If you’re going to fake paying attention with Zoom backgrounds, make it a looping video

Use a looping video of yourself paying attention as a background for video conferences. Then you can just go sit in the other room, drink beer and check blogs and stuff.

I saw this hopeful sign while walking the dog. 📷 🎉

I just ordered clippers for a home haircut. I am prepared for the apocalypse.

I followed @bestoftimes this morning and added two books to my to-be-read list from his feed. Thanks!

Coronavirus: Drive-in theaters report uptick in business - Axios

Fond memories of going to drive-ins with my parents and brothers as a child, and later with friends as a teenager.

Mel Gibson - The Road Warrior (1981) via

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Jungle Comics #93 (1947), cover by Joe Doolin Via

There is a lot going on here.

We need a moonshot program to build a first-class healthcare system in the US in the next year or so.

This will certainly be difficult but it will benefit in so many ways.

This Is How We Beat the Coronavirus www.theatlantic.com/ideas/arc…

Trump viciously attacks NBC News reporter in extended rant after being asked for message to Americans worried about coronavirus www.cnn.com/2020/03/2…

Trump is outbidding state agencies for medical supplies.

“Trump has refused to coordinate federal procurements of emergency supplies for states, saying the fed is not “a shipping clerk” for state governments.” A bidding war for medical supplies is a terrible idea right now. Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net/2020/03/2…

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Right to Repair is important during a pandemic, because medical professionals are the right people to make decisions on field-repairing hospital equipment, not med-tech company shareholders and their lawyers - Cory Doctorow

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Charter is now letting employees to work from home . www.lightreading.com/cable-vid…