Why have a blog?
Laying out the goals & principles for my site
2022 - To Read
v buckenham on Twitter
"You might have noticed that nearly all presentations of AI art include the text prompt"https://t.co/TPLIEMMuW9— v buckenham (@v21) June 6, 2022
The beauty of Unix pipelines
Some examples of using unix tools in a pipeline
Half-Earth Socialism’s Five Book Plan
As authors Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass argue in their thrilling and provocative new book, we must humbly accept that humanity cannot fully understand or control the earth—but we can plan new energy systems, large-scale rewilding, and food production for the common good. Here the authors present their Five Book Plan for imagining a utopian eco-socialist future – or a future at all.
After the war — apocalypse | The Spectator
Ian Buruma's Year Zero remembers the generation that rose from the ashes of world war two
The First Lisp Compiler - kinda neat historical article
Posted in r/lisp by u/OpsikionThemed • 21 points and 0 comments
Andrew J Ryan | Sound Designer on Twitter
Milestone today – 50 #gameaudio job rejections (in 2 years – screenshot from spreadsheet with the automated rejection counter)!Here are some of the lessons I’ve learned and things I’ve observed, hopefully this can help people in similar positions! Rejection – A Thread (1/18) pic.twitter.com/hFf25Wok3F— Andrew J Ryan | Sound Designer (@ajryangameaudio) May 20, 2022
Justin E. Bell on Twitter
If you're you're looking for a free sound database app or are trying to break in as a sound designer and need one, check out this awesome free database program from Sound Particles. It's EXTREMELY robust!Shout out to @PHrequencies for sharing it at workhttps://t.co/bw2MXwYahn— Justin E. Bell (@sonic_presence) June 1, 2022
Richard📘Lemarchand #BLM on Twitter
Just a reminder that @hannahnicklin’s book, ‘Writing for Games: Theory and Practice,’ came out today. I’ve only read the introduction so far, but it’s informative, connective, funny, and on-point. Can’t wait to use it in class! Congratulations, Hannah! https://t.co/Qf4v5BBunb— Richard📘Lemarchand #BLM (@rich_lem) May 24, 2022
natie on Twitter
we can fix this… we have the technology https://t.co/QRiSvlxB21 pic.twitter.com/r0KO7SBX4P— natie (@natienoizy) May 30, 2022
On the Origins of the Quinarian System of Classification
Journal of the History of Biology - William Sharp Macleay developed the quinarian system of classification in his Horæ Entomologicæ, published in two parts in 1819 and 1821. For two...
Dan Jones 🌻 on Twitter
Huh. There’s a name for it. I never knew. https://t.co/mIf2e0ASDs— Dan Jones 🌻 (@txakori) May 31, 2022
Forth
Compositional components, emergent protocols
Compositionality is the principle that a system should be designed by composing together smaller subsystems, and reasoning about the system should be done recursively on its structure.
Computer Simulations as Scientific Instruments
Foundations of Science - Computer simulations have conventionally been understood to be either extensions of formal methods such as mathematical models or as special cases of empirical practices...
Fake Ass Proton on Twitter
pic.twitter.com/lQjSBU56UK— Fake Ass Proton (@ProtonInspector) May 29, 2022
Structures and Processes of a Galois Connection
A look at Galois connection in the context of binary relations between two sets. The post unfolds its local constituent structures and processes. It then folds these up, to highlight the global picture of the interesting dualities in action.
On Stretch Wrap — The Prepared
The diaphanous material that expands and stretches to hold together the containerized world.
Writer’s Cramp: In the E-Reader Era, a Book a Year Is Slacking (Published 2012)
Some authors, like the novelist James Patterson, are producing 12 or more books a year to satisfy readers who are increasingly used to on-demand entertainment.
Alex Klaushofer on Twitter
Anyone ever keep a scrapbook? Or a commonplace book?Here's a nice little book about collecting sources of inspiration in our times.https://t.co/ltmzncboHX pic.twitter.com/NHI2YfFlPd— Alex Klaushofer (@alexklaushofer) May 15, 2022
Douglass North on Institutions
The late economist Douglass North is one of the most underrated in the field. He won the Nobel Prize, but you’ll never hear his name or work discussed in a traditional economics class. It’s a shame, because the work he produced was foundational to creating a coherent framework of how societies, power structures, and economies evolve.
There’s No Place Like Blog
Hello WordPress editor, has it really been 24 days since cracking you open here at el cogdogblog dot com? Indeed yes. With the world ongoing plodding into now a regular incertitude I have found mys…
Chris Aldrich on Twitter
Creating a commonplace book or #zettelkasten index from @Hypothes_is tags#Obsidian #ToolsForThought #NoteTakinghttps://t.co/JSGD1Y0C1B— Chris Aldrich (@ChrisAldrich) May 21, 2022
fred first on Twitter
"To curate is a more challenging and difficult activity than simply writing."Curation is the invisible part of the iceberg that holds up the few above-the-water words that get posted. #writing #curation #commonplacebookWhy To Curate Informationhttps://t.co/mKCWW89uAb— fred first (@fred1st) May 23, 2022
‘Pericles’, ‘Reynard the Foxe’, Sidney’s ‘Arcadia’, Florio’s ‘Montaigne’ and More in Northwestern MS 67
Abstract. This paper offers an edition of 214 extracts contained in Northwestern MS 67, a manuscript completed no earlier than 1614, and a commentary on the com
Rebecca Ariel Porte on Twitter
In which one considers Rachel Eisendrath's *Gallery of Clouds* and the life in criticism @LAReviewofBooks https://t.co/K6qeoXc3BY— Rebecca Ariel Porte (@___OED___) April 27, 2021
Piers Haslam 🌺 on Twitter
It feels apt somehow to borrow this from the local public library... pic.twitter.com/cS1S3Q6pGP— Piers Haslam 🌺 (@phghaslam) April 30, 2021
What We Want When We Read | Sarah Chihaya
In the April 29, 2021 issue we published Sarah Chihaya’s “All Over Desire,” a review of Mieko Kawakami’s Breasts and Eggs, a novel full of women who “do
Humanities & Public Life
A book series
Shannon Mattern on Twitter
Listening to a fabulous book talk about Reinhold Martin’s new Knowledge Worlds: Media, Materiality, and the Making of the Modern University, a book I’ve been eagerly awaiting for a year, and which I look forward to reading this summer! https://t.co/erHIFt2WO5 pic.twitter.com/c6dKP98XZe— Shannon Mattern (@shannonmattern) May 14, 2021