Today's links

1. Charter techs get $25 gift cards instead of hazard pay: No hand-san or PPE, either.
2. The Pandemic Playbook: Trump won't rtfm.
3. Boardgame Remix Kit: Make 26 new games out of Monopoly, Clue, Trivial Pursuit and Scrabble sets.
4. McMansion Hell visits 1972: "Architecture store? I'd like one of everything."
5. Free Cheapass Games print-and-plays: KILL DOCTOR LUCKY, GIVE ME THE BRAIN, LORD OF THE FRIES, UNEXPLODED COW and so many more!
6. Trump officials killed Walmart opioid prosecutions: With help from Jones Day.
7. United gets $25B stimulus and announces layoffs: The biggest corporate giveaway in history.
8. FLICC vs denialism: A taxonomy of scientific denial, just in time.
9. This Waifu Does Not Exist: Autogenned anime characters, with backstories.
10. Fever cameras are garbage: It's the pivot-to-covid for grifty police enablers.
11. Employers scramble to buy remote-worker spyware: Even if you're paying for the product, you're the product.
12. Canada Reads Q&A on Apr 23: Unfortunately, it's on Facebook.
13. Cowboy Economist on covid stimulus: Congress doesn't spend taxes, it spends and then taxes.
14. 88 Names podcast: Talking VR, AR and gold farming with Matt Ruff.
15. This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
16. Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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