Bien le bonjour. Music; I like Mary Halvorson keys play.

On the news,

• Kottke: Austin Kleon - How to keep going.
• David Cain: Why there’s too much on your plate.
• Kottke: Older Japanese women shoplifting to find community & meaning in jail.
• jwz: Jaywalkers under surveillance in Shenzhen soon to be punished via text messages.
• Tech:
  • Doc Searls: Thinking and working outside the platform, yes!
  • RPS: The game industry needs to change and it begins now, interesting thoughts about gamedev unionization, applicable to other kinds of development.
  • Mozilla: Facebook container extension (HN). ♥! This Firefox addon has exactly zarroo new exciting tech. It's just specialized/preconfigured UX around an existing feature, and opportunity-grasping marketing after the recent Facebook privacy barfs. Happy to recommend/install it to friends I install uBlock Origin for. Great job Mozilla 🙂. More of this!
  • Morning paper: Deep learning scaling is predictable, empirically.