Jeremy Cherfas

[W]hen they’re just talking smack, maybe the best thing to do would be to ignore them – and instead rely on sources who actually know what they’re talking about and reporters who know enough about health and science and reality to discern between what’s true and what’s not.That would be almost all the time, right?

There’s much to applaud in Jason’s write-up of a university student’s efforts to show people in Japan where positive responses to the coronavirus are. And one thing to abhor, and that’s the description of “a foreign virus running rampant”. The virus may have had an origin elsewhere, but there is no sense in which a pathogen can be considered foreign. This sort of wording legitimises xenophobia.

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Nice idea, but anecdotally, the few people on Twitter whom I’ve asked have said they don’t have a blog of their own.

Wait a minute. Are the campaign to abolish recipe headnotes and the campaign to insist on listening to podcasts at 1x somehow related? I’m not going to tell anyone what to do with their time. Listen at any speed you like; but listen. @kathrynw5 @nwquah

Woke to an unsettling SMS and email from Ryanair telling me the return flight at the end of March had been cancelled. What about the outbound flight? I need to decide what to do.

“My Brexit stash of tins of beans and toilet paper has had a rebrand. It’s now the corona virus emergency stash.”

Very clever.

Lots of interesting ideas here from Venkatash Rao, although I still don’t get the attraction of tweetstorms, or whetever they are called nowadays. Certainly, though, the focus on text as the thing has always made sense to me. Presentation matters, of course it does, but so does content. Just as it does in audio.