Bonjour les amis. Music, with good lazy grungey rock from Boston, Pile:

Meanwhile, around the interwebs:

• AI / Machine Learning and society:
  • Maciej Cegłowski - Build a better monster: Morality, machine learning, and mass surveillance, via Trivium. HN blah.
  • Kevin Kelly: The AI cargo cult, via waxy.
  • DHH: Google won't be able to resist listening in on your conversations.
  • Less serious talk from Maciej: Superintelligence. Good objections on HN.
• TIL about road dieting and induced demand, a.k.a. why adding traffic lanes (or bridges) doesn't reduce road congestion. Merci Elsa.
• On ethics in (software) engineering: Jacques Mattheij - Just say no. Via HN.
• The exponential view #110 on Google/Amazon/Facebook monopolies:
  • Law profs to antitrust enforcers: To rein in super-platforms, look upstream.
  • Facebook and the cost of monopoly.
  • Is it time to break up Google?
  • And no longer via azeem but HN, Lillian Salerno: Want to rescue rural America? Bust monopolies and How democrats killed their populist soul.
• [fr] Science Étonnante - Alcool, hormones & décisions.
• Linus Akesson - A mind is born, impressive 256 bytes(!) C64 demo.
• This week in Silicon Valley, Man who owns car company thinks we should build public transit system for cars (👏 for the title, Gruber) and Amazon Echo Look (HN), this is--whoa, need to puke; Alexa, fast, I need a bucket delivered to under my mouth NOW.
  • Related snark: The three hot trends in Silicon Valley horseshit, via jwz.
• Kottke found an Endless robotic loop of a toy train.
• 💩😷⚠ Donaldese:
  • EPA website removes climate science site from public view after two decades.
  • Senator Sheldon Whitehouse: Politics of climate change.
  • Tom Nichols: Are Trump voters ruining America for all of us?, via DF.
  • ‘I thought it would be easier’, via DF.