Six Quick Links for Friday Noonish

"A genetic study of samples from more than 7,500 people infected with COVID-19 suggests the new coronavirus spread quickly around the world after it emerged in China sometime between October and December last year." [reuters.com]

The experience of air travel has long been terrible and the pandemic has made it worse. "At the food court, a shouting match broke out among several stressed-out strangers, and police had to intervene." [theatlantic.com]

Scunthorpe Sans is a font that automatically censors bad language. "Modern fonts can combine letters into a single ligature, usually for things like fi or fl but you can pick anything so we've done it for swears." [vole.wtf]

The accuracy of weather forecasting has taken a hit during the pandemic because it relies on data collected by commercial airliners, which aren't flying in great numbers. [nytimes.com]

Admitting that "it shouldn't be making so many decisions about speech and online safety on its own", Facebook has convened an independent oversight board. [oversightboard.com]

The two men who killed Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia 2.5 months ago have finally been arrested and charged with murder. [nytimes.com]

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