Jonne Arjoranta @jonne@arjoranta.fi
I do digital culture, game studies, role-playing games and Linux.
"Pounded In The Butt By My Reluctance To Buy A Humble Bundle Featuring Stories With Gay Characters As Though That Has Some Kind Of Bearing On My Own Sexuality Or The Quality Of The Product Then Eventually Realizing It's Pretty Good And I'm Fine"
Humble Bundle has a bundle of butts by Chuck Tingle: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/chuck-tingle-books
So far I've spent my holiday upgrading my servers. I turn into a sysadmin when I get off work.
Amazing
"The power of the Web wasn’t taken or stolen. We, collectively, by the billions, gave it away with every signed user agreement and intimate moment shared with technology."
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/07/the-man-who-created-the-world-wide-web-has-some-regrets
My new favourite sentence from a book description: "At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied."
Take me down to Chomsky City
Where the colorless green ideas sleep furiously
If listicles are good enough for Euclid and Ludwig von Wittgenstein, they're good enough for me
The summary on the different criticisms is also good: http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/06/28/highlights-from-the-comments-on-piketty/
This was a pretty good review of Capital In The Twenty-First Century - http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/06/24/book-review-capital-in-the-twenty-first-century/
Current state of webdesign - http://fczbkk.com/current-state-of-webdesign/
Reclaiming RSS
“Before Twitter, before algorithmic timelines filtered our reality for us, before surveillance capitalism, there was RSS: Really Simple Syndication … As we move away from the centralised web to the peer web, it’s time to rediscover, re-embrace, and reclaim RSS.”
Amazing video on fascism in Star Wars by Lindsay Ellis. She’s probably the greatest critic of our time. This video illuminates a lot of unpleasant truths about our current political systems https://youtu.be/XAVeyXwy3BE
Moved my personal website over to a virtual machine. Running it on Caddy now. Seems pretty good, especially the automatic HTTPS.
2008: First it was floppies, then CDs, and now USB flash drives. I wonder what new medium we'll be using for household data storage next?
2018: Turns out the new storage medium is just hard drives except now they're in distant and undisclosed locations
Dungeons & Dragons is in the business of selling fantasy. Not the stuff with the magic and monsters -- the part where you *actually believe* that you and several other likeminded adults will be able to coordinate your schedules on a regular basis.
Tried Life is Strange for a couple of hours. Then the game crashed and corrupted the save file.
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tired: gender binary
wired: building gender from source
Shout out to drunk Carlos who was worried about "intr- intre- internet communication safety" but was too drunk to explain how. Me too, buddy.
Weird encounter of the day: a drunk guy (my guess: British with some Indian ancestry) wanted to explain at length how "the SWJs" [sic] are the worst.
Customer loyalty schemes weird me out, so I don't do them. This summarizes nicely why.
