[list] good reads and links: wk 2020-05-04

May 4, 2020

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links

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obits

• Tony Allen, Afrobeat Pioneer
• Florian Schneider, founding member of Kraftwerk
• John Erhardt, member of Wussy
• Millie Small, Singer

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reads

• [The Hustle] The man feeding a remote Alaska town with a Costco card and a ship
• [New York Times] ‘Murder Hornets’ in the U.S.: The Rush to Stop the Asian Giant Hornet
• [NPR] J.Crew Bankruptcy Filing May Not Be The Last For Retailers Slammed By Pandemic
• [Vice] Amazon VP Resigns, Calls Company ‘Chickenshit’ for Firing Protesting Workers
• [The New Yorker] Reinventing Grief in an Era of Enforced Isolation
• [New York Times] Jerry Seinfeld Is Making Peace With Nothing: He’s ‘Post-Show Business’
• [The Atlantic] Work From Home Is Here to Stay
• [New York Times] How Does a New Yawker Tawk?
• [New York Times] ‘You’re 5 Years Old. Wow!’ Child Is Stopped on Highway Headed for California
• [New York Times] Meet The Neighbors
• [The New Yorker] Watch Neighbors Connect in “Shelter in Place”
• [Vox] Why time feels so weird right now
• [New York Times] The Compost by My Couch: How (and Why) I Started an Odorless Bin at Home
• [New York Times] Two Weapons, a Chase, a Killing and No Charges

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music

• [ToneGlow] 014: Jim O’Rourke
• [NME] The National’s Matt Berninger on 10 years of ‘High Violet’: “We wanted to reach everybody”
• [New York Times] Filipino Musicians Drive Hong Kong’s Music Scene, but Gigs Have Dried Up
• [Uproxx] “It Was Live Or Die”: Matt Berninger On The National’s ‘High Violet’ 10 Years Later

Now deleted and tweeted again, this time with the flag of the United States of America () rather than Liberia (). pic.twitter.com/Af6wj8W9gF

— Philip Crowther (@PhilipinDC) May 7, 2020

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rona-related

• [New York Times] 3 Hospital Workers Gave Out Masks. Weeks Later, They All Were Dead.
• [NCase] What Happens Next? COVID-19 Futures, Explained With Playable Simulations
• [Reuters] Track Covid In Your Country
• [The Verge] The disappointing truth about antibody testing
• [New York Times] How Hip-Hop Royalty Found a New Home on Instagram Live
• [Washington Post] Where Americans are still staying at home the most
• [Washington Post] New York’s patron saint of PPE went $600,000 in debt to outfit workers — and hospitals keep turning her down

My dad is an ICU doctor treating COVID-19 patients. In the past WEEK he has set more “I’ve never seen a heart rate/RBC count/etc. like this” records than in his decades-long career. What this virus does to the body is like “sticking your finger in an electric socket.” Stay home.

— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) May 3, 2020

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sports

• [New York Times] Rap Soundtracks the Michael Jordan Doc. The N.B.A. Wasn’t Always That Way.
• [New York Times] Run 100 Miles, 100 Times, in 100 Weeks. Now in a Brooklyn Apartment.
• [New York Times] The Old Knicks Made Basketball Games the ‘Hippest Place’ in New York

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podcasts/audio

• [WNYC] Demand for Elastic Springs Sisters Into Second Act

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misc

My kid wrote a song called,
“I Wonder What’s Inside your Butthole” Quite honestly, it slaps. pic.twitter.com/A65m6XeZ2r

— Lisa Shmeesa 🦎🦎🦎 (@LisaRieffel) May 2, 2020

LISTEN: Toilet flush during U.S. Supreme Court oral argument (h/t @nicninh) pic.twitter.com/He3QGMzvJI

— Jeremy Art (@cspanJeremy) May 6, 2020