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@silverwizard Well, for starters, you have to purify yourself in the waters of Lake Mandalore

@mdhughes @dougmerritt @screwtape @me @sacha @cwebber Snow Crash is sine qua non, but it earned its place for me alone by showing exactly what was wrong with Ready Player One: the heroes were an eccentric billionaire, a consumer, and DRM

@prahou the moment of sheer musical bliss when Rob Zombei “Dragula” meshes and segues into The Prodigy “Minefields” in the club scene from the Matrix

This implies the existence of a full three hour DJ set created for the scene. What lost tracks could not contain?

Cinnamon and sugary and softly spoken lies

@prahou @screwtape @interlisp
The key section of Lies, Inc. is when a character is shot with a dart delivered militarized hallucinogen. This is a hell of a way to make me want to get trapped in Interlisp, vibes check out

The book also prepared me to be able to read and enjoy Gravity’s Rainbow

@prahou @screwtape @interlisp
_Lies, Inc_ by PKD #ubik_book_club

@freakazoid @screwtape @hayley Thinking about the number of junior Python programmers who “declare” variables like each one is coming out of their paychecks, I have to agree

🎵in a sky full of people, only some want to fly, isn't that crazy

@screwtape @hayley as
An aside, when “The Bipolar Lisp Programmer” speaks of C being like making a mosaic from hot glue and lentils, the image in my mind is the fresco of Justinian I in Ravenna

@screwtape @hayley This thread has put “cachet invalidation” in my mind and it ain’t leaving

This line of reasoning rhymes with a visual “sociopath test” I saw many years ago which presented at least one old-woman/rabbit two-faces/vase optical illusions and purported that sociopaths are able to see both because they are not bound to a single interpretation of reality

If C and its classics are in Latin, then Lisp and its classics are in Chinese: a radically different mode of expressing ideas in spoken and written words. To a mind trained only on Virgil and Cicero, so to speak, iteration and recursion are worlds apart, but to one who has read The Water Margin and Journey to the West (really the Little Schemer) they are simply aminor differences in phrasing

Which is a long winded way of agreeing that to understand Lisp you have to be at least moderately insane (haha yes)

There was an ironic live action remake with Jonah Hill:

101 Dalmatian Alley

Q: What’s a 2D animated movie Didaney did in the 1970s about a family in an up-armored RV surviving in a post-apocalyptic urban wasteland and fighting giant mutant cockroaches with more than a hundred purebred dogs to protect them?

A: Dalmatian Alley

@prahou @sigrid
“Second Variety” by PKD (Space Science Fiction, 1953)
_AI for Game Developers_ by Bourg & Seeman (O’Reilly, 2004)

#ubik_book_club

I am still thinking about how they lit the global telephone network on fire and rolled it down the hill. And now all the lobbyists dollars go to make sure it keeps rolling and burning. Even the cellular network is now a data network wearing the skin of mobile calling, it’s all packets.

The telephone lines are like railroads left to rot last century. The LLM bubble is this century’s streetcar conspiracy, what we need are some freeway revolts

@prahou “The Days of Perky Pat” by PKD

(My dollhouse will have a fully functional miniature PDP-11 with scale 48VAC three phase power)

@screwtape @synlogic when isn’t emacs the emacs of x for any value of x?

@synlogic @screwtape what’s the emacs? PlantUML is a bit too Borland

For a couple months now, Shazam has stopped recognizing songs. For years and years it was a parlor trick showing the possibilities of always-on magical services, and now it sits and spins on everything. I looked on the web to see if anyone else noticed this and got nothing but LLM generated numbered list slop

It’s the same with search engines and social media: the lights are on but nobody’s home.

@prahou @getimiskon @screwtape VALIS by Philip K. Dick

@djsundog Be the computer industry you want to be interested in what’s new from

@silverwizard Automate the grumbling too