Covid-19 in America

As usual, the Economist's semi-outsider international perspective is very illuminating

2020-05-30 america • politics • trump • economist • covid19 • coronavirus

Covid risk avoidance

Another article on evaluating risks of Coronavirus exposure

2020-05-30 covid19 • coronavirus • risk • disease

Children in riot gear

Insanity in Atlanta, ~12 year old dressed in full riot gear holding an assault weapon

2020-05-30 atlanta • georgia • politics • childsoldier • hitleryouth • children • protest • crazy

Apérue

Parisians chafe under Covid-19 restrictions

2020-05-29 covid19 • coronavirus • france • paris • culture • protest

Lassen County new Covid-19 cases

They reopened early, now they have an outbreak. Gonna see how well testing + tracing works there.

2020-05-29 lassencounty • lassen • california • covid19 • coronavirus • contacttracing

The President vs the Mods

Looking at Trump's attack on Twitter through the lens of the history of trolls on social media

2020-05-29 twitter • trump • politics • trolls • socialmedia

Police arresting CNN reporter

A serious, serious mistake and violation of civil order

2020-05-29 politics • police • reporting • journalism • cnn • minnesota • racism

Looters / Shooters

1968 racist context of a phrase Trump used in his Tweet threatening to kill protestors

2020-05-29 racism • miami • florida • history • minnesota • trump • politics • fascism

Covid harm reduction

Another article on an alternate public health message for Covid-19, based on experiences with the AIDS epidemic

2020-05-28 aids • covid19 • coronavirus • disease • medicine • publichealth • harmreduction

Pointing a gun at your dick

Bizarre blatantly dangerous microtrend in gun culture

2020-05-28 guns • masculinity • politics • dumb • stupid • castration

"Karen" meme is misogyny

Middle-aged women are already treated poorly enough; why does the progressive left need to stereotype them worse?

2020-05-28 misogyny • politics • karen • ageism

A solution for 5G sickness!

Finally all the electrosensitives have a simple solution; just buy this $500 gizmo and you will be protected

2020-05-28 5g • woo • superstition • medicine • scam • tootme

Zuckerberg, traitor

Rather than stand with Twitter against a monster president's attack Zuckerberg takes the moment to go on Fox News and take shots at Twitter

2020-05-28 facebook • zuckerberg • twitter • politics • socialmedia

RIP Larry Kramer

Dead at 84, a hugely important AIDS activist and gay cultural figure

2020-05-27 lgbt • aids • obituary • larrykramer

AWS explained

A simple guide to Amazon's web services

2020-05-26 via:hackernews • aws • cloud • hosting • amazon • tootme

SF Covid-19 antibody study

Finds very low infection rate in March 2020

2020-05-25 sanfrancisco • sf • covid19 • coronavirus • antibody • study

Port scanning websites

eBay, banks, etc abusing Web Sockets to run unauthorized security probes on users' computers

2020-05-25 ebay • badtech • websockets • portscanner • nmap • security • tootme

There's still poop in the pool

A clear examination of where America is today. No one is cleaning the poop out of the pool.

2020-05-25 america • politics • covid19 • coronavirus • trump • poop

Stanford Covid study problems

Good civilian summary of the complaints about the biased and bad antibody study

2020-05-25 antibody • covid19 • coronavirus • stanford • santaclara • politics

History of CBD

Details of a decade of counter-cultural marijuana research

2020-05-24 marijuana • cbd • drugs • medicine • cannabis • tootme

Autoruns for Windows

A 2019 program for managing what runs at Windows startup

2020-05-24 startup • windows • administration • software

WhatInStartup

Windows program to find obscure startup things in the registry. May be obsolete?

2020-05-24 windows • startup • utility • administration • tootme

Generac monitoring

Hacker interface to home generators using a serial port connection

2020-05-23 generac • generator • raspberrypi • hacker • monitoring

American change in foot traffic

Excellent visualization week by week of where people were moving around less

2020-05-23 america • covid19 • coronavirus • lockdown • visualization

Emilio Pucci of Reed College

Italian designer was also a student at Reed. And a fascist.

2020-05-22 reed • fascism • italy • fashion • design • pucci

Covid Exit Strategy

US stats view specific to metrics for how we're doing reopening

2020-05-22 covid19 • coronavirus • reopening • california • bystate

Glitch layoffs and criticism

Insider complaints about the gap between perception and reality at Glitch

2020-05-22 glitch • startups • internet • anildash • tirefire

MacOS security slowdowns

Some weirdness in the underlying system makes stuff very slow

2020-05-22 macos • security • slow • badtech • tootme

Zoom psycholinguistics

Analysis on why online audio chat is so dissatisfying. 100ms delay is enough to screw up a lot of things.

2020-05-21 zoom • conversation • linguistics • tootme • science • psycholinguistics

CDC Covid test report failure

CDC is mixing antibody and viral tests in its reports, even though they are radically different tests that mean different things

2020-05-21 cdc • covid19 • coronavirus • politics • trump • incompetence • testing

Patchwork Pandemic

How America's experience of and response to Covid-19 has devolved into a patchwork of states and regions

2020-05-20 covid19 • coronavirus • america • politics • trump • disease • federalism

Trump voting corruption

Trump explicitly ties federal aid to states not facilitating vote by mail. It's illegal in several ways at once.

2020-05-20 trump • politics • michigan • voting • corruption

Jane Roe's fake conversion

Woman at center of Roe v Wade was paid to pretend like she'd changed to anti-abortion

2020-05-19 abortion • politics • roevwade • janeroe • mccorvey

SimulationCraft

Hard core World of Warcraft tool for simulating damage in the game with various builds

2020-05-19 simulation • wow • games • theorycrafting

Covid / Wuhan report lies

Military report circulating in DC is full of information that's obviously false.

2020-05-19 covid19 • coronavirus • wuhan • china • politics • trump • intelligence • propaganda • lies

Imaginary river meanders

Generative landscape meets Fisk-style meander mapping

2020-05-18 maps • rivers • generative • terrain • fisk

Reefjs

Very minimal Javascript DOM manipulator. Will update DOM efficiently based on changes to data, but otherwise doesn't do all the complicated stuff React or Vue do

2020-05-17 reef • reefjs • javascript • programming • react • dom • web • tootme

Contact tracing app efficacy

40% of people in Iceland are using Rakning 19. It's helpful, but it's not the important part of contact tracing

2020-05-17 covid19 • coronavirus • rakning19 • contacttracing • science • medicine • iceland

Trump's coronavirus meltdown

The UK's answer to the Wall Street Journal also criticizes Trump

2020-05-17 trump • politics • covid19 • coronavirus • incompetence

Stanford Covid study malfeasance

Pressure on scientists to get certain results, undisclosed funding. Corrupted science.

2020-05-15 science • covid19 • coronavirus • stanford • fraud

America could test and trace

Another plea for a sane response to Covid-19 instead of the death cult incompetence we're doing now

2020-05-15 america • covid19 • coronavirus • politics

MongoDB isolation failures

The amateur enthusiast NoSQL database continues to have problems with transactions

2020-05-15 nosql • mongodb • transactions • databases • badtech • tootme

Cleaning for anal sex (NSFW)

Funny cartoon guide to rectal douching

2020-05-15 sex • analsex • douching • shit • lgbt • gay • tootme

GirlGamers: breakglass

A resource list for what to do if you're harassed online, somewhat gamer centric

2020-05-14 gaming • women • harassment • tirefire • safety • tootme

Very first emoji set?

1997 SoftBank set of icons may be the first set of emoji. #5 is a pile of poo!

2020-05-14 emoji • language • writing • softbank • tootme • unicode

QAnon update

The insane and dangerous conspiracy theory lives on

2020-05-14 qanon • batshitinsane • politics • trump • conspiracy • q

Quarantine Fatigue

Excellent article about promoting risk reduction rather than an unrealistic goal of risk elimination. Explicit parallel to AIDS education

2020-05-13 aids • hiv • covid19 • coronavirus • disease • tootme

Trump's offensive

New response to Coronavirus; accuse his political enemies of non-specific crimes

2020-05-13 covid19 • coronavirus • trump • politics • corruption

German lockdown protests

Not all is going smoothly in Germany, either

2020-05-12 germany • covid19 • coronavirus • lockdown • protest • politics

Toxic masculinity vs masks

One reason Americans are being stupid about basic safety precautions

2020-05-12 masks • cdc • america • politics • trump • covid19 • coronavirus

Anti-vaxx meets far right extremism

Anti-vaxx people used to be mostly progressive folks, they are now becoming radicalized in the Trump world

2020-05-12 trump • politics • covid19 • coronavirus • antivax • antivaxx • disease • rightwing • extremism

Militia protest security

Brownshirts at the anti-lockdown rallies. This is terrifying, y'all.

2020-05-12 militia • politics • lockdown • covid19 • coronavirus • fascism • trump

First 1080 skateboard

11 year old manages three full rotations on a ramp

2020-05-11 skating • skateboard • 1080 • kids • tootme

Covid life in South Korea

American reflects on a different approach to Covid-19 management

2020-05-11 covid19 • coronavirus • southkorea • communtiy • society

American can't test + trace

Not sure I agree, but this is a well written argument about why testing and tracing will fail in the lack of an American political consensus about the public health

2020-05-11 america • testing • covid19 • coronavirus • depressing • tracing • politics

Trump, FDA, CDC failures

Another rapid history of how the US government failed to act in February. 90% of deaths could have been prevented

2020-05-11 politics • trump • covid19 • coronavirus • cdc • failure

Bay Area food hustles

Chefs trying to make some scratch during the lockdown, doing creative things

2020-05-11 cooking • bayarea • sanfrancisco • food • covid19 • coronavirus • tootme

Porn in Covid 19 (SFW)

Discussion of adult services, mostly webcam stuff

2020-05-10 porn • prostitution • covid19 • coronavirus • sex • webcam

Covid statistics smokescreen

Don't like the mortality numbers and projections? Try to create an air of uncertainty around them

2020-05-10 deaths • covid19 • coronavirus • trump • politics • conspiracy

Selfie 2 Waifu

convert a self image into anime love

2020-05-09 waifu • anime • funny • photos • ai • tootme

Barr's plan

A counter-narrative trying to undo the Mueller investigation

2020-05-09 mueller • trump • politics • russia • corruption • barr • flynn

‘Ata shipwreck

The real life Lord of the Flies

2020-05-09 shipwreck • history • tonga • tootme • lordoftheflies

PCT in three minutes

Grueling 2700 mile hike presented as a series of short video snippets

2020-05-08 hiking • pct • video • via:kottke • tootme

Negativland - Destroying Anything

Another new video, excellent agitprop

2020-05-08 negativland • music • agitprop • tootme

Good Covid-19 antibody tests

Promising results from Roche and Abbott tests

2020-05-08 antibody • testings • covid19 • coronavirus • roche • abbott

Diagnosing sauerkraut

Linked PDF contains useful information on how to spot common fermentation problems

2020-05-08 sauerkraut • fermentation • cooking • food • tootme

Practical safety for Covid-19 reopening

Simple, clear answers to questions like "can I go to a movie?" and "can I hug my friend?"

2020-05-08 covid19 • coronavirus • epidemic • safety

South Korea's competence

How the country with an early, major outbreak reversed course swiftly

2020-05-08 southkorea • covid19 • coronavirus • contacttracing • testing • politics

Aussie intel on Covid-19 origin

Major pushback to the idea that somehow the virus came from a Chinese lab

2020-05-07 australia • intelligence • politics • covid19 • coronavirus • conspiracy • china

Tom Colicchio on restaurants' future

Celebrity chef (and also good actual chef) talks about his activism on behalf of the restaurant industry

2020-05-07 covid19 • coronavirus • colicchio • craft • restaurants • business

Republican death cult

Chris Christie is apparently OK with 3000 deaths / day as long as the country can "do things"

2020-05-07 republican • gop • politics • christie • covid19 • coronavirus • monster • monstermonstermonster

Germany's reopening

What a competent government can do to get its people back to their lives safely

2020-05-07 germany • politics • covid19 • coronavirus • reopening • government

Suppressed: Guide for Opening America Up

CDC wrote a guide for safely reopening the country. The Trump Administration has squelched it.

2020-05-07 politics • cdc • covid19 • coronavirus • trump • murder

Antibody-dependent enhancement

A major concern when developing vaccines; they can make the disease worse

2020-05-06 vaccine • antibody • disease • medicine • covid19 • coronavirus • w

Coronavirus Strains

Clear, calming writing about how to interpret recent reports

2020-05-06 covid19 • coronavirus • disease • evolution • strains

Rain Alarm

A weather app similar to Dark Sky, but not devoured by Apple

2020-05-06 darksky • weather • android • apps • tootme

Covid Normalcy

How successful countries are controlling the disease; life is continuing, but folks are taking serious measures to avoid infecting each other

2020-05-06 southkorea • china • disease • covid19 • coronavirus • infection

President Supervillain

Trump parody; his words superimposed on Red Skull comics

2020-05-05 trump • politics • comics • funny • parody • captainamerica • redskull

This Is Not Normal

New Negativland! Big Covid-19 mood

2020-05-05 negativland • music • video • normal • notnormal • tootme

Covid-19 whistleblower

First administrator to come forward documenting the grift, stupidity, and nepotism of the Trump people

2020-05-05 covid19 • coronavirus • trump • politics • corruption • fraud • murder • whistleblower

Beowulf Thorne papers

An academic archive of Wulf's queer and AIDS related writing

2020-05-05 wulf • beowulf • beowulfthorne • lgbt • gay • aids • queer • tootme

Beowulf Thorne

A lovely appreciation of Wulf, the editor of 1990 AIDS humor zine Diseased Pariah News

2020-05-05 dpn • diseasedpariahnews • queer • lgbt • gay • aids • hiv • wulf • tootme

UCSF Bolinas Covid study

Details of another blanket antibody testing; zero infections!

2020-05-05 bolinas • ucsf • covid19 • coronavirus

SF Mission Covid-19 testing results

UCSF does a quick antibody study. 2% infected, with troubling demographic details

2020-05-05 ucsf • sf • covid19 • coronavirus • antibodies • latinx

California contact tracing

Finally something like a reasonable plan; training up 20,000 people to help fight Covid-19 in the most effective way

2020-05-04 covid19 • coronavirus • contacttracing • california • disease

Vaccine / chip 2

Another history of the conspiracy theory

2020-05-04 gates • covid19 • conspiracy • batshitinsane • coronavirus

Vaccine / chip 1

One timeline of how the crazy conspiracy theory got started

2020-05-04 batshitinsane • gates • conspiracy • covid19 • coronavirus

Tim Bray quits Amazon

Software VP quits on principle for the way Amazon treats its warehouse workers

2020-05-04 amazon • tirefire • labor • timbray • aws • capitalism • tootme

Once upon a virus...

Chinese government's counterpropaganda about Coronavirus response. It's pretty hilarious.

2020-05-04 china • politics • coronavirus • covid19 • funny • propaganda

Pompeo doublethink

Simultaneously believes Coronavirus is manmade and not manmade

2020-05-03 covid19 • coronavirus • pompeo • politics • trump • china

Trump's wasted April

A useless presidential administration confronts a disease and fails miserably

2020-05-03 trump • politics • covid19 • coronavirus

Gay Demon (NSFW)

Reviews of gay porn sites. Looks like legitimate review content, not just marketing. Spends a lot of time of the technical parts of the sites; video formats, quality, download options.

2020-05-03 porn • nsfw • gay • lgbt • sex • tootme

Love Bug author

Notorious ILOVEYOU computer virus from 2000, perhaps an accidental release

2020-05-03 virus • malware • lovebug • badtech • pc • tootme

Alex Jones, cannibal

A fixation on butchering his neighbors for meat. Also Alex Jones says "I'll eat your ass" but I don't think he means that in the sexy way.

2020-05-01 alexjones • infowars • batshitinsane • covid19 • coronavirus

Leslie Jordan

Our national gay treasure in this time of pandemic

2020-05-01 gay • lgbt • funny • lesliejordan • queen • covid19 • coronavirus • tootme

Trump's HHS spokesman

History of vile, sexist, offensive comments on Twitter. Perfect qualifications for the Trump administration!

2020-05-01 politics • caputo • trump • hhs • sexism

Lost April (Covid-19)

A bleak assessment on how the US has made no progress against Coronavirus in a month. We've stopped it, but not reversed it.

2020-05-01 covid19 • coronavirus • politics • trump • disease • publichealth

Vaccine timeline

NYT with a serious bummer, saying it's more likely to be ~10 years to a Covid-19 vaccine; not 12-18 months

2020-05-01 vaccine • covid19 • coronavirus • health • medicine • science

Harriot on Michigan fascists

Excellent op/ed on a bunch of white people with guns storming the legislature

2020-05-01 michigan • politics • race • america • trump • fascism

Willie Nelson ranked

All 143 albums in order worst to best

2020-05-01 via:metafilter • willienelson • music • country • tootme

Contact tracing capacity

At best we are planning for 10% of the contact tracers we need to safely unwind Covid-19

2020-05-01 covid19 • coronavirus • contacttracing • medicine • publichealth