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

"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

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

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 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 💌 😁

Drowning is silent. There is no splashing. No cries for help. Every breath is precious. None can be spared.

This pandemic is silent.

[There Is No Noise in a Covid-19 Emergency Room](https://elemental.medium.com/there-is-no-noise-in-a-covid-19-emergency-room-59d794171f8e #covid19

After getting a bit tired of my library’s digital collection of #scifi, I’m branching off into #fantasy for a while, and finding some great series to dive into. I really need to add to my list of “books-read” posts #reading2020

So, while I do want to make a work light like @dontrythis, my lunch project was a basic friction-adjustment stand for my work light made with 1/2" square tube and a remnant of 1" square tube #diy #shoptime #project

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This data from https://mackuba.eu/corona/#united_states.daily is a week or so old, but this does NOT say "go back to work!" to me #covid19 #stayhomestaysafe

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They almost had the right headline #fify (Keep the disinfectants outside your body please!)

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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/

Introverts in the age of #COVID19

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None#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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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.

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Thread: https://twitter.com/timkmak/status/1251936242834563073 -- Same people resisting masking, different pandemic #COVID19 #masksforall #publichealth

Evening project: started sewing simple tie-back surgical style cloth masks to donate #covid19 #masks4all