Dame Right
Dame Judi Dench is here to help us all through these tough times by TikToking with her grandson Sam. Can we just give her the Nobel Peace Prize now? Via Vogue
Book Clubbin’
If you’re bored in lockdown, check this out. A book club where you read a short story then discuss it on Zoom with the author. Up next, sci-fi author Annalee Newitz. Via Short Story Club
Beary Happy
Bears in Yosemite National Park party it up while the park is closed down, joining animals around the world thriving while humans stay inside. Via CNN
Breathe Easier
A new report found that 9 of 10 major cities around the world saw a huge drop in air pollution while people stay inside during the pandemic. Rome was the only outlier. Via The Verge
Awww Good Boi
Big Poppa is a bulldog who loves kids & people and this social distancing stuff really has him down. A pic of him feeling sad went viral and the internet stepped up to cheer Poppa up. Via Paper
Up for Debate
Livestreaming platform Twitch might be the new political discussion hotbed. Meet one popular streamer who makes a living debating his often unpopular political opinions on the platform. Via Mother Jones
How To Do It?
Contact tracing means tracking where the coronavirus is and who has come in contact with it. What’s the best way to do this? Apps + human trackers will probably be the best solution. Via BBC
Brave New Supermarket
The 100-year old world of grocery stores seems to be changing overnight. With more delivery and fewer in-store shoppers, what will our supermarkets look like after the pandemic? Via The Atlantic
Bot Is It Ethical?
Tech savvy folks are building bots to snap up hard-to-come-by grocery store delivery slots, perhaps taking them away from less tech savvy folks who might need them more (like the elderly). Via Vice
Remembering
With so many deaths due to COVID-19, Instagram is speeding up the rollout of a memorial feature that would add a Remembering banner to a user’s account who has died. Via BuzzFeed News
Learning the Hard Way
One school district in the US became a case study in how not to do online learning when their first day of remote classes was canceled because so many racist, hateful trolls were able to invade the online classrooms. Via Daily Dot
Evil Zoombombing
A Holocaust Remembrance Day event in Germany being streamed on Zoom for the world to see was stormed by evil people who flashed pictures of Hitler and shouted anti-Semitic slurs. Via Haaretz
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