O HAI. Music with Photay, and the ¼-tone piano of Amino Belyamani, via bc/weekly.

News:

• [fr] Data Gueule 60 - Sport mondialisé : du pain et des jeux, sur l'argent dans les JO.
• [fr] Stéphane Ménia - Comprendre reste le prérequis, réflexions socio-économiques sur le terrorisme.
• Ornitographies, 😻 photos of the shapes generated by birds paths. Via Feltron.
• Ben Thompson - Dollar Shave Club and the disruption of everything, via DF.
• xkcd #1357 - Free Speech.
• xkcd #1709 - Inflection, on emojis and altered spelling.
• Elon Musk - Tesla's master plan, part deux.
• Andrew "Bunnie" Huang - Why I'm suing the US government, via HN about DMCA1201 and software/hardware tinker-ability.
• Great roundup from Kottke on the behavioral psychology behind freemium mobile games (yes, Pokémon).
• Mathieu Tremblin paints over shit graffiti and makes it legible.
• Trumptrumptrump:
  • Vox on the radicalization of the US republican party, via kottke.
  • [fr] Francine Pelletier (Le Devoir) - Normaliser l'anormal.
  • Laurie Penny - I'm with the banned, via waxy links.
  • Peter Welch - The American experiment is failing.
  • Thiel: Bloomberg - The strange politics of Peter Thiel, Trump's most unlikely supporter, Jeff Bercovici (Inc.) - A theory about why why Thiel supports Donald Trump via kottke, and Tim Fernholz (Quartz) - Is Peter Thiel, Silicon Valley investor, shorting democracy at Trump’s convention? via HN.