Does it?
Kinopio helps you think through your hardest problems.
Delight as the hard-edged world melts into a full-rainbow spectrum of reality | Aeon Videos.
Microsimulation of Traffic Flow: Onramp (via bizzarodevs.com).
1001 Albums Generator (via bizzarodevs.com).
Generates a random album each weekday from the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
A Modern Compiler for the French Tax Code (PDF) (via lobste.rs).
Relevant: Catala is a domain-specific programming language designed for deriving correct-by-construction implementations from legislative texts.
How Soviet Science Magazines Fantasized About Life in Outer Space.
Soviet illustrations, even ones with whizzing UFOs and bafflingly futuristic machines, were not drawn to entertain as much as to educate and promote the Communist project.
Relevant: Soviet Space Graphics.
The fall of Beirut.
Whilst many Lebanese had hoped that the Beirut port explosion would lead to change, instead it exposed the political vacuum at the heart of the system. So people took matters into their own hands.
The war on climate denial has been won. And that’s not the only good news.
Team Bandcamp ❤️
A Tale Of Two Ecosystems: On Bandcamp, Spotify And The Wide-Open Future.
Spotify is now worth an estimated $54 billion on the stock market, despite having never shown an annual profit. Bandcamp is privately owned, has been in the black since 2012, and continues to grow... slowly. You might be tempted to say that one is a 21st-century business, and the other belongs to an earlier age. But neither could exist at any other time.
My take: one is for the music lovers, the other for the shareholders.
Relevant: Metal Magazine Interview.