Grimes Reveals Y, Her New Baby Daughter With Elon Musk, in Cover Interview

Come for the secret baby, stay for an interview that makes Grimes seem like a pretty cool person. [Link]

Tatiana Perebyinis and two children identified as those seen dead in viral Lynsey Addario photo from Ukraine

“Photos flashing on his Twitter feed showed four people lying next to a World War II memorial just outside Kyiv after they were fired on by the Russian military. One of them was his wife, and two were his children.” Pure horror. [Link]

After George Floyd’s murder, police built a secretive surveillance machine that lives on

“We found evidence of a complex engine of surveillance tailor-made for keeping close tabs on protesters and sharing that information among local and federal agencies, regardless of whether the subjects were suspected of any wrongdoing.” [Link]

How COVID pressure led single moms to turn to coliving with other adults

“The move to cohabitation eased a significant amount of pressure for Villagomez-Morales at a time when parents, but especially single parents, were being squeezed on all sides — by child care, loss of work and extreme burnout. That, mixed with a housing market that has become increasingly inhospitable to low-wage people,

Executive Order on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets

“We must take strong steps to reduce the risks that digital assets could pose to consumers, investors, and business protections; financial stability and financial system integrity; combating and preventing crime and illicit finance; national security; the ability to exercise human rights; financial inclusion and equity; and climate change and pollution.

Google is releasing an open source harassment filter for journalists

“Harassment Manager also lets users download a standalone report containing abusive messages; this creates a paper trail for their employer or, in the case of illegal content like direct threats, law enforcement. For now, however, there’s not a standalone application that users can download. Instead, developers can freely build

Associations between alcohol consumption and gray and white matter volumes in the UK Biobank

“Here, we show that the negative associations between alcohol intake and brain macrostructure and microstructure are already apparent in individuals consuming an average of only one to two daily alcohol units, and become stronger as alcohol intake increases.” Drinking any amount of alcohol shrinks your brain. [Link]

Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5” Adjusted for Late-Stage Capitalism

“Working 8 to 6, but they call you after hours / Barely gettin’ by, lots of crying in the shower / You might prequalify, won’t even hurt your credit / Ran out of sick days—well, I hope y’all don’t catch it” [Link]

AI-written blog posts are spam

AI tools let you write articles very quickly without adding much value. The software analyses existing content and then rewrites the information in a way that’s meant to be engaging or makes it easy for search engines to find. But when you read an article written by AI, you

Twitter Wants to Reinvent Itself, by Merging the Old With the New

“Now, over a decade later, Twitter is reversing course. The company is pursuing the sort of decentralization Mr. [Blaine] Cook championed. It is funding an independent effort to build a so-called open protocol for social media. It is also weaving cryptocurrency into its app, and opening up to developers who

MC Hammer ‘Will Beat Yo' Ass’—and Other Hard Tales of the MTV-Friendly Rapper

“Serch claims the $50,000 hit was confirmed by fellow Def Jam artist Eric B., and was supposed to be carried out by the Los Angeles crips. In a later interview, Serch said fear and anger over the incident has never left him.” [Link]

In a US first, California will pilot solar-panel canopies over canals

“India already has solar panels over canals, but the mile-long Project Nexus in California’s San Joaquin Valley will be the first of its kind in the US.” Go Turlock! [Link]