Things to look into
A scrapbook of junk I'd eventually like to get around to examining.
Software
- thefuck, a command-line tool for correcting command errors
- Scapy, a Python library for constructing (and forging) arbitrary network packets
- Mido, a high-level Python package for MIDI interaction
- Reaktor, some kind of fancy softsynth
QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE
, possibly a way to theme QT applications- https://gpiozero.readthedocs.io/en/stable/, a Python library for interacting with the Raspberry Pi GPIO pins
- Bad North
- These Doomed Isles
- Plasma, some kind of physics/engineering game
- Terra Nil
- Pile Up!
- SimplePlanes
- Kismet
- ohmtech-rdi/eurorack-blocks, a project to generate VCV and hardware design files for Eurorack modules from a single collection of sources
- Divinity: Original Sin
- Mindustry
- Cloudpunk
- Observer
- Builderment
- Manufactoria
- Chants of Sennar
- Duskers
- Tchia
- Rivendell, a radio automation application
- ARAS, a radio automation application
Music
- Disclosure, a 2012 goth rock album by The Gathering
- Our Mother Electricity, a 2012 album by All Them Witches
- Viewing, an album by Stay Inside
- Dreams, a 1968 album by Gabor Szabo (could be fun while high)
- Purpose, a really haunting album by Sangam
- Poolside – Contact High Mixtape
- Still Corners
- Arcane Device
- Why You Always Lying?
Books/Papers
- A History of the Roman People
- The Religion of American Greateness, supposedly a discussion of Christian nationalism, possibly with some spice
- Collective Illusions, maybe spicy
- Roughest Draft (Wibberley & Broka)
- The Gender Creative Child: Pathways for Nurturing and Supporting Children Who Live Outside Gender Boxes (Ehrensaft & Spack)
- It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror (Vallese, Machado, Grimm)
- Motherthing (Hogarth)
- Wash Day Diaries (Rowser & Smith)
- The Darkening (Mara)
- Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional (Fitzgerald)
- The Stonewall Reader (White)
- Keeping Two (Crane)
- The Drowned Woods (Lloyd-Jones)
- The Wild Hunt (Seckel)
- The Lambda Calculus, Its Syntax and Semantics
- The Areas of My Expertise, a satirical almanac by John Hodgson
- https://www.amazon.com/Your-Psilocybin-Mushroom-Companion-Easy/dp/1612439470, for informational purposes
- Overground Railroad (Taylor)
- American Racism: LGBT Pride in an Alt-Right America (Justice)
- Naomi Novik
- James W. Loewen
- Rabbits (Miles)
- Make America Meme Again: The Rhetoric of the Alt-Right (Woods & Hahner)
- Terraform (short story collection)
- Orange World (Karen Russell)
- The Recording Engineer's Handbook (Owinski)
- Heretics (Jonathan Wright)
- Computer in Crisis
- What's the Matter with Kansas? (Frank)
- The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Nonprofit Industrial Complex
- On Thermonuclear War
- The Horror of Police (Linnemann)
- Supermob (Russo)
- Film Adaptation & Its Discontents (Leitch)
- Negroes with Guns (Williams)
- My Life in the Black Panther Party (Cox)
- Black against Empire (Waldo & Bloom)
- Look for Me in the Whirlwind (Panther)
- Assata (Shakur)
- The Origin of Satan (Pagels)
- A Delusion of Satan (Hill)
- How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Malm)
- The Black Pill (Preston, Halpin, & Maguire)
- Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America (Ehrenreich)
- Behind the Fence: Buying and Selling Stolen Merchandise (Johns & Hayes)
- The Case Against Autogynephilia (Serano)
- Autogynephilia in Women (Moser?)
- This is My America
- Oxford Textbook of Correctional Psychiatry
- Blame! (Nihei)
- Duck in a Raincoat, a book about the founder of the Élan School
- A Tolkien Bestiary (Day)
- books on early Christianity
- It's Not You, It's Capitalism (Jabali)
- The Arms of Krupp (Manchester)
- The Global Impact of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion: A Century-Old Myth
- Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (Drehle)
- Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy (McRae)
- War Is a Racket (Butler)
- Infinite Jest (Wallace)
- White Noise (DeLillo)
- The Men Who Stare at Goats (Ronson)
- Seduction of the Innocent (Wertham) — a book from 1954 about how comic books are destroying the innocent youth
- Alice in Borderland (Aso)
- Brandon Sanderson
- Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Grabar)
- The Other Me (Jeng)
- Dark Matter (Crouch)
- The Turn of the Key (Ware)
- A Paradise Built in Hell (Solnit); maybe also look into her other books
- Tribe (Junger)
- My Heart Is a Chainsaw (Jones)
- Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque (Driscoll — not the Mark Driscoll you're thinking)
- Bartleby, the Scrivener (Melville)
- A Canticle for Leibowitz (Miller)
- Ponzinomics (FitzPatrick)
- So You Want to Talk about Race (Oluo)
- Seeing like a State (Scott)
- Satan's Silence (Nathan & Snedeker)
- The Brothers (Kinzer)
- The Functions of Role-Playing Games (Bowman)
- In the Shadow of the Moons (Hong): Hong's memoir of her time as Sun Myung Moon's daughter-in-law
- The New Prophets of Capital (Aschoff)
- Inside the League (AndersonN)
- The Second Coming of the KKK (Gordon)
- Platform Capitalism (Srnicek)
- Dark Money (Mayer)
- The Prisoner in His Palace (Bardenwerper)
- The Prankster and the Conspiracy (Gorightly)
- Pox: An American History (Willrich)
- Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Montefiore)
- Principia Discordia
- Maus (Spiegelman)
- Blackshirt (Dorril)
- Hurrah for the Blackshirts! (Pugh)
- First Peoples: Populating the Planet
- Operation Mindfuck
- Deep South: A Social Anthropological Study of Caste and Class (Davis & Gardner)
- Invisible Man (Ellison)
- Out of Bounds: What Happened to the Yuba County Five? (Beeson)
- Flight 7 Is Missing: The Search for My Father's Killer (Fortenberry)
- The Boys on the Tracks (Leveritt)
- Quackery (Kang & Pederssen)
- A Peace to End All Peace (Fromkin)
- -Isms and -Ologies (Goldwag)
- The Sleepwalkers (Clark)
- The Pink Triangle (Plant)
- Systematic Training for Effective Parenting
- Florence Bernault
- The Liberian Civil Wars (Charles River Editors)
- Holy Rollers (McCracken)
- The Bluest Eye
- Fingersmith
- An Ember in the Ashes
- Asian Labor in the Wartime Japanese Empire
- The Gospel of Self: How Jesus Joined the GOP (Heaton)
- Reza Aslan
Recipes
Video
- Behind Her Eyes, a show about…I don't know, but I'd like to close the tab
- Falling Down (1993)
- Escape at Dannemora
- Dr. Strangelove (1964)
- Riotsville, U.S.A. (2022)
- Sorry to Bother You
- Bowfinger
- Titan A.E.
- As Above, So Below
Toys
- Vector synth, a cool thing that I definitely don't need yet
- Beast Tek Mutagen, a Eurorack Bernoulli gate and logic module
- that one device that I swear was featured on RMR but can no longer find; it was a standalone, pocket-sized device with a keyboard grid the user could slide their finger across and it would play in two dimensions; it was designed by a hobbyist who at the time was not producing fully-assembled units
- Ripcord, a USB power adapter for devices not meant to be powered over USB (voltage outputs from 3–15 V)
- Hexinverter Mutant Brain, a MIDI-CV Eurorack module
- Patching Panda Particles, a CV modulator
- (tr)uSDX
- Eventide Misha, an interval-based Eurorack sequencer
- Frap Tools, a producer of some quite aesthetically-pleasing Eurorack modules
- Doepfer A-149-4, a quad random voltage source
- ADDAC503 Marble Physics, a Eurorack random voltage source based on 2D Newtonian physics
News
- Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act, a US Senate bill to legalize cannabis nationwide
- https://netzpolitik.org/, a German news site focused on privacy issues
- Hemp delta-9-THC product study, noting severe issues regarding the labeling of (technically legal!) hemp-derived THC products
Other
- readings for an old MIT course, several of which are likely of interest to me
- PDP-11 assembly language, not to be confused with the MIDAS assembler
- BeamNG.drive
- SnapEDA, some database of electronic component footprints
- Futel, a volunteer group that maintains public VoIP telephones (most of which are in Portland)
- https://virginiafirstteafarm.com, sells some good soap
- gbdev
- Hood Politics with Prop
- Knowledge Fight
- Kkoki (Salem)
- 22 Below (Salem)
- Cheesy Stuffed Burgers (Corvallis)
- Smokin' Gingers (Junction City)
- Shanghai Tunnels (Portland)
- CETI Lab (Portland)
- Maw Maw's Cajun Kitchen (Oregon City)
- Forest Shuffle