2022-02-09 | A major problem here is that neither the democrats nor the republicans have ever been good at… |
2022-01-31 | Property is incompatible with decentralization |
2022-01-23 | What does it say about society that Seinfeld ended up being much more popular than Mad About You? |
2022-01-22 | Review: Deadly Friend (1986) |
2022-01-18 | The term I always loved for this phenomenon is "steam engine time" (as in "it steam-engines when it… |
2022-01-14 | La’Pitac |
2022-01-14 | It appears that what we're actually seeing is a return to the 'normal' state of individual… |
2022-01-14 | Heat Death |
2022-01-01 | Crashing the Wedding |
2021-12-29 | within anything, there is the potential of a knot which sub/verts and per/verts the entire context… |
2021-12-29 | Both Neoreaction: A Basilisk and Postcapitalist Desire try to act as a vaccine against the Nick… |
2021-11-29 | This second part isn't really accurate. |
2021-11-15 | The correct phrase here is "spurred on" -- like a horse is driven by the use of spurs. |
2021-11-09 | I wrote a bit about my techniques a few years ago: |
2021-11-04 | Twitter can suck a lot -- dogpiling & drive-by snark become easy when literally anybody can… |
2021-10-13 | i hate that cryptocurrency (and especially proof-of-work cryptocurrency) has been so strongly… |
2021-10-13 | a common idea that really annoys me: |
2021-09-11 | Discordianism has already become ‘historically important’, because of its impact on major… |
2021-09-09 | The ending is what makes this movie meaningful. |
2021-09-07 | When you're imagining new models for physics, say, you're not necessarily stuck calculating a huge… |
2021-09-04 | Manga vs Comics: How the Base Influences the Superstructure |
2021-09-04 | Acid Communism and the American Civic Religion |
2021-09-03 | The Bacchanal |
2021-09-03 | A huge part of enjoying media objects in good faith is figuring out where you stand in relation to… |
2021-09-02 | There's a much easier way to resolve this, I think. |
2021-09-02 | Generating Interesting Stories |
2021-09-01 | Mark Fisher and the Spectre of Acid Communism |
2021-08-09 | Anime: Dissecting a Vibe |
2021-08-02 | What is Anime: Art vs Nationalism |
2021-07-12 | The correct explanation is the one you didn't cover here. |
2021-06-24 | Counterpoint: |
2021-06-22 | Explosive Versus Implosive Cultural Modes |
2021-06-04 | There's an unjustified assumption here that identification is done automatically, & must be fought… |
2021-06-01 | The UFOs aren’t news |
2021-05-28 | With regard to the 'life or death' vibe, your example in this essay of changing the border in your… |
2021-05-28 | There is one model of the function of money that you don't address here (that maybe is closest to… |
2021-05-27 | Please review Love Exposure |
2021-05-14 | A Qualified Defense of Terrorist Tactics |
2021-05-07 | The Origin of Features |
2021-05-04 | I have often referenced my older pieces in newer pieces. |
2021-05-04 | How does marxism fit in here? |
2021-04-28 | Action anime tend to have a lot of action, but anime is a medium and not a genre, so there is a… |
2021-04-22 | See, I thought this was a side effect of alignment (because they always start and end pay periods… |
2021-04-20 | you can kind of break the history of hypertext into three lineages, with different lenses: |
2021-04-20 | Idea for a novel interface: |
2021-04-15 | Rules of online social engagement I wish I knew in 1999 |
2021-04-13 | genre |
2021-04-09 | “The Lost Apps of the 80s” never went away |
2021-04-05 | Writing advice should stop targeting people who hate to write |
2021-04-03 | MfoM postmortem |
2021-04-01 | The more time I spend in the tech industry, the more often I see things that don't work at all (or… |
2021-03-29 | Design, Dependencies, and Developer Responsibility |
2021-03-27 | Rethinking Common Carriers |
2021-03-27 | A Year of Reading Women: an experiment |
2021-03-14 | Something The Avengers did really well (especially during the Emma Peel era) was recognize the… |
2021-03-14 | I love 70s made for TV horror movies. |
2021-03-12 | The work of interpreting (i.e., |
2021-03-12 | I just saw Lupin III: Legend of the Gold of Babylon |
2021-03-10 | Why are pop culture zombies so strongly associated with communication & communications technologies? |
2021-03-10 | The Action Button review of Tokimeki Memorial caused me to go back to True Love, a hentai game I… |
2021-02-25 | The Seige of the Dream-City |
2021-02-24 | The Moral Valence of Technical Decisions |
2021-02-13 | Dog the Poseur |
2021-02-12 | Plates of shrimp, social priming, and the wikiality of the superorganism (yet another… |
2021-02-08 | The lesswrong-adjacent folks putter around very visibly on the fringes of AI research while… |
2021-02-01 | Honestly, I read your stuff because (despite all your attempts to throw people like me off the… |
2021-01-07 | Sticking Apart |
2021-01-04 | The existing GoodReads API is so limited and poorly designed as to be almost pointless. |
2020-12-16 | What article is this in response to? |
2020-12-13 | St. Dog and St. |
2020-12-08 | The Bowling Alley |
2020-12-07 | Using web technologies seems like merely a different genre of design faux-pas than is usual for… |
2020-12-07 | Labyrinth of text |
2020-11-24 | Mutual aid is contigent, and that scares some people |
2020-11-23 | If he is still the star of a reality TV show 17,994 years from now, there are complicated and… |
2020-11-17 | That's the sequel! In this one it's the floorboards. |
2020-11-17 | If Musk doesn't know that rapid antigen tests can produce false negatives, then he almost… |
2020-11-13 | While we're thinking about language from a power context, we need to also recognize that the power… |
2020-11-11 | There is a Vampire on your Television |
2020-11-11 | The Great Crystallization Upon Hearing in the Sublunar State |
2020-11-11 | The entry for "a priori" is a little misleading. |
2020-11-04 | "Eschew" does not mean "demonstrate"; it means "avoid". |
2020-11-02 | In my home, this dish was called a "one-eyed sandwich" |
2020-10-26 | If people gave car advice like they gave dating advice |
2020-10-05 | Am I having a stroke, or does this sentence make no sense on any level? |
2020-09-28 | What is the “Working Class”? |
2020-09-19 | Misha’s Millennium |
2020-09-19 | Ad-tech, touchscreen capture, and our ‘social dilemma’ |
2020-09-18 | Small Computing and the Security Mindset |
2020-09-16 | It's not really accurate to say that "the left" has taken control of the broadcast mechanisms. |
2020-08-31 | Announcing the Winners of the 2020 No-Budget Film Contest |
2020-07-09 | What Do We Mean By ‘Cancelled’? |
2020-07-06 | While we must acknowledge that the profusion of small ponds attracts those who would like to be… |
2020-07-06 | Once upon a time, folks who made content for hypertext systems were called authors. |
2020-06-29 | When Performative Wokeness Misses the Point |
2020-06-24 | Against Creeping Adversarialism |
2020-05-18 | Java inheritance is a kludge |
2020-05-10 | REPENT! STAY HOME! SLACK OFF!! |
2020-04-23 | Yet another article on how to make money from your writing on Medium |
2020-03-26 | I published a small short fiction collection, if you need something to hold you over. |
2020-03-22 | I also have a pandemic fiction piece. |
2020-03-20 | A Dispatch from the Infected Future |
2020-03-15 | The Revolutionary Power of the Che Shirt |
2020-03-04 | The structure of World of Horror is reminiscent of other semi-procedural narrative-centered indie… |
2020-02-21 | Theories of Everything |
2020-02-21 | The Divine Transcendence of Slacking Off |
2020-02-14 | Yup, automated translation is a great way to semantically warp text. |
2020-02-13 | A Short History of Procedurally Generated Text |
2020-02-12 | The Politics of Epistemic Fragmentation |
2020-02-07 | I’ll consider this carefully. |
2020-02-06 | The Red Queen’s Wall: Economic Inequality Through the Looking Class |
2020-02-02 | My Intellectual Progress, 2010–2019 |
2020-01-17 | New ways to write |
2020-01-10 | The Bystander Effect in Open Source |
2020-01-07 | The project ended up getting cancelled before I finished retraining the model on all US grants, so… |
2020-01-06 | When I did something similar a couple years ago for work, I used them to derive the vectors… |
2020-01-05 | Patents already have fairly rich classifications (IPC and CPC) — did you lean on these hierarchical… |
2019-12-10 | Announcing the 2020 No-Budget Film Contest |
2019-12-05 | A Manifesto |
2019-12-02 | Regarding the back-catalogue — I have taken to using automation to post links to my old medium… |
2019-12-01 | Tiny Tarot Stories |
2019-12-01 | Music to Prose Conversion: Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring and Firebird Suite |
2019-12-01 | Last Week At Karlsburg |
2019-12-01 | Did You Know… |
2019-12-01 | A Catalogue of Limit Objects |
2019-11-27 | GPT-2 answers Thanksgiving questions |
2019-11-21 | Silicon Valley hasn’t innovated since 1978 |
2019-11-21 | I do not see myself represented in essays on dating |
2019-11-07 | Shirow vs O |
2019-11-07 | Love Hina Ruined Harem Anime for a Decade |
2019-11-07 | Art, Imitation, and the Power of Flawed Media |
2019-10-25 | Early Modern English. Early Middle English sounds like Chaucer. |
2019-10-21 | Imagination & the distribution of futurity |
2019-09-20 | Freeing software |
2019-09-11 | Themes & structure in the Double Mojo VNs |
2019-08-23 | Interview with a transformer II |
2019-08-23 | Interview with a transformer |
2019-08-09 | Common misconceptions programmers have about lists of common misconceptions |
2019-08-09 | A ‘Player’s Bill of Rights’ for Visual Novels |
2019-08-01 | Jaron Lanier, in his book Who Owns the Future, presents a similar but substantially darker model of… |
2019-08-01 | Cowen, like most defenders of capitalism, seems to confuse capitalism with free markets & socialism… |
2019-07-31 | I don’t see how rust’s design is compatible with any of my suggestions. |
2019-07-23 | Medium desperately needs to get rid of the algorithmic feed and just make the front page the… |
2019-07-23 | It used to be! |
2019-07-04 | Announcing the winners of the 2019 No-Budget Film Contest |
2019-06-17 | Story time! |
2019-06-17 | If you aren’t a part of the partner program, then your posts are not behind the paywall (because… |
2019-06-04 | > Choose Your Own Adventure narratives have existed in other mediums — like books — for decades… |
2019-05-22 | A brief history of anime fandom outside of Japan |
2019-05-20 | A libertarian case for social justice |
2019-05-16 | No problem :) |
2019-05-09 | Why genre fiction? |
2019-05-03 | On the Zizek-Peterson ‘debate’ |
2019-05-01 | Your idea that the popularity of hentai is based on a dissociation from real sex is an interesting… |
2019-04-29 | The great and terrible thing about venture-backed anything is that they don’t really need to have a… |
2019-04-19 | In defense of nuanced understanding of the enemy in a networked age (feat Zizek vs Peterson) |
2019-04-17 | Avoiding the gravity-well of webbiness in gopher |
2019-03-22 | Bruce Schneier’s book Liars and Outliers intersects with this material, & so may be of interest. |
2019-03-15 | Why I still use Medium |
2019-03-12 | I strongly recommend, in the rare cases when writing HTML by hand is untenable, rolling your own… |
2019-03-01 | Inertia and institutional damage in politics |
2019-02-27 | Rather than asking ‘how did I come to this belief’ (which may be irrelevant — we can accidentally… |
2019-02-03 | A slightly sarcastic Serial Experiments Lain plot synopsis |
2019-02-01 | The basic reason why we don’t have the systems envisioned by Kay, Nelson, Engelbart, etc. |
2019-02-01 | Monday is Data Privacy Day |
2019-01-25 | One of the ideas I was playing with in MfoM was the distinction between player & player character… |
2019-01-25 | In case anybody is wondering what ‘Double Mojo’ (the name I released MfoM under) means, it’s from… |
2019-01-11 | Re: human cognitive variation |
2019-01-07 | Proposal for a high-performance storage system for OSMIC branching histories |
2019-01-05 | On the user agent |
2019-01-02 | MfoM pre-postmortem |
2019-01-01 | Xanadu and the rhizomaticity of texts |
2019-01-01 | That’s part of it. |
2019-01-01 | Sort-by-controversial as a proxy for information content |
2019-01-01 | Object eversion, ZigZag, and the RDBMS |
2019-01-01 | Code as communication: mental models & expectation management |
2018-12-29 | Subchara moedynamics |
2018-12-27 | John Higgs, in his history Stranger than We Can Imagine, makes the argument that unintelligability… |
2018-12-27 | I always thought it was a good match for academia (particularly philosophy, theology, & literary… |
2018-12-24 | There might be a useful overlap with transliterature technology here. |
2018-12-24 | The best & most complete technical introduction is mine. |
2018-12-21 | Free software and the revolt against transactionality |
2018-12-11 | Announcing the 2019 No-Budget Film Contest |
2018-12-10 | We all know about social constructs vs reality, but there are levels of spookiness (and no upper… |
2018-12-10 | Tech’s Masturbatory Historiography |
2018-12-10 | Good design for developers & good design for non-developers don’t operate by different rules. |
2018-12-03 | What is the character of internet technologies? |
2018-12-03 | I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Vallee is among the most lucid of the mid-century ufologists. |
2018-11-27 | It was not intended to present a list of alternatives, because I have covered alternatives… |
2018-11-25 | I’d probably start with Jef Raskin’s book The Humane Interface. |
2018-11-24 | The buttons on that type of radio (and on cassette walkmans) have other, tactile indicators of… |
2018-11-20 | This is a good point. |
2018-11-20 | Structural typing (and its integration with prototype OO) might be one way to address the platypus… |
2018-11-17 | Sorry, that’s my Canon Cat article. I meant to link to this one. |
2018-11-17 | “Predictable” means that the user, before performing an action, can imagine the results of that… |
2018-11-17 | Predictability refers to the ability to be predicted. Uniformity refers to being the same. |
2018-11-17 | > My mom isn’t dumb, but she has not and never had any interest in learning how tech works. |
2018-11-17 | > In short it seems that for you “predictability” refers to output while “uniformity” refers to… |
2018-11-17 | I’m in favor of breaking down artificial barriers that make modifying applications artificially… |
2018-11-17 | And, I disagree on that count. |
2018-11-16 | Worse, and when & how it can be ‘better’ |
2018-11-16 | Science fiction movies are extremely rare |
2018-11-16 | Durarara as a moral laboratory |
2018-11-14 | Programming as expression |
2018-11-14 | Computing and craft among the end users |
2018-11-05 | When we impose our philosophy on users, we create things that don’t work out of the box for those… |
2018-11-05 | Uniform UIs are the enemy. Problems are not uniform, and solutions should fit their problems. |
2018-11-05 | The interface should be predictable, but that is not the same as uniform. |
2018-11-05 | Commercial success is almost entirely a matter of luck. |
2018-11-05 | Absolutely. |
2018-11-01 | The Flawed History of Graphical User Interfaces |
2018-11-01 | Let’s pretend this never happened |
2018-10-28 | On Funimation’s recently-announced licensing plan change |
2018-10-24 | You’re very welcome! |
2018-10-24 | A short glossary of tech industry terms |
2018-10-23 | Hill House vs Hill House: two different kinds of hauntings |
2018-10-22 | Scuttlebutt quickstart guide |
2018-10-22 | I, too, get more traffic & more responses on Quora (except, of course, when I cross-promote my… |
2018-10-17 | If you’ve got a head-mounted (or head-mountable) HDMI display and portable keyboard, the pi zero… |
2018-10-15 | Is it? I’ve heard mostly positive things about it since it came out. |
2018-10-11 | The whole “programmers are a special genetically superior elite of deep thinkers” meme really… |
2018-10-11 | I was excited for the Haunting of Hill House series (though curious how they were going to turn it… |
2018-10-11 | For a couple years i the early naughts, I mostly ran DOS with various experimental / unusual… |
2018-10-10 | Automation & philosophy |
2018-10-05 | Think about what you’re claiming for a second. |
2018-10-03 | Programming a computer is nothing like building a car, and everything like changing your oil. |
2018-10-02 | We segregate licensed medical doctors based on their licensing, and do not allow non-doctors to… |
2018-09-22 | A periodic reminder |
2018-09-21 | Today I was in couple good threads on programming/metaprogramming and on the design of universal… |
2018-09-21 | On alternatives |
2018-09-18 | Jamming the Signal: Better Living Through Subliminal Messages |
2018-09-18 | Composability, homogeneity, and language-based systems |
2018-09-18 | Alternate Computer Universes: Jef Raskin’s Macintosh |
2018-09-14 | Cyberdelia reading list |
2018-08-31 | Generally speaking, the best solution is one of the solutions not yet explored (simply because it… |
2018-08-30 | John M. Ford’s Web of Angels bears the same relationship to Neuromancer as Cordwainer Smith’s… |
2018-08-28 | Warren Ellis’s Planetary is a great comic — good to read along with Grant Morrison’s The Invisibles… |
2018-08-28 | Hard pills to swallow |
2018-08-23 | Winners for the 2018 No-Budget Film Contest |
2018-08-21 | I think we need to apply social pressure on two sides: against people who don’t assume interactions… |
2018-08-19 | A context-centric culture isn’t the result of everybody being always fair, but the result of most… |
2018-08-18 | You might get more out of the third article in this series, then. |
2018-08-18 | I wrote a book |
2018-08-18 | Context-centric cultures & call-out cultures |
2018-08-10 | Conditions for the possibility of exit |
2018-08-08 | On revolutionary ideas |
2018-08-08 | On infohazards |
2018-08-08 | How much bad UI design comes from a focus on making the UI consistent with underlying code that was… |
2018-08-07 | Pulp media is a goldmine for culture for the same reason that a latrine pit is a goldmine for… |
2018-08-06 | I thought this was going to turn into a full rejection of the representativeness heuristic, and was… |
2018-07-30 | I don’t remember writing this but it looks exactly like my writing style. |
2018-07-30 | Fiction generator post-mortem: mythology generation |
2018-07-28 | One of the most underrated parts about proper skepticism is avoiding or circumventing idea… |
2018-07-27 | The House on Foulness |
2018-07-24 | This experiment might prove an interesting basis for the artistic use of transclusion. |
2018-07-06 | Thoughts on generating mystery & heist stories |
2018-07-03 | The problem with meaning |
2018-07-02 | There are links to the PDFs of the three generated comics in the third-to-last paragraph (the one… |
2018-07-02 | Post-mortem of a fiction generator: asemic writing with some properties of natural languages |
2018-07-02 | Fiction generator post-mortem: comic book generation |
2018-06-25 | XANA & iX: A history & post-mortem of two small operating system projects |
2018-06-15 | Exocortex tools part I: social media automation with very small shell scripts |
2018-06-15 | Enough to be Dangerous |
2018-06-11 | As an engineer (identifying with the engineering attitude moreso than the artistic one) I think… |
2018-06-06 | An Engineer’s Guide to the Docuverse |
2018-06-05 | Microsoft, Github, and distributed revision control |
2018-06-05 | Have you tried… |
2018-06-01 | Invisible Architecture III |
2018-06-01 | Invisible Architecture 3 |
2018-06-01 | Fantastic, as always. Maybe even better this time. |
2018-05-31 | Software vs Capital |
2018-05-27 | We should kick this off with a bang, by writing RP fanfiction in the form of a listicle of rhyming… |
2018-05-26 | Trendism & cognitive stagnation |
2018-05-26 | Joke generating AI has been an area of research since at least the 1970s — so, around the same time… |
2018-05-26 | > I took some time to look through what you said and checked around the internet. |
2018-05-22 | I have my own version, in pure shell, using /usr/share/dict: https://github.com/enkiv2/xkcd-password |
2018-05-22 | I have my own version, in pure shell, using /usr/share/dict… |
2018-05-15 | Perhaps a good model for a “left-wing game”, if we take seriously the idea that right/left division… |
2018-05-11 | Small computing, artisanal computing |
2018-05-11 | Honest AWS ad copy |
2018-05-11 | Don’t say “technology” |
2018-05-04 | The WTF Awards / sketching a map to an escape from steam engine time |
2018-05-04 | How to contribute to open source without stress |
2018-05-03 | I’m being a little more prescriptive than descriptive, & that’s probably why my categorization is… |
2018-05-03 | 1850, but faster |
2018-05-02 | Ultimately, when you’re in a business context, you need to please the people above you in the… |
2018-05-02 | The language around free speech in civil-libertarian circles is flawed |
2018-05-01 | The problem with Electron |
2018-04-26 | Yeah, I think that if a hiring manager or human resources person is grading people on whether or… |
2018-04-25 | The uncanny practicality of impracticality |
2018-04-24 | There was never an ‘open web’ |
2018-04-20 | I find subscribing to medium worthwhile if only because it gives me the equivalent of a… |
2018-04-17 | Yup, this is exactly what I meant! |
2018-04-16 | What people get wrong about Xanadu |
2018-04-16 | We may be talking about different things. |
2018-04-13 | I always wonder a little bit why dependency-tracking systems that don’t strictly require ordering… |
2018-04-13 | Do you listen to the Desert Oracle Radio podcast? |
2018-04-12 | Kaukatcr: an experiment in language design for multi-dimensional spaces |
2018-04-10 | I’d argue that the BEAM needs a prolog-y language too — erlang is prolog-like in syntax only… |
2018-04-03 | I worry about the tendency of large institutions to coalesce power & apply that power toward their… |
2018-04-01 | The manufacture of steam-engine time |
2018-04-01 | Software utopianism in a flawed universe |
2018-04-01 | On tackiness |
2018-04-01 | Meditations on morality |
2018-04-01 | How to fail at culture jamming |
2018-04-01 | Big and small computing |
2018-04-01 | Against UI standardization |
2018-04-01 | Against trendism: how to defang the social media disinformation complex |
2018-04-01 | Ad-tech and fatigue |
2018-04-01 | A design for a hypothetical undergraduate CS curriculum |
2018-03-02 | Baudrillard reified the spectacular nature of Desert Storm’s media coverage with his famous phrase… |
2018-02-26 | There’s another problem with ‘trending’ — it gets the value-distribution relationship of… |
2018-02-25 | The best description of it is probably still in Licklider’s Man-Computer Symbiosis & Englebart’s… |
2018-02-22 | Invisible Architecture II |
2018-02-22 | Invisible Architecture 2 |
2018-02-21 | Do you find that there’s a difference in effectiveness between films with a supernatural focus &… |
2018-02-20 | It’s easy for automatic habits to take over even when doing things that seem like ‘original… |
2018-02-20 | I’m with you here, Gutboom. |
2018-02-19 | So much of debugging is about playing the game of lists (and so much debugging is still necessary… |
2018-02-16 | Un-Jobsifying software development |
2018-02-15 | There’s another reason why bad films are particularly beloved by cinephiles: they illustrate (by… |
2018-02-13 | This essay feels like two essays combined: the first about the importance of erring on the side of… |
2018-02-13 | News and Lies 2: |
2018-02-13 | I hope so! |
2018-02-09 | Guidelines for future hypertext systems |
2018-02-02 | I always maintain that a good, thoughtful, well-constructed review of a very flawed work is more… |
2018-02-01 | I’m happy that somebody’s finally starting to address some of the web’s big design oversights. |
2018-02-01 | I’d like to defend the idea of putting plop art specifically in places that the pieces… |
2018-01-27 | I don’t know where the number 2501 comes from. |
2018-01-17 | Some tentative guidelines for GUI composability |
2018-01-09 | Quick OmniStage history |
2018-01-08 | Orality, Literacy, Hyper-Literacy |
2018-01-05 | Mycroft — A Predicate Logic Language — Overview / Post-mortem |
2018-01-02 | Trajectories for the future of software |
2017-12-31 | Transclusion is… |
2017-12-31 | My hypermedia history |
2017-12-11 | Announcing the 2018 No-Budget Film Contest |
2017-12-01 | Being intellectually engaged by your job is a rare privilege — one that is really only possible in… |
2017-11-20 | As he brushed past a cluster of hyper-dandies, their tattoos glowed and squirmed, pantomiming… |
2017-11-20 | Are you familiar with the concept of “transpointing windows”? |
2017-11-19 | “Thank you for being Prime,” the impossibly-beautiful anime hologram stewardess says, as six-axis… |
2017-11-10 | The only path out, as far as I can see, is to use system 2 thinking to perform analysis on… |
2017-11-09 | She Awaited the Turkeys |
2017-11-09 | I wonder if this was the inspiration for the famous scene in Scanners… |
2017-11-08 | I’ve never understood Turkle’s rationale for this idea. |
2017-11-06 | You mention a study where 12 volunteers were subjected to E. |
2017-11-06 | OK, but what do you gain from misrepresenting the papers you are using to support your argument as… |
2017-11-06 | It might be reasonably controlled; it might not. |
2017-11-06 | Doesn’t this really seem more like speech-to-phoneme-stream? |
2017-11-03 | Those of us working in prose generation have come to the conclusion that neural nets and other… |
2017-10-13 | The way to the hangins that spiders liked breaking over holloway’s was satisfyingly gothic in… |
2017-10-03 | Prize money is sent. If you don’t receive it, leave another comment. |
2017-09-12 | If you decide to collate the results, I’d find that fascinating. |
2017-09-09 | I think that people asking the wrong questions really saved us here. |
2017-09-08 | I never noticed any of these things. I am so excited for a rewatch now. Thank you! |
2017-09-08 | I have standardized on giving everyone exactly one clap — equivalent to a recommend. |
2017-09-08 | Do most students really start their undergraduate experience completely ignorant of the vast… |
2017-09-06 | Yeah. Just as I think honest economists are aware of & careful about these myths (supporting them… |
2017-09-06 | In my experience: |
2017-09-03 | Market Myths: Good, Bad, and Bazaar |
2017-09-02 | The winners have been announced: https://medium.com/@enkiv2/announcing-the-winners-of-the-2017-no-bu |
2017-09-02 | The winners have been announced: https://medium.com/@enkiv2/announcing-the-winners-of-the-2017-no… |
2017-09-02 | The winners have been announced… |
2017-09-02 | Congratulations on third place. |
2017-09-02 | Congratulations on second place |
2017-09-02 | Congratulations on first place. |
2017-09-01 | Announcing the winners of the 2017 No Budget Film Contest |
2017-08-31 | The Lone Gunman |
2017-08-28 | Fun fact: if we go by formal declarations, Japan is still at war with Russia. |
2017-08-18 | Is this the first high profile example of a unicode homoglyph attack in the wild? |
2017-08-16 | Are legendary generals just lucky? |
2017-08-04 | The thing about pair programming is that it’s similar to other closely-collaborative creative… |
2017-08-01 | Hostility, inclusivity, and target mismatch in open source community management |
2017-07-26 | Punk & cosplay |
2017-07-14 | Some chess variants |
2017-07-03 | Is popularity even desirable? |
2017-06-27 | This comment wasn’t intended as snark. |
2017-06-27 | Criticism that’s primarily transmitted by teachers is limited in scope; after all, most people who… |
2017-06-22 | Labor in Japan |
2017-06-22 | I don’t think this is an internet thing per-se. |
2017-06-20 | The perils of identity |
2017-06-20 | Contributor represents the easiest way out of our adtech dystopia, and it’s a shame that it was… |
2017-06-15 | The community around the newsletter is still pretty active on slack, right? |
2017-06-14 | Luckily, businesses (and business concerns) are basically completely irrelevant. |
2017-06-07 | Lol Koibito Cafe. |
2017-05-31 | Tempting Fate: an asymmetric card game for psychics |
2017-05-30 | The Mythic Function of the Zombie Apocalypse |
2017-05-24 | ANTLR may be superior in some way; it’s also strictly unnecessary. |
2017-05-23 | If you can solve your problems without actually changing the syntax, then you don’t need to build a… |
2017-05-22 | If you understood this essay as advocating for some language, you didn’t read it carefully. |
2017-05-22 | Considerations for programming language design: a rebuttal |
2017-05-08 | The end-game of the voice UI (like that of the chat UI) is the command line interface. |
2017-05-03 | All fat middle-aged white guys are secretly the same person, like Saint Gulik. |
2017-05-02 | Visible & Invisible Architecture |
2017-05-02 | Invisible Architecture I |
2017-05-02 | Invisible Architecture 1 |
2017-05-02 | I came to the same conclusion from another direction: |
2017-05-01 | Maybe it’s because “Marine Antoinette” sounds so much more natural that “Macron Antoinette” is… |
2017-05-01 | Folk horror as speculative sociology |
2017-04-21 | The return of the No Budget Film Contest |
2017-04-21 | If your goal is to find out how people on reddit actually talk about it (rather than what kind of… |
2017-04-17 | Federation favors large numbers of temporary non- or partially-intersecting identities, rather than… |
2017-04-08 | Portable identity is useful only insomuch as single-stable-identity is useful. |
2017-04-03 | While your analysis of control structures here seems accurate, I can’t really agree with the idea… |
2017-03-27 | The biggest argument against total dismissal of the remake is the existence of remakes that… |
2017-03-24 | How Mamoru Oshii ruined the Ghost in the Shell franchise |
2017-03-24 | Having signed up, you can tell us exactly what we all want to know: is the premium content Ev’s… |
2017-03-20 | So, there’s a nuance here, regarding UBI. |
2017-03-17 | It seems like what Medium is doing is creating a subscription-only publication of their own… |
2017-03-16 | How Seiren re-engineers galge stock characters |
2017-03-14 | Clues about Medium’s business plan |
2017-03-13 | It really is better to ask for permission |
2017-03-06 | Spanning problem-space |
2017-03-02 | Slowly creep backwards while speaking more softly and with a greater number of increasingly-long… |
2017-03-01 | Some less modest provisions: |
2017-03-01 | I realize that your post isn’t meant to be a coherent argument, but — the only way we can tell that… |
2017-03-01 | A modest proposal related to firearm safety |
2017-02-28 | I’m not the author of the original piece. |
2017-02-28 | I’m not familiar with anything Nelson might have written on the storage of navigation histories… |
2017-02-28 | Here’s a heuristic: if a task is made significantly easier by a framework, it shouldn’t be done in… |
2017-02-23 | Did somebody unload a time machine from 1998 into this comment thread? |
2017-02-22 | The hype around javascript is representative of a more general and widespread problem, which is… |
2017-02-20 | The only response I can think of for this is that, while Putin almost certainly wants to think of… |
2017-02-20 | One way to avoid people using eponymous laws to pull a bavarian fire drill on you is to produce a… |
2017-02-17 | When the best option for providing a service is awful, that indicates an opportunity for… |
2017-02-16 | If you want to get a job in tech & be qualified for it, you need to first be self-taught and then… |
2017-02-16 | Has this only been rolled out on mobile? I don’t see anything like this on the desktop site. |
2017-02-15 | Details of how this subscription model will work seem scarce. |
2017-02-14 | The web is a glorified marketing platform, sure, but do we want it to be? |
2017-02-14 | The religious right is a strange beast, with strange internal contradictions mirroring the greater… |
2017-02-14 | If you are selling your site to design hipsters, I have no problem with the bloat: they have plenty… |
2017-02-13 | On the web, size matters |
2017-02-06 | While large corporations have the resources to do large, cross-cutting messages, the profit motive… |
2017-02-03 | Belief is the enemy. |
2017-02-03 | Agreed: lack of perspective is the real M. |
2017-01-30 | This fits into a wider pattern. |
2017-01-25 | If we can do this (and it’s certainly technically possible), we can break siloization by doing the… |
2017-01-23 | As much as I’m loathe to heap praise on Second Life & Linden Labs, I think they at least got this… |
2017-01-18 | The Value of Subtle Communication: Toward a Secular Materialist Model of Chaos Magick |
2017-01-18 | I’d definitely say the web is a bad tool for most of the things we use it for. |
2017-01-18 | For Medium, the most sensible monetization policies would probably be: |
2017-01-17 | The command line and GUI replaced voice as an interaction model decades ago, because for most tasks… |
2017-01-17 | Medium started out with the goal of fixing clickbait, and the (correct) understanding that an ad… |
2017-01-17 | Medium started out with the goal of fixing clickbait, and the (correct) understanding that an… |
2017-01-14 | Hiring is a whole different mess. |
2017-01-13 | Ramifications of nearsightedness in tech |
2017-01-13 | I always thought “borked” was derived from “borken”, the early 1960s era humorous mistyping of… |
2017-01-13 | Berners-Lee had a project that did many things correctly that the web did incorrectly. |
2017-01-09 | Our systems (even on relatively longread-friendly platforms like Medium) disincentivize nuance. |
2017-01-09 | I think you’ll find that web browsers can, in fact, render hand-written plain HTML. |
2017-01-09 | Cyberpunk, sadly, died in infancy. What’s worse is, it was replaced by a changeling. |
2017-01-05 | I think we can tag him. Ev Williams |
2017-01-05 | I think the time might be right for micropayments as a publishing monetization model. |
2017-01-04 | I’m not kidding. |
2017-01-04 | I mean that, ideally, facebook, medium, and youtube wouldn’t be websites, because the web is a poor… |
2017-01-03 | You don’t really need to go to 4chan for this. |
2017-01-03 | This is why I always say that if we want an idea of how life will be under UBI, we should look at… |
2016-12-30 | Ive is very much acting in line with Jobs’ legacy. |
2016-12-29 | Where Wizards Stay Up Late would be a great addition, but I haven’t finished it, so I didn’t feel… |
2016-12-29 | The tragedy is that this feature is easy to implement if you work for Medium (or Facebook, or… |
2016-12-29 | There’s a culture (and I think it’s a relatively new one — even as recently as fifteen years ago… |
2016-12-28 | On the other hand, it seems to encourage rabbitholes. |
2016-12-28 | I hypothesize that the chumbox gets populated by items that intersect along the lines of author or… |
2016-12-28 | 18 book reading list for computer history |
2016-12-27 | The CS/IT world seems to have an unusual absence of understanding of its own history, compared to… |
2016-12-22 | Lack of political sophistication is often a side effect of being sheltered. |
2016-12-21 | I feel like some of this material is covered in transactional psychology, though my understanding… |
2016-12-20 | One’s career is rarely a vocation. |
2016-12-20 | News to me. |
2016-12-20 | A qualified defense of slacktivism |
2016-12-19 | There are a couple misunderstandings here. |
2016-12-19 | Lots of people don’t — or can’t — distinguish between knowing how to solve simple problems in a… |
2016-12-19 | Any solution that’s ineffective unless 100% of the population is morally upright is unusable. |
2016-12-16 | Supporting this facility is the medium staff’s design decision, sure, but it’s also clearly the… |
2016-12-14 | This essay was more entertaining when Robert Anton Wilson wrote it. |
2016-12-13 | There are different right-wing tribes, with distinct values. |
2016-12-13 | I wonder how much of this effect has to do with the mixture of pseudo-neutral & centralized media… |
2016-12-05 | With regard to sample size, small sample sizes in studies that are taken at face value is an issue. |
2016-12-05 | This article sort of represents a straw-man version of the reproducability crisis. |
2016-12-05 | There’s a tradeoff to code reuse, insomuch as code written for a different problem is often a poor… |
2016-12-05 | It’s very strange that widespread high-speed internet access would coincide with increasing… |
2016-12-02 | The problem of a lack of free public indoor spaces isn’t limited to New York City; I live in… |
2016-12-01 | I don’t have any problem with self-help articles per-se, but I definitely have a problem with… |
2016-11-30 | Monochrome Vertex Chapter 2 |
2016-11-30 | Monochrome Vertex Ch. 1 |
2016-11-29 | There seems to be the assumption that “fake news” shouldn’t be consumed. |
2016-11-29 | Soylent definitely wins, when the choices are between Soylent, a candy bar, and nothing at all. |
2016-11-29 | An alternate web design style guide |
2016-11-28 | I develop quite a bit of open source software. |
2016-11-28 | Considering that the root cause is the essential incompatibility between optimizing for truth and… |
2016-11-23 | News and Lies 1: In Defense of (some) Propaganda |
2016-11-23 | News and Lies 1: |
2016-11-21 | The idea that major religious figures are ambassadors from outer space goes back at least to… |
2016-11-14 | Clearly, the only thing that can defeat Trump now is the veneration by chaotes of an even older… |
2016-11-11 | Stories I won’t write (but you can) |
2016-11-07 | On communities |
2016-11-07 | I’ve never believed that clickbait had anything to do with audience preferences. |
2016-11-07 | Early attempts at implementing transcopyright (essentially, a system by which quote attribution is… |
2016-11-05 | Yeah. It’s useful as a rule of thumb for who you should probably be extra careful not to mock for… |
2016-11-03 | The Lazarus Pose |
2016-11-02 | Other things happening in November: |
2016-11-02 | Books that should be made into movies, but never ever will |
2016-11-02 | As a follow-up, I’d like to reiterate that, as Charlie Stross says, “bigotry is fractal”. |
2016-10-31 | While I agree with the sentiment, I think you misplace the blame. |
2016-10-31 | This kind of thing has been Apple’s MO since 1982. |
2016-10-31 | Package dependency hell is *primarily* a function of unfamiliarity, and it’s not like it doesn’t… |
2016-10-31 | Microsoft is no longer actively bad, the way it was under Ballmer. |
2016-10-31 | If you want a professional quality development machine, buy a 2008 Thinkpad on ebay (cost is about… |
2016-10-28 | There’s a potential link to folie au deux here. |
2016-10-27 | Mirai was appropriately named |
2016-10-26 | There’s a difference between constructive cynicism and edgelordism. |
2016-10-26 | Does innovation have anything to do with commerce? |
2016-10-25 | Mr. Rheingold, thank you for reposting all of these. |
2016-10-24 | Yeah. (I haven’t recommended this for McDonalds before, because I think that the case for food is a… |
2016-10-24 | The ideal chatbot is not a butler or a puppy, but an elder god |
2016-10-23 | I don’t deny that there are social norms surrounding the elevation of bad design. |
2016-10-21 | With the procedural-OO hybrid, we see it applied in industry a little more often because it’s… |
2016-10-20 | There’s something strange going on with Russian intelligence & the internet security / civil… |
2016-10-20 | Ham sandwich for president |
2016-10-19 | Web design over time has gotten less and less connected to accessibility & utility, and more and… |
2016-10-19 | An Alternate Medium Style Guide |
2016-10-17 | To “compete” in web search results is somewhat absurd. |
2016-10-17 | The legality of the provenance of the material is irrelevant to the ethics of reporting. |
2016-10-17 | I was once on cleanup duty, in a particularly unfortunate situation. |
2016-10-17 | Intellectual property is the strongest it’s ever been, more or less worldwide. |
2016-10-17 | I for one appreciate your resistance to cutting down your articles. |
2016-10-14 | Javascript won’t save the web. Javascript is part of the problem. |
2016-10-14 | In defense of contempt |
2016-10-13 | I switched to NaNoGenMo because of similar commitment problems. |
2016-10-12 | You’re struggling with some of the same conundrums as I am. |
2016-10-11 | Upending the system requires effort and planning. |
2016-10-11 | The way I think of it, trying to learn computer science without learning C is like being a medieval… |
2016-10-10 | You missed one *big* factor in why SV isn’t good to emulate: SV is mostly “show business” — big… |
2016-10-06 | You had me up until “short but complete”. Lessons of less than ten minutes? Come on. |
2016-10-06 | Please badmouth CSS more in developer talks |
2016-10-05 | I wish I could recommend this article multiple times. |
2016-10-05 | If your graphic design is optimized for impact at a distance without scrolling, your use case is… |
2016-10-03 | I agree that “For You” used to have a much better signal to noise ratio. |
2016-10-03 | How to shoot yourself in the foot with good worldbuilding: two methods |
2016-10-03 | Good vs iconic art |
2016-09-30 | I was taking executive orders into account, here. |
2016-09-30 | I completely understand the desire to make big changes. |
2016-09-29 | Trump doesn’t know what he wants, or how to get it. |
2016-09-29 | The political post I’ve been avoiding writing |
2016-09-20 | A method and device for becoming a property owner himself |
2016-09-20 | A device and method for escaping the universal truth |
2016-09-01 | A Qualified Defense of Jargon & Other In-Group Signifiers |
2016-08-31 | That’s sort of my point: there’s no technical reason why feature length film budgets should be… |
2016-08-30 | What? |
2016-08-30 | The gatekeeper idea you mention is one of these elements that I feel is self-reinforcing. |
2016-08-30 | So, you think the tail end of that pull quote was intended to be “we need to stop building… |
2016-08-30 | On second thought, the article is slightly above the average stupidity of a tech article on medium. |
2016-08-30 | Nope! Changing ‘responsive’ to ‘reactive’ doesn’t explain why we’d specify a server-side Microsoft… |
2016-08-30 | I’m unfamiliar with Schiffer. |
2016-08-30 | ASAP stands for As Soon As Possible. |
2016-08-30 | “ASAP as possible” is redundant. |
2016-08-29 | I have to agree with all of your points here. |
2016-08-26 | An alternate wizard/cleric distinction |
2016-08-24 | OK. There’s a pretty big gap between scheduling the announcement of a leak to maximize press (and… |
2016-08-22 | Zizek (along with a handful of other figures in media criticism that are full of ideas but short on… |
2016-08-22 | The trademark issue is pretty cut and dried: a trademark holder must show due diligence in… |
2016-08-22 | Saving the magic system of Familiar of Zero from itself |
2016-08-22 | I’ve always been suspicious of how much companies that brand themselves as “tech companies” are… |
2016-08-22 | It’s a mistake to consider Wikileaks as a media organization, because they are generally anti… |
2016-08-22 | It’s a mistake to consider Wikileaks as a media organization, because they are generally… |
2016-08-22 | I don’t think Wikileaks is choosing their timing. |
2016-08-22 | Caffeine takes about 20 minutes to metabolize to the point where it can suppress adenosine reuptake. |
2016-08-22 | Caffeine takes about 20 minutes to metabolize to the point where it can suppress adenosine… |
2016-08-17 | Spoiler alert: I don’t hate you for being immune from spoilers; in fact, to the extent that this… |
2016-08-03 | tl;dr verison: original article is a dumb rehash of stuff that was proven wrong thirty years ago… |
2016-08-03 | It’s important to note that Wikileaks itself doesn’t choose what information to grab & host; in… |
2016-08-01 | I don’t know where you got any of the ideas in this article. |
2016-07-26 | I always make this argument, and it usually falls on deaf ears. |
2016-07-25 | General purpose, in my view, is an overstatement. |
2016-07-25 | A lot of the ideas about OO that are mentioned in Mr Scalfani’s essay were pushed and popularized… |
2016-07-11 | Bots are wonderful. |
2016-07-08 | Have you determined how much non-book content you are reading during the day? |
2016-07-06 | There’s another path here that you haven’t mentioned: take advantage of content generation… |
2016-07-05 | As much as I hate to rain on your parade, I’m afraid I can’t agree at all with your premises. |
2016-07-01 | Novelty, Perversity, and Randomness |
2016-06-23 | There’s a difference between the Lake Woebegone effect and the Dunning Kreuger effect. |
2016-06-23 | Regarding the ‘preferred music service’ example, it’s a bit funny that Amazon is not extending the… |
2016-06-23 | One small complaint: you mention Moore’s Law as one of the reasons ML is having a rennaisance… |
2016-06-13 | The author of this piece managed to write an entire article about the concept of slack without once… |
2016-06-06 | Another possibility: do nothing, and allow ad quality to degrade. |
2016-05-17 | This isn’t a feature of some new revision of UML. |
2016-05-16 | If you’re going to replace regex half-way with UML and expect people to use a graphical editor, why… |
2016-05-06 | How Bots Were Born From Spam |
2016-04-25 | I’d like to point out that Project Xanadu (which, btw, is still going on) is, at its core, an… |
2016-04-25 | Bots are only interesting when they aren’t expected to be consistently useful or make money. |
2016-04-19 | Bot capitalism will fail |
2016-04-14 | The bigger the bot hype grows, the more apparent it becomes that when it comes to bots, for now at… |
2016-04-11 | It’s kind of funny that your way of dealing with branching narratives of this type is to play… |
2016-04-08 | Dear Recruiters, |
2016-04-08 | A quarter page of cliches about how bubble gum media is bad pitched at an imaginary audience who… |
2016-04-04 | OK, OK, but a lot of these things are still toys. |
2016-03-22 | I’m going to have to point out that this survey will be biased. |
2016-03-21 | I’m less concerned about actual scientists falling into this trap, because often they don’t (and… |
2016-03-17 | > But the reality is most people don’t want just a universal basic income. |
2016-03-16 | There’s a problem with people recommending ‘smart guns’: they clearly haven’t looked at the… |
2016-03-11 | Talking about Dribble is undercutting exactly how stupidly static the western idea of ‘good design… |
2016-03-11 | Talking about Dribble is undercutting exactly how stupidly static the western idea of ‘good design’… |
2016-02-26 | MMOCs/MOOCs are probably the wrong match for the kind of learning technology presented in The… |
2016-02-11 | I find this post significantly funnier than I should. |
2016-01-28 | Read Intuition Pumps by Dan Dennett. |
2016-01-25 | I wonder if your experience is typical. |
2016-01-21 | Right on. |
2016-01-21 | A cutup of Palin’s Trump endorsement speech |
2016-01-20 | The idea of a Bowie |
2016-01-19 | To be sure, these hollywood formulations are male-centric. |
2016-01-19 | Paranoia as a design choice |
2016-01-19 | If you find the others on the road, kill them |
2016-01-13 | Why you should care about generative text |
2015-12-21 | Absolutely in agreement with you, here. This is a major pet peeve. |
2015-12-17 | Scene/Sequel: Post-Mortem of a Fiction Generator |
2015-12-17 | One peeve I have with this analysis is: even if you consider a dysfunctional government to be… |
2015-12-15 | Something not mentioned in the article is that OpenAI is in direct competition with several other… |
2015-12-15 | I don’t buy the idea that these kinds of restrictions will ever become universally (or even nearly… |
2015-12-07 | There are a couple of models for self-directed learning resources that are useful to look at… |
2015-12-07 | I keep on being reminded of “Sirius Cybernetic Corporation” — the company in the Hitchhiker’s Guide… |
2015-12-04 | Yes, but not all of us physically assault our employees and then are lionized for it. |
2015-12-03 | Jobs is interesting insomuch as he’s a figure who is inextricably associated with industries that… |
2015-12-03 | How to become Steve Ballmer: implement stack ranking, throw chairs at people during meetings, yell… |
2015-12-01 | The thing about cultural niches is that they are created by and for ‘mass media’ as a novelty… |
2015-11-30 | Novel UI systems have a lot of the same problems as other novel pieces of media. |
2015-11-19 | This is not ‘no UI’ — it’s ‘text-based UI’. |
2015-11-19 | I’m not sure that decision anxiety is the sole or even primary source of ‘prestige television’. |
2015-11-10 | You’re complaining that a free VR device came with your newspaper, even though by no means do you… |
2015-11-09 | But, again, what reason do we have to believe that other humans have interiority if we ignore the… |
2015-10-21 | A second issue with the ‘uber for…’ model is that it’s a tax evasion scheme that also, in the minds… |
2015-10-09 | To be honest, the closest thing to an interest feed as you describe it is tumblr — not because it… |
2015-10-08 | The hidden benefits of NaNoGenMo |
2015-10-06 | Gelman’s characterization of his opposition is more than a little reductive. |
2015-09-29 | A big problem here is that advertising — particularly advertising on the internet (by which I mean… |
2015-09-28 | I’d be interested in seeing how ebook sales trends match up with the shift from epaper to OLED/LCD… |
2015-09-18 | Alternatives to advertising |
2015-09-15 | The origin of many of our most elaborate models of corporatism, advertising, and how these things… |
2015-09-09 | I’m not sure I buy that this is the result of increased usability. |
2015-08-20 | Peter Watts and p-zombies |
2015-08-12 | Interacting with Fiction |
2015-06-09 | While I’ve seen lots of snappy, short, intelligent, and witty pieces of academic writing, I feel… |
2015-06-03 | Another great music podcast (which may or may not be still running) is Solipsistic Nation. |
2015-05-29 | Myths of competence and specialization |
2015-05-29 | It’s a mistake to call Uber a tech company. |
2015-05-27 | The key thing here is not that this time is different than the 60s, or that the people writing… |
2015-05-24 | Failure modes of science fiction |
2015-05-24 | Against certain naive varieties of transhumanist sentiment |
2015-05-21 | Initially, my machines were named after classical philosophers and mathematicians (starting with… |