This is the money shot in this excellent analysis of the stories about non-existent COVID parties. Yes, young people are being brought together to spread COVID: By employers, staffed by young, minimum-wage workers, encouraged by govt to open without adequate safety protocols.
13. This story engages in confirmation bias—it advances the narrative that COVID is being spread by wild, unruly, selgfish, greedy young ppl at parties. This lets gov...
I'm on the Lawfare podcast talking about bot panic and (separately) decentralized social media! This was super fun.
.@evelyndouek and I had a blast talking with @tinysubversions about why everyone is so panicked about bots, and why they shouldn't be: lawfareblog.com/lawfare-podcas…
And now my ‘Joker’ joke has been featured in the Milwaukee @journalsentinel. Music writer Piet Levy emailed me yesterday to ask me why I did what I did. jsonline.com/story/entertai…
Just learned that Isabel Wilkerson, author of the Pulitzer prize winning masterpiece The Warmth of Other Suns, has a new book coming out next month about America's caste system. Pre-ordered immediately! powells.com/book/caste-978… (thanks @jkottke!)
Buy this!! Buy this tomorrow on Bandcamp Friday when Bandcamp waives their revenue share!! Buy the first two volumes too!! 💊🎶
So elated to unveil Physically Sick 3 with proceeds going to @EqualFlatbush a local brooklyn organization fighting police brutality and gentrification. Thank you to every...
Hey peeps, currently @bridgetownrb is hovering at 99 followers. No, not 99 bottles of beer on the wall, *followers*. No, not 99 cents…um, never mind. Point is, who will be the first to push it over the edge to 100? 🤔 Inquiring minds want to know! No, not no, *know*. Ah geez…
Bridgetown has a new core team member! 🎉 Say hello to @RogersKonnor aka ParamagicDev! Also a big shoutout to our latest sponsor Martin Tomov! That's probably enough...
This year, I have already saved 2x my take-home income in all of 2019. I didn’t quite grasp how much less stressful decisions are when you are taking home $3,500 every month, rather than $1,600. This weekend let's walk through my budget and get angry. youtu.be/Dw_21vhn9m0
Blacks Who Design — Amplify creative people. blackswho.design
Someone asked why I don't put my savings in the donut graph, and the answer is simple 😂 it's a large enough percentage that it makes it impossible to read the rest. Very privileged to have that be true right now. anomalily.net/june-2020-repo…
There are some really thoughtful questions in this thread! And @carolstran's insightful answers are 💯 if you ever wanted a fresh perspective on remote work from someone who's been living & breathing it for the past year after substantial "non-remote" experience:
It’s my one-year anniversary of working fully remote 👩‍💻🎉 If you have any questions about remote life beyond corona times, AMA.
https://t.co/twE8986Ccw
How do you keep discipline 😏
What a wondefule card from an @scsu student thanking me for taking the time to personalize my instructional design during the covid-19 crisis. Southern such a wonderful place.

Dr McVerry

I just wanted to take a moment and say thank you for a great semester. A semester which was full of surprises. But you still took the time for your students and created a unique course. Not juts a repeat from years before and I learned a lot from your class. So thank you!

I hope you and your family have an happy and healthy summer.

$> tar -cvzf 🧸.tgz /home/flaki
Joining the littleprinter.club !! 🙌🏻

Out here testing my home video production setup.

Heh, this is a neat trick! 😘👌 https://t.co/KYhXJZAPry
Mathieu 'p01' Henri https://twitter.com/p01
👩‍🌾 MUSIC VIDEO with Speech synthesis, Web Audio music and animated visuals about a woman farmer in 255 bytes of HTML+Javascript p01.org/256b_woman_far… It wa...

June 2020 Report: Just So, So Tired

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