What I saw on the web on 2022.3.21

1. On Tolkien and Orwell
   by Darcy Moore
   https://www.darcymoore.net/2022/03/19/on-tolkien-and-orwell/
   not a perfect case, but there's not nothing there
   via boing
   
   
2. How the Music Industry Survived the Internet. Sort of.
   by EditorDavid, reblogging the New York Times
   https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/22/03/21/0034216/how-the-music-industry-survived-the-internet-sort-of
   none of this is surprising
   via rss
   
   
3. AI Learns Insane Monopoly Strategies
   by b2studios
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkvFcYBznPI
   it missed the only real winning strategy with monopoly — not to play
   via boing
   
   
4. Democracy Comes to Michigan
   by David Byrne
   https://reasonstobecheerful.world/democracy-michigan-gerrymandering-voters-not-politicians/
   a discussion of citizen-driven redistricting in Michigan
   via rss
   
   
5. daydream houses of oman
   by kate wagner
   https://mcmansionhell.com/post/677190324106477569/daydream-houses-of-oman
   how they do architecture in another part of the world
   via cory doctorow
   
   
6. Ellie's Taste Tournament - Round 1 Summary
   by Ellie and her human
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqAE3ohD5zU
   some of these were pretty easy to predict TBH
   via boing
   
   
7. Artist Series: Guitar Faculty Recital
   by the Guitar Faculty of PLU
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z69YHxx-aKs
   if you need some great music to listen to
   via FB
   
   
8. This is incredibly interesting to me and probably at least twelve other nerds
   by Threatening Music Notation
   https://twitter.com/ThreatNotation/status/1505698580924928002
   in case you've ever wondered about the chordal possibilities of touch-tone phones
   via Ada_Palmer
   
   
9. One line descriptions of things from Ada Palmer’s Terra Ignota series
   by moengke
   https://twitter.com/moengke/status/1505709615845101574
   if you want some sense of why some of us think her series is so freaking cool
   via Ada_Palmer
   
   
10. Driver installs train horn in his Miata, possibly saving his life from an idiot driver
    by Mark Frauenfelder
    https://boingboing.net/2022/03/21/driver-installs-train-horn-in-his-miata-possibly-saving-his-life-from-an-idiot-driver.html
    if it works, it works
    via rss