The Kubrick Times.
The world's nuclear stockpile is set to expand again, "and in many cases is being modernized." / The Economist
Inflation continues while the US economy slows, but workers still see their wages rise. / Quartz
Millennials gained $4.8 trillion of wealth in the past two years. Generation X gained $16.4 trillion. / Axios
Meanwhile, social media helps Gen Z discover jazzercise. / Bloomberg
Your weekly white paper: Sharing online content—even without reading it—inflates subjective knowledge. / SSRN
The McKinney fire burns 52,498 acres in Klamath National Forest near California's border with Oregon. / The Los Angeles Times
The National Guard estimates about 400 people have been rescued by helicopter in Kentucky. / YouTube
Taylor Swift is "the biggest celebrity CO2 polluter" for the frequent use of her private jet. / BuzzFeed News
Spain wants workers to stop wearing ties in order to lessen the country's reliance on Russian gas. / BBC News
A dozen-plus US cities are at risk of Middle East summer temperatures by 2100. / The Guardian
A neural network and DALL-E are creating articles to match the headlines devised for newspapers in 2001: A Space Odyssey. E.g., "1,000th Baby Born at South Pole City." / The Kubrick Times
Ontario-based artist Ava Roth combines elaborate embroidery with honeycomb. / Colossal
Old pictures of San Francisco. Some nice aerial photography. On location with Maine woodsmen in 1943. / Flickr, Instagram, Flashbak
Nichelle Nichols, Lieutenant Uhura on Star Trek, dies at 89. She also worked with NASA to recruit minorities. / Fortune, CNN
Basketball superstar and human rights activist Bill Russell dies at 88. / NPR
And in case you didn't know, a 15-foot-tall statue of Tony Soprano now decorates a train station in southeastern Lithuania. / Atlas Obscura
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