A helpful FAQ on Covid 19 | emptywheel
https://www.emptywheel.net/2020/03/10/a-helpful-faq-on-covid-19/

I know you don't need any more resources about this topic but you _might_ like this blog full of lawyers and journalists, and you definitely should know about Quinn Norton.

also it's funny.
and do read the comments here.

#covid19 #humor

No RSS at https://blog.mozilla.org
?

?!

the _Federalist_ tells Trump to STFU. huh.

https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/06/president-trump-should-stop-talking-about-coronavirus/

Smithsonian Magazine's annual photo contest needs your votes:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/photocontest/archive/2019/

also previous year's pictures are right there for the ogling

#photography

Relevant to CoSo (and anyone using the interwebs):

Ninth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of Prager’s First Amendment claim against Google/YouTube.

"If platforms were bound by the First Amendment, their ability to remove or reject user content would be severely limited, even if doing so would best serve their users."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/ninth-circuit-private-social-media-platforms-are-not-bound-first-amendment

#boringButImportant #1stAmendment

Did Warren have a chance?

close to 90 percent of men and women hold some sort of bias against women...about half of the world’s men and women feel that men make better political leaders, and over 40 percent feel that men make better business executives and that men have more right to a job when jobs are scarce. 28 percent think it is justified for a man to beat his wife.
UN Human Development Report, 36pp

http://hdr.undp.org/en/GSNI
#culture #gender

Do you, or someone you love have lungs? You may like this new air quality* resource:

https://resourcewatch.org/dashboards/air-quality

The maps are interactive!

*resource watch website also has lots of other great info, in case you're not a lung user.

Arlo Guthrie's 20/20 Tour featuring Alice's Restaurant. Folk Uke opens show.

...was so fun. Get your own
https://www.arloguthrie.co/shows

Fair Warning: Folk Uke are irreverent and a wee bit raunchy.

"If you find yourself at a Folk Uke show, you are in for a treat— but maybe not the kind of treat that you like the taste of. Come to a show and see for yourself. "

Pondering:
...each person in the United States requires over 38,449 pounds of minerals each year

Mostly for concrete, and then:
28 pounds of aluminum
13 pounds of copper
11 pounds of lead
6 pounds of zinc
4 pounds of manganese
21 pounds of other metals
And:
535 pound of other non-metals
930 gallons of petroleum
4,409 pounds of coal
87,817 cubic feet of natural gas
0.2 pounds of uranium

https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/how-many-pounds-minerals-are-required-average-person-a-year

#environment #transportation #random

Huh. "Ace Hardware Corporation started in Chicago in 1924. The company is a cooperative that supports a network of more than 4,800 independent hardware retailers around the world."

I do like a co-op. And Chicago.
#random #hardware

why does the YouTube android app want to access the microphone?! Never going to allow that. Incessant Google Play pop-ups b/c of it.

#privacy #Google #nope

FYI, FYA:

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/jokes-ive-told-that-my-male-colleagues-didnt-like

#jokes #equity

oh weird, guess I clicked twice on that URL paste. Sorry!

When do we eject core on Twitter? </vent>

How do we educate ourselves to have and use critical thinking skills.

A study by researchers at Brown University has found a quarter of posts about climate change on Twitter were written by bots.

Tweets about "fake science" were found to have been written by bots 38% of the time and 28% of tweets about oil company Exxon were posted by bots.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51595285
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51595285

#climatecrisis #socialmedia

(happily) Surprised me:
"substituting less than one day per week’s worth of calories from beef and dairy products to chicken, fish, eggs, or a plant-based alternative reduces [green house gas] emissions more than buying all your food from local sources."

https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local

#food #climatecrisis

Utah, where men are afraid to say "climate change" (perhaps because doing so is illegal), has managed to create a roadmap for legislators AT THEIR REQUEST.

https://gardner.utah.edu/utahroadmap/

#whateverItTakes #climatecrisis