The sound and the fury
Israel has issued an evacuation order for all Gaza City residents—around one million people—as it prepares to invade the city. / The Guardian
“On Monday the president said that domestic violence doesn't count as an actual crime.” / Welcome to Hell World
US immigration is returning Russian dissidents to Russia and supplying dossiers of their asylum applications, which could be used to prosecute them. / The Times
Nearly every night, Russia bombs Ukraine. Leading with air raid sirens, then into drones, then missiles, here’s what it sounds like. / The Washington Post [$]
“How do we refuse and resist complicity when our own institutions are complicit?” The responsibility of intellectuals in the age of fascism and genocide. / Boston Review
See also: War-torn regions account for more than half of the world’s unvaccinated children, ushering in disease and compounding the suffering. / NPR
“This year, 40% of respondents, surveyed across nearly 50 countries, said they sometimes or often avoid the news, up from 29% in 2017.” / The Guardian
A writer watches her mother, a kidney transplant patient who lives in a small city in eastern China, bond with DeepSeek for medical advice: “At least it gives me an answer.” / Rest of World
Considering the many ways disposable plastics influence our bodies and our habits from the moment we’re born. / The New York Times [$]
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Just because it’s unlikely generative AI will ever reach superintelligence, it’s already changed the world for better and worse, just like Google search and algorithmic social media before it. / Arc Digital
See also: In a court filing to try and save its ad business, Google admits, "The fact is that today, the open web is already in rapid decline." / Ars Technica
Unrelated: Doomscroll, the game. / Gisnep
After Trump reversed Biden’s extension on clean energy tax credits, states must now accelerate their wild and solar projects to start construction by July 2026. / Stateline
See also: How Trump’s tariffs are killing the art world and our hobbies. / Hyperallergic, 404 Media
Investigating the climate cost of IKEA, which isn’t deforesting according to strict definitions—but that definition doesn’t protect resilient, old-growth forests. / Atmos
IKEA, The Seventh Seal, and the Nobel Prize are included in Sweden’s first-ever Cultural Canon, a list that’s criticized as nationalist and exclusionary. / Smithsonian Magazine
America’s oldest restaurants by state—going as far back as Rhode Island’s White Horse Tavern, which opened in 1673. / The Takeout
A beautiful dive into the history of iconic pigments, from ochre to lapis lazuli and beyond. / Emergence Magazine
“I will either slow down or I will reduce the map size since it does not pay a living wage.” What it’s like to recreate Dutch Golden Age paintings in Minecraft. / Push to Talk
See also: In Minecraft, a timelapse of the Kowloon Walled City built to scale. / Colossal
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