Saturday Linkages: Cat Hugs

A Quick Primer On Poultry Vaccines You’re Likely to Get the Coronavirus Fresh Hell from the Baffler Here’s the File Clearview AI Has Been Keeping on Me, and Probably on You Too Our intersections are too dangerous. Here’s how to fix them Cyclist gets hit by car, then sued for $700 [editors note: this happened to me except it was $900] Listen: The Sound Of The Hagia Sophia, More Than 500 Years Ago The pungent legacy of Axe Body Spray Solar Class Jo...

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Saturday Linkages: COVID-19 Edition

...Théodore Géricault Raft of the Medusa. How to Clean Your Phone to Help Protect Against Coronavirus Beyond Contact Tracing: Community-based early detection for Ebola response Black-out Nights Some good news: after record dry February, a sudden shift toward wetter conditions Classic iPod Hackers Say There’s No Better Way to Listen to Music...

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Saturday Linkages: A Big Post of Random Stuff

...Spotted in our local little library. Doesn’t sound like fun to me. Mist Showers: Sustainable Decadence? $1.50 for 1000 hens: Hamilton man desperate to rehome birds after accidentally winning auction Gary Nabhan requests career counseling from a pomegranate tree Samhain, Grief, and Photographs on Backyard Ecosystem Democrats’ baffling blind spot on cars The Automotive Police State A 3d printed floor lamp...

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Saturday Linkages: #quarantinecats

...An overflowing pot of bean recipes Some guidelines for dealing with coronavirus in your home and community The Cloistered Garden Nassim Taleb on BBC4 on why this is not a “black swan” Some magazines I read: The Idler, The Baffler, Jacobin, Mortise and Tenon, Fine Woodworking, Fine Homebuilding ‘Honest Labour’ – the Column that Named the Book The Mystic And The Warrior Slavoj Zizek, Jordan Peterson and the Toilet Paper Candidate...

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Saturday Linkages: The Kirghiz Light’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades

...A Winged Figure, Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1904-1911. Comet NEOWISE Dazzles at Dusk What to do With Blackberries Poll: Who always wears a mask in public—and who doesn’t? CoronaShock and Socialism ‘Not just weeds’: how rebel botanists are using graffiti to name forgotten flora Extreme atmospheric rivers: what will California’s strongest storms look like in a warming climate? The Sacro Bosco of Bomarzo...

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