Welcome to week 19 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.
Here are a few things in my universe this past week:
cleaning out my inbox and unsubscribing from the email subscriptions that clog my productivity
thinking about what it means to be a year older and if it’s as simple (or as complicated) as having another revolution around the sun
finishing big personal projects and assessing the happiness factor of working through them (like #100daysoffemalecreators)
understanding how to finish a book again (and actively pursuing it)
letting myself buy/do nice things for myself: like go paddle boarding every day or buy the new book i want to read [or get a sunburn sometimes (but only really once a summer)]
So, strangers of the internet, here we go. slowing down for the Internet of Literal Things #19.
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What I’m Reading
They said you could leave electric scooters anywhere — then the repo men struck back (The Verge)
The hidden costs of automated thinking (The New Yorker)
Kazakhstan government is now intercepting all HTTPS traffic (ZDNet)
The Area 51 raid may have been made up, but the marketing opportunity was real (The Hustle)
Laugh tracks do actually make jokes funnier (Discover)
A woman's greatest enemy? A lack of time to herself (The Guardian)
The crane wife (The Paris Review)
The ‘African Giant’ challenging musical boundaries (The Atlantic)
How ‘corn sweat’ makes summer days more humid (CityLab)
Reasons you, my roommate, should adopt a dog (The New Yorker)
One man, eight years, nearly 20,000 cat videos, and not a single viral hit (The Outline)
The fluffy toilet paper you are buying is helping kill Canada's ancient forest, study says (SF Gate)
What I’m Visually Experiencing
My last 100 Day Project post (which I finished this morning)
What I’m Listening To
Tig Notaro’s famous LIVE album (Spotify)
🏆 A Photo of An #UglyDogs Related Thing On The Internet 🥇
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