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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.<\/a> \/ NPR<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/a> \/ Engadget<\/span><\/p>\n

Scientists identify a new class of naturally occuring shapes with rounded corners and pointed tips, which they call “soft cells.”<\/a> \/ Nature<\/span><\/p>\n

“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.<\/a> \/ 8Ball<\/span><\/p>\n

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.”<\/a> \/ Vox<\/span><\/p>\n

“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.”<\/a> \/ Internal Exile<\/span><\/p>\n

See also: Further evidence we're currently living in a parasite culture.<\/a> \/ The Honest Broker<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/a> \/ The New Yorker<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/a> \/ The Conversation<\/span><\/p>\n

If you haven't been following Rusty Foster's Today in Trail<\/em> newsletter, this heart-breaking\/warming post is the time to start.<\/a> \/ Today in Trail<\/span><\/p>\n

The next time you travel, be sure and put your name and contact information inside your bag—because luggage tags sometimes get torn off.<\/a> \/ Afar<\/span><\/p>\n

After an overwhelming customer response, Lego says it has no plans to abandon including physical building instructions with its sets.<\/a> \/ Gizmodo<\/span><\/p>\n

A new game to obsess over: Rearrange the tiles to unscramble a map.<\/a> \/ Scrambled Maps<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/a> \/ polpo blogo<\/span><\/p>\n

“I thought we were supposed to sound nice.” Fifteen members of the schoolboy chorus who sang on Benjamin Britten's 1963 War Requiem<\/em> recording reunite.<\/a> \/ BBC News<\/span><\/p>\n

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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<\/p>\n

In 2017, Cards Against Humanity bought land in Texas at the Mexico …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33526,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33525\/revisions\/33526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}