What I saw on the web on 2025.3.18

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1. Cross-border trips to the U.S. reach COVID lows with nearly 500,000 fewer travellers in February
   by John Paul Tasker
   https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cross-border-trips-decline-235k-february-1.7485695
   this is no surprise
   via rss
   
   
2. All Games Are Political
   by Max Haiven
   https://jacobin.com/2025/03/board-games-palestine-daybreak-pandemic/
   i've been thinking about this for a while, particularly in the ways that agency is represented in TTRPGs
   via Cory Doctorow
   
   
3. This Phantom Swordfight is ⚔️POINTLESS⚔️
   by Jill Bearup
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbnpHg6D8wc
   mostly just because of the continuity stuff in the review
   via rss
   
   
4. Kuvarira Mukati
   by Thomas Mapfumo
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo88ImxL9HA
   dat hammond organ with the mbiras!
   via looking for more of his stuff on youtube, finding this
   
   
5. Can the city make transit stations safer?
   by Emily Fitzpatrick speaking to Anne Stevenson
   https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6689239
   given that they already are safer, i gotta wonder how much of this is some kinds of people not being comfortable in the vicinity of other kinds of people
   via rss