Bonjour bonsoir, m'sieurs dames. 🎶 avec Feu! Chatterton.

Around the interwebs,

• Kottke: How the Sears catalog undermined white supremacy in the Jim Crow south, interesting.
• Kottke: Nationalism isn’t patriotism.
• Tech of our collapsing empire, and other bubbles about to explode:
  • Matt Honan's review of the Google Pixel 3 is the first and maybe last bébelle review I'm linking to. 👍.
  • Along similar lines: The magic leap con.
  • And jwz: Google and Uber.
  • Lawsuit claims Facebook inflated ad metrics up to 900 percent.
• 💩😷⚠ Donaldese:
  • Kottke: The gerontocracy is driving America into the ditch.
  • NYT: ‘Transgender’ could be defined out of existence under trump administration.