Five Quick Links for Wednesday Noonish

Tips From Someone With Nearly 50 Years Of Social Distancing Experience. "1. Keep track of something. 2. Keep a routine." [npr.org]

The American desensitization to death is one of the things that makes us susceptible to nationalist authoritarians. [twitter.com]

The heavy price of the American brand of freedom & liberty. "This country seems resigned to preventable firearm deaths. It appears that the same is starting to happen with fatalities from the pandemic." [nytimes.com]

A short piece on what it's like to fly an electric airplane. "For the moment, what gets from a battery to the propeller is about one-fifteenth, per pound, of what we get from avgas." [flyingmag.com]

An interview with Estelle Caswell, creator of Vox's excellent Earworm video series. The bit about YouTube demonetizing their videos is infuriating. "YouTube's content ID algorithm has no idea what fair use is." [musicjournalism.substack.com]

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