Hi friends. Music, with PJ Harvey:

News:

• Pieter Hintjens: A protocol for dying, via HN.
• Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone, on SciHub & Elsevier, via HN.
• Canadian police have had access to BlackBerry's decryption key since 2010, via DF.
  • Summed up by SMBC #4083.
• Joe Smith: How to use a paper towel, twelve times yes.
• Edward Snowden: The internet is broken, via HN.
• I DROPPED MY PHONE THE SCREEN CRACKED and oss library, "a web audio library that uses method chaining and CSS-style selectors". Via waxy links.
• Joshua Topolsky: Your media business will not be saved, via waxy links.
• 23C3: Tor and China.
• UC Davis paid 175 k$ to downrank pepper spray results, sure. Via waxy links.
• Aphantasia: how it feels to be blind in your mind, whoa. Via HN.
• David Cain: The case for real smiles.
• [fr] Deux bons articles d'Alexandre Delaigue : Antibiotiques, Sociétés offshore.
• Velocipedia, "renderings of people's sketches of bicycles", amazing. Via DF.
• L'excellente Tu mourras moins bête nous explique pourquoi le porn semble moins emballer les femmes que les hommes.