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Art
- Caramelldansen gif template, via
kurenaiwataru; original source unknown.
Literature (including fanfic)
- An Anomaly in the Underground by Zennistrad, an Iji/Undertale fusion fic in which Iji (Iji) goes through the plot of Undertale. Look, if you know those games that's all we need to tell you. ... if you don't know those games, they're both big on "yes you can kill the enemies but should you".
- Better Living Through Algorithms by Naomi Kritzer, a fictional story about a very good wellness app
- Both is Good by KitKatt0430, a Tales of Symphonia fanfic in which Genis thinks about being bi.
- Project [REDACTED] by Swissed Toast, a Tales of Symphonia fanfic about a girl from a dying future Earth getting dropped into Tethe'alla to... well. She doesn't get to remember that. She wouldn't be able to keep a secret.
- Tales of Cosplayers by nightfoot: A Tales of Symphonia OC-insert fanfic in which two OCs were cosplaying as Lloyd and Colette and magic reasons means this causes them to take over the canon characters' bodies at the beginning of the canon plot. Content warning for being written in the late 00s in general, with several things that aged badly but mainly the kind of offensive humor that was common at the time; casual queerphobia and jokes trivializing rape. I suppose "aged badly" isn't quite the way to describe that but y'know. It's infrequent enough that I at least am still having fun overall, even if I'd really rather there not have been a "comedic" subplot spanning multiple chapters that could've been resolved with the sentence "all clothing is gender-neutral if you're not a coward".
- Time to Orbit: Unknown by Derin, a story about a sociologist on a suspended-animation spaceship waking up way too early and trying to figure out what the fuck.
- Worlds That Are Separate Yet Connected by SonGokuSaiyan1, yet another Tales of Symphonia OC-insert fanfic. (Can you tell I'm on a very specific hyperfixation?) This one died in 2018 only a single chapter in, but I like it enough to recommend it despite that.
Music
- The Way Out (2:24) by Chamber of Echoes. I have this in my notes as "because I keep fucking forgetting, this is the cs188 sad song". So there you go. For all its use as a YTP meme, it's unironically a decent song.
Videos
- GAME: Can you beat 1 in a 1,000,000 Odds? by CGP Grey: Interactive Youtube rock-paper-scissors. Can't really put a timestamp on this one, since its length depends on how many rounds you go. Calling it a "video" might be a stretch...
- How to Identify a Seal (25:38) by William Burwin, a video on how to distinguish various types of seal and seal-like creature. Mostly funny, but also informative, if one wants to know such things as "what is an eared seal".
Posts/etc
- What we've been calling the embroidery metaphor post, originally by Cat Bakewell and reposted on Tumblr. A metaphor for art in general, though in the case of embroidery it is just literally what is happening :p
- Hobby sites on Improbable Island. Okay so Improbable Island is a text adventure kinda game, which is fun as heck imo but we haven't played it in months because brain hard. And the hobby sites are because its main admin, CavemanJoe, wants to bring back old ads of the "I have an interesting thing, do you want to look at it" kind. So he set this system up on his site. We should set up a similar thing on Trouble Cube (I say as though more than 12 people use that site at all...)
- Cats on The Vagabond Tabby: Look, I know there's more on that site, but also..... there are kitties.
Informational
Cat fact's
- Cat Psychology & Domestication: Are We Good Owners? by Gwern: A review of Cat Sense by John Bradshaw, discussing, among many other things, the common shower thought that if we're neutering most cats, the only ones that get to breed are the ones that escape neutering most effectively, which is maybe not a super desirable selective pressure for the future of the triangle-eared babies.
- Why Cats Love Earwax by Gwern: Did you know cats love earwax? Yeah. It might be valeric acid.
Copyright
- "What 'fair use' is and how copyright is choking the internet" (1:28:25), by Adam Ragusea (podcast, youtube), discussing how fair use is deliberately vague and has multiple components and over time people have switched from caring mainly about the "educational" and "critical" aspects to the "noncommercial" one and now seem to be shifting once more to "transformative". Also probably other things about it, that's the one that stuck with me since this episode released in August.
Health
- Dental hygiene minmaxing: I spent way too fuckin long looking for these articles and I want you to have them now.
- How to Be a Responsible Adult and Brush Your Teeth Properly, by Harry Guinness for Popular Science via Pocket. Several little tips in here, but the one I had to dig this back up for is: Mouthwash, then brush and floss.
- How long to wait to eat after brushing teeth: the facts on brushing by Philips: I dug this one up to figure out the relative timing between brushing and meals. tl;dr, wait an hour to brush after eating (i.e. after dinner before bed) but don't worry about waiting to eat after brushing (i.e. in the morning before breakfast)
Social
- Hikikomori: The Haunting Echoes of Eugenics in Japan (16:35) by Meeka le Fay: Eugenics is obviously not the only factor leading to the phenomenon of shut-ins in Japan, but Meeka thinks it's startlingly overlooked and wanted to talk about it for a bit here.
- How I deal with impostor syndrome and rejection sensitivity by Autistic as Fxxk: Keep a compliment log. I decided to do that when I first read this a month ago and still haven't worked on it oh nooooo
- Killing Community by Viktor Lofgren: I dithered on whether this goes in 'social' or 'tech' but the latter section was looking a bit long so I'm putting it here. Communities can't take too much growth and still be communities.
- Model, Care, Execution by Bayes Shammai, discussing why people harm each other and how they can deal with that.
Tech
- An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Ensh*ttification (45:42) by Cory Doctorow at DEF CON 31: I'll be honest, I've forgotten most of what's in here, but I remember broadly approving.
- Gods and Golems by siderea, a discussion on what people want from AI and how that differs from what AI can actually do
- How to Compete with Patreon by siderea, a discussion of why people actually liked Patreon and rant about how Patreon is screwing themself over by missing this point
- Software Development Worst Practices by siderea: The many reasons why software development needs to quit being elitist for its own sake (exhibit A: laying off the technical writers and making the programmers write their own docs means the docs are getting written with a programmer's {higher} cost and {worse} technical writing skill)
- What do I think about Community Notes? by Vitalik Buterin, a discussion of how, despite everything Twitter is, the Community Notes feature seems to work really damn well.
- via Wayback, an apparently-untitled article by byuu/Near on the difficulties with emulating ROMs when users want to believe that boards with all their wires and chips and stuff can always be isomorphic to a single binary file, including one of the absolute kludges of all time. I find myself a bit more sympathetic to the BIN/CUE format after reading this...
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Date: 2023-12-22 03:19 pm (UTC)