Music: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and The Armed, thx Sam.

News:

• xkcd - Customer Rewards, on our personal data.
• [fr] Les 400 culs : Femme et melon, à peine les connaît-on.
• Tech:
  • [fr] Hausse des tarifs de Google Maps : « On a plus que jamais besoin d’alternatives libres »

    Ces nouveaux tarifs posent question, car ils paraissent disproportionnés par rapport aux coûts réels. Par ailleurs, si Google a fourni gratuitement pendant des années à des milliers de clients un service qui avait un coût aussi élevé, il a clairement pratiqué du dumping pour empêcher d’autres acteurs d’émerger. Avec succès. Des initiatives ont vu le jour, notamment grâce aux données d’Openstreetmap, comme Mapbox aux Etats-Unis. Mais globalement, l’écosystème a été paralysé.

  • Schneier: Censorship in the age of large cloud providers:

    In 1993, John Gilmore famously said that "The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." That was technically true when he said it but only because the routing structure of the Internet was so distributed. As centralization increases, the Internet loses that robustness, and censorship by governments and companies becomes easier.

  • And more Schneier: Data protection laws are shining a needed light on a secretive industry.
  • The Inner-platform effect is "the tendency of software architects to create a system so customizable as to become a replica, and often a poor replica, of the software development platform they are using". Via Leah Neukirchen.
• Donaldese:
  • Kottke / New Yorker: The language of the Trump administration is the language of domestic violence.

Hi frendz! This weeks music is Celestial Trax.

News!

• Evonomics: Capital’s share of income is way higher than you think. About half of US household income is derived from wealth, and 60% of that wealth is inherited.

  Pretty hard to square this reality with the widely held view of prosperous, hard-working makers vs indolent do-nothing takers. Who's who?

• Kottke: Willpower, wealth, and the marshmallow test.

  The new study finds limited support for the idea that being able to delay gratification leads to better outcomes. Instead, it suggests that the capacity to hold out for a second marshmallow is shaped in large part by a child’s social and economic background — and, in turn, that that background, not the ability to delay gratification, is what’s behind kids’ long-term success.

  The failed replication of the marshmallow test does more than just debunk the earlier notion; it suggests other possible explanations for why poorer kids would be less motivated to wait for that second marshmallow. For them, daily life holds fewer guarantees: There might be food in the pantry today, but there might not be tomorrow, so there is a risk that comes with waiting. And even if their parents promise to buy more of a certain food, sometimes that promise gets broken out of financial necessity.

• [fr/qc] Le Devoir : Magasiner quand on est noir au Canada, une illustration du racisme au quotidien.
• Kottke: Super freaky recently declassified NSA security posters.
• SMBC: Robot frustrated at humans.
• jakelikesonions: Life is full of peaks and valleys.
• Tech:
  • AMPstinction. HN.
  • Marianne Bellotti: The land before binary. HN.

Hi there. Music, with CARROM.

News news news:

• Funfunfunction: Interpret generously, on debate / rhetoric vs. discussion / understanding. 👍👍👍.
• Aeon: You don’t have a right to believe whatever you want to, via kottke.
• [fr] Le Monde - Vidéosurveillance : paradigme du technosolutionnisme.
• [fr/qc] Deux liens Nouveau Projet sur la pollution et les transports :
  • Ventes record de VUS/essence : Il faut cesser d’investir dans le problème.
  • L’Estonie, premier pays aux transports gratuits ?
• Kottke: Amazing 1980s tech company logos, Brutalist cuckoo clocks.
• 五月病, via waxy.
• SMBC: State of the union, AMERICA.
• Tech:
  • GDPR leading to EU being served smaller tracking truckloads, leading to old-new epiphanies that tracking truckloads slows down sites. Via DF.
    • The Verge: 32s → 5s load time, 61 → 2 JS files, 2MB → 1 MB.
    • USA Today: 45s → 3s load time, 124 → 0 JS files, 5.2MB → 0.5MB, 500 → 34 HTTP requests.
  • LinuxJournal - Kyle Rankin: Why you should do it yourself.
  • Reverse emulating the NES, via waxy.
  • Bloomberg: Microsoft to acquire GitHub, oÔ. HN.

Guuuten tag, everyone. Music, with Arabstazy / Aya Metwalli.

On the news this week:

• [fr] Monsieur Phi - Conférence sur la super-intelligence.
• Guardian: Why we should bulldoze the business school.
• SMBC: Why? "Politics is like marriage - the goal is to win".
• Tech:
  • Morning paper - Algorithmic glass ceiling in social networks: the effects of social recommendations on network diversity.
  • Nabil Hassein: Computing and climate change.
  • jwz: Uber as Landfill Capitalism.
  • ACLU: Amazon teams up with law enforcement to deploy dangerous new face recognition technology.
  • WaPo: FBI repeatedly overstated encryption threat figures to congress, public
• 💩😷⚠ Donaldese:
  • AP: EPA bars AP and CNN from summit on contaminants.

O hai, frendz. Music this week with Rev. Lewis and mmph.

In the papers,

• Scott Alexander - Basic income, not basic jobs: against hijacking utopia, on UBI. Comments highlights followup.
• Funfunfunction: Politeness or clarity? 👍, on communication: adapting your message to the audience, and debunking the Torvaldese conception of politeness as fluff.
• New Republic: Don’t blame phones for narcissism and the self as a “sack of noisy ghosts”. Via [fr] Nouveau Projet.
• Chris M. Forsyth: Subway pictures in Montréal and elsewhere.
• Segmented type, via waxy.
• SMBC on cryptocurrencies and the lord.
• Tech:
  • Jacques Mattheij: GDPR hysteria and GDPR hysteria part II, nuts and bolts, actionable advice. HN.
• 💩😷⚠ Donaldese:
  • Kottke: Against political analogies.