To safely reopen, facilities throw rules out the window and embrace creativity - The Washington Post
New York City plans to open 100 miles of streets to pedestrians and diners, including the parking spots that line sidewalks.
7.04.2020
Somehow this just cracks me up
7.03.2020
We'll pass, thanks
Can't afford to fly to space? Settle for smelling like it | Ars Technica
Finding astronauts willing to describe what space travel smells like isn't hard—Peggy Whitsondescribed the ISS as smelling like bitter, smoky gunpowder in 2002, and Don Pettit describes eau de spacewalk as a sweet, metallic tang similar to arc-welding fumes.
Just no end to the joyous news
Markets are telling us that things look good, strategist says
(And check out the image at the head of this article)
If this isn't scary enough…
Opinion | Trump surveyed the smoking ruin of his reelection and decided: Be more Trumpy - The Washington Post
A lot of history — a deadly pandemic, a profound economic crisis, a racial reckoning — has been placed into the hands of . . . Joe Biden.
7.02.2020
Exactly this
The Security Value of Inefficiency - Schneier on Security
Efficient systems have limited ability to deal with system-wide economic shocks. Those shocks are coming with increased frequency. They're caused by global pandemics, yes, but also by climate change, by financial crises, by political crises. If we want to be secure against these crises and more, we need to add inefficiency back into our systems.
And one of the things we do with supreme levels of inefficiency is vote. We need to be careful not to mess that up.
Granted, some allowances need to be made for the pandemic. But even the staunchly well-behaved state in which I live is starting to reopen restaurants and other accommodations now, in July. By November we should be able to figure out ways to vote with reasonable safety that don't require injecting any more efficiency into the system than we have to.
Makes perfect sense to me
In Boston there is an Age Strong Commission.
Yes, Boston is in Massachusetts and in Massachusetts there is a commission or an agency or a consortium or…well, you get the idea…for everything.
The Age Strong Commision (in Boston) has this to say on its web site:
Yes, Boston is in Massachusetts and in Massachusetts there is a commission or an agency or a consortium or…well, you get the idea…for everything.
The Age Strong Commision (in Boston) has this to say on its web site:
We have many designations. As a Commission, Council on Aging, and Area Agency on Aging, we are not new to aging. We have been doing this for more than 50 years.
Me too!
But a little magical thinking can't…oh wait, it can?
Dr. Scott Gottlieb says he thinks the worst of the U.S. coronavirus epidemic 'will be over by January'
However, Fauci and other scientists have stressed that researchers do not fully understand the role of antibodies in this virus.
Won't this be fun!
Analysts: Fire at Iran nuke site hit new centrifuge facility
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) —
The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran sought to downplay the fire, calling it an "incident" that only affected an under-construction "industrial shed," spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi said.
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7.01.2020
There's just something about California
Using his noodle: San Francisco man creates DIY tool for social distancing | Hoodline
When they say special they're not kidding, are they
90 of 110 troops at Fort Bragg special operations course test positive for coronavirus - U.S. - Stripes
I am near terminally confused
Apple is pushing suppliers to cut production delays for next iPhones, Nikkei reports
Read in CNBC: https://apple.news/AvU6NmvGVTU-tSmdSE3Wjqg
Wouldn't it be better to just say work faster?
Just the other day…
…some congresscritter named Pelosi assured me via snailmail she was "standing up against the bullies on the right"; now, a Fox newscritter named Ingraham wants to "stand up against the bullies on the right" (https://www.foxnews.com/media/laura-ingraham-call-for-patriots-stand-up).
So I'm thinking, why don't the two of them square off in some cage match somewhere and leave me alone?
So I'm thinking, why don't the two of them square off in some cage match somewhere and leave me alone?
Wait, those are options?
Opinion | Could America's pandemic response be any more medieval? - The Washington Post
Not for the first time, it feels as though 21st-century America is 14th-century Europe, reacting with all manner of useless countermeasures to the plague: balancing ill "humors" and dispelling evil "vapors" caused by planetary misalignment, religious marches and public self-flagellation, cures involving live chickens and unicorns, and the wearing of amulets and reciting of "abracadabra."
6.29.2020
Does anybody remember what Wite-Out is?
Fact-check on Arlen Parsa's take on slave owners in John Trumbull's Declaration of Independence painting - Chicago Sun-Times
Wite-Out:
6.28.2020
The question…
…"How many angels can dance on the head of a pin" has been around since the 17th Century. A more up-to-date version of the same query is, "How many times can the Washington Post mention Trump on its first page."
I'm still counting.
I'm still counting.
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