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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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).…