Alfred Twu is maintaining a public-domain map of the various efforts underway between states to coordinate their pandemic response. It's a detailed at-a-glance guide to who is doing what with… Read the rest of the article: Map of state-level coronavirus coordination efforts look like apocalyptic sci-fi

Brian Roemmele writes that a large tech company has "just about zeroed out" the supply of plexiglass and office dividers. Had an interesting Zoom today with a group of architects… Read the rest of the article: The open-plan office is dead, long live the plexiglass work panopticon

Diamond and Silk are sibling vloggers famous for supporting Trump. They often appear on Fox News, a TV network that currently offers a round-the-clock diet of conspiracy theories and pseudoscience… Read the rest of the article: Fox News ditches Diamond and Silk

Becky Ames, mayor of Beaumont, Texas, was spotted last Tuesday visiting The Nail Bar, a salon that should not be open because of lockdown rules imposed by Beaumont, Texas, mayor… Read the rest of the article: Texas mayor broke own lockdown rules to visit nail salon

The Daily Mail, a UK tabloid, ran a story accusing British athlete James Cracknell of breaking social distancing rules in a visit with his parents. It illustrated this with the… Read the rest of the article: UK tabloid Daily Mail fabricated photo of athlete breaking social distancing rules

Over the weekend, Trump railed about journalists on Twitter in a typo-strewn rant in which he repeatedly confused the Pulitzer Prize with the Nobel Prize (which lacks a journalism category)… Read the rest of the article: Trump's Sunday rant scrubbed from Twitter.

Phil the enormous malamute hasn't taken a bath in months, is increasingly in need of a bath, and has no intention whatsoever of having a bath. SPOILER: Ultimately, Phil is… Read the rest of the article: Dog does not want bath

Reuters reports that China dispatched medical experts to North Korea to "advise on leader Kim Jong-Un", suspected to be very ill after a heart operation. The trip by the Chinese… Read the rest of the article: Kim Jong-Un reportedly "in vegetative state" as China sends experts

Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy captured this amazing, rather alarming photograph of the International Space Station transiting the sun yesterday. Managed to catch the @Space_Station as it transited the sun today. #astrophotography… Read the rest of the article: The International Space Station transits the sun

KOSMusic performs Sylvester Levay's theme from 1980s's TV hit Airwolf on a 1990s Yamaha synth. His HD recreations of the show's animated video titles are a nice touch, too. KOS… Read the rest of the article: Airwolf theme covered

Johns Hopkins' tracker of reported deaths from Covid-19 stands at 49,963; include Americans who died on cruise liners and the total stands at 50,451. The Wall Street Journal reports on… Read the rest of the article: U.S. coronavirus death toll hits 50,000

At a press conference yesterday afternoon, Trump suggested that injecting or consuming disinfectant might be an effective way to rid oneself of coronavirus. It isn't, and doing so will likely… Read the rest of the article: Trump suggests ingesting disinfectant to cure coronavirus (Don't, it'll kill you)

Michael Caputo, the GOP media operative hired last week as a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has an unusually clean and boring twitter feed for… Read the rest of the article: New U.S. Department of Health spokesman deletes racist rant from Twitter

Trump signed an executive order Wednesday that suspends some residency applications, a measure far short of his earlier promise to block all immigration. It even fails to end the guest… Read the rest of the article: Trump halts some residency applications, backing off promised suspension of all immigration

Senator Elizabeth Warren said today that her brother, Don Reed, died Tuesday of coronavirus. My oldest brother, Don Reed, died from coronavirus on Tuesday evening. He joined the Air Force… Read the rest of the article: Elizabeth Warren's brother dies of coronavirus

At least 4.4m workers claimed unemployment benefits for the first time in the week ending April 18. Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Initial claims were 4,427,000 for the week ending 4/18… Read the rest of the article: Another 4.4m filed for unemployment last week

William Sun Petrus hacked an old Remington Portable typewriter to become a EDM dance box. For real though, whenever a hammer contacts with the "live plate", it will send a… Read the rest of the article: 1920s typewriter reborn as drum machine

An old man in Japan owns a vintage topological puzzle, a little monster so difficult to solve that it ended up on Knight Scoop being taken to a physics professor,… Read the rest of the article: Watch a master solve a nightmare ring puzzle

YouTube says it will remove "unsubstantiated medical content", taking aim at quacks, conspiracy theorists and grifters using the platform to exploit the Covid-19 pandemic. Chief executive Susan Wojcicki said the… Read the rest of the article: YouTube bans Covid quackery

“The bottom line is simply that we REFUSE to risk even ONE juggalo life by hosting a Gathering during these troubling times,” writes the Insane Clown Posse, demonstrating a greater… Read the rest of the article: Gathering of the Juggalos canceled due to pandemic