Five Quick Links for Thursday Afternoon

14:53

Square has changed its name to Block. In a few years, they can go up another dimension with Tesseract. [theverge.com]

How Gollum's performance was created for the LOTR movies. "That the end result is so believable, so deeply felt and human, is miraculous given the complicated, piecemeal nature of its construction." [polygon.com]

One of Virgil Abloh's final projects was this delightfully odd off-road Maybach coupe for Mercedes. [media.mbusa.com]

The US finally has a plan for providing cheap, at-home rapid tests for Covid (yay!) and it involves people finding & buying their own tests and then getting reimbursed via their health insurance (whaaat a fucking joke). [nytimes.com]

It will be nearly impossible to shift people's thinking at this point, but the Covid vaccine is really a 3-dose series, not 2 shots + booster. 3 shots = fully vaccinated. [twitter.com]

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