I am super happy to announce that my friend Flore’s album RITUALS is finally around the corner. It will be released April 7th on POLAAR in digital and vinyl. Thanks to numerous supporters, the crowfunding for its vinyl release has met the funding goal in just a few hours. At time of writing, it is funded at 175%. The album has received a large number of positive reviews from press and radio. A terrific remix EP in on its track as well, with features from artists we would only have dreamt of working with just a few years back. 

RITUALS is the culmination of more than 6 years of artistic work for Flore. It is also the culmination of 6 years of hard work on POLAAR. It is impossible to dissociate these two endeavors. During all these years, Flore has relentlessly poured her energy in both – after all, the labels’ inaugural release was her own RITUAL Part. 1. As a friend, I am so proud of what she achieves, and the consistency she boast since 20 years.

Her album is a treat and I am so glad we release it on our own imprint.

No introduction is the best kind of introduction, especially when I feel lazy. 

1. Want to see what automated state surveillance is? Go watch & read this interactive reporting on the New York Times: How China Turned a City into a Prison.
2. South Korea hotel guests were secretly filmed and the footage were livrestreamed online.
3. Operation Bernhard was an exercise by Nazi Germany to forge British bank notes. The initial plan was to drop the notes over Britain to bring about a collapse of the British economy during the Second World War. 
4. Spatial is a neat AR collaboration tool using Microsoft’s Hololens2. It looks like a killer app for distributed teams. 
5. Mark Burgess (the author of Promise Theory) released his new book Smart Spacetime. I insta-added it in my anti-library. 
6. Thanks to Benoit Jacquemont, I now understand better what is HTTP/3. 

Cheers,

Marc

Hey there. What’s up? Doing good? I’ve been on a hiatus but hope to be back regularly posting links.

1. We can now 3D print mathematically designed shapes that block sounds.
2. Open-Privacy‘s researcher Sarah Jamie Lewis discovered a cryptographic trap door in the Swiss e-voting system.
3. Is willpower an antiquated idea that we should throw away? Carl Erik Fisher thinks so
4. We released a new EP on POLAAR. It’s all about UK bass this time.
5. The sonification of the US Yield Curve is a great example of data sonification. 
6. Twotone is a new Open-Source software created to facilitate the data sonification. Could this be used for infrastructure monitoring? 

Enjoy,

Marc

Une des personnes travaillant à l’épicerie Satsuki à Lyon m’a gentiment traduit la recette de la sauce Tosazu. Je la poste ici pour ne pas la perdre. 

Ingrédients, pour 220ml de sauce:

• 90ml d’eau
• 110ml de vinaigre (de riz ou de céréales)
• 1 cuillère à soupe de sauce soja
• 1 pincée de sel
• 25g de sucre
• Une feuille d’algue Kombu de 5x10cm
• 3g de bonite séchée

Préparation:

1. Mettre tous les ingrédients sauf la bonite séchée dans une casserole, à feu moyen.
2. Juste avant l’ébullition, retirer l’algue kombu et ajouter la bonite séchée.
3. Laisser bouillir 30 secondes, éteindre le feu. Laisser la bonite tomber au fond de la casserole, puis filtrer. 

Hey,

In his Whiskey’n’Weed interview (which you should listen to, by the way), Elon Musk said something that struck me:

“A company is essentially a cybernetic collective made of people and machines.”

It’s a very particular way to look at the world. Of course it’s possible that we’re already merging with the machine. Of course we might already be cyborgs. We might just not be conscious of it. One question is of importance: By merging with the machine and creating a cybernetic collective, what happens to our individuality?

1. 🔑 A very well designed article by ABC News on China’s Social Scoring.
2. 🔑 Apple gives people ‘trust scores’ based on their iPhone data.
3. 🔑 People working on Brain-Computer Interfaces are now able to make one person controls a drone swarm.
4. ℹ️ A good twitter thread on why cryptocurrencies might face the same fate as RSS if the base UX is not dramatically improved. The concept might stay, but might be successful in a different way.
5. 👩‍🎨 A VR adaptation of Dragon Ball Z? Yes please!
6. 🍴 I’m quite fond of Mezcal, and this article explains very well how it is done: Oaxaca’s Potent Secret, Mezcal Is Born of Time, Tradition and a Slow-Growing Plant.

Cheers,

Marc