Lawn-Mowing Simulators, Taxi Cab Photography, and the Pay Phone Bandit
Note: Now that AG consists of multiple digests, each with a different theme, I’ve renamed the supplement emails to better reflect what each one contains.
So “You Probably Don’t Need” is now AG: Consumption, “Notes On the News” is now AG: News, and “Climate Happenings” is now AG: Future.
This is mostly just an organizational change that won’t mean much practically, but I wanted to give you all a heads up so that the different naming structure isn’t confusing if you happen to notice it in the future :)
How to read wildlife tracks and signs.
How to do a four-day workweek that actually works.
Why so many Americans hate their jobs.
Lawn-mowing simulator games, uncut:
The ‘pay phone bandit’ who baffled the FBI in the ’80s.
Trinity site fallout.
You might be a late bloomer.
Ryan Weideman’s taxi cab photos:
I can’t picture things in my mind. I didn’t realize that was unusual.
Are there any humans left on the internet?
Calm down—your phone isn’t listening to your conversations. It’s just tracking everything you type, every app you use, every website you visit, and everywhere you go in the physical world.
Pair of sleeping bees wins insect photography contest:
A genealogy of technology and power since 1500.
Frankenstein God (a succinct webcomic).
Death on Shishapangma.
The case of the missing chacmools.