weekly reel January 21, 2018
Buongiorno, friends. 🎵, with a sexy as ever Liima and a peaceful Mammal Hands.
1982 by Liima (bandcamp.com)
Shadow Work by Mammal Hands (bandcamp.com)
Aaaaaaand news!
- Funfunfunction: Habitual negative thoughts.
- Your weekly blurbs on dominance/monopoly abuse by Google/Amazon/Facebook, both by The Economist and revolving around giants being BAADD: "big, anti-competitive, addictive, destructive to democracy".
- The techlash against Amazon, Facebook and Google—and what they can do; "a memo to big tech: which antitrust remedies to welcome, which to fight".
- How to tame the tech titans. HN. "Competition in the digital age: the dominance of Google, Facebook and Amazon is bad for consumers and competition".
- [fr] Alexandre Delaigue - Egalité des salaires hommes-femmes : la solution Islandaise?
Plutôt qu'une énième pénalisation, peu efficace, des écarts de salaires, pourquoi ne pas tenter la transparence des salaires, obliger à divulguer les salaires perçus par tous les employés dans une entreprise? Beaucoup diront que nous n'y sommes pas prêts culturellement, que cela donnerait lieu à des conflits permanents et à des employeurs obligés sans cesse de justifier la moindre différence salariale. L'expérience des entreprises qui la pratiquent montre plutôt qu'après une période d'adaptation, les résultats sont plutôt positifs.
- [fr] Monsieur Phi : La machine à expérience de Robert Nozick.
- Happy Birthday "improved version" by Ivan Fischer, thx Isa.
- A self-portrait of the microbes that live on our skin, via Nouveau Projet.
- Genital Jousting 1.0 is out, and their FAQ is good.
- Twitterer Sean Carroll asks: Does one eventually reach an age where one stops having the anxiety dream about not being allowed to graduate from high school because one signed up for a math class then never attended it? Nope, still having (a variant of) it.
- Tech:
- Uber’s secret tool for keeping the cops in the dark.
- The morning paper: Meltdown & Spectre, and Some thoughts on security after ten years of qmail 1.0.
- Funfunfunction: The Luna programming language.
- Horace Dediu: The Apple cash FAQ.
- Social Decay: Illustrations by Andrei Lacatusu, via Trivium.