Europe finds its infrastructure struggling under extreme temperatures—roads buckling and train tracks bending. / Vox

Extinction Rebellion protesters smash windows at Rupert Murdoch's media company after Britain's heatwave is treated as an upbeat story. / The Guardian

Emily Atkin: We've been pushing news outlets to mention climate in extreme weather coverage for years. / Twitter

An explainer why Sri Lanka is in turmoil: "external shocks and official incompetence." / The Economist

Africans call hypocrisy while Europe scrambles 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: a five-day trial in October over the $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 neverending rally tour. / The New York Times Magazine 

Related: In some states, nearly every step of the voting process has changed since 2020. / FiveThirtyEight

Google says younger users prefer Instagram and TikTok for finding information on the web. / TechCrunch

Rayne Fisher-Quann relates it's like to be a Gen-Z dropout that everyone expected to be a dropout. Note: quite different from "stopping out." / The New York Times

Your weekly white paper: Analyziing whether law protects 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'll need new language to describe human-AI interaction in the future. / Noema

Researchers program a robot dog to teach itself to walk in just one hour. / The Morning News

The "excited pig," the "tummy tickler," some "dates in moonlight"—a great selection of Italian Futurist dishes from 1932 as generated by DALL-e. / Dirt