Bonjour bonsoir, and music with new Islands.

News news news:

• To love someone long-term is to attend a thousand funerals of the people they used to be (this goes for yourself too), via Kottke.
• Tech:
  • Unix Shell programming: The next 50 years (pdf), via Leah Neukirchen. Also, Joey Hess: Typed pipes in every shell (HN).
  • Doc Searls: BuzzPhrasing.
  • NYT: Inside Amazon's employment machine.

Hi geeks, and music with Sufyvn, KG&LW, Arandel.

On the news,

• ACX book reviews: Down and out in Paris & London, How children fail
• ProPublica - How the wealthiest avoid income tax.
• New Yorker - Silver linings.
• Tech:
  • Linus Torvalds to kernel devs: Please keep your insane and technically incorrect anti-vax comments to yourself.
  • Mozilla - Privacy analysis of FLoC (PDF paper).
  • US Farmers Union: Farmers deserve the right to repair their tractors.
  • DF - App store: the Schiller cut.

Holaaaaa and music, with Hailu Mergia.

On the news,

• Two good ACT book reviews: The collapse of complex societies and Where's my flying car?
• [fr] Mehdi Derfoufi / Mediapart - Décoloniser le jeu vidéo.
• [fr] Anne Archet - Échange de langues is lovely.

Hi frendz. Music, with amazing new Murcof, and Dry Cleaning.

On the news,

• Tech:
  • DF: Arizona lawsuit documents detail Google’s efforts to collect user location data and obfuscate the settings to control it.
  • Matt Stoller: Amazon Prime is an economy-distorting lie.

Well hello, and music, with new Radiohead The Smile. Thx Berthe.

On the news,

• [fr] Une courte entrevue d'Albert Dupontel sur France Inter à l'occasion de la re-sortie en salles de "Adieu les cons". Toujours aussi lucide, drôle, chaleureux, le monsieur. Merci Berthe.
• SMBC: Relativity.
• Tech:
  • Pouët looks at 20 years of demoscene. On that note, re-linking to Linus Åkesson: A Mind Is Born a 256 bytes demo for the C64.
  • Machine learning pipelines.
  • Why all open source maintainers are jerks.
  • Terms & Conditions Apply, "A mini-game about pop ups, and the deviousness of websites and apps". HN.