The Very Real Threat of Trump’s Deepfake, via The Atlantic.
Five Things to Know If Kim Jong Un Dies, via Foreign Policy.
Nine Ways Schools Will Look Different When (And If) They Reopen, via NPR.
President’s intelligence briefing book repeatedly cited virus threat, via The Washington Post.
The Library of Congress wants to help you remix public domain audio clips, via The Verge.
Just making my semi-regular statement of desire for The Criterion Channel to be available as an XBox app or Amazon channel so that I can give them my money. Carry on.
Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of Polarities and Process, Ad Infinitum.
Bolshoi in the kitchen: Russian ballet is also working from home during lockdown, via The Washington Post.
A Tale of Two Rescue Plans, via Foreign Policy.
Is the talk about Kim Jong Un being sick — or worse — true? Pyongyang is abuzz, too, via The Washington Post.
Posters From Japan’s 100-Year Old Pandemic Manual, via Spoon & Tamago.
Update: I’m still married.
Over the last decade, I’ve learned: gardening without killing plants; basic plumbing; pergola construction; furnace repair; vehicle battery replacement; and dog v. raccoon ear bandaging. I’ve now attempted the most challenging and potentially disastrous: coloring my wife’s hair.
The first dispatch (99th in legacy numbering) of my relaunched newsletter, MacroParentheticals is in the ether. One newsletter in, and I’m already in love with Buttondown; why I didn’t make the switch sooner is beyond me - but better late than never, I suppose.
It only took seven years, but I just now realized that the titles of my first two books start with COMI. That the mythical, eventual third one starts with a D seems to indicate evolution. Go me.
Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… my new interview series launches with existential dread / EarthWindFire / solo accordion free jazz / MAD MEN and more: Disrupting the Sound: An Interview with Elizabeth Joan Kelly. (Thank you, Elizabeth!)
Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of Process Acceptance, (Re)Launchings, and Season Finales.
The Postal Service in the Days of the Virus, via Reading the Pictures.
‘Leverage’ Reboot Starring Noah Wyle Ordered By IMDb TV; Original Series’ Team, 4 Cast Members Set To Return, via Deadline.
Democracies Can’t Blame Putin for Their Disinformation Problem, via Foreign Policy.
The Thief Who Stole a Prized Van Gogh From a Dutch Museum Used a Sledgehammer to Break In. See Footage of the Brazen Heist Here,via artnet News.
Inside the conservative networks backing anti-quarantine protests, via The Washington Post.
Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of BloodSugar Concatenations and Fragmentations.
