Hola! Music, with Rafiq Bhatia, Wout Gooris Trio, and Physique.

News:

• Kottke: Extraordinary aerial photograph of Edinburgh circa 1920.
• [fr] « En fait », « du coup », « j’avoue » : ces tics de langage qui nous font tiquer, via Nouveau Projet.
• Comics! SMBC: Oops, jakelikesonions: Flattery.
• Tech:
  • Facebook barf: Stratechery: The Facebook Current (HN), and Schneier: Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, 👍.
  • I would like Debian to stop shipping XScreenSaver, a.k.a. the problem with non-rolling distros.
  • Kottke: Ikea-style instructions for programming algorithms.

Hey ho, frendz! Music, with Haley Heynderickx and Hailu Mergia.

News:

• Madeleine Albright: fascism is a serious global threat.
• Richard Stallman: A proposal to keep your personal data safe.
• [fr] Les 400 culs : Séduction = domination ?
• Kottke: What makes a tree a tree? Scientists still aren’t sure…
• Kottke: Photos of an unknown Soviet discovered when she died.
• The bike-share oversupply in China: huge piles of abandoned and broken bicycles, on efficient & self-regulating markets.
• SMBC: Dark.
• Tech:
  • Ehsan Akhgari: Why do people dislike online ads?
  • FontCode, textual encryption using micro alterations of fonts.

Bien le bonjour. Music; I like Mary Halvorson keys play.

On the news,

• Kottke: Austin Kleon - How to keep going.
• David Cain: Why there’s too much on your plate.
• Kottke: Older Japanese women shoplifting to find community & meaning in jail.
• jwz: Jaywalkers under surveillance in Shenzhen soon to be punished via text messages.
• Tech:
  • Doc Searls: Thinking and working outside the platform, yes!
  • RPS: The game industry needs to change and it begins now, interesting thoughts about gamedev unionization, applicable to other kinds of development.
  • Mozilla: Facebook container extension (HN). ♥! This Firefox addon has exactly zarroo new exciting tech. It's just specialized/preconfigured UX around an existing feature, and opportunity-grasping marketing after the recent Facebook privacy barfs. Happy to recommend/install it to friends I install uBlock Origin for. Great job Mozilla 🙂. More of this!
  • Morning paper: Deep learning scaling is predictable, empirically.

Hola, and music: let new Suuns warm you up.

News:

• Scott Alexander: The dark rule utilitarian argument for science piracy.
• Kottke: What America looked like before the EPA, in photos.
• Kottke: Ohio teenager’s raw photographs of his high school friends is USA.
• Inside El Paquete, Cuba’s social network.
• jwz: "I'm afraid this may hurt your head a little".
• SMBC: Monster and Bayesophilia.
• Tech:
  • Anil Dash: 12 things everyone should understand about tech, 👍👍👍.
  • Alex Stamos, Facebook Data Security Chief, To Leave Amid Outcry and Dow drops 336 points as Facebook plunges and Zuck responds to Cambridge Analytics scandal and The case against Facebook.
  • Harper’s Index on Amazon viewed candidly by the populace.
  • jwz: Self-Driving Uber Car Kills Arizona Woman
  • History of the browser user-agent string. HN.
• 💩😷⚠ Donaldese:
  • How Trump consultants exploited the Facebook data of millions.
  • The cult of Trump and America’s increasingly authoritarian government

Yo. Music, with Electric Octopus, thx David.

On the news,

• A good Morning Paper duo: Apps, trackers, privacy, and regulators - a global study of the mobile tracking ecosystem, and Bug fixes, improvements, … and privacy leaks. On the worsening of privacy via growing Personally-Identifying Information leaks in (Android, but iOS is probably similar) apps. Worth a though on that "User Agent" word used to refer to our web browsers and how they can indeed be agents for the user –or against, if you choose badly– by blocking trackers. Contrarily, unless rooting, no such thing is possible in apps.
• Tech:
  • joeyh: futures of (linux) distributions, on Debian lost in language-specific packaging tools and Nix doing the right thing.
• 💩😷⚠ Donaldese:
  • RPS: Trump showed a weird frag montage in his videogame violence meeting.