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  • How Introverts Can Work with Extroverts
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    I spent the first 15 years of my life wondering why everyone was always in my space. I tried my best to be quiet and stay out of people’s way, but there always seemed to be enough of them pushing into my bubble. via Pocket
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  • Jon Stewart: why I quit The Daily Show | Media | The Guardian
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    There was no one moment when Jon Stewart knew it was time for him to leave what he describes as “the most perfect job in the world”; no epiphany, no flashpoint. via Pocket
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  • How to embrace loneliness: a modern guide | Nell Frizzell | Comment is free | The Guardian
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    Loneliness can creep through your bones like a disease, wash over you unexpectedly as if a stranger’s vomit, or sit in the pit of your stomach for weeks like undigested chewing gum. Especially, it turns out, if you’re young. Of course it’s easy to be lonely in your 20s. via Pocket
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  • Why Human Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Will Evolve Together, by Stephen Hsu
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    When it comes to artificial intelligence, we may all be suffering from the fallacy of availability: thinking that creating intelligence is much easier than it is, because we see examples all around us. via Pocket
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  • The internet is so damn unpleasant. Do we need fewer humans and more bots? | Jess Zimmerman | Comment is free | The Guardian
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    In a welcome sign of the coming singularity, Buzzfeed just announced that it has built a sentence generator that mimics the turgid writing style of New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. via Pocket
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  • 30 Years Later, Real Genius is Still the Geek Solidarity Film That Nerd Culture Deserves | Tor.com
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    It’s interesting to me that Revenge of the Nerds, while still full up of the nostalgia that the 80s lends us, is lately being repositioned in the zeitgeist. via Pocket
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  • Don't Blame Your Community: Ad Blocking Is Not Killing Any Sites | Techdirt
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    Every so often we hear about a random blog or website that freaks out and claims that ad blockers are "stealing" or somehow damaging websites. But it's quite a surprise to see a similar argument from a site like Ars Technica -- one of the top techie sites out there, which is now owned by Conde Nast. via Pocket
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  • Restart Game? Text Adventures Make A Comeback ⚙ Co.Labs ⚙ code + community
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    On Oct. 30, developer Andrew Plotkin released his long-awaited game Hadean Lands, a fantasy space adventure backed by a Kickstarter campaign funded almost four years ago. via Pocket
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  • State Change - Lightspeed Magazine
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    Every night, before going to bed, Rina checked the refrigerators. There were two in the kitchen, on separate circuits, one with a fancy ice dispenser on the door. There was one in the living room holding up the TV, and one in the bedroom doubling as a nightstand. via Pocket
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  • Run Better | crazy running guy
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    This is part 2 of 4 in a series about how I prepare to run long distances. via Pocket
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  • Building With Node.js At The New York Times
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    Felipe is the development manager of NYT's video team, responsible for maintaining Times Video and the Video API, both written in NodeJS. My first contact with programming was via Macromedia Flash, circa 2000, when the first major version of ActionScript was developed. via Pocket
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  • Ginsburg decision in Arizona case: Supreme Court rules against gerrymandering.
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    Justice Antonin Scalia may have been the worst-behaved justice in the courtroom this morning, Dahlia—but the chief was the most obnoxious on paper. via Pocket
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  • How Hacking Helped Me Become Obama’s CTO — Backchannel — Medium
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    Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) — those early precursors of the World Wide Web — fundamentally changed my relationship to computers. Before I discovered the boards, I thought of a computer as something to program and play video games on. via Pocket
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  • The Full-Time Job Is Dead — Backchannel — Medium
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    Who wants to work 40 hours a week for a single employer? In the future, perhaps nobody. The full-time job, used to it as we are, is not some natural state of human existence. Before the 1800s, few people worked a structured “work week. via Pocket
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  • Max Headroom: the definitive history of the 1980s digital icon | The Verge
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    It was way ahead of its time. [Peter] was very lucky to have come in this door when he did with this project. Because I don’t know what else or where else anything that odd would have taken root. Today, there’d be a million places for . via Pocket
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  • Will Superintelligent AI Ignore Humans Instead of Destroying Us? | Motherboard
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    We’re marching toward the singularity, the day when artificial intelligence is smarter than us. That has some very smart people such as Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk worried that robots will enslave or destroy us—but perhaps there’s another option. via Pocket
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  • ​The Counselor | Motherboard
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    Today's Terraform dispatch is a special event: We've teamed up with the think/do tank Data & Society to help them unleash their "Intelligence & Autonomy" project. via Pocket
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  • Die Antwoord - Enter The Ninja (CHAPPIE OST) by indomoviemania.com | Free Listening on SoundCloud
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    Theme song of Chappie (2015) Artis: Die Antwoord Title: Enter The Ninja
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  • Intergalactic Rock Commandos (Nightstalker vs Beastie Boys) by Kill_mR_DJ [3] | Free Listening on SoundCloud
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    DOWNLOAD MP3: http://download2.hearthis.at/?track=killmrdj/killmrdj-intergalactic-rock-commandos-nightstalker-vs-beastie-boys Sources: * Nightstalker - Dead Rock Commandos * Beastie Boys - Intergalactic
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  • Pure Rock You by Fissunix | Free Listening on SoundCloud
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    Bootleg / Mashup : Queen VS Placebo " Pure Rock You " Instru : Placebo > Pure Morning Acapella : Queen > We Will Rock You
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  • I CAN SEE YOUR SIRIUS PRESSURE MIND - PARAMORE Vs APP (Ayee Mashups) by Ayee Mashups u0026 Remix | Free Listening on SoundCloud
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    I CAN SEE YOUR SIRIUS PRESSURE MIND - PARAMORE Vs APP (Ayee Mashups) Pressure - Paramore Sirius - APP Eye in the Sky - app (DJ S remix)
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  • Industrial Head (NIN / KMFDM / Nitzer Ebb / Ministry / Front 242 +) by LeeDM101 | Free Listening on SoundCloud
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    Sources used: Nine Inch Nails - Head Like A Hole (vocal and chant samples) Nine Inch Nails - Sanctified (drum stem) KMFDM - Animal Out (loops) Nitzer Ebb - Captivate (drums) Nitzer Ebb - Lightning Man (bass loop) Ministry - Thieves (12" remix) Ministry - Bad Blood (sample) Front 242 - Paradise (sample) Front 242 - Manhunter Rammstein - Rammstein (sample)
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  • Robert Reich: America is headed full speed back to the 19th century - Salon.com
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    My recent column about the growth of on-demand jobs like Uber making life less predictable and secure for workers unleashed a small barrage of criticism that workers get what they’re worth in the market. via Pocket
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  • Flickering the Gaslight: Tactics of Organized Online Harassment by Gersande La FlĂšche | Model View Culture
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    There is a scene in the 1944 movie Gaslight that always creeps under my skin. Bella, portrayed by Ingrid Bergman, joins her husband in the dining room as he sorts through the mail brought in by the maid. via Pocket
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  • PC Music x DISown Radio ft. A. G. Cook, GFOTY, Danny L Harle, Lil Data, Nu New Edition and Kane West by PC Music ♩ - Hear the world’s sounds
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    http://disown.pcmusic.info DISown Radio broadcasts on http://radio.dismagazine.com every Sunday from 2 EST and live at Red Bull Studios New York 00:00 - A. G. Cook @agcook 10:00 - GFOTY @gfoty 20:00 - Danny L Harle @dannylharle 30:00 - Lil Data @lil-data 40:00 - Nu New Edition @??? 50:00 - Kane West @kane-west-official Visuals by Kim Laughton
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  • The Twelve-Factor App
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    In the modern era, software is commonly delivered as a service: called web apps, or software-as-a-service. The twelve-factor app is a methodology for building software-as-a-service apps that: via Pocket
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  • The Internet's Original Sin - The Atlantic
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    It's not too late to ditch the ad-based business model and build a better web. Ron Carlson’s short story “What We Wanted To Do” takes the form of an apology from a villager who failed to protect his comrades from marauding Visigoths. via Pocket
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  • Bruce Sterling on Why It Stopped Making Sense to Talk About 'The Internet' in 2012 - The Atlantic
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    Five simple reasons: Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft. Many people use, as a kind of shorthand, The Internet to mean a wide variety of things related to this series of tubes. The Internet could mean the culture made and distributed on the Internet, the LOLCATZ, memes, etc. via Pocket
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  • David Byrne: 'The internet will suck all creative content out of the world' | Music | The Guardian
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    Awhile ago Thom Yorke and the rest of Radiohead got some attention when they pulled their recent record from Spotify. via Pocket
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  • Why David Byrne is wrong about Spotify | Dave Allen | Comment is free | The Guardian
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    It feels strange to sit down and begin writing a rebuttal to the declamation of a musician who I really admire. David Byrne wrote an article last week for the Guardian in which he states: "I've pulled as much of my catalogue from Spotify I can. via Pocket
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  • The Web Will Kill Apps - John Battelle's Search Blog
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    Lots of the “apps are killing the web” meme going around these days, with the latest batch of casket sealant come from no greater validator of commonly agreed upon wisdom than the Wall St. Journal. via Pocket
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  • The Myth Of AI | Edge.org
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    That mythology, in turn, has spurred a reactionary, perpetual spasm from people who are horrified by what they hear. You'll have a figure say, "The computers will take over the Earth, but that's a good thing, because people had their chance and now we should give it to the machines. via Pocket
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  • The web idealists have a point: content can't truly blossom in walled gardens | Advertising news | Campaign
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    The movement being what it is, there is not necessarily a canonical, single set of principles, but here’s something close, and it sums the idea up pretty well: "Your content is yours. When you post something on the web, it should belong to you, not a corporation. via Pocket
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  • Lost Garden: Multiplayer Logistics
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    How do we get players to play together in a manner that fits their schedules? This is a key logistical challenge a designer faces when building multiplayer games. The promise We are seeing a blossoming of innovative multiplayer systems. via Pocket
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  • Jammed — Backchannel — Medium
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    The proof is in: Detailed report shows how U.S. Internet access monopolies punish rivals and catch innocent bystanders in the crossfire—legally.Devan Dewey, the Chief Technology Officer of midsize investment consultancy NEPC, has an orderly office and a highly organized mind. via Pocket
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  • “Saturday Night Live” and Richard Pryor: The untold story behind “SNL’s” edgiest sketch ever - Salon.com
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    Up until the mid-1970s, the networks had little interest in Saturday late-night shows. After the eleven o’clock news, the airwaves were a bone-yard for local affiliates, the final resting place for schlock movies from the 1950s and ’60s. via Pocket
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  • 20 years of blogging
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    Mike Arrington once said they would erect a statue in my honor in Palo Alto. I said it'll never happen. A couple of years later the same guy asked me why everyone hates me so much. Or something like that. In both cases I'm paraphrasing. via Pocket
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  • What’s Wrong with Twitter’s Latest Experiment with Broadcasting Favorites — The Message — Medium
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    Last month, I was invited to Twitter to give a talk. Twitter has made a huge, positive difference in my life, and changed the landscape of politics in multiple countries I studied, including my home country, Turkey. via Pocket
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  • The Secret History of Hypertext - The Atlantic
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    The conventional history of computing leaves out some key thinkers. via Pocket
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  • (Re)Becoming Human - Human Food Project
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  • David Graeber: “Spotlight on the financial sector did make apparent just how bizarrely skewed our economy is in terms of who gets rewarded” - Salon.com
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    David Graeber is an American anthropologist who teaches at the London School of Economics. He is the author of the classic “Debt: The First Five Thousand Years” and played an important role in the launching of Occupy Wall Street. via Pocket
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  • Why and How Should We Build a Basic Income for Every Citizen?
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    What are our goals as a species? This, to me, is the most important question we can ask ourselves as human beings. Another way to say it: What is the meaning of our existence as a species? We never seem to directly ask ourselves these two questions in a collective way, which seems very odd to me. via Pocket
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  • Advanced objects in JavaScript
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    This posts looks beyond everyday usage of JavaScript’s objects. The fundamentals of JavaScripts objects are for the most part about as simple as using JSON notation. via Pocket
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  • www.nytimes.com
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    THE way we’re working isn’t working. via Pocket
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  • An Introduction to the MEAN Stack
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    The term MEAN stack refers to a collection of JavaScript based technologies used to develop web applications. MEAN is an acronym for MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS and Node.js. From client to server to database, MEAN is full stack JavaScript. via Pocket
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  • How the growing generation gap is changing the face of fandom
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    Earlier this month, two fan conventions came to London: Nine Worlds and the World Science Fiction Convention, commonly know as Worldcon. Worldcon is in its 72nd year, a huge old dinosaur (or perhaps an aging dragon) of science-fiction fandom. via Pocket
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  • The Greatest Fake Religion of All Time
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    Over fifty years ago, a group of pranksters founded a satiric religion devoted to creating conspiracy theories so insane that nobody would ever believe uncritically in conspiracies again. They called themselves the Discordians. And their weird ideas are still influencing us today. via Pocket
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  • Hunter S. Thompson On Finding Your Purpose | Your Friends House
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    In April of 1958, a 22 year-old Hunter S. Thompson wrote a letter on the meaning of life when asked by a friend for advice. What makes his response all the more profound is the fact that at the time, the world had no idea that he would become one of the most important writers of the 20th century. via Pocket
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  • Going the distance: driving the Tesla Model S in the real world | The Verge
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    It’s difficult to get comfortable in the driver’s seat of a $100,000 car that isn’t yours. The particular Model S I flew to Los Angeles to sample last week was a Signature Performance model. via Pocket
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  • Dark Arts | The Verge
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    We’re in a weird time for the way the future looks; somehow House of Cards can slyly introduce a floating text-message interface to their present-day political drama without so much as blinking, but most of our iconic near- and far-future worlds run on tracks laid down well before the ’90s. via Pocket
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