Dates in moonlight.
Europe's infrastructure struggles with extreme temperatures—roads buckling and train tracks bending. / Vox
Extinction Rebellion protesters smash windows at Rupert Murdoch's media company for treating Britain's heatwave as an upbeat story. / The Guardian
Emily Atkin: We've been pushing news outlets for years to mention climate in extreme weather coverage. / Twitter
An explainer why Sri Lanka is in turmoil: "external shocks and official incompetence." / The Economist
Africans call hypocrisy while Europeans scramble for energy supplies. / Foreign Policy
S&P 500 CEOs averaged $18.3 million in compensation for 2021—324 times a median worker's pay. / FastCompany
Unrelated/related: A 19th-century vampire-slaying kit sells for £16,900. / Hansons
Netflix loses a million subscribers, though investors see it as a win (the company thought it would lose two million). Meanwhile, Twitter gets its day in court with Elon Musk over their $44 billion kerfluffle. / CNBC, Quartz
An admirer recounts several days in the life of David Wengrow, co-author of The Dawn of Everything. / WIRED
A reporter rides along with Trump's never-ending rally tour. / The New York Times Magazine
Related: Since 2020, nearly every step of the voting process has changed in some states. / FiveThirtyEight
Google says younger users prefer Instagram and TikTok for finding information. / TechCrunch
Rayne Fisher-Quann relates it's like to be the Gen-Z dropout that everyone expected to be a dropout. Note: quite different from "stopping out." / The New York Times
Your weekly white paper: Does the law protect a bequest for a son who becomes a daughter? Aka, the dilemma of the transgender heir. / Jotwell
The recent debate over a chatbot's sentience suggests we need new language to describe tomorrow's human-AI interaction. / Noema
Researchers program a robot dog to teach itself to walk in just one hour. / The Morning News
The "excited pig," the "tummy tickler," and some "dates in moonlight"—a great selection of Italian Futurist dishes from 1932 as generated by DALL-e. / Dirt
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