Random link from the archives: "Linux has been bitten by its most high-severity vulnerability in years | Ars Technica" https://web.archive.org/web/20220308144439/https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/03/linux-has-been-bitten-by-its-most-high-severity-vulnerability-in-years/

Random link from the archives: "Ten Years Ago" https://web.archive.org/web/20170804130620/http://tenyearsago.io/ originally retrieved Fri Aug 4 13:06:20 EDT 2017

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20220214154124/https://scribe.rip/p/the-abominable-dr-phibes-1971-50-years-later-1c8d7bd982ce originally retrieved Mon 14 Feb 2022 03:41:24 PM EST

in response to revelations that the trump administration is supoenaing social media sites to find critics of the government, i will not be changing my posting behavior. i have been a very vocal anarchist with shit opsec for 20 years. if they want to know who i am, they already know.

it seems like every time i come across a cool idea with interesting and useful potential, a couple years later a bunch of ghoulish capitalists promote the hell out of something they pretend is the same thing but actually sucks and is evil

i very consistently misremember when any given movie came out by at least one year, but y'know what? i'm gonna keep putting a year in parentheses after every movie name. let people's LLM autosummarizers confabulate whole vistas of imaginary cinema

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20191002102700/https://newrepublic.com/article/155212/worked-capital-one-five-years-justified-piling-debt-poor-customers originally retrieved Wed Oct 2 10:27:00 EDT 2019

i spent so much of my life watching loads of anime and playing no video games that whenever i see 3d animation, my brain basically just goes 'that's not the correct way to do anime' and rejects it. dudes a couple years older than me largely had the opposite experience

Random link from the archives: "The Quietus | Features | Anniversary | Exploring Notions Of Decadence: Bowie's Station To Station, 45 Years On" https://web.archive.org/web/20210124214933/https://thequietus.com/articles/05047-david-bowie-station-to-station-review-anniversary

i find the economics of 'cloud' computing darkly hilarious. like, because the web didn't have encryption for the first couple years, direct sales were not secure; because the w3c never properly developed the URI standard, hosts with popular content get expensive; so we settled on a model where in exchange for the ability to post stuff on someone else's website, the things we post are used as the basis for ad targeting. but then these companies themselves are renting all their computers from amazon. ad revenue is way flakier than rent. basically, it's a chain of companies scamming & being scammed completely avoidably -- all you have to do is not hand your business to amazon & google. (would you make money? probably not -- but most businesses fail, and more ought to.)

Random link from the archives: "It’s been years, where is the Ethos now? | Wave Motion Cannon" https://web.archive.org/web/20191011084254/https://wavemotioncannon.com/2019/10/01/its-been-years-where-is-the-ethos-now/ originally retrieved Fri Oct 11 08:42:54 EDT 2019

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20190823213524/https://scribe.rip/p/heathers-1988-31-years-later-7175f0b5aad1 originally retrieved Fri Aug 23 21:35:24 EDT 2019

Random link from the archives: "Thread by @JairusKhan: "I was a speaker and workshop organizer at hopeconf this year. My first 2600 meeting was over 20 years ago. I'm also an event organizer with […]" #hopeconf" https://web.archive.org/web/20180726103535/https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1021576113875771392.html

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200614044423/https://scribe.rip/p/a-nightmare-on-elm-street-1984-35-years-later-98421eda38d7 originally retrieved Sun Jun 14 04:44:23 EDT 2020

it's deeply weird to be on the internet rn. people who were saying 'information wants to be free' 15 years ago are now like 'the problem with AI is not the environmental impact but the copyright infringement'

Random link from the archives: "A Short Account of the Deep History of State Evasion | James C. Scott - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20240724161852/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb8qQcShWUk&ab_channel=HKW100YearsofNow originally retrieved Wed 24 Jul 2024 04:18:52 PM EDT

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200315120445/https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/for-a-couple-years-i-the-early-naughts-i-mostly-ran-dos-with-various-experimental-unusual-5edcd8173882 originally retrieved Sun Mar 15 12:04:45 EDT 2020

Random link from the archives: "Liquid Sky (1982) • 36 Years Later" https://web.archive.org/web/20211101054239/https://scribe.rip/p/liquid-sky-1982-36-years-later-47c9a7137d93 originally retrieved Mon 01 Nov 2021 05:42:39 AM EDT

The year is 2028. You order at the Burger King console and an ad pops up explaining that Klarna is offering a 50 year mortgage for your Big Mac.

Random link from the archives: "When I did something similar a couple years ago for work, I used them to derive the vectors…" https://web.archive.org/web/20211125180246/https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/when-i-did-something-similar-a-couple-years-ago-for-work-i-used-them-to-derive-the-vectors-9f5c93407ae8

Random link from the archives: "'Computer bots are like humans, having fights lasting years' | University of Oxford" https://web.archive.org/web/20170607111920/http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2017-02-24-computer-bots-are-humans-having-fights-lasting-years originally retrieved Wed Jun 7 11:19:20 EDT 2017

Random link from the archives: "'His life is a rebuke to cynicism': what five years without David Bowie has taught us | David Bowie | The Guardian" https://web.archive.org/web/20210111185719/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jan/08/what-five-years-without-david-bowie-has-taught-us

Random link from the archives: "A radical pessimist's guide to the next 10 years - The Globe and Mail" https://web.archive.org/web/20181109153259/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/a-radical-pessimists-guide-to-the-next-10-years/article1321040/

Random link from the archives: "Why old stoves that last 100 years are worse than modern ones" https://web.archive.org/web/20220104134442/https://rootsofprogress.org/old-vs-modern-stoves originally retrieved Tue 04 Jan 2022 01:44:42 PM EST

Random link from the archives: "Robots have been about to take all the jobs for more than 200 years" https://web.archive.org/web/20211020065835/https://scribe.rip/p/robots-have-been-about-to-take-all-the-jobs-for-more-than-200-years-5c9c08a2f41d originally retrieved Wed 20 Oct 2021 06:58:35 AM EDT

Random link from the archives: "Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber - Radical Reviewer - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20220515122909/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTgJMx_DHbk originally retrieved Sun 15 May 2022 12:29:09 PM EDT

i spent 20 years wondering why people said hype around expert systems caused a bubble that precipitated the 2nd AI winter, since expert systems are useful and functional (if limited) things. now i understand

Random link from the archives: "Tumblr’s First Year Without Porn" https://web.archive.org/web/20211209085205/https://scribe.rip/p/tumblrs-first-year-without-porn-a00c14b981e5 originally retrieved Thu 09 Dec 2021 08:52:05 AM EST

30 Years Ago, The Most Unique 'Alien' Knockoff Had A Shocking Message https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/species-30-year-anniversary

Random link from the archives: "How The Sausage Is Made-- A deep dive into an illustrated novel 7 years in the making - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20210918195320/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFJpBTrdDIg originally retrieved Sat 18 Sep 2021 07:53:20 PM EDT

the year is 2052. the polycule is in the basement gathered around a terra cotta ice bong the size of a kiddie pool to keep cool. the ICE drones haven't figured out how to navigate stairs or latched doors yet, even though Musk promised that 20 years ago. numa numa guy is the president probably, but nobody's entirely sure.

Random link from the archives: "I Spent Two Years Trying to Fix the Gender Imbalance in My Stories - The Atlantic" https://web.archive.org/web/20180208115542/https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/i-spent-two-years-trying-to-fix-the-gender-imbalance-in-my-stories/552404/

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200304222204/https://scribe.rip/p/my-year-of-not-buying-books-54e4c8f99615 originally retrieved Wed Mar 4 22:22:04 EST 2020

Random link from the archives: "GANZEER - The year is 1812. Mr. Smith of Huddersfield walks..." https://web.archive.org/web/20180503112352/http://www.ganzeer.com/post/173232122769/the-year-is-1812-mr-smith-of-huddersfield-walks originally retrieved Thu May 3 11:23:52 EDT 2018

Random link from the archives: "The End of My Year of Killer Sudoku – Popula" https://web.archive.org/web/20181126124807/https://popula.com/2018/11/20/the-end-of-my-year-of-killer-sudoku/ originally retrieved Mon Nov 26 12:48:07 EST 2018

lupin the third part six takes place in a world where the original sherlock holmes lives in the present day, but lupin is the grandson of arsene lupin, which means that sherlock holmes is unknowingly reliving an uncanny copy of the life of herlock sholmes 130 years later.

Movies: I spent a year trying to figure out the weirdest mistake in recent Hollywood history. I succeeded. https://slate.com/culture/2025/05/birds-movies-charlies-angels-2000-pygmy-nuthatch.html

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200611151041/https://scribe.rip/p/inferno-1980-40-years-later-2fdbad21f967 originally retrieved Thu Jun 11 15:10:41 EDT 2020

Random link from the archives: " The Jetsons, now 60 years old, is iconic. That's a problem." https://web.archive.org/web/20220924193516/https://slate.com/technology/2022/09/jetsons-60th-anniversary-prophetic-future.html originally retrieved Sat 24 Sep 2022 07:35:16 PM EDT

Random link from the archives: "Four Years in Startups | The New Yorker" https://web.archive.org/web/20190925102519/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/30/four-years-in-startups?currentPage=all originally retrieved Wed Sep 25 10:25:19 EDT 2019

Random link from the archives: "Apple Has Been Struggling with the Stylus for 20 Years - Motherboard" https://web.archive.org/web/20190410093150/https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xw8pgn/apple-has-been-struggling-with-the-stylus-for-20-years originally retrieved Wed Apr 10 09:31:50 EDT 2019

in 20 years, the 6+ hour video essay on pop culture topic as a way to address philosophy topic will be an established form with doctoral advisors who specialize in it

Random link from the archives: " The Jetsons, now 60 years old, is iconic. That's a problem." https://web.archive.org/web/20220924193516/https://slate.com/technology/2022/09/jetsons-60th-anniversary-prophetic-future.html originally retrieved Sat 24 Sep 2022 07:35:16 PM EDT

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200923204316/https://scribe.rip/p/suspiria-1977-41-years-later-4406844b314f originally retrieved Wed Sep 23 20:43:16 EDT 2020

there is such thing as 'good ai art' or 'good generative art' but doing that involves being in dialogue with a tradition going back at least to the 1950s (and arguably to the 15th century) and y'all aren't doing the reading. signed, somebody who was talking about this 10 years ago.

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20201008183914/https://scribe.rip/p/the-cia-wrote-a-torture-manual-more-than-50-years-ago-and-then-gave-it-to-latin-american-dictators-dcb771d4842b originally retrieved Thu Oct 8 18:39:14 EDT 2020

Why Sleepcore: Reflections on Four Years of Dreams, Media and Memories! - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V65xpO_ynUc

Random link from the archives: " 21 Years On, Revisiting Ellwood’s The Politics of Myth « enfolding.org" https://web.archive.org/web/20200824162233/http://enfolding.org/21-years-on-revisiting-ellwoods-the-politics-of-myth/ originally retrieved Mon Aug 24 16:22:33 EDT 2020

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20180915113108/https://scribe.rip/p/robots-have-been-about-to-take-all-the-jobs-for-more-than-200-years-5c9c08a2f41d originally retrieved Sat Sep 15 11:31:08 EDT 2018

John’s Year in Books https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2024/49266331

meet the old year, same as the new year

that film adaptation of We Have Always Lived in the Castle from a few years ago really confused me. why did they ditch the VO? the whole appeal of the book is that it's entirely from the POV of somebody who would strongly & unironically identify with My Immortal

The computer built to last 50 years https://ploum.net/the-computer-built-to-last-50-years/index.html

Random link from the archives: "How The Sausage Is Made-- A deep dive into an illustrated novel 7 years in the making - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20210918195320/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFJpBTrdDIg originally retrieved Sat 18 Sep 2021 07:53:20 PM EDT

Random link from the archives: "The Legacy of Four Loko Endures, 15 Years Later | PUNCH" https://web.archive.org/web/20230203102456/https://punchdrink.com/articles/four-loko-anniversary-legacy/ originally retrieved Fri 03 Feb 2023 10:24:56 AM EST

Random link from the archives: "From Mark Zuckerberg’s MMA hobby to Elon Musk’s ego: Silicon Valley had a very masculine year - Vox" https://web.archive.org/web/20240109071407/https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/12/27/24011198/bezos-zuckerberg-musk-buff-mma-masculine

Random link from the archives: "GitHub Archive Program | The GitHub Archive Program will safely store every public GitHub repo for 1,000 years in the Arctic World Archive in Svalbard, Norway." https://web.archive.org/web/20191114074822/https://archiveprogram.github.com/

Random link from the archives: "'Computer bots are like humans, having fights lasting years' | University of Oxford" https://web.archive.org/web/20170607111920/http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2017-02-24-computer-bots-are-humans-having-fights-lasting-years originally retrieved Wed Jun 7 11:19:20 EDT 2017

Random link from the archives: "Unsolved Mysteries: Still Being Updated After All These Years" https://web.archive.org/web/20180621064946/https://tedium.co/2018/06/19/unsolved-mysteries-modern-updates/ originally retrieved Thu Jun 21 06:49:46 EDT 2018

Random link from the archives: "Thread by @normative: So, years ago I quite accidentally injected the phrase “epistemic closure” into political discourse. This became a buzzword for five minutes…" https://web.archive.org/web/20200901163806/https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1298738662532935681.html

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200923065124/https://scribe.rip/p/hackers-1995-23-years-later-1ceb4a9bfeb9 originally retrieved Wed Sep 23 06:51:24 EDT 2020

Random link from the archives: "The McMansion Hell Yearbook: 1970 | McMansion Hell" https://web.archive.org/web/20200127104121/https://mcmansionhell.com/post/190405899096/the-mcmansion-hell-yearbook-1970 originally retrieved Mon Jan 27 10:41:21 EST 2020

One thing I've learned from reading UFO reports is that people see really weird shit in the sky all the time and it's nearly impossible to figure out what something was because of how many obscure possibilities you have to take into account. If you really want to know, report it to the air force and in 20 years an explanation that may or may not be lazy BS will be declassified. But I suspect you'll have to let this one be a mystery.

'old soul' as in 'it took me a single digit number of years to be done with this shit'

vga256: "twelve years ago, a painter by the name of anders…" - The Dialup Cybercafé https://dialup.cafe/@vga256/113014589292418783

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

A Short Account of the Deep History of State Evasion | James C. Scott - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb8qQcShWUk&ab_channel=HKW100YearsofNow

Random link from the archives: "The perfect college experience is a myth - Vox" https://web.archive.org/web/20210728193917/https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/22573842/the-best-four-years-of-your-life originally retrieved Wed 28 Jul 2021 07:39:17 PM EDT

Emoji history: the missing years  ⌘I  Get Info https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2024/05/10/emoji-history-the-missing-years/

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20220209091222/https://scribe.rip/p/2020-is-the-perfect-year-to-blow-up-your-traditions-a335179e3ce8 originally retrieved Wed 09 Feb 2022 09:12:22 AM EST

Random link from the archives: "a few years in the Absolute Elsewhere: Man Becomes the Sex Organs of the Machine World: Marshall McLuhan’s Understanding Media." https://web.archive.org/web/20190607134717/http://2012diaries.blogspot.com/2012/05/man-becomes-sex-organs-of-machine-world.html

Random link from the archives: "New Years Resolutions generated by AI" https://web.archive.org/web/20211230134349/https://www.aiweirdness.com/new-years-resolutions-generated-by-ai/ originally retrieved Thu 30 Dec 2021 01:43:49 PM EST

Random link from the archives: "Writing Software to Last 50 Years > Ying Wang" https://web.archive.org/web/20200113121712/https://bytes.yingw787.com/posts/2020/01/13/50years/ originally retrieved Mon Jan 13 12:17:12 EST 2020

Random link from the archives: "The crazy years - Charlie's Diary" https://web.archive.org/web/20180125113609/http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/the-crazy-years.html originally retrieved Thu Jan 25 11:36:09 EST 2018

in the dune universe, after computers are outlawed, society collectively spends a few thousand years power-leveling the two key autistic special interests: people-pleasing and STEM. the people-pleasers have therapy-speak so advanced it's basically brainwashing. the STEM bros drink checks notes sapphic juice

Random link from the archives: "Devo's Jerry Casale Looks Back at Kent State 50 Years Later - Rolling Stone" https://web.archive.org/web/20200506191633/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/devo-jerry-casale-interview-kent-state-massacre-protest-992651/

Random link from the archives: " Brain Simulation Promised a Decade Ago Hasn't Succeeded - The Atlantic" https://web.archive.org/web/20190723102630/https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/ten-years-human-brain-project-simulation-markram-ted-talk/594493/

LLM summaries are impressive because it's impressive to simulate the kind of summary somebody would make if they were trying to remember an article they skimmed 10 years ago while hung-over & glasses-less. but it's easier just to make something up yourself.

Bad idea of the day: make rental illegal -- if you pay your landlord, that's interest-free layaway payments and you're buying the house on an installment plan. also, if a house isn't lived in for a year it gets given to a random homeless person

Random link from the archives: "Baba Is You review: one of the best puzzle games in years - Polygon" https://web.archive.org/web/20190404140302/https://www.polygon.com/reviews/2019/3/13/18263824/baba-is-you-review-nintendo-switch-pc originally retrieved Thu Apr 4 14:03:02 EDT 2019

Random link from the archives: "Bill Joy’s Law: 2^(Year-1984) Million Instructions per Second" https://web.archive.org/web/20211113113012/https://scribe.rip/p/bill-joys-law-2-year-1984-million-instructions-per-second-3a8c92165cfe originally retrieved Sat 13 Nov 2021 11:30:12 AM EST

the year is 2034. the legislative and judicial branches have finally gotten their own espionage agencies to compete with the ones the executive branch already have. everybody who doesn't have a 'notorious rbg' t-shirt suddenly gets assassinated

it must be super weird to be a children's media creator. like, you can have an enormous number of fans but all of them will completely forget about you in 2 years because 2 years is an eternity when you're seven. meanwhile the preproduction pipeline is 18 months.

Random link from the archives: "Nearly 30 years ago, Mortal Kombat’s blood forever changed the video game industry - Polygon" https://web.archive.org/web/20190916130007/https://www.polygon.com/2019/9/13/20812985/nearly-30-years-ago-mortal-kombats-blood-forever-changed-the-video-game-industry

i wonder how it feels to be so famous that absolute strangers make genderbent shoops of thirty year old pictures of you. like, i guess when you're that famous you generally stay off the internet specifically to avoid weird things fans do

Random link from the archives: "Insert Coins for Lumps of Coal: A Brief 2000-Year History of Vending Machines - 99% Invisible" https://web.archive.org/web/20200220112748/https://99percentinvisible.org/article/insert-coins-for-lumps-of-coal-a-brief-2000-year-history-of-vending-machines/

patent terms are too long. 20 years? come on. you should get like six months. can't build up a competitive advantage that mitigates the first-mover effect in that time? sounds like a skill issue, git gud.

The First Dune Game 32 Years Later: An LGR Retrospective - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvP3d3QB-4k

How Slack brought the group chat to work - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/24070725/slack-ten-year-anniversary-retrospective-groupchat-workplace

It was the year they finally distimmed the gostak, and Tree was late for the Ceremony; all along the cobblestone streets, spun-glass horns announced the ascendance of the Fourth, and all the synthmeat stands were shuttered despite Carnivale.

marc andressen followed me on twitter for a few months and then immediately after unfollowing me started doing the bullshit he's currently doing, so i take full credit for the psychotic break he's clearly been in the middle of for the past year or so

my roman empire is a chaos communications conference presentation i watched once that was ostensibly about how to fight for civil rights but was actually about how this protest organization changed into a lobbying organization and spent years trying to accumulate a database of which cookies specific conservative politicians liked best and what their habits were so that they could be easily cornered and given cookies. like: way to go spending an enormous amount of effort trying to optimize unsuccessfully bribing people who hate you? i knew lobbying was stupid & contributed to political corruption but i didn't realize it wasalso the political equivalent of a tabs-vs-spaces argument

Random link from the archives: "What Shonen Jump Was Like 30 Years Ago - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20171210184652/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIh85_bCudk originally retrieved Sun Dec 10 18:46:52 EST 2017

Just a moment... https://boingboing.net/2024/02/06/when-he-died-his-family-discovered-50-years-of-cartooning-output-the-secret-comics-of-frank-johnson-are-published.html

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200921031152/https://scribe.rip/p/bill-teds-excellent-adventure-1989-30-years-later-e123ae459dee originally retrieved Mon Sep 21 03:11:52 EDT 2020

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200922200358/https://scribe.rip/p/the-5-years-that-changed-dating-96ab47e3479b originally retrieved Tue Sep 22 20:03:58 EDT 2020

Random link from the archives: "Video: Grand Central's Hidden Sub-Basement Has A 102-Year-Old Computer: Gothamist" https://web.archive.org/web/20180803072509/http://gothamist.com/2015/10/15/grand_central_computer_video.php originally retrieved Fri Aug 3 07:25:09 EDT 2018

over the past couple years i've seen a disturbing trend of otherwise-sensible-seeming people becoming supporters of strong IP protections, dualism, and human exceptionalism in response to a problem whose real solution is just communism & it's so despiriting

Random link from the archives: "Facebook knew for years ad reach estimates were based on ‘wrong data’ but blocked fixes over revenue impact, per court filing – TechCrunch" https://web.archive.org/web/20210220133902/https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/18/facebook-knew-for-years-ad-reach-estimates-were-based-on-wrong-data-but-blocked-fixes-over-revenue-impact-per-court-filing/ originally retrieved Sat 20 Feb 2021 01:39:02 PM EST

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.

can we please make conflating piracy with theft taboo again? i don't want another 20+ years when nothing goes into the public domain

we live in a world where, for any kind of non-trivial project that requires multiple people or substantial resources, permission to start on that project is based on its expected profitability. enormous expensive fringe boondoggles exist, but they are failures to be a normal and profitable thing, not successful avant-garde artistic statements: DCU movies are allowed to lose hundreds of millions of dollars over and over and still get produced, but i'd have to work for years to build up enough capital to (say) paint the eiffel tower black or fill a shopping mall with goats.

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200922200358/https://scribe.rip/p/the-5-years-that-changed-dating-96ab47e3479b originally retrieved Tue Sep 22 20:03:58 EDT 2020

i was today years old today when i realized the term 'schmaltzy' (melodramatic) comes from 'schmaltz' (chicken fat used as a spread): a schmaltzy movie is (like a schmaltzy piece of toast) rich and greasy and might give you a stomach ache if you consume too much of it

Random link from the archives: "Four Languages from Forty Years Ago - Scott Wlaschin - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20181103123320/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fpDlAEQio4 originally retrieved Sat Nov 3 12:33:20 EDT 2018

Random link from the archives: "Timothy C. May - Thirty Years of Crypto Anarchy | HCPP16 - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20171108131000/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdmpAy1hI8g originally retrieved Wed Nov 8 13:10:00 EST 2017

we used to have a billion little productive subcultures that were intentionally supported -- by art grants, cheap housing, & programmes for borrowing space and resources -- for the purpose of injecting novelty into the 'mainstream'. now we don't have a 'mainstream', and we kind of stopped trying to farm the avant-garde for stuff, but we still have the religiously-segregated media ecosystems developed in the 80s and 90s to cater to people who wanted a mainstream with less gay in it, and now if something inexplicably gets really popular it turns out it's astroturfed by a corporation that shills ripoff versions of hallmark movies or something. meanwhile all the little subcultures have gotten real incestuous because it's been 20 years since the last time a niche was mined by a mainstream artist (because it's been 20 years since there was a mainstream artist).

imagine, you're hundreds of miles wide and thousands of years old and every so often you grow a bunch of dicks that burst through the surface of the earth and suddenly humans start eating your dicks in order to distort their thinking.

From Mark Zuckerberg’s MMA hobby to Elon Musk’s ego: Silicon Valley had a very masculine year - Vox https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/12/27/24011198/bezos-zuckerberg-musk-buff-mma-masculine

it occurs to me that, until the internet, the only reliable way to become famous without so much infrastructural support that you were practically just a figurehead for a large organization was to commit some kind of really gnarly crime. everybody from the king to stephen king basically owes their fame to institutions that promote individuals by polishing and spinning their image, but sink an axe into your dad's skull on christmas morning & songs will be sung about you for like 300 years. (though i guess there still is an institution involved there: the carceral one -- foucault demonstrates the shift from promoting murderers as examples of bad behavior to hiding them from sight in the first section of discipline & punish)

U.S. military-run slot machines earn $100 million a year from service members overseas : NPR https://www.npr.org/2022/07/31/1110882487/dod-slot-machines-overseas-bases

The year Twitter died: a special series from The Verge https://www.theverge.com/c/23972308/twitter-x-death-tweets-history-elon-musk

Random link from the archives: "Numbers Every Programmer Should Know By Year" https://web.archive.org/web/20180906084141/https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~rcs/research/interactive_latency.html originally retrieved Thu Sep 6 08:41:41 EDT 2018

Random link from the archives: "Apple Has Been Struggling with the Stylus for 20 Years - Motherboard" https://web.archive.org/web/20190410093150/https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xw8pgn/apple-has-been-struggling-with-the-stylus-for-20-years originally retrieved Wed Apr 10 09:31:50 EDT 2019

Random link from the archives: " The Jetsons, now 60 years old, is iconic. That's a problem." https://web.archive.org/web/20220924193516/https://slate.com/technology/2022/09/jetsons-60th-anniversary-prophetic-future.html originally retrieved Sat 24 Sep 2022 07:35:16 PM EDT

i subscribed to this guy's newsletter years ago -- seemingly cool, intelligent, interesting, with meaningful and insightful things to say about a wide variety of topics. and then at some point he got into NFTs. and then slowly more and more of the newsletter was about NFTs (which was OK because he sent them less and less frequently). but today he sent one out, and it literally begins with 'pay for twitter because otherwise nobody will see your posts' and the rest of the newsletter is literally NFT investing tips? like dude, even the most hard-core NFT boosters ditched the scene a year and a half ago, wtf are you doing? i followed you for japanese rural pizza-toast analysis and reflections on human-centered UX; why have you become a 2020 SNL skit?

in 100 years, english students will hear about stephen king for the first time in grad school and be very confused about why he was so popular. not knocking on king here -- i like his books, generally speaking -- but he's a deeply weird dude who writes long, rambling, extremely personal books that are frequently hard to relate to. people in the future will talk about It the same way people today talk about Moby Dick. people in the future will talk about The Tommyknockers the same way people today talk about Vril: The Power of the Coming Race. people in the future will talk about The Dark Tower the same way people today talk about Barsoom or The Night Land.

if you make your services stop working with ad blockers, people will stop using your services rather than see ads. if you make your services stop working with ad blockers when you weren't showing ads in the first place (looking at you, crunchyroll premium & the astonishing legends podcast) wtf are you even doing? last year, when i upgraded my internet, my router came with basically a pi hole built-in and enabled by default; people less technically proficient than i am would have no idea that it was even running, and will just think your shit is broken. and it is.

i got my second-ever payout from steam last month. my game was released in 2018. this means i just now reached 200 dollars on my cut of sales, after five and a half years. don't let anybody tell you that indie games are easy money.

stitcher and google podcasts are both being shuttered this year. is this a general trend? are all the other podcatchers that i haven't used also shutting down? is there a story behind this?

Taxi Driver and King of Comedy both represent worlds where people are trapped in shitty circumstances they can't imagine real alternatives to, and poorly-adjusted dudes working off naive-bordering-on-delusional models of the world consisting largely of contextless marketing slogans that give them no way to understand their own trauma, who then perform the only type of action they can imagine that's outside of their daily life: violence-as-spectacle. A smart viewer would recognize that these protagonists are deeply flawed, that they do not properly understand the nature of the system keeping them down, that their atomization and alienation is in a dysfunctional feedback loop with their individualism and self-aggrandizement, and that the fact that this spectacular violence worked is another terrible irony. But I am sure that my fifteen year old self would fundamentally misunderstand these movies as being in favor of 'heroic' big public gestures, the same way that a lot of teenagers misunderstood Fight Club, and the same way that my 5 year old self fundamentally misunderstood Weird Science. As somebody who as a general rule supports and enjoys 'extreme' media that represents undesirable behavior honestly, these movies are kind of an exception for me -- I wish they had more directly 'downer' endings, because the kinds of guys who identify with De Niro's beaten-down possibly-autistic protagonists are the least likely to understand the subtext of these movies and the most likely to actually perform public violence. I might recommend these movies to people, but only after specifically talking about this. (More likely, I wouldn't: these movies, despite their gritty reputation, are fundamentally cringe comedies -- michael scott with a gun -- and so they're really uncomfortable to sit through despite their artistry & all the social issues they touch on are better handled by books.)

i've probably ruined my chances of ever becoming a freemason by being loudly discordian online for 15 years

Random link from the archives: "Nearly 30 years ago, Mortal Kombat’s blood forever changed the video game industry - Polygon" https://web.archive.org/web/20190916130007/https://www.polygon.com/2019/9/13/20812985/nearly-30-years-ago-mortal-kombats-blood-forever-changed-the-video-game-industry originally retrieved Mon Sep 16 13:00:07 EDT 2019

it's really strange that we'd spend so many years giving the adaptation rights for superman to people who share politics with lex luthor

i believe in abolishing all forms of IP law (and this is directly informed by my day job, writing the infrastructure that allows IP law to be executed at scale). if you are worried that abolishing IP law would screw over individual artists (though i would argue that small artists are already screwed over and IP law is mostly used against them, and in fact cannot typically be used to support them) then a reasonable half-measure is as follows: limit copyright terms to 7 years, and rule that copyright can only be held by a natural person, and cannot be transferred or inherited. this will prevent copyright from ever being used as a corporate cash-cow, and ensures that whatever benefits might go to the copyright holder always go to the artist instead. this doesn't address other forms of IP, but other forms of IP are really not available to regular people unless they're quite rich, whereas everybody you have ever met owns a billion copyrights in theory and doesn't know it.

a bit about my background, so that people don't think my weird takes about software come from nowhere: i spent 15 years in mostly self-guided exploratory learning around programming & computers (supplemented in the last 10 with formal instruction: took some high school classes & got a BS in CS), only after which i entered the industry. during that first 15 years, i did OS development and wrote language interpreters and compilers, rudimentary machine learning, got really inspired by descriptions of smalltalk environments and wrote a similar kind of environment in tcl, researched the history of hypertext and its variations, and did a whole bunch of other projects of similar complexity but less relevance. then i got an internship working on a search engine, and shortly after, i was contacted by ted nelson, who had seen some of my xanadu-inspired projects, and began to write code for xanadu in an official capacity. now, i've been in the industry for a decade, and because i work for a large company, i've collaborated with a lot of different units and seen & written very different kinds of code in very different languages for very different purposes. already soured on java, i soured even further when i had to enhance and maintain a large java codebase that hadn't been edited in 6 years, and meanwhile my eyes were opened to the scope of shell functionality (which i approached with an enthusiasm tempered by experience with tcl maintenance). when i shoot off some angry polemic about DNS, or jump links, or language design influence on code structure, it's coming from a synthesis of this whole history -- somebody who had a lot of time to grow to appreciate what good code looked like and did, and to create elaborate single-user projects, being forced to adjust to a world of bad code and one-size-fits-all software products, and looking for a line of flight.

three hundred years after The Incident, in the second moon of the reign of Alfred the Unfaithful, the dark moon was observed

deeply strange to see people (admittedly mostly non-technical people on places like facebook) get excited about bluesky & threads, when the fediverse... already exists, has existed for years, and is pretty heavily populated. corporations are spending a lot of money to make worse versions of mastodon, and then they are spending even more money making sure your aunt knows about their particular for-profit flavor & doesn't realize they could sign up on an instance owned by a person instead of one owned by a corporation. a lot of effort goes into convincing people that the fediverse is difficult to use; few of the people expending this effort on behalf of Facebook are getting paid. if you have ever called the fediverse confusing in public, contact zuck and demand your check for services rendered.

Bad idea of the day: an epistolary novel in the form of a long fanfiction of a fictional franchise, written over the course of years, complete with authors notes replying to some comments

so, we all generally understand that ostensible anti-groomer laws are actually anti-gay and anti-trans laws, and that ostensible anti-sex-trafficing laws are actually anti-sex-work laws, and that ostensible anti-human-trafficing laws are usually actually a tool for racism. but will people in 2073 remember that? will we run into, like, a foucault situation, where people 50 years from now find out that major figures in some important social movement once oppoased some stupidly-named law trying to rules-lawer polyamory into illegality & frame it as 'they supported slum conditions' or some shit

Bad idea of the day: a long-now-foundation-sponsored sculpture that plays the amen break on gongs over the course of thirty eight thousand years

Bad idea of the day: a spotify playlist, auto-generated daily, that has every track you played on that date in previous years (deduplicated), shuffled

42 Years Ago, 'Dune' Went Off The Rails " And Became More Subversive Than Ever https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/god-emperor-of-dune-42-year-anniversary

my position (which was very common up until a specific variety of anti-GAN sentiment was seeded) is that the world is better when access to media (including for creative & transformative purposes) is open, & that it's totally possible to have that while also ensuring the creators of that media have the resources to live their lives. the there are two things that need to be sacrified for that to happen -- two things that exist to benefit capitalists & screw over artists, but that have been sold as necessary evils -- and they are: IP law and capitalism. i hate to see social progress go backwards on account of workers imagining awesome short-term gains by becoming authoritarian rulers of a tiny personal media empire, especially when everybody involved has the capability to see ahead of time that those promised gains will never materialize. nobody was paying you a living wage for your fanart in 2017, they're paying about the same now, and they'll pay about the same in another five years whether or not the folks who are currently unwilling to commission an OC decide to use a GAN for that

i had to get a loan a couple years ago when my ex used up all my money and put me 20k in debt. (then she promptly did it again.) anyway, now that my credit is recovered, the place i got the loan from is sending me marketing emails every day encouraging me to take out another one. wtf

i live in a social bubble where most people have a pretty good idea of how GANs and LLMs work (and can reason about them even if they can't implement one), so every time i'm directly exposed to unfiltered AI hype i'm kind of shocked. like, didn't you guys pay attention to the news for the past 15 years? but similarly with certain breeds of AI anti-hype (like 'GANs are stealing and reproducing YOUR PAINTINGS and LOSING SALES'), it's like... are you living under a rock?

Random link from the archives: "GitHub Archive Program | The GitHub Archive Program will safely store every public GitHub repo for 1,000 years in the Arctic World Archive in Svalbard, Norway." https://web.archive.org/web/20191114074822/https://archiveprogram.github.com/ originally retrieved Thu Nov 14 07:48:22 EST 2019

i always think tumblr has approximately the same meme culture as the rest of the internet, until some stale-ass thing i crossposted along with 300 other memes taken from facebook suddenly goes absolutely nuts with people who apparently haven't seen it before. like, i posted a probably-decade-old image macro about mormon missionaries being naive & it's been getting 20k notes a day for a week, and every few months i get a spurt of thousands of notes on a screenshot of a reddit post talking about asking for a vacuum cleaner for christmas that i posted 2 years ago & saw making the rounds heavily at least a year before that.

belladonna of sadness should be next year's walpurgisnacht movie: a wholesome 1970s anime about how feminism and left hand path magick created the french revolution #thelastdrivein

why is everybody talking about bluesky all of the sudden? didn't it become old news like two years ago when it stopped being based on secure scuttlebutt?

old tech storytime: SMIL is a w3c standard XML dialect for mixed media and vector graphics animations from 1997. it was developed by apple, microsoft, and realmedia -- the owners of the three biggest software media players (quicktime, windows media player, and realplayer). a SMIL page is about as interactive as a DVD menu -- not exactly turing-complete but potentially substantially complex -- and the SMIL standard contains all of the media control elements later added to HTML5, the whole of what later became SVG plus animation controls, and a bunch of other features that have not yet been brought into other standards. had it taken off, most of the things people used complex javascript+css hacks for in the early naughts (back when it was called 'DHTML' and was largely graphical flourishes like animated menus) would become trivial in SMIL, as would most of the things web developers used embedded flash for (such as videos). so why does nobody know about SMIL now? why don't our browsers have SMIL support? because microsoft released a deliberately-incompatible implementation of SMIL built into internet explorer the day before the standard was finalized in order to fragment the SMIL user base & sink the product, basically just as a way to waste apple & realmedia's time and effort (a replay of what they did to IBM a couple years earlier with the OS/2 project). most of webtech for the past 20 years has consisted of reinventing SMIL poorly instead of just using SMIL.

as somebody whose family was never big on holidays, birthdays, or special occasions, i don't have a good sense for whether certain things are 'real' holidays. like, do people actually celebrate mother's day, the way that people outside my family actually celebrate thanksgiving or new year's, or is it more like arbor day, where some teacher might do a special event in elementary school but there's no organic celbration, or is it like international felafel day, where it's purely a marketing invention with basically zero impact on anybody's real life public or private beyond an excuse for somebody to change the designs on their coupons?

Random link from the archives: "Why Iceland Banned Beer For Nearly 75 Years" https://web.archive.org/web/20200819153011/https://tedium.co/2020/08/14/iceland-beer-prohibition-history/ originally retrieved Wed Aug 19 15:30:11 EDT 2020

Bad idea of the day: the obituary section of a trade journal for professional prompt engineers in the year 2073

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20220209125506/https://scribe.rip/p/it-s-hard-to-believe-today-but-10-years-ago-wikipedia-was-widely-considered-a-doomed-experiment-a7a0dfd27b8b originally retrieved Wed 09 Feb 2022 12:55:06 PM EST

is the new thing actually buggy and unreliable, or have you just gotten used to all the workarounds you had to develop over years to make the old thing usable & forgot about them?

just heard a segment on NPR saying that, because of a specific law passed after 9/11, the hijackers can't be brought to trial in the US. in other words: somebody put the entire machinery of the federal government's legislative branch into action to make a meaningless 'screw you' to five specific guys and that's part of why the case is still open after twenty-two years. which just blows my mind, because... 9/11 wasn't actually unprecedented in basically any way. foreign nationals have committed murder on US soil before, so why not literally just prosecute these guys for murder in the normal way? not just that, but: 9/11 wasn't the first foreign terrorist attack on US soil to kill people, nor was it the first time a terrorist attacked the WTC specifically, nor was it the first time a plane crashed into the WTC specifically. it seems like 9/11 was turned into a much bigger deal than it needed to be specifically to justify a bunch of things that various politicians wanted to do but didn't have a good excuse for -- that it primarily served to lower the bar on what could be legally justified.

got a random recruiter email for a position that requires years of experience in... C+. the joke programming language from the gnu humor archive that was basically 'what if a bad student wrote a compiler'.

one kind of conversation that broadcast media is good at is the kind where it takes months, years, or decades to formulate a response. within a framework where people need to 'work to live', you need to be 'special' for somebody to allow you to live long enough to write a book, make a movie or a tv show. take away that constraint & the set of people who engage in broadcast media will change: it'll be based on a willingness to stay silent until everything is properly fermbented, rather than audience appeal, market fit...

there's something really weird about interacting on social media with somebody who wrote a book you read ten years ago

something that i don't think gets talked about much is that, as a long-time anime fan, trends in average art quality are pretty dramatic. in the 80s, your average anime would have some absolutely beautiful shots. in the 90s, shows you wouldn't necessary expect (like slayers or dna^2) would have some absolutely beautiful shots. then basically everything sort of looked like dogshit for about a decade, as animators got used to digital coloring at the same time they started to get used to CG & digital compositing for the first time on tv budgets & also were doing way more shows at once at the same rates -- plus the trend of 'realistic' (i.e., low-contrast & desaturated) coloring was imported from live action around this time. but since around 2010, your average show has gotten better and better looking on average until the point we're at now, where basically every show occasionally has cuts with absolutely incredible blocking or color design or something, even shows that look like dogshit 90% of the time, and the shows that always look bad are typically TRYING to do something interesting, and the shows that would have been given zero effort 20 years ago often look amazing almost all the time. gag-based harem comedies look amazing most of the time now (and sometimes even push artistic boundaries). how the hell did we get to the point where a show like bokuben or nagatoro looks, on average, better than fate/zero?

Random link from the archives: "How the Alt-Right Made ‘Cuck’ the Word of the Year" https://web.archive.org/web/20211023002454/https://scribe.rip/p/how-the-alt-right-made-cuck-the-word-of-the-year-2164dac01e66 originally retrieved Sat 23 Oct 2021 12:24:54 AM EDT

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200614050727/https://scribe.rip/p/communion-1989-30-years-later-839688e57365 originally retrieved Sun Jun 14 05:07:27 EDT 2020

Random link from the archives: "Garfield phones beach mystery finally solved after 35 years - BBC News" https://web.archive.org/web/20190401090924/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47732553 originally retrieved Mon Apr 1 09:09:24 EDT 2019

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200919041215/https://scribe.rip/p/old-code-gets-younger-every-year-3bd24c7f2262 originally retrieved Sat Sep 19 04:12:15 EDT 2020

a few years in the Absolute Elsewhere: Akashic Record: HP Lovecraft, Psychedelia, Ancient Astronauts, and Occult Theories of Creativity https://2012diaries.blogspot.com/2014/02/akashic-record-hp-lovecraft-psychedelia.html

last couple years i've been noticing a growing number of dating profiles saying they're 'looking for a real man'. like, sorry, no, fake man here

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20190803171846/https://scribe.rip/p/liquid-sky-1982-36-years-later-47c9a7137d93 originally retrieved Sat Aug 3 17:18:46 EDT 2019

Random link from the archives: "A Most Violent Year | The New Republic" https://web.archive.org/web/20180518093806/https://newrepublic.com/article/148276/violent-year originally retrieved Fri May 18 09:38:06 EDT 2018

The Legacy of Four Loko Endures, 15 Years Later | PUNCH https://punchdrink.com/articles/four-loko-anniversary-legacy/

Band name of the day: year 23 after the cancellation

Serial Catfisher Posed as Anarchist Sex Worker to Tweet About 15-Year-Olds https://www.thedailybeast.com/serial-catfisher-posed-as-anarchist-sex-worker-to-tweet-about-15-year-olds

Random link from the archives: "A critical analysis of scroll bars throughout history - The Verge" https://web.archive.org/web/20191105093529/https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/1/20943552/scroll-bar-visual-history-30-years originally retrieved Tue Nov 5 09:35:29 EST 2019

the year of the linux desktop is 1998. that's the year when linux surpassed windows and mac os in usability & features, and it has kept pace ever since. i ran red hat linux 7 as a primary os until 2006.

i don't get why people keep asking my new year's resolution. it's the same as always: 1024x768

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200919191259/https://scribe.rip/p/inside-big-techs-years-long-manipulation-of-american-op-ed-pages-e7589b7350b3 originally retrieved Sat Sep 19 19:12:59 EDT 2020

i wonder if, in 20 years, there will be a rennaissance in VNs spearheaded by the guys who currently do those interactive online corporate training things, the same way that low-budget horror was innovated in the 60s and 70s by industrial filmmakers

periodic reminder that 'a traditional christmas' really means being a gay communist furry for like a month and a half, and the sanitized consumerist version is at best like 150 years old. go put on a dress and a horse skull and throw rocks at your landlord like it's 1450.

Random link from the archives: "Why Iceland Banned Beer For Nearly 75 Years" https://web.archive.org/web/20200819153011/https://tedium.co/2020/08/14/iceland-beer-prohibition-history/ originally retrieved Wed Aug 19 15:30:11 EDT 2020

Random link from the archives: "403 Forbidden" https://web.archive.org/web/20190904081217/http://www.os2museum.com/wp/pc-keyboard-the-first-five-years/ originally retrieved Wed Sep 4 08:12:17 EDT 2019

A year of new avenues https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/new-avenues/

Product branding emerged in ancient Mesopotamia 5000 years ago - The Economic Times https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/product-branding-emerged-in-ancient-mesopotamia-5000-years-ago/articleshow/2984935.cms?from=mdr

No, you can’t save £30 per year by switching off your “standby” devices – Terence Eden’s Blog https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/10/no-you-cant-save-30-per-year-by-switching-off-your-standby-devices/

once a year, every year, disappear without a trace forever

once a year, every day, disappear without a trace forever

isekai oji-san is fun and all but one of the central gags simply doesn't work because the tsundere archetype was common by the early 90s (and present in very high-profile shows much earlier -- macross features it, and so does urusei yatsura) so the idea that an otaku who disappeared in 2000 wouldn't recognize a tsundere because the tsundere archetype appeared in 2004 is complete nonsense. the term tsundere might concievably only be 20 years old, but even that seems unlikely.

people ask 'why is open source software so poorly designed' and then they get into industry and realize that all b2b software is even worse. then they go back and try to use something they used to use a couple years ago & can't figure it out. because it turns out that almost all software is poorly designed, but we overlook the workarounds we do for the flaws in the software we're most accustomed to, and to the degree that open source software is exceptionally bad, it's because it's made by professionals during their off time or built on some proprietary software that had its source donated to apache or something. when people make software that scratches their own personal itches, that software is easy to use in that particular domain.

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20220209110704/https://scribe.rip/p/fbi-now-believes-real-trump-kidnapped-last-year-replaced-by-russian-cyborg-987fc2111b1d originally retrieved Wed 09 Feb 2022 11:07:04 AM EST

i may be deranged, but the piano musak version of down in the park that gary numan tacked onto the end of telekon is one of the funniest things i've ever heard. i've been saying this for almost 20 years

Bad idea of the day: instead of new year's resolutions, make lent resolutions

that weird feeling you get where you're watching somebody whose authority you trust discuss their personal history with something & they drop a date & you suddenly realize that they are not, as you had assumed, a couple years older than you, but actually 10-15 years younger

it was a promising experiment, but after 30 years, it's time to finally admit that 3d graphics will never be ready for prime time & game developers should go back to hand-drawn 2d for all professional work.

one of my character flaws is that, whenever someone says something i already know, i get slightly offended (as though they are implying i don't know the thing). this is more of a problem than it might otherwise be, because i went down wiki holes 12 hours a day for like 10 years, & devoured trivia books for a decade before that...

listening to this guy do a presentation about ad tech where he has completely swallowed hype about ad-tech effectiveness & catatrophizes about it. let's be clear: ad tech isn't sustainable, and that's easily provable based on a bit of back of the envelope math. consider the amount of money you have, and the number of ads you see every day. how much would it cost to actually buy everything that was advertised to you? how many hundreds of times your net worth would it take to buy everything in every ad you saw in a single day? that's the upper limit on the maximum effectiveness of advertising, because the most you can do is go broke. now, ad-tech actually can't get anywhere close to that, because it has zero access to the most important signals about advertising success: it has no idea whether or not you bought something in response to an ad. it's optimized for proxy measures that CAN be captured, but the relationship between those proxy measures and the only thing that actually matters is just, sort of guessed by humans at some stage of early development and never reconsidered. then, on the other side, we have the companies buying the ads: how many ads do you need to buy before you have spent more on advertising than you will make in profits? the answer is, generally, not all that much -- and if ad targeting worked, it would lower that number because the likelihood that somebody bought something would increase proportionally to ads, but ad targetting doesn't work well enough to actually calculate and plan about that factor. the actual value of ads (in terms of the percentage increase in number of people buying a product who have seen the ad vs prior multiplied by the marginal profit) goes down with every ad you put out, and goes down with every ad any competitor puts out: every podcast tries to sell me mattresses six times an episode but i only need one mattress per 10-20 years. the promise of ad-tech is that this number will go up over time, but every business that has ads is bound to notice that they overestimated it in the first place & adjust, being willing to pay less and less for targetted advertising. all the personal information ad-tech companies collect, all their gdpr violations, aren't actually going to make targetting good enough to make the ads worth paying for, and ad-tech survives purely on the basis of misleading investors about possible future targetting improvements that will never really happen, trying to get theirs and get out before all of the customers realize that there's no point in advertising with them at all. is the personal information a problem? absolutely. but not because the companies can predict behavior -- they can't, at all -- but because that data is gonna leak and be used by nazis or something. your ethnicity, gender, and sexuality says absolutely nothing about whether or not you are gonna buy a car or a mattress (nor is your politics or taste in movies) but it's a great predictor of whether or not somebody is looking for an opportunity to bash your head in.

evil dies in four years

Band name of the day: year of the humanoids

Random link from the archives: "Share" https://web.archive.org/web/20211029232154/https://thedorkweb.substack.com/p/the-100-year-computer originally retrieved Fri 29 Oct 2021 11:21:54 PM EDT

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200304222204/https://scribe.rip/p/my-year-of-not-buying-books-54e4c8f99615 originally retrieved Wed Mar 4 22:22:04 EST 2020

Random link from the archives: "The most important science fiction books of the last 15 years - Polygon" https://web.archive.org/web/20201019204508/https://www.polygon.com/21516173/best-new-science-fiction-books-scifi-last-15-years originally retrieved Mon 19 Oct 2020 08:45:08 PM EDT

one of the downsides of blocking bad-faith shit from all my feeds is that i get into this headspace where i feel like bad-faith argumentation is rare, easily identified, easily avoided, toothless, and ineffective -- forgetting that i've spent literally years doing daily maintenance to produce a space with those characteristics. based on the accounts of... pretty much everybody, it seems like the norm is to be absolutely inundated with it all the time and manipulated by it despite yourself, because your ability to resist blatant emotional manipulation has been worn down through exposure.

The Jetsons, now 60 years old, is iconic. That's a problem. https://slate.com/technology/2022/09/jetsons-60th-anniversary-prophetic-future.html

Bad idea of the day: cryptocurrency but the proof of work is planting trees and keeping them alive for at least 80 years, at which point you get one token

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

for years i got clannad and claymore confused. i also thought william s burroughs and edgar rice burroughs were the same guy.

How a 10-year-old girl wrote Japan's most insane horror film - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXNhjYB5LfM

The Forty-Year Programmer https://codefol.io/posts/the-forty-year-programmer/

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20220209091051/https://scribe.rip/p/announcing-my-new-project-50-years-of-text-games-dbe47e6bda35 originally retrieved Wed 09 Feb 2022 09:10:51 AM EST

Random link from the archives: "Four years since the Mirai-Dyn attack… is the Internet safer?" https://web.archive.org/web/20210112123408/https://techxplore.com/news/2020-10-years-mirai-dyn-internet-safer.html originally retrieved Tue 12 Jan 2021 12:34:08 PM EST

after years of being in a million fringey facebook meme groups, i accidentally joined a normie one and somehow every single 'meme' is a screenshot of a tweet about being cheated on. is that actually such a common thing that we need all those memes? what is wrong with people?

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20190916100104/https://www.newsweek.com/human-corpse-year-burial-scientist-1459113 originally retrieved Mon Sep 16 10:01:04 EDT 2019

i finally read the only ad facebook has been serving me for like two years and it turns out it's for a kidney cancer drug. (neither i nor anyone i know has kidney cancer)

last night i saw a movie called Sins of Dracula. i had a much better time than i expected to. it came out in 2014, but it's a pastiche/parody of pureflix-type 'evangelical propaganda version of a regular movie genre' movies, which is a thing that was common about 10 years earlier. the premise is that this is a 'christian horror movie' that teaches about the dangers of secular community theatre, by presenting a story wherein a community theatre production of a jonestown musical is actually a honeypot run by an over the top 'evil satanist' to get misfits he can kill in order to ressurrect dracula. also there's a minor character who is basically shaft-meets-kojack-as-evangelical-exorcist. i don't know if i would have liked it nearly as much if i was sober, but i had a great time; it never felt like a mean-spirited movie (the way bush-era evangelical-media parodies often do)

reread Cosmic Trigger I after about 10 years of not reading it (but reading all sorts of other fringe/occult stuff, and also doing some drugs) and damn if it doesn't mostly hold up. some parts even got better. i hope the illuminatus trilogy is the same way

A New HOPE (2022): Six Years Later & Worse Than Ever - The Espionage Act, Computer Fraud & Abuse Act - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9KRZ4kotA0

Trent Reznor On TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN PART 8, Five Years Later - Fangoria https://www.fangoria.com/original/trent-reznor-on-twin-peaks-the-return-part-8-five-years-later/

Random link from the archives: "Another parallel format-- The "Pale Fire" demo, fifty years late - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20190808132720/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E43Khbai-TE originally retrieved Thu Aug 8 13:27:20 EDT 2019

Random link from the archives: "'Sunlight and terror': Commemorating 50 years of The Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971) | Horrified Magazine - The British Horror Website" https://web.archive.org/web/20211105214854/https://www.horrifiedmagazine.co.uk/film/50-years-of-the-blood-on-satans-claw-1971/ originally retrieved Fri 05 Nov 2021 09:48:54 PM EDT

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200921170416/https://scribe.rip/p/the-26-000-year-astronomical-monument-hidden-in-plain-sight-9ec13c9d29b5 originally retrieved Mon Sep 21 17:04:16 EDT 2020

Random link from the archives: "401(k)s, abortion, youth football: 15 things we do now that will be considered unthinkable in 50 years - Vox" https://web.archive.org/web/20190416110613/https://www.vox.com/2019/3/27/18226563/50-years-wrong-side-of-history-future-prediction originally retrieved Tue Apr 16 11:06:13 EDT 2019

Random link from the archives: "Vintage Anime & Manga #1 | The Year 24 Group and the Female Revolution of Shoujo Manga - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20220518093128/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYHsbcZlbfo originally retrieved Wed 18 May 2022 09:31:28 AM EDT

Random link from the archives: "Thread by @normative: So, years ago I quite accidentally injected the phrase “epistemic closure” into political discourse. This became a buzzword for five minutes…" https://web.archive.org/web/20200901163806/https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1298738662532935681.html originally retrieved Tue Sep 1 16:38:06 EDT 2020

I was originally gonna do this game for NaNoReNo years ago & never got around to it, but it's finished now: https://enkiv2.itch.io/blood-ocean

self-driving cars? you've just reinvented horses, except now instead of eating grass and shitting in the street, it eats a refined version of ancient conifers fermented underground for millions of years and belches black smoke

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20220209104339/https://scribe.rip/p/weve-known-about-pentagon-waste-for-years-23efa7144012 originally retrieved Wed 09 Feb 2022 10:43:39 AM EST

These Women Say One Man Terrorized Them Online for Years. Then, They Decided to Band Together. https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7gq8a/james-bell-cyberstalking-harassment-catfishing

every time i see a date in 2022 i think 'what a strange typo, wonder how that happened' until i realize, with horror, that it's the current year, because the passage of time stopped feeling real to me in 2006

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200611151041/https://scribe.rip/p/inferno-1980-40-years-later-2fdbad21f967 originally retrieved Thu Jun 11 15:10:41 EDT 2020

Band name of the day: year of the humanoid

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: "Share" https://web.archive.org/web/20211029232154/https://thedorkweb.substack.com/p/the-100-year-computer originally retrieved Fri 29 Oct 2021 11:21:54 PM EDT

Vintage Anime & Manga #1 | The Year 24 Group and the Female Revolution of Shoujo Manga - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYHsbcZlbfo

Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber - Radical Reviewer - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTgJMx_DHbk

i had been keeping my in-progress book out of revision control, knowing that amazon pays a bigger cut if you check a box saying it's amazon-exclusive when making stuff in KDP, but last night i said fuck it & checked everything in. i make a couple bucks a year from the books i already released, and 30% vs 70% doesn't matter at that scale. it's not worth the inconvenience & risk to make an extra fifty cents.

50 years on, the lessons of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study still reverberate | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/05/what-we-can-learn-from-the-tuskegee-syphilis-study-50-years-later/

Guten Tag! 30 Years of Killing Nazis in 'Wolfenstein 3D' - Bloody Disgusting https://bloody-disgusting.com/video-games/3710350/guten-tag-30-years-of-wolfenstein-3d/

Confessions of a 36-Year-Old Fan Fic Writer | Geeks https://vocal.media/geeks/confessions-of-a-36-year-old-fan-fic-writer

Grindhouse Review 15 Years Later Viewing Brings New Perspective https://gizmodo.com/grindhouse-the-rodriguez-tarantino-double-feature-loo-1848753339

Random link from the archives: "Insert Coins for Lumps of Coal: A Brief 2000-Year History of Vending Machines - 99% Invisible" https://web.archive.org/web/20200220112748/https://99percentinvisible.org/article/insert-coins-for-lumps-of-coal-a-brief-2000-year-history-of-vending-machines/ originally retrieved Thu Feb 20 11:27:48 EST 2020

for the first twenty years of my life i modeled my own behavior on geek & mad scientist characters from 80s teen movies, and that was in retrospect a bad decision

The Animators Who've Spent 40 Years on a Single Film - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73hip3pz0Xs

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)

the year is 2032. mike flanighan has just directed a six episode miniseries loosely based on Brahm Stoker's short story The Judge's House for netflix, and in response Amazon has greenlit three seasons of Seaguy. Denis Velinuve is trying to start a Nostrilia Cinematic Universe but the first movie is twelve hours of ambient droning over stock footage of sheep.

1990: Bronx Warriors From Beyond The Year 3000

if i'm calculating correctly then the 93rd day of a leap year is april 1st

Linux has been bitten by its most high-severity vulnerability in years | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/03/linux-has-been-bitten-by-its-most-high-severity-vulnerability-in-years/

watching pi for the first time in almost 20 years and man does it ever hold up -- in fact, it's way better because i know a lot more about both math & esotericism. why haven't aaronovksy's other films measured up? is it like the situation with third eye blind's eponymous album, or with star wars, where a super indulgent central guy is initially filtered through other people who filter out the cringe shit but once he becomes a 'name' we see that the unfiltered version is 90% cringe?

The Amateur Psychonaut Who Took 43 Designer Drugs in a Single Year https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-amateur-psychonaut-who-took-43-designer-drugs-in-a-single-year?taid=61fe9f50ac837c00013091ce

pet peeve: when people attribute babylonian culture to sumer. like, they're in the same place, but thousands of years apart. when you call the enuma elish sumerian, that's like saying that having a cheeky nando's is popular in gaul

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20181221105221/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/first-time-20-years-copyrighted-works-enter-public-domain-180971016/ originally retrieved Fri Dec 21 10:52:21 EST 2018

how often does the same native god (in a land invaded in the name of the church) become the basis for both a saint and a demon? and, how often is this simultaneous? my intuition is that the overlap will be small because demon names tended to be based on the gods of peoples that hebrews encountered during the writing of the old testament, the saints are mostly based on gods of peoples who post-300-AD romanized christians were encountering for the first time, and so any local gods would need to survive a roughly 500 year gap at the minimum (and probably more like 1000-2000) with very little sound variation, in a world where almost everybody is illiterate and so the vernacular has a high rate of churn

since close to the beginning of the pandemic, i've been a part of at least one (and sometimes 3 or 4) weekly book clubs on discord, and i just realized... that it's basically a college class? like, a bunch of us dorks decided to take it upon ourselves to do intensive studies of often-difficult texts and come together to discuss them for 2-3 hours, every week, for years. there are no tests & there's no credit -- we are doing this purely as a social thing and to learn stuff we're interested in -- and we're not even recording it for a podcast or anything. some of our book clubs have homework or group projects, even. at the same time, this work has been driving my media consumption habits & a lot of my writing and other interests for the past few years. this is a thing that people can do. while there are a bunch of reasons to attend an accredited university (including having qualified experts to personally advise you & being able to prove, in an easily-legible way, to future employers that you passed some kind of measure of competence), if your goal is to learn (especially to learn together & have all the positive social pressures that can keep you committed to often-difficult subjects) you can just... do it. you can just arrange with your friends to... do a class. the stuff i've been doing has involved occult tomes, works of critical theory, and mass-market nonfiction, but i think you can even do this with textbooks. and, with smaller groups, it's easier to negotiate an appropriate pace. while in these meetings there's always been someone to step up and gently guide discussion back toward the subject & make sure everyone has a chance to speak, there generally hasn't been a 'teacher' in the sense of 'expert', and for the most part, that's been OK. it captures everything i loved about being in college with none of the things i hated.

etsy sent an email asking if i'd like to not get emails from them about valentine's day (so apparently they know i'm single) but seeing as how i haven't bought anything from there since 2012, it'd be nice if they'd also not send me emails every other week of the year.

the problem of 70 years of conservative pundits competing to have the most elaborately stupid misunderstanding of marx is that these conservative pundits are literally the only people who get airtime on traditional media, so people believe their bullshit

today i got a cold email from a recruiter who asked me to email me with my current position and years of experience. these guys aren't even reading my linkedin anymore apparently. like, i know almost all cold emails are scams so i wasn't going to reply anyhow, but i'm sort of insulted by the laziness

About 10 years ago, I used to have this album on heavy rotation called 'RITES' which was a sample-based electronic performance of The Rite of Spring. I can't remember the artist, and now I am having a hard time finding it. Anybody know what I'm talking about?

is there a database of just the dates, times, and locations of all MUFON reports? i'd be interested in a heat-map adjusted by population density, maybe animated and windowed into 10 year increments (centered around census years) so we can minimize the distorting effect of periods of fast migration

for somebody with a black belt, it sure did take me like twelve years to realize that the 'art' in 'sword art online' was supposed to be a 'martial art' and not, like, 'hey look at these pictures of cool fantasy swords on google image search'...

the way facebook dragged their feet for years on 'verified accounts' / 'pages' had the odd side effect that i have, like, 20 mutual friends with Rudy Rucker and Doug Rushkoff and am actually facebook friends with R. U. Sirius. the same was true on myspace, but myspace never had facebook's focus on mirroring IRL relationships. like, i was friends with nine inch nails on myspace.

Random link from the archives: "403 Forbidden" https://web.archive.org/web/20190904081217/http://www.os2museum.com/wp/pc-keyboard-the-first-five-years/ originally retrieved Wed Sep 4 08:12:17 EDT 2019

Romancing the Gothic - 300 years of Gothic Romance with Lori A. Paige - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5fOuVY-PGA

The Love Witch’s Plush Female Gaze | 25YL https://25yearslatersite.com/2022/01/11/the-love-witchs-plush-female-gaze/?preview_id=235361

‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ Grows More Haunting Each Year https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/sinead-o-connor-nothing-compares-2-u

New Year, New Books: Picking What to Read Next | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2022/01/03/new-year-new-books-picking-what-to-read-next/

i hope the 'three years without going outside' will have a fraction of the benefit on art & culture that the 'year without a summer' did

Why old stoves that last 100 years are worse than modern ones https://rootsofprogress.org/old-vs-modern-stoves

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.

EVN Chronicles: 2019 Steam Curator Wrap-Up – Half of the Year Edition (Snowed IN; The Great Voyage; Manna for our Malices; Lyantei; Courage for a Kiss) http://evnchronicles.blogspot.com/2019/06/2019-steam-curator-clean-up-half-of.html?m=1

New Years Resolutions generated by AI https://www.aiweirdness.com/new-years-resolutions-generated-by-ai/

the problem with saying 'late capitalism' is that a couple years into the new post-scarcity fully automated gay space anarchist future, somebody will let their dog piss on capitalism's grave, which will cause lightning to strike it and it'll be reconstituted from powdered essences like Nikolai Federov's dad.

Random link from the archives: "Truly Batshit: The Secret History of ‘Vampire’s Kiss,’ the Craziest Nicolas Cage Movie of All Time - The Ringer" https://web.archive.org/web/20190625122153/https://www.theringer.com/movies/2019/6/13/18663380/nicolas-cage-vampires-kiss-breakout-performance-30-years originally retrieved Tue Jun 25 12:21:53 EDT 2019

Tumblr’s First Year Without Porn https://scribe.rip/p/tumblrs-first-year-without-porn-a00c14b981e5

1998 was the year of linux on the desktop. ever since then, there has been at least one distro that tracked mainstream proprietary OSes in terms of usability for non-technical users. (after 23 years we should be reaching for something more than 'not worse than OSX')

satisfying the needs of ourselves and each other necessarily means no longer satisfying the demands of capital, whose hunger only grows the more you feed it. the whole of capitalism is a kind of pyramid scheme, and we are hundreds of years too late to get in on the ground floor

For a couple years i the early naughts, I mostly ran DOS with various experimental / unusual… https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/for-a-couple-years-i-the-early-naughts-i-mostly-ran-dos-with-various-experimental-unusual-5edcd8173882

that time of the year when the coyotes gather in the back yard and summon the moon spirits, startling the cat

anybody done an album composed of note-length samples fetched entirely from bootleg recordings of 40 year old grateful dead concerts yet, or do i need to do everything myself?

My Year of Not Buying Books https://scribe.rip/p/my-year-of-not-buying-books-54e4c8f99615

When I did something similar a couple years ago for work, I used them to derive the vectors… https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/when-i-did-something-similar-a-couple-years-ago-for-work-i-used-them-to-derive-the-vectors-9f5c93407ae8

Opera Unite tried decentralizing the web ten years ago https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/opera-unite.html

The Freshest Writer on Design Was Born 200 Years Ago https://scribe.rip/p/the-freshest-writer-on-design-was-born-200-years-ago-3d06a3778943

Bill Joy’s Law: 2^(Year-1984) Million Instructions per Second https://scribe.rip/p/bill-joys-law-2-year-1984-million-instructions-per-second-3a8c92165cfe

Heathers (1988) • 31 Years Later https://scribe.rip/p/heathers-1988-31-years-later-7175f0b5aad1

The Devil Rides Out (1968) • 50 Years Later https://scribe.rip/p/the-devil-rides-out-1968-50-years-later-c5e9de383c9c

'Sunlight and terror': Commemorating 50 years of The Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971) | Horrified Magazine - The British Horror Website https://www.horrifiedmagazine.co.uk/film/50-years-of-the-blood-on-satans-claw-1971/

Liquid Sky (1982) • 36 Years Later https://scribe.rip/p/liquid-sky-1982-36-years-later-47c9a7137d93

Meet the Guy Who Spends Just $150 a Year to Eat All His Meals at Six Flags https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/six-flags-dining-pass

Share https://thedorkweb.substack.com/p/the-100-year-computer

I spent half of last year trying to design a PL that instead of being built by computer scientists… https://scribe.rip/p/i-spent-half-of-last-year-trying-to-design-a-pl-that-instead-of-being-built-by-computer-scientists-d8fedf03260

How the Alt-Right Made ‘Cuck’ the Word of the Year https://scribe.rip/p/how-the-alt-right-made-cuck-the-word-of-the-year-2164dac01e66

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20201004065517/https://medium.com/p/what-i-learned-from-a-year-of-dumpster-diving-in-australia-d6f509095a5b originally retrieved Sun Oct 4 06:55:17 EDT 2020

Robots have been about to take all the jobs for more than 200 years https://scribe.rip/p/robots-have-been-about-to-take-all-the-jobs-for-more-than-200-years-5c9c08a2f41d

Phibes Lives! " 50 Years Of Dr Anton Phibes | Horrified Magazine - The British Horror Website https://www.horrifiedmagazine.co.uk/film/50-years-of-dr-anton-phibes/

Random link from the archives: " Brain Simulation Promised a Decade Ago Hasn't Succeeded - The Atlantic" https://web.archive.org/web/20190723102630/https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/ten-years-human-brain-project-simulation-markram-ted-talk/594493/ originally retrieved Tue Jul 23 10:26:30 EDT 2019

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200611022855/https://medium.com/p/40-years-later-the-changeling-has-us-wondering-what-if-joseph-is-actually-a-mythical-526f807e11cd originally retrieved Thu Jun 11 02:28:55 EDT 2020

Nearly two years after writing https://enkiv2.medium.com/i-do-not-see-myself-represented-in-essays-on-dating-78488462efa6?sk=705f8e1a535edbecb948fb7f9fd59034 I now know why this perspective is underrepresented. Reactions to this article are split cleanly in three: redpill-bros who call me a cuck, incels who think I'm a poor naive soul who hasn't seen the light & decided to blame women, and anti-incels who think I'm an incel. All three groups think this post is some kind of cannily performative bad-faith attempt to get a mercy-fuck -- as though I didn't know that mercy fucks are not worth the time, and as though I didn't know that this kind of essay wouldn't get me one anyway. I still think I can't be the only one in this specific situation, but despite a lot of readers, this essay doesn't seem to have produced new conversation about how to make women feel more comfortable with taking the initiative or how to discourage men from spamming unwanted advances.

Random link from the archives: "Giving Workers Equal Power Isn't Radical. This Studio's Done It For Years." https://web.archive.org/web/20200923131933/https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xybb4/giving-workers-equal-power-isnt-radical-this-studios-done-it-for-years originally retrieved Wed Sep 23 13:19:33 EDT 2020

Last year I contributed to Castle of Horror's fourth anthology, 'Women Running From Houses'. I still think it's a damned good book. You can get it here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08FVRNQWX/ref=x_gr_w_bb_glide_sin

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200616081915/https://medium.com/p/why-i-think-software-should-be-rewritten-every-three-years-7fcc29210ca5 originally retrieved Tue Jun 16 08:19:15 EDT 2020

Band name of the day: year of the garuda

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20201008183914/https://medium.com/p/the-cia-wrote-a-torture-manual-more-than-50-years-ago-and-then-gave-it-to-latin-american-dictators-dcb771d4842b originally retrieved Thu Oct 8 18:39:14 EDT 2020

Using a 30 year old laptop in 2021: The Psion MC400… – Room 7609 https://zedstarr.com/2021/09/17/mc400cxf/

Random link from the archives: "The crazy years - Charlie's Diary" https://web.archive.org/web/20180125113609/http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/the-crazy-years.html originally retrieved Thu Jan 25 11:36:09 EST 2018

How The Sausage Is Made-- A deep dive into an illustrated novel 7 years in the making - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFJpBTrdDIg

so weird to see a future funk mix set to clips of anime from the last few years instead of pre-digital-coloring-era

since the KLF locked down their back-catalog for 23 years, there was a period in which this was true: the 3am that you can purchase is not the 3am eternal

the year is 2175. the only intelligent life on earth is giant subterranian fungal colonies, whose thoughts are a slow vibration of pheromones. somehow, some of the fungus believes in qanon.

The Seinfeld Theme Mixed With A Hit Song From Every Year Seinfeld Was On TV - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY9axZBUUlo&ab_channel=SeinfeldCurrentDay

Disco Elysium Is A Phenomenal Roleplaying Game About Trauma https://kotaku.com/a-year-later-i-still-cant-stop-thinking-about-disco-el-1847585413

So Japan's current prime minister resigned -- only a little more than a year after the previous one. What's the story here?

it's current year and yet the only 'documentation' for the table layout of our very important database is an xsl script and a set of oracle procedures, spread out across dozens of files with names like 'b100000f', full of variable names like 'b000'. i'm supposed to add pseudo-fields into some higher layer by the end of the week. fml

My Le Guin Year: Craft Lessons From a Master | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2021/08/24/my-le-guin-year-craft-lessons-from-a-master/

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200929235950/https://medium.com/p/20-years-later-cowboy-bebop-remains-the-greatest-coolest-anime-ever-3f85c7ca74c1 originally retrieved Tue Sep 29 23:59:50 EDT 2020

Random link from the archives: "It’s been years, where is the Ethos now? | Wave Motion Cannon" https://web.archive.org/web/20191011084254/https://wavemotioncannon.com/2019/10/01/its-been-years-where-is-the-ethos-now/ originally retrieved Fri Oct 11 08:42:54 EDT 2019

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200614050727/https://medium.com/p/communion-1989-30-years-later-839688e57365 originally retrieved Sun Jun 14 05:07:27 EDT 2020

Random link from the archives: "Sparks Tribute: A 50-Year-Old Band That Never Compromises" https://web.archive.org/web/20210723220628/https://tedium.co/2021/06/18/sparks-band-documentary-tribute/ originally retrieved Fri 23 Jul 2021 10:06:28 PM EDT

The perfect college experience is a myth - Vox https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/22573842/the-best-four-years-of-your-life

Sparks Tribute: A 50-Year-Old Band That Never Compromises https://tedium.co/2021/06/18/sparks-band-documentary-tribute/

Random link from the archives: "Observations on Modern Computing (The Last 10 Years Were a Misstep) – ~ajroach42.com – I'm Andrew. I write about the past and future of tech, music, media, culture, art, and activism. This is my blog." https://web.archive.org/web/20180425144929/http://ajroach42.com/observations-on-modern-computing-the-last-10-years-were-a-misstep/ originally retrieved Wed Apr 25 14:49:29 EDT 2018

Band name of the day: the deleted years

Crockford on JavaScript - Volume 1: The Early Years - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxAXlJEmNMg

The Science Fiction Movie That Took 8 Years To Make - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnQKWfOp9Q0

The Whiteboard Was Invented 20 Years Before Everyone Thinks It Was https://tedium.co/2021/05/12/whiteboard-dry-erase-board-history/

Random link from the archives: "Technology and Preservation: Tedium in the Year 2020" https://web.archive.org/web/20200102085242/https://tedium.co/2019/12/31/tedium-trends-2020/ originally retrieved Thu Jan 2 08:52:42 EST 2020

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20181221105221/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/first-time-20-years-copyrighted-works-enter-public-domain-180971016/ originally retrieved Fri Dec 21 10:52:21 EST 2018

The year is 2050. The Qanon elders are beginning to regret volunteering to run a theocratic commune on mars. The Musk brand non-union bio-domes keep springing leaks

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200614181408/https://medium.com/p/shocker-1989-30-years-later-8ad3eb34dcb8 originally retrieved Sun Jun 14 18:14:08 EDT 2020

Random link from the archives: "The crazy years - Charlie's Diary" https://web.archive.org/web/20180125113609/http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/the-crazy-years.html originally retrieved Thu Jan 25 11:36:09 EST 2018

Random link from the archives: "1960: The Year The Singularity Was Cancelled | Slate Star Codex" https://web.archive.org/web/20190501135329/https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/04/22/1960-the-year-the-singularity-was-cancelled/ originally retrieved Wed May 1 13:53:29 EDT 2019

anybody who self-identifies as a transhumanist needs to read The World, The Flesh, And The Devil and The Phenomenon Of Man, so that they are forced to ask themselves why the progress of the transhumanist movement been basically at a standstill for literally one hundred years

Random link from the archives: "Effective Programs - 10 Years of Clojure - Rich Hickey - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20180420193329/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V1FtfBDsLU originally retrieved Fri Apr 20 19:33:29 EDT 2018

Random link from the archives: "Ten Years Ago" https://web.archive.org/web/20170804130620/http://tenyearsago.io/ originally retrieved Fri Aug 4 13:06:20 EDT 2017

This time next year: Jordan Peterson comes back from another multi-month drug fugue claiming to be the reincarnation of Felix Guattari, releases to great and inexplicable fanfare a book called A Thousand More Plateaus: Reterritorializing Chaos. Interviewers are confused because he speaks no french.

Random link from the archives: "Truly Batshit: The Secret History of ‘Vampire’s Kiss,’ the Craziest Nicolas Cage Movie of All Time - The Ringer" https://web.archive.org/web/20190625122153/https://www.theringer.com/movies/2019/6/13/18663380/nicolas-cage-vampires-kiss-breakout-performance-30-years originally retrieved Tue Jun 25 12:21:53 EDT 2019

stfj 3.0 http://stfj.net/index2.php?year=2021&project=art/2021/Scarcity

Random link from the archives: "Book Review and Reflection: David Graeber’s “Debt: The First 5,000 Years” – The New Antique" https://web.archive.org/web/20190205073906/https://thenewantique.blog/2019/01/19/book-review-and-reflection-david-graebers-debt-the-first-5000-years/ originally retrieved Tue Feb 5 07:39:06 EST 2019

Random link from the archives: "Over 20 years after AUM terror, cults in Japan still seeking to recruit youths - The Mainichi" https://web.archive.org/web/20190103093955/https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20180727/p2a/00m/0na/022000c originally retrieved Thu Jan 3 09:39:55 EST 2019

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200618171452/https://medium.com/p/what-i-learned-about-myself-by-going-through-17-years-of-amazon-purchases-8e3676781bd9 originally retrieved Thu Jun 18 17:14:52 EDT 2020

Facebook knew for years ad reach estimates were based on ‘wrong data’ but blocked fixes over revenue impact... https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/18/facebook-knew-for-years-ad-reach-estimates-were-based-on-wrong-data-but-blocked-fixes-over-revenue-impact-per-court-filing/

Random link from the archives: "China’s urban policy unit just met for the first time in 38 years. Here’s what it recommended | CityMetric" https://web.archive.org/web/20190225100523/https://www.citymetric.com/fabric/china-s-urban-policy-unit-just-met-first-time-38-years-here-s-what-it-recommended-1904 originally retrieved Mon Feb 25 10:05:23 EST 2019

The Quietus | Features | Anniversary | Exploring Notions Of Decadence: Bowie's Station To Station, 45 Years On https://thequietus.com/articles/05047-david-bowie-station-to-station-review-anniversary

Random link from the archives: "Rejects from Tom's Ideas Board: The Early Years - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20190626173056/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SborjlpiYtQ originally retrieved Wed Jun 26 17:30:56 EDT 2019

it's weird that the art in Higurashi Gou isn't actually that much better than Deen's version from 15 years ago...

Four years since the Mirai-Dyn attack… is the Internet safer? https://techxplore.com/news/2020-10-years-mirai-dyn-internet-safer.html

'His life is a rebuke to cynicism': what five years without David Bowie has taught us | David Bowie | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jan/08/what-five-years-without-david-bowie-has-taught-us

Happy No Year

happy old year

Cyberpunk 2077, the year’s most controversial video game featuring Keanu Reeves, explained - Vox https://www.vox.com/culture/22187377/cyberpunk-2077-criticism-ps4-xbox-one-bugs-glitches-refunds

Random link from the archives: "Error 406 - Not Acceptable" https://web.archive.org/web/20200810103146/https://25yearslatersite.com/2018/01/02/the-fractured-self-shattered-identity-and-twin-peaks/ originally posted Mon Aug 10 10:31:46 EDT 2020

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20180915113108/https://medium.com/p/robots-have-been-about-to-take-all-the-jobs-for-more-than-200-years-5c9c08a2f41d originally posted Sat Sep 15 11:31:08 EDT 2018

Random link from the archives: "Dril’s book of tweets shows he’s the best chronicler of the internet - The Verge" https://web.archive.org/web/20180928110443/https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/27/17907568/dril-book-official-mr-ten-years-anniversary-collection-review-tweets-twitter originally posted Fri Sep 28 11:04:43 EDT 2018

The Running Costs Of A Lyft Driver https://jalopnik.com/i-paid-250-to-drive-for-lyft-last-year-1845712155

I filed for the last week of December off work, but my executive function is so crap right now... I need that vacation to start, like, two weeks ago and last through the end of the year tbh.

After fourteen years, Facebook has finally figured out how to target ads at me: show me shiny occult merchandise (holographic tarot cards, colorful enamel goetic medallions). I will not buy them, because I can't mentally or emotionally justify spending 0 on something I can't eat, but I'm very tempted.

The year is 2023. In order to circumvent anti-infection laws, nightclubs rebrand as places of worship affiliated with the North American Dance Church, an organization with ties to the antipresident's organizations in Panama and Hong Kong.

Random link from the archives: "GANZEER - The year is 1812. Mr. Smith of Huddersfield walks..." https://web.archive.org/web/20180503112352/http://www.ganzeer.com/post/173232122769/the-year-is-1812-mr-smith-of-huddersfield-walks originally posted Thu May 3 11:23:52 EDT 2018

For the past three years, ILLUMINATI-THEMED spambots have been posting in the comments of this one blog post of mine from 2013: https://firstchurchofspacejesus.blogspot.com/2013/12/rahxephon-as-tortured-metaphor-for.html

this week, it's all year long

Random link from the archives: "Thread by @JairusKhan: "I was a speaker and workshop organizer at hopeconf this year. My first 2600 meeting was over 20 years ago. I'm also an event organizer with […]" #hopeconf" https://web.archive.org/web/20180726103535/https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1021576113875771392.html originally posted Thu Jul 26 10:35:35 EDT 2018

Random link from the archives: "Your New Year's Resolution Has Already Failed - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20200126170607/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVGuFdX5guE originally posted Sun Jan 26 17:06:07 EST 2020

Vietnam, 2045: the american anti-president in exile, dying in bed, beckons his son-in-law in through the pitted mosquito nets and, hands trembling, puts a plastic tiara on his head, thus completing the coronation of the second generation. In occupied Lichenstein, members of the First Reformed Occipital Church of Q, Anonymous celebrate this event by baking a bread-effigy of Jeffrey Epstein and eating it while wearing mass-produced Guy Fawkes masks. This would become a coronation tradition for the following 600 years.

The most important science fiction books of the last 15 years - Polygon https://www.polygon.com/21516173/best-new-science-fiction-books-scifi-last-15-years

Thread by @enkiv2: Once every ten or fifteen years, everybody gets really excited about a deeply-flawed reimplementation of like one eighth of the core Xanadu… https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1232381856294875137.html

Giving Workers Equal Power Isn't Radical. This Studio's Done It For Years. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xybb4/giving-workers-equal-power-isnt-radical-this-studios-done-it-for-years

Random link from the archives: "Dril’s book of tweets shows he’s the best chronicler of the internet - The Verge" https://web.archive.org/web/20180928110443/https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/27/17907568/dril-book-official-mr-ten-years-anniversary-collection-review-tweets-twitter originally posted Fri Sep 28 11:04:43 EDT 2018

Random link from the archives: "ESP8266 - 1+ Year 18650 battery lifetime - Qball's Weblog" https://web.archive.org/web/20200103123304/https://blog.sarine.nl/2020/01/01/1-year-sensor.html originally posted Fri Jan 3 12:33:04 EST 2020

Random link from the archives: "What Shonen Jump Was Like 30 Years Ago - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20171210184652/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIh85_bCudk originally posted Sun Dec 10 18:46:52 EST 2017

jesus christ, 2016 was four years ago. wasn't it three weeks? or three decades?

Books I Will Not Write #8: The Year of the Conspiracy - Charlie's Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2020/09/the-year-of-the-conspiracy.html

Random link from the archives: "Over 20 years after AUM terror, cults in Japan still seeking to recruit youths - The Mainichi" https://web.archive.org/web/20190103093955/https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20180727/p2a/00m/0na/022000c originally posted Thu Jan 3 09:39:55 EST 2019

Thread by @normative: So, years ago I quite accidentally injected the phrase “epistemic closure” into political discourse. This became a buzzword for five minutes… https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1298738662532935681.html

A 200-Year-Old Gift From Benjamin Franklin Made Boston and Philadelphia a Fortune | Mental Floss https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/627475/200-year-old-gift-from-benjamin-franklin-to-boston-and-philadelphia

21 Years On, Revisiting Ellwood’s The Politics of Myth « enfolding.org http://enfolding.org/21-years-on-revisiting-ellwoods-the-politics-of-myth/

Why Iceland Banned Beer For Nearly 75 Years https://tedium.co/2020/08/14/iceland-beer-prohibition-history/

Random link from the archives: "200 years later, we can say that Marx was very often right – but in a much more literal way than he intended | The Independent" https://web.archive.org/web/20180505151832/https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/karl-marx-200-years-uk-politics-elections-working-class-slavoj-zizek-a8335931.html originally posted Sat May 5 15:18:32 EDT 2018

Why movie theaters are in trouble after DOJ nixes 70-year-old case | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/08/why-movie-theaters-are-in-trouble-after-doj-nixes-70-year-old-case/

Error 406 - Not Acceptable https://25yearslatersite.com/2018/01/02/the-fractured-self-shattered-identity-and-twin-peaks/

Band name of the day: machine yearning

Random link from the archives: "‘Crush Them’: An Oral History of the Lawsuit That Upended Silicon Valley - The Ringer" https://web.archive.org/web/20180522100843/https://www.theringer.com/tech/2018/5/18/17362452/microsoft-antitrust-lawsuit-netscape-internet-explorer-20-years originally posted Tue May 22 10:08:43 EDT 2018

Random link from the archives: "A radical pessimist's guide to the next 10 years - The Globe and Mail" https://web.archive.org/web/20181109153259/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/a-radical-pessimists-guide-to-the-next-10-years/article1321040/ originally posted Fri Nov 9 15:32:59 EST 2018

Remember when one of these was featured on Hack-A-Day ten years ago? Or was actually on the market 20 years ago? Or was actually on the market 30 years ago? I'm sure this is an at least incremental improvement but jesus, tech amnesia is real. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200720190922.htm

Bad idea of the day: once a year, everyone who owns more than one residence (ex., landlords) gets to keep one, chosen at random, & the rest are distributed free of charge with all morgages forgiven and a ten year property tax waiver to local homeless

Random link from the archives: "Writing Software to Last 50 Years > Ying Wang" https://web.archive.org/web/20200113121712/https://bytes.yingw787.com/posts/2020/01/13/50years/ originally posted Mon Jan 13 12:17:12 EST 2020

In the year 2501, improvements in automated translation technologies for interplanetary email triggers a holy war between warring sects of latter-day Q-ists: the Adventarians, who believe JFK Jr was wholly divine, and the Counter-Seventhists, who believe JFK Jr was a vessel for the cosmic pleroma engineered by reptilians from Zeta Reticuli. The Twelfthists, who believe JFK Jr was a hologram, and the Antebeerists, who believe JFK was JFK Jr and did 9/11, remained neutral.

Random link from the archives: "Garfield phones beach mystery finally solved after 35 years - BBC News" https://web.archive.org/web/20190401090924/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47732553 originally posted Mon Apr 1 09:09:24 EDT 2019

Random link from the archives: "When MS Paint ruled the fandom world: An innovative webcomic, 10 years later | Ars Technica" https://web.archive.org/web/20191023091006/https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/10/fans-as-co-consiprators-how-community-built-reshaped-a-10-year-old-webcomic/ originally posted Wed Oct 23 09:10:06 EDT 2019

Random link from the archives: "Tomorrow Now: Envisioning The Next Fifty Years | Bruce Sterling with Samit Basu - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20181201204719/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAMxQG_buag originally posted Sat Dec 1 20:47:19 EST 2018

Basically all of SSC is on the wayback machine, right? I mean I've been archiving all the good posts there for years (along with on the other major web archives)

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20190814095532/https://www.wired.com/story/inside-google-three-years-misery-happiest-company-tech/ originally posted Wed Aug 14 09:55:32 EDT 2019

Random link from the archives: "MY YEAR AT JOHN LILLY'S DOLPHIN LAB - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20200305175927/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONhnEmoSRfk originally posted Thu Mar 5 17:59:27 EST 2020

Random link from the archives: "Diary of Dr. Logic: Why do we teach 1st-year philosophers intro logic?" https://web.archive.org/web/20191120104847/http://diaryofdoctorlogic.blogspot.com/2016/11/why-do-we-teach-1st-year-philosophers.html originally posted Wed Nov 20 10:48:47 EST 2019

Random link from the archives: "Man Who Built The Retweet: “We Handed A Loaded Weapon To 4-Year-Olds”" https://web.archive.org/web/20190725092158/https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/how-the-retweet-ruined-the-internet originally posted Thu Jul 25 09:21:58 EDT 2019

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20181221105221/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/first-time-20-years-copyrighted-works-enter-public-domain-180971016/ originally posted Fri Dec 21 10:52:21 EST 2018

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200304222204/https://medium.com/p/my-year-of-not-buying-books-54e4c8f99615 originally posted Wed Mar 4 22:22:04 EST 2020

Random link from the archives: "The Twitch streamers who spend years broadcasting to no one - The Verge" https://web.archive.org/web/20180716113618/https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/16/17569520/twitch-streamers-zero-viewers-motivation-community originally posted Mon Jul 16 11:36:18 EDT 2018

Random link from the archives: "'Computer bots are like humans, having fights lasting years' | University of Oxford" https://web.archive.org/web/20170607111920/http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2017-02-24-computer-bots-are-humans-having-fights-lasting-years originally posted Wed Jun 7 11:19:20 EDT 2017

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20190814095532/https://www.wired.com/story/inside-google-three-years-misery-happiest-company-tech/ originally posted Wed Aug 14 09:55:32 EDT 2019

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200618171452/https://medium.com/p/what-i-learned-about-myself-by-going-through-17-years-of-amazon-purchases-8e3676781bd9 originally posted Thu Jun 18 17:14:52 EDT 2020

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200617161501/https://medium.com/p/santa-sangre-1989-30-years-later-d54f92412a9 originally posted Wed Jun 17 16:15:01 EDT 2020

Random link from the archives: "Video: Grand Central's Hidden Sub-Basement Has A 102-Year-Old Computer: Gothamist" https://web.archive.org/web/20180803072509/http://gothamist.com/2015/10/15/grand_central_computer_video.php originally posted Fri Aug 3 07:25:09 EDT 2018

Random link from the archives: "Writing Software to Last 50 Years > Ying Wang" https://web.archive.org/web/20200113121712/https://bytes.yingw787.com/posts/2020/01/13/50years/ originally posted Mon Jan 13 12:17:12 EST 2020

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200610204256/https://medium.com/p/our-economy-was-just-blasted-years-into-the-future-a591fbba2298 originally posted Wed Jun 10 20:42:56 EDT 2020

Random link from the archives: " Brain Simulation Promised a Decade Ago Hasn't Succeeded - The Atlantic" https://web.archive.org/web/20190723102630/https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/ten-years-human-brain-project-simulation-markram-ted-talk/594493/ originally posted Tue Jul 23 10:26:30 EDT 2019

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20180115083046/https://idea.popcount.org/2013-07-19-how-to-sleep-a-million-years/ originally posted Mon Jan 15 08:30:46 EST 2018/

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20190123084008/https://thewalrus.ca/the-year-i-couldnt-speak-at-all/ originally posted Wed Jan 23 08:40:08 EST 2019/

Listen: The Sound Of The Hagia Sophia, More Than 500 Years Ago : NPR https://www.npr.org/2020/02/22/808404928/listen-the-sound-of-the-hagia-sophia-more-than-500-years-ago

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20191031184340/https://medium.com/p/the-freshest-writer-on-design-was-born-200-years-ago-3d06a3778943 originally posted Thu Oct 31 18:43:40 EDT 2019/

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20181126124807/https://popula.com/2018/11/20/the-end-of-my-year-of-killer-sudoku/ originally posted Mon Nov 26 12:48:07 EST 2018/

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20180928110443/https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/27/17907568/dril-book-official-mr-ten-years-anniversary-collection-review-tweets-twitter originally posted Fri Sep 28 11:04:43 EDT 2018/

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20190803171846/https://medium.com/p/liquid-sky-1982-36-years-later-47c9a7137d93 originally posted Sat Aug 3 17:18:46 EDT 2019/

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20190803171846/https://medium.com/p/liquid-sky-1982-36-years-later-47c9a7137d93 originally posted Sat Aug 3 17:18:46 EDT 2019/

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20180503112352/http://www.ganzeer.com/post/173232122769/the-year-is-1812-mr-smith-of-huddersfield-walks originally posted Thu May 3 11:23:52 EDT 2018/

Error 406 - Not Acceptable https://25yearslatersite.com/2020/06/11/blood-machines-stylish-throwback-or-overblown-showreel/

Error 406 - Not Acceptable https://25yearslatersite.com/2020/05/29/fertility-feminism-faith-and-the-final-girl-in-1970s-horror/

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20181113082438/http://ajroach42.com/observations-on-modern-computing-the-last-10-years-were-a-misstep/ originally posted Tue Nov 13 08:24:38 EST 2018/

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20181109153259/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/a-radical-pessimists-guide-to-the-next-10-years/article1321040/ originally posted Fri Nov 9 15:32:59 EST 2018/

Devo's Jerry Casale Looks Back at Kent State 50 Years Later - Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/devo-jerry-casale-interview-kent-state-massacre-protest-992651/

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20190723102630/https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/ten-years-human-brain-project-simulation-markram-ted-talk/594493/ originally posted Tue Jul 23 10:26:30 EDT 2019/

https://medium.com/p/tumblrs-first-year-without-porn-a00c14b981e5

Thank you, place I ordered blinds from once five years ago, for telling me your company's coronavirus countermeasures. That is clearly relevant information.

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20180522104721/https://www.theringer.com/tech/2018/5/18/17362452/microsoft-antitrust-lawsuit-netscape-internet-explorer-20-years originally posted Tue May 22 10:47:21 EDT 2018/

https://medium.com/@enkiv2/for-a-couple-years-i-the-early-naughts-i-mostly-ran-dos-with-various-experimental-unusual-5edcd8173882

Why a 272-Year-Old Philosopher Just Got Carted Across a College Quad - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/philosopher-auto-icon-college-commute

These Are the Dumbest Drug Moments of the Last 100 Years - VICE https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/dygwxz/these-are-the-dumbest-drug-moments-of-the-last-100-years-v27n1

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20180505151832/https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/karl-marx-200-years-uk-politics-elections-working-class-slavoj-zizek-a8335931.html originally posted Sat May 5 15:18:32 EDT 2018/

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20181221105221/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/first-time-20-years-copyrighted-works-enter-public-domain-180971016/ originally posted Fri Dec 21 10:52:21 EST 2018/

MY YEAR AT JOHN LILLY'S DOLPHIN LAB - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONhnEmoSRfk

https://medium.com/p/my-year-of-not-buying-books-54e4c8f99615

https://medium.com/@enkiv2/when-i-did-something-similar-a-couple-years-ago-for-work-i-used-them-to-derive-the-vectors-9f5c93407ae8

William Gibson on the apocalypse: “it’s been happening for at least 100 years” https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2020/02/william-gibson-apocalypse-it-s-been-happening-least-100-years

it's weird that party city still sends me marketing emails, considering that i gave them my email on the last day that the only nearby outlet was open, like 2 years ago. i wonder how much money they lose sending marketing emails to people who live too far away to ever shop there

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20170804130620/http://tenyearsago.io/ originally posted Fri Aug 4 13:06:20 EDT 2017/

Insert Coins for Lumps of Coal: A Brief 2000-Year History of Vending Machines - 99% Invisible https://99percentinvisible.org/article/insert-coins-for-lumps-of-coal-a-brief-2000-year-history-of-vending-machines/

Extremely periodic reminder: until a few years ago, I was prolific in making (something not entirely unlike) music, & I have a patreon associated. I will need to start making new music again soon for another project. Here is my back catalogue: http://infocalypse.nfshost.com/

This is fantastic (even if I don't agree with all of it) & I'm coming to realize that if I want to write for this publication I'm going to need to hit the books on theory like I haven't for 10 years: https://medium.com/the-weird-politics-review/the-anarcho-accelerationist-primer-49219b34d740

even if doing a total rewrite is harder than fixing what's there, you should do a total rewrite every once in a while to prove to yourself that it isn't impossible and that it is, in fact, often easier than doing years of maintenance on a pile of crap

The McMansion Hell Yearbook: 1970 | McMansion Hell https://mcmansionhell.com/post/190405899096/the-mcmansion-hell-yearbook-1970

Your New Year's Resolution Has Already Failed - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVGuFdX5guE

no year no you

Writing Software to Last 50 Years > Ying Wang https://bytes.yingw787.com/posts/2020/01/13/50years/

Every three or four years some jerk invents a new square wheel and gets a lot of attention from people who were never told about the round ones. Meanwhile, tri-star wheel assemblies and ekranoplans are a wikipedia dive away. Sometimes I wonder if documenting alternatives is worth it, since if it took me so little effort to find something, anybody who finds my writing will already know about it or will have already decided to avoid it.

I tried Haskell for 5 years and here’s how it was – Meta Rabbit https://metarabbit.wordpress.com/2017/05/02/i-tried-haskell-for-5-years-and-heres-how-it-was/

why are koren helmet kits so expensive? a shakti is just fuckin' eight coils and an oscillator, right? that sounds like a suitable project for a ten year old.

New #year's #resolution: #embrace #'personal #branding' #by #formatting #all #my #posts #like #this

child-of-academics culture is realizing only in your teenage years that normal people don't use the term 'deaccession' when talking about throwing stuff out

For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now a hot commodity - StarTribune.com http://www.startribune.com/for-tech-weary-midwest-farmers-40-year-old-tractors-now-a-hot-commodity/566737082/

ESP8266 - 1+ Year 18650 battery lifetime - Qball's Weblog https://blog.sarine.nl/2020/01/01/1-year-sensor.html

Technology and Preservation: Tedium in the Year 2020 https://tedium.co/2019/12/31/tedium-trends-2020/

time for all you fuckers to plant trees tonight. you know what they say: new year, new yew

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20190806082412/https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FoJSa8mgLPT83g9e8/jeff-hawkins-on-neuromorphic-agi-within-20-years originally posted Tue Aug 6 08:24:12 EDT 2019/

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20191120104847/http://diaryofdoctorlogic.blogspot.com/2016/11/why-do-we-teach-1st-year-philosophers.html originally posted Wed Nov 20 10:48:47 EST 2019/

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20180110112232/https://www.polygon.com/2018/1/9/16851376/everything-best-games-2017-year-in-review originally posted Wed Jan 10 11:22:32 EST 2018/

https://medium.com/@enkiv2/for-a-couple-years-i-the-early-naughts-i-mostly-ran-dos-with-various-experimental-unusual-5edcd8173882

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20191023091006/https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/10/fans-as-co-consiprators-how-community-built-reshaped-a-10-year-old-webcomic/ originally posted Wed Oct 23 09:10:06 EDT 2019/

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20190814095532/https://www.wired.com/story/inside-google-three-years-misery-happiest-company-tech/ originally posted Wed Aug 14 09:55:32 EDT 2019/

periodic reminder that i actually have a big discography (though i haven't released anything in a year and a half) http://infocalypse.nfshost.com/

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20170804115211/http://tenyearsago.io/ originally posted Fri Aug 4 11:52:11 EDT 2017/

How To Get A Book Deal in Ten Years or Less - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuRE55YH8yE

https://medium.com/@enkiv2/theres-a-culture-and-i-think-it-s-a-relatively-new-one-even-as-recently-as-fifteen-years-ago-52b636e1dbd1

A section in Robin Sloan's newsletter for this week pairs well with my essay "A Libertarian Case for Social Justice", which takes a different (non-pro-market) route toward the same result: https://buttondown.email/year-of-the-meteor/archive/week-48-doesnt-have-a-cat/ https://medium.com/@enkiv2/a-libertarian-case-for-social-justice-23ee2237b6f5?source=friends_link&sk=11db912d7205c9635aaf146534741203

Drivers killed the most pedestrians and bicyclists in almost 30 years - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/23/20927512/traffic-death-crash-statistics-nhtsa-us-2018

Diary of Dr. Logic: Why do we teach 1st-year philosophers intro logic? http://diaryofdoctorlogic.blogspot.com/2016/11/why-do-we-teach-1st-year-philosophers.html

Thread re: the difference in technical novelty between the first 40 years of CS and the second 40 (before and after 1980) https://mobile.twitter.com/enkiv2/status/1195433458996334592

GitHub Archive Program | The GitHub Archive Program will safely store every public GitHub repo for 1,000 years in the Arctic World Archive in Svalbard, Norway. https://archiveprogram.github.com/

i have more ram in my current computer than i had disk space in some of the machines i used up though a couple years ago, and yet if i'm not careful a single web browser will fill it up completely in minutes & freeze up the whole box. how did we get here?

All the way through the second half of Shadowland I kept thinking 'somebody already made this into a movie right?' Nope. Even though it's so wonderfully cinematic. Real tempted to try my hand at spec, even though it's a now-forgotten 40-year-old 500-page novel.

apparently somebody forked my 'misc' repo like a year ago and... made 500 commits... and i can't actually tell what they were

one of these days I will need to release an update to MfoM to fix audio balance issues, & I want to package other changes with that so folks won't be so mad about lost saves. One thing I ought to do is add a 'localization and cultural notes' list, explaining things like golden week, the year wheel, Janus and his use in ritual, what "let's gekiga-in" means... Basically, the audience for this game ended up having both less otaku & less folks familiar with magick than I expected.

A critical analysis of scroll bars throughout history - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/1/20943552/scroll-bar-visual-history-30-years

I remember reading almost exactly this same article a couple years ago only the thesis wasn't 'internet atheists became sjws' but 'internet atheists became anti-sjws / gamergaters' and maybe both are true? https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/10/30/new-atheism-the-godlessness-that-failed/

Bad idea of the day: limit political contributions to a total of $1,000 a year for both individuals and corporations (destroying the justification for forming a corporation for political contributions)

Some cyberpunky fragments I wrote a couple years ago: https://medium.com/@enkiv2/as-he-brushed-past-a-cluster-of-hyper-dandies-their-tattoos-glowed-and-squirmed-pantomiming-3aa2d528edc3 https://medium.com/@enkiv2/thank-you-for-being-prime-the-impossibly-beautiful-anime-hologram-stewardess-says-as-six-axis-53043ee52228

When MS Paint ruled the fandom world: An innovative webcomic, 10 years later | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/10/fans-as-co-consiprators-how-community-built-reshaped-a-10-year-old-webcomic/

Some great heavy psych shit on side B of this year's vintage obscura halloween playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoWjmIEeubU&t=31m

Bad idea of the day: every year representatives get together & choose which properties are most culturally influential, & then they are placed in the public domain

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20190119190224/https://www.geek.com/news/remembering-babylon-5-one-of-the-smartest-sci-fi-series-ever-25-years-after-its-debut-1770010/ originally posted Sat Jan 19 19:02:24 EST 2019/

It’s been years, where is the Ethos now? | Wave Motion Cannon https://wavemotioncannon.com/2019/10/01/its-been-years-where-is-the-ethos-now/

Atlantic on the tech bubble: it didn't burst because private investors just kept making bigger for 8 years. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/whatever-happened-tech-bubble/594856/ (They don't SAY that it'll be way worse when it does burst, but nobody needs to tell you that.)

A week into october & for the first time in 6 years I have no idea what to do for #nanogenmo. Maybe I ought to re-try some of the stuff I failed to do in previous years...

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20181113082438/http://ajroach42.com/observations-on-modern-computing-the-last-10-years-were-a-misstep/ originally posted Tue Nov 13 08:24:38 EST 2018/

Is there a thing that sorts free games on steam by number of reviews ascending and then time available descending -- i.e., to find years-old free steam games with zero reviews?

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20170617101711/https://www.fastcompany.com/40430620/this-man-spent-a-year-exploring-competitive-punning-subculture?curator=MediaREDEF originally posted Sat Jun 17 10:17:11 EDT 2017/

Four Years in Startups | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/30/four-years-in-startups?currentPage=all

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20180503112352/http://www.ganzeer.com/post/173232122769/the-year-is-1812-mr-smith-of-huddersfield-walks originally posted Thu May 3 11:23:52 EDT 2018/

Nearly 30 years ago, Mortal Kombat’s blood forever changed the video game industry - Polygon https://www.polygon.com/2019/9/13/20812985/nearly-30-years-ago-mortal-kombats-blood-forever-changed-the-video-game-industry

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20190807125958/https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59nm85/an-online-feud-killed-a-gaming-oddity-people-had-waited-21-years-for originally posted Wed Aug 7 12:59:58 EDT 2019/

I am a big supporter of Small Tech: three line shell scripts, gopher holes, when websites render properly on a VIC-20, building your new PC tower out of the 10 year old PCs your neighbours recently discarded, solving your own problems without worrying about scale.

The year is 2319. Unistat is still at war with Afghanistan. This war is fought by hereditary dynasties of drone pilots with their own insular culture.

WHAT CAN BE KEPT? For years, centuries? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBJlzqwzdqU

403 Forbidden http://www.os2museum.com/wp/pc-keyboard-the-first-five-years/

The Internet May Be Underwater in 15 Years https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/07/news-internet-underwater-sea-level-rise/

https://medium.com/p/heathers-1988-31-years-later-7175f0b5aad1

Mickey Mouse will be public domain soon"here’s what that means | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/01/a-whole-years-worth-of-works-just-fell-into-the-public-domain/

https://medium.com/p/the-devil-rides-out-1968-50-years-later-c5e9de383c9c

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20180504103708/https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/03/22/three-years-of-the-right-to-be-forgotten/ originally posted Fri May 4 10:37:08 EDT 2018/

The Utopian Promise of Adorno’s ‘Open Thinking,’ Fifty Years On | by Peter E. Gordon | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/08/05/the-utopian-promise-of-adornos-open-thinking-fifty-years-on/

Another parallel format-- The "Pale Fire" demo, fifty years late - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E43Khbai-TE

An Online Feud Killed a Gaming Oddity People Had Waited 21 Years For - VICE https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59nm85/an-online-feud-killed-a-gaming-oddity-people-had-waited-21-years-for

A Century of Terror: The 100 Best Horror Movies of the Last 100 Years :: Movies :: horror movies :: Page 1 :: Paste https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/07/best-horror-movies-of-all-time-century-100-years-films.html

ActivityPub - Final thoughts, one year later. - Dennis Schubert https://schub.io/blog/2019/01/13/activitypub-final-thoughts-one-year-later.html

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20190803171846/https://medium.com/p/liquid-sky-1982-36-years-later-47c9a7137d93 originally posted Sat Aug 3 17:18:46 EDT 2019/

https://medium.com/p/liquid-sky-1982-36-years-later-47c9a7137d93

Don’t Call It a Comeback: Foreign Interference in U.S. Elections Has Been Here for Years - War on the Rocks https://warontherocks.com/2019/07/dont-call-it-a-comeback-foreign-interference-in-u-s-elections-has-been-here-for-years/

In 300 years, will historians call the period from the mid-1950s to the late 2020s the 'third world war' -- seeing as how it's a global cold/information war that changed forms a couple times but never actually stopped or fundamentally changed techniques?

Random link from the archives: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/the-crazy-years.html originally posted Thu Jan 25 11:36:09 EST 2018

Celebrating 30 Years of Weird Al Yankovic’s Weird Cult Classic, ‘UHF’ - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/movies/2019/7/26/8931152/weird-al-yankovic-uhf-20th-anniversary

Man Who Built The Retweet: “We Handed A Loaded Weapon To 4-Year-Olds” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/how-the-retweet-ruined-the-internet

Brain Simulation Promised a Decade Ago Hasn't Succeeded - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/ten-years-human-brain-project-simulation-markram-ted-talk/594493/

if all your references are 30-120 years out of date, nobody can accuse you of being accidentally behind the times

I wonder if Liam Neeson misses the time when he played roles like Darkman or the horny ghost in High Spirits, instead of 15 years of Boring Revenge Dad variations...

Robots.txt is 25 years old " Martijn Koster's Pages https://www.greenhills.co.uk/posts/robotstxt-25/

Rejects from Tom's Ideas Board: The Early Years - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SborjlpiYtQ

chuckyroll animu of the year: netflix genesis evangelion

Truly Batshit: The Secret History of ‘Vampire’s Kiss,’ the Craziest Nicolas Cage Movie of All Time - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/movies/2019/6/13/18663380/nicolas-cage-vampires-kiss-breakout-performance-30-years

It might have made more sense to create a brand new masto account to test history import on, rather than using the one where I've been posting dozens of times a day for like a year...

a few years in the Absolute Elsewhere: Man Becomes the Sex Organs of the Machine World: Marshall McLuhan’s Understanding Media. http://2012diaries.blogspot.com/2012/05/man-becomes-sex-organs-of-machine-world.html

We're getting to the point, with computing & with AI in particular, where shit that people are trying to hype up as new was literally being done seventy years ago.

Seeing stunt journalism articles like 'I went 100 days without dating or sex' makes me realize that some people live in a fundamentally different world where not having a date for a few years is abnormal.

So I'm running Lunar again for the first time in ~4 years (the last release was in 2014). I'm hoping I'll be once again blown away by how much nicer it is to solve package problems than on debian-based systems.

30-plus years of HyperCard, the missing link to the Web | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/05/25-years-of-hypercard-the-missing-link-to-the-web/

What percentage of total revenue from ticket sales over the past year is attributed to movies not currently owned by Disney or Warner?

The academy I dreamed of for 20 years no longer exists, and I am waking up | Times Higher Education (THE) https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/academy-i-dreamed-20-years-no-longer-exists-and-i-am-waking

Bad idea of the day: A narrative game that takes place over a year, where stories can only be played through on the days that are anniversaries of the days they occur on. There is an achievement for april fool's day.

Holy shit Robin Sloan posted a link to my list of story pitches in his newsletter https://buttondown.email/year-of-the-meteor/archive/week-21-all-is-foretold/

Article idea: the influence of faxlore / hippie zine culture (Whole Earth Catalogue, Principia Discordia, Computer Lib) on the past 50 years of personal computer documentation in design, presentation, & style.

1960: The Year The Singularity Was Cancelled | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/04/22/1960-the-year-the-singularity-was-cancelled/

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.

it's really weird that my most popular medium post thus far this year is a rant about extensions to the gopher protocol

401(k)s, abortion, youth football: 15 things we do now that will be considered unthinkable in 50 years - Vox https://www.vox.com/2019/3/27/18226563/50-years-wrong-side-of-history-future-prediction

Random link from the archives: https://thenewantique.blog/2019/01/19/book-review-and-reflection-david-graebers-debt-the-first-5000-years/ originally archived Tue Feb 5 07:39:06 EST 2019

Mankind Is Obsolete hasn't aged a day in the 12 years since I last listened to them. Jesus.

Apple Has Been Struggling with the Stylus for 20 Years - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xw8pgn/apple-has-been-struggling-with-the-stylus-for-20-years

Baba Is You review: one of the best puzzle games in years - Polygon https://www.polygon.com/reviews/2019/3/13/18263824/baba-is-you-review-nintendo-switch-pc

Garfield phones beach mystery finally solved after 35 years - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47732553

I fixed my now-year-long semi-intermittent sound problem, & the explanation is compellingly stupid: sometimes when ubuntu upgrades sound driver modules it doesn't make the /dev/snd tree user-writable, & pulse runs as the logged-in user.

I mean, 'quietly' is a bit misleading since this has been in the news every few years for more than a decade, but you all might need a reminder: https://qz.com/1002927/computer-printers-have-been-quietly-embedding-tracking-codes-in-documents-for-decades/

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/

Hot take: Mondo 2000 should do what Fangoria did & release a very fancy very thick periodical like once a year for about a hundred bucks.

Hill House has stood for 80 years and might for 80 more. Inside, floors lay straight, doors sensibly shut, but why is there a dormer window RIGHT NEXT TO a stained glass one, and why don't the bottoms line up??

Re: https://adactio.com/journal/14888 -- it's a competent reframing job, but if common behaviors require complicated hacks for literally years, you're using the wrong tool.

Five Lessons From Seven Years of Research Into Buttons - The Crux http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2019/02/04/five-lessons-about-pressing-buttons/

China’s urban policy unit just met for the first time in 38 years. Here’s what it recommended | CityMetric https://www.citymetric.com/fabric/china-s-urban-policy-unit-just-met-first-time-38-years-here-s-what-it-recommended-1904

Years later, Façade's groundbreaking AI lives on through bad YouTube jokes | PC Gamer https://www.pcgamer.com/13-years-later-facades-groundbreaking-ai-lives-on-through-bad-youtube-jokes/

The sample they chose to highlight here resembles the kind of paper a 14 year old would try & fail to bullshit after staying up all night partying right before the due date: https://blog.openai.com/better-language-models/#sample1

Book Review and Reflection: David Graeber’s “Debt: The First 5,000 Years” – The New Antique https://thenewantique.blog/2019/01/19/book-review-and-reflection-david-graebers-debt-the-first-5000-years/

I regret to inform everybody that Data Privacy Day was actually last Monday. We all missed it. Sorry. Honorary Data Privacy Day every Monday for the next 2 years to make up for it, kay?

Monday is Data Privacy Day. Celebrate by convincing Facebook that you are at least 120 years old & drive a pink car.

Apparently, when I pitched the idea of replacing backtracking with forking (with lazy side effecting of course) a ~year ago, I was reinventing STEPS work from 2008: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/rn2008003_john.pdf

The Year I Couldn't Speak at All | The Walrus https://thewalrus.ca/the-year-i-couldnt-speak-at-all/

Remembering 'Babylon 5,' One of the Smartest Sci-Fi Series Ever, 25 Years After Its Debut - Geek.com https://www.geek.com/news/remembering-babylon-5-one-of-the-smartest-sci-fi-series-ever-25-years-after-its-debut-1770010/

Next year's hit isekai: 'In Another World with My Copy of Ryan North's New Book'

I Tracked My Whole Life In A Google Sheet For A Year " Here's What I Learned - Digg http://digg.com/2019/google-sheet-personal-organization-lifehack

I'm currently streaming the last push on developing Manna for our Malices, the game I've been working on for 1.5 years: https://www.twitch.tv/enkiv2

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/

Periodic reminder: I'm running a no-budget film contest again this year https://medium.com/p/announcing-the-2019-no-budget-film-contest-d7eb339a3ed5

Life hack: for your 'best articles of the year' list, just post all the articles that had the least traffic. People are gonna disagree with your ranking anyway so just flatten that curve. Finding gems in that dross is inevitable.

Over 20 years after AUM terror, cults in Japan still seeking to recruit youths - The Mainichi https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20180727/p2a/00m/0na/022000c

I broke down my new year's tarot spreads: http://enki2.tumblr.com/post/181624807399/a-tarot-reading-for-the-new-year

What's the point of year-end roundups of the most popular articles, or sales for bestsellers? They've already won. Better is a year-end round-up of hidden gems -- stuff that didn't do as well as expected.

The year social networks were no longer social – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/23/the-year-social-networks-were-no-longer-social/

The Climate Event That Helped Create ‘Frankenstein’ and the Bicycle https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/10/25/year-without-summer/

The Cost of Living in Mark Zuckerberg’s Internet Empire - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/tech/2018/12/19/18148701/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-year-in-review

All this end of year stuff is coming in too quick. It's the first week of december. Wasn't Halloween the other day or somehting?

MST3K creator Joel Hodgson on 30 years of making fun of movies. https://slate.com/culture/2018/12/mst3k-joel-hodgson-interview-netflix.html

Tomorrow Now: Envisioning The Next Fifty Years | Bruce Sterling with Samit Basu - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAMxQG_buag

a year of watching nothing but the movies MST3K covers but without the riffing

The End of My Year of Killer Sudoku – Popula https://popula.com/2018/11/20/the-end-of-my-year-of-killer-sudoku/

Remember: breaking a wishbone is seventy years of bad luck

Remember: unless your turkey sees its shadow, you must go back underground and avoid buying anything until halloween of next year.

Four Languages from Forty Years Ago - Scott Wlaschin - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fpDlAEQio4

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

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

The Quietus | Features | Anniversary | The Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades: 30 Years Of They Live http://thequietus.com/articles/25613-john-carpenter-they-live-review-anniversary

Four Languages from Forty Years Ago - Scott Wlaschin - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fpDlAEQio4

Proposed data privacy law could send company execs to prison for 20 years | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/11/proposed-data-privacy-law-could-send-company-execs-to-prison-for-20-years/

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

A possible future: SSSS.Gridman's popularity causes a bunch of mecha-inspired toku adaptations to be greenlit & 'tokusatsu remake' becomes the new 'isekai light novel adaptation' for about 5 years.

If Halloween 3 had been Halloween 2 (i.e., if Michael Meyers was a one-off & there was never the expectation set that he'd come back) we could have had a great yearly horror anthology series for the past 40 years.

The Japanese Cult Producing 20+ Years Of Anime - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6tS14HFsmA

Bad idea of the day: watching FEWER horror movies in october because you need a break from the rest of the year

"Rosie Pattern Language: Improving on 50-Year Old Regular Expression Technology" by Jamie Jennings - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkTiYDrb0zg

If we added up all the time spent in airport security in the past seven years, how many average human lifespans would it be?

Recipe for periodic royalty boosts if you're a hack: 1) create a song about a particular time of year -- preferably a particular date that is not a holiday; 2) create a song about a very specific combination of very common feelings

Imagine if Mondo 2000 got the Fangoria treatment: instead of occasional issues, four times a year you get a fuckin' BOOK and it's super fancy so people are willing to pay 5/issue & more at newsstand.

If imports from China suddenly dropped substantially (say, due to tariffs), would enough manufacturing business go back to S. Korea & Japan to affect Japan's almost-30-year economic stagnation?

Dril’s book of tweets shows he’s the best chronicler of the internet - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/27/17907568/dril-book-official-mr-ten-years-anniversary-collection-review-tweets-twitter

Numbers Every Programmer Should Know By Year https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~rcs/research/interactive_latency.html

Pet peeve: the 6+ news outlets that titled their coverage of OXU in 2014 as 'Software project gets release after 54 years' as though there wasn't a release in 1999, another in 2007, one in 2014, and one in 2016 (and this is just the translit & just the stuff you can download now)

Meet Sphinx: The 30-Year-Old Soviet Smart Home Concept - Soviet Visuals http://sovietvisuals.com/sphinx-soviet-smart-home-concept/

Video: Grand Central's Hidden Sub-Basement Has A 102-Year-Old Computer: Gothamist http://gothamist.com/2015/10/15/grand_central_computer_video.php

Thread by @JairusKhan: "I was a speaker and workshop organizer at hopeconf this year. My first 2600 meeting was over 20 years ago. I'm also an event organizer with […]" #hopeconf https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1021576113875771392.html

Remember when this happened with latin & it turned out lorem ipsum was being compared to political blogs, like 10 years ago? https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5npeg/why-is-google-translate-spitting-out-sinister-religious-prophecies

The Twitch streamers who spend years broadcasting to no one - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/16/17569520/twitch-streamers-zero-viewers-motivation-community

Band name of the day: one thousand years of dream

In a thousand years, we'll all have protruding foreheads because of the growth of the prefrontal corpus, a dunbar number of 10,000, and internet forums with polite behavior despite lack of active moderation.

Javascript is a just-OK language saddled with the world's worst graphics toolkit: three distinct languages, each with specs so large that nobody has written a new implementation in 20 years, for live-editing a rich tech document to make it resemble a canvas, in ways that are not portable between the 3 implementations or minor revisions of the same implementation.

Unsolved Mysteries: Still Being Updated After All These Years https://tedium.co/2018/06/19/unsolved-mysteries-modern-updates/

30 years later, QBasic is still the best | Personal Registry Editor http://www.nicolasbize.com/blog/30-years-later-qbasic-is-still-the-best/

Bad idea of the day: Use eliza as your therapist for an hour a day for years, then train a markov bot on the logs.

We spend an enormous amount of time and effort teaching children about animals -- even ones that only exist far away (like tigers and elephants and giraffes) or that have been extinct for tens to hundreds of millions of years.

TFW people you've never interacted with already have you blocked on birdsite because you sent positive affirmations to Tay years ago & the shared blocklist curator wasn't discerning.

Bad idea of the day: a dual-layer LCD (like the 3d TVs from a few years ago) that uses the top layer exclusively for hover behavior

‘Crush Them’: An Oral History of the Lawsuit That Upended Silicon Valley - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/tech/2018/5/18/17362452/microsoft-antitrust-lawsuit-netscape-internet-explorer-20-years

‘Crush Them’: An Oral History of the Lawsuit That Upended Silicon Valley - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/tech/2018/5/18/17362452/microsoft-antitrust-lawsuit-netscape-internet-explorer-20-years

A Most Violent Year | The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/148276/violent-year

The most interesting thing about https://www.fastly.com/blog/headers-we-dont-want is the indication that the culture of the web is a cargo-cult one where we will waste kilobytes per response on redundant headers that were deprecated 20 years ago or present possible security problems

200 years later, we can say that Marx was very often right – but in a much more literal way than he intended | The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/karl-marx-200-years-uk-politics-elections-working-class-slavoj-zizek-a8335931.html

Three years of the Right To Be Forgotten | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/03/22/three-years-of-the-right-to-be-forgotten/

GANZEER - The year is 1812. Mr. Smith of Huddersfield walks... http://www.ganzeer.com/post/173232122769/the-year-is-1812-mr-smith-of-huddersfield-walks

Quatermass and the Pit: 50 Years On | Mysterious Universe http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/05/quatermass-and-the-pit-50-years-on/

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

Effective Programs - 10 Years of Clojure - Rich Hickey - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V1FtfBDsLU

I love Wait But Why, and so it's a real shame that Tim Urban has transformed into Elon Musk's personal PR guy for the past few years, rather than writing on a wider array of topics.

Eromanga-Sensei: One Year Later - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4QVE87UfX8

I wonder if the recent Charlie Wartzel-spawned increase in the use of the term 'infocalypse' will affect the popularity of the music I've been releasing under that name for the past eleven years...

Bad idea of the day: 'mastogone' -- a script that identifies people you're following who haven't posted in more than a year

Hot take: the whole 'you need to code in your free time' is partially justified by the way a 4 year CS degree doesn't remotely prepare you for an entry-level code-crunching position.

Your periodic reminder that I am running a no-budget film contest again this year. If you plan to make a no-budget film, submit it. If you want an excuse to make one, you have one now.

I Spent Tw... https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/i-spent-two-years-trying-to-fix-the-gender-imbalance-in-my-stories/552404/

The crazy years - Charlie's Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/the-crazy-years.html

If you want to snarf up the Project Stargate documents, now is the time: https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/collection/crest-25-year-program-archive

Steve Jobs has been dead for 10 years but Apple (& the rest of us too) still hasn't recovered from poor decisions he made in 1981. Come on guys, get with the program.

A video game that doesn’t click until you let go of t... https://www.polygon.com/2018/1/9/16851376/everything-best-games-2017-year-in-review