Hi geeks, and music with Sutekh, thx James.

On the news,

• [fr] Monsieur Phi - Au nom du père.
• Safe cycling showdown - Good vs. bad city design, comparing Amsterdam to Calgary. Thx Adel.
• The Guardian on stopping fetishising overwork.
• Kottke: Fuzzy moths taking flight in super slow motion.
• SMBC: The main reason to make yeast bread.

In tech,

• Excellent introduction to optimization and low-level CPU stuff by Casey Muratori: Simple code, high performance, Follow-up #1: A simplified CPU diagram, Follow-up #2: Analysis with Godbolt Compiler Explorer and UICA . Via r/Programming.
• Handmade podcast #14: Examining CS education, with Demetri Spanos. Great interview with nuanced takes from Spanos. And reminded me about the parable of the Blind men and an elephant.
• Drew DeVault: Software developers have stopped caring about reliability.
• vlogbrothers has many things to say about Facebook.
• jwz: How much more terrifying could the murderbots be? Waymo.
• Ars: Robert Willis, hacker who built a pro-Trump fake news empire, unmasks himself, thx Heinz.

👋. The weekly music is Hakuna Kulala / Scotch Rolex.

On the news,

• [fr/qc] Radio Canada : Peut-on se passer de certains pesticides dans nos champs ? Via Nouveau Projet.
• Tech:
  • Eidos-Montréal and Eidos-Sherbrooke shifting to the 4-day work week (HN, r/gamedev).
  • Body-breaking working conditions at Amazon warehouses and unionization. Via Nouveau Projet.
  • [fr] L’occasionel rappel de quitter Fb : Nitot - Facebook, le cauchemar.

Bonjour bonsoir, and music with King Woman.

On the news,

• Charlie Warzel: What do we do with all this rage?
• Anil Dash: Cooperative overlap. Curious. Had never heard this presented as a communication style, had always seen it as rude.
• Kottke: Continuous sidewalks.
• [fr/qc] Radio Canada - Quand l’enseignement de l’histoire sert un dessein colonial.
• [fr/qc] IRIS : Crise de gangs et armes à feu, données douteuses.
• Tech:
  • Drew Devault - Developers: Let distros do their job.
  • DF: The tragedy of Safari 15 for Mac’s ‘Tabs’. Or Firefox’s fucking similarly bad “Proton” tabs redesign.
  • Fully Justified Metroid (direct link to the guide).

Hi, and music with Sufjan, Gaspar Claus, SUUNS.

On the news,

• Émilie Nicolas - Why the English election debate tripped the Québec campaign. Un bon résumé nuancé, en anglais et destiné au RoC, mais intéressant pour les Québécois comme moi ayant peu suivi le débat.
• [fr] Ricochet - GIEC & décroissance.
• Kottke: Steven Taylor - The psychology of pandemics.
• Kottke: Michael Pollan - Caffeine helped create the modern world.
• Scott Alexander: Whither Tartaria? (Comments)
• Tech:
  • The Verge: File Not Found. With the shift to online apps, educators report students are increasingly confused by the idea of a local filesystem with nested files and folders. Via waxy.

Hola. The weekly 🎶 is new Low and P'tit Belliveau.

On the news,

• [fr] Science Étonnante - Krachs boursiers & tremblements de terre.
• [fr] Monsieur Phi - Liberté d'expression, retour sur “l'affaire Tipeee”.
• Scott Alexander - Too good to check: A play in three acts.
• xkcd: Vaccine Research.
• US horseshit: Atlantic: The deviousness of Texas’s new abortion law, The Cut: The newest abortion ban is next-level cruelty.
• Víctor Enrich’s “City Portraits” + Photoshopped Architecture, via Kottke.
• Tech:
  • Citizen Lab: Bahraini gov. hacks activists with NSO Group zero-click iPhone exploits has tech details about these “zero-click” exploits.
  • Lenophie: “I cannot stress enough how unintentionally funny the teaser webpage for The Matrix 4 is”.
  • jwz: How QR codes are made.