Here’s a confession: I’ve been thinking a lot about cryptocurrency lately. Sort of. Try as I may, I haven’t been able to think much about the particulars of decentralized finance or the utility of blockchains or whether Bitcoin is a viable currency or merely a store of value or something else. There hasn’t been a lot of space to do that because of, well, shit like this: I don’t really have a lot to say about Tom Brady’s laser eyes other than the fact that precious brain space was vaporized this week logging on and being force fed tweets from crypto dudes with laser eye Twitter avatars getting very excited about Tom Brady’s laser eyes. Similarly, I’ve tried to spend some time understanding NFTs (I wrote about them here for the NYT) but I usually get derailed by storylines like this featuring people buying digital horses for hundreds of thousands of dollars:

Organizers who fought the AIDS crisis explain how the tactics of civil disobedience can change minds that don’t want to be changed.

The strange fate of a group of skiers in the Ural Mountains has generated endless speculation.

The odds of being attacked by a shark are less than one in 11 million, which makes it nearly impossible to find people to turn to when you become that one. Enter a support group of survivors called the Bite Club—the most exclusive club nobody wants to join.

And now they don't want to go back

Millions of people in China are buying off-brand electric cars, which are cheap, tiny, barely regulated, and extremely useful.

In its Tuesday ruling, a federal judge stated Randall Menges’ requirement to register as a sex offender is unconstitutional. The Attorney General's office is appealing the ruling.

But Gal Gadot hasn’t received the memo. Or, more likely, she has, but doesn’t really give a shit. The Israeli actor and star of the Wonder Woman franchise addressed the violence in her home country in a saccharine social media post that neglected to mention Palestinians (emphasis ours): My heart breaks. My country is at war. I worry for my family, my friends. I worry for my people. This is a vicious cycle that has been going on for far too long. Israel deserves to live as a free and safe nation, Our neighbors deserve the same. I pray for the victims and their families, I pray for this unimaginable hostility to end. I pray for our leaders to find the solution so we could live side by side in peace. I pray for better days.

We try a device called the Sushi Bazooka, designed to make easy makizushi rolls. We end up with... Big Mac sushi.

Facebook is driving content moderators toward despair through mismanagement, vague policies, and overwork. I’d had enough.

A day-long search for a man charged in a 2017 murder ended Monday with Houston police announcing that the suspect, last seen ushering a collared Bengal tiger into a white Jeep one day earlier, had been arrested. On Tuesday, the manhunt was over, but the big cat was still at large. Houston police said they are still seeking the tiger’s whereabouts. Victor Hugo Cuevas was charged Monday with felony evading arrest and fleeing from police. He was already known to authorities: the 26-year-old was charged with murder in 2017 and was out on bond ahead of his upcoming trial.

Liz Cheney and Miles Taylor refuse to accept the obvious truth: They lost their battle for the soul of the party years ago.

At 16, Stodden was mocked and slut-shamed for marrying 50-year-old Doug Hutchison. As Stodden says, it’s taken years to free themself from his—and the media’s—abuse.

John Lambert, one of the founders of Students for Trump, is now going to prison after being convicted of fraud in a scheme in which he pretended to be a lawyer and bilked unsuspecting victims out of tens of thousands of dollars. And in a heartwarming twist, it appears thathis Students for Trump co-founder Ryan Fournier, who reportedly was his partner in crime, cooperated with federal authorities in helping to nab Lambert. Truly an incredible tale of two assholes!

The dramatic rise in the re-sale value of the cards prompted a fight in Wisconsin during which a man pulled a gun

Stop Antisemitism wants to know who at the Onion made a joke about an IDF soldier killing a child. It didn't go over well.

I’m noticing that a lot of people are feeling disappointed with our government’s governance — the same government they lovingly voted back to power for reasons that have nothing to do with governance. The root cause of this disappointment is the same as always: unwarranted expectations. If you go to a cow, you will get milk, urine, or dung. But if you go to a cow and expect Dalgona coffee, whose fault is it — yours or the cow’s? Coming to specifics, all of us are expecting the government to provide oxygen. Oxygen is all the rage these days. Even in the cow belt, oxygen is now more popular than both the cow and the Supreme Leader — and that’s the crux of the problem. People are unable to manage their expectations. Let’s be fair: the party in power never promised oxygen — either in its manifesto or in its election campaign. To now blame them for oxygen shortage is equivalent to what, in management parlance, is called ‘moving the goal posts’. Therefore, in the larger public interest of shifting the goal posts of expectations back to their original position, I’m putting forward the correct expectations that Indians should have from their government. Replace your currently delusional expectations with the ones below, and you won’t feel an iota of disappointment. Your unconditional love for Vishwaguru will remain the same whether your SpO2 is 99 or 29. So, here goes:

When Hock Wah Yeo was hired by the game publisher Velocity, the head of the company gave him an unusual order: “Scare me.” Yeo wasn’t a game designer or a writer. He was designing their packaging.

It took a strong woman and a House Republican conference that threatened her. It took GOP leadership more interested in regaining power than in abiding by the Constitution. And it took a Republican Party devoted to nothing other than Donald Trump. So finally, Liz Cheney did it. It was clear she was going to be voted out of leadership, so she broke with her fellow leaders. She did it loudly and purposefully, saying the quiet part out loud, taking on the former guy directly inside the room with his defenders. "We cannot let the former President drag us backward and make us complicit in his efforts to unravel our democracy. Down that path lies our destruction, and potentially the destruction of our country," she told them. She was booed by some of her colleagues, according to a source in the room.

“I know I’m probably the exception, but I didn’t want four weeks of vacation,” said Graff, adding that one of the things she most wanted was a “change in environment … from a productivity and inspiration point of view.” Internalized Capitalism makes people fucked up