Notes

Today I was finally able to make my vaccine appointments. The first is 2 weeks from now, the second 5 weeks after that. Good news, but it’s bizarre that the location is far away; I will have to spent an hour on trains to get there.

News is dead.

In March 2018, Guillaume Rey sued Cara Operations in Canada for dismissing him, arguing that it"s discriminatory to judge a French person as “rude”. It is a funny, clickbait-ready story and was widely reported.

No one could be bothered to report on the outcome.

First science I’ve seen suggests digital contact tracing is highly effective in controlling infection spread.

Pleasant surprise! But this makes me even angrier about how badly governments have botched this.

It is very 2021 that the best place to learn about Biden’s effort to bring worker protections to the gig economy is Teen Vogue: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-is-the-pro-act

Late capitalism alert: a logistics firm in my grocer’s supply chain got “hacked”, and now I can’t buy cheese in Holland.

Even in a newsletter for readers “pissed off about the climate crisis”, the idea it is irresponsible to boast about your meat consumption is too radical for the commentariet.

We’re screwed.