Howdy, you! (And you, and you). Music: Falle Nioke & sir Was, YOKAI.

On the news,

• [fr] Science Étonnante - Comment limiter la transmission aérienne du COVID ? Excellente vulgarisation d'un modèle simple (c'est juste un tas de multiplications) qui permet de dériver de bonnes intuitions.
• [fr] Guy Debord - La société du spectacle et commentaires à son sujet. J'ai bien aimé le commentaire de La philosophie ça sert à rien.
• [fr] 100° - Premier rapport québécois mesurant les effets d’une taxe sur les boissons sucrées.
• Kottke: Labor shortage or terrible jobs?
• Tech:
  • Brett Cannon: The social contract of open source, 👏👏👏. This is my new "I'm not your slave, show minimal respect, read this" article I'll address to rude/entitled users of the opensource projects I maintain.
  • Good new clippings of Jonathan Blow by Blow Fan: Meaning in art, The Witness was originally planned to have a story.
  • Casey Newton: What happened at Basecamp and Basecamp implodes as a third of employees quit. HN.

Hi frendz, and music with Kairon; IRSE! (merci Sam).

News news news:

• Kottke: New climate normals & shifting baselines.
• Kottke: What happened with the European super football league?
• NYT: Languishing, via everybody.
• New PBF! Spared, Night Shift.
• A difficult-to-watch but useful frontal reminder of the unfathomable logical / intellectual depths some "news" sites & politicians live in, and why there's no point arguing with it: CNN - Inside the right-wing nonsense machine, red meat edition. Via DF.
• Lots this week about bitcoin's unforgivable ecological footprint:
  • By the rich: Fortune: How much bitcoin comes from dirty coal?
  • By a nerd: Drew DeVault: Cryptocurrency is a disaster.
  • By a green: [fr] Nitot : Le bitcoin est-il écolo ?
• Tech:
  • Ingrid Burrington: The infrastructural power beneath the internet as we know it, on the "social infrastructure" newspeak.
  • James Yu: things are a little crazy rn, two GPT-3 bots try to find a time to meet up. Via waxy.

Bonjour bonsoir, frendz. The weekly 🎶 is new awesome The Armed.

On the news,

• jwz: It's got a good beat and it's easy to dance to.
• Tech:
  • Jacob Kaplan-Moss: Embrace the grind.
  • NYPD deploys Boston Dynamics "Spot" robot dog in Manhattan.
  • Charlie Warzel on Twitter "trending topics".
  • GANCraft: Neural rendering of Minecraft worlds. HN.

Hi geeks, and music, with Nils Frahm.

On the news,

• [fr] Jean-Louis Bianco parle laïcité à Médiapart. Connaissais pas le monsieur; j'aime son {honnêteté, sincérité, pragmatisme}.
• SMBC: Laughs and Nerd detection.
• Tech:
  • StyleCLIP: manipulating images with text (demo), via waxy.
  • uBlock Origin works best on Firefox. HN.
  • The hidden game within Flight Simulator, fun stuff.
  • The "cursed computer iceberg" meme, with clickable links.

👋. Music with Lateralis, and Godspeed again, this album is dope.

On the news,

• [fr] Science étonnante - Pourquoi dort-on ?
• [fr/qc] Chouette capsule sur le travail fait par Le Monde à Bicyclette pour défendre la place du vélo à Montréal. Via Nouveau Projet.
• Sarah J. Ray: Climate anxiety is a white phenomenon. Via Kottke.
• SMBC: Frickin users.
• Tech:
  • The sixtyforgan is "a Commodore 64 equipped with a spring reverb, featuring the keyboard layout of a chromatic button accordion".
  • Uber’s "Flexible Work+" is a scam to evade Canada’s labor laws.