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The Snoo "smart bassinet" is a $1,300 gadget that allows you to control its rocking motions and send sounds to its speaker over the internet.You. Will. Never. Guess. What. Happened.

I have enormous sympathy for artists suffering financial anxiety during the pandemic. I have 3 books out in 2020 and my family was really counting on them selling well to

Covid did not escape from a Chinese lab.China is an untrustworthy, paranoid, autocratic state with a history of deadly epidemiological coverups (SARS), and it mishandled and lied about the covid

.@WholeFoods management have found a cost-effective way of managing employee dissatisfaction. Instead of providing adequate pay and protection, they're tracking union activity with an "interactive heatmap" that prioritizes union-busting

I am in awe of Microsoft Sam's supercut, "Every Covid-19 Commerical is Exactly the Same."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM3J9jDoaTASam's right: every one of these videos hits the same notes: "We're here for you," &quo

Students at the Australian National University and other Australian educational institutions have signed up with US "invigilation" companies that produce anti-cheating spyware for students' computers. Students and faculty are furious.ht

To read @BretStevensNYT in the @nytimes ("there should be no big-pharma haters in pandemics"), you'd think that remdesivir, the promising covid treatment, was the result of Big Pharma's big R&D

The Australian National University is insisting that students install "invigilation" software that monitors their computer use to prevent cheating during tests.This is incredibly worrisome.https://www.woroni.com.au/news/analysis-the-issues-

#RightToRepair has never been more urgent. There's a reason farmers have been on the front lines of R2R: they have pressing deadlines ("make hay while the sun shines") and are

Nationwide, the American south is facing the worst harms from coronavirus (as @yvessmith points out, big blue cities get more coverage because that's where the press lives).https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2020/0

Ticketmaster is a runaway corrupt monopoly. They forced out or gobbled up every ticketing company, then merged with Live Nation and monopolized both venues and promo, to the vast detriment

Bishop Gerald O Glenn headed The New Deliverance Evangelistic Church near Richmond, VA, where he defied social distancing orders, declaring himself to be an essential service because he "talked to