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I got to pet a baby cow today. That is all.

A co-worker linked me to https://6dollarshirts.com and it's totally filling my need for cheap + dumb + funny shirts

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There's SO MUCH #covid19 data right now, opennews.org discusses how to make sense of it all

https://source.opennews.org/articles/covid-19-coverage-reliable-datasets/

Trump (the Company) Asks Trump (the Administration) for Hotel Relief https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/business/trump-hotel-coronavirus.html - don't suppose anyone could have predicted this when Trump took office 🤦🏻‍♂️

"We caught it super early... 99% of people with this type of melanoma are alive in 5 years" I never expected to think of my life as a percentile survival statistic.

Introverts in the age of #COVID19

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“That not coding pitch of mine? Wrong. Yeah. Start programming again. Start with Python or Ruby. Yeah. I mean it. Your career depends on it.” https://randsinrepose.com/archives/technicality/

"This is what I learned during 10 days of treating Covid pneumonia at Bellevue Hospital" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/opinion/coronavirus-testing-pneumonia.html

Sanity aid

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Today is the excision for the small #melanoma on my arm. I feel like I just don't have the emotional resources for this. Any other year I could probably cope much more easily. Instead I'm feeling really freaked out and scared.

#Arizona is flattening the #COVID19 curve, but opening up businesses anytime soon is going to set us back and harm many many Arizonans. Data: http://monkinetic.blog/2020/04/22/rt-live

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(R_t) represents the effective reproduction rate of the virus calculated for each locale. It lets us estimate how many secondary infections are likely to occur from a single infection in a specific area. Values over 1.0 mean we should expect more cases in that area, values under 1.0 mean we should expect fewer.

R_t Live is tracking daily transmission rate values across the US States. My home state of Arizona is currently in a downward trend with an R_t right now of 0.77:

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Looking at the daily case numbers, you can see how small rises in R_t result in muliplicative rises in case numbers:

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We are noticeably flattening the curve in Arizona since late March, but opening up businesses and social gatherings any time soon will change these trends for the worse.

Experimental feature: Daily Digest emails. Inspired a bit by @davewiner's emails, which I really like.

http://monkinetic.blog/2020/04/21/new-feature-preview-daily-digest-emails

I have friends and family for whom RSS is not easy to explain or subscribe to, and who don't really follow blogs in general, but who have expressed an interest in my writing here, such as it is.

So I've hacked up an experimental feature, where I am sending out a nightly email (subscribe in the sidebar) that is comprised of all my posts for the day. Right now the blog posts and notes will be intermixed, so there might be some confusion in the content, it's an ongoing experiment.

If this is something you'd like to try, you can subscribe form in the sidebar of the site or use the subscribe page.

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I added a new feed to the blog today, the daily digest http://monkinetic.blog/feed_daily.xml -- this will be feeding my nightly email digest via @mailchimp

I got about 2/3 of the way through a long-ish post about Trumps's war on the states and had to pause to recover. Hopefully by tomorrow.

Anyone got a good idea on providing a daily-digest email list? I already have a daily digest page on my blog http://monkinetic.blog/2020/04/20/

Also, I really need to implement a webmention server https://webmention.rocks/

I like the look of the content on The Week - who publishes it?

Too may things to blog today. Content incoming