Woop woop. This week’s music is Lilacs & Champagne.

News

There is a failure on the progressive side to allow conservatives to monopolize concepts they have traditionally “owned” (like freedom, family, patriotism), and there’s room to recast them in progressive terms.

Cat Graffam: “Corporate Memphis” & why everything looks the same.

The Onion: News Happening Faster Than Man Can Generate Uninformed Opinions.

SMBC: Bad economic news, Humans uniqueness, I remember the raiders.

Software

The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins, via waxy.

CrowdStrike:

• Leonard French: CrowdStrike faces “gross negligence” legal attacks, can’t hide behind Terms of Service.
• Brodie Robertson: CrowdStrike’s disaster is bigger than Windows.
• Brendan Gregg: No more Blue Fridays. HN.

Games

LambHoot: Death Stranding and desire paths.

Adam Millard: How “good design” ruins games.

Shitty tech ℹ️

404 Media: Google is now the only search engine that can surface results from Reddit, making one of the web’s most valuable repositories of user generated content exclusive to the internet’s already dominant search engine.