Notices by Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)

This is a bizarre little story about very well funded and incredibly shady online restaurant delivery services.

"Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage"

https://themargins.substack.com/p/doordash-and-pizza-arbitrage

I'm trying to say that there was an 80s we could have had, and 40 years later there's still a 2020s we could have.

It seems like we've lost decades but it's actually not too late. It's always just as close as wanting it. Time means nothing in the place where the glow comes from.

But you have to want it.

You have to know it's there, or even just hope and guess, and then you have to reach in to the dreamspace and try to hold the glow in your head, in your heart, in your hands and feet.

Tired: Gonzo journalism

Wired: Statler & Waldorf journalism

Hired: Dr Teeth and the Electric Mayhem journalism

Left-liberal economist: So, what society needs to be stable is upward mobility for the 99%. That's what's missing in all our growth. *Upward mobility*.

Me: Upward? As in, raising your relative social status? Relative to others?

Economist: Yes.

Me: For the 99%.

Economist: Yes.

Me: All of them.

Economist: Yes, we just need every member of the 99% of society to be able to constantly improve their social status relative to every other member of the 99%.

Me: How?

Economist: Cage fighting.

oh no

I just realised something terrible:

Memes are just the political cartoons of this generation.

All this time, we've thought we've been creating something dangerous and disruptive and unthinkably cyber-future-forward and TEDx

but they're just political cartoons, like your great-grandma would have recognised

@djsundog We should recycle a whole lot of old tech names just to mess with algorithms. I wonder if it's time for 'DivX' to be given a third completely unrelated definition.

Porcupineapple

Omg it is SO REFRESHING to see language designers acknowledging that REPLs exist and that yes, indentation-sensitivity FAILS HARD IN A FIRE in a REPL

(from the Magritte language thesis, files.jneen.net/academic/thesis.pdf )

The puzzle of Blade Runner's 2019: A mass sprawling cityscape that is also, somehow, 'depopulated'.

Is this really what depopulation looks like? Super-crowded Hong Kong?

Or is it specifically 'there are lots of people but WHITE people are no longer a majority' that's supposed to feel dystopian and 'depopulated'?

In short, is the film language of Blade Runner's cityscape subtle racism?

https://medium.com/@ray.zhu/bridging-the-gap-sci-fi-cinema-and-depictions-of-hong-kong-sar-b15800678c29

vs

https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/blade-runner

Blade Runner (1982) is set in a future Los Angeles in which both of the following are true:

1. Earth is deserted and empty and crumbling because all the best people in the world have run away to the stars and only the dregs are left

2. Earth is also a massively overpopulated and polluted cosmopolitan melting pot of many cultures

If we could grasp the (white upper middle class) worldview which feared both these dystopias simultaneously, we'd probably understand a lot of things about the 1980s.

I miss how totalitarian tyranny enabled by cybernetic automation used to be seen as a bad thing.

A Soviet space laser pistol in 1984! (Story from 2018)

https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/satellites/a21527129/the-soviet-laser-space-pistol-revealed/

Warhammer 640K

"The grim darkness of the far future should be enough for anyone."

<< Data was stolen from an Amazon Web Services-based storage bucket, which included more than 140,000 Social Security numbers >>

How about all of these 'data breach!!! data was taken OUT OF THE CLOUD!!!!' articles instead start with

"Data was PUT INTO Amazon Web Services, which is a sketchy private company with an extremely bad reputation owned by the world's richest man who is currently being blackmailed and who many Amazon users hope, against all the evidence, isn't a literal Bond Villain.."

hot

http://biosrhythm.com/?p=1628

Northern Telecom Displayphone NT6K00 (1982)

h/t @mdashdotdashn

"38K words ought to be enough for anybody"