Hi frendz. This was a rich music week, with LE RETOUR DE RIEN sous le nom Division Nuit, merci Berthelette, un fucking bon nouveau Jean Leloup, and a humbling new Siskiyou.

News:

• Kottke: The solitary garden, cooooool.
• David Cain: Smartphones are toys first, tools second.
• [fr/qc] IRIS - Interdiction des signes religieux : quel consensus?
• Kottke: Concept drawings from Studio Ghibli movies, awesome.
• CBC: city councillor tracks man / woman speaking time using knitting.
• Tech
  • Doc Searls / LinuxJournal: Blindered by the GDPR, 👍👍👍.
  • Panic announces Playdate and it looks pretty rad 🙂.
  • jwz: "The Uber of live music"
  • WebKit: Privacy-preserving ad click attribution for the web, via DF. Hope, but doubtful this gets adopted by other brow-cough-Chrome-cough.