Fascinated by frontiers of human progress: innovation vs ignorance; wealth vs poverty. Oh, and coffee.
@GavinChait@mastodon.online
Apr 30, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Regional France COVID-19 : Daily grocery & workplace mobility + hospitalisations and deaths since 2020-04-30.
Régional France COVID-19 : Mobilité quotidienne au travail et à l'épicerie + hospitalisations et décès depuis 2020-04-30 #OpenDataSavesLives@google
Regional France COVID-19 : Cumulative deaths and doubling-times since 2020-04-30.
Régional France COVID-19 : Nombre cumulé de décès et temps de doublement depuis 2020-04-30 #OpenDataSavesLives
Apr 17, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
When I was a kid, I read a lot of pulp paperbacks published in the pre-war years; 1910s & 1920s/30s. I was a child of Jewish Eastern European refugees. No generation of my family had ever not been a migrant. I knew what was to come. What was striking is that the writers did not.
It was tragic to read the excitement with which writers greeted the looming world wars. They knew they were coming. They seemed to think war would be fun. That some suffered was an indication of poor character. "They" had an inferior culture/race/nationality. "We" were superior.
