Happy end-of-year things everyone! And music, with Big Thief (marci Berthe), The Samuel Jackson Five (thx OJ), and a Radiohead b-side I had missed.

On the news,

• [fr] Monsieur Phi - Aristote, le pire scientifique de l'histoire ? TL;DR: non.
• [fr/qc] Des bonnes choses via l'infolettre de Nouveau Projet :
  • En 2018, bien avant l'épisode du costume d'Halloween de Catherine Dorion, Le Devoir publiait une réflexion sur les vêtements de la politicienne inspirée des écrits de Simone de Beauvoir : L’habillement est un piège pour les femmes en politique.
  • Le temps : Enseignants, le droit d’aimer, sur les bienfaits de l’«amour compassionnel» pour l’apprentissage des élèves comme pour l’implication des enseignants.
• It's SSC Adversarial Collaboaration Contest 2019 time! Entries:
  1. What are the benefits, harms, and ethics of infant circumcision?
  2. Is eating meat a net harm?
  3. Does calorie restriction slow aging?
  4. Should we colonize space to mitigate x-risk?
  5. Should gene editing tech be used in humans?
  6. When during fetal development does abortion become morally wrong?
  7. Will automation lead to economic crisis?
  8. How much significance should we ascribe to spiritual experiences?
• Kaj Sotala - Unlocking the emotional brain, via SSC: Mental mountains.
• Radiohead’s entire discography now available on YouTube. 👏👏👏!
• Kubito's secret base, via jwz, AWESOME.
• SMBC: Soulmates!
• Tech:
  • It's Ardour's 20th birthday! Happy to see Ardour funded at a sustainable level these days, it's quite a mountain Paul & other devs climbed during these 20 years.
  • Fake Faces: people who do not exist invade facebook to influence 2020 elections. Welcome to the present. Via waxy.
  • NYT: Twelve million phones, one dataset, zero privacy. Which of course is itself a web page full of trackers, oh the irony 😁.