From April, headline of the week? “Man Who Lost Everything In Crypto Just Wishes Several Thousand More People Had Warned Him.”
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Government crackdowns on online scam compounds—powered by trafficked “cyber slaves”—are stoking chaos in Cambodia
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Em Cooper’s new video for the Beatles’ song “I’m Only Sleeping” required her to make 1,300 separate oil paintings.
From an interview with Cooper on It’s Nice That: “The song itself evokes such a mesmerising, languid, dreamy state, in a way my job was only to follow its lead with a paintbrush in my hand.”
Thanks to Open Culture, we now know Jim Henson made some pretty violent coffee commercials with puppets in the late 1950s.
Up until that time, TV advertisers typically made a direct sales pitch. “We took a different a…
Glued to the inside of your mouth this very moment (there’s a 50% chance) may be plump bacterial caterpillars. They cling to your cheek with paired little holdfasts, like the feet of a tomato hornworm resolutely clasping its stem.