May 2020 – Page 2 – Andy Sylvester's Web

Bookmarked The Real Story of Automation Beginning with One Simple Chart (medium.com)

Robots are hiding in plain sight. It’s time we stop ignoring them.

Bookmarked The Future of the United States Depends on the Immediate Adoption of UBI (The Swamp)

Flatten the curve…

Without basic income, people will die. With basic income, people will thrive.

Replied to Building a Day Log Habit by Ton Zijlstra (zylstra.org)

Last week I joined an IndieWeb conversation on blogs and wikis. I ended up with three take-aways. One of them was a tip by another participant to keep a day log as a means to add more to the wiki, do more wiki gardening. Writing a list of things you do during the day as you go along, you can the use…

Ton, I am replying to your post, I had been keeping a daily journal of what I was doing, but your description of a day log includes a little more, I am going to try that this week.

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How should researchers use Dockerfiles to for their data science workflows? @vsoch @benmarwick @StephenEglen @betatim @psychemedia and I tried to answer this in "Ten Simple Rules for Writing Dockerfiles for Reproducible Data Science" now out as a preprint: https://t.co/uRWWfUYGiv pic.twitter.com/pSf0o67jfA

— Daniel Nüst (@nordholmen) April 17, 2020

I don’t know how to use Docker, but this looks interesting.

Bookmarked Journalist’s Toolbox | A Society of Professional Journalists Blog (journaliststoolbox.org)

Lots of good resources here, don’t want to lose track of this.

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I’ve watched this 10 times and it just gets better every time. pic.twitter.com/AwzdPUGBFQ

— luke i am your mother (@MommaUnfiltered) April 19, 2020

A terrific video expressing the feelings of many at this time – when I saw it, it was at 1.2M views, today it is 7.5M views – wow!

More: TikTok channel, YouTube channel

Bookmarked The Ten Weeks That Lost the War: A Timeline of How Trump Lied, Bungled and Screwed America in the COVID-19 Crisis – The Bulwark,The Ten Weeks That Lost the War: A Timeline of How Trump Lied, Bungled and Screwed America in the COVID-19 Crisis (The Bulwark)

In the social media fog of war it can be easy to lose the thread as to just how the COVID-19 crisis came to our shores and what the Trump administration did and didn’t do to respond. This timeline provides a look at the key inflection points in the crucial ten-week period where the United […],In the social media fog of war it can be easy to lose the thread as to just how the COVID-19 crisis came to our shores and what the Trump administration did and didn’t do to respond. This timeline provides…

An awesome documented timeline of the mis-steps of the Trump administration on COVID-19!

Bookmarked The Technium: 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice (kk.org)

Some good advice from Kevin Kelly:

It’s my birthday. I’m 68. I feel like pulling up a rocking chair and dispensing advice to the young ‘uns. Here are 68 pithy bits of unsolicited advice which I offer as my birthday present to all of you.

Bookmarked Why NYC failed on coronavirus response while Seattle succeeded: report (New York Post)

While public-health officials were getting in front of the coronavirus in Seattle, Mayor Bill de Blasio dragged his feet and openly bickered with Gov. Andrew Cuomo in New York, according to a repor…

Seattle let science and data guide their decisions, while New York argued….

Bookmarked I’ve worked the coronavirus front line — and I say it’s time to start opening up (New York Post)

I’m an emergency physician at St. Barnabas Hospital in The Bronx. I have been in the ER every day these last few weeks, either supervising or providing direct care. I contracted a COVID-19 infectio…

This is probably the most difficult question today – when to restart the economy?