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Things to look into
A scrapbook of junk I'd eventually like to get around to examining.
Software
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thefuck, a command-line tool for correcting command errors
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Scapy, a Python library for constructing (and forging) arbitrary network packets
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Mido, a high-level Python package for MIDI interaction
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Reaktor, some kind of fancy softsynth
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QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE
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https://gpiozero.readthedocs.io/en/stable/, a Python library for interacting with the Raspberry Pi GPIO pins
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Bad North
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These Doomed Isles
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Plasma, some kind of physics/engineering game
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Terra Nil
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Pile Up!
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SimplePlanes
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Kismet
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ohmtech-rdi/eurorack-blocks, a project to generate VCV and hardware design files for Eurorack modules from a single collection of sources
Music
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Disclosure, a 2012 goth rock album by The Gathering
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Our Mother Electricity, a 2012 album by All Them Witches
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Viewing, an album by Stay Inside
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Dreams, a 1968 album by Gabor Szabo (could be fun while high)
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Purpose, a really haunting album by Sangam
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Poolside – Contact High Mixtape
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Still Corners
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Arcane Device
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Why You Always Lying?
Books/Papers
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A History of the Roman People
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The Religion of American Greateness, supposedly a discussion of Christian nationalism, possibly with some spice
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Collective Illusions, maybe spicy
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Roughest Draft (Wibberley & Broka)
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The Gender Creative Child: Pathways for Nurturing and Supporting Children Who Live Outside Gender Boxes (Ehrensaft & Spack)
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It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror (Vallese, Machado, Grimm)
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Motherthing (Hogarth)
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Wash Day Diaries (Rowser & Smith)
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The Darkening (Mara)
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Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional (Fitzgerald)
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The Stonewall Reader (White)
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Keeping Two (Crane)
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The Drowned Woods (Lloyd-Jones)
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The Wild Hunt (Seckel)
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The Lambda Calculus, Its Syntax and Semantics
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The Areas of My Expertise, a satirical almanac by John Hodgson
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https://www.amazon.com/Your-Psilocybin-Mushroom-Companion-Easy/dp/1612439470, for informational purposes
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Overground Railroad (Taylor)
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American Racism: LGBT Pride in an Alt-Right America (Justice)
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Naomi Novik
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James W. Loewen
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Rabbits (Miles)
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Make America Meme Again: The Rhetoric of the Alt-Right (Woods & Hahner)
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Terraform (short story collection)
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Orange World (Karen Russell)
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The Recording Engineer's Handbook (Owinski)
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Heretics (Jonathan Wright)
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Computer in Crisis
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What's the Matter with Kansas? (Frank)
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The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Nonprofit Industrial Complex
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On Thermonuclear War
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The Horror of Police (Linnemann)
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Supermob (Russo)
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Film Adaptation & Its Discontents (Leitch)
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Negroes with Guns (Williams)
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My Life in the Black Panther Party (Cox)
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Black against Empire (Waldo & Bloom)
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Look for Me in the Whirlwind (Panther)
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Assata (Shakur)
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The Origin of Satan (Pagels)
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A Delusion of Satan (Hill)
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How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Malm)
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The Black Pill (Preston, Halpin, & Maguire)
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Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America (Ehrenreich)
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Behind the Fence: Buying and Selling Stolen Merchandise (Johns & Hayes)
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The Case Against Autogynephilia (Serano)
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Autogynephilia in Women (Moser?)
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This is My America
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Oxford Textbook of Correctional Psychiatry
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Blame! (Nihei)
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Duck in a Raincoat, a book about the founder of the Élan School
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A Tolkien Bestiary (Day)
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books on early Christianity
Recipes
Video
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Behind Her Eyes, a show about…I don't know, but I'd like to close the tab
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Falling Down (1993)
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Escape at Dannemora
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Dr. Strangelove (1964)
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Riotsville, U.S.A. (2022)
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Sorry to Bother You
Toys
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Vector synth, a cool thing that I definitely don't need yet
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Beast Tek Mutagen, a Eurorack Bernoulli gate and logic module
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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
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Ripcord, a USB power adapter for devices not meant to be powered over USB (voltage outputs from 3–15 V)
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Hexinverter Mutant Brain, a MIDI-CV Eurorack module
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Patching Panda Particles, a CV modulator
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(tr)uSDX
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Eventide Misha, an interval-based Eurorack sequencer
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Frap Tools, a producer of some quite aesthetically-pleasing Eurorack modules
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Doepfer A-149-4, a quad random voltage source
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ADDAC503 Marble Physics, a Eurorack random voltage source based on 2D Newtonian physics
News
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Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act, a US Senate bill to legalize cannabis nationwide
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https://netzpolitik.org/, a German news site focused on privacy issues
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Hemp delta-9-THC product study, noting severe issues regarding the labeling of (technically legal!) hemp-derived THC products
Other
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readings for an old MIT course, several of which are likely of interest to me
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PDP-11 assembly language, not to be confused with the MIDAS assembler
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BeamNG.drive
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SnapEDA, some database of electronic component footprints
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Futel, a volunteer group that maintains public VoIP telephones (most of which are in Portland)
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https://virginiafirstteafarm.com, sells some good soap
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