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A Light at the End of the COVID Tunnel

Facebook has a feature called Memories that shows you previous pictures and posts from your own timeline. Every morning when I log on, Facebook shows me posts from a year ago, two years ago, five years ago, and in some cases, ten years ago. I’m constantly reminded of parties and friends and holidays, but the posts from one year ago this month are most curious. The first few posts are trivial. Innocent. There are pictures of food and thoughts about video games. In the second half of the month, the posts begin to change. Mostly they’re reactions to the arrival… (read more)

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CoronaEaster

I don’t usually associate sports with Easter, although the void left by their absence over the past several weeks has been impossible to ignore. Sunday, ESPN aired a HORSE tournament where NBA players, each in his own city, played HORSE on his own court. This was only slightly less embarrassing than the streaming video game tournaments ESPN has been airing, in which professional athletes play video games against one another. ESPN, along with other channels, have resorted to showing games from the past. Over the weekend I saw game seven from the 2016 NBA finals, followed by football bowl game… (read more)

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