Hi there. Music, with Alien Sunset.

On the news,

• Tijmen Schep @ SHA2017: Social cooling - How the reputation economy is turning us into conformists. Chilling.
  

- [Zach Holman: the depression thing](https://zachholman.com/posts/the-depression-thing), via [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15451060). - [fr] [400 culs - L'école du vice et de la soumission](http://sexes.blogs.liberation.fr/2017/10/23/lecole-du-vice-et-de-la-soumission/). - [MIT Tech Review: First evidence that online dating is changing the nature of society](https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609091/first-evidence-that-online-dating-is-changing-the-nature-of-society/), on Tinder/Okcupid changing the world (!?), via [Exponential](http://mailchi.mp/exponentialview/ev135). - [fr] [Stéphane Ménia : Sur le contrôle des chômeurs](http://econoclaste.org.free.fr/econoclaste/?p=13271). - [fr] [Datagueule #75 - Multinationales : le pouvoir hors-les-lois](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeMjaNxENY8). - [fr] [Science étonnante #47 - Voyage au centre de la terre](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muWrmfXpivY). - [fr] [Le « Nobel d’économie » n’est pas issu de l’École de Chicago](http://iris-recherche.qc.ca/blogue/le-nobel-d-economie-n-est-pas-issu-de-l-ecole-de-chicago). - [Oatmeal: reaching people on the internet](https://twitter.com/Oatmeal/status/923250055540219904). - [Why we really really really like repetition in music](https://kottke.org/17/10/heres-why-we-like-really-like-repetition-in-music). - [fr] [Le « piratage » du réseau Chappe, ancêtre des cyber-attaques](http://blog.francetvinfo.fr/deja-vu/2017/10/10/le-piratage-du-systeme-chappe-ancetre-des-cyber-attaques-modernes.html), via [Nitot](https://standblog.org/blog/post/2017/10/16/En-vrac-%28encore%29-du-lundi). - Tech: - [Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration](https://blog.kentcdodds.com/write-tests-not-too-many-mostly-integration-5e8c7fff591c), via [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15565875). And [Eric Elliott: Mocking is a code smell](https://medium.com/javascript-scene/mocking-is-a-code-smell-944a70c90a6a). - [Morning Paper - Serverless computing: economic and architectural impact](https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/10/19/serverless-computing-economic-and-architectural-impact/), on Amazon Lambda. - [lawrence krubner: Why would anyone choose Docker over fat binaries?](http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/why-would-anyone-choose-docker-over-fat-binaries) - 💩😷⚠ Donaldese: - [Political scientists warn: American democracy is in decline](https://kottke.org/17/10/political-scientists-warn-american-democracy-is-in-decline) - [Republicans have Stockholm syndrome, and it's getting worse](http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/10/19/republicans-have-stockholm-syndrome-and-its-getting-worse/) - [Mike Monteiro: One person's history of Twitter, from beginning to end](https://medium.com/@monteiro/one-persons-history-of-twitter-from-beginning-to-end-5b41abed6c20).