Welcome to week 10 of Internet of Literal Things. The weird, wacky, wonderful, and wild of the world wide web seems to be several-too-many “w’s” and a perfect place for me to start. I’m Sara Nason, a fellow person on the internet, who happens to have many hours on hand to read random articles that are tucked into multiple crevices in my phone.
We’ve got an extra day off this week, due to Memorial Day tomorrow, which means that today I’m throwing you more links than usual. Take your links to the beach. Get an ice cream cone with your links. Raise your links to be strong independent hyperlinks.
Even in an effort by many to get off of their phones and to get outside, I’m ignoring that you probably want to do the same and just throwing all the good reads your way.
So, strangers of the internet, here we go. LOL (Lots of Links) for the Internet of Literal Things #10.
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What I’m Reading
Alleged Subway Brake-Puller Supervillain Has Been Caught (Jalopnik)
Creator of Viral Twitter Heroin Hoax Starts a GoFundMe to Hide from MS-13 (The Daily Beast)
Paris Will Create the City's Largest Gardens Around the Eiffel Tower (City Lab)
How Some of America’s Richest Towns Fight Affordable Housing (ProPublica)
Power? No, Thanks, I’m Good (NY Times)
Comparing US City Street Orientations (Geoff Boeing)
A 13,235-Mile Road Trip for 70-Degree Weather Every Day (City Lab)
Frigid Offices Might Be Killing Women’s Productivity (The Atlantic)
Yes, This Photo from Everest Is Real (Outside)
Having a Library or Cafe Down the Block Could Change Your Life (City Lab)
It’s Never Been Easier to Be a C.E.O., and the Pay Keeps Rising (NY Times)
Nike says it is changing contracts to protect star athletes’ pay during pregnancy (CNBC)
Why Carbon Credits For Forest Preservation May Be Worse Than Nothing (ProPublica)
Things DJ Khaled yelled at me while I was writing this essay (Dave Pell)
Our Fury Over Abortion Was Dismissed for Decades As Hysterical (The Cut)
‘Give It Up For My Sister’: Beyonce, Solange, and The History of Sibling Acts in Pop (LongReads)
Why Racial Disparities in Asthma Are an Urban Planning Issue (Next City)
Can Indie Social Media Save Us? (The New Yorker)
The Suburbs Are Coming to a City Near You (NY Times)
Inside the long war to protect plastic (The Center for Public Integrity)
What I’m Visually Experiencing
Dipping an Apple Watch in Pure Gold (YouTube)
Theresa May: Premiership in six charts (BBC)
Science, etc. (The Pudding)
An Illustrated History of New York City’s Playgrounds (CityLab)
What I’m Listening To
Is America Ready to Make Reparations? (The New Yorker Radio Hour // Spotify)
Late Night Feelings (ft. Lykke Li) by Mark Ronson (Spotify)
🏆 A Photo of An #UglyDogs Related Thing On The Internet 🥇
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