Some fun words from ye olden times. Kedge and Twistical are both cromulent.

Another article on the political failure to have a national Covid response. This one lays it firmly at the feet of partisan hacks who decided it would be a disease only Democrats would get

Trump's new unqualified Postmaster is ruining our mail service. Why?

Worst US economy performance ever, by a long long margin.

$1.7B given to 116 thoughtfully chosen charities; here's the list she chose.

Detailed information on why people of color in the US are bearing a disporportionate number of Covid cases. (More exposure, less access to testing are key factors.)

The so-called medical experts featured in the Covid disinformation video

Detailed, insider admission the Republicans are all about racism

Candy rolled up in cotton candy

Seems unlikely HHS is deliberately hiding numbers, but the switch in reporting has caused chaos that's degraded hospital data

Bunch of random guys out of uniform grab a woman and shove her in a van. Then some guys wearing police insignia surround in support

Doctor Immanuel, the latest Covid-19 quack, also has a very non-scientific religious worldview

Twitter thread about how six weeks of serious lockdown could end the Covid spread in the US

A handy list of union busting, safety violations, whistleblower violating, and other shitty business practices

He finally built his wall; around the People's House, not the border

The German mercenary army that was the precursor to the Sturmabteiling, Hitler's brownshirts

Various reasons a Covid-19 vaccine won't be a magic bullet

A calm and expansive take on what all could go wrong in November 2020. It's not just deliberate subversion by Trump, there's a lot of more basic things that could fail

Ioannidis and Bhattacharya, the folks who did that terrible Santa Clara antibody study, were completely full of shit and had political conclusions foregone before the study

Funny little video on stereotypes

Barr's army contains a bunch of hired thugs

Filmmakers given inside access. They make an honest film that the US government is now trying to suppress

Details emerge of Barr's Army and its attack on Portland

Excellent simple skeptical take on how to read public health statistics

A new syllabic writing system for Nigerian languages like Igbo. Inspired in part by Nsibidi

Very personal story from a game developer getting tired of working on his own (amazing) game

Stupid political ad has a very dark backstory

Internal turmoil at Facebook as employees realize the horror they have created

Quit Amazon, criticizes capitalist system. Also a really decent guy.

A complete guide to the hardest problem in web design

Detailed reporting about weeks of protests and violent escalation

Nevada County revokes permits from three restaurants ignoring the Covid-19 order to close

A bit of how the last 20-30 years of bad policing in Portland has contributed to this crisis.

DHS arresting people for precrime now. Fascism on the march.

A direct analysis of how bad it is that Barr's Army is invading cities

Parody of food magazines

Rational discussion of what we need to fight the disease

Torture lawyer comes up with a theory of a dictator president

Portrayal of a violent anarchist city is completely at odds with reality

Homeland Security (on paper) has dangerously broad powers

Tough going, suspicious people

Entertainment product about a woman being stalked online by a dangerous fan. Not sure why anyone thought this was a good idea for a game.

County level map based on survey data

Unlabelled vehicles, military armor and weapons used against civilian protestors in Portland

Not going well

Profile of someone working in public health; says 60-70% of cases are being contact traced

Some hacker community gossip about who might be behind the Twitter hack

More on the illegal and insane escalation of federal military-style policing in Portland

Compromised court allows a poll tax as a means to exclude people from voting, despite clear evidently it predominately hurts Black people

DUMB BOOKS YOUR BOSS LIKES

Trump administration solidifies data collection in HHS instead of CDC where it belongs

Impressive stunt, nice video

Not clear it's a coinage, but first usage on Twitter (and forgotten for two years)

A term for the Covid era, but seems to date to 2018

Crazy stunt in Chicago to get people to fill out the census

Insane and dangerous conspiracy theory now being embraced by Trump

Excellent editorial on the problems, and possible good things, from current tech company culture

Trump people ignoring the most respected expert in the country

Similarity between the lunatic conspiracy theory and the reality game genre

It now takes two weeks to get a Covid test result in rural California

Some complaints about the paper showing a genetic link between South America and Polynesia

Genetic evidence of mixing of populations around 1150

How a modern nation handles a professional police force, particularly given its awful history

Stock trading company pushes its users to gamble frequently on the market rather than investing responsibly

Comet visible to the naked eye in the evening

His campaign finally has a wave of new... coronavirus infections, in Tulsa

Details from another country that decided not to contain the virus. Lots of deaths, bad economy.

Armed Black militia protests at an infamous racist memorial

Nice photoset of New Mexico

Yet another evangelical church covering up the risk of sexual abuse of children; in this case by the leader's own son.

Editorial about how California has failed the Coronavirus challenge

A simple but subtle Twitter essay about simultaneously believing that the Founding Fathers did great things and were racist

Beloved simple spatial database isn't updating with respect to GDAL and PROJ, the crucial spatial computation libraries. Fork discussed.

Lovely 360 panorama of my favorite swimming hole

Election Commissioner in Mississippi complains that "the Blacks" are registering to vote and that "People" have to get involved "too"

Interview with health experts on their personal measures to stay safe during Covid-19. See whether Fauci has a housecleaner and goes to the gym!

Argument that we're missing real local trends because we're aggregating data across disparate groups

A reality check from an American living in France

Update on the Covid-19 situation

Matt Haughey writes about the well known mediocre quality bootleg of the play from 2015

2014 scientific article on HIV+ men deliberately getting or giving HIV with others

European police hacked a secure phone system and recorded zillions of criminal messages

Excellent editorial on how impossible it is for working parents to both full time raise kids and work

6 weeks, a bus with beds and food service