Shocker, but a lot of reading the past few weeks has been centered around COVID-19. Only sharing things I really liked b/c otherwise this would be a clusterfuck.

Oñate's Foot on 99% Invisible

Electric Playhouse on What's Up ABQ?

Doppelgänger Tactics by Keith Ammann

40 Monsters of the Night and Where to Find Them by Chris Clark

Episode 110: Choose Your Own Adventure, from Imaginary Worlds

Communicating as a remote worker:
The Basecamp Guide to Internal Communication

Pandemic prep:
Past Time to Tell the Public: “It Will Probably Go Pandemic, and We Should All Prepare Now”, by Ian M. Mackay (tl;dr: Buy extra prescription drugs, stop touching your face all the time)

On technology and being swindled by the dream:
Inside Tech's Fever Dream, by Ismail Muhammad

Watched:
The Crown, Season 3
Tolkien
Sex Education, Season 2

Poem:
[All night I hear the noise of water sobbing.], by Alejandra Pizarnik

On giving negative feedback:
The Open-Faced Shit Sandwich: Improvements on a Crappy Original by Johnathan Nightingale

On what to wear as a femme public speaker:
Lady Speaker Clothes Crisis, by Heidi Waterhouse

Word nerd stuff:
25 words that are their own opposites

On technology, ethics, surveillance capitalism:

One small way to get our independence and agency back from exploitative platforms is to build personal websites to share on instead. Of course, it’s a tiny tiny step. But it’s a step to taking back control, and building a web that neither relies upon, nor feeds, the harms of Big Tech.

From It's Time To Get Personal, by Laura Kalbag

Here are the articles I read this week. An asterisk* indicates that I'd recommend the read.