Hey ho. Jazz, with Theon Cross and Tori Handsley Trio:

News:

• [fr] À la rencontre des jeunes skateuses d'Afghanistan et Arte - Sexisme ordinaire en milieu tempéré, via Nouveau Projet.
• Discovered Scott Alexander / SSC and read a lot of it:
  • Scott Alexander: Different worlds and SSC survey results on trust.

    Nothing makes sense except in light of inter-individual variation. Variation in people’s internal experience. Variation in people’s basic beliefs and assumptions. Variation in level of abstract thought. And to all of this I would add a variation in our experience of other people.

    Some of us are convinced, with reason, that humankind is basically good. Others start the day the same way Marcus Aurelius did: "When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they cannot tell good from evil."

    Notice this distinction, this way in which geographic neighbors can live in different worlds, and other people’s thoughts and behaviors get a little more comprehensible.

  • I can tolerate anything except the outgroup:

    It seems to me that you only pardon the sins that you don’t really think sinful. You only forgive criminals when they commit what you don’t regard as crimes, but rather as conventions. You forgive a conventional duel just as you forgive a conventional divorce. You forgive because there isn’t anything to be forgiven.

  • The toxoplasma of rage:

    It’s in activists’ interests to destroy their own causes by focusing on the most controversial cases and principles, the ones that muddy the waters and make people oppose them out of spite. And it’s in the media’s interest to help them and egg them on. [...]

    People talk about the shift from old print-based journalism to the new world of social media and the sites adapted to serve it. These are fast, responsive, and only just beginning to discover the power of controversy. They are memetic evolution shot into hyperdrive, and the omega point is a well-tuned machine optimized to search the world for the most controversial and counterproductive issues, then make sure no one can talk about anything else. An engine that creates money by burning the few remaining shreds of cooperation, bipartisanship and social trust.

  • What developmental milestones are you missing?
• Guardian: Goodbye to livestock farming: "The suffering inherent in mass meat production can’t be justified. And as the artificial meat industry grows, the last argument for farming animals has now collapsed ." Via EV.
• New Yorker: Killing animals at the zoo, "At Danish zoos, surplus animals are euthanizedand dissected before the public", via Nouveau Projet.
• Kottke: The United States of Guns and Atlantic: The rules of the gun debate.
• Software Patents: HN thread with good discussion on the four forms of IP protection: copyright, patents, trademarks, trade secrets. Also, Fun Fun Function: React license drama - Talking Open Source Licenses.
• Diminishing returns of static typing. YES. TRADE-OFFS. Via HN.
• Kottke: How to care for your introvert, funsies.
• SMBC: Mandelbrot.