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On the news,

• Coronavirus:
  • 3Blue1Brown: Exponential growth and epidemics.
  • [fr] Monsieur Phi et autres vulgarisateurs scientifiques - Coronavirus : Chaque jour compte.
  • Marshall Burke: COVID-19 reduces economic activity, which reduces pollution, which saves lives. Striking to see "the massive hidden health costs of the way our economies operate". Via Kottke.
  • Kottke: Why do new diseases like COVID-19 appear first in China?
  • xkcd: Scientific briefing.
• Good SMBC this week: Engineers & poets, and Solution.
• Tech:
  • App platform Glitch unionizes through CWA. Via Cory Doctorow, who notes that "it seems to be the first-ever white-collar tech-workers' union to have formed without any objections from management (bravo, Anil Dash!)". Also, the articles expands on how similar efforts at Google are burned to the ground, which is news to me:

    CWA in early December filed Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) charges with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on behalf of the “Thanksgiving Four” - the four Google workers who were fired in retaliation for their involvement in worker organizing efforts to preserve and improve their working conditions at the tech giant.

    Google’s decision to fire the four workers coincides with the company’s hiring of a consulting firm known for its anti-union rhetoric. Later in the month, CWA filed other Unfair Labor Practice charges, one on behalf of a fifth Google worker, who was fired in retaliation for engaging in similar organizing efforts, as well as one alleging other coercive and intimidating tactics by Google to chill further organizing efforts.