Trump helping states that are his political allies, also states that are important to his election

Imperial College London back with a new set of models taking in to account the various social distancing measures European countries have taken. The news is promising, the measures seem to be helping.

RIP to the formerly great microforecast weather product

Neat genetic genealogy tool; plug in your DNA match with someone and it shows you likely relationships. ie: 2% match means maybe a Half Great Uncle

No one uses them, but they're still taught as a safe sex thing. And have some interesting cultural importance.

Excellent overview of ideas for using location data to stop the pandemic; not just contact tracing, but broader population measures too

Insidery story of the DNC trying to get on top of technology and Internet presente

A nice new lockdown ritual; a bagpipe song for the Castro every night

Another troubling profile of the French doctor behind the chloroquine hype

Big part of California's Coronavirus testing problem is a failing commercial lab

Damning Trump quote admitting the Republican position that if too many people vote, Republicans will lose

Delightful story of someone doing something dumb with magnets in their face

Graphing new cases. vs total cases, a chart designed to highlight exponential trends

A calm criticism of a newly published preprint

Archive of the wellspring of the batshit insane conspiracy theory. Nearly silent on COVID-19, I was curious.

Plausible scenarios for how this social distancing regime ends

Fundamental design flaw in phone networks is no longer exploited just by the US government

Yet more generative neural networks, this one anime

Cory @Doctorow's new linkblog. Welcome back to the club, Cory!

In which a right wing crank gets his ass handed to him for a stupid-yet-influential spitball take on how COVID-19 may not be so bad

Very insidery info on failure of various public health agencies to produce a working test fast enough

A project written in a new high concept language / programming environment

Data on which areas are seeing people moving around less

Bay Area doctor behind the first COVID-19 lockdown in the country

Various ambient sound makers

A soundboard of recordings from the US national parks

Notes on how the restaurant reservation company has quickly pivoted to arranging pickup food

another roundup for history

How the epidemic and lockdown is playing out across America's economic strata

Trump and federal government can't decide how many ventilators it might pay to get built nor how much to pay for them

Workers asking for some basic accommodations as they become an essential service during the Coronavirus outbreak

A precise 14 page list of who can still be working in California right now

Amazingly edited recording of the Hamilton number done with clips from bunches of fans

An RSVP app for mobile; always wondered why this idea wasn't more popular

Go fast and break things even in the time of plague, because there's customers to capture! Assholes.

Charge that the paper behind the idea that Chloroquine could help with COVID-19 is based on fake data, from an unreliable scientist

Attempt to raise funds for small businesses turns into a aggressive set of unasked-for GoFundMe pages for businesses that did not opt in

Former leader within the CDC talks about why the agency's poor response to COVID-19.

2020 edition, complete with making sure Gmail will accept your mail and a script to automate it all

MapBox shares some global data showing how its users aren't moving around as much

Showing a 30% increase. Also Monkeybrains seems to average about 10 Gbps. TIL.

Artificial languages, from very simple to very complex

Drone videography from the time of quarantine

Biggest crisis this nation has faced in years, GOP-led Senate takes three weeks off

Bunch of new tests reported as private test facility numbers get integrated

Heartfelt and personal story of running a big remote work company in the time of a rush to remote working

On the strange absence of our public health organization from the public stage

Networks considering unprecedented step of simply not airing Trump press events because they are so full of misinformation

Crucial medication for sufferers of Lupus and other chronic conditions no longer available because Trump hyped it up as a cure for COVID-19. It's not a cure, it's a promising option that needs testing.

Detailed testing, contact tracing, some good luck all contributing to a better outcome in Germany

A detailed roundup of the history of the anti-Chinese coverage of COVID-19

We've done 1/3 the tests New York has

Singapore tech solution to using cell phone location to tracking if you've been exposed to COVID-19

Maps and charts of tests performed in the US, based on the reliable Covid Tracking Project data

Non-crucial stuff is getting low priority, as much as a month long delay on shipping

Yet another visualization site; this one has per-capita and per-US-state graphs of COVID case growth. Uses John Hopkins' data

Accepting some responsibility in exchange for emerging intact from bankruptcy

Details and history of the odd fake speech

Direct two pager on health risks from Coronavirus

Another op/ed on queer love in the time of COVID-19

State Department pushing the line the Chinese are awful and the US are heroes

Thoughtful essay on casual sex culture

Details on our country's failure to act fast enough to stop a dangerous disease

I'm skeptical of the author and am exhausted seeing this kind of article, but it does a good job explaining how we might have some hope of getting back to normal in a couple of months by following the Chinese and South Korean model

COVID-19 response, lowering bandwidth usage to give underprovisioned European ISPs a break

Racism hand-added to transcript of speech Trump read

Reliable, daily updated data on number of COVID-19 tests performed in the US

Only 1/3 of passengers on the cruise ship that was infected have agreed to be tested

A real world test of a server load on Amazon's non-Intel platform

Scientific details on how the coronavirus works and possible methods of medical treatment

A coherent technical plan for a new Sonos operating system. Old players won't be able to run it, but will continue to work and get bug fixes

Hilarious set of polls

Details from inside about our disastrously irrational president and his change of mind

Network now seems to understand the disease is serious.

Out of the ashes of Theranos comes a SoftBank-funded patent troll to fuck with Coronavirus

Details on what powers the government has to restrict movement

Interesting writing system, entirely straight lines

A historical record of a president who helped enable a public health crisis

Review of his new book Capital and Ideology. The Economist is institutionally opposed to Marxist thought, but this review seems fairly useful

Good, sourced set of more technical information

A collection of scans of roleplaying game books. Uncertain license status, but excellent archive.

Report that Trump is trying to buy a German vaccine development company to have a COVID-19 vaccine "only for the USA". Sounds insane, but report is from a well regarded German paper

Industrial music pioneer and gendernaut, dead at 70

Excellent, simple agent-based simulation explaining how social distancing can help slow the spread of disease

Details of how badly organized the presidency is

Not Pounded by Anything While I Practice Responsible Social Distancing, a short Tingler that (for once) is SFW.

They're trying something different, let everyone get sick. I guess we'll see how that works out.

A framework for understanding what a trained neural network is actually doing

Article about how to try to get through to older people at particular risk who are also brainwashed by the Trump/Fox News view that COVID-19 is no big deal

More details on failures of the US to have working tests

Short editorial on the dismal, inevitable conclusion of the GOP sabotage of federal government

Quote specifically saying Trump suppressed Coronavirus testing because he was afraid the numbers would hurt his campaign

Handy little summary of various insane things President Nero has been saying

Worried about maintaining his ignorant line that it's just a flu, and everything being about the market and the election.

Video ad for Blued, the Chinese gay dating app. (cw: anti-gay violence)

Profile of the company that makes the Grindr for China

Excellent article about the social aspects of working from home

As of yesterday only 4400 Americans have been tested

Commander of an intelligence unit told the unit to install an app that looks completely insecure

A second version of the story, broadly similar

Detailed, devastating article about missteps and failures in the government

Trump Administration foot-dragging is making immigration for high skilled legal applicants very difficult

Details of the predatory economic model

Law enforcement demanding Google hand over location data for anyone in a specific area

During the AIDS crisis he advocated mandatory HIV testing and quarantine, opposed condoms.

Federal government is deliberately hiding COVID-19 testing data

Details of Flash Loans, a weird wrinkle in Ethereum where two people can possess the same money at the same time

Rich people using Clearview for shits and grins. Then again in a few years we'll all be doing this.

Excellent detailed map of Super Tuesday results for the Democratic primary

Staff starts leaking about the bad campaign management

Sharp, precise feminist analysis of why Warren was not more popular

No one should have to wait hours in line to vote