Hello, world. This week in my 🔊, Tim Hecker.

Newsworthy:

• [fr] Les fêtes de divorce : une coutume féminine célébrée dans le sud marocain, via Nouveau Projet.
• SMBC: Logic gates 😄.
• Tech:
  • Reminder: Kottke - The history of women in coding.
  • Mozilla, Reporters Without Borders, Greenpeace & others post an Open letter: Facebook, do your part against disinformation. I ❤ Mozilla and I want to believe, but "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it". EDIT oooh, Facebook actually moved a toe.
  • Sahil Lavingia - Reflecting on my failure to build a billion-dollar company is a refreshing read of a startup founder (of Gumroad, payment tool) turning away from the VC-fueled constant growth mindset.
  • Streetsblog: All the bad things about Uber and Lyft in one simple list, via Kottke.

Hi there. This week's vid/music is something beautiful: Guillaume Néry - One breath around the world.

Around the interwebs,

• On taxes:
  • ‘Feels like I’m at a firefighters conference and no one’s allowed to speak about water’ - Historian confronting Davos billionaires on taxes. Via Nitot.
  • [fr] L’impôt, le peuple et le truand - #DATAGUEULE 86.
• Kottke: “Freedom River”, an animated parable about the erosion of freedom.
• Kottke: The colonization of the Americas cooled planet Earth.
• Tech:
  • [fr] Quatre "en vrac" de Nitot qui 😬 côté numérique et climat : 1, 2, 3, 4.
  • NYT: Tech is splitting the U.S. work force in two. HN.
  • Google now pays more in EU fines than it does in taxes, a.k.a. "Google pays waaay too little tax".
  • Facebook adds 5 divs, 9 spans and 30 css classes to every single post in the timeline to make it more difficult to identify and block ads, via DF.

Hello folks. Music, with the !@#$% efficient and pummeling The Armed.

Weekly interwebs:

• NG: Take a train through North Korea's rarely seen countryside.
• [fr/qc] En r'venant de St-Hilarion, belles images. Via Nouveau Projet.
• Paul Graham: The submarine (2005), on PR and news authenticity.
• Good Kottke this week:
  • The lure of the spider-tailed horned viper. 👍 job, evolution. To which Heinz -merci Heinz- answers with [fr] la menace imminente de l'hétérochronie.
  • It’s so cold out! Where’s the global warming?!
  • “Closeness lines”: Lovely visualizations of relationships over time.
• Tech:
  • xkcd #2105: Modern OSI Model rings sooooo true.
  • Russ Cox: Our software dependency problem; HN.
  • This week's Facebook shitshow was fun! TechCrunch: Facebook pays teens to install "research" VPN that spies on them (HN). Aussi, [fr] un résumé par Tristan Nitot : Scandale Facebook de la semaine : Onavo, le VPN espion. DF covers how Apple revoked Facebook’s enterprise developer certificates, comments on what not to say about it, and notes that fucking Google had a similar data collection VPN app distributed to iPhones as an enterprise beta. Walt Mossberg comments on Twitter that you can go elsewhere much worse if Apple's control of iOS seems excessive to you. Also, as if nothing, Facebook moves to block ad transparency tools.
  • The Cloud, a.k.a. Files are for old people:

    My kid explained MP3s to a friend as "like printing off an internet article, so you can keep it around, because some people like that, I guess".

Hey ho, geeks. Music, with Zeal and Ardor.

On the news:

• [fr] Science étonnante #57 - Une IA peut-elle être créative ?
• Derek Sivers: Benefits of a daily diary and topic journals.
• Reminder: H&R Block and Intuit lobby against free and simple tax filing (2017). Via HN.
• A cool collection of 4th wall-breaking comics, via Kottke.
• Kottke: Aero Mexico trolls xenophobic americans with “DNA discounts” commercial, fucking great marketing here.
• SMBC: Sociologists should never be allowed to make movies.
• Tech stuff:
  • Daniel Glazman: WebExtensions v3 considered harmful, good summary.
  • Bryan Cantrill: Is it time to rewrite the Operating System in Rust? Cool OS history lesson, entertaining presentation, and good observations on Rust. Talk in r/rust and HN.
  • Bloomberg: Google urged the U.S. to limit protection for activist workers. HN.
  • Gizmodo - Kashmir Hill: I tried to block Amazon from my life; it was impossible. Via Kottke. The level of convenience-o-dependence of a lot of americans on Amazon is batshit crazy:

    Like millions of other Americans, we use a lot of Amazon products in our house. We have an Echo, an Echo Dot, two Kindles, two Amazon Prime Chase credit cards, Amazon Prime Video on our TV, and two Prime accounts. (Note to self: Why are my husband and I each paying Amazon $119/year?)

    So, suffice to say, Amazon is getting a good chunk of my money and a lot of my data. I alone average about $3,000 a year in purchases on Amazon.com. I’ve become such a loyal shopper that I barely know where else to go online to buy things. It’s the first place I head when I need something, anything—sheets, diapers, toilet paper, a Halloween costume, Bluetooth headphones, roulette cufflinks for a friend who likes to gamble. Basically, anytime I need a random material object, I open up the Amazon app on my phone.

    That is a continuing revelation for me this week: Amazon is deeply embedded in my life. I use it repeatedly every single day whether I realize it or not. Without it, I cannot function normally.

Hello frendz. Music for this week: Windhand and Amnesia Scanner.

And some new interwebs:

• Kottke: Meet the black market dropgangs.
• Good SMBCs: Straw men, Art.
• [fr] Nitot - En vrac du mercredi : climat et numérique.
• Tech:
  • US Dept. of Defense guide: Detecting "Agile" bullshit (pdf), a surprisingly effective summary! HN, r/prog.
  • Unicode Consortium: 214 characters from legacy computers & teletext proposed by the Terminals Working Group were just accepted, noice.