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  • The Grind by Game Jam! | Free Listening on SoundCloud
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    Unused tracks from the Demonlocke OST.
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  • French Baguette Merci by Radiant | Free Listening on SoundCloud
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    Made and mastered completely in SunVox this time! Released at the online Edison 2020 party since I apparently require deadlines. Wanted to do something that sounded "fakebit".
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  • [Electronic] Alpha Centauri by SawZer | Saw Zer | Free Listening on SoundCloud
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    Sorry I've been reuploading this track a few times. I'm tired as hell and every time I upload and play this I find something stupid that I forgot. Well, I'm not nitpicking anymore. I'm leaving this be.
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  • Only Together by BLUE NAVI | Free Listening on SoundCloud
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  • Inform: Past, Present, Future
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    This is the talk and slides from the June 2018 London IF meetup, held at Elephant Studios in London South Bank University on 9 June 2018. I was invited to speak about Inform, past, present and future. via Pocket
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  • The rise of 'pseudo-AI': how tech firms quietly use humans to do bots' work | Technology | The Guardian
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    It’s hard to build a service powered by artificial intelligence. So hard, in fact, that some startups have worked out it’s cheaper and easier to get humans to behave like robots than it is to get machines to behave like humans. via Pocket
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  • The sound of SID: 35 years of chiptune's influence on electronic music
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    It can be hard to write about the music of videogames while we are bathed in the projected glory of today’s high-definition, 4K, 60-frames-per-second photorealistic graphics. via Pocket
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  • Gamasutra: Sebastien BENARD's Blog - Building the Level Design of a procedurally generated Metroidvania: a hybrid approach.
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    My name is Sebastien Benard and I'm currently working as the Lead Designer on Dead Cells, a procedurally generated Metroidvania. As you would expect, questions about the quality of our procedural generation pop up very regularly, with both players and other devs. via Pocket
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  • Relect - Neo Exdeath [č™šē„”] by wavforme | Free Listening on SoundCloud
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    Comic Market Day1 East Area ļ¼ŗ-01ab "wavforme & Compllege" / 2017.12.29 Composer: @relect-jp Mastering: @tomohikotogashi Artwork: SWAV Design: SoU
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  • Salvation Code by Scandroid | Free Listening on SoundCloud
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    https://ift.tt/1TYszcN Red and Raven have scoured the depths of the ancient wasteland they call home for something lost and buried, something revolutionary. What they unearthed was the New Retro sound of a forgotten era. Together, they formed Scandroid to bring that sound into their world. Based in an abandoned warehouse in Old Tokyo, they are surrounded by ancient technology and sound from the era of the 1980s. Beneath the shadow of the elite and unreachable Neo-Tokyo, they plan their revolution… https://ift.tt/2K1EP0o https://ift.tt/2Ik7OXp http://www.twitter.com/ScandroidMusic http://www.youtube.com/ScandroidOfficial https://ift.tt/2K02ONm Listen to Scandroid on Spotify! - http://spoti.fi/11Mpl2h
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  • Stewart Brand Recalls First 'Spacewar' Video Game Tournament - Rolling Stone
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    The first video game tournament was held on October 19th, 1972. Competitors gathered at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab in Los Altos, California to do battle in the sci-fi rocket combat game Spacewar. via Pocket
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  • Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems | Books | The Guardian
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    Financial meltdown, environmental disaster and even the rise of Donald Trump – neoliberalism has played its part in them all. Why has the left failed to come up with an alternative? Imagine if the people of the Soviet Union had never heard of communism. via Pocket
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  • On Quiet Developers – SeĆ”n Hanson – Medium
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    As a UI engineer, I’m as passionate about diversity and accessibility in the tech industry as I am about JavaScript. via Pocket
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  • End of the road: will automation put an end to the American trucker? | Technology | The Guardian
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    Jeff Baxter’s sunflower-yellow Kenworth truck shines as bright and almost as big as the sun. Four men clean the glistening cab in the hangar-like truck wash at Iowa 80, the world’s largest truck stop. via Pocket
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  • Insentricity :: Testing DRAM Using an Arduino ::
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    A couple of weekends ago I was in the mood to do some retrogaming and didn’t know what I wanted to play so I asked for some suggestions from Twitter. via Pocket
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  • Las Vegas should entirely change how we think about gun control.
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    In 2004, a blue-ribbon commission issued its report on the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Many lapses had allowed the plot to succeed, the report concluded, but the central failure was a lack of imagination. via Pocket
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  • A Program from a 35 Year Old Magazine for ā€œBASIC Monthā€ and a Chat with Its Author | Byte Cellar
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    July was BASIC Month over at r/Retrobattlestations and for that competition I decided to reach for my TI-99/4A and type in a TI Extended BASIC game called Pearl Harbor from the 1983 issue of Electronic Fun with Computers & Games…for the second time in 35 years. via Pocket
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  • The rise of the internet's 'dirtbag left' - Macleans.ca
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    Earlier this year, a sloppily doodled MS Paint comic appeared on Reddit—the online news aggregator and so-called ā€œfront page of the internetā€ā€”juxtaposing images of 20th-century fascism with more modern symbols of far-right political thought. via Pocket
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  • How to design a great Metroidvania map | PC Gamer
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    There's something uniquely satisfying about exploring the intricate 2D spaces of games modeled after Metroid and Castlevania. via Pocket
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  • Higher Order Components in React - Blog | SitePen
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    Traditionally, engineers use mixins, decorators, inheritance, and plain code duplication to add common functionality to a handful of components. via Pocket
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  • Sign up for a free IFTTT account - IFTTT
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    This post originally appeared on the NPR Extra blog. Since launching NPR One in 2014, we’ve been working to deliver a news and storytelling experience that meets users in all the places they are now and will be in the future. via Pocket
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  • Donald Trump Is the First White President - The Atlantic
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    The foundation of Donald Trump’s presidency is the negation of Barack Obama’s legacy. It is insufficient to state the obvious of Donald Trump: that he is a white man who would not be president were it not for this fact. via Pocket
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  • Here's How Breitbart And Milo Smuggled White Nationalism Into The Mainstream
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    In August, after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville ended in murder, Steve Bannon insisted that "there's no room in American society" for neo-Nazis, neo-Confederates, and the KKK. via Pocket
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  • A Program from a 35 Year Old Magazine for BASIC Month and a Chat with Its Author | Hacker News
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  • The Afterlife of Digital Ghosts – ZEAL – Medium
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    [This essay was funded through Patreon & Medium under the ZEAL project. ZEAL aims to provide high quality criticism of rarely discussed games and comics, and showcase the talents of exciting new writers and artists. via Pocket
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  • 302 Found
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    The first Bitcoin paper was first released in 2008. My excitement about the potential of blockchain technology has been building ever since.Ā Ā Decentralized digital currency, once just a far-fetched goal, is finally making inroads into the mainstream. via Pocket
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  • Breadboard a Computer
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    This small system has been tested, and it works! The aim of this page is to show you how to breadboard a computer, step by step, for the purpose of understanding how a computer system works. via Pocket
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  • 302 Found
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    Two weeks ago, I became intrigued with the idea of doing some form of real-time lighting on the PICO-8, a tiny fantasy console. via Pocket
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  • How 'Super Metroid' Inspired a Generation of Game Makers - Glixel
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    Donald Mustard remembers poring over previews of the sci-fi game Super Metroid in Nintendo Power magazine back in the summer of 1994. He remembers mowing lawns in the hot Houston sun so he could save up enough money to buy the game on launch day. via Pocket
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  • sectordub.itch.io
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    PICO-8 is a fantasy console to make, share and play tiny games and other computer programs. PICO-8 Zine is a 48-page fanzine made by and for PICO-8 users. via Pocket
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  • Inside the NSA’s shockingly successful simulated hack of the U.S. military.
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    Excerpted from Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War by Fred Kaplan. Out now from Simon & Schuster. On Wednesday, March 9, Kaplan will discuss his book in New York; for more information and to RSVP, visit the New America website. via Pocket
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  • Wait! The Web Isn’t Dead After All. Google Made Sure of It | WIRED
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    In 2010, the web died. Or so said the publication you’re reading right now. via Pocket
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  • ā€˜Eve Online’: The Battle For Control Of The Most Boring Video Game In The World
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    Alex Gianturco was a successful corporate lawyer based in Washington. Then, in 2011, he gave up his day job at Zuckerman Spaeder LLP, moved to Madison, Wisconsin, and focused all his efforts on his other passion: being a space pirate. via Pocket
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  • Why I No Longer Use MVC Frameworks
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    The worst part of my job these days is designing APIs for front-end developers. The conversation goes inevitably as: I don’t even argue anymore. via Pocket
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  • How to build your very own keyboard firmware • deskthority
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    It may seem daunting to work with Hasu's wall of code but the files you need to modify are not many and you don't actually need to fully understand the code. I myself don't understand 100% of it, so if I write some bullshits I hope Hasu will chime in. via Pocket
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  • Right-Wing Extremists Are a Bigger Threat to America Than ISIS
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    By Since 2002, right-wing militants have killed more people in the United States than jihadis have. via Pocket
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  • The Neurologist Who Hacked His Brain—And Almost Lost His Mind | WIRED
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    The brain surgery lasted 11 and a half hours, beginning on the afternoon of June 21, 2014, and stretching into the Caribbean predawn of the next day. via Pocket
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  • Iran's blogfather: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are killing the web | Technology | The Guardian
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    Hossein Derakhshan was imprisoned by the regime for his blogging. On his release, he found the internet stripped of its power to change the world and instead serving up a stream of pointless social trivia Late in 2014, I was abruptly pardoned and freed from Evin prison in northern Tehran. via Pocket
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  • The shocking truth about Silicon Valley genius Doug Engelbart | ZDNet
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    TributesĀ to the genius of computer pioneer Doug Engelbart are flooding the web following the announcement of his death at the age of 88.Ā  His work transformed the way people use computers today by making them accessible and "personal. via Pocket
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  • Apple never had a shot at rethinking TV.
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    Ever since a dying Steve Jobs reportedly said he’d finally figured out TV, the tech press has breathlessly anticipated the appearance of the mythical Apple TV, the Great Pumpkin of the tech world. via Pocket
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  • Doug Engelbart | The Economist
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    WHEN you are a visionary, it’s hard to get other people to see as you do. When you have a plan to save the world through men and computers working together, as Doug Engelbart had, it’s hard to enlist the guys at the water-cooler to take part in the crusade. via Pocket
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  • LOVECRAFTIAN CYBORGS AND THE ALIEN AESTHETIC: Part 1 – Cyborgs of the Abyss | Journal of a Cosmic Anthropologist
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    What follows are my extended thoughts and personal reflections a week two weeks after watching Bruce Sterling deliver a lecture on Alien Aesthetics. It’s a look at the weirder side of cyborg life and our posthuman future. via Pocket
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  • 'I have lived over half of my life' | Life and style | The Guardian
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    I don't know what to call it, really. Midlife crisis sounds so flamboyant, so ridiculous, so… exciting. And I haven't run off with a builder, or moved to Thailand to find my real self, or embarked on a brand-new drug habit, or taken up free rock climbing. via Pocket
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  • What does it mean to be a man in the age of austerit...
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    When Gary Gilbert lost his job, it was devastating. A tradesman, he had joined his employer’s company only because he thought it offered a bit more security than endlessly chasing the next gig as a freelance operator, and that he could then provide a better future for his son. via Pocket
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  • mobile.nytimes.com
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    This spring, the novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie put a new spin on the commencement speech, that most staid of genres. Speaking at Wellesley College, she didn’t emphasize how the graduates had been helped by their education, but how they had been hindered by it. via Pocket
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  • When Did Americans Lose Their British Accents? | Mental Floss
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    Readers Nick and Riela have both written to ask how and when English colonists in America lost their British accents and how American accents came about. via Pocket
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  • Anti-intellectualism is taking over the US | Comment is free | The Guardian
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    Recently, I found out that my work is mentioned in a book that has been banned, in effect, from the schools in Tucson, Arizona. via Pocket
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  • Save for Later — Medium
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    In July 2014, Alexis Madrigal reported for NPR on the strange case of Pinterest. via Pocket
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  • The CompuServe of Things
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    On the Net today we face a choice between freedom and captivity, independence and dependence. You may view that statement as melodramatic, but the near future will incorporate computers into more facets of our lives than we can imagine. via Pocket
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  • Our Favorite Cliche - A World Filled With Idiots
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    It can be hard to notice things you take for granted — assumptions that are never questioned, because everyone shares them. via Pocket
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