"Plague ink" is an iPhone game where you design a virus to wipe out humanity. The best way to do it was to create a virus that was symptom-free because then it just spreads and then you mutate a couple of things and you make it really deadly. "It's not even so bad for me. I wear it as a white male walking around San Francisco and people just assume I'm being paranoid," he says.
Ben and James discuss masks and Twitter’s decision to delete tweets about COVID-19.
Links
- Zeynep Tufekci: Why Telling People They Don’t Need Masks Backfired — The New York Times
- Ben Thompson: Unmasking Twitter — Stratechery
- Ben Thompson: Compaq and Coronavirus — Stratechery
- Ben Thompson: Zero Trust Information — Stratechery
- China’s Decision to Leave Asymptomatic Patients off Coronavirus Infection Tally Sparks Debate — Caixin
- Ben Thompson: Apple’s Organizational Crossroads — Stratechery
- Ben Thompson: Books and Blogs — Stratechery
- Why It’s So Freaking Hard To Make A Good COVID-19 Model — FiveThirtyEight
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