Link dump 15–16 April

[firecat]

Brutalist sandcastles
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2020/04/brutalist-sandcastles.html

The movie Devil in a Blue Dress (based on Walter Mosley's book) should have launched a franchise
https://www.indiewire.com/2020/04/watch-devil-in-a-blue-dress-amazon-stream-of-the-day-1202224803/


Opinion: The way we ration ventilators is biased (because even if we only use health status and life expectancy, and not some notion of who's "useful to society," oppression harms people's health, so oppressed people end up getting triaged out unfairly)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/opinion/covid-ventilator-rationing-blacks.html

Snopes can't keep up with coronavirus myths
https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2020/04/15/coronavirus-misinformation-snopes/

Be careful with your new quarantine exercise routine, because strenuous exercise can lower immunity
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/exercise-immunity-coronavirus/2020/04/14/a4dcb5f4-7e82-11ea-8013-1b6da0e4a2b7_story.html

Comments

[lilysea]

Brutalist sandcastles

Thank you for sharing! ^_^

[noelfigart]

Woah, yeah, stressing the body unnecessarily would be a bad idea now. I hadn't thought about that!

[firecat]

So much of the conversation about exercise (in general, not just during quarantine) leads people to believe that more is always better.

[selki]

I've been listening to "The Micheaux Mission" podcast (2 men review black movies and sometimes disagree on what that means) and have bookmarked a number of movies I hadn't heard of but now I want to watch sometime (still busy teleworking for now).

[firecat]

That sounds like a very interesting podcast!

[selki]

https://www.micheauxmission.com/ -- it's fun, and I like the way they engage with listener feedback. Some episodes I skip to the end after I decide I'm definitely not interested in the movie. I'm working through the back episodes and trying to decide whether to listen to Get Out (now that I've gotten to when they covered that) or wait until I watch the movie first (I never saw it, but I did catch some spoilers, alas).

And I didn't say before, but I'm the only person I know who saw Devil In a Blue Dress in a theater back when it was released! I was a big movie hound back in those days.

[thnidu]

Thank you for these! As I just told Snopes, I've been relying on them for years. They're massively overworked, with just 10 fact-checkers, and I donated $30-- wayyy over my usual (several each day) donations to Democratic and other progressive efforts to save our democracy-- and became a Founding Member.

[firecat]

Thank you for your donations to Snopes and to Democratic and progressive causes! I just became a Snopes Founding Member too.

[libskrat]

... now I want that sandcastle-builder to do the building I work in.

Well, worked in. When we worked in buildings. You know.

[firecat]

Yeah I'd love to see that!