Hey everyone, it's Kevin Russe. I'm a tech reporter at the times. Like a lot of people, I'm stuck at home.

I've been sheltered in place for the whole week.

I'm not sure how much longer I'll be here, but it might be a while.

And

normally my job consists of

reporting on all of these horrible and divisive and

anti-social things that people are doing online, you know, bots and trolls and

misinformation campaigns, all these things that kind of like

use the internet to

divide us and pull us apart and make us fear and distrust each other.

But this week, I saw people using the internet.

Are you guys ready? Okay. In a way that I really haven't seen in a long time.

Are you there? I'm using yourself.

I started seeing people. It's everyone drinking. Oh, I want some wine.

I know we're talking. I have virtual happy hours.

See, I'm going to show you a couple of variations for how I like to do clouds.

Virtual art lessons.

Beans soaking.

Virtual cooking classes.

Very good. Yeah, me.

People are using the internet to

to have virtual birthday parties.

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