Sort of Frankenstein mixed with Lovecraft... interesting but not a happy tale.

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Jason Kottke found this great set of videos matching techno tracks to POV videos of trains traveling in Europe.

Trains Speed Through the Swiss Countryside to Techno Beats

The YouTube channel

Dammit @scalzi, The Last Emperox is brilliant so far

Gotta say passing variable-length values to SQL's "in" syntax in #golang is UUUUUGLY

None#Heroes for today https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/may/06/banksy-artwork-superhero-nurse-nhs-coronavirus-covid-19-southampton-general-hospital #banksy #socialart

I'm compiling the books I've read just since April 9th - I'm up to 12, with 2 in-progress, one of which is Scalzi's Last Emperox #covid19 #reading

Python mocking for postgres https://technology.cloverhealth.com/better-postgresql-testing-with-python-announcing-pytest-pgsql-and-pgmock-d0c569d0602a #bookmark

Nearly 100% mask coverage at Costco today - except for those 4 idiots with the mask pulled down under their chin #howstuffworks

Mission: Impossible #cat style

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"I've never been to a will-reading."

"You'd think it's be like a game show, but instead it's like a community-theater production of a tax return #knivesout

I guess I'm glad it's not Monday yet?

Been hitting the oldies today, especially this track from Jam & Spoon from 1995: Jam & Spoon's* Hands On Yello ‎– You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess #trancetechno #music #electronica

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB_G0Z6Aqgw

SIFT to identify misinformation http://monkinetic.blog/2020/05/01/sifting-misinformation-online

Sifting Through the Pandemic is a site about how to recognize misinformation on social media, focused -- obviously -- on information about the pandemic. OneZero provides an example in this article, where someone claiming to be a doctor posted that hand-sanitizer would do nothing to kill the coronavirus (False!).

What I love about the infodemic.blog system (SIFT) is how simple and memorable it is:

• Stop
• Investigate the Source
• Find Better Coverage
• Trace claims, quotes, and media to the original context

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So tired this morning #thatisall

Trump wants to end the federal social distancing guidelines.

http://monkinetic.blog/2020/04/30/expiring-federal-social-distancing-guidelines

Trump seeks to further distance himself from increasingly unpopular and politically costly coronavirus lockdowns.

"Unpopular", "politically costly", but effective at flattening the curve. I think maybe people don't realize that in order to #flattenthecurve on #covid19 you have to maintain the suppression activities over the life of the curve. If you stop, the curve goes back up.

This are projections for Arizona from CovidActNow.org:

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Right now the "expected hospitalizations" curve is nice and flat, but lift the restrictions on activities too soon, and the demand for beds exceeds supply in about 10 days. Calling for new restrictions after they've been lifted would be a hard sell to a population frustrated with the isolation and hurting from the economic effects we're already seeing. There's no easy answer, but I believe that solutions are going to involved more government aid to -- yes, small businesses -- but especially to disadvantaged populations who are getting hit the worst #lockdown #stayhomestaysafe

Picked up Foundryside (by Robert Jackson Bennett) from our local digital library thanks to a recommendation by @idangazit #reading #scifi #fantasy

https://amzn.to/35hFxxQ

In order to fix my archives and daily digests, I might have to address timezone handling on my blog. Or I might just stop blogging #timezonehell #blogging #programming

Daily Digest subscribers: posts should now appear in the email in the order they were written -- more narrative style -- not in reverse-chronological "blog order #blogging 💌 😁