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Good morning! Youtube is radicalizing all of us! Meanwhile AI has a hallucination problem. Perhaps you have wondered: what is the noisiest city? The phone booth is BACK. (cool?) Some ghost neon to start your week.

Spend your weekend enjoying banknotes and stamps from dead countries of the world. Maybe water vapor will save us. Important news: Japan’s flood defense system is very pretty. Time is moving extra slow in Europe (because of an international dispute).…

Hey look! A whole new penguin supercolony! Today in the tech community is a caricature of themselves: attendees of a crypto convention were all fed weed without their consent. But at least we have a burger flipping robot. Also, drones…

Sweden has been bank heisted into becoming a cashless society. Look at this tiny prehistoric bird! If you want to! I’ve linked to a couple of the articles already, but be sure to check out The Atlantic’s Metropolis Now project.…

Asking the important questions: when did Americans stop marrying their cousins? Sometimes it feels like we’ve seen everything, and sometimes we find whole new ancient Egyptian necropolises. Photographing Pakistan’s crumbling architectural heritage. The strange and twisted life of Frankenstein. Important…

Money laundering through Amazon garbage books (what a time to be alive). People are fleeing the Bay Area in such high numbers that we are running out of Uhauls. Abandoned farmhouses of Iceland. Nighttime factories of Japan. Very important beginnings of…

Start your day by contemplating some ancient elephant on mastodon sex. There is life on (the closest earth has to) Mars! Here are your decked out Japanese work trucks for the day. Gray squirrels are very good at problem solving…

Now that we all care about curling let’s talk about the Scottish island key to it all. Welcome to the age of cities that never forget. Charting polution through taxidermied bird feathers (is a thing you can do). Give a…

Ok fine maybe one more Black Panther thinkpiece. Please stop looking for the Fenn Treasure. The children, on the other hand, are not being as destroyed by social media as we thought! Why is silicon valley so against transparency tho?…

Life in the Russian edgelands (aka the United States AM I RIGHT?) Here are your Bulgarian lotto tickets for the day. On the shape of dice and the shifting attitudes of chance. What is life but a Japanese love hotel?…

Don’t want to alarm you, but for the first time a ship crossed the Arctic in winter without an icebreaker. Can’t believe this much time went by before I heard about the “holy grail of dinosaurs.” I promise I’ll just…

Actually horrifying and important: does your state let cops rape the people they arrest? Everything you think you know about domestic bunnies is wrong (one thing you know about them). Lest we forget that Nostradamus made jelly too. Give a…