Notices by Tsundoku Psychohazard (enkiv2@eldritch.cafe)

Ancient ‘megasites’ may reshape the history of the first cities | Science News https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-urban-megasites-may-reshape-history-first-cities

https://medium.com/@enkiv2/theres-another-problem-with-trending-it-gets-the-value-distribution-relationship-of-72bd715d6c35

OK I'm a little drunk but I'm on the brink of crying because I wish computers were good. They can be good you guys. We can make computers good. Why aren't we making computers good.

This Erotica Does Not Exist https://erogenerator.gitlab.io/

hot take: rms was a figurehead for so long that he was insulated from changing norms & expectations -- he's a fossil from the culture of the kind of person who goes to mit in the 70s. venerating cultural fossils is dangerous: by not progressing they can cause us to regress if they keep power.

tfw somebody says "sure, electron is bloated, but everything is bloated" -- like, just because a problem is already horrible doesn't make it OK to make it worse\!

The Problem of Neoliberal Realism in Contemporary Fiction | Literary Hub https://lithub.com/the-problem-of-neoliberal-realism-in-contemporary-fiction/

How to enable DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) in Firefox | ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-enable-dns-over-https-doh-in-firefox/

Jason"a secretive group of Cold War science advisers"is fighting to survive in the 21st century | Science | AAAS https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/06/jason-secretive-group-cold-war-science-advisers-fighting-survive-21st-century

New Approach Could Sink Floating Point Computation https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/07/08/new-approach-could-sink-floating-point-computation/

little attention is given to the other sequels, Beneath the Valley of the Dolls, Escape from the Valley of the Dolls, and The Valley of the Children of the Dolls

who the heck decided to call it 'cloud outage' instead of 'sunshine'?

Random link from the archives: https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/primary/docs/satori/taste.html originally posted Tue Nov 20 10:17:19 EST 2018

Random link from the archives: http://locusmag.com/2018/03/cory-doctorow-lets-get-better-at-demanding-better-from-tech/ originally posted Fri Mar 9 12:17:31 EST 2018

Val on Programming: What makes a good REPL? https://vvvvalvalval.github.io/posts/what-makes-a-good-repl.html

Bad idea of the day: supper hero

Band name of the day: sci-fi typewriter

Why life hacking has fallen out of favor. https://slate.com/culture/2019/06/life-hacking-productivity-tech-silicon-valley-hacking-life-book-review.html

We have no idea what awoo actually is, but decades of clinical trials have shown that 1. it works, and 2. it's getting stronger

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