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News news news:

• Funfunfunction: Interpret generously, on debate / rhetoric vs. discussion / understanding. 👍👍👍.
• Aeon: You don’t have a right to believe whatever you want to, via kottke.
• [fr] Le Monde - Vidéosurveillance : paradigme du technosolutionnisme.
• [fr/qc] Deux liens Nouveau Projet sur la pollution et les transports :
  • Ventes record de VUS/essence : Il faut cesser d’investir dans le problème.
  • L’Estonie, premier pays aux transports gratuits ?
• Kottke: Amazing 1980s tech company logos, Brutalist cuckoo clocks.
• 五月病, via waxy.
• SMBC: State of the union, AMERICA.
• Tech:
  • GDPR leading to EU being served smaller tracking truckloads, leading to old-new epiphanies that tracking truckloads slows down sites. Via DF.
    • The Verge: 32s → 5s load time, 61 → 2 JS files, 2MB → 1 MB.
    • USA Today: 45s → 3s load time, 124 → 0 JS files, 5.2MB → 0.5MB, 500 → 34 HTTP requests.
  • LinuxJournal - Kyle Rankin: Why you should do it yourself.
  • Reverse emulating the NES, via waxy.
  • Bloomberg: Microsoft to acquire GitHub, oÔ. HN.