👋 and music, with Mark Hollis (thx Sam!), Terry+Gyan Riley, Roger Waters.

On the news,

• Coronavirus:
  • Knocked Loose Live @ Block by Blockwest (May 16th 2020), thx Sam 😄.
• Tech:
  • DF: US dept of justice reopens spat with Apple over iPhone encryption.

Hi folks. Music, with new and not-so-new Dead forest index.

On the news,

• [fr] Jean-François Hotte - La Chine en avance, Trump mauvais perdant, aussi direct que fin 👍.
• Scott Alexander: Studies on Slack, on evolution and local maximums.
• The miracle sudoku, amazing to see him think through this thing. Via waxy. Twitter thread.
• Winners of the 2020 BigPicture natural world photography competition.
• The Atlantic / Robin Sloan: The conspiracy museum.
• Coronavirus:
  • Kottke: Isolation helps 11-year-old skateboarder focus on training, and land the first ever 1080 on a vertical ramp.
  • Director David Lynch is doing a daily weather report on YouTube. "Here in LA, we've got clouds and kinda foggy weather with some blue shining through, 62 degrees Fahrenheit..."
  • David Graeber: What precisely do people mean by "getting the economy up again"? via jwz.
  • Donaldese: in relaying Paul Krugman on US' incoherent COVID response, DF unearthed for me the interesting linguistic counterpart of "Post-truth politics": "Reality-based community". Also, on Trump's dementia, Seth Meyers: Trump goes off the rails on Twitter and Fox: a closer look.
• Tech:
  • jwz: Facebook moderator PTSD is worth between $1000 and $6000.
  • Ranjan Roy: Doordash and pizza arbitrage.

Bonjour bonsoir. Music, with new Rone.

News news news:

• [fr] Jean-François Hotte - La bourse, le trou du cul du monde. Thx Berthe.
• [fr] Un appel de Vincent Lindon.
• Kevin Kelly: 68 bits of unsolicited advice, thanks grandpa.
• Kottke: This Japanese man paints a picture of every meal he eats.
• Coronavirus:
  • [fr/qc] QS / Catherine Dorion - Plan de changement des soins aux aînés.
  • McSweeney's: Sure, the velociraptors are still on the loose, but that’s no reason not to reopen Jurassic Park.
  • jwz: El Arroyo motel signage.
• Tech:
  • On our brittle and {complexity, performance}-costly code cathedrals: Casey Muratori: The thirty million line problem, and Jonathan Blow: Design decisions on creating Jai, a new language for game programmers. Tangentially, Joe Armstrong: The mess we're in.
  • Tim Bray: Bye, Amazon; fuck yes. Followup HN, Followup + HN. Echoed by Drew DeVault: We are complicit in our employer's deeds.
  • Wladimir Palant: Xiaomi browsers are spyware.

Hola. This week's music is fresh new Mogwai and Ben Lukas Boysen.

On the news,

• [fr/qc] Julien Simard - Le gérontocide, forme extrême de l’âgisme ? via Nouveau Projet.
• Kottke: Watch a monarch butterfly swarm, filmed by a drone disguised as a hummingbird.
• Tech:
  • Jonathan Blow: Techniques for dealing with lack of motivation + Q&A.
  • FSF Europe: Netherlands commits to free software by default.

Hi frendz. This week's music is self-evident (thx OJ) and old dEUS (thx Berthe).

On the news,

• SSC / Scott Alexander: The Amish health care system; always fascinating to see comparisons to this other society living next to ours. HN blah. Followed up by Employer provided health insurance delenda est.
• [fr/qc] Une serre huit pieds sous terre, via Nouveau Projet.
• Kottke: Top 15 countries by military spending (1914-2018).
• Coronavirus:
  • Kottke: The emerging science of what CoV-2 does to the human body, wow.
  • [fr] Data Gueule - Hôpital public : l'optimisation à mort.
  • Atlantic: Americans are living in a failed state, yup. Along similar lines, SFist: Blue Angels to fly in honor of healthcare workers, who clearly did not ask for this; wtfff.
  • Kottke: Where’s Waldo? in the social distancing age 😄.
  • Vi Hart: How we reopen.
• Tech:
  • On the Metal: Jonathan Blow, where Bryan Cantrill interviews language & game designer/developer Jonathan Blow (author of Braid & The Witness). This interview is pure gold for anyone technical, listen to it nnnnnow.