https://hypertexthero.com/ Recent content on Hypertexthero en-us Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:23:42 -0400 https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/10/07/goodbye-margaret-hamilton/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:23:42 -0400 https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/10/07/goodbye-margaret-hamilton/ Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90. Here’s a lovely photograph of Hamilton. https://hypertexthero.com/big-walk/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 20:24:44 -0400 https://hypertexthero.com/big-walk/ Find one, two, or three friends and go for a Big Walk around sound-light-scapes to talk about life while solving light puzzles. Hypertexthero Big Walk video list: 1. First steps https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/09/16/more-data/ Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:48:48 +0200 https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/09/16/more-data/ By Negativland, who “make records, CDs, video, fine art, books, radio and live performance using appropriated sounds, images, objects, and text.” https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/09/06/bidwix-a-fast-fair-way-to-agree-on-a-price/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:11:21 +0200 https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/09/06/bidwix-a-fast-fair-way-to-agree-on-a-price/ Chloe just opened a small bakery and needs a logo. Ben is a freelance designer whose work she loves. But how much should a logo cost? Neither wants to go first. Ben’s absolute minimum for the work is $100. Chloe could stretch to $900 if she absolutely had to. That’s her honest maximum. They use BidWix to each submit their true limit price in secret. Result: $300. Ben earns three times his minimum. https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/08/25/the-truman-show/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:38:12 +0200 https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/08/25/the-truman-show/ It’s a visually stunning, spiritually powerful conclusion. It is the point of The Truman Show that we don’t know what world he is stepping into, and can’t follow him to see what happens next. This is about more than just turning off the TV, or setting down a smartphone; it’s about someone making the difficult choice to be himself outside the context of what others see and expect of him. https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/08/22/just-in-time/ Sat, 22 Aug 2026 15:34:00 +0200 https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/08/22/just-in-time/ Nina Simone live at Casino Kursaal, 16th June 1968. Remembered this one while thinking about the Before trilogy of films. https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/08/21/self-playing-games/ Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:11:21 +0200 https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/08/21/self-playing-games/ Games that play themselves are like using AI for writing, drawing, and thinking, or, at the risk of making many people angry, watching others playing with balls on TV instead of playing yourself and rediscovering the pleasure of physical movement. https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/08/19/ai-hysteria-s-effect-on-global-decision-making/ Wed, 19 Aug 2026 11:58:03 +0200 https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/08/19/ai-hysteria-s-effect-on-global-decision-making/ Hoping it ends soon 🤦 https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/08/18/writing-large-language-models-llms-artificial-intelligence-ai/ Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:36:04 +0200 https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/08/18/writing-large-language-models-llms-artificial-intelligence-ai/ If, however, prose is LLM-generated, this social contract becomes ripped up: a reader cannot assume that the writer understands their ideas because they might not so much have read the product of the LLM that they tasked to write it. If one is lucky, these are LLM hallucinations: obviously wrong and quickly discarded. If one is unlucky, however, it will be a kind of LLM-induced cognitive dissonance: a puzzle in which pieces don’t fit because there is in fact no puzzle at all. https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/07/25/you-matter-more-than-you-think/ Sat, 25 Jul 2026 20:32:48 -0400 https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/07/25/you-matter-more-than-you-think/ This text by Karen O’Brien with beautiful pencil and watercolor drawings by Tone Bjordam will almost certainly be added to my list of best books once I finish reading it. Our beliefs about the nature of reality influence our relationships, including our relationship to nature. For many of us, our relationships to concepts and ideas such as self, other, and nature have been influenced by a classical, mechanistic view of the world. https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/07/22/ten-steps-towards-happiness/ Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:44:23 -0400 https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/07/22/ten-steps-towards-happiness/ By Peter Hintjens. See also, The Cretan Method, which talks about many things, including learn-play-work-teach vs the unfortunately more common play-learn-work-die. https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/07/19/placid-lassie-douglas-c-47-n74589/ Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:02:46 -0400 https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/07/19/placid-lassie-douglas-c-47-n74589/ Just saw this plane fly by, probably headed to Oshkosh. https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/07/17/noita-65-reanimal-vein-demo/ Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:40:07 -0400 https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/07/17/noita-65-reanimal-vein-demo/ The smoke is clearing and I’m slowly getting back to the games. Played a bit of Noita and the Reanimal and Vein demos with my friend Artwo. Vein seems like a 3D Project Zomboid. Reanimal brought to mind Pink Floyd’s The Wall, and Munch’s The Scream, which may be a “sign of the times.” I may return to it, if I muster enough courage to play it alone, but I think it’ll be another game.