weekly reel November 13, 2016
Bonjour bonsoir. Music, with angelic milk, Jean-Michel Blais and Leila.
PALE by angelic milk (bandcamp.com)
Il (Deluxe Edition) by Jean-Michel Blais (bandcamp.com)
Leila Arab - Mettle (youtube-nocookie.com)
On the news,
- Donaldese:
- Donald Trump’s contract with the American voter [pdf], via HN.
- TechCrunch: Facebook admits it must do more to stop the spread of misinformation on its platform, via HN, and Gaël Varoquaux: Data science instrumenting social media for advertising is responsible for today's politics, on the role of social media in post-factual politics.
- Charles Eisenstein: This is how war begins, and The election: of hate, grief, and a new story.
- [fr, video] Science étonnante #35 - Réformons l'élection présidentielle, 👍 vulgarisation d'alternatives à nos modes de scrutin inefficaces; thx frangin.
- Similarly in Canada, Brett Cannon: Alternative voting systems.
- [update 2016-11-14] Maine ranked choice voting approved, via HN.
- [fr] Le Monde & Correctiv.org : Au cœur du CETA, "plongée dans les 2000 pages du CETA pour tenter de savoir si les craintes de ses opposants sont fondées ou non". 1. arbitrage, 2. agriculture, 3. climat, 4. démocratie.
- [fr, video] Datagueule 64 - Franc CFA : une monnaie de plomb.
- [fr/qc] Salaire minimum à 15$/heure au Québec, deux points de vue :
- Opensource roads and bridges: the unseen labor behind our digital infrastructure, via Brett's Why I took October off from OSS volunteering.
- SMBC: Humans are special.
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