enkiv2

enkiv2, 12 days ago to random

Bad idea of the day: foot fetish but specifically for the baba yaga house

enkiv2, 28 days ago to random

it's not too late to just ban commercial use of the internet again.

enkiv2, 30 days ago to random

most guitarists only know three chords and the truth. guitars georg, who knows all the chords, is an outlier and should not be counted.

enkiv2, 1 month ago to random

NPM Install Everything, and the Complete and Utter Chaos That Follows https://boehs.org/node/npm-everything

enkiv2, 1 month ago to random

what's your favorite rag not composed by scott joplin? because i'm pretty sure every ragtime song i've heard was by him

enkiv2, 1 month ago to random

Bad idea of the day: replace auteur theory with 'scene' theory: movies are inherently collaborative but small groups of friends who repeatedly work together are often major creative forces with specific and recognizable tendencies, and often losing just one person in that group dramatically changes the vibes

enkiv2, 1 month ago to random

i shouldn't let LLMs & GANs ruin my appreciation for generative art. statistical methods like these are not new (and most of their problems with LLMs are shared with, ex., markov) & all that's changed is that people are trying to Productize, which they tend to do.

enkiv2, 1 month ago to random

Random link from the archives: "Why do we call it "boilerplate code?" • Buttondown" https://web.archive.org/web/20221114144606/https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/why-do-we-call-it-boilerplate-code/ originally retrieved Mon 14 Nov 2022 02:46:06 PM EST

enkiv2, 1 month ago to random

Random link from the archives: "We Had the COVID-19 Vaccine the Whole Time" https://web.archive.org/web/20201209093548/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/12/moderna-covid-19-vaccine-design.html originally retrieved Wed 09 Dec 2020 09:35:48 AM EST

enkiv2, 2 months ago to random

tricera bottoms

enkiv2, 2 months ago to random

when movies were shot on film, screwing up light levels would make your footage utterly unusable (and you'd still be out the cost of the film and the cost of developing the film), so even very low budget movies would have absolute experts doing camera and lighting, so you got a lot of beautiful trash

enkiv2, 3 months ago to random

Band name of the day: putrefiction

enkiv2, 3 months ago to random

marc andressen followed me on twitter for a few months and then immediately after unfollowing me started doing the bullshit he's currently doing, so i take full credit for the psychotic break he's clearly been in the middle of for the past year or so

enkiv2, 3 months ago to random

wild that so many people are putting, like, all their chips on Incompetence As A Service replacing trained employees, but it makes more sense when you realize that a lot of people making management decisions don't have the background to distinguish between a meaningful essay and clever bullshit, or between clean functional code and enterprise boilerplate bullshit

enkiv2, 4 months ago to random

@ernie

Have you considered doing a tedium article about the tracking stuff at the end of URLs? (Or having someone do one?) It occurred to me, because tedium links have several & I don't know what each component corresponds to...

enkiv2, 4 months ago to random

Hypnotist Gets Doom to Run on Volunteer’s Mind https://hard-drive.net/hd/video-games/hypnotist-gets-doom-to-run-on-volunteers-mind/

enkiv2, 4 months ago to random

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers | At a Loss for Words | APM Reports https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-schools-teach-reading

enkiv2, 4 months ago to random

i've been on bluesky for a couple days and my verdict is: it's twitter again, by the guy who did twitter the first time, and leans very normie (having none of the interesting subcultures that made twitter interesting except furries and cute-animal bots, both of which fedi is much better on). it's probably a good fit for people whose only problem with twitter is elon musk, & who thought it was perfect a couple years ago. they've rebranded saved searches as 'feeds' and they're trying to pitch it as a UI revolution, which it might be in the context of an app that looks and acts like somebody replaced the icon pack in the official twitter app. so far as i can tell it's very liberal and i'm one of only a handful of anarchists even on there.

enkiv2, 4 months ago to random

Random link from the archives: "Mortal Kombat movie theme: An interview with the guy who yells “Mortal Kombat.”" https://web.archive.org/web/20210424114218/https://slate.com/culture/2021/04/mortal-kombat-movie-theme-immortals-techno-syndrome-interview.html originally retrieved Sat 24 Apr 2021 11:42:18 AM EDT

enkiv2, 4 months ago to random

Whenever a text input box has the prompt "what's on your mind?" what is on my mind is the hit single What's On Your Mind? (Pure Energy) by Information Society from Tommy Boy Records and how the entire landscape of legal rulings on copyright in the digital age begins here, with a kid from Cleveland who likes roller blades an autistic amount sampling star trek and charting, back before the time lords and the kopyright liberation front. These dudes got radio play, but thought of what they did as disco (in the 80s) and would put modem noises on their vinyls you could play into the cassette port of your c64 and see a little text file.

enkiv2, 4 months ago to random

serial experiments lain is just twin peaks for people who know what a listserv is

enkiv2, 4 months ago to random

wtf does 'feel your feelings' even mean? a feeling is just a thought that won't stop giving you a tummy ache. if i could stop feeling my feelings that'd be fuckin ace.

enkiv2, 4 months ago to random

is there an independent (non-governmental) non-profit people can donate to that specializes in art grants for weird low-budget film making?

enkiv2, 4 months ago to random

being critical of LLMs but not because you want to strengthen copyright is a difficult situation, if you want to interact with outsiders. actually this happens to me a lot: i criticize liberals but from the left, i think UFOs are a genuine phenomenon worthy of study but i think disclosure is bullshit & so is the ETH, i like low budget exploitation movies but totally unironically. coming to your opinions from the ground up instead of copying the opinions of your friends & slowly justifying or adapting them leaves you with a bunch of nuanced positions that don't fit well with the pattern-matching NTs usually do when trying to slot you into some category & figure out how to interact with you. and it's not like i don't understand why that's valuable: i totally spend a bunch of effort trying to satisfy the boolean 'is this person a fascist' when meeting someone new because i don't want to spend time and effort listening to a fascist. the problem is that a lot of the time, these frames are literally put in place as a form of power consolidation: whether you support strengthening copyright or you support widespread use of LLMs, you're supporting exactly the same large businesses for the most part, and only a nuanced position that doesn't frame it in terms of complete automation of existing commercial roles is capable of producing arguments that aren't functionally just shilling for pearson; the framing that UFOs are hostile extraterrestrials or hallucinations is basically just a story the US air force made up because it allows them to pull a paul bennewitz on people on the one hand but also justify military funding on the other, just by changing how the media spins an existing policy (the official air force position on UFOs has not changed since the 1950s); ironic enjoyment promotes bad craft while justifying dismissing good craft & interesting experiments as inherently unserious, & promotes the idea that a 'real movie' is defined by its budget and polish; i don't think i need to explain to masto why an anarchocommunist would dunk on liberals.

enkiv2, 4 months ago to random

all these people talking about how bad their ADHD is and then listing autism symptoms instead of ADHD symptoms should probably go get an autism assessment