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silveradeptLet's start with a blooper reel of various black and white films. And from there, movies that were based on magazine stories, with links to the archives of the publications so you can read the originals (although I'll bet many of them have subscription requirements).
Murderbot giveaways, in anticipation of more Murderbot arriving.
Having stepped into the abyss, and been there for a while, the contours of the abyss, and of the web that connects everyone, are more easily seen.
There is a certain je ne peux pas dire quoi about having a religious observance about the time where people were going to die, needed to stay inside, and somehow, to mark that they were one of the houses to be spared.
A possible background soothing music and noises for you while you work and do things.
The United States Postal Service will continue to exist, we are told, because they are necessary for the profitability of every other delivery service in existence, but those people who want to be profitable have to find some way of making sure that the USPS doesn't become a preferred alternative to them. And also, because USPS will deliver live scorpions (in very limited circumstances).
More video feeds to be entranced by if your Internet access is still stable and strong. Additionally, things like cameras for the giant panda enclosures at the National Zoo. And virtual exhibitions of the Smithsonian Museum's collections, to use if D.C. is not on your list of permitted places to be (and, of course, it's closed to the public at this point anyway). The City Parks Foundation is offering marionette shows once a week, Youtube offers videos of cooking dishes that are less instructional and more aesthetic, the Bronx Zoo has a virtual zoo, as well as digital resources for educators.
(Unsurprisingly, a lot of people are turning to nature cameras to get their dose of the outdoors, and building communities over what they see.
The Feldenkrais project is offering, for a time, lessons and exercises in their style for all people to peruse and use.
Did we mention that The Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C. also has a ton of open access materials for people to use? As does the Met, which has a collection of art materials available for free.
An archive of folk music from around the world. There is a definition about what qualifies as "folk" on the site, just in case you wanted to know what they will and won't accept.
A Twitter thread about the purpose of Hamlet grilling Horatio about what he thought he saw and the beauty of how it establishes Horatio as the reliable narrator he will need to be at the end of the play.
Being weird compared to the group has benefits to self and to others. The trick is, of course, that once you have enough weird in the same direction, you need a different weird to keep reaping those benefits.
Michael Sheen continues to be a person more interested, at least at the moment, in walking the walk rather than doing much talking at all.
The matter of paper, and toilet paper, and the shortages within, and how it's not just about paper, but how the paper gets places, and what paper is being requested.
Capitalism at its finest: when threatened with a temporary cap on how much they could charge restaurants for providing them with delivery services, several major services immediately threatened to make up the difference by charging the people ordering more.
The International Order of the Red Cross and Red Crescent is seeking persons who have recovered from the novel coronavirus and are interested in donating blood plasma as a potential treatment for those who are still suffering symptoms. Subject to various regulations to ensure the safety of everyone. (And possibly the ICRC's requirements about who is eligible to give more generally.)
The old are not necessarily the only people at high risk for SARS-CoV-2: like many other coronavirus issues, sometimes it's the other things that sneak in with it, or the damage that comes from fighting those things off. And these are not limited to individual additional comorbidities - places where structural racism and poverty has been standard practice for decades have produced a population more likely to have complications if infected, run by governments that choose not to spend money on health care, take the outbreak seriously, and didn't expand the coverage available to their states when given the opportunity, because they felt it was too much nanny-state socialism for their poorest to have the possibility of accessing health care. Disabled people are looking over their shoulders for when the non-disabled come for their equipment or decide, because of paternalistic prejudices, that the disabled should be allowed to die. Which required work on things like making sure guidelines in place that did deny the disabled the care they needed got rescinded or overturned. That's not just in the States, of course, as other groups are told about how they need to have DNR conversations in an era of rationing, although there were apologies issued for letters sent suggesting that people with certain disabilities complete and file DNR orders.
Ventilators may not be the best or first thought for treatment for COVID-19, which would be excellent, as a way of making them less in demand everywhere.
A Twitter thread about what the likely symptoms of infection are, and when it might be time to call out for some additional help. If data would be helpful for you to look at, projected peaks for each state, with error clouds, of the infection and lethality. Additionally, there's misinformation circulating that SARS-CoV-2 was part of the 2019 flu season by someone who is not at all in medicine but is instead more interested in conservative economics.
We continue to shift how we treat time in this time, and for more and more of us, it's no longer about filling time, but making it. Which is something that can help with the days and weeks as they go by - the experience of being in an isolation room in a hospital makes someone learn an entirely new skill set, which often revolves around making sure there isn't a total loss of control, despite the situations as they are suggesting that loss of control is very likely.
It's still difficult to get anything close to definitive about going outside for walks or wearing masks, because so much is still unknown about the virus and how it spreads.
Whistle-blowing should be a protected act in all cases, but sometimes when you raise concerns about the treatment of people under your command, you get relieved of duty instead of listened to, and then the sailors in your command cheer you mightily as you leave the ship.
On the other end of this, some churches decided having religious services was more important than having parishioners stay apart from each other, with some of pastors of those churches placing far too much faith that the deity takes a personal interest in them and their congregants and will shield them, instead of punishing them.
Arts organizations and museums continue to lay off staff, sometimes the staff that would be the most useful in keeping the museum in contact with the public. Some of those organizations have some fairly significant endowments, and one wonders whether that money could be used to keep the staff working. (Directed gifts are a pain, of course, to work with and try to make fit into rapidly changing situations.) It's not that easy to tap into endowment funds, it appears, but there are still plenty of other decisions being made that seem to prioritize the people making the most money, instead of those doing the most work. The Guggenheim Museum seems to be moving in the right direction, even though it is furloughing employes, it's also making a pay cut happen for those who are making over $80k per year, likely to keep paying people who are not making that much. The World War I Museum has shifted toward digitzation and transcription of digital artifacts, because there's a lot of handwritten material that could use full transcription.
Meanwhile, billionaires become slightly less billionaires because the stock market has been losing value and their businesses have been closed or working on different hours and operations as bar owners are literally removing the dollar bills stapled to their walls so they can pay their employees.
A tiger tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, and it's possible cats may be carriers of the coronavirus, which, if you have Kitty Convicts (indoor cats that should not be outside ever), isn't necessarily a risk unless a human brings the virus with them. But indoor-outdoor cats might be a thing to pay some attention to, if this research turns out to pass peer review and hold up.
The world has changed because of the virus. This much we know. And then we'll get to find out how much trauma we've collected through the process of being part of this situation.
How do you manage staying at home when you're in a highly-dense place like Tokyo, where there isn't really all that much space for everyone to be in at the same time?
And, of course, as one might expect, fact-checkers and those interested in reporting the truth and debunking myths and dangerous things have their hands more than just full when dealing with SARS-CoV-2 materials. Which leads into the idea that when the immediate panic is over and things start moving toward normality again, there will be a large campaign to try and make you forget that you saw what you saw, and experienced what you experienced. As, essentially, happened with the 11 September attacks, but on a much bigger scale.
Helvetica is a dangerous typeface to use for your official government mailers, because Cards Against Humanity also uses Helvetica.
Burning Man has canceled themselves and have gone on-line for this year's entry.
Stories of everyday household objects. The resurgence of a yokai that was supposed to help cure disease by having their picture shown around, and a nice explanation of the image and why it might have made a resurgence in Japanese social media.
As much as everyone wants them to, sport is unlikely to return any time soon, simply because the logistics of playing sport and keeping everyone safe are mind-boggling to try and do, and have way too many possible failure points.
An art gallery for gerbils, part one of the Ask A Manager community's animal coworkers, part two of the Ask A Manager community's animal coworkers, penguins gathering round to get weighed,
Technologically speaking, while popular, Zoom is not necessarily the most secure thing to do any sort of meetings with. Which also them adds in things like ways of making sure you're not zoom-bombed and ways of getting around the nanny-like attention tracking feature so that you aren't called to attention if your attention wanders for half a minute or so. To their credit, Zoom decided they needed to address these issues and is putting resources toward fixing them, security vulnerabilities, and other things that have cropped up with the more widespread use of Zoom. Soak testing is good, but there's rarely anything that beats actually having people use your product. Because then you discover just how inventive people are at using (or misusing) anything, and whether or not you took the correct approach in designing the thing so that when people are inevitably going to be jerks about it, you still have a more safe and secure platform to use.
Firefox updated their browser, and for some, that means the new changes are bad changes. For now, there's a way of reverting to the old address bar behavior, but it may be temporary.
Sally Ride's notes need volunteer transcription, so if you want to peer into the mind of an astronaut and help people find things more easily in them, that's something worth putting some time into. That's part of citizen projects that need volunteer help and projects to help transcribe archives that you can participate in.
Science Fiction technology terms, from a web version of a NASA guide for Space Educators. A website that is also in its excellent 2000-era web design. (But it also still works, just fine.)
NASA has explorations for children and the curious involving their branch of STEM.
The art of mending and of many of the things covered in "home economics" are coming back with the lack of places that do those kinds of things professionally.
Using current technology to teach and try and preserve many languages of the first people of just about any colonization has touched. And blending indigenous culture and STEM education in Australia for those who can get encouragement and exposure for both.
And at the very end, pictures of Luna over landmarks.
A story of a little free library, and those who are grateful for the materials within.
Also, several fans of Hamilton recorded themselves singing Non-Stop, and the Hamilton crew mixed them together into the song. It's great.
The March Past of the Kitchen Utensils.
The various regional accents of the United States, some of which are very specific to certain boroughs of New York City.
(And another possible song to wash your hands to, courtesy Sesame Street in its more psychedelic phase.)
Murderbot giveaways, in anticipation of more Murderbot arriving.
Having stepped into the abyss, and been there for a while, the contours of the abyss, and of the web that connects everyone, are more easily seen.
There is a certain je ne peux pas dire quoi about having a religious observance about the time where people were going to die, needed to stay inside, and somehow, to mark that they were one of the houses to be spared.
A possible background soothing music and noises for you while you work and do things.
The United States Postal Service will continue to exist, we are told, because they are necessary for the profitability of every other delivery service in existence, but those people who want to be profitable have to find some way of making sure that the USPS doesn't become a preferred alternative to them. And also, because USPS will deliver live scorpions (in very limited circumstances).
More video feeds to be entranced by if your Internet access is still stable and strong. Additionally, things like cameras for the giant panda enclosures at the National Zoo. And virtual exhibitions of the Smithsonian Museum's collections, to use if D.C. is not on your list of permitted places to be (and, of course, it's closed to the public at this point anyway). The City Parks Foundation is offering marionette shows once a week, Youtube offers videos of cooking dishes that are less instructional and more aesthetic, the Bronx Zoo has a virtual zoo, as well as digital resources for educators.
(Unsurprisingly, a lot of people are turning to nature cameras to get their dose of the outdoors, and building communities over what they see.
The Feldenkrais project is offering, for a time, lessons and exercises in their style for all people to peruse and use.
Did we mention that The Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C. also has a ton of open access materials for people to use? As does the Met, which has a collection of art materials available for free.
An archive of folk music from around the world. There is a definition about what qualifies as "folk" on the site, just in case you wanted to know what they will and won't accept.
A Twitter thread about the purpose of Hamlet grilling Horatio about what he thought he saw and the beauty of how it establishes Horatio as the reliable narrator he will need to be at the end of the play.
Being weird compared to the group has benefits to self and to others. The trick is, of course, that once you have enough weird in the same direction, you need a different weird to keep reaping those benefits.
Michael Sheen continues to be a person more interested, at least at the moment, in walking the walk rather than doing much talking at all.
The matter of paper, and toilet paper, and the shortages within, and how it's not just about paper, but how the paper gets places, and what paper is being requested.
Capitalism at its finest: when threatened with a temporary cap on how much they could charge restaurants for providing them with delivery services, several major services immediately threatened to make up the difference by charging the people ordering more.
The International Order of the Red Cross and Red Crescent is seeking persons who have recovered from the novel coronavirus and are interested in donating blood plasma as a potential treatment for those who are still suffering symptoms. Subject to various regulations to ensure the safety of everyone. (And possibly the ICRC's requirements about who is eligible to give more generally.)
The old are not necessarily the only people at high risk for SARS-CoV-2: like many other coronavirus issues, sometimes it's the other things that sneak in with it, or the damage that comes from fighting those things off. And these are not limited to individual additional comorbidities - places where structural racism and poverty has been standard practice for decades have produced a population more likely to have complications if infected, run by governments that choose not to spend money on health care, take the outbreak seriously, and didn't expand the coverage available to their states when given the opportunity, because they felt it was too much nanny-state socialism for their poorest to have the possibility of accessing health care. Disabled people are looking over their shoulders for when the non-disabled come for their equipment or decide, because of paternalistic prejudices, that the disabled should be allowed to die. Which required work on things like making sure guidelines in place that did deny the disabled the care they needed got rescinded or overturned. That's not just in the States, of course, as other groups are told about how they need to have DNR conversations in an era of rationing, although there were apologies issued for letters sent suggesting that people with certain disabilities complete and file DNR orders.
Ventilators may not be the best or first thought for treatment for COVID-19, which would be excellent, as a way of making them less in demand everywhere.
A Twitter thread about what the likely symptoms of infection are, and when it might be time to call out for some additional help. If data would be helpful for you to look at, projected peaks for each state, with error clouds, of the infection and lethality. Additionally, there's misinformation circulating that SARS-CoV-2 was part of the 2019 flu season by someone who is not at all in medicine but is instead more interested in conservative economics.
We continue to shift how we treat time in this time, and for more and more of us, it's no longer about filling time, but making it. Which is something that can help with the days and weeks as they go by - the experience of being in an isolation room in a hospital makes someone learn an entirely new skill set, which often revolves around making sure there isn't a total loss of control, despite the situations as they are suggesting that loss of control is very likely.
It's still difficult to get anything close to definitive about going outside for walks or wearing masks, because so much is still unknown about the virus and how it spreads.
Whistle-blowing should be a protected act in all cases, but sometimes when you raise concerns about the treatment of people under your command, you get relieved of duty instead of listened to, and then the sailors in your command cheer you mightily as you leave the ship.
On the other end of this, some churches decided having religious services was more important than having parishioners stay apart from each other, with some of pastors of those churches placing far too much faith that the deity takes a personal interest in them and their congregants and will shield them, instead of punishing them.
Arts organizations and museums continue to lay off staff, sometimes the staff that would be the most useful in keeping the museum in contact with the public. Some of those organizations have some fairly significant endowments, and one wonders whether that money could be used to keep the staff working. (Directed gifts are a pain, of course, to work with and try to make fit into rapidly changing situations.) It's not that easy to tap into endowment funds, it appears, but there are still plenty of other decisions being made that seem to prioritize the people making the most money, instead of those doing the most work. The Guggenheim Museum seems to be moving in the right direction, even though it is furloughing employes, it's also making a pay cut happen for those who are making over $80k per year, likely to keep paying people who are not making that much. The World War I Museum has shifted toward digitzation and transcription of digital artifacts, because there's a lot of handwritten material that could use full transcription.
Meanwhile, billionaires become slightly less billionaires because the stock market has been losing value and their businesses have been closed or working on different hours and operations as bar owners are literally removing the dollar bills stapled to their walls so they can pay their employees.
A tiger tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, and it's possible cats may be carriers of the coronavirus, which, if you have Kitty Convicts (indoor cats that should not be outside ever), isn't necessarily a risk unless a human brings the virus with them. But indoor-outdoor cats might be a thing to pay some attention to, if this research turns out to pass peer review and hold up.
The world has changed because of the virus. This much we know. And then we'll get to find out how much trauma we've collected through the process of being part of this situation.
How do you manage staying at home when you're in a highly-dense place like Tokyo, where there isn't really all that much space for everyone to be in at the same time?
And, of course, as one might expect, fact-checkers and those interested in reporting the truth and debunking myths and dangerous things have their hands more than just full when dealing with SARS-CoV-2 materials. Which leads into the idea that when the immediate panic is over and things start moving toward normality again, there will be a large campaign to try and make you forget that you saw what you saw, and experienced what you experienced. As, essentially, happened with the 11 September attacks, but on a much bigger scale.
Helvetica is a dangerous typeface to use for your official government mailers, because Cards Against Humanity also uses Helvetica.
Burning Man has canceled themselves and have gone on-line for this year's entry.
Stories of everyday household objects. The resurgence of a yokai that was supposed to help cure disease by having their picture shown around, and a nice explanation of the image and why it might have made a resurgence in Japanese social media.
As much as everyone wants them to, sport is unlikely to return any time soon, simply because the logistics of playing sport and keeping everyone safe are mind-boggling to try and do, and have way too many possible failure points.
An art gallery for gerbils, part one of the Ask A Manager community's animal coworkers, part two of the Ask A Manager community's animal coworkers, penguins gathering round to get weighed,
Technologically speaking, while popular, Zoom is not necessarily the most secure thing to do any sort of meetings with. Which also them adds in things like ways of making sure you're not zoom-bombed and ways of getting around the nanny-like attention tracking feature so that you aren't called to attention if your attention wanders for half a minute or so. To their credit, Zoom decided they needed to address these issues and is putting resources toward fixing them, security vulnerabilities, and other things that have cropped up with the more widespread use of Zoom. Soak testing is good, but there's rarely anything that beats actually having people use your product. Because then you discover just how inventive people are at using (or misusing) anything, and whether or not you took the correct approach in designing the thing so that when people are inevitably going to be jerks about it, you still have a more safe and secure platform to use.
Firefox updated their browser, and for some, that means the new changes are bad changes. For now, there's a way of reverting to the old address bar behavior, but it may be temporary.
Sally Ride's notes need volunteer transcription, so if you want to peer into the mind of an astronaut and help people find things more easily in them, that's something worth putting some time into. That's part of citizen projects that need volunteer help and projects to help transcribe archives that you can participate in.
Science Fiction technology terms, from a web version of a NASA guide for Space Educators. A website that is also in its excellent 2000-era web design. (But it also still works, just fine.)
NASA has explorations for children and the curious involving their branch of STEM.
The art of mending and of many of the things covered in "home economics" are coming back with the lack of places that do those kinds of things professionally.
Using current technology to teach and try and preserve many languages of the first people of just about any colonization has touched. And blending indigenous culture and STEM education in Australia for those who can get encouragement and exposure for both.
And at the very end, pictures of Luna over landmarks.
A story of a little free library, and those who are grateful for the materials within.
Also, several fans of Hamilton recorded themselves singing Non-Stop, and the Hamilton crew mixed them together into the song. It's great.
The March Past of the Kitchen Utensils.
The various regional accents of the United States, some of which are very specific to certain boroughs of New York City.
(And another possible song to wash your hands to, courtesy Sesame Street in its more psychedelic phase.)
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