Historical rhetorical
Assessing violence in the West Bank and what it says about Israel’s options for the future: the destruction of Palestinian life, or a two-state solution. / BBC News
Israel deliberately kills five Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza. / The Guardian
Michael Tomasky: It’s not enough for the New York Times to chronicle democracy’s decline—it must, at some point, oppose it. / The New Republic
See also: “An anti-trans Substacker used a eugenicist Substacker to launder information from a neo-Nazi, and smuggled it into the most powerful paper in the country.” / The Racket
The Energy Secretary says he wants to “fix” prior National Climate Assessments that the White House removed from government websites. / CNN
A review of the Smithsonian Museum’s updated placards about Donald Trump’s impeachments. / The Washington Post [$]
The White House effectively kills offshore wind leasing. Meanwhile, in Scotland, wind farms are being paid to withhold their energy. / Canary Media, Semafor
See also: Samuel L. Jackson’s commercial for seaweed snacks grown at an offshore wind farm. / YouTube
Growing numbers of towns around the States are deploying “noise cameras” to combat revving engines and loud stereos. / The Wall Street Journal [$]
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America Online will discontinue its dial-up internet service in September. / Techspot
See also: Dial-up modem sounds, from 300 bps to 56K. / YouTube
A designer makes a furniture collection for a hotel, using the hotel’s own waste materials. / dezeen
An argument that building luxury housing is equivalent to building affordable housing. / Homo Economicus
See also: From the archives, Craig Mod explains how luggage forwarding works in Japan. / Why is this interesting?
A roundup of evidence shows a significant proportion of long Covid to have a psychosomatic cause—and still produce real symptoms. / Signal-Minded
“Hyper time” refers to a current feeling that too much is happening too quickly to be understood or even experienced. / The Trend Report
Unrelated: The WNBA is cracking down on fans throwing dildos on the court. / Them
A brief interview with the naked guy in The Naked Gun: “I found out about three weeks beforehand while I was drinking a beer with some friends. I finished that last beer, and I was like, ‘Well, I guess I’m not having that for a while.’” / Cracked
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