It's amazing how little many of the people who set tech policy understand about tech.
E.g., here's Senator Orin Hatch bragging about chairing the Senate High-Tech Task Force and then, puzzled, asking Zuckerberg how the company could possibly sustain a business if they don't charge users.
Zuck, caught off guard, takes a long pause and responds, "Senator, we run ads" (Zuck and the two FB staffers behind him, a VP and a lobbyist, hold in their laughter, with varying degrees of success).
“The moral bankruptcy of Habermas’s statement on Palestine marks a turning point in the colonial relationship between European philosophy and the rest of the world. The world has been awoken from the false slumber of European ethno-philosophy.”
Excellent piece by Hamid Dabashi #Eurocentrism is awful and so over.
Llamasoft's Matrix on the Nintendo Entertainment System. Work in Progress Edition. Scrolling background not included. 99p or near offer. https://github.com/mwenge/matrixnes/
Nearly 40 years ago Jeff Minter coded up the first version of #Psychedelia in 1K of 6502 assembler. "I was so moved by what I'd found that at first I refused to make it commercial... I felt that something so basic and lovely deserved more than just being another thing to be sold and profited from. I actually gave that first algorithm away in listing form to a computer magazine." http://www.minotaurproject.co.uk/psychedelia.php
If you like #Gridrunner but are not a fan of colour, sound, or glitch-free gameplay then the current state of my #NES conversion is for you. I wonder will I be able to make this work at all. The NES doesn't like character-based games - these should really be sprites I guess. Endless hours of fruitless tuning should do the trick.
this year's "hmm, actually this is bad" post: Eliezer Yudkowsky Is Frequently, Confidently, Egregiously Wrong (www.lesswrong.com)