Hi frendz, and music, with new Carrom.

News:

• Scott Alexander: Creationism, unchallenged.
• [fr] Mediapart / Usul - Faut-il éradiquer les écoles de commerce ?
• Wikipedia: Sortition. HN.
• Wikipedia: Procedure Words, via HN. Fun stories behind a few of them 🙂.
• Police brutality in the USA and elsewhere:
  • [fr/qc] JF Hotte : La police et l'état doivent changer.
  • Kottke: Jane Elliott's "A class divided", a lesson in discrimination.
  • Kottke: Research on how to stop police violence.
  • BBC on the success rate of violent vs. non-violent protests.
  • Kottke: Are they police? Or an army?
  • jwz: One riot-gear load can buy 55 front-line care workers full personal protection equipment.
  • Kottke: Increasingly rightwing police unions have made policing more dangerous in America.
  • US police brutality supercuts by Jordan Uhl & Greg Doucette: 1, 2, 3.
• Tech:
  • jwz: Everyone at Facebook is qwhite complicit.
  • snakeware "is a free Linux distro with a Python userspace inspired by the Commodore 64. You are booted directly into a Python interpreter, which you can use to do whatever you want with your computer. [...] Our window manager, snakewm, is based on pygame. We do not use X11; snakewm draws directly to /dev/fb0". 👏. HN.
  • Peter Welch: The problem with Bill Gates.
  • DF: Zoom, still shitting the bed on security / encryption.