breaking rust: Billboard’s top country-genre song is AI generated slop—see previously
crown jewels: Hapsburg family to display to the public a secret, personal stash of treasures hidden in Canada since WWII
grist for the mill: all the commercial, off-kilter blogs were private-equitied out of existence—via Kottke
mecces: visiting a McDonald’s in West Berlin in 1984
s-money: a 1963 patent to replace US paper currency with square plastic wafers—see previously, see also here and here
the call of the first æthyr: occult poetry by Aleister Crowley (see previously) delivered in his only known recording
poice: Sora created videos of fake immigration raids in the US infest Facebook