Bonjour bonsoir, interwebs. In my ears this week, Matchess.

On the news,

• Kottke: The self-domestication of humans.
• Kottke: Americans greatly overestimate racial economic equality in USA. Crazy numbers.
• Tech:
  • Non-euclidean worlds game engine (code). Thx Heinz.
  • Doc Searls: If your privacy is in the hands of others alone, you don’t have any.
  • Cory Doctorow: Bird Scooter tried to censor my Boing Boing post with a legal threat that's so stupid, it's a whole new kind of wrong.

¡Feliz año nuevo!, folks. And music, with Aaron Martin.

Around the interwebs,

• Good essays from Scott Alexander / SSC:
  • Culture as branch of government.
  • What happened to 90s environmentalism?
• 2019/01/01 is (finally) Public Domain day: works from 1923 are open to all!
• [fr] Tristan Nitot nous sert deux bons "en vrac" : du jeudi, de fin d'année.
• SMBC: The true spirit of Christmas.
• James Hill playing the ukulele with chopsticks and a comb, thx bro.
• Tech:
  • The Discourse - Rules for online sanity.
  • How Facebook tracks you on Android (even if you don’t have a Facebook account).
  • Dan Abramov: Things I don’t know as of 2018, 👍.
• 💩😷⚠ Donaldese:
  • Arlen Parsa: my favorite way to listen to the president is slowed down to 1/2 speed because it reveals how often times his logic is indistinguishable from that of a drunk person.

Ho ho hey ho, frendz. Music, with grack thany.

On the news,

• Matt Holford: Ask the most obvious question; thanks Nilo.
• Rebuilding a city from the eye of a child, via [fr] Nouveau Projet.
• Cool art via Kottke this week:
  • Typewriter drawings from Lenka Clayton.
  • Mesmerizing B&W Animated GIFs.
• SMBC: The YouTube commentator's fallacy.
• Tech:
  • Not new, but always a good read: The little Printf (HN, HN).
  • LWN: Python gets a new governance model (HN), and the process that lead to it is an example of thoughtful, rational community decision-making.
  • LibreRouter: Powering community networks with free and open hardware, awesome project. HN.
  • Warning, pure web-tech-porn: First web page viewed by "First" browser via c.1965 modem and terminal.
  • LinuxJournal / Lunduke: Android vs iOS: Which spies on you more?
  • Oh wow, nice roundup by DF on Facebook & other tech bigcorps recent extreme privacy shittiness. NYT: Facebook sued by District of Columbia over Cambridge Analytica data harvesting, Kashmir Hill on Amazon & Facebook’s secret data-sharing agreement, NYT: Facebook shared personal information with Amazon, Microsoft, Netflix, and others.

HelloooOo. Music: David Dominique is amazingly jubilant and whatever and sounds a bit like: "Let's go here. Here too? Sure why not? And here looks fun too, well yes here too then".

News:

• [fr/qc] Catherine Dorion à l'assemblée nationale, sur la solitude.
• [fr] Monsieur Phi : Pas de cadeaux pour Noël !
• jake likes onions: Radiation 😄.
• Tech:
  • Anatomy of an AI system looks pretentious, but don't stop here: ignore the map and read the essay. 👏👏👏.
  • [fr] Monde diplo : Amazon, l’envers de l’écran.
  • [fr] Algocratie : L'inégalité programmée - #Datagueule 84.
  • AI art gallery has AI art.

¡Hola! y music, friendo. A delicious acoustic Suspiria, Beats & pieces big band, and a new flowy K.A.A.N.

Around the interwebs,

• Pro Office Calculator is a completely normal office calculator. Try it, it's a normal office calculator. It calculates. You know. Maybe try it? Via waxy.
• [fr] Tristan Nitot : Gilets jaunes, Facebook, et populisme.
• Tech:
  • MIT AI: Interview with Guido van Rossum, about Python, AI, computing. Recommended; the man is as humble and no-nonsense as ever.
  • India is increasingly jailing its young for online posts that ‘offend’ politicians