ruina montium: an striking landscape in Spain created by the ancient Romans fracking for gold—via Miss Cellania
13 ๏ฝ 7 = 28: Abbot and Costello try to meet their sales quota—via MetaFilter
i’m your hell, i’m your dream—i’m nothing in between: a linguistic and semantic history of the term bitch
anatoly kolodkin: US waives sanctions to allow Russian tanker to deliver crude oil to Cuba

coalition of the willing: recalling the legacy Icelandic PM Davรญรฐ Oddsson of committing the nation to the unjustified invasion of Iraq in 2003, juxtaposed with contemporary Spain
cocktail nation: Spy Vibe’s regular segment on swank vintage soundtracks
lip-filler accent: influencers inform the way we speak—via Nag on the Lake, see also
gigo: AI is an accelerant for academic fraud, selling papers and citations to pad one’s portfolio
unoosa: a profile of the director of the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs who alerts the world of impending asteroid impacts