Today's links

1. How prepper media is coping with the crisis: Fantasy meets reality while grifters pick up the pieces.
2. Law firm tells work-from-homers to switch off smart speakers: Bugging your own house is not compatible with attorney-client privilege.
3. Gorgeous painting of coronavirus from a molecular scientist: Free to use, too.
4. Slim's is shut, but DNA Lounge needs your help: It's not a business, it's a community.
5. Florida mayor ducks accountability for threatening power disconnections during the pandemic: Mayor Pam Triolo has permanently disqualified herself for public office, and commissioner Omari Hardy has the receipts.
6. Rashida Tlaib proposes minting two trillion-dollar coins: A people's covid bailout.
7. How "concierge doctors" supply the "worried well" with masks, respirators and tests: Pandemic capitalism is guillotine capitalism.
8. This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
9. Colophon: Recent publications, current writing projects, upcoming appearances, current reading

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