Covid-19 in America

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

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

Covid risk avoidance

Another article on evaluating risks of Coronavirus exposure

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

Children in riot gear

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

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

Apérue

Parisians chafe under Covid-19 restrictions

2020-05-29 coronavirus • covid19 • culture • france • paris • 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 california • contacttracing • coronavirus • covid19 • lassen • lassencounty

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 politics • socialmedia • trolls • trump • twitter

Police arresting CNN reporter

A serious, serious mistake and violation of civil order

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

Looters / Shooters

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

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

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 • coronavirus • covid19 • disease • harmreduction • medicine • publichealth

Pointing a gun at your dick

Bizarre blatantly dangerous microtrend in gun culture

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

"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 ageism • karen • misogyny • politics

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 • medicine • scam • superstition • woo

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 • politics • socialmedia • twitter • zuckerberg

RIP Larry Kramer

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

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

AWS explained

A simple guide to Amazon's web services

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

SF Covid-19 antibody study

Finds very low infection rate in March 2020

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

Port scanning websites

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

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

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 • coronavirus • covid19 • politics • poop • trump

Stanford Covid study problems

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

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

History of CBD

Details of a decade of counter-cultural marijuana research

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

Autoruns for Windows

A 2019 program for managing what runs at Windows startup

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

WhatInStartup

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

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

Generac monitoring

Hacker interface to home generators using a serial port connection

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

American change in foot traffic

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

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

Emilio Pucci of Reed College

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

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

Covid Exit Strategy

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

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

Glitch layoffs and criticism

Insider complaints about the gap between perception and reality at Glitch

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

MacOS security slowdowns

Some weirdness in the underlying system makes stuff very slow

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

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 conversation • linguistics • psycholinguistics • science • zoom

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 • coronavirus • covid19 • incompetence • politics • testing • trump

Patchwork Pandemic

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

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

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 corruption • michigan • politics • trump • voting

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 • janeroe • mccorvey • politics • roevwade

SimulationCraft

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

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

Covid / Wuhan report lies

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

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

Imaginary river meanders

Generative landscape meets Fisk-style meander mapping

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

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 dom • javascript • programming • react • reef • reefjs • web

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 contacttracing • coronavirus • covid19 • iceland • medicine • rakning19 • science

Trump's coronavirus meltdown

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

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

Stanford Covid study malfeasance

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

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

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 • coronavirus • covid19 • politics

MongoDB isolation failures

The amateur enthusiast NoSQL database continues to have problems with transactions

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

Cleaning for anal sex (NSFW)

Funny cartoon guide to rectal douching

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

GirlGamers: breakglass

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

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

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 • softbank • unicode • writing

QAnon update

The insane and dangerous conspiracy theory lives on

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

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 • coronavirus • covid19 • disease • hiv

Trump's offensive

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

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

German lockdown protests

Not all is going smoothly in Germany, either

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

Toxic masculinity vs masks

One reason Americans are being stupid about basic safety precautions

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

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 antivax • antivaxx • coronavirus • covid19 • disease • extremism • politics • rightwing • trump

Militia protest security

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

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

First 1080 skateboard

11 year old manages three full rotations on a ramp

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

Covid life in South Korea

American reflects on a different approach to Covid-19 management

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

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 • coronavirus • covid19 • depressing • politics • testing • tracing

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 cdc • coronavirus • covid19 • failure • politics • trump

Bay Area food hustles

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

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

Porn in Covid 19 (SFW)

Discussion of adult services, mostly webcam stuff

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

Selfie 2 Waifu

convert a self image into anime love

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

Barr's plan

A counter-narrative trying to undo the Mueller investigation

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

‘Ata shipwreck

The real life Lord of the Flies

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

PCT in three minutes

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

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

Negativland - Destroying Anything

Another new video, excellent agitprop

2020-05-08 agitprop • music • negativland

Good Covid-19 antibody tests

Promising results from Roche and Abbott tests

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

Diagnosing sauerkraut

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

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

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 coronavirus • covid19 • epidemic • safety

South Korea's competence

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

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

Aussie intel on Covid-19 origin

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

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

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 business • colicchio • coronavirus • covid19 • craft • restaurants

Republican death cult

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

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

Germany's reopening

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

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

Suppressed: Guide for Opening America Up

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

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

Antibody-dependent enhancement

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

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

Coronavirus Strains

Clear, calming writing about how to interpret recent reports

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

Rain Alarm

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

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

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 china • coronavirus • covid19 • disease • infection • southkorea

President Supervillain

Trump parody; his words superimposed on Red Skull comics

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

This Is Not Normal

New Negativland! Big Covid-19 mood

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

Covid-19 whistleblower

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

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

Beowulf Thorne papers

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

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

Beowulf Thorne

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

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

UCSF Bolinas Covid study

Details of another blanket antibody testing; zero infections!

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

SF Mission Covid-19 testing results

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

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

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 california • contacttracing • coronavirus • covid19 • disease

Vaccine / chip 2

Another history of the conspiracy theory

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

Vaccine / chip 1

One timeline of how the crazy conspiracy theory got started

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

Tim Bray quits Amazon

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

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

Once upon a virus...

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

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

Pompeo doublethink

Simultaneously believes Coronavirus is manmade and not manmade

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

Trump's wasted April

A useless presidential administration confronts a disease and fails miserably

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

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 gay • lgbt • nsfw • porn • sex

Love Bug author

Notorious ILOVEYOU computer virus from 2000, perhaps an accidental release

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

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 • batshitinsane • coronavirus • covid19 • infowars

Leslie Jordan

Our national gay treasure in this time of pandemic

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

Trump's HHS spokesman

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

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

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 coronavirus • covid19 • disease • politics • publichealth • trump

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 coronavirus • covid19 • health • medicine • science • vaccine

Harriot on Michigan fascists

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

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

Willie Nelson ranked

All 143 albums in order worst to best

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

Contact tracing capacity

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

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