Links, 25aug2021

"The truth is we have no historical precedent for the moment we’re in now. We need to stop thinking back to 1918 as a guide for how to act in the present and to start thinking forward from 2021 as a guide to how to act in the future. This is the pandemic I will be studying and teaching to the next generation of doctors and public-health students." - History Wont Help Us Now, via The Atlantic.

Andreas, HPL and RHB, via {feuilleton}.

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1913), via Internet Archive.

“We do not feel safe”: A Kabul-based crisis alert app struggles to protect its own employees, via Rest of the World.

George Pelecanos Inks Overall Deal With HBO; Sets Series Adaptation Of John D. MacDonald’s ‘The Last One Left’, via Deadline.