Bonjour bonsoir, avec bleu.

News:

• Donaldese:
  • Politics in the animal kingdom, excellent series on USA's skewed election system, including explanations about the consequences of first-past-the-post voting and gerrymandering. Via kottke.
  • NYT: How stable are democracies? ‘Warning signs are flashing red’, via kottke.
  • Scalzi: a good pre-election piece I had missed: Dystopias are fantastic in fiction. But do you really want to live in one?, via the greatest piece ever on expressing political opinions as non-{specialist, journalist}: Hey, looks like it’s time once again for me to talk about writing on politics...
  • ... which in turn inspired Chuck Wendig: Lamentations of the white working class (storify for this Twitter essay), via DF.
• [fr] Rafraîchissant de voir des TED se tourner en dérision : TEDxParis 2015 - Clôture | Chris Esquerre et TEDxParis 2016 - Est-ce que le nouvel âge dort ? | Pierre-Emmanuel Barré, merci Berthe.
• A 4-bit Calculator made in cardboard and marble, via Trivium.
• SMBC: A guide to media and social class and A better family.