pinboard October 1, 2020

• Twitter
  RT @Iplaywithgerms: tl;dr: 6’ wont always cut it, especially inside.

  “Protracted proximity, under circumstances where ventilation and filtering are substantially reduced relative to being outdoors, should override the fact a person was by-the-measuring-stick distanced from the infected individual.”

• Will the new PrEP pill for HIV prevention fuel progress — or profits? – STAT
  RT @JuliaLMarcus: In a world short on good news, I’m happy to report the patent for Truvada expired today! Re-upping our piece with @douglaskrakower and @kenkatzmd on why this matters for HIV prevention. Bring on the generic #PrEP!
• Mercedes-Benz releases first official video of the Vision AVTR in motion.
• Ski, Party, Seed a Pandemic: The Travel Rules That Let Covid-19 Take Flight – The New York Times

  The World Health Organization has long encouraged mass tourism and said closing borders wouldn’t stop the spread of Covid-19. A New York Times investigation found this policy was never based on science, but instead on politics and economics. https://nyti.ms/33iNUKp

• Google’s $310 million sexual misconduct settlement: Details
• Twitter
  RT @Johnson20XX: If you’re not sure what a "Poll Watcher" is, they were big before & during the civil rights movement in the US.

  Picture pickup trucks full of vigilantes AND police beating Black voters unconscious, putting us in chokeholds with batons & outright murdering us for trying to vote.

• From ATOM to GradiATOM: Cortical gradients support time and space processing as revealed by a meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies – ScienceDirect
• Twitter
  RT @AshleyAtTimes: "I’m hoping they learn different words within colonies — but if they teach the others bad language and I end up with 250 swearing birds, I don’t know what we’ll do."

  It’s 2020. They’re definitely going to have 250 cussing birds.

• Twitter
  RT @katzish: Thread—this is totally astute
• How to Remain Professional at Your Home Office | The New Yorker
• The unrelenting horizonlessness of the Covid world – CNN

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