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Aloha,

Here are some links I think are worth sharing.

1. ? The fastest, privacy respecting, DNS resolver is here. Switch to 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 as soon as you can.
2. ?‍? Scott Listfield’s pop culture paintings of an astronaut exploring a future Earth.
3. ℹ️ These Glorious Satellite Images Visualize Earth From The Side. And it looks like a video game.
4. ℹ️ Parkland Students must wear clear backpacks.. This is stupid on so many levels.
5. ℹ️ The fascinating world of Instagram’s virtual celebrities. 3D rendered models get so much followers on Instagram that they become influencers.
6. ? “This is people dancing to the decontextualised, reified, corporatised, liberalised, neutralised, asexualised, re-genderised pop reflection of yesteryear’s dance floor’s reality!”. “The Only Constant is Struggle” — DJ Sprinkles Talks Homophobia, Liberal Bullshit, and Why Music is Aural Capitalism.
7. ? My favorite kind of house music: Hardrock Striker – Motorik Life (DJ Sprinkles’ Moutain of Despair).
8. ??‍?? Are.na: A distraction-free space where you can collect anything, organize your thoughts, and develop ideas over time. It’s also a community where curiosity and collaboration are more important than algorithms and likes.

Thanks for reading!

Marc

Salut,

Not much to read this week. I was too stressed with my talk at the Symfony Live. Anyway, here are some links I think are worth sharing.

1. ? Kei Nishikori meets Nujabes: perfect hip-hop album for a rainy sunday.
2. ℹ️ Elephants “smoke”.
3. ℹ️ Resistance Is Futile. To Change Habits, Try Replacement Instead.
4. ? I listen to a lot of punk and rock I can’t really put a label on. Amyl and the Sniffers – Cup Of Destiny, The Money Store – Death Grips, Eurgh! – Breakfast Muff, Massicot – Massicot.
5. ?‍? ?? J’ai donné une talk au Symfony Live Paris sur l’Architecture Modulaire grâce à Symfony et l’écosystème Open-Source.
6. ??? Allez au Bel Ordinaire à Paris, une belle place pour se restaurer !

Thanks for reading!

Marc

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Aloha,

What’s up? Doing good? Here are some links I think are worth sharing.

1. ??? Cultivée plutôt que riche, la «classe ambitieuse» change le rapport à la consommation. Pourquoi la consommation de légumes moches a fini par compter davantage que la marque de notre voiture.
2. ?‍? Sally West paints beach landscapes. She works on texture to create stylish renditions of white wash.
3. ? Given you’re into architecture and unaffordable home, check out Netflix’s The World’s Most Extraordinary Homes documentary series. My favorite one is the one in the Arizona desert. What a view!
4. ℹ️ ? A chilling reveal: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach. They were used to break society and change the psychology of people, in order to change politics.
5. ℹ️ ? Edward Snowden: Facebook is a surveillance company rebranded as ‘social media’
6. ℹ️ ? #deletefacebook . “I would wager I use Facebook more to broadcast my ego than interact with real humans. And I suspect that most of us are in a similar situation”. You can use this nice browser extension to delete old facebook data. Don’t forget to ask for a backup so you get to keep everything.
7. ℹ️ Autonomous vehicles, aka self-driving cars will change where people chose to live. As a result, ~$1 trillion of real estate is on the move … here’s why. (Hint: It appears it already started in the US)
8. ? Suprême NTM – Anthologie. The best tracks of the french hip-hop group NTM. Perfect.
9. ? I don’t really know why I like No Age – Snares Like a Haircut but I am not alone as Drowned In Sound‘s Marc Burrows explains it much better than me: “After 40 minutes you’re still not totally sure what it is you’ve listened to. This could be great, messy pop music, or just as easily be something you dreamt, dozing in post-coital bliss with a detuned radio in the background.“.
10. ? I had a good laugh watching Ricky Gervais’ last show “Humanity“.

Thanks for reading!

Marc

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Hey ya,

What’s up? Here are some cool stuff that inspired me this week. A lot of music, some cool videos,

1. ??? La talentueuse Oli Clément commence une série de posts sur le travail pour aider ceux qui en souffrent.
2. ? Fancy fat rock’n’roll with psychedelic vibes? Sunflowers – Castle Spell is your fix.
3. ? Describing Khruangbin – Con Todo El Mundo is a tad hard. Maybe slow chill-out-space-funk? Anyway, listen to it when you need to chill.
4. ? Chassol is a genius and proves it by ultra-scoring this hilarious Key & Peele’s Cunnilingus Class video.
5. ? Waymo shows off what it’s like to ride in a truly driverless self-driving car
6. ℹ When You Give a Tree an Email Address. The city of Melbourne assigned trees email addresses so citizens could report problems. Instead, people wrote thousands of love letters to their favorite trees.
7. ? Bitcoin’s Lightning Network is now in beta, on the mainnet. This doesn’t seem like a big deal, but it is.
8. ? Spike Jones directed the Apple’s HomePod ad starring FKA Twig and it impossible not to think of Jamiroquai – Virtual Insanity when watching it.

Thanks for reading!

Marc

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Aloha,

Here are some links I think are worth sharing.

1. ??‍? A Facial Recognition System… for Cats
2. ?‍♂️ Parkour is damn impressive.
3. ?‍? Elaborate Paper Origami Tessellations and Kusudamas by Ekaterina Lukasheva.
4. ?‍??‍? My new favorite Twitter account is all about fun Hacking/DIY projects.
5. ? For people raised in chaos, risk-taking is hardwired.
6. ? Why the Web 3.0 Matters and you should know about it
7. ℹ️ Robots can now solve Rubik’s Cubes in under HALF A SECOND
8. ℹ️ Blockchain technology is on a collision course with EU privacy law
9. ? With their latest album “Felt”, Suuns has become my favorite rock band. I urge you to listen to all their album.

Thanks for reading!

Marc

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Hey you,

Here are some links I think are worth sharing.

1. ℹ️ Scientists are stunned. North Pole temperature are above 0ºC and the sun won’t rise until March 21.
2. ℹ️ What’s more normal than worshippers with AR-15 rifles wearing crowns made of bullets? Everything.
3. ? Seeing Depression or Anxiety only through the biomedical lens is wrong. Is Neoliberalism Making Our Depression and Anxiety Crisis Worse?.
4. ? Mental health is produced socially: The presence or absence of mental health is above all a social indicator and therefore requires social, as well as individual, solutions. We need new ways of treating depression.
5. ?‍? Bio-like robots which all parts are printed as one at once by Additive Manufacturing.
6. ??‍? I couldn’t really explain what is a waveform until I read this. Let’s learn about Waveforms. (This link does not work in Firefox, open it in Safari or Chrome).
7. ?‍???‍? How would you use Bitcoin as a display of wealth?
8. ? I dig the hip-hop vibes from Rejjie Snow’s latest album Dear Annie.

Thanks for reading!

Marc

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Aloha,

Here are some links I think are worth sharing.

In this week edition: A lot of music (from afro-latin electronic to hip-hop to unplugged guitar), tips to control your phone, some scientific insights about work, our addiction to convenience, and some impressive pie work.

1. ? The afro-latin project Penya released their first EP “Super Liminal“. It’s good! It’s always a pleasure to listen to Run The Jewels.
2. ? Do you want a downtempo hip-hop vibe? Listen to Milo – Who Told You To Think ??!!?!?!?!. Do you want to House club vibe? Dance to Peggy Gou – Six o Six.
3. ? Take control of your phone. I started using my phone in greyscale mode and removed the clutter on the first screen. I hope it helps.
4. ? Why “Deep Work” is Becoming a Competitive Advantage for Companies. Being a remote worker for many years and still having issues focusing, I fully support this article. We need better ways to work.
5. ℹ️ “These findings suggest that stressful jobs have clear negative consequences for employee health when paired with low freedom in decision making, while stressful jobs can actually be beneficial to employee health if also paired with freedom in decision making.”
6. ? ”If the first convenience revolution promised to make life and work easier for you, the second promised to make it easier to *be you.*The new technologies were catalysts of selfhood. They conferred efficiency on self-expression.”. Tim Wu delivers a spot-on analysis on the role of Convenience in our modern society.
7. ?‍?? Lauren Ko’s pies are original and beautiful.
8. ? I love OC Note’s work. He’s always surprising. His new album is innoncent and refreshing. Much needed. OC Notes – New Generation: Embracing the New Age

Thanks for reading!

Marc

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Aloha,

In this week edition: Urban Music, VR Graffiti, How Honor affects our brain, Facebook inexorable decline, an origami simulator, and decentralization.

1. ? NAS Performs “The World Is Yours” with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center.
2. ℹ️ Honor as a cultural mindset affects cognition . Activating honor improve performances in hierarchical thinking, but not in tasks requiring nominal thinking. Honor is mentally spatially located upwards and to the right.
3. ? If, like me, you are into warm and soulful house music, you will dig the vibes of Seven Davis Jr. Boiler Room set. Sweet disco love songs mix by Dj Spinna.
4. ?‍???‍? Some impressive GIFs of VR graffiti using this very cool-looking video game available on Steam.
5. ℹ️ German court rules Facebook use of personal data illegal and Facebook might have lost around 2.8 million U.S. users under 25 last year..
6. ?‍? A very cool Origami Simulator.
7. ? The decentralized future is coming and it will change our lives in more ways than the web did.

Thanks for reading!

Marc

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Aloha,

In this week edition: Decentralization, Ambiant, Streaming and the responsible music fan dilemma, society as imagined by tech bros, facing alcoholism, futuristic jewelry, and animal maths. Enjoy!

1. ℹ️ The decentralization movement is well explained in this Guardian article: The punk rock internet – how DIY rebels are working to replace the tech giants.
2. ? Some dark electronic vibe by Sophia Loizou . I recommend you list to her excellent ambiant album from 2016.
3. ℹ️ How to be a responsible music fan? Damon Krukowski explains the problem with the current revenue model for independent music creators.
4. ℹ️ Is this the society we really want? A critic on the cashierless AmazonGo stores.
5. ℹ️ My name is David Flink, I’m a leader in tech, and I’m an alcoholic.
6. ?‍? Nora Fok’s inspiring futuristic jewelry.
7. ? Humans have launched their heaviest rocket ever, deployed a car into orbit, and recovered two of three boosters. The car sound system will play David Bowie on loop.
8. ℹ️ Many animals can count, and some better than you.

Thanks for reading!

Marc

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Aloha,

Here are some links I think are worth sharing.

1. ℹ️ A fascinating introduction to Decentralized Identity. Could we record in an anonymous way all of human history with such a system?
2. ℹ️?? De l’importance de la souveraineté technologique: Le siège de l’Union Africaine espionné par la Chine pendant 5 ans.
3. ? This week was all about Chassol’s magnificent ultrascores , Wooden Shjips’ psychedelic rock, and Canshaker Pi’s indie rock.
4. ℹ️ A portable DNA sequencer for less than 1000$. How many years until we can all get one and get our DNA analyzed at home?
5. ? If you are a freelancer, deciding what to charge a client is always difficult. HackerNews comments are worth the read.
6. ?‍? Patchwork, a decentralized messaging and sharing app built on top of Secure Scuttlebutt.
7. ? Pursuing perfection is detrimental to you and your work. Accept good enough, and show your work more often!

Thanks for reading!

Marc

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Hey,

Here are some links I thought were worth sharing. I will post next issues on Friday.

1. ℹ️ If like me you struggle with focusing, you might be interested in Creative Boom‘s interview of Jocelyn de Kwant on mindfulness, simple living and the art of creative flow.
2. ? My friend Flore recommended me N.E.R.D.’s latest album and while I don’t love the entire album, there are some excellent tracks in it. You can also check out Flore’s Boiler Room set.
3. ? If dark hip-hop is more your thing, you might like Majin Blobfish – I Know You Need It.
4. ℹ️ Zeynep Tufekci on how Free Speech is being weaponized. Censorship is not about suppressing the message anymore, but making sure you access other messages instead.
5. ??‍?Configuring nginx to serve a Symfony application under a subdirectory of another PHP application is non-trivial. Here is my solution.
6. ℹ️ We can trick A.I. specialized in vision with psychedelic looking patches. We need more and more of that kind of work.
7. ?? Depuis quelques années, le pâté-croûte est devenu un art gastronomique reconnu.
8. ℹ️ Never get high on your own supply, or why Social Media bosses don’t use social media.
9. ℹ️ Deep learning is now used to generate fake porn with real celebrities and also, the Internet being Internet, putting Nicolas Cage where he doesn’t belong.
10. ℹ️ A fascinating read about how the Dutch provided intel about Russia’s interference in US elections.
11. ?‍? How generative Music works.

Thanks for reading!

Marc

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Hey,

I am starting a new regular series on this blog, where I will post links I think are worth sharing. I intend to not focus on something special, but to share what I loved reading, listening, watching (and maybe even cooking!).

Without further ado, here is the number zero edition!

1. Million Short, a search engine where you can filter results from the top 100, 1000, 10k, 100k, or million websites. Great stuff if you’re tired to get results from the same big players.
2. I never watched Star Trek before, but I really enjoy watching Star Trek: Discovery.
3. Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble. Beyond greed mania, there is a new infrastructure being built right now.
4. If you’re into authentic soulful house music, Lakuti’s latest Resident Advisor podcast might be perfect for you.
5. At POLAAR, our producers curated an opinionated playlist with the best tracks from 2017.
6. Paul Bocuse has died, and it was a sad day for the cooking world.
7. Bitcoin’s Lightning Network is growing fast.
8. Zeynep Tufekci is always relevant and her stance on the current state of security in the tech world is a must read.
9. I find myself enjoying more and more this kind of experimental album. A brilliant work, blending world music, electronic music, and interviews.

Thanks for reading!

Marc

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