It’s pretty staggering.

The Supreme Court delivers a victory to homeless advocates and deals a setback to Western cities in the US trying to regulate encampments. 1/22

A side-by-side comparison, with lots of video, of a homeless camp in Oakland and one in Mexico City. 2/22

UN climate negotiations end in disarray amid worries that Donald Trump will win reelection. 3/22

See also: A landslide defeat in the UK gives US liberals pause. 4/22

"Climate change, from Paris to the pullout." A round-up of the biggest news stories from the last 10 years. 5/22

Six quite depressing climate records we broke this decade. 6/22

A terrific report by Ash Sanders about the words being coined, from “solastalgia” to “pre-TSD,” to help people who suffer mentally from the climate crisis. 7/22

Goldman Sachs will stop financing oil drilling in the Arctic, and won’t support any new thermal coal mines. 8/22

“It’s pretty staggering.” When you return an online purchase, companies like Amazon often send it straight to a landfill because that’s cheaper. 9/22

Discovering secrets about ecological collapse in the logbooks of 19th-century whaling ships. 10/22

A tsunami memorial, a shrine with some old camphor trees, some very retro Japanese villages: highlights from a “pop-up walk” in Japan. 11/22

B-Corps are mission-driven by design. In Afghanistan, that includes the country's biggest telecom provider. 12/22

Watch: How facial recognition technology works, where it started, and what’s at stake. 13/22

Researchers say tackle difficult tasks first, but break them down into smaller milestones. 14/22

The Queen of England is hiring a social media manager. Lunch is included, plus 33 vacation days. 15/22

Wildcatters in West Texas, bank robbers in California, and more characters from new podcasts we like. 16/22

A nice example from MoMA and the BBC’s “Way I See It” series, in which people—like John Waters—explain how they perceive a painting. 17/22

Visualizing a decade of Pantone's "Colors of the Year" with selections from related artists. 18/22

For some, a fish house in Cape Porpoise is Maine distilled. For others, it's overphotographed, Instagram-chic frillery. 19/22

Looking for good conversation on Tinder when you live in a small town is "a kind of Turing test." 20/22

When families still had landlines, children would overhear the adults' conversations. Now parents just tap in silence. 21/22

Announcing the shortlist, judges, and Zombie poll for the 2020 Tournament of Books! 22/22

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And now a brief chat with one of our Sustaining Members, Ayse B.

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You're very welcome. Where are you emailing from? I live on a boat and get your headline email each morning around one or two a.m., when in port, which I read to make sure the world is still totally fucked up, with a twist of art and culture thrown in. It's reassuring to know that I am staying in touch with the global chaos as I sail around.

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