Technology will save us all!
...or wait... will it? It's been a while since I wrote something on here†, and in all honesty, I thought about taking a sabbatical from blogging to focus on dissertation-related matters. However, I really hate the current practice of threading on twitter where someone writes 10, 20, 30, or 40 tweets in a thread. We've even invented an app to make these threads more readable . I can't roll my eyes hard enough at this because it's a solution for a problem we shouldn't have. We have long-form means of communicating - they are called blogs. But anyway - I'll cease my "get off my lawn"-ness and move on to the point. Now, where was I? Oh yeah... I wanted to respond to something I saw on twitter, but I didn't was to just create a stupidly long thread. So, in case you have not been paying attention, there is a bit of a global health scare going on, namely COVID-19 (or Coronavirus as the media calls it). It's gotten to the point where c