A Funkaoshi Production

I have no real idea who Tomas Pueyo is, but he’s written the two best articles about the Corona virus that I have read. This is the second.

In what feels like a real plot twist, Maciej Cegłowski (Pinboard) writes a blog post telling us we need mass surveillance right now. Why? Because of the world wide pandemic happening right now, of course. How have I not mentioned the Corona virus on this blog?

Rough.

Cynthia Nixon (from Sex in the City) narrates this pretty slick NSFW video about being a lady.

Tintin as fashion icon.

These photographs are amazing.

It’s like school house rocks, but with a rapper.

We haven’t learned a lot, it seems.

Yo, completely accidentally, is about love. Specifically, a magical thing our brains do for those we love; when someone has made enough of an impression, our minds spin up a simulation, a tiny homunculus process that runs in the background so those we love are always with us.

Some solid reaching going on in this excellent ode to Yo.

Thomas Hofeller’s daughter has been sharing his private files that were used to gerrymander districts to help the Republicans win.

This film looks incredible.

A great article about cultural appropriation. (I managed to avoid the rabbit hole of following all of James’s links, but there is a lot to read if you’re so inclined.)

A really interesting about the nature of work, getting things done, and product/project management.

Caroline Haskins reports on how Ring has morphed from a fancy doorbell to a private surveillance network for its new owner, Amazon.

It’s interesting to see the stats on just how prevalent porn was on the site.

While porn creators belonged to tightly connected subgroups, they were linked to the rest of Tumblr’s network “with a very high number of ties,” and their productions “spread widely across the whole social graph.” In other words, they weren’t quarantined in some illicit corner of the site—they were woven into its basic fabric: The average Tumblr user in the sample followed 51 blogs, two or three of which tended to be specifically pornographic, and another two of which tended to be “bridge” blogs, run by users who were particularly likely to reblog porn.

A really interesting read on sex work, pornography, feminism, and a whole bunch of other stuff.

This is a fantastic little video. Cuarón is so good.

Such a fantastic little video.

A great overview of just how terrible a business Uber is—from an economic point of view! They can’t even get that right.

It’s weird in the Trump helscape that is America they still have computer nerds doing good work.

Yep.