Hey ho, long time no see. Music, with the relaxing bleeps of emancipator.

Around the wild wild interwebs,

• Kottke: Offering a more progressive definition of freedom.
• SSC launched an "Adversarial Collaboration Contest", where "two people with opposite views on a controversial issue work together to present a unified summary of the evidence and its implications". 👍 idea.
  • Are islam and liberal democracy compatible?
  • Should childhood vaccination be mandatory?, which prompted me to read about the Amish.
• Around bullshit jobs:
  • David Graeber - On bullshit jobs: a work rant.
  • SSC / Scott Alexander - Bulls**t jobs (part 1 of ∞) (HN)
• [fr] Monsieur Phi - Éthique animale : la probabilité d'une catastrophe (suite).
• “Final Offer”, a sci-fi short about interstellar negotiation, funz.
• [fr] Anne Archet - Senryūs électoraux, Autres senryūs électoraux.
• SMBC: Robot captcha.
• Tech:
  • Intel publishes microcode security patches, no benchmarking or comparison allowed! HN.
  • jwz: Major open source project revokes access to companies that work with ICE. Problematic for e.g. Debian packaging but not wholly unreasonable. Link to GitHub PR.