Ghost-structuralism
The Nile's migratory birds are threatened by tourists' poaching habits. "Maltese hunters take everything." / The New Arab
New technologies are helping to regrow Arctic sea ice, but they remain controversial. / Grist
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele says he can't return a mistakenly deported Maryland resident. / axios
On the same matter, the White House is following the Supreme Court's ruling "by ignoring it completely." / The Atlantic [+]
President Obama condemns President Trump's freezing of federal funds for Harvard. Steven Pinker calls it "truly Orwellian." / The Guardian, The New York Times [+]
Alex Ross: The word that best describes what the Trump regime is trying to do to Harvard is gleichschaltung, or, "bringing into line." / The Rest is Noise, Wikipedia
Trump's crackdown on foreign students is changing college journalism. / Inside Higher Ed
The IRS's top technology officers resign, seemingly over a plan to share data with the Department of Homeland Security. / NextGov
See also: "I wasted years of my life under the delusion that people could be convinced by rational argument." / Trying to Understand the World
Chick-fil-A, Instagram, and Nike are among teenagers' favorite companies. / businesswire
Philippe Starck says design is being taken over by luxury brands' "toxic" trends. / dezeen
From March, bad design sometimes makes people trust a website more—and buy more stuff. / Web Designer Depot
What if we made advertising illegal? "The machinery of mass delusion would lose its most addictive and toxic fuel." / Simone
Unrelated: Some theories on why AI company logos look like buttholes. / VelvetShark
An abandoned nuclear plant gets repurposed as an advanced acoustics testing facility. / The Verge
An ode to roadside attractions: "Exactly how we found Dinoland is lost to me." / The Paris Review
Sixty minutes of observing people around a reservoir. "It's hard to get into any emotion when you got got." / Meditations in an Emergency
A round-up of purportedly haunted accommodations for people who love the paranormal. / Atlas Obscura
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