On Seeing Like a Cat
dog-people think dogs are smarter than cats because they learn to obey commands and do tricks; cat-people think cats are smarter for the exact same reason
philosophy 
6 weeks ago
H.P. Lovecraft Answers Your Relationship Questions « The Bygone Bureau
"My girlfriend has metamorphosed into a kind of polyhedron with many pairs of feelers, membraneous wings, and fanged orifices on stalks. Should I talk to her about this, or keep hoping it’s just a phase? Snapshot enclosed."
humor  advice 
6 weeks ago
Using simple seccomp filters
Looks like finally configurable seccomp is going to make it to mainline.
seccomp  linux  security 
9 weeks ago
Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill | Mad In America
Americans have been increasingly socialized to equate inattention, anger, anxiety, and immobilizing despair with a medical condition, and to seek medical treatment rather than political remedies. What better way to maintain the status quo than to view inattention, anger, anxiety, and depression as biochemical problems of those who are mentally ill rather than normal reactions to an increasingly authoritarian society.
society 
february 2012
n+1: Sad as Hell
Opening Safari is an actively destructive decision. I am asking that consciousness be taken away from me.
books  culture  internet  alienation  via:graydon 
january 2012
Secure Password Ciphersuites for Transport Layer Security (TLS)
Apparently already adopted for the next wireless standard
pake 
january 2012
The canine challenge
A good kata program for I/O and concurrency.
programming  kata 
december 2011
The Social Graph is Neither (Pinboard Blog)
We have a name for the kind of person who collects a detailed, permanent dossier on everyone they interact with, with the intent of using it to manipulate others for personal advantage - we call that person a sociopath.
culture  design  social 
november 2011
Against the Institution: A Warning for ‘Occupy Wall Street’ « Andrew Gavin Marshall
The true struggle is not left versus right, democrat versus republican, liberal versus conservative, or libertarian versus socialist. The true struggle is that of people against the institution: the State, the banks, the central banking system, the corporation, the international financial institutions, the military, the political parties, the mainstream media, philanthropic foundations, think tanks, university, education, psychiatry, the legal system, the church, et. al.
politics 
october 2011
Harold Pinter's Nobel speech
'God is good. God is great. God is good. My God is good. Bin Laden's God is bad. His is a bad God. Saddam's God was bad, except he didn't have one. He was a barbarian. We are not barbarians. We don't chop people's heads off. We believe in freedom. So does God. I am not a barbarian. I am the democratically elected leader of a freedom-loving democracy. We are a compassionate society. We give compassionate electrocution and compassionate lethal injection. We are a great nation. I am not a dictator. He is. I am not a barbarian. He is. And he is. They all are. I possess moral authority. You see this fist? This is my moral authority. And don't you forget it.'
politics 
september 2011
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