Cold your horses
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is charged with leading a plot to overthrow the government. / Reuters
Argentina's president tries to deflect criticism after a cryptocurrency he endorsed on X collapses, erasing $4 billion in value. / The Wall Street Journal [+]
President Trump suggests Kyiv is to blame for Russia's invasion. / The Guardian
Ukrainian President Zelensky says Trump lives in "disinformation space." / CNN
Fifty hot takes from a moderate Canadian academic. / X
Kishore Mahbubani: Trump's meeting with Putin shows how irrelevant Europe has become, even when its geopolitical interests are at stake. / Foreign Policy
Research suggests phenomena like pandemics reduce young people's trust in scientific and political authorities. / The Atlantic
See also: Gen Z prefers influencers over experts—"not because they are wrong, but because they are inconvenient." / Fortune
An interview with a young woman digging up ephemera from Flickr. / Molly Soda
A new study links a protein variant found only in humans to the origins of spoken language. / The Associated Press
The "artificial cryosphere"—the world of industrial refrigeration, basically—is reportedly "vast and still growing." / The London Review of Books
Mapping dispossession in San Francisco's Black communities. / Logic(s)
Meta's AI-powered glasses are said to give blind people accessibility benefits "at a price point people can afford." / The Wall Street Journal [+]
A clothing company makes a jacket from 250,000 pieces of wood. / dezeen
Some "coincidental" pictures from photographer Eric Kogan's daily walks around New York City. / Colossal
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