David Benqué @air_pump@post.lurk.org

LoL academic publishing
#neveragain

Palantir moving in on UK & EU healthcare data is some straight up Shock Doctrine bullshit.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-01/palantir-in-talks-with-germany-france-for-virus-fighting-tool

LoL Twitter blaming Firefox for their fuckups

📄 Writing Theory During a Pandemic
by João Florêncio

https://identitiesjournal.edu.mk/index.php/IJPGC/announcement/view/16

Over two decades after Paula Treichler wrote the landmark book How to Have Theory In an Epidemic - a critical reflection on the intertwined clinical and cultural dimensions of the AIDS crisis - some academic colleagues, even some in the Humanities, appear to still insist that no theory can be produced about an epidemic during an epidemic and that all we should do is wait for our turn. In so doing, they unwittingly endorse the right-wing narrative that, over the last few years, has been painting the Arts and Humanities as useless disciplines led by “radical lefties” intended on using public funds in order to simply be a nuisance to the status quo. According to that narrative and its technocratic neoliberal ideology, the only useful knowledge is the knowledge of “Science.” Yet, as the responses to COVID-19 are already showing - as the responses to AIDS had already shown - and as any medical humanities scholar will confirm, no epidemic is a purely medical event capable of being solely understood by means of graphs and data sets.

Started an open are.na channel as a coping mechanism.

Diagrams of SARS-CoV-2
🦠📈😱 Tracking the diagrammatic forms of the virus: movements, relations, constraints, openings, ruptures, makings, and un-makings.

https://www.are.na/david-benque-1509961916/diagrams-of-sars-cov-2

♒ ♉ ⛎ 📘 💫 New widget on https://almanac.computer adds the daily top post from /r/astrologymemes to each issue.

🎧 ANTIVIRUS on ∏ node
Programme radio ouvert de déconfinement, ANTIVIRUS se propage dans les câbles électriques pour transformer ce moment contre le virus en lutte collective translocale. Assemblons nos univers confinés!

https://p-node.org/

🎧 No Return to Normal: for a post-pandemic liberation.
Max Haiven — ReImagine Value podcast

https://reimaginevalue.podbean.com/e/nonewnormal/

📰 also as text:
https://roarmag.org/essays/no-return-to-normal-for-a-post-pandemic-liberation/

📰 👀
What You Should Know About Online Tools During the COVID-19 Crisis—EFF Deeplinks

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/what-you-should-know-about-online-tools-during-covid-19-crisis

me in 2014 vs. UK in 2020

I did not expect part of my job for @cryptpad was going to be writing promo messages in a global pandemic:

In the current health crisis linked to the COVID-19 outbreak, CryptPad supports remote working. The storage limit for all registered users is increased to 1GB until further notice. Registration is free with no personal data required.

⚠️🚫 major fuck up on EasyList (used by uBlock, Adblock, etc) started blocking all third party requests to .xyz .site .pro .best .club .space .info .bid this morning

https://github.com/easylist/easylist/commit/d6e6a848f1aff9921e90ffcb1299a103dedaa6ee

update the list if your internet is broken