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People living near conflict zones are finding their webcams have been commandeered by enemy combatants. / The Wall Street Journal [$]
Paris loses its oldest covered market, le Marché des Enfants-Rouges, to fire. / Le Monde
In an attack on hundreds of French supermarkets, hackers force refrigerators up to 50 degrees Celsius overnight, spoiling food and even causing fires. / The Guardian
Unrelated: Walmart is shocked you would think its dynamic pricing patent that details how “low supply+high demand=change in price” means it would implement such a thing. / Gizmodo
“Over the past half-century, populations of thousands of vertebrate species across the globe have decreased in size by 73 percent on average.” / Mother Jones
Researchers find coral reefs with greater seabird activity—as in, bird poop—are generally healthier due to increased nutrients. / NPR
Some notes on the neuroscience of sentimentality, and how to make your brain feel OK about decluttering. / The New York Times [$]
Televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s fall from grace in the 1980s was an outrageous scandal; today, “the Bakkers’ playbook is how mainstream society operates.” / The Ringer
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Whether readers have fallen out of love with nonfiction is beside the point as hardcover prices soar and publishers seem more unwilling to take a chance on less-established writers. / The Walrus
In 1940, James Young Phillips’s debut novel was published to great acclaim—and promptly smothered by the society figures whose bad behavior it exposed. Now it’s getting a reissue. / Texas Monthly
“It allowed me to provide help without hovering. It gave him agency in the caretaking.” Collaborating on a memoir to reconnect with a parent who has Alzheimer’s. / The New York Times [$]
At an exhibit on disability, when the conveyor belt intended to provide access to the artworks jams and no one fixes it, the entire endeavor takes on new meaning. / Hyperallergic
Twenty thousand records that belonged to JD Twitch, the legendary Optimo DJ who died last year, will soon be put up for sale. / The Quietus
Between 1956 and 2020, at least 84 independent record stores have closed in Los Angeles; here are profiles of six of them. / In Sheep’s Clothing Hi-Fi
“We do not want North Korea to be a white = empty area on our map.” Who are the people mapping North Korea on OpenStreetMap? / Cartographers of North Korea