Hello, nerdlordz. Damnit, this week was chock full of excellent new electro, with fresh stuff from Moderat, M.O.O.N., Wilma Vritra, Four Tet.

News

[fr] Gaël Giraud @ Sismique podcast, excellent comme d’habitude.

These photos of the Davis-Monthan Air Force base in Tucson reminded me of Koyaanisqatsi.

Tech

People Make Games: Making sense of VRChat, the “metaverse” people actually like. Wow; I’m generally skeptical about the whole thing, but this looks fun and goofy. Great documentary too.

... which made me discover other videos from People Make Games, who produce videogames commentary / documentary that resonates with me. In particular, on the topic of receiving and listening –or not– to player feedback in games: Why Subnautica owes its success to this button and Why the sound of a gun had to be nerfed in Wolf: ET.

Shitty tech ℹ️

Nicholas Weaver: All cryptocurrency should die in a fire.

Hi geeks, and music with new Esmerine, and Totorro (merci Laurie).

Tech

Charity Majors @ WTFisSRE: It is time to fulfill the promise of Continuous Delivery. Techies, this is a must-see talk that will give you hope and ammo to go push for more CD at $job, and save your sanity. Thx Ian.

Woop. On the music side, PIANO CHAT / Marceau Boré is awesome. Also, new old Tellier.

News

Stereogum: Why are musicians expected to be miserable on tour just to break even? and Adam Neely of Sungazer on their tour expenses. Via waxy.

Kevin Kelly: 103 bits of advice.

SMBC: Finite, Robot.

Shitty tech ℹ️

Scott Alexander: Every Bay Area house party.

👋 geeks, and music with Plastikman & Chilly Gonzales.

News

[fr/qc] Caribou: Qu’est-ce qu’un prix juste ? Merci Berthe.

SMBC: Stages of life.

Tech

It’s union time at/around U.S. software bigcorps: Raven software QA, Dragon Age QA, a second Amazon warehouse, Apple Retail.

Shitty tech ℹ️

[fr] Arrêt sur images : Elon Musk ne vous veut pas du bien.

Ross Scott: “Games as a service” is fraud.

Bonjour bonsoir frendz, and music with new King Gizzard.

News

Kottke: The bagworm caterpillar is quite the animal architect. THIS IS THE MOST AWESOME THING. More photos.

Ottoman leaf calligraphy, via Nelson.

Kottke: The mass delusion of the pandemic being over.

Tech

“Just listen to Jaron Lanier talk about social media” is my new go-to answer to why I’m not using them: Who is civilization for? , HOPE 2020 keynote, How the internet failed and how to recreate it. Thx James.

MIT Media Lab: λ-2D: An exploration of drawing as programming language, featuring ideas from lambda calculus.

Magnetron the GPT3 AI. Via Nelson.

Shitty tech ℹ️

Vice: Leaked “shill price list” shows wild world of cryptocurrencies promos.

Axie Infinity collapses.