Link dump 4/20

[firecat]

Download All 4 Murderbot Books For Free (Before Network Effect Arrives!) https://www.tor.com/2020/04/20/download-all-4-murderbot-books-for-free-before-network-effect-arrives/
(I hardly need to post this to DW, though, because at least half of my reading list already posted about it. That makes me happy!)

An artist designed an art exhibit for her guinea pig, with guinea-pig–themed versions of famous human artworks. (My favorite piece is "The Wheet")
https://www.boredpanda.com/the-piggenheim-museum-guinea-pig-maisie-teresa-mistretta/


The little anti-shelter-in-place protests that the media is making such a big deal about are being organized on FB. FB has finally begun removing them.
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2020-04-20/facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-says-stay-at-home-protests-organized-on-site-qualify-as-harmful-misinformation

Tim Mak, in a Twitter thread, discusses the San Francisco anti-mask league that made matters worse during the 1918–19 flu pandemic
https://mobile.twitter.com/timkmak/status/1251936242834563073

Ibram X. Kendi, in The Atlantic, say society needs to stop blaming black people for dying of the coronavirus. I agree.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/race-and-blame/609946/

Another article speculating wildly about what percentage of people who are infected with coronavirus have no symptoms.
https://apnews.com/d20f283318c86bec3cc2d3d7936a9612

Comments

[firecat]

"apparently, it's not in vogue" > yes, exactly. Not to worry, because it's just a meaningless fashion preference that will change next week.

[silveradept]

Once the economy gets going again, then we can think about systemic problems again, because then you can be safely ignored and asked why you keep using a racial lens when it's not warranted (because all these white people don't see it, it must not exist! So simple!)

[firecat]

Your sarcasm skillz, they are mighty