modernity is stupid: a rant not about politics | The Roof is on Phire
https://phirephoenix.com/blog/2024-11-05/modernity
The only reason I even moved to Omnivore is because Mozilla has been systematically neglecting and underfunding Pocket for years and the app is increasingly dominated by things I did not save, the literal one job it had, and I had moved to Pocket after Instapaper first changed ownership in 2013 or whatever and I didn’t like the new owners, and I also can’t go back to Pinboard because while I used to love that dude’s writing he’s turned into a transphobic asshole crank so fuck him, but like, why do I even know that?? Why do I know what Maciej thinks?? Why do I know that DHH is a fucking creep and a weirdo which is why I will never pay for their email service which otherwise seems pretty cool, why do I know that Brave is the homophobic browser in bed with cryptocurrency bros, why do I know that the Kagi dude thinks adding suicide prevention hotlines to search results for “how to kill yourself” is censorship, why do I know about Matt Mullendweeb’s entire existence?? The modern world is unbelievably stupid, and if you don’t pay attention to the stupidity when something bad happens someone shows up in your notifications all like, well what did you expect. I expect you to fuck off!!
Who Cares? : On Nags, Martyrs, the Women Who Give Up, and the Men Who Don’t Get It
https://longreads.com/2018/11/21/who-cares-on-nags-martyrs-the-women-who-give-up-and-the-men-who-dont-get-it
Inform: Past, Present, Future
http://www.emshort.com/ifmu/inform.html
This is the talk and slides from the June 2018 London IF meetup, held at Elephant Studios in London South Bank University on 9 June 2018. I was invited to speak about Inform, past, present and future. via Pocket
The rise of 'pseudo-AI': how tech firms quietly use humans to do bots' work | Technology | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/06/artificial-intelligence-ai-humans-bots-tech-companies
It’s hard to build a service powered by artificial intelligence. So hard, in fact, that some startups have worked out it’s cheaper and easier to get humans to behave like robots than it is to get machines to behave like humans. via Pocket
My Serverless Adventure
https://blazingedge.io/blog/my-serverless-adventure
The sound of SID: 35 years of chiptune's influence on electronic music
http://theconversation.com/the-sound-of-sid-35-years-of-chiptunes-influence-on-electronic-music-74935
It can be hard to write about the music of videogames while we are bathed in the projected glory of today’s high-definition, 4K, 60-frames-per-second photorealistic graphics. via Pocket
Gamasutra: Sebastien BENARD's Blog - Building the Level Design of a procedurally generated Metroidvania: a hybrid approach.
http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/SebastienBENARD/20170329/294642/Building_the_Level_Design_of_a_procedurally_generated_Metroidvania_a_hybrid_approach.php
My name is Sebastien Benard and I'm currently working as the Lead Designer on Dead Cells, a procedurally generated Metroidvania. As you would expect, questions about the quality of our procedural generation pop up very regularly, with both players and other devs. via Pocket
Stewart Brand Recalls First 'Spacewar' Video Game Tournament - Rolling Stone
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/stewart-brand-recalls-first-spacewar-video-game-tournament-20160525
The first video game tournament was held on October 19th, 1972. Competitors gathered at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab in Los Altos, California to do battle in the sci-fi rocket combat game Spacewar. via Pocket
Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems | Books | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/15/neoliberalism-ideology-problem-george-monbiot
Financial meltdown, environmental disaster and even the rise of Donald Trump – neoliberalism has played its part in them all. Why has the left failed to come up with an alternative? Imagine if the people of the Soviet Union had never heard of communism. via Pocket
On Quiet Developers – Seán Hanson – Medium
https://medium.com/@seanmhanson/on-quiet-developers-49db419f948e
As a UI engineer, I’m as passionate about diversity and accessibility in the tech industry as I am about JavaScript. via Pocket
End of the road: will automation put an end to the American trucker? | Technology | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/10/american-trucker-automation-jobs
Jeff Baxter’s sunflower-yellow Kenworth truck shines as bright and almost as big as the sun. Four men clean the glistening cab in the hangar-like truck wash at Iowa 80, the world’s largest truck stop. via Pocket
Insentricity :: Testing DRAM Using an Arduino ::
http://www.insentricity.com/a.cl/252/testing-dram-using-an-arduino
A couple of weekends ago I was in the mood to do some retrogaming and didn’t know what I wanted to play so I asked for some suggestions from Twitter. via Pocket
Las Vegas should entirely change how we think about gun control.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/10/las_vegas_should_entirely_change_how_we_think_about_gun_control.html
In 2004, a blue-ribbon commission issued its report on the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Many lapses had allowed the plot to succeed, the report concluded, but the central failure was a lack of imagination. via Pocket
A Program from a 35 Year Old Magazine for “BASIC Month” and a Chat with Its Author | Byte Cellar
http://www.bytecellar.com/2017/10/03/a-program-from-a-35-year-old-magazine-for-basic-month-and-a-chat-with-its-author/
July was BASIC Month over at r/Retrobattlestations and for that competition I decided to reach for my TI-99/4A and type in a TI Extended BASIC game called Pearl Harbor from the 1983 issue of Electronic Fun with Computers & Games…for the second time in 35 years. via Pocket
A Program from a 35 Year Old Magazine for “BASIC Month” and a Chat with Its Author | Byte Cellar
http://www.bytecellar.com/2017/10/03/a-program-from-a-35-year-old-magazine-for-basic-month-and-a-chat-with-its-author
July was BASIC Month over at r/Retrobattlestations and for that competition I decided to reach for my TI-99/4A and type in a TI Extended BASIC game called Pearl Harbor from the 1983 issue of Electronic Fun with Computers & Games…for the second time in 35 years. via Pocket
An overview of Containers for add-on developers
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/10/containers-for-add-on-developers
Deploying ES2015+ Code in Production Today — Philip Walton
https://philipwalton.com/articles/deploying-es2015-code-in-production-today
The rise of the internet's 'dirtbag left' - Macleans.ca
http://www.macleans.ca/society/the-rise-of-the-internets-dirtbag-left/
Earlier this year, a sloppily doodled MS Paint comic appeared on Reddit—the online news aggregator and so-called “front page of the internet”—juxtaposing images of 20th-century fascism with more modern symbols of far-right political thought. via Pocket
The rise of the internet's 'dirtbag left' - Macleans.ca
http://www.macleans.ca/society/the-rise-of-the-internets-dirtbag-left
Earlier this year, a sloppily doodled MS Paint comic appeared on Reddit—the online news aggregator and so-called “front page of the internet”—juxtaposing images of 20th-century fascism with more modern symbols of far-right political thought. via Pocket
How to design a great Metroidvania map | PC Gamer
http://www.pcgamer.com/how-to-design-a-great-metroidvania-map/
There's something uniquely satisfying about exploring the intricate 2D spaces of games modeled after Metroid and Castlevania. via Pocket
How to design a great Metroidvania map | PC Gamer
http://www.pcgamer.com/how-to-design-a-great-metroidvania-map
There's something uniquely satisfying about exploring the intricate 2D spaces of games modeled after Metroid and Castlevania. via Pocket
Higher Order Components in React - Blog | SitePen
https://www.sitepen.com/blog/2017/08/15/higher-order-components-in-react/
Traditionally, engineers use mixins, decorators, inheritance, and plain code duplication to add common functionality to a handful of components. via Pocket
Higher Order Components in React - Blog | SitePen
https://www.sitepen.com/blog/2017/08/15/higher-order-components-in-react
Traditionally, engineers use mixins, decorators, inheritance, and plain code duplication to add common functionality to a handful of components. via Pocket
Sign up for a free IFTTT account - IFTTT
https://ifttt.com/join
This post originally appeared on the NPR Extra blog. Since launching NPR One in 2014, we’ve been working to deliver a news and storytelling experience that meets users in all the places they are now and will be in the future. via Pocket
Donald Trump Is the First White President - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/the-first-white-president-ta-nehisi-coates/537909/
The foundation of Donald Trump’s presidency is the negation of Barack Obama’s legacy. It is insufficient to state the obvious of Donald Trump: that he is a white man who would not be president were it not for this fact. via Pocket
Donald Trump Is the First White President - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/the-first-white-president-ta-nehisi-coates/537909
The foundation of Donald Trump’s presidency is the negation of Barack Obama’s legacy. It is insufficient to state the obvious of Donald Trump: that he is a white man who would not be president were it not for this fact. via Pocket
Here's How Breitbart And Milo Smuggled White Nationalism Into The Mainstream
https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalism
In August, after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville ended in murder, Steve Bannon insisted that "there's no room in American society" for neo-Nazis, neo-Confederates, and the KKK. via Pocket
A Program from a 35 Year Old Magazine for BASIC Month and a Chat with Its Author | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15404970
via Pocket
DRM will unravel the Web
https://dustycloud.org/blog/drm-will-unravel-the-web
The Afterlife of Digital Ghosts – ZEAL – Medium
https://medium.com/mammon-machine-zeal/the-afterlife-of-digital-ghosts-908095a23cf
[This essay was funded through Patreon & Medium under the ZEAL project. ZEAL aims to provide high quality criticism of rarely discussed games and comics, and showcase the talents of exciting new writers and artists. via Pocket
We Called it Gutenberg for a Reason
https://ma.tt/2017/08/we-called-it-gutenberg-for-a-reason
302 Found
https://hackernoon.com/blockchains-dont-scale-not-today-at-least-but-there-s-hope-2cb43946551a
The first Bitcoin paper was first released in 2008. My excitement about the potential of blockchain technology has been building ever since. Decentralized digital currency, once just a far-fetched goal, is finally making inroads into the mainstream. via Pocket
Breadboard a Computer
https://mysite.du.edu/~jcalvert/tech/6504.htm
This small system has been tested, and it works! The aim of this page is to show you how to breadboard a computer, step by step, for the purpose of understanding how a computer system works. via Pocket
302 Found
https://hackernoon.com/pico-8-lighting-part-1-thin-dark-line-8ea15d21fed7
Two weeks ago, I became intrigued with the idea of doing some form of real-time lighting on the PICO-8, a tiny fantasy console. via Pocket
Introverts Don’t Hate People, They Hate Shallow Socializing
https://introvertdear.com/news/introverts-dont-hate-people-hate-shallow-socializing
Vanishing Point: How the Light Grid Defined 1980s Futurism
https://wearethemutants.com/2017/02/16/vanishing-point-how-the-light-grid-defined-1980s-futurism
How 'Super Metroid' Inspired a Generation of Game Makers - Glixel
http://www.glixel.com/news/how-super-metroid-inspired-a-generation-of-game-makers-w445932
Donald Mustard remembers poring over previews of the sci-fi game Super Metroid in Nintendo Power magazine back in the summer of 1994. He remembers mowing lawns in the hot Houston sun so he could save up enough money to buy the game on launch day. via Pocket
“Cities will be a powerful antidote to Donald Trump”: Social scientist Benjamin Barber on the emergence of a new urban radicalism
http://qz.com/837383/cities-will-be-a-powerful-antidote-to-donald-trump-social-scientist-benjamin-barber-on-the-emergence-of-a-new-urban-radicalism
America is more fragile than you think: A former Marine Corps officer on why voters must defeat Donald Trump
http://qz.com/827376/america-is-more-fragile-than-you-think-a-marine-corps-officer-on-why-voters-must-defeat-donald-trump
sectordub.itch.io
http://sectordub.itch.io/pico-8-fanzine-1
PICO-8 is a fantasy console to make, share and play tiny games and other computer programs. PICO-8 Zine is a 48-page fanzine made by and for PICO-8 users. via Pocket
A controversial theory may explain the real reason humans have allergies
http://qz.com/689806/a-controversial-theory-may-explain-the-real-reason-humans-have-allergies
For me, it was hornets. One summer afternoon when I was 12, I ran into an overgrown field near a friend’s house and kicked a hornet nest the size of a football. An angry squadron of insects clamped onto my leg; their stings felt like scorching needles. via Pocket
Inside the NSA’s shockingly successful simulated hack of the U.S. military.
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2016/03/inside_the_nsa_s_shockingly_successful_simulated_hack_of_the_u_s_military.html
Excerpted from Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War by Fred Kaplan. Out now from Simon & Schuster. On Wednesday, March 9, Kaplan will discuss his book in New York; for more information and to RSVP, visit the New America website. via Pocket
Wait! The Web Isn’t Dead After All. Google Made Sure of It | WIRED
http://www.wired.com/2016/04/wait-web-isnt-really-dead-google-made-sure/
In 2010, the web died. Or so said the publication you’re reading right now. via Pocket
Wait! The Web Isn’t Dead After All. Google Made Sure of It | WIRED
http://www.wired.com/2016/04/wait-web-isnt-really-dead-google-made-sure
In 2010, the web died. Or so said the publication you’re reading right now. via Pocket
‘Eve Online’: The Battle For Control Of The Most Boring Video Game In The World
http://www.ibtimes.com/eve-online-battle-control-most-boring-video-game-world-2352253
Alex Gianturco was a successful corporate lawyer based in Washington. Then, in 2011, he gave up his day job at Zuckerman Spaeder LLP, moved to Madison, Wisconsin, and focused all his efforts on his other passion: being a space pirate. via Pocket
A history of the Amiga, part 9: The Video Toaster
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/03/a-history-of-the-amiga-part-9-the-video-toaster
When personal computers first came into the world in the late 1970s, there wasn’t always an obvious use for them. via Pocket
Why I No Longer Use MVC Frameworks
http://www.infoq.com/articles/no-more-mvc-frameworks
The worst part of my job these days is designing APIs for front-end developers. The conversation goes inevitably as: I don’t even argue anymore. via Pocket
How to build your very own keyboard firmware • deskthority
https://deskthority.net/workshop-f7/how-to-build-your-very-own-keyboard-firmware-t7177.html
It may seem daunting to work with Hasu's wall of code but the files you need to modify are not many and you don't actually need to fully understand the code. I myself don't understand 100% of it, so if I write some bullshits I hope Hasu will chime in. via Pocket
Right-Wing Extremists Are a Bigger Threat to America Than ISIS
http://www.newsweek.com/2016/02/12/right-wing-extremists-militants-bigger-threat-america-isis-jihadists-422743.html?piano_t=1
By Since 2002, right-wing militants have killed more people in the United States than jihadis have. via Pocket
The Neurologist Who Hacked His Brain—And Almost Lost His Mind | WIRED
http://www.wired.com/2016/01/phil-kennedy-mind-control-computer/
The brain surgery lasted 11 and a half hours, beginning on the afternoon of June 21, 2014, and stretching into the Caribbean predawn of the next day. via Pocket
The Neurologist Who Hacked His Brain—And Almost Lost His Mind | WIRED
http://www.wired.com/2016/01/phil-kennedy-mind-control-computer
The brain surgery lasted 11 and a half hours, beginning on the afternoon of June 21, 2014, and stretching into the Caribbean predawn of the next day. via Pocket
Iran's blogfather: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are killing the web | Technology | The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/29/irans-blogfather-facebook-instagram-and-twitter-are-killing-the-web
Hossein Derakhshan was imprisoned by the regime for his blogging. On his release, he found the internet stripped of its power to change the world and instead serving up a stream of pointless social trivia Late in 2014, I was abruptly pardoned and freed from Evin prison in northern Tehran. via Pocket
The shocking truth about Silicon Valley genius Doug Engelbart | ZDNet
http://www.zdnet.com/article/the-shocking-truth-about-silicon-valley-genius-doug-engelbart/
Tributes to the genius of computer pioneer Doug Engelbart are flooding the web following the announcement of his death at the age of 88. His work transformed the way people use computers today by making them accessible and "personal. via Pocket
The shocking truth about Silicon Valley genius Doug Engelbart | ZDNet
http://www.zdnet.com/article/the-shocking-truth-about-silicon-valley-genius-doug-engelbart
Tributes to the genius of computer pioneer Doug Engelbart are flooding the web following the announcement of his death at the age of 88. His work transformed the way people use computers today by making them accessible and "personal. via Pocket
Apple never had a shot at rethinking TV.
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2016/02/apple_never_had_a_shot_at_rethinking_tv.html
Ever since a dying Steve Jobs reportedly said he’d finally figured out TV, the tech press has breathlessly anticipated the appearance of the mythical Apple TV, the Great Pumpkin of the tech world. via Pocket
Doug Engelbart | The Economist
http://www.economist.com/news/obituary/21581696-doug-engelbart-computer-engineer-died-july-2nd-aged-88-doug-engelbart
WHEN you are a visionary, it’s hard to get other people to see as you do. When you have a plan to save the world through men and computers working together, as Doug Engelbart had, it’s hard to enlist the guys at the water-cooler to take part in the crusade. via Pocket
LOVECRAFTIAN CYBORGS AND THE ALIEN AESTHETIC: Part 1 – Cyborgs of the Abyss | Journal of a Cosmic Anthropologist
http://m1k3y.com/2015/09/02/lovecraftian-cyborgs-and-the-alien-aesthetic-part-1-cyborgs-of-the-abyss/
What follows are my extended thoughts and personal reflections a week two weeks after watching Bruce Sterling deliver a lecture on Alien Aesthetics. It’s a look at the weirder side of cyborg life and our posthuman future. via Pocket
LOVECRAFTIAN CYBORGS AND THE ALIEN AESTHETIC: Part 1 – Cyborgs of the Abyss | Journal of a Cosmic Anthropologist
http://m1k3y.com/2015/09/02/lovecraftian-cyborgs-and-the-alien-aesthetic-part-1-cyborgs-of-the-abyss
What follows are my extended thoughts and personal reflections a week two weeks after watching Bruce Sterling deliver a lecture on Alien Aesthetics. It’s a look at the weirder side of cyborg life and our posthuman future. via Pocket
'I have lived over half of my life' | Life and style | The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2011/aug/14/miranda-sawyer-midlife-crisis-mortality
I don't know what to call it, really. Midlife crisis sounds so flamboyant, so ridiculous, so… exciting. And I haven't run off with a builder, or moved to Thailand to find my real self, or embarked on a brand-new drug habit, or taken up free rock climbing. via Pocket
What does it mean to be a man in the age of austerit...
https://aeon.co/essays/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-man-in-the-age-of-austerity
When Gary Gilbert lost his job, it was devastating. A tradesman, he had joined his employer’s company only because he thought it offered a bit more security than endlessly chasing the next gig as a freelance operator, and that he could then provide a better future for his son. via Pocket
mobile.nytimes.com
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/07/19/magazine/how-privilege-became-a-provocation.html?_r=1
This spring, the novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie put a new spin on the commencement speech, that most staid of genres. Speaking at Wellesley College, she didn’t emphasize how the graduates had been helped by their education, but how they had been hindered by it. via Pocket
When Did Americans Lose Their British Accents? | Mental Floss
http://mentalfloss.com/article/29761/when-did-americans-lose-their-british-accents#st_refDomain=www.facebook.com&st_refQuery=/
Readers Nick and Riela have both written to ask how and when English colonists in America lost their British accents and how American accents came about. via Pocket
Anti-intellectualism is taking over the US | Comment is free | The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/may/18/anti-intellectualism-us-book-banning
Recently, I found out that my work is mentioned in a book that has been banned, in effect, from the schools in Tucson, Arizona. via Pocket
Save for Later — Medium
https://medium.com/@dianakimball/save-for-later-b2fa64782078
In July 2014, Alexis Madrigal reported for NPR on the strange case of Pinterest. via Pocket
The CompuServe of Things
http://www.windley.com/archives/2014/04/the_compuserve_of_things.shtml
On the Net today we face a choice between freedom and captivity, independence and dependence. You may view that statement as melodramatic, but the near future will incorporate computers into more facets of our lives than we can imagine. via Pocket
Our Favorite Cliche - A World Filled With Idiots
http://www.davidbrin.com/idiotplot.html
It can be hard to notice things you take for granted — assumptions that are never questioned, because everyone shares them. via Pocket
How Introverts Can Work with Extroverts
http://www.quietrev.com/how-to-connect-with-extroverts/
I spent the first 15 years of my life wondering why everyone was always in my space. I tried my best to be quiet and stay out of people’s way, but there always seemed to be enough of them pushing into my bubble. via Pocket
How Introverts Can Work with Extroverts
http://www.quietrev.com/how-to-connect-with-extroverts
I spent the first 15 years of my life wondering why everyone was always in my space. I tried my best to be quiet and stay out of people’s way, but there always seemed to be enough of them pushing into my bubble. via Pocket
Jon Stewart: why I quit The Daily Show | Media | The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/apr/18/jon-stewart-why-i-quit-the-daily-show
There was no one moment when Jon Stewart knew it was time for him to leave what he describes as “the most perfect job in the world”; no epiphany, no flashpoint. via Pocket
How to embrace loneliness: a modern guide | Nell Frizzell | Comment is free | The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/20/modern-guide-how-to-be-lonely?CMP=fb_gu
Loneliness can creep through your bones like a disease, wash over you unexpectedly as if a stranger’s vomit, or sit in the pit of your stomach for weeks like undigested chewing gum. Especially, it turns out, if you’re young. Of course it’s easy to be lonely in your 20s. via Pocket
The Fauxtopias of
Detroit’s Suburbs
http://beltmag.com/fauxtopias
To mark the publication of A Detroit Anthology, we’re highlighting one of the many great essays in that book. Order your copy today! By James D. Griffioen via Pocket
Why Human Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Will Evolve Together, by Stephen Hsu
http://nautil.us/issue/28/2050/dont-worry-smart-machines-will-take-us-with-them
When it comes to artificial intelligence, we may all be suffering from the fallacy of availability: thinking that creating intelligence is much easier than it is, because we see examples all around us. via Pocket
So You Want to Be an Ally
http://juliepagano.com/blog/2014/05/10/so-you-want-to-be-an-ally
I have been writing a lot lately about things that I think allies should not do. Quizzes and ally smells and twitter rants, oh my! It’s probably possible to derive some things an ally should do from there, but I doubt that’s the best way to learn. via Pocket
The internet is so damn unpleasant. Do we need fewer humans and more bots? | Jess Zimmerman | Comment is free | The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/05/internet-humans-more-bots-social-media
In a welcome sign of the coming singularity, Buzzfeed just announced that it has built a sentence generator that mimics the turgid writing style of New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. via Pocket
30 Years Later, Real Genius is Still the Geek Solidarity Film That Nerd Culture Deserves | Tor.com
http://www.tor.com/2015/05/21/30-years-later-real-genius-is-still-the-geek-solidarity-film-that-nerd-culture-deserves/
It’s interesting to me that Revenge of the Nerds, while still full up of the nostalgia that the 80s lends us, is lately being repositioned in the zeitgeist. via Pocket
30 Years Later, Real Genius is Still the Geek Solidarity Film That Nerd Culture Deserves | Tor.com
http://www.tor.com/2015/05/21/30-years-later-real-genius-is-still-the-geek-solidarity-film-that-nerd-culture-deserves
It’s interesting to me that Revenge of the Nerds, while still full up of the nostalgia that the 80s lends us, is lately being repositioned in the zeitgeist. via Pocket
Indifference is a power
http://aeon.co/magazine/philosophy/why-stoicism-is-one-of-the-best-mind-hacks-ever
Don't Blame Your Community: Ad Blocking Is Not Killing Any Sites | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100306/1649198451.shtml
Every so often we hear about a random blog or website that freaks out and claims that ad blockers are "stealing" or somehow damaging websites. But it's quite a surprise to see a similar argument from a site like Ars Technica -- one of the top techie sites out there, which is now owned by Conde Nast. via Pocket
Restart Game? Text Adventures Make A Comeback ⚙ Co.Labs ⚙ code + community
http://www.fastcolabs.com/3038336/restart-game-text-adventures-make-a-comeback
On Oct. 30, developer Andrew Plotkin released his long-awaited game Hadean Lands, a fantasy space adventure backed by a Kickstarter campaign funded almost four years ago. via Pocket
State Change - Lightspeed Magazine
http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/state-change/
Every night, before going to bed, Rina checked the refrigerators. There were two in the kitchen, on separate circuits, one with a fancy ice dispenser on the door. There was one in the living room holding up the TV, and one in the bedroom doubling as a nightstand. via Pocket
State Change - Lightspeed Magazine
http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/state-change
Every night, before going to bed, Rina checked the refrigerators. There were two in the kitchen, on separate circuits, one with a fancy ice dispenser on the door. There was one in the living room holding up the TV, and one in the bedroom doubling as a nightstand. via Pocket
Run Better | crazy running guy
http://crazyrunningguy.com/2014/10/06/run-better/
This is part 2 of 4 in a series about how I prepare to run long distances. via Pocket
Run Better | crazy running guy
http://crazyrunningguy.com/2014/10/06/run-better
This is part 2 of 4 in a series about how I prepare to run long distances. via Pocket
The Death Of Expertise
http://thefederalist.com/2014/01/17/the-death-of-expertise
I am (or at least think I am) an expert. Not on everything, but in a particular area of human knowledge, specifically social science and public policy. When I say something on those subjects, I expect that my opinion holds more weight than that of most other people. via Pocket
Building With Node.js At The New York Times
https://www.talentbuddy.co/blog/building-with-node-js-at-the-new-york-times/
Felipe is the development manager of NYT's video team, responsible for maintaining Times Video and the Video API, both written in NodeJS. My first contact with programming was via Macromedia Flash, circa 2000, when the first major version of ActionScript was developed. via Pocket
Building With Node.js At The New York Times
https://www.talentbuddy.co/blog/building-with-node-js-at-the-new-york-times
Felipe is the development manager of NYT's video team, responsible for maintaining Times Video and the Video API, both written in NodeJS. My first contact with programming was via Macromedia Flash, circa 2000, when the first major version of ActionScript was developed. via Pocket
Ginsburg decision in Arizona case: Supreme Court rules against gerrymandering.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_breakfast_table/features/2015/scotus_roundup/ginsburg_decision_in_arizona_case_supreme_court_rules_against_gerrymandering.html
Justice Antonin Scalia may have been the worst-behaved justice in the courtroom this morning, Dahlia—but the chief was the most obnoxious on paper. via Pocket
How Hacking Helped Me Become Obama’s CTO — Backchannel — Medium
https://medium.com/backchannel/how-hacking-helped-me-become-obama-s-cto-c4895cac372e
Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) — those early precursors of the World Wide Web — fundamentally changed my relationship to computers. Before I discovered the boards, I thought of a computer as something to program and play video games on. via Pocket
The Full-Time Job Is Dead — Backchannel — Medium
https://medium.com/backchannel/the-full-time-job-is-dead-b9528bda1c87
Who wants to work 40 hours a week for a single employer? In the future, perhaps nobody. The full-time job, used to it as we are, is not some natural state of human existence. Before the 1800s, few people worked a structured “work week. via Pocket
Max Headroom: the definitive history of the 1980s digital icon | The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2015/4/2/8285139/max-headroom-oral-history-80s-cyberpunk-interview
It was way ahead of its time. [Peter] was very lucky to have come in this door when he did with this project. Because I don’t know what else or where else anything that odd would have taken root. Today, there’d be a million places for . via Pocket
Will Superintelligent AI Ignore Humans Instead of Destroying Us? | Motherboard
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/will-superintelligent-ai-ignore-humans-instead-of-destroying-us?trk_source=homepage-lede
We’re marching toward the singularity, the day when artificial intelligence is smarter than us. That has some very smart people such as Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk worried that robots will enslave or destroy us—but perhaps there’s another option. via Pocket
The Counselor | Motherboard
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-counselor
Today's Terraform dispatch is a special event: We've teamed up with the think/do tank Data & Society to help them unleash their "Intelligence & Autonomy" project. via Pocket
Robert Reich: America is headed full speed back to the 19th century - Salon.com
http://www.salon.com/2015/02/10/robert_reich_america_is_heading_full_speed_back_to_the_19th_century_partner/
My recent column about the growth of on-demand jobs like Uber making life less predictable and secure for workers unleashed a small barrage of criticism that workers get what they’re worth in the market. via Pocket
Robert Reich: America is headed full speed back to the 19th century - Salon.com
http://www.salon.com/2015/02/10/robert_reich_america_is_heading_full_speed_back_to_the_19th_century_partner
My recent column about the growth of on-demand jobs like Uber making life less predictable and secure for workers unleashed a small barrage of criticism that workers get what they’re worth in the market. via Pocket
Flickering the Gaslight: Tactics of Organized Online Harassment by Gersande La Flèche | Model View Culture
https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/flickering-the-gaslight-tactics-of-organized-online-harassment
There is a scene in the 1944 movie Gaslight that always creeps under my skin. Bella, portrayed by Ingrid Bergman, joins her husband in the dining room as he sorts through the mail brought in by the maid. via Pocket
Permanent Recorder
http://thenewinquiry.com/blogs/marginal-utility/permanent-recorder
It used to be easy to mock reality TV for having nothing to do with actual reality — the scenarios were contrived and pre-mediated, the performances were semi-scripted, the performers were hyper-self-conscious. via Pocket
The Twelve-Factor App
http://12factor.net/
In the modern era, software is commonly delivered as a service: called web apps, or software-as-a-service. The twelve-factor app is a methodology for building software-as-a-service apps that: via Pocket
The Twelve-Factor App
http://12factor.net
In the modern era, software is commonly delivered as a service: called web apps, or software-as-a-service. The twelve-factor app is a methodology for building software-as-a-service apps that: via Pocket
Programming Isn't Manual Labor, But It Still Sucks
http://mashable.com/2014/04/30/programming-sucks
Peter Welch is a writer and programmer. He is the author of the book And Then I Thought I Was a Fish and the blog "Still Drinking". via Pocket
The Internet's Original Sin - The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/advertising-is-the-internets-original-sin/376041/
It's not too late to ditch the ad-based business model and build a better web. Ron Carlson’s short story “What We Wanted To Do” takes the form of an apology from a villager who failed to protect his comrades from marauding Visigoths. via Pocket
The Internet's Original Sin - The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/advertising-is-the-internets-original-sin/376041
It's not too late to ditch the ad-based business model and build a better web. Ron Carlson’s short story “What We Wanted To Do” takes the form of an apology from a villager who failed to protect his comrades from marauding Visigoths. via Pocket
Bruce Sterling on Why It Stopped Making Sense to Talk About 'The Internet' in 2012 - The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/12/bruce-sterling-on-why-it-stopped-making-sense-to-talk-about-the-internet-in-2012/266674/
Five simple reasons: Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft. Many people use, as a kind of shorthand, The Internet to mean a wide variety of things related to this series of tubes. The Internet could mean the culture made and distributed on the Internet, the LOLCATZ, memes, etc. via Pocket
Bruce Sterling on Why It Stopped Making Sense to Talk About 'The Internet' in 2012 - The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/12/bruce-sterling-on-why-it-stopped-making-sense-to-talk-about-the-internet-in-2012/266674
Five simple reasons: Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft. Many people use, as a kind of shorthand, The Internet to mean a wide variety of things related to this series of tubes. The Internet could mean the culture made and distributed on the Internet, the LOLCATZ, memes, etc. via Pocket
David Byrne: 'The internet will suck all creative content out of the world' | Music | The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/oct/11/david-byrne-internet-content-world
Awhile ago Thom Yorke and the rest of Radiohead got some attention when they pulled their recent record from Spotify. via Pocket
Why David Byrne is wrong about Spotify | Dave Allen | Comment is free | The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/16/why-david-byrne-wrong-spotify-thom-yorke
It feels strange to sit down and begin writing a rebuttal to the declamation of a musician who I really admire. David Byrne wrote an article last week for the Guardian in which he states: "I've pulled as much of my catalogue from Spotify I can. via Pocket
The Web Will Kill Apps - John Battelle's Search Blog
http://battellemedia.com/archives/2014/11/web-killing-apps.php
Lots of the “apps are killing the web” meme going around these days, with the latest batch of casket sealant come from no greater validator of commonly agreed upon wisdom than the Wall St. Journal. via Pocket
The Myth Of AI | Edge.org
http://edge.org/conversation/the-myth-of-ai
That mythology, in turn, has spurred a reactionary, perpetual spasm from people who are horrified by what they hear. You'll have a figure say, "The computers will take over the Earth, but that's a good thing, because people had their chance and now we should give it to the machines. via Pocket
The web idealists have a point: content can't truly blossom in walled gardens | Advertising news | Campaign
http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/russell_davies/article/1298102/the-web-idealists-point-content-cant-truly-blossom-walled-gardens/
The movement being what it is, there is not necessarily a canonical, single set of principles, but here’s something close, and it sums the idea up pretty well: "Your content is yours. When you post something on the web, it should belong to you, not a corporation. via Pocket
The web idealists have a point: content can't truly blossom in walled gardens | Advertising news | Campaign
http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/russell_davies/article/1298102/the-web-idealists-point-content-cant-truly-blossom-walled-gardens
The movement being what it is, there is not necessarily a canonical, single set of principles, but here’s something close, and it sums the idea up pretty well: "Your content is yours. When you post something on the web, it should belong to you, not a corporation. via Pocket
Lost Garden: Multiplayer Logistics
http://www.lostgarden.com/2013/12/multiplayer-logistics.html
How do we get players to play together in a manner that fits their schedules? This is a key logistical challenge a designer faces when building multiplayer games. The promise We are seeing a blossoming of innovative multiplayer systems. via Pocket
How to Fight Telecom Gameplaying
https://medium.com/p/aa3765edc385
Jammed — Backchannel — Medium
https://medium.com/backchannel/jammed-e474fc4925e4
The proof is in: Detailed report shows how U.S. Internet access monopolies punish rivals and catch innocent bystanders in the crossfire—legally.Devan Dewey, the Chief Technology Officer of midsize investment consultancy NEPC, has an orderly office and a highly organized mind. via Pocket
“Saturday Night Live” and Richard Pryor: The untold story behind “SNL’s” edgiest sketch ever - Salon.com
http://www.salon.com/2013/11/03/saturday_night_live_and_richard_pryor_the_untold_story_behind_snls_edgiest_sketch_ever/
Up until the mid-1970s, the networks had little interest in Saturday late-night shows. After the eleven o’clock news, the airwaves were a bone-yard for local affiliates, the final resting place for schlock movies from the 1950s and ’60s. via Pocket
“Saturday Night Live” and Richard Pryor: The untold story behind “SNL’s” edgiest sketch ever - Salon.com
http://www.salon.com/2013/11/03/saturday_night_live_and_richard_pryor_the_untold_story_behind_snls_edgiest_sketch_ever
Up until the mid-1970s, the networks had little interest in Saturday late-night shows. After the eleven o’clock news, the airwaves were a bone-yard for local affiliates, the final resting place for schlock movies from the 1950s and ’60s. via Pocket
20 years of blogging
http://scripting.com/2014/10/07/20YearsOfBlogging.html
Mike Arrington once said they would erect a statue in my honor in Palo Alto. I said it'll never happen. A couple of years later the same guy asked me why everyone hates me so much. Or something like that. In both cases I'm paraphrasing. via Pocket
What’s Wrong with Twitter’s Latest Experiment with Broadcasting Favorites — The Message — Medium
https://medium.com/message/whats-wrong-with-twitters-latest-experiment-with-broadcasting-favorites-a7c0c81896f7
Last month, I was invited to Twitter to give a talk. Twitter has made a huge, positive difference in my life, and changed the landscape of politics in multiple countries I studied, including my home country, Turkey. via Pocket
The Secret History of Hypertext - The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/in-search-of-the-proto-memex/371385/
The conventional history of computing leaves out some key thinkers. via Pocket
The Secret History of Hypertext - The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/in-search-of-the-proto-memex/371385
The conventional history of computing leaves out some key thinkers. via Pocket
David Graeber: “Spotlight on the financial sector did make apparent just how bizarrely skewed our economy is in terms of who gets rewarded” - Salon.com
http://www.salon.com/2014/06/01/help_us_thomas_piketty_the_1s_sick_and_twisted_new_scheme/
David Graeber is an American anthropologist who teaches at the London School of Economics. He is the author of the classic “Debt: The First Five Thousand Years” and played an important role in the launching of Occupy Wall Street. via Pocket
David Graeber: “Spotlight on the financial sector did make apparent just how bizarrely skewed our economy is in terms of who gets rewarded” - Salon.com
http://www.salon.com/2014/06/01/help_us_thomas_piketty_the_1s_sick_and_twisted_new_scheme
David Graeber is an American anthropologist who teaches at the London School of Economics. He is the author of the classic “Debt: The First Five Thousand Years” and played an important role in the launching of Occupy Wall Street. via Pocket
Why and How Should We Build a Basic Income for Every Citizen?
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/brain20140916
What are our goals as a species? This, to me, is the most important question we can ask ourselves as human beings. Another way to say it: What is the meaning of our existence as a species? We never seem to directly ask ourselves these two questions in a collective way, which seems very odd to me. via Pocket
Advanced objects in JavaScript
http://bjorn.tipling.com/advanced-objects-in-javascript
This posts looks beyond everyday usage of JavaScript’s objects. The fundamentals of JavaScripts objects are for the most part about as simple as using JSON notation. via Pocket