weekly reel November 22, 2020
Hi frendz. The weekly 🎶 is old Peter Kernel and Lupen Crook.
Peter Kernel & Their Wicked Orchestra (2017) (bandcamp.com)
How Rotten The Teeth by Lupen Crook (bandcamp.com)
British Folk Tales by Lupen Crook (bandcamp.com)
On the news,
- Happy ten years cancerversary, xkcd people!
- Coronavirus:
- Kottke: Swiss cheese defense. Good analogy, not specific to the virus.
- jwz: Taiwan and the coronavirus.
- Tech:
- Reed Berkowitz: A game designer’s analysis of QAnon, 👍, thx Julien.
- youtube-dl's repository has been restored (HN), with a good PR move from GitHub (HN) standing upon good EFF lawyer work.
- WSJ: Parler’s lead investor is Rebekah Mercer, funder of Cambridge Analytica. Slowclap.
- DF / Vice Motherboard: How the U.S. military buys location data from ordinary apps.
- Bret Devereaux: Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla and the unfortunate (colonialism apologism) implications. HN.