Hey ho. Music, with Gull (thx OJ!), Scott Thiessen, Sufjan Stevens.

On the news,

• Kottke: TheirTube, visit radically different YouTube recommendation bubbles, good idea.
• Kottke: Cute laundry shop couple stylishly models clothes left behind by their patrons.
• Tech:
  • Drew DeVault: The falsehoods of anti-AGPL propaganda.
  • Doom running inside Windows 95 running inside Minecraft.
  • The Verge: Big tech is going on trial, about time. WaPo summary of first testimony.

Hi friends. This week's music is Floex.

On the news,

• [fr] Jean-Marc Jancovici - Cours des Mines de Paris 2019 : Énergie et changement climatique, 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍.
• Kottke: It’s self-portraits all the way down.
• The Endless Doomscroller, via waxy.
• Kottke: Uncle Roger - The death of rice.
• Donaldese:
  • Atlantic: Performative authoritarianism.
  • Robert Evans: What you need to know about the battle of Portland.
• Tech:
  • NCSU: Tech job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills. HN.
  • Tedium: RIPscrip, weird wild in-between of BBS & web.
  • Buzzfeed: Facebook employees reckon with what they built.

Hello weirdos. Music, with Microwave, Wilma Vritra, DEBBIE FRIDAY.

On the news,

• [fr] Agnès Giard - Etre un mâle, tu sais, c’est pas si facile.
• Coronavirus:
  • Typefaces of protest.
• Tech:
  • Zuck the butcher, good analogy.
  • Schneier's last Crypto-Grams (June, July) are good. In particular, Schneier: The security value of inefficiency, on the security consequences of having leaned our supply chains / healthcare to the bone, and the need for antitrust regulations.

Hi frendz, and music, with Bobby Oroza's velvety lo-fi soul.

On the news,

• Kottke: Doublespeak, language designed to mislead while pretending otherwise, which links back to Harry Frankfurt: On bullshit.
• The 2020 Audubon photography awards winners.
• Kottke: A mind sang.
• SMBC: Human 😄.
• Coronavirus:
  • Peter Welch: A very American suicide.
  • Science: Six months of pandemic photography.
  • New Yorker: How “Starship Troopers” aligns with our moment of american defeat.
• Tech:
  • Godot engine: Donation changes. TL;DR: better paid contribution structure, more sponsorships. Godot is becoming the Blender of game engines: a solid free / open-source foundation with steady progress and strong backing ❤. Go(dot) go(dot) go(dot).
  • Good people speedrunning getting banned from U.S. Army's Discord.
  • Jakub Geltner: Nest.
  • A reminder by jwz to delete this Uber app on your phone.

Hi there, and music with new Sébastien Tellier, thx Berthe.

On the news,

• The Correspondent - Brace yourself for the most dangerous idea yet: most people are pretty decent, on Kropotkin.
• Aeon: Hail the maintainers.
• Kottke on American recklessness/stupidity facing the virus:
  • Anthony Fauci: USA on track for 100,000 Covid-19 cases per day.
  • The pandemic and the American mountain of dead.
• Tech:
  • Gwern: GPT-3 creative fiction. HN.
  • [fr] La Télévision, œil de demain (René Barjavel - 1947), via Kottke.
  • A GitHub repo of Police brutality during the 2020 George Floyd protests.
  • DF - Always clarifying advice: take pride in your work, 👍.
  • DF - Working the refs worked: ‘How Facebook wrote its rules to accommodate Trump’.