh yeah, most people have a deep and abiding ignorance of this stuff, don't know who the fuck John Dee is, etc.

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20180920154259/https://medium.com/p/how-to-make-a-context-aware-bot-foursquares-big-bet-on-marsbot-c00d86d18eff originally retrieved Thu Sep 20 15:42:59 EDT 2018

Random link from the archives: "GitHub - paulfitz/mlsql: inferring sql queries from plain-text questions about tables" https://web.archive.org/web/20190607135236/https://github.com/paulfitz/mlsql originally retrieved Fri Jun 7 13:52:36 EDT 2019

Infovore » Towards a canon of “hypertext literature / interactive fiction / digital narrative” https://infovore.org/archives/2013/01/09/towards-a-canon-of-hypertext-literature-interactive-fiction-digital-narrative/

Random link from the archives: "Extended Director’s Cut: Ted Nelson on Hypertext, Douglas Englebart, Xanadu and More - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20180214184930/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i67rQdHuO-8 originally retrieved Wed Feb 14 18:49:30 EST 2018

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20191205161031/http://www.textfiles.com/bitsavers/pdf/apollo/AEGIS_Overview_1985.pdf originally retrieved Thu Dec 5 16:10:31 EST 2019

Random link from the archives: "IF Magazine : Free Texts : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive" https://web.archive.org/web/20180406084912/https://archive.org/details/ifmagazine originally retrieved Fri Apr 6 08:49:12 EDT 2018

Plaintext HTTP in a Modern World - joshua stein https://jcs.org/2021/01/06/plaintext

Random link from the archives: "Mondo 2000 History Project : Free Texts : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive" https://web.archive.org/web/20170925152206/https://archive.org/details/mondohistory originally retrieved Mon Sep 25 15:22:06 EDT 2017

Random link from the archives: " The Secret History of Hypertext - The Atlantic" https://web.archive.org/web/20190606114730/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/in-search-of-the-proto-memex/371385/ originally posted Thu Jun 6 11:47:30 EDT 2019

[2010.14571] Language ID in the Wild: Unexpected Challenges on the Path to a Thousand-Language Web Text Corpus https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14571#google

Random link from the archives: "Error 406 - Not Acceptable" https://web.archive.org/web/20200309121431/http://michaelgood.info/publications/text-editing/the-use-of-logging-data-in-the-design-of-a-new-text-editor/ originally posted Mon Mar 9 12:14:31 EDT 2020

Random link from the archives: "Cybertext Killed the Hypertext Star" https://web.archive.org/web/20190117102233/http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/cybertext-killed-the-hypertext-star/ originally posted Thu Jan 17 10:22:33 EST 2019

Random link from the archives: "[1801.01944] Audio Adversarial Examples: Targeted Attacks on Speech-to-Text" https://web.archive.org/web/20180201155156/https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.01944 originally posted Thu Feb 1 15:51:56 EST 2018

The First Church of Space Jesus: Context-centric cultures & call-out cultures http://firstchurchofspacejesus.blogspot.com/2020/11/context-centric-cultures-call-out.html

An opinionated list of best practices for textual websites https://seirdy.one/2020/11/23/website-best-practices.html

Random link from the archives: "How to Teach Computer Ethics through Science Fiction | August 2018 | Communications of the ACM" https://web.archive.org/web/20181101092438/https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/8/229765-how-to-teach-computer-ethics-through-science-fiction/fulltext originally posted Thu Nov 1 09:24:38 EDT 2018

FullText search https://b-ok.cc/fulltext/

Space Jam: A Revolutionary Text | Jack Saint - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQsChSd-utk

Free Linear Algebra textbook, from Jim Hefferon https://hefferon.net/linearalgebra/

Text layout is a loose hierarchy of segmentation | Raph Levien’s blog https://raphlinus.github.io/text/2020/10/26/text-layout.html

Random link from the archives: "GitHub - vi3k6i5/flashtext: Extract Keywords from sentence or Replace keywords in sentences." https://web.archive.org/web/20170905110949/https://github.com/vi3k6i5/flashtext originally posted Tue Sep 5 11:09:49 EDT 2017

Random link from the archives: "Kinda okay generated text" https://web.archive.org/web/20181005074157/https://blog.ftql.pw/posts/random-text/ originally posted Fri Oct 5 07:41:57 EDT 2018

FrontPage https://cxw42.github.io/htdocs/Xanadu-archaeology/articles/text/FrontPage.html

Neurocracy, a sci-fi hypertext story by Joannes Truyens — Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/playthroughline/neurocracy-a-sci-fi-hypertext-story

I'm not an authority on much, but I am an authority on the subject of 'what Ted Nelson meant by hypertext'. This is almost entirely because almost nobody listens carefully to Ted Nelson, including his self-proclaimed biggest fans.

Random link from the archives: "Distorted Text Says A Lot | Hackaday" https://web.archive.org/web/20180613105705/https://hackaday.com/2018/05/31/distorted-text-says-a-lot/ originally posted Wed Jun 13 10:57:05 EDT 2018

Random link from the archives: "Text Editing Hates You Too – Lord i/o" https://web.archive.org/web/20191101141347/https://lord.io/blog/2019/text-editing-hates-you-too/ originally posted Fri Nov 1 14:13:47 EDT 2019

Random link from the archives: "GitHub - nichtich/hypertext-timeline: A Timeline of Hypertext Systems" https://web.archive.org/web/20191122193601/https://github.com/nichtich/hypertext-timeline originally posted Fri Nov 22 19:36:01 EST 2019

in a non-adversarial context, 'inference attack' is just 'debugging'

Random link from the archives: "Text-Savvy AI Is Here to Write Fiction | WIRED" https://web.archive.org/web/20191125075644/https://www.wired.com/story/nanogenmo-ai-novels-gpt2/ originally posted Mon Nov 25 07:56:44 EST 2019

“Who’s quoting this?”: Synchromystic Language, Narrative and Metatextuality in Hellier – The House of Alexander http://houseofalexander.wiki/whos-quoting-this

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Random link from the archives: "Hypertext Research: The Development of HyperTIES" https://web.archive.org/web/20190820114455/https://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/hyperties/ originally posted Tue Aug 20 11:44:55 EDT 2019

Random link from the archives: "IF Magazine : Free Texts : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive" https://web.archive.org/web/20180406084912/https://archive.org/details/ifmagazine originally posted Fri Apr 6 08:49:12 EDT 2018

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20190215132823/https://unlikekinds.com/article/uber-code-text originally posted Fri Feb 15 13:28:23 EST 2019/

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20200617124705/https://medium.com/p/history-of-medicine-the-story-of-wound-man-from-textbook-to-emblem-and-hollywood-44ae52335f83 originally posted Wed Jun 17 12:47:05 EDT 2020/

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20190105204607/http://www.msarnoff.org/millitext/ originally posted Sat Jan 5 20:46:07 EST 2019/

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20190129131438/https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2019/2/234352-a-new-golden-age-for-computer-architecture/fulltext originally posted Tue Jan 29 13:14:38 EST 2019/

Quora questions I'd still like good answers to: https://www.quora.com/unanswered/How-did-HyperLook-HyperNeWS-compare-to-other-mid-1980s-hypertext-systems-in-terms-of-features-usability

https://medium.com/@enkiv2/a-context-centric-culture-isnt-the-result-of-everybody-being-always-fair-but-the-result-of-most-be873cba3ca6

Historical Parallels: The Power (and Risk) of Historical Context https://tedium.co/2020/03/10/historical-parallels-philosophy-coronavirus/

PDF text extraction | FilingDB https://www.filingdb.com/pdf-text-extraction

Error 406 - Not Acceptable http://michaelgood.info/publications/text-editing/the-use-of-logging-data-in-the-design-of-a-new-text-editor/

https://medium.com/@enkiv2/yup-automated-translation-is-a-great-way-to-semantically-warp-text-98830c4b9b6e

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20200211104328/https://github.com/brettkromkamp/contextualise originally posted Tue Feb 11 10:43:28 EST 2020/

A Text Renaissance https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/02/24/a-text-renaissance/

An Essay About Essays – Hypertext Magazine https://www.hypertextmag.com/an-essay-about-essays/

Timeline of Hypertext Systems http://jakobvoss.de/hypertext-timeline/#table

It occurs to me that, because (xanadu-space era) transcopyright uses one time pads, it's possible to rubberhose it with different OTPs in order to create alternative plaintexts so long as they are of the same length & all subsections still make sense in their link/transclusion contexts...

GitHub - leonardr/olipy: Python library for artistic text generation https://github.com/leonardr/olipy

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20190124110041/http://teletextart.co.uk/teletext-graphics-characters-among-those-added-to-unicode originally posted Thu Jan 24 11:00:41 EST 2019/

GitHub - brettkromkamp/contextualise: Contextualise is a simple and flexible tool particularly suited for organising information-heavy projects and activities consisting of unstructured and widely diverse data and information reso... https://github.com/brettkromkamp/contextualise

https://medium.com/@enkiv2/why-you-should-care-about-generative-text-52496cb74beb

Digital history and DH resources – Context Junky https://www.mikejonesonline.com/contextjunky/2020/02/07/digital-history-and-dh-resources/

the kind of 'focus' and 'clarity' you can only get from killing so many brain cells that you can no longer context-switch

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'.

https://medium.com/@enkiv2/ultimately-when-youre-in-a-business-context-you-need-to-please-the-people-above-you-in-the-378df601fe8c

we really need to get rid of the idea that biographies need to be in chronological order. if you're only just starting to get interested in somebody, an introduction isn't enough to give context to make the most boring part of most people's lives (when they have no agency at all) interesting.

https://medium.com/@enkiv2/context-centric-cultures-call-out-cultures-3da5e87015f1

https://medium.com/@enkiv2/xanadu-and-the-rhizomaticity-of-texts-271e33585875

Context collapse and context restoration | ROUGH TYPE http://www.roughtype.com/?p=6887

From context collapse to content collapse | ROUGH TYPE http://www.roughtype.com/?p=8724

How to Build a Twitter Text-Generating AI Bot With GPT-2 | Max Woolf's Blog https://minimaxir.com/2020/01/twitter-gpt2-bot/

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20190809081919/https://medium.com/@enkiv2/xanadu-and-the-rhizomaticity-of-texts-271e33585875 originally posted Fri Aug 9 08:19:19 EDT 2019/

Generating Communications Systems Through Shared Context https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/7079/AITR-2002-002.pdf?sequence=2

danah boyd | apophenia » how “context collapse” was coined: my recollection http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2013/12/08/coining-context-collapse.html

stretchtext vs fetchtext

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20180819134139/https://archive.org/details/hypercard_on-reading-hypertext originally posted Sun Aug 19 13:41:39 EDT 2018/

https://medium.com/@enkiv2/guidelines-for-future-hypertext-systems-647b6a10f7dd

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20181030094329/https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/11/232214-a-look-at-the-design-of-lua/fulltext originally posted Tue Oct 30 09:43:29 EDT 2018/

Hypertext Style: Cool URIs don't change. http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20191023101941/https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2017/03/102726907-05-01-acc.pdf originally posted Wed Oct 23 10:19:41 EDT 2019/

https://medium.com/@enkiv2/this-is-not-no-ui-it-s-text-based-ui-c4e5991b7edb

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20180620103444/https://emshort.blog/2018/06/19/world-models-rendered-in-text/ originally posted Wed Jun 20 10:34:44 EDT 2018/

https://medium.com/@enkiv2/a-context-centric-culture-isnt-the-result-of-everybody-being-always-fair-but-the-result-of-most-be873cba3ca6

How did HyperLook/HyperNeWS compare to other mid-1980s hypertext systems in terms of features & usability? - Quora https://www.quora.com/unanswered/How-did-HyperLook-HyperNeWS-compare-to-other-mid-1980s-hypertext-systems-in-terms-of-features-usability

Some quora questions I'd like answers for: https://www.quora.com/unanswered/How-did-HyperLook-HyperNeWS-compare-to-other-mid-1980s-hypertext-systems-in-terms-of-features-usability

project I've started but will probably never finish: curses-based hypertext viewer and editor, 2-pane with transpointing windows & bidirectional links (but one-to-one targets), vim-like editing facilities, xanaduspace-style transclusion (including from personal permascrolls)

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20191024113800/https://medium.com/@aareed/a-minimal-syntax-for-quantum-text-ac5b34308593 originally posted Thu Oct 24 11:38:00 EDT 2019/

Galax Teletext http://www.galax.xyz/TELETEXT/INDEX.HTM

An End of Tarred Twine https://fugitivetexts.net/tarredtwine/index.html

Front Matter https://textbooks.math.gatech.edu/ila/

Infrastructure-Agnostic Hypertext https://jakobib.github.io/hypertext2019/

Hypertext'87 Trip Report https://www.nngroup.com/articles/trip-report-hypertext-87/

Text-Savvy AI Is Here to Write Fiction | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/nanogenmo-ai-novels-gpt2/

An Expert System Approach to the Evaluation of Hypertext Engineering : An Experiment with KnowledgePro and MaxThink's - UNT Digital Library https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279010/

GitHub - nichtich/hypertext-timeline: A Timeline of Hypertext Systems https://github.com/nichtich/hypertext-timeline

Microsoft's "Love" of Linux - Split Perspective by Pedro Côrte-Real http://pedrocr.pt/text/microsofts-love-of-linux/

Convert IPA phonetic notation text to speech https://itinerarium.github.io/phoneme-synthesis/

A Foundation Course in Reading German | By Howard Martin, revised and expanded as an open online textbook by Alan Ng https://courses.dcs.wisc.edu/wp/readinggerman/

Procedurally Generated Text: A Writing Process Built for Computers https://tedium.co/2019/11/14/procedural-text-history/

The problem with 'X predicted the smartphone' is that while lots of people predicted mobile videophones (including Dick Tracy) nobody seems to have said 'the telephone of the future will be used primarily to transmit text and still images with superimposed text, & calling people on it will be considered rude'

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20190117111618/http://www.maizure.org/projects/evolution_x86_context_switch_linux/index.html originally posted Thu Jan 17 11:16:18 EST 2019/

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20180423100542/http://viznut.fi/texts-en/our_species_and_our_world.html originally posted Mon Apr 23 10:05:42 EDT 2018/

https://medium.com/@enkiv2/context-centric-cultures-call-out-cultures-3da5e87015f1?source=friends_link&sk=44b692b40ec3ecd5ecbb918087bfb761

the first text sent over the arpanet was 'lo' because the universe cut the connection there, as a means of telling the people of the future to read Charles Fort ffs or else the 21st century won't make any damned sense

hot take: early internet argument culture wasn't fundamentally more civil, but the format (permanently-archived easily-searched longform text that would generally get ready by everybody in your online social circle) caused style & countermeasures to be pushed in directions not amenable to an environment of constant cheap/immediate shock.

Text Editing Hates You Too – Lord i/o https://lord.io/blog/2019/text-editing-hates-you-too/

Sutherland's Sketchpad thesis: https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2017/03/102726907-05-01-acc.pdf

Band name of the day: sample text

Mark Bernstein on Hypertext Narrative – Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2016/04/28/mark-bernstein-on-hypertext-narrative/

A Tattered Nontext In and Out of Context — Big Echo http://www.bigecho.org/a-tattered-nontext

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20180420134501/http://viznut.fi/texts-en/dont_submit_yourself_to_game_machine.html originally posted Fri Apr 20 13:45:01 EDT 2018/

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20190809081919/https://medium.com/@enkiv2/xanadu-and-the-rhizomaticity-of-texts-271e33585875 originally posted Fri Aug 9 08:19:19 EDT 2019/

Text Rendering Hates You https://gankra.github.io/blah/text-hates-you/

Quick, to the rat cave! " Shall we play a game? A GPT-2 text adventure https://quicktotheratcave.tumblr.com/post/187432425523/shall-we-play-a-game-a-gpt-2-text-adventure

‘What I Really Want Is Someone Rolling Around in the Text’ - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/magazine/06Riff-t.html

Hypertext Research: The Development of HyperTIES https://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/hyperties/

GitHub - wyounas/homer: Homer, a text analyser in Python, can help make your text more clear, simple and useful for your readers. https://github.com/wyounas/homer

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20180423080922/http://viznut.fi/texts-en/reaching_for_the_blocks.html originally posted Mon Apr 23 08:09:22 EDT 2018/

GitHub - falcondai/lm-steganography: Steganographic text via language models https://github.com/falcondai/lm-steganography

Build Your Own Text Editor https://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/index.html

Eldrich University: points for drawing a sprite for what I assume is a one-off character. Points for making the text box resemble creeping fog. But, also... is this a magical girl story? I think it might be a magical girl story.

Dokken does, just, really solid and technically-proficient textbook hair metal & sometimes you gotta appreciate craft

The Starship Troopers 'Would You Like To Know More' pattern represents an interesting & common failure mode in hypertext: semantically-meaningless totally linear link trails that only serve to increase 'engagement'/'interactivity'/ad impressions. Very commonly made by people who don't understand hypertext enough to know what the point of it is.

Random link from the archives: https://thefrailestthing.com/2017/11/29/recovering-the-text-critical-canon/ originally posted Tue Jun 18 12:11:38 EDT 2019

News from the Republic https://desert.glass/archive/news-from-the-republic/#text

GitHub - jakegrigsby/articanon: Neural Text Generation and Buddhism Collide https://github.com/jakegrigsby/articanon

Full text of "Toward A Philosophy Of Technology" https://archive.org/stream/HansJonasTowardAPhilosophyOfTechnology/Hans-Jonas-Toward-a-Philosophy-of-Technology_djvu.txt

Recovering the Tech Critical Canon | L.M. Sacasas https://thefrailestthing.com/2017/11/29/recovering-the-text-critical-canon/

Random link from the archives: https://www.riverfronttimes.com/stlouis/the-satanic-temple-sued-missouri-to-push-for-abortion-rights-then-everything-went-to-hell/Content?oid=31557301&showFullText=true originally posted Thu May 9 10:54:51 EDT 2019

Random link from the archives: https://blog.demofox.org/2019/05/11/markov-chain-text-generation/ originally posted Tue May 14 09:44:33 EDT 2019

GitHub - paulfitz/mlsql: inferring sql queries from plain-text questions about tables https://github.com/paulfitz/mlsql

Build Your Own Text Editor https://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/

GNU Hyperbole - The Everyday Hypertextual Information Manager https://www.gnu.org/software/hyperbole/

The Secret History of Hypertext - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/in-search-of-the-proto-memex/371385/

GitHub - penrose/penrose: Create beautiful diagrams just by typing mathematical notation in plain text. https://github.com/penrose/penrose

Bad idea of the day: a site that, given a set of tags, brings up the full text of a randomly chosen academic paper matching those tags.

People Are Finally Fighting Back Against the College Textbook Industry 'Scam' - VICE https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pajze9/people-are-finally-fighting-back-against-the-college-textbook-industrys-scam

Text contrast by term frequency: https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/colorByTF.py example output: http://www.lord-enki.net/neuro-colored.html

Hot take: if you don't edit while writing, you're losing the primary benefit of using a text editor / word processor to compose.

Markov Chain Text Generation « The blog at the bottom of the sea https://blog.demofox.org/2019/05/11/markov-chain-text-generation/

Towards a text editor construction kit · Issue #1187 · xi-editor/xi-editor · GitHub https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor/issues/1187#issuecomment-491473599

The Satanic Temple Sought to Upend Missouri Abortion Law. Their Plans Went to Hell | Feature | St. Louis | S... https://www.riverfronttimes.com/stlouis/the-satanic-temple-sued-missouri-to-push-for-abortion-rights-then-everything-went-to-hell/Content?oid=31557301&showFullText=true

Random link from the archives: http://www.bytecellar.com/2018/10/17/enjoying-high-res-graphics-on-a-text-only-trs-80-model-4-from-1983/ originally archived Fri Oct 19 11:08:29 EDT 2018

Hot take: gopher is not a failed attempt to invent the WWW, but its own crystallization of a coherent philosophy -- to present jump links between text files, without all the other bollocks. That makes it as valuable today as it was 25 years ago.

totext.py - Convert URL or RSS feed to text with readability - Raymii.org https://raymii.org/s/software/totext.py-Convert_URL_or_RSS_feed_to_plaintext_with_readability.html

The History of Text Generation | http://mathesonmarcault.com/index.php/2015/12/15/randomly-generated-title-goes-here/

Org-Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only/

!!Con West 2019 - Alex Rasmussen: EarthBound’s almost-Turing-complete text system! - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KaatQ-jH6Q

Some essays I wrote about engineering healthy community norms: https://medium.com/@enkiv2/punk-cosplay-3005b5703c31?source=friends_link&sk=60b608b1bc983be2dbfa99ec0663a309 https://medium.com/@enkiv2/on-communities-cf4ad1b6ce3?source=friends_link&sk=c1f309edbf7c6a010c746ca112459ac0 https://medium.com/@enkiv2/context-centric-cultures-call-out-cultures-3da5e87015f1?source=friends_link&sk=44b692b40ec3ecd5ecbb918087bfb761

Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years — Krebs on Security https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/03/facebook-stored-hundreds-of-millions-of-user-passwords-in-plain-text-for-years/

happy 30th anniversary of the end of hypertext as a vital and interesting medium

Delete Never: The Digital Hoarders Who Collect Tumblrs, Medieval Manuscripts, and Terabytes of Text Files https://gizmodo.com/delete-never-the-digital-hoarders-who-collect-tumblrs-1832900423

glass.leaves: text manipulator and generator https://glassleaves.herokuapp.com/

A Global Review of Public Transit Seat Cover Designs - CityLab https://www.citylab.com/design/2019/02/public-transit-design-seat-cover-textile-patterns-moquette/583045/

Visible connection (AKA transpointing windows) makes explicit the implicit rhizomaticity of text.

Bad idea of the day: Do a free machine-generated text class at a library (using tracery or something), self-publish the course materials as a book (with proceeds going to the library as donations), & get a couple copies for the stacks.

Your money can be stolen from your Uber account with dodgy Uber code texts - unlike kinds https://unlikekinds.com/article/uber-code-text

GitHub - TheBerkin/rant: Rant " The all-purpose procedural text library https://github.com/TheBerkin/rant

Literature from Page to Interface: The Treatments of Text in Christophe Bruno’s Iterature http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/literature-from-page-to-interface-the-treatments-of-text-in-christophe-brunos-iterature/

Teletext graphics characters among those added to Unicode – Teletext Art http://teletextart.co.uk/teletext-graphics-characters-among-those-added-to-unicode

Evolution of the x86 context switch in Linux – MaiZure's Projects http://www.maizure.org/projects/evolution_x86_context_switch_linux/index.html

The Route of a Text Message – the scottbot irregular https://scottbot.net/the-route-of-a-text-message/

Cybertext Killed the Hypertext Star http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/cybertext-killed-the-hypertext-star/

Band name of the day: hot ergodic cybertext

E-Literary Text in the Nomadic Cockpit http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/e-literary-text-in-the-nomadic-cockpit/

Literary Texts as Cognitive Assemblages: The Case of Electronic Literature http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/literary-texts-as-cognitive-assemblages-the-case-of-electronic-literature/

The Assimilation of Text by Image http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/the-assimilation-of-text-by-image/

Can Scientists Do TV? http://nautil.us/issue/68/context/how-well-forget-john-lennon

Materiality and Matter and Stuff: What Electronic Texts Are Made Of http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/materiality-and-matter-and-stuff-what-electronic-texts-are-made-of/

At the risk of opening 20 year old wounds, the academic flamewar this article is part of is fascinating & educational, & I wish I understood it better: http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/cybertext-theory-what-an-english-professor-should-know-before-trying/

J.G. Ballard's Experimental Text Collages: His 1958 Foray into Avant-Garde Literature | Open Culture http://www.openculture.com/2016/09/j-g-ballards-experimental-text-collages.html

Subpixel Text Encoding - msarnoff.org http://www.msarnoff.org/millitext/

The Craft of Text Editing https://www.finseth.com/craft/

social_media_design | How should names work in a distributed system? A suggestion for a context-aware petname approach https://social-media-design.dreamwidth.org/886.html

Recommended whole-web text replacement: s/man/mom/

If you find yourself mentally replying to the title of an article before the text actually loads, maybe close it, because you're probably being fucked with.

If it doesn't work properly with javascript turned off, it's not really a website. If it doesn't work properly with css turned off, it's not really a website. If it doesn't work properly in a text-only environment, it's not really a website.

Cragne Manor, an 84-room horror "exquisite corpse" text adventure that's a tribute to the classic game Anchorhead / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/12/09/massively-multi-developer.html

Tutorials That Don't Talk Down To You - Context Sensitive Design - Extra Credits - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFdEEzgc7pg

403 Forbidden http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a156769.pdf

Hypertext Research: The Development of HyperTIES http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/hyperties/

The Text Editor sam http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/sam/

Are.na / Blog " Women in Hypertext: On Judy Malloy and Cathy Marshall’s Forward Anywhere https://www.are.na/blog/case%20study/2018/06/12/women-in-hypertext.html

How to Teach Computer Ethics through Science Fiction | August 2018 | Communications of the ACM https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/8/229765-how-to-teach-computer-ethics-through-science-fiction/fulltext

A Look at the Design of Lua | November 2018 | Communications of the ACM https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/11/232214-a-look-at-the-design-of-lua/fulltext

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

Bad idea of the day: An algorithm that creates textual descriptions of images watches TV, creating a description from each frame, which is then used to generate a new image & the video is resynthesized

Bad idea of the day: turn music into text by substituting note frequency with word frequency

Kinda okay generated text https://blog.ftql.pw/posts/random-text/

Building the Universal Archive of Source Code | October 2018 | Communications of the ACM https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/10/231366-building-the-universal-archive-of-source-code/fulltext

TextWorld (Inform 7 & machine learning) | Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2018/09/25/textworld-inform-7-machine-learning/

PARALLEL HISTORY! (A text in Japanese.) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDD3amMV25g

This book is pretty good but Alex Wright keeps calling things like codex formats & indices 'literary hypertext'. No, that's just text. Yes, I get that hypertext is more text than text; that's why it's hyper.

GitHub - flipcoder/textbeat: text music sequencer and midi shell with vim playback https://github.com/flipcoder/textbeat

This Fred Turner book really makes me wish we had good hypertext integrated into publishing. Hard to go more than a sentence or two in From Counterculture to Cyberculture without wanting to link it to Rise of the Machines, or Encountering America, or What the Dormouse Said, or Fire in the Valley

On Reading Hypertext : JMax : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/hypercard_on-reading-hypertext

Theory of Hypertext Systems: Article by Jakob Nielsen https://www.nngroup.com/articles/architectural-component-hypertext-systems/

"the Web never adopted fundamental findings from hypertext widely" YEAHH YOU TELL 'EM Atzenback et al. (2017) (pp35-36)!

Butler, “Monkeying Around with Text” http://projects.chass.utoronto.ca/chwp/CHC2005/Butler/Butler.htm

Oh hey: https://worldbrain.helprace.com/i62-feature-memex-links-highlight-any-text-and-create-a-link-to-it

Star Wars ASCII Remake: A Truly Text-Based Adventure https://tedium.co/2018/06/21/star-wars-ascii-remake/

World Models Rendered in Text | Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2018/06/19/world-models-rendered-in-text/

Bad idea of the day: Distort text so that, from a distance, it will be read as a QR code containing the same text -- a typographical pseudo-quine

Distorted Text Says A Lot | Hackaday https://hackaday.com/2018/05/31/distorted-text-says-a-lot/

GitHub - thosakwe/t2b: A wicked-powerful text macro language for building binary files. https://github.com/thosakwe/t2b

Why reliable, unchanging, boring, mechanical interfaces are important in big-computing contexts: https://medium.com/@caseorganic/why-do-we-keep-building-cars-with-touchscreens-alt-the-hidden-lives-of-touchscreens-55faf92799bf

I've been shitposting about writing composable GUI systems with proper hypertext & network transparency in postscript but actually that existed at Sun & seems to have been pretty cool: https://medium.com/@donhopkins/hyperlook-nee-hypernews-nee-goodnews-99f411e58ce4

countercomplex: How I view our species and our world http://viznut.fi/texts-en/our_species_and_our_world.html

countercomplex: Reaching for the blocks of the living world http://viznut.fi/texts-en/reaching_for_the_blocks.html

countercomplex: Slower Moore's law wouldn't be that bad. http://viznut.fi/texts-en/slower_moores_law.html

An interesting correspondence table: http://viznut.fi/texts-en/ancient_binary_symbolism.html

Don't submit yourself to a game machine! | Countercomplex http://viznut.fi/texts-en/dont_submit_yourself_to_game_machine.html

countercomplex: Bringing magic back to technology http://viznut.fi/texts-en/magic_back_to_technology.html

countercomplex: Counteracting alienation with technological arts and crafts http://viznut.fi/texts-en/counteracting_tech_alienation.html

countercomplex: The resource leak bug of our civilization http://viznut.fi/texts-en/resource_leak_bug_of_our_civilization.html

Not news to anybody paying attention, but I still feel like it's worth a visibility boost: https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/04/text-embedding-models-contain-bias.html

Let’s Replace JavaScript with Something Better https://john.ankarstrom.se/english/texts/replacing-javascript/

Heavy Metal Magazine : Free Texts : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/heavy-metal-magazine

IF Magazine : Free Texts : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/ifmagazine

QOTD: 'The Web is the minimal concession to hypertext that a sequence-and-hierarchy chauvinist could possibly make.' -Ted Nelson

A Winter Olympics wrap-up written with a predi... https://kottke.org/18/02/a-winter-olympics-wrap-up-written-with-a-predictive-text-keyboard

GitHub - WorldBrain/Memex: Browser Extension to full-text search your browsing history & bookmarks. https://github.com/WorldBrain/Memex

Extended Director’s Cut: Ted Nelson on Hypertext, Douglas Englebart, Xanadu and More - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i67rQdHuO-8

Guidelines for future hypertext systems – Rococo Modem Ba... https://medium.com/@enkiv2/guidelines-for-future-hypertext-systems-647b6a10f7dd

[1801.01944] Audio Adversarial Examples: Targeted Attacks on Speech-to-Text https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.01944

Band name of the day: the collapsing contexts

Bad idea of the day: An ebook reader program in two columns, where the second column is specifically for recording personal marginal notes & is the same size as the book's text itself -- notes pinned to the paragraph, line, or sentence. Call it 'MARGINAL'.

#nanogenmo idea: a database of loosely-related epigrams or paragraphs, tagged by topic; going to a topic displays the associated epigrams in arbitrary order. the tags are generated from analysis of the text.

GitHub - tombh/texttop: A fully interactive X Linux desktop rendered in TTY and streamable over SSH https://github.com/tombh/texttop

Web application design is like a generation of people looked at that text adventure written in postscript and said LETS WRITE ALL FIRST PERSON SHOOTERS IN POSTSCRIPT EMBEDDED IN SELF-MODIFYING LATEX DOCUMENTS FOREVER

Hypertext Research: The Development of HyperTIES http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/hyperties/

Text-only news sites are slowly making a comeback.... https://www.poynter.org/news/text-only-news-sites-are-slowly-making-comeback-heres-why

GitHub - webyrd/Barliman: Prototype smart text editor https://github.com/webyrd/Barliman

Lossy Text Compression | Hackaday.io https://hackaday.io/project/5689-lossy-text-compression

GitHub - hypotext/hyperbible: The new revised international KJV-ASV-DRB-DBT-ERV-WBT-WEB-YET-AKJV-WNT version https://github.com/hypotext/hyperbible/

Knitting Reference Library : Free Texts : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/knittingreferencelibrary

Too Many Requests https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/78aa07/reddit_host_a_joke_etcpasswd_with_hashes_for/dosn53u/?context=1

Language Log » Information content of text in English and Chinese http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=34925

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It: A Podcast « ASCII by Jason Scott http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5251

Vim: Seven habits of effective text editing http://moolenaar.net/habits.html

GitHub - saitogroup/Website_Phrase_Prompter: This script allows a user to scrape a website and then uses that website's language in order to influence an author's text. https://github.com/saitogroup/Website_Phrase_Prompter

Mondo 2000 History Project : Free Texts : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/mondohistory

Text File formats – ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB delimited text | Ronald Duncan's Blog https://ronaldduncan.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/text-file-formats-ascii-delimited-text-not-csv-or-tab-delimited-text/

Lossy Text Compression | Anfractuosity | Still waiting on the daybreak, its shadows in my mind https://www.anfractuosity.com/projects/lossy-text-compression/

GitHub - vi3k6i5/flashtext: Extract Keywords from sentence or Replace keywords in sentences. https://github.com/vi3k6i5/flashtext

Error 401 (Unauthorized)!!1 https://books.google.nl/books?hl=nl&lr=&id=KnVBTk-hS10C&oi=fnd&pg=PA234&dq=Universe+text+generation+soap+opera&ots=XPAcJYIJhb&sig=6dGDx-TQn248kbUueUjmZ58XbbI#v=onepage&q&f=false

Too Many Requests https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/40ldq6/generative_adversarial_networks_for_text/

https://www.economist.com/blogs/kaffeeklatsch/2017/08/charlottesville-context

GitHub - sequitur/improv: A model-backed generative text library for JavaScript. https://github.com/sequitur/improv

GitHub - deniskyashif/ssfst: Subsequential Transducer for Efficient "Dictionary-Based" Text Rewriting https://github.com/deniskyashif/ssfst