Remembering screwy animation genius Tex Avery - the man who turned toons from cute to cracked - born today in 1908.

To extend this a little: it's important (& I forget this all the time) not to think of "politics" as something that's played out in elections or by people in power but as something that's played out in your daily life, in your community—elections are trailing indicators

I just posted a new podcast! "Disasters Don’t Have to End in Dystopia" is an essay I wrote for WIRED about the ways that the stories we tell ourselves make the difference between rising to meet a crisis and devolving into catastrophe. 1/

My vote goes to Elizabeth Warren for these reasons. I don’t want a savior for president, I want someone with plans, who accepts criticism & adjusts course, whose vision leads to harm reduction & a greater chance for us to make real progress instead of returning to the status quo.

Woah: WHO director Tedros warns against assigning blame for this outbreak. "Stigma, to be honest, is more dangerous than the virus itself," he said.

You're supposed to wash your hands for 20 sec, which is the time it takes to sing Happy Birthday twice. But I'm tired of singing Happy Birthday and you probably are too, so I've done the very important public service of compiling other songs with roughly 20 sec choruses to sing:

Department of Just Saying: Implement proper sick pay and flu rates fall by ~40%. Paper: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I voted for Elizabeth Warren today b/c she listens to Black women, understands that “Economic justice has not ever been sufficient to ensure racial justice,” admits mistakes, is a tough broad, and b/c we now see how not having a leader w/ a plan costs lives. dailysoundandfury.com/the-root-ranke…

Dr. Tara C. Smith Caitlin Rivers Marion Koopmans, publications: https://pure.eur.nl Jeremy Konyndyk Jeremy Farrar Marc Lipsitch Isaac Bogoch @EckerleIsabella Dr. Majumder is writing 🖋 Dr. Angela Rasmussen World Health Organization (WHO) ECDC CDC Tom Inglesby, MD Ian M Mackay, PhD (he/him) Adam Kucharski Dr. Nahid Bhadelia @alexandraphelan Bill Hanage @BillHanage.bsky.social Carl T. Bergstrom Julia Belluz Laura Helmuth sharon begley Amy Maxmen, PhD Maryn McKenna Lars Fischer Federico Kukso 🇦🇷 News from Science Jon Cohen Martin Enserink Dennis Normile Ian MacKay smcgermany Social distancing may mean staying further apart from each other physically in coming weeks. We should compensate by caring even more about each other than usually, because we are, of course, all in this together.

But today, at *least* today, if you know smart, capable, ambitious women who work hard every day to try to make a better world for those around them, and who were lifting their face to the sunlight, please give them a bit of space to grieve their dreams.

Comb jellies put the "disco" in "discovery"

Happy pub day to Lauryl Zenobi and I Want A UX Job! UX research is an amazing field but it's hard know where to start. My own career path is basically:💻🌀🤷🏻‍♀️ I'm so excited to have a practical, thorough, well-written guide to link folks to! #iwantauxjob amazon.com/dp/B08KZ1DQCS

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