Hello human. Your weekly food for 🎧 is Swans, merci Sam.

On the news,

• The Radiohead Public Library is amazing, thx Berthe.
• [fr] Agnès Giard dévisse les panneaux de passage "paritaires" de Genève.
• Linus Akesson: Reverbations, an 8-bit approach to J.S. Bach. Awesome; from the maker of the also-awesome Chipophone. Via waxy.
• [fr] Le Temps : «Effet rebond» ou «paradoxe de Jevons», quand l’efficacité énergétique accroit la consommation, via Nouveau Projet.
• Responsive pixel art, via HN.
• [fr] Datagueule 93 - Philanthropie : le capital se fout de la charité.

Hi, geeks. Little news this week. Oh well, grab your favorite headphones and have some CATHEDRALE, merci Roro.

News:

• Tech:
  • Ars: Torvalds says “Don’t use ZFS” —but doesn’t seem to understand it.
  • Is SMS 2FA secure? No. An empirical study of wireless carrier authentication for SIM swaps.

¡Hola! Music, with a haunting remix album for Penelope Trappes, and have some Milk & Bone candy:

Around the interwebs,

• LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER, exceptional musical tinkering with a million billion synths & other unrelated machines; thx Julien.
• Kottke: Anand Giridharadas - Winners take all.
• [fr] Game Spectrum : Qui sont les joueurs de jeu vidéo ?, via Korben. 👍👍👍 large revue historique des problèmes et impacts de la culture gamer.
• NPR: Deceased gerrymandering GOP strategist's daughter makes files public / The Hofeller files. Fuck yeah, more of this.
• [fr] Agnès Giard - Harcèlement de rue : "violence" ? et Eye rape : le viol par le regard.
• Kottke: 2019's chart topper summarizes the current state of media.
• NYT on the rise of ridiculous pop music copyright lawsuits, via waxy.
• Tech:
  • David Cain on tech nuking human interactions.
  • Schneier: Scaring people into supporting backdoors.
  • Buzzfeed: Disinformation for hire; how PR firms sell lies online.
  • LA Times: Union pushes to organize video game & tech workers.
  • Drew DeVault: Hello World and Following up on "Hello world".
  • mjd: Benchmarking shell pipelines and the Unix “tools” philosophy. Concluding with a kinda-summary of Unix that made me smile:

    What a weird mishmash of stuff I had to remember or look up. [...]

    Was it a win overall? What if Unix had less compositionality but I could use it with less memorized trivia? Would that be an improvement?

    I don't know. I rather suspect that there's no way to actually reach that hypothetical universe. The bizarre mishmash of weirdness exists because so many different people invented so many tools over such a long period. And they wouldn't have done any of that inventing if the compositionality hadn't been there. I think we don't actually get to make a choice between an incoherent mess of composable paraphernalia and a coherent, well-designed but noncompositional system. Rather, we get a choice between a incoherent but useful mess and an incomplete, limited noncompositional system.

O hai, weirdos. Little news this week, so take that time to breathe, will you? Wish you a great crazy twenties, health & hugs. On that, more teenagey Big Thief. ❤.

News news news:

• Tech:
  • SMBC: Hug, THIS A MILLION TIMES.
  • Canvas Cards, a gallery of card designs created with JS canvas, cute! Via waxy.

Happy end-of-year things everyone! And music, with Big Thief (marci Berthe), The Samuel Jackson Five (thx OJ), and a Radiohead b-side I had missed.

On the news,

• [fr] Monsieur Phi - Aristote, le pire scientifique de l'histoire ? TL;DR: non.
• [fr/qc] Des bonnes choses via l'infolettre de Nouveau Projet :
  • En 2018, bien avant l'épisode du costume d'Halloween de Catherine Dorion, Le Devoir publiait une réflexion sur les vêtements de la politicienne inspirée des écrits de Simone de Beauvoir : L’habillement est un piège pour les femmes en politique.
  • Le temps : Enseignants, le droit d’aimer, sur les bienfaits de l’«amour compassionnel» pour l’apprentissage des élèves comme pour l’implication des enseignants.
• It's SSC Adversarial Collaboaration Contest 2019 time! Entries:
  1. What are the benefits, harms, and ethics of infant circumcision?
  2. Is eating meat a net harm?
  3. Does calorie restriction slow aging?
  4. Should we colonize space to mitigate x-risk?
  5. Should gene editing tech be used in humans?
  6. When during fetal development does abortion become morally wrong?
  7. Will automation lead to economic crisis?
  8. How much significance should we ascribe to spiritual experiences?
• Kaj Sotala - Unlocking the emotional brain, via SSC: Mental mountains.
• Radiohead’s entire discography now available on YouTube. 👏👏👏!
• Kubito's secret base, via jwz, AWESOME.
• SMBC: Soulmates!
• Tech:
  • It's Ardour's 20th birthday! Happy to see Ardour funded at a sustainable level these days, it's quite a mountain Paul & other devs climbed during these 20 years.
  • Fake Faces: people who do not exist invade facebook to influence 2020 elections. Welcome to the present. Via waxy.
  • NYT: Twelve million phones, one dataset, zero privacy. Which of course is itself a web page full of trackers, oh the irony 😁.