Russia hits Kyiv with missiles and drones, one of the deadliest attacks on the capital since last year. / The Kyiv Independent

A tunnel between Denmark and Germany will link 90 individual segments, piece by piece, “like Lego bricks.” / BBC News

Italy’s transformation into “a recycling powerhouse” is credited to “individual change, collectivized.” / Grist

A video from Norway shows a tree being turned into an eight-oared rowing boat using traditional methods. / aeon

See also: Los Angeles is said to be facing a massive tree crisis unless private interests step up. / Torched

GitHub code repositories support a whistleblower’s allegations that a DOGE worker surreptitiously downloaded sensitive NLRB data. / Krebs on Security

Simon Goldstein and Peter N. Salib say the best path for both the US and China is to jointly back the world’s best AI lab. / Lawfare

A new datase reveals how many African workers are “indirectly employed” by Big Tech, doing content moderation, customer service, and data annotation for AI models. / rest of world

Making the case for predistribution, i.e., sharing the wealth before AI-driven inequality takes hold. / Noema Mag

Unrelated: An interactive exercise in flying kites based on places’ weather patterns. / A Cursor Is a Kite

Some thoughts about analyzing the different mobility patterns of women and men when it comes to designing shared mobility systems. / Knowable Magazine

After experiencing the downsides of contemporary dating, a woman puts a $100,000 bounty on her marriage. / Knowingless

Reading psychiatrist Irvin Yalom suggests we all have meaningful lives, “but we’re just not sufficiently aware of them.” / 3 Quarks Daily

See also: Some beautiful travel notebooks full of exquisite details. / Colossal

“An aesthetic once dismissed as ‘metro’ was now emblematic of self-optimization.” The menswear guy explains the roots of the manosphere look. / Bloomberg [+]

The brief story of a missing Banksy painting—and the museum employee who stole it when he retired. / The Art Newspaper