Fog in your throat.
Moscow confirms it carried out an airstrike on Kyiv during a visit by the UN secretary general. / The Guardian
Since Russia invaded Ukraine, the country has faced an unprecedented barrage of hacking. / WIRED
President Biden asks Congress to authorize $33 billion to support Ukraine. / BBC News
Bernie Sanders wants Democrats to make unionization their primary message for the midterms. Meanwhile, gerrymandering for Dems in New York goes bust. / Vanity Fair, Politico
With more than 100 Starbucks locations filing for union elections, a brief history of third wave coffee vs. collective bargaining. / Sprudge
See also: From 2017, a house in North Carolina decorated with thousands of coffee mugs. / TMN
Britons once paid half of what Americans do on out-of-pocket healthcare spending. Now it's about the same. / Marginal Revolution
Young influencers are being offered cheap or free cosmetic surgery in exchange for promotion. Some regret "ruining" their face. / NBC News
A price list reveals how cryptocurrency influencer promotion and "shill tweets" work. And from September, a "master thread" on some crypto scams. / VICE, Twitter
"Fictosexuals" are people—supposedly there are thousands in Japan—who enter into unofficial marriages with fictional characters. / The New York Times
A Japanese mountain town of about 1,500 residents is attempting to create no waste. / The Washington Post
"I hope there are many ways to be human in the future." Interview with an expert on living in outer space. / The Prepared
Unrelated: For sale at $87.5 million, Mark Wahlberg's Beverly Hills home, complete with private golf course. / Uncrate
Some early 20th-century autochrome pictures of France's Oise Valley, by art collector Antonin Personnaz. / Flashbak
People are rediscovering the '90s band Morphine, who "stayed hunkered down low." / Open Culture
A March 2021 performance of "Chorale," a piece composed by Raven Chacon for four fog horns. / TMN
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