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The future never arrives with the aesthetics of anybody who’s been actually preparing for it even if it’s a functional equivalent Exhibit A: colorfully home-made domestic cozy Etsy masks where

Kinda interesting that the century of American globalization and the century of Chinese globalization both have a pandemic about 25 years in. I’d date the former to the 1893 Chicago

What if a totally toxic dank meme forced media distancing?Min 6 minutes between tweets, likes. Max 2 retweets per tweet. Non-essential bluechecks required to shut down op-ed/take-tweeting (only essential beat-reporting

It’s depressing to watch Trump transparently set up chloroquine as his winning move for November. It’s a free option for him in a way it isn’t for anyone else. Near-perfect

How would you reimagine blogs around graph databases as the foundation? (Roam, Notion, Gatsby all seem to have blog like functionality in their sights but it feels like a stepchild

The business side of the story went from feel-good schmaltz to unbridled dank vulture capitalism at warp speed. It says something that every system that’s critical to a strong response

Biggest thing I’ve learned in the last 2 months: the basic currency of civilized life is time in a crisis, and it is *very* expensiveYears of foresight work buy you

I think I’m failing to understand something basic. What exactly is the endgame with this social distancing strategy? Doesn’t flattening the curve just mean moving the spike to later when