not sure where to put this really:
Cambridge University Press has just made all 700 textbooks currently available in HTML format on Cambridge Core free to access until the end of May to assist readers during the Covid-19 outbreak. This also includes 58 textbooks in Language and Linguistics. https://t.co/TFhUaANkXE— Michelle Sheehan (@MiShee54) March 17, 2020
― mark s, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 15:05 (four years ago) link
Ha, I was gonna link to exactly that, with the exact same "don't know where to put this", but didn't because it was down due to too much traffic earlier.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 15:06 (four years ago) link
good opportunity to finally do my course* properly amirite
*or a different, better one
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 15:07 (four years ago) link
also big up to MIT Open Courseware (watch free courses) https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
and this old reddit.https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ecscwk/what_free_things_online_should_everyone_take/
― Yerac, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 15:09 (four years ago) link
FYI lj the uk gov only lists high risk people as those with a BMI over 40 & the reason for potential complications is to do with visceral fat complicating ventilation if it gets to that point
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 15:22 (four years ago) link
Some more:
• Open Culture has a list of 1,150 movies to watch for free
• International Documentary Film Festival (IDFA) Rotterdam has made 200 docs available to watch for free
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 15:23 (four years ago) link
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 15:22 (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
that's good. BMI is kind of bullshit as it has me down as borderline obese when I really, really don't look it - doesn't account for broad-shouldered cypriot body type etc etc
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 15:27 (four years ago) link
same here. back when I was doing weight loss challenges a lot of people were pretty surprised to find out how much I actually weighed. I got the "are you sure it's healthy to be losing this much weight?" comment a few times and I was like...uh I'm still 220
― frogbs, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 15:33 (four years ago) link
Do you act smaller in person?
― silby, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 15:42 (four years ago) link
I can also attest to the advantages of broad shoulders - which reminds me, time to get some exercise in.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 16:00 (four years ago) link
trump just opened up the press conference by referring to the "Chinese Virus", in his very first sentence.
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 16:08 (four years ago) link
And continuing to make whatever current testing is going on sound horrifying.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 16:12 (four years ago) link
Trump wants everyone to know the invisible enemy happens to be chinese.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 16:15 (four years ago) link
Ugh so my boss has info from someone inside downing st that it will be announced tonight that London is going into total lockdown as of Friday.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 16:21 (four years ago) link
What does 'total lockdown' mean?
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 16:23 (four years ago) link
My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 16:23 (four years ago) link
Ok yeah I know obv grain of salt etc but this is pretty serious and another friend heard similar from someone. I think it would mean people are told to stay indoors and only grocery stores and pharmacies remain open.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 16:26 (four years ago) link
Yep, FT reporters also saying this on Twitter.
― ShariVari, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 16:29 (four years ago) link
My one direct report and messaged me to tell me that she’s heard it from someone in the army and was like uh can I go to the store before this is announced and all hell breaks loose? :/
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 16:34 (four years ago) link
we've been living like it's been total lockdown for a week now
nonetheless, does this mean no public transport?
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 16:57 (four years ago) link
They need key workers to get to work. Maybe they’ll enforce wfh for those who can but who aren’t being allowed to do so. Absolutely no way half the people on the train with me yesterday, minimum, needed to be there.
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 17:01 (four years ago) link
Guess we’re about to find out.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 17:02 (four years ago) link
The French government today was saying that if the UK didn't tighten up its handling of the virus very soon, it would close the borders to British citizens.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 17:18 (four years ago) link
we should have done so last week
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 17:20 (four years ago) link
"Ok yeah I know obv grain of salt etc but this is pretty serious and another friend heard similar from someone. I think it would mean people are told to stay indoors and only grocery stores and pharmacies remain open." well they're about a week late.
― akm, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 17:22 (four years ago) link
xpost
the lockdown in Paris hasn't affected public transport much, because it's needed to get people to work at hospitals, food stores, etc. though ridership is way down (as I can watch from up-close trains on one of the elevated lines of the métro from my apartment windows). I'm on a big boulevard and can also see that buses are still frequent but almost all entirely empty or with just a single rider.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 17:30 (four years ago) link
in Wuhan - bigger than London - public transport has been shut for over a month iirc.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 17:31 (four years ago) link
Ok so I guess public transport and bars etc still open?? Boss did say she heard it would be from Friday so maybe they won’t announce it until tomorrow or then? Maybe they think schools closing is enough to tell the public about right now? Who knows.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 17:32 (four years ago) link
an article (in French) of testimonies from victims of the virus that has shaken me: https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2020/03/18/il-y-aura-un-avant-et-un-apres-coronavirus-si-nous-restons-en-vie-des-malades-temoignent_6033492_3224.html
― Joey Corona (Euler), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 17:33 (four years ago) link
The issue with Coronavirus is that other similar epidemics have you at your most virulent, shedding most after you develop symptoms, whereas you shed at a ridiculously high rate in the early days of this virus
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 17:39 (four years ago) link
Yeah I started reading that one and stopped after the third testimony. Ignorance is bliss.
xp
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 17:59 (four years ago) link
I don't get why Italy was hit so hard. 35,713 confirmed cases and 2,978 deaths ffs.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 18:01 (four years ago) link
combination of old population and immune systems that don't usually have to deal with grim and frostbitten northern european colds/flus?
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 18:03 (four years ago) link
it's the whole reason for the #flattenthecurve approach, i think - they just didn't/don't have ICU and equipment capacity to deal with the upspike in caseload
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 18:03 (four years ago) link
to the extent that the answers are deterministic, i would start with medical infrastructure
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 18:04 (four years ago) link
honestly hard to believe that last week at this time we still had basketball
as horrible as this whole thing is, am I correct in thinking that this might eventually provide a case study in the effects of reduced emissions and not constantly fucking with nature?
Here's an unexpected side effect of the pandemic - the water's flowing through the canals of Venice is clear for the first time in forever. The fish are visible, the swans returned. pic.twitter.com/2egMGhJs7f— Kaveri 🇮🇳 (@ikaveri) March 16, 2020
― frogbs, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 19:21 (four years ago) link
Tesla appears to be defying officials in Alameda County, California—the site of its only North American factory, in Fremont—who have ordered Tesla to stop operations. TechCrunch reports that a Wednesday email from the company's human resources department instructed employees to come to work."We still do not have final word from the city, county, state and federal government on the status of our operations," the email said. "We have had conflicting guidance from different levels of government."In an email published Tuesday by Eletrek, Tesla's head of HR argued that Tesla didn't need to shut down because the company counts as National Critical Infrastructure, as defined by the Department of Homeland Security. The category "includes auto manufacturing and energy infrastructure," according to Tesla."People need access to transportation and energy, and we are essential to providing it," the email said.
"We still do not have final word from the city, county, state and federal government on the status of our operations," the email said. "We have had conflicting guidance from different levels of government."
In an email published Tuesday by Eletrek, Tesla's head of HR argued that Tesla didn't need to shut down because the company counts as National Critical Infrastructure, as defined by the Department of Homeland Security. The category "includes auto manufacturing and energy infrastructure," according to Tesla.
"People need access to transportation and energy, and we are essential to providing it," the email said.
― Number None, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 19:27 (four years ago) link
frogbs I thought that was debunked as not being Venice?
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 19:32 (four years ago) link
Yep (see thread):
Because I'm a massive verification nerd who hates fun, here's a little thread on geolocating these photos that people are claiming aren't from Venice. https://t.co/qBreekKI7c— Eliot Higgins (@EliotHiggins) March 18, 2020
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 19:38 (four years ago) link
People by O'Hare here say the skies are clearer than they've been in years.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 19:39 (four years ago) link
Or rather: it's complicated.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 19:40 (four years ago) link
Guess The City crew in pincer movement
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 19:45 (four years ago) link
well that's a bummer, but still I think there's a chance we all go outside one summer day and realize with great frustration that the bugs are back
― frogbs, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 19:48 (four years ago) link
if i survive this, totally going back to the Venetian lagoon, Burano looks dope
― lukas, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 19:48 (four years ago) link
0% interest rates, bidets, covering your face, social distancing.... girl we goin to islam???— laraib (@_laraiib) March 17, 2020
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 19:54 (four years ago) link
knew it was coming - Sacramento County has now issued a Stay At Home order https://www.sacbee.com/news/coronavirus/article241299741.html
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 20:12 (four years ago) link
some a+ material in the replies to the tweet tracer posted
― uncle-knower is coming for you (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 20:21 (four years ago) link
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/coronavirus-response-climate-crisis
― frogbs, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 20:33 (four years ago) link
italy's numbers today seem...... bad
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