O hai, frendz. Music this week with Rev. Lewis and mmph.

In the papers,

• Scott Alexander - Basic income, not basic jobs: against hijacking utopia, on UBI. Comments highlights followup.
• Funfunfunction: Politeness or clarity? 👍, on communication: adapting your message to the audience, and debunking the Torvaldese conception of politeness as fluff.
• New Republic: Don’t blame phones for narcissism and the self as a “sack of noisy ghosts”. Via [fr] Nouveau Projet.
• Chris M. Forsyth: Subway pictures in Montréal and elsewhere.
• Segmented type, via waxy.
• SMBC on cryptocurrencies and the lord.
• Tech:
  • Jacques Mattheij: GDPR hysteria and GDPR hysteria part II, nuts and bolts, actionable advice. HN.
• 💩😷⚠ Donaldese:
  • Kottke: Against political analogies.