Saturday Linkages: Hot Takes

Kolomon Moser, Summer’s Evening. View tonight’s lunar eclipse How to stop your glasses from fogging up when you wear a mask Incompetence and Errors in Reasoning Around Face Covering David Beckham leads the way as men flock to ‘cottagecore’ look Twin Peaks: The Return, or What Isn’t Cinema? Pentagon War Game Includes Scenario for Military Response to Domestic Gen Z Rebellion The True Cost of Dollar Stores It’s ‘Our Fault’: Nextdoor CEO Takes Blame...

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Saturday Linkages: Super Spreader

Thanks to @jimmy.chertkow for this spicy meme. New York’s hungry rats torment alfresco diners after lockdown famine Electric Crypto Balkan Acid Test Dry Canning Raw Vegetables is an Unsafe Practice ‘Landscape of fear’: what a mass of rotting reindeer carcasses taught scientists Warming trend in California, but most intense heat remains across the interior Southwest. And what about the autumn to come? On the Exceptionalism of Books in an Age of Tw...

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Saturday Linkages: The Kirghiz Light’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades

...A Winged Figure, Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1904-1911. Comet NEOWISE Dazzles at Dusk What to do With Blackberries Poll: Who always wears a mask in public—and who doesn’t? CoronaShock and Socialism ‘Not just weeds’: how rebel botanists are using graffiti to name forgotten flora Extreme atmospheric rivers: what will California’s strongest storms look like in a warming climate? The Sacro Bosco of Bomarzo...

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Saturday Linkages: In a Jam

...My shop uniform. To unite the country, we need honesty and courage Why the Internet Is Blowing Up About LA’s Most Infamous Jam Maker There’s No I in Jam: Sqirl Wrestles With the Sticky Question of Who Really Owns a Recipe The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Service Bear whisperer out of a job Jet engine becomes unique camper An alternative to Ipé Museum of Material Failures...

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