I wrote a song this weekend inspired by Greg Egan’s short story “Learning To Be Me”. I also made significant progress in my code to puppet and motion-capture the characters in my VR flying saucer story. To celebrate, here is a video of me in the ship’s galley (and also in my studio) doing a…
DEATH is on the cards in this week’s Bitcoin Tarot Podcast. For the first time in six months of weekly readings, the tarot turns deadly on Bitcoin in Cosmic Conroy’s 18th May broadcast. Click here to view at Youtube if the player below fails Past: 5 Wands – Strife Present: 13th Trump – Death Future:…
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In order to avoid having to think about three dimensional vector maths, I have wasted half my weekend writing and recording a song inspired by Hagbard Celine, a person with whom I would have many deep political and philosophical differences if he were a real person. While also being broadly in agreement. My weakened RSI-riddled…
Last week the cards said that we had had it too good, and that judgement would bring ruin, then sure enough the price of Bitcoin dropped around 10% over the week. This week, Cosmic Conroy reads the cards and finds that the downturn will end, and with acceptance will come growth. Click here to view…
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Last week the cards said that signs of growth were illusory, futile and would lead nowhere. Bitcoin promptly ignored that and grew 10% in a week, mostly today. This week, Cosmic Conroy makes his excuses then reads the cards finding that we have had it too good, and soon judgement will bring ruin. Click here…
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Nuh-huh! If anyone blew off everything all weekend and spent the entire time making a song about “Bob” instead it was probably you! Click here to view at Youtube if the player below fails Words mostly by Ivan Stang and the Church Of The Subgenius Recording a song with the in-built recording thing on my…
Last week the cards said that the period of calm would be ended by portents of growth, then Bitcoin went up 20% before falling back half of it’s gains. Was that a portent? Cosmic Conroy reads the cards and finds that the signs of growth were illusory and futile and will lead nowhere. Past: 7…
Read more #Bitcoin #Tarot #Podcast Price Analysis 27th April 2018
Last week the cards predicted adventure and we got… Flat-lining? After making excuses for that, this week Cosmic Conroy’s reading suggests that this period of peace will be ended by portents of growth. Past: 10 Wands – Oppression Present: 2 Swords – Peace Future: Prince of Disks Meta: 8 Disks – Prudence Synopsis: This period…
Read more #Bitcoin #Tarot #Podcast Price Analysis 19th April 2018
After eight months of work, the sci-fi virtual-reality story I’m working on has it’s V0.2 release with a new mini-story, an emotional-expression engine, some motion-capture experiments and a little minx of a lizard monster. Check it out at my other website: tentacles.org.uk/starship
My sci-fi story is done, it’s actually finally done! Well, you know, 20% done. But the 20%-done version mini-story is DONE and will be uploaded starting next week. Starship Schrödinger’s Destiny is my interactive Virtual Reality sci-fi story about the crew of a flying saucer. You can see a few clips buried amongst five minutes…
After last week predicting that patience would rewards us with a buying opportunity, Cosmic Conroy reads the cards again and finds that once we understand our impetuousness more daring adventures will come. Present: Knight of Swords Future: Princess of Wands Meta: 11th Trump – Lust Synopsis: Animal passions are driving us to impetuousness and when…
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#Bitcoin #Tarot #Podcast Price Analysis 23rd April 2018 After last week predicting the Devil coming to bitcoin, this this week hitting 6666 dollars, Cosmic Conroy reads the cards again and this week finds that though a buying opportunity will come, we must be patient Past: 9 Cups – Happiness Present: Queen of Wands Future: 5…
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#Bitcoin #Tarot #Podcast Price Analysis 23rd March 2018 Essential viewing. If you only watch one Bitcoin Tarot Podcast this year, then this is the one. In slightly new format show, Cosmic Conroy reads the cards and brings the essential information you need in these troubled times. Watch On Youtube if the embedded player is showing…
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#Bitcoin #Tarot #Podcast Price Analysis 23rd March 2018 Last week the cards correctly predicted reconciliation, and this week Cosmic Conroy’s reading suggests bitcoin holders will bring new creativity, releasing new potential, leading to new growth. Unless the cards take us for fools! Watch On Youtube if the embedded player is showing an error. Past: 0th…
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#Bitcoin #Tarot #Podcast Price Analysis 16th March 2018 After a week which burned 20% of Bitcoin’s value, Cosmic Conroy reads the cards and finds that Prudence demanded those cleansing fires but we will have reconciliation. Past: Queen of Cups Present: Queen of Disks Future: Four of Swords – Truce Meta: Eight of Disks – Prudence…
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In the midst of a market panic started by Binance API key leaks, Cosmic Conroy reads the cards and finds that recklessness has caused a setback, but BTC will rise stronger like a phoenix. PAST: Knight of Swords PRESENT: Ace of Disks FUTURE: 20 of Trumps – The Aeon / Judgement META: Knight of Cups…
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Bitcoin Forecasts: Seven out of eight forecasts judged “correct” by a panel of one self-interested judge. But how do you think I did?
After successfully predicting a healthy week for Bitcoin, Cosmic Conroy brings you a new-look improved Bitcoin Tarot Podcast in which the cards suggest if Bitcoin can overcome its fears it will receive the just rewards of virtue.
I never really believed the polls when they were predicting like half of all votes would be voting Tory, so I’m not sure there’s been as much of a swing as is reported really, more like a polls-error-correction. Through most of the elections I’ve been really aware for, there’s been little choice on offer frankly.…
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There are many sites that ask you about polices and in return suggest who you should vote for. Any in a Facebook App are surely harvesting your data for their profiles. Any that don’t have a good privacy policy are basically just gonna sell you answers to marketing people. Any that don’t have a clear…
Existential Comics this week is easily one of their best. I wonder if that counts as interfering with the election? Not like in a CIA, way, not even in a Russia way, but more in a geek-in-the-basement way, which is easily the coolest. http://existentialcomics.com/comic/186
This is what I want. The first bit, not the last bit. http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/final-wishes
An IRC translation of the election debate, written with prejudice. Mod: Look, this is still cool. We had them all last time. It’s like an elimination round. A spin-off show. This is like the Elections Little Brother or something. Intro Statements ======================= Green: After the war, we actually invested in our country and made all…
Lunduke’s presentation at some conference about just how much we’re spied upon these days was both entertaining and interesting. Crazy how much data they’re gathering these days. The Stasi would be very proud of us. If you ain’t paranoid, you should be.
Good times at a friend’s album launch gig tonight. Top new political songs and love the drummers tongue biting. You should totally check out the “Fit and the Conniptions” new album.
Because I don’t hear particularly well, I find it hard to believe that setting up the old makeshift blanket-studio is really worth it most of the time. But because I do *listen*, sometimes, I believe that it probably is. Blanket-sound-booth, pop-shield, decent microphone all set up ready to record some voice tomorrow. Will even turn…
The guy who brought you Wikipedia wants to try and crowd-source journalism too. Not sure that “protect your sources” in traditional journalism is compatible with a “See the source” view that the new organization wants. Not sure which is better either. Hard to imagine it being much worse than the modern billionaire-funded “journalism” though. Too…
I would be voting Labour if I lived in a seat where that mattered at all. George is great here, and he finishes: “The choice before us is as follows: a party that, through strong leadership and iron discipline, allows three million children to go hungry while hedge fund bosses stash their money in the…
This looks like it’ll be good fun for a couple of hours. Might wait till it’s on sale though, bit steep.
Today’s award for most interesting comment thread on the #ge17 goes to Charlie Stross’s blog, thanks everyone for taking part. Sorry Reddit, you were too partisan by far. Facebook, you are too filled with idiots and talk is too spread out among many links half hidden. Hacker-news, you didn’t even try having better things to…
That was pretty quick.
There exist future worlds where the Tories fall short of a majority and some coalition without them is put into government. Which will be an entirely different kind of shambles. There are things which can be done to increase the amplitude of those future-worlds. We should concentrate on doing those things I guess, even while…
Naomi Klein is pretty insightful in this five minute video. The reason we demand politicians divest, is that they otherwise can be influenced by their holdings. So if they refuse to, it’s fair to go after their holdings. https://theintercept.com/2017/04/12/how-to-jam-the-trump-brand/
Well, that was just brilliant. Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon are ace. 🙂 https://vid.me/3Ljb
I see this having literally just finished my re-watch of seasons 1 and 2 of Rick And Morty hoping I’d time it about right for season 3. I’m very cliff-hanger-fresh right now. S2E10 was great. Again. How can it seem so short a time since I graduated university, yet so long a time since Rick…
The Superman story in the Methods Of Rationality podcast is brilliant. Lex sure has his work cut out saving the world from Superman, that is one powerful foe. Loving it. http://www.hpmorpodcast.com/?page_id=1705
I am looking for voice-actors. Look, I even placed an ad and everything: https://www.starnow.com/listings/listingdetail.aspx?l_id=842932 I am *stunned* at the number of responses already and offer only a mercenary’s tiny amount of favoritism to friends or fans. This one matters. This is the one where I consider myself to no longer be learning, but leading. But…
Here’s Scott Alexander being thoughtful and verbose again: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/24/guided-by-the-beauty-of-our-weapons/ “Logical debate has one advantage over narrative, rhetoric, and violence: it’s an asymmetric weapon. That is, it’s a weapon which is stronger in the hands of the good guys than in the hands of the bad guys. In ideal conditions (which may or may not ever…
Have an XKCD, I haven’t linked to one of them in ages. https://xkcd.com/1810/
Craig Murry is a whistle-blowing ex-diplomat and enthusiast for Scottish Independence. I can’t remember why I started reading his blog, but I continue to do so coz he’s mostly right about most stuff. I wonder how many of the people who voted to leave the EU were even aware that doing so has a very…
So it seems the Whittington Health service made an appointment for me, failed to tell me about the appointment, then discharged me for not psychically knowing about it and failing to turn up. Off to the back of the several-month-long queue then. Hurray! *sigh*
I live over the road from Holloway Prison. But Holloway Prison is no longer a prison. The last of the inmates escaped last year. When I say “Escaped” I mean “were transfered to other, hopefully better, prisons”. And it’s the government’s intention to sell the land to developers, basically. I can see an argument for…
Quick Poll: Imagine a horse, in a field…. Would you describe your experience of doing that imagining more as conceptualization, or hallucination? What colour was the horse’s mane? Did you know that before I asked? Was it facing left or right? Did you know that before I asked? I ask these questions because I’m trying…
I don’t think I’ve ever had a very good memory, but obviously I can’t really be sure.
The Washington Post has video of a weird species of crab that always carries around a special species of sea-anemones in it’s claws like *all the time*. And if you take one away, it rips it’s remaining one in half so that it still has two, reproducing those anemones asexually. If you take away both,…
Scott Alexander remains awesome. Here he reviews a book about the trial of a Nazi, Hannah Arendt’s “Eichmann In Jerusalem”, and tries to learn some lessons, ending: “It seems almost possible to imagine a world where something goes wrong and America ends up overtly fascist. Yet even in my worst nightmares I can’t imagine a…
Zach Weinersmith does it again. Ha. http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/christian-science
The thing about when the audio-editing software “Audacity” crashes on you (which it has done on me several times tonight) is that at least you get to step back from your standing desk and throw your arms out and exclaim “How DARE you have the AUDACITY to just suddenly lock up right THEN!? When I…
My phone keyboard app tells me that I have swiped a mile with it now. That’s done in, roughly, a year. Depending on whether it’s counting distance racked up on the old stolen phone. I think this is low, compared to most folk’s who use a Swype-style swiping keyboard. For Swift Key isn’t really about…
The EU parliament have written a report on the regulation of robots in the EU. It’s pretty good, all in all. Asking many of the right questions, suggesting some reasonable answers. And a few unreasonable ones, but hopefully that’ll get ironed out in subsequent drafts. It’s stupidly long and detailed with no beauty and is…