Citing issues during the primary season, election officials are raising concerns about the US Postal Service's readiness to handle mail-in ballots in November. / NPR
In 2017, Cards Against Humanity bought land in Texas at the Mexico border to protest Trump's wall. Now it's suing SpaceX for trespassing and damaging the property. / Engadget
Scientists identify a new class of naturally occuring shapes with rounded corners and pointed tips, which they call “soft cells.” / Nature
“It's the aesthetic equivalent of digging through your flatscreen's options menu to turn off 'auto-smoothing.'” The archival look is usurping slick horror as the AI art style of the moment. / 8Ball
The story of how Kodak invented the snapshot is really about “what happens when a powerful technology originally only understood by a select few can suddenly fit in your hand.” / Vox
“If you let [AI] write your silly love song, it demonstrates how little love you feel, how little you are willing to risk or spare.” / Internal Exile
See also: Further evidence we're currently living in a parasite culture. / The Honest Broker
In a new book, Olivier Roy argues that culture is dying when it's no longer done for its own sake, and instead to position ourselves against others. / The New Yorker
On “mixed emotions,” and whether we are truly able to feel good and bad at the same time, or if we instead quickly switch back and forth. / The Conversation
If you haven't been following Rusty Foster's Today in Trail newsletter, this heart-breaking/warming post is the time to start. / Today in Trail
The next time you travel, be sure and put your name and contact information inside your bag—because luggage tags sometimes get torn off. / Afar
After an overwhelming customer response, Lego says it has no plans to abandon including physical building instructions with its sets. / Gizmodo
A new game to obsess over: Rearrange the tiles to unscramble a map. / Scrambled Maps
Rickie Lee Jones was one half of the sample that begins the Orb's “Little Fluffy Clouds.” Turns out the other is writer Carl Arrington. / polpo blogo
“I thought we were supposed to sound nice.” Fifteen members of the schoolboy chorus who sang on Benjamin Britten's 1963 War Requiem recording reunite. / BBC News