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“What do you think sunshine tastes like?” La Croix asks on its website and in the marketing materials for the launch of its latest flavor of sparkling water. You won’t be given the chance to guess, because they immediately answer their own question with “The Deliciously Fascinating Taste of WONDER!”

First of all, don’t tell me to ponder a riddle without giving me the time and resources to properly do so. And second, that tagline gets me no closer to a meaningful resolution. I see what you’re doing, La Croix. I’m an advertising professional, and I, too, can weave a mesmerizing chrysalis out of the silky strands of wordy bullshit. What is the texture of memory? What is the smell of regret? If you’re going to ask, let me cook.

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Day 1

It’s been twenty-three hours since I first found myself in this dark world of dusty puppets. A few have tried to befriend me, street rats, eyepatch-wearing cats, strutting chickens trying to make a quick bawk, but I’ve so far denied their advances. I have remnants of memories, scattered here and there of a life before, whispers of a name, but that is all. By the look of things, we seem to be in Paris, but everyone here speaks with varying British dialects. I fear I may not last the night.

Day 3

My hunger has grown to such a peak that I fear I am too weary to keep my wits about me. Toothsome aromas have lured me to the shop of a small Swedish baker, aflergel blergel-ing from his warm golden windows. Perhaps a simple baguette will suffice, tide me over until I figure out the strange source of song and dance lingering in the air here. I am not conventionally a man who steals, but what choice do I have? Besides, it is only bread. What true bad could come from that?

This blogpost has been improved based on fedi discussions around it; you can find the Polish thread here, and the English thread here. I appreciate all this input!

I have recently been asked by the Panoptykon Foundation if it was possible to create an online age verification system that would not be a privacy nightmare. I highly recommend reading their piece, which dives into several issues around age verification.

I replied that yes, under certain assumptions, this is possible. And provided a rough sketch of such a system.

But before we dive into it, I have to be clear: I am not a fan of introducing online age verification systems. Privacy is just one of the many issues related to them. I dive into some of those later in this post.

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For Schaus’ swallowtail butterflies, hurricanes mean clear skies and bright futures

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Dinosaur illustrator Mick Ellison on the evolution of using science and art to visualize the long-extinct animals of the deep past

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A bomb threat at Barnard College targeted the “terrorists/communists that are protesting.” But you wouldn’t know that from the school’s statements.

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As a Labour MP, I know who I represent in Westminster. When I take my seat in Parliament, I do so in the interests of many communities that have been left behind by four decades of deindustrialisation. On the one side of my constituency is Clackmannanshire, whose mills, pits, and breweries were once the providers […]

Leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone reveal that a blueprint for Ukraine’s failed effort to capture the village of Krynky was assembled by Project Alchemy, a secret military-intelligence cell created by the British Ministry of Defence which sought “at all costs” to “keep Ukraine fighting.” The Krynky plot led to a bloodbath that remains one of the war’s biggest disasters. On the morning of October 30 2023, dozens of Ukrainian commandos on small boats glided across the Dnieper River to […]

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