Link dump, 12 April 2020

[firecat]

• I stumbled onto an interesting Twitter thread about Hamlet, about which one commenter complained, "sir this is too insightful you’re using Twitter wrong":
https://twitter.com/hexcrawl/status/1248855156889923585 (via andrewducker)

• America's billionaires are giving to charity – but much of it is self-serving rubbish, by Robert Reich
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/12/americas-billionaire-class-donations

• Reminder of some of the less-well-known symptoms of trauma, stress, depression, anxiety; along with reminder to be gentle if they are affecting you, or affecting you now more than they usually do. By Mikaila Baca-Dorion
https://www.facebook.com/mikaila.bacadorion/posts/10214075273395183

• SF homeless tents, once seen as problem, now seen as path to coronavirus social distancing, by Phil Matier
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/philmatier/article/SF-homeless-tents-once-seen-as-problem-now-seen-15193812.php

Comments

[cjsmith]

Somehow I love the comment "sir this is too insightful you’re using Twitter wrong". It seems to encapsulate the whole ethos of the place, somehow - both the idea that insight is not encouraged and that saying something like that won't stop anyone.

[firecat]

Yes! I loved the comment because I was just starting to think, as I read the thread, "This is not the sort of thing one sees on Twitter very often!" (I've seen lots of insightful threads, actuallly, but usually they have a political component.)

[jazzfish]

That Hamlet thread is wonderful. I miss dramaturgy and lit analysis.