Hi frendz. The weekly 🎶 is old Peter Kernel and Lupen Crook.

On the news,

• Happy ten years cancerversary, xkcd people!
• Coronavirus:
  • Kottke: Swiss cheese defense. Good analogy, not specific to the virus.
  • jwz: Taiwan and the coronavirus.
• Tech:
  • Reed Berkowitz: A game designer’s analysis of QAnon, 👍, thx Julien.
  • youtube-dl's repository has been restored (HN), with a good PR move from GitHub (HN) standing upon good EFF lawyer work.
  • WSJ: Parler’s lead investor is Rebekah Mercer, funder of Cambridge Analytica. Slowclap.
  • DF / Vice Motherboard: How the U.S. military buys location data from ordinary apps.
  • Bret Devereaux: Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla and the unfortunate (colonialism apologism) implications. HN.