The tiger house rules
In many regions, communicable diseases are surging past their pre-pandemic levels, "often by significant margins." / yahoo! news
The surgeon general calls for a warning label on social media platforms. / The New York Times [+]
You have until June 26 to prevent Meta from using your photos and text to train their generative AI. Here are 11 steps for opting out. / Ladyparts
Real estate developers are trying to partner with churches, temples, and synagogues to build new housing. / Vox
Along those lines, "Anti-Growth Fervor Grips US South After Pandemic Boom." / Bloomberg
A lot of people supposedly want to become "tiger parents"—or, they want to live near some. / The New Yorker
Unrelated: "Every Place On Earth Has Wrong Amount Of Water." / The Onion
A woman discovers the right-wing internet thinks she's a CIA-connected maestro behind the "censorship industrial complex." / The Atlantic
See also: A former CIA officer describes how expensive watches are used to recruit spies. / Watches of Espionage
"The best content on the internet is created by people who have turned research into their leisure activity." When your favorite form of entertainment is downloading PDFs. / personal canon
An attempt to understand Ursula K. Le Guin better through her early-internet blog. "It was website as imagination, a website was effort." / DIRT
And speaking of early internet! A chat with new supporter Kyle J., who’s been reading us for a while.
Kyle, hi! When did you start reading TMN? Gosh, must have been reading TMN for over 25 years now. I'm a longtime Austinite, and I found y'all after reading an amazing profile Sarah Hepola wrote about Adult Skate Night at the local roller rink for The Austin Chronicle, way back when. Her website mentioned that she was a contributor to TMN, and that's how I found you.
Holy wow! (We love Sarah.) What keeps you coming back? To be honest, I've gone through jags over the past 25 years, where I check TMN daily, and then go months without, but I keep coming back. I miss the hell out of the old school internet from the early aughts, when it just seems like so many people were doing amazing things. Now it seems like everything that crosses my feed is the same, maybe I just need to recalibrate my filters. But every morning when I check TMN, I find stuff I haven't seen other places, and yet it's still frequently relevant to my interests. I don't know how the hell y'all have kept it going for so long, but I continue to be impressed every day. Thanks for your amazing work.
We really appreciate you supporting! Any reason you decided today was the day? I decided to support because like I said, I've been reading you for 25+ years, and you add a tremendous amount of value to my day, and I just figured it was way past time for me to kick in and do my part. I probably owe you way more than $120 per year to be honest. Thank you for your amazing work.
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