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So tired of text-based communication systems that use email purely as a notification and not …

So tired of text-based communication systems that use email purely as a notification and not as an actual communication system.

I have a message from the kid’s teacher that I can’t read because the app isn’t working, but if the system had just included it in the “you have a message!” email, I would know what it was.

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Email is a tried and true communication system. It should be used as a backup channel, not just an advertisement.

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covid/infrastructure (+)

Companies that build temporary buildings, stages and tents for festivals and concert events like Coachella are pivoting to building triage tents and temporary hospital facilities.

“We have everything available: Wi-Fi, radios, generators, lighting, restrooms and wash stations. We can build a small city in a day or two, and that’s a need right now.”

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-03-30/coronavirus-event-companies-coachella-pivot-covid-19-testing

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covid discussion as experienced through mastodon vs birdsite (anxiety)

Mastodon: Here’s how we’re all dealing with quarantine and/or illness, who needs help and what you can do, what we know about how the pandemic is spreading, and what this shows needs to be fixed about society.

Twitter: OMG WERE ALL GONNA DIE BC OF THESE IDIOTS IN CHARGE WTFWTFWTF WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE

I’ve…found it helpful to avoid Twitter lately, just to keep the anxiety at bay.

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An allowance tracker app we use with the 9YO has a set of stay-at-home activities …

An allowance tracker app we use with the 9YO has a set of stay-at-home activities including one that is allegedly about learning how compound interest works, with the classic example of starting with a penny and doubling it every day.

I’m actually impressed that they snuck in a lesson on exponential/geometric growth at a time when the understanding is critical, but using a non-anxiety-inducing context.

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covid19/japanese art

Atlas Obscura reports on a trend where artists are drawing Amabie (アマビエ), a sort of mer-bird-person spirit associated with protection from disease.

A Healing Spirit From 19th-Century Japan Is Back to Face COVID-19

Artists are bringing back Amabie, a ‘yōkai’ associated with protection from disease.

Image by Kaori Hamura Long. The article features several other examples from the current trend.

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