UW–Madison professor Doug McLeod provides reporters and news consumers his five recommendations for fair and ethical coverage of protests. https://ethics.journalism.wisc.edu/2020/06/05/five-problems-with-your-protest-coverage/
You need this, today.
I know I did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzNM6ZEko9A&feature=youtu.be
>> WCK and our partners are activating Chefs For The Polls to serve nourishing meals on early voting days and Election Day. We’ll be stationed by polling locations around the country, targeting those with historically long lines, predicted massive turnouts, or limited facilities, sharing meals with anyone – no questions asked.
chefsforthepolls.org
In 1967, US broadcaster Walter Cronkite concluded his report on the home office by predicting, correctly, that “with equipment like this in the home of the future, we may not have to go to work—the work will come to us.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6DSu3IfRlo&feature=youtu.be
The Typography of Star Trek: The Motion Picture https://typesetinthefuture.com/2020/08/17/startrek
An airport parking garage in Germany was converted into a drive-through art gallery, displaying about 300 works in a way that complies with coronavirus-inspired social distancing guidelines. https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2020/06/08/Airport-parking-garage-becomes-drive-through-art-gallery/6471591640531/
Random acts of kindness that are unplanned tended to be more strongly associated with higher overall well-being than more scheduled, planned activities like volunteering at a race. https://www.bicycling.com/health-nutrition/a34110913/acts-of-kindness-impact-on-health-well-being-study/
Good Movies as Old Books: 100 Films Reimagined as Vintage Book Covers https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/06/matt-stevens-good-movies-old-books/
"Twitter said Sunday that it would investigate whether the neural network that selects which part of an image to show in a photo preview favors showing the faces of white people over Black people." https://mashable.com/article/twitter-photo-preview-algorithmic-racial-bias/
Dixie Beer company says it needs help choosing a new name, and you can send in suggestions https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/09/22/dixie-beer-wants-your-suggestions-new-name/5862905002/
HOME COVID TEST
Pour a large glass of red wine, try to smell it.
If you can smell the wine, then drink it and see if you can taste it.
If you can taste and smell, it confirms you don’t have Covid.
Last night I did the test 19 times. All the tests were negative.
Tonight I am going to do the test again because this morning I woke up with a headache and feel like I’m coming down with something.
Demystifying business TLAs for software developers and testers
https://www.functionize.com/blog/abcs-of-roi-and-tco-for-software-teams/
"We have checked our inventory thoroughly and we no longer have any shits left to give." https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq-the-status-of-the-shits-women-have-left-to-give
With its huge windows framing the corpses on display, the morgue bore an uncomfortable resemblance to a department store. https://daily.jstor.org/the-paris-morgue-provided-ghoulish-entertainment/
A crusading doctor’s stomach-churning efforts to beat back pellagra in the American South. https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/joseph-goldbergers-filth-parties
I’m reading this and am a little weepy https://www.npr.org/2020/09/19/896733375/a-five-decade-long-friendship-that-began-with-a-phone-call
Carpenters rebuilding the Notre Dame are using medieval techniques. The methods for shaping and installing massive oak beams were used to build the Paris cathedral 800 years ago. https://apnews.com/74b239b6a5d647f5c92e7170243276ea
Starlink starts to deliver on its satellite internet promise https://zd.net/2ZVvPzT by
@sjvn
The Internet broadband performance is there, but what's not there is anything like enough Starlink user terminals to go around
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