Comment and Link Roundup: May 6, 2021

[brin_bellway]

Comments on my own posts:

Comment and Link Roundup: April 12, 2021

[arguably cw: apocalypse, poverty] Shining a light on the availability of energy efficiency [three comments, not counting the postscripts]

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Comments on other people's posts:

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by ms-demeanor) Discord is going downhill, like so many instant-messengers before it.

[cw: death, apocalypse] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by contrarianarchon) The inherent value of life.

[cw: apocalypse, drugs, (arguably) discourse] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by rustingbridges; partially in response to cthulhubert and alarajrogers) Gold and disaster-hedging. [four comments]

[cw: amnesia, (fairly mild) death] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by the fittingly-named existentialterror) qntm's fiction is very good at being the kind of thing that it is, and that is the best that can be said about it. (Read his time-travel meta, though.)

[arguably cw: amnesia] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by eightyonekilograms) Audio-processing while exercising.

[Blogspot; Wayback] (OP by Michael Mock) Unpacking the references in tea names.

[cw: scrupulosity] [AO3; Wayback] (OP by cthulhuraejepsen) A possible ending to A Common Sense Guide to Doing the Most Good.

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Links:

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There is a blanket [cw: illness] on the rest of this post.


Comments on my own posts:

The one about quarantine hotels

A Connecticut Yankee in the Bellezzan Court [one comment, not counting the postscript]

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Comments on other people's posts:

[cw: food, poverty] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by mindstalk) The physical and psychological benefits of respirators; also, price-matching. [five comments]

[mild cw: death] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by Doinkadect) Doctor Who's complete lack of concern for inter-temporal disease transmission, not even so much as throwing in a line of reassuring technobabble while *visiting an infectious-disease research facility from the year five billion*.

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Links:

[University of Manchester; Wayback] (by Joe Sherving; h/t ilzo-misc) Neat facts about Alan Turing, including such incredibly relatable quotes as:

A sufferer of hayfever, Turing was also known to cut an especially peculiar figure in the first week of June each year, when he would cycle to work in a gas mask to keep the pollen away.

[Science Translational Medicine; Wayback] (by Derek Lowe) Honestly most of y'all are probably reading In the Pipeline already, but: malaria vaccine!!
(see also this Kelsey Piper article)

Comments

[sigmaleph]

ooh, I was not aware of of A Common Sense Guide to Doing the Most Good and quite enjoyed it

[brin_bellway]

I'm subscribed to cthulhuraejepsen and I recommend it. It's not just Worth the Candle: pretty much everything he writes is good.

(I haven't had a chance to read Worth the Candle myself yet beyond the first chapter, but I seem to recall you read it.)

[sigmaleph]

Yeah, I am a fan of Worth the Candle. I will explore his other works!