Notices by Tsundoku Psychohazard (enkiv2@eldritch.cafe), page 4

Heads up, apparently there are gonna be export restrictions on neural net, reinforcement learning, computer vision, NLP, & similar research done in the US: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/11/19/2018-25221/review-of-controls-for-certain-emerging-technologies

cowboy modal

Tech Workers Need to Keep Organizing https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/11/tech-worker-organizing-google-union-walkout

Bad idea of the day: transpose Pretty Hate Machine into a major key, shift every word in the lyrics to the least semantically distant word with a more positive sentiment score, and call the result Pretty Great Machine

'Worse is better' is not a justification -- it is a tragedy, and one that folks who code in their free time are thankfully immune from needing to contribute to. So, y'know, don't. You're not on a deadline, so make something good, instead of something you regret.

Subtoot is evolving...

Subtoot evolved into a Rant!

https://medium.com/@enkiv2/worse-and-when-how-it-can-be-better-930ced76acea?source=friends_link&sk=0a766cd7cf8991ee900d6cdecc9ab251

I think I've figured out why only the first season of Durarara really works. It's a matter of philosophical & thematic consistency.

Durarara is actually a meditation on how morality is affected by intent, agency, and information. In the first season, literally every character arc and plot point comes back to exploring this problem. We are presented with an array of monsters -- people with absurd configurations of intent-agency-information-action.

Stelarc- Zombies, Cyborgs and Chimeras - BDYHAX 2018 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn_Nj6NEFAo

Band name of the day: mere mechanism

HUMANE ENVIRONMENT MANUAL V44 : Jef Raskin : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/Manual44

GitHub - ojahnn/NaNoLiPo2018: This is the repository for 2018's collaborative NaNoLiPo project. https://github.com/ojahnn/NaNoLiPo2018

What duelling can teach us about taking offence | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/what-duelling-can-teach-us-about-taking-offence

1988: "The computer only does what you tell it to."
1998: "The computer only does what Microsoft and/or a script kiddie with winnuke tells it to."
2008: "The computer only does what Google tells it to."
2018: "The computer only renders arbitrary web pages."

Bad idea of the day: surreal and disturbing powerpoint presentations as public performance art

#caturday

Holy shit.

The original plan for the Johnny Mnemonic film was to be in black and white, and modeled on Alphaville.

I want to see THAT version.

(Anybody wanna make it for me?)

I've written OSes, so I have a pretty enormous tolerance for stupid needless frustration, but spending five minutes trying to figure out how to do something simple in literally any IDE is enough to turn me into a puddle of tears (which is awkward AF at work).

Like, I spent half an hour, with multiple pages of documentation and forum help threads open, trying & failing to import an existing project into Eclipse today.

Halloween is interesting because:
1) it's an equinox holiday that
2) has taken on the primary role of carinvalesque, and
3) acts in that role in both a shallow way (dressing up as somebody else) and a deeper way (general anti-authoritarian subversiveness), while
4) being a feast holiday that is *kind of* a fast holiday because the feast is composed almost entirely of refined sugars, and
5) being an equinox holiday it takes on the semiotics of a thinned division between the mundane & transcendent

Let's bring back the Sabbath as a radical act against ‘total work’ | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/lets-bring-back-the-sabbath-as-a-radical-act-against-total-work