ben_hr @ben_hr@social.coop

Guilt and fury: how Covid brought mothers to breaking point http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/feb/28/mums-women-coronavirus-covid-home-schooling-inequality

So, er, avoid engaging with online information altogether https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/opinion/fake-news-media-attention.html

Thanks to @codl for that oddity

Today I learned about the “expert wizard amendment” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_wizard_amendment

AstraZeneca ChAdOx1-S approved by TGA https://www.tga.gov.au/covid-19-vaccine-astrazeneca-chadox1-s 12 week interval

tl;dr: prehistoric conch horn still works - First record of the sound produced by the oldest Upper Paleolithic seashell horn https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/7/eabe9510

AI can detect human emotions with wireless signals https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2021/02/ai-can-detect-human-emotions-with-wireless-signals/ The total absence of considerations about whether this should be done highlights the urgent need for much stricter ethical oversight of AI research

The Never-Ending Frontier? https://www.publicbooks.org/the-never-ending-frontier/

China to build the world’s biggest dam on sacred Tibetan river https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/8/china-to-build-the-worlds-biggest-dam-on-sacred-tibetan-river

The disappointments https://overland.org.au/2021/02/the-disappointments/

Voltaireand book piracy https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/enterprise-solid-gold

Interesting article on the role several animal species are playing in covid research - and the toll it’s taking on their species http://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/31/in-the-search-for-covid-protection-cormac-the-extremely-charismatic-llama-may-hold-a-key

@liamvhogan zeitgeist https://vm.tiktok.com/ZSKKFyQ1/

I’ve been rewatching the excellent series Counterpart. It was prescient in imagining a world recovering from a respiratory pandemic. Perhaps our world might resemble Prime more than Alpha ten years from now. This post places it in a post-COVID context https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-underrated-series-counterpart-has-new-resonance-in-1842778506

@JPEG saw allegory is app of the day - congrats!

@liamvhogan

The backyard, an experiment in using monochrome watercolours for shading(ish). Didn’t really work but Fresco’s watercolour tool is very interesting and something I want to muck around with more.

@liamvhogan also at https://instagram.com/transportationlibrary?igshid=l7iqzdta6rgl

@liamvhogan extremely Liam areas https://twitter.com/rmartincole/status/1169680042420592641?s=21

Photos of Washington before Biden inauguration http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2021/jan/20/washington-on-edge-before-biden-inauguration-in-pictures