Notices by Tsundoku Psychohazard (enkiv2@eldritch.cafe), page 6

publisher's clearinghouse sweepstakes envelopes, but instead of "you may have already won" they say "it may already be too late.

tired: "new phone who dis" as "new phone who are you"

wired: "new phone who dis" as "new phone who am i"

inspired: "the existence of external memory reminds me that my sense of identity is arbitrary and contingent -- that my self-conception relies upon fragile material objects that reflect my own presentation back to me -- and the fragility of these objects (their inevitable failure) allows me to break out of stagnating patterns of normative self-observation and achieve greater freedom"

Visual Programming Languages - Snapshots http://blog.interfacevision.com/design/design-visual-progarmming-languages-snapshots/

I'm gonna be at the vintage computer fest this saturday, so if anybody wants to meet up, let me know.

tired: easy but accurate criticisms of dumb but widespread takes are bad because you get sealioned by people who missed the point

wired: easy but accurate criticisms of dumb but widespread takes are good because, with very little effort, you get a list of people who can safely be muted without worrying about missing out on intelligent conversation

@Trev
I dig Zizek on the grounds that he consistently has an interesting take I haven't thought of yet. So, reading his stuff or watching his lectures is imagination-expanding, in that it demonstrates new tactics.

If I was grading him on the grounds of coming to true conclusions or providing concrete useful ideas, he'd fail. But, imagination expansion is useful too.

A History of APL in 50 Functions http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/50/

@djsundog
When I think about capitalism, I imagine mile-tall sulking toddlers made out of masses of chained-together people stumbling around throwing buildings at each other, and the buildings are also full of people.

Tired: corporations are people
Wired: corporations are malfunctioning toddler-gods, capable of wiping out populations with a single gesture but iffy on object permanence, theory of mind, and the difference between want and need

Knowledge's association with effectiveness is complicated. I suspect that you literally cannot benefit fully from knowledge-gathering if your goal is to benefit from knowledge-gathering.

The most valuable bits of knowledge, in terms of productive work, are the ones that nobody could have reasonably expected to apply, because anything that can be expected to apply will be learned by everybody and become common sense. We have an intellectual monoculture in tech driven by capitalism.

Reminder -- entries are open for the 2018 no-budget film contest: https://medium.com/@enkiv2/announcing-the-2018-no-budget-film-contest-e023a922fadd