weekly reel July 14, 2019
¡Hola! Music, with Yoann Bourgeois dancing to Vanessa Wagner's piano.
Vanessa Wagner & Yoann Bourgeois - The heart asks pleasure first (youtube-nocookie.com)
On the news,
- Moving the world to a 4 day workweek – an interview with Aidan Harper of the 4 day week campaign. HN.
- SSC / Scott Alexander: Gay rites are civil rites, on progressives social justice as "civil religion". 👍.
- Climate Stripes, via Kottke.
- Reddit answers How much bandwidth does the spinal cord have?
- Kottke: America’s Cars are heavily subsidized, dangerous, and mandatory.
- [fr] Nitot : En vrac techno, En vrac environnement.
- SMBC: Odie 😄.
- Tech:
- Maciej Cegłowski: I can't stop winning! (HN) is fucking amazing, what a beautiful human being. His attitude & humor are a breath of fresh air amid the sinister of interweb giants. Go read the entire thing, here's a tidbit:
My grandpa sometimes said "you have to help your fate along", and I always liked this worldview very much, for the way it bolted a work ethic onto fatalism. Things happen, but you can always take credit for tenacity.
A one-person business is an exercise in long-term anxiety management, so I would say if you are already an anxious person, go ahead and start a business. You're not going to feel any worse. You've already got the main skill set of staying up and worrying, so you might as well make some money.
Running an online service solo puts one in the coffin corner between the Dunning Kruger effect and impostor syndrome. On some days you feel the correct but paralyzing sense that you are in way over your head. On other days, you'll feel like you're surfing on waves of liquid competence, doing flips, until you destroy something important.
In between the two is a zone of narrow, focused productivity that I hope one day to find. [...]
What does the future hold for Pinboard? Death! The bus that one day comes for us all! The skeletal, icy hand on an unprepared shoulder! Pain, a flash of light, then numbing darkness. So back up your bookmarks.
- NYT: Google’s 4000-word privacy policy is a history of the internet. HN.
- Facebook’s $5 billion FTC fine is an embarrassing joke.
- Google promises reCaptcha isn’t exploiting users. Should you trust it? No, of course. Reddit.
- Eric S. Raymond: Contributor Agreements considered harmful. HN.
[Clickwrap agreements] are not magic bullets, because nothing is. But they have one virtue CLAs and CAs do not: they do no harm.
- Maciej Cegłowski: I can't stop winning! (HN) is fucking amazing, what a beautiful human being. His attitude & humor are a breath of fresh air amid the sinister of interweb giants. Go read the entire thing, here's a tidbit: